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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school did a similar field trip this year, but it was really great. The museum has a great program where they really went into detail about certain paintings. I think it’s way better than having kids randomly wander around.  They learned a lot and really learned how to appreciate paintings. [/quote]

But to go all the way to the museum and spent less than an hour there and only see 2-3 paintings sounds really lame to me. Do you work at Gatehouse? Like sure, start the program that way, then let them see the rest of the museum![/quote]

I was a chaperone and definitely don’t work at gatehouse (I think most of them should be let go). We were at the museum for more than an hour. Probably closer to two. And it was pretty great. The other parents thought so too. And the kids were pretty engaged and happy to be on a field trip.[b] Did your buses get stuck in traffic or something[/b]?[/quote]

When our daughter did this field trip in the fall (which I chaperoned), they got on the buses at 10:15. They arrived at the museum around 11:15 (bus was stuck in traffic in DC, went the wrong way). Waited in the museum lobby for our group's docent for at least 20 minutes. We saw two paintings and a sculpture. There was supposed to be a fourth piece of art, that we didn't get to see. There was no part of the schedule that involved looking around the museum. We were physically at the museum for maybe an hour. Then the kids were herded back on to the buses b/c we were required to be back by 1:30 so the buses could get to the middle school.

It was really terrible.[b] There were kids on our bus who had never seen DC before. It would have been nice for them to get to see more of the museum[/b].[/quote]

Man that really sucks.[/quote]

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