Reply to International trip for 5th graders?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "International trip for 5th graders?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't believe this topic is generating 24 pages of talk. Here's my take: There will always be kids in every class at YY who will not take the trip, whether for financial, personal, whatever reasons. It's a public school, after all.

So if you don't want to go or send your kid without a parent, or waste that much vacation, just DON'T GO! Find that one other kid or 10 other kids that aren't going and make it work for your families. Take the kids to NYC for the day, or pull them out to go to the movies, or whatever. The more you stress about it, the worse it will be. Kids are resilient and all of us grew up just fine, even though we didn't have the same advantages as our friends. Seriously, it will be okay.[/quote]

No one is arguing against the idea of the trip - this about logistics. Is 5th grade a good year? Should it be done when school is out? Are people going to enthusiastically fundraise or donate to something that won't benefit all students?[/quote]

++1,000,000! 
5th Grade YY Parents:  Those of you opting to take the trip, we respect your decision and your commitment to the school.  Please don't take offense this discussion.  However, as the rest of the school is being asked to get involved in this by fund raising and other means, understand that there will be a lot of opinions.  There are also a lot of changes and improvements that will be made to this trip, if it is taken at all, in future years.

To those in the 5th grade opting NOT to send your kids on this trip: You have my full support.  It is an abomination how much time, money and effort is being spent on the small number of kids to take a tourist trip during the school year.  We must demand the school do better by ALL its students.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics