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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kids are in first and fourth grades. If they are truly not able to follow basic directions like staying with a group or not climbing where they aren't allowed, I don't think field trips are your real problem here...[/quote]

Have to agree. The fourth grader gets lost and wanders off? Maybe she can have a buddy assigned to her? Something doesn't sound right about both kids getting lost and all the parents are horrible chaperones. Wish we could hear someone else's point of view.[/quote]

4th grader doesn't wander off really.  She easily gets left behind because she's stopping to read all of the signs at places like museums.  Most kids, and most adults, don't stop to read everything written.  She does and chaperones just tend to wonder off with the other kids and leave her behind.  She doesn't realize they are gone because she's reading.  That's the way she enjoys museums.  Maybe it's my kids' school but the (mostly) moms that chaperone are ditzy or so busy talking to the other chaperones that I don't have any trust in them.

There's nothing wrong with my DC but when the chaperones can't be trusted then I'm not comfortable letting my kid go out in public with them.

Funny that I was talking about this with a friend tonight in line with a fast-ish food type place and another mom with her teenage daughter next to us start laughing.  She said, I feel the same way and it doesn't get better.  The damn parents all want to be the kids' friends, so you can't trust them to chaperone them when they are older either!  Haha!  I might be in the minority on this one, but certainly not alone.  [/quote]

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