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[quote=Anonymous]I have experience with field trips in a different district. There isn’t enough manpower to organize the field trips, especially in poorer schools with a lack of volunteers (where sadly kids need those outings the most). Many teachers don’t like dealing with field trips, and again, they are easier to shirk in poorer schools because “the kids need to study” and because there’s no parental pressure on admin. Then, there are too many regulations, including those related to time. 
Overall, there’s not enough interest where it matters (from admin to parental pressure) and too many obstacles. 
I used to be a huge fan and always offer to help organize but teachers and admin weren’t always interested! There was also a lottery based school in our district that was parent participation and its philosophy included many a field trips with volunteer drivers and such. They would go on 4-5 trips per year minimum. One of the superintendents made it his mission to slowly kill the school citing equity. He did not succeed but the changing demographic and lack of parent volunteers as a result may actually do the job for him (the school is still there but I’ve heard it’s not the same).

As for the bigger trips in MS and HS, there were two MS in the district and an outside company offering trips to DC, they only worked with the richer school since parents had to pay out of pocket. Last I heard they were planning to offer it to the other school as well but idk what came of it.

My kid is in HS now in a different district and I haven’t heard of anything resembling field trips even though it’s a mostly high income school. [/quote]

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