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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Field trips suck! They are a ton of work. Teachers have to do these enormous packets for the field trips. What time do we have to do them? I do not think people truly understand the work these packets entail. [/quote]

Tell us, please.[/quote]

Different teacher. First we have to actually plan it and get the tickets. We have to provide the district a full itinerary and how every part of it aligns with standards. A permission slip for every single child. Then the nurse has to review every single attendee and give us their health plan and medications and epi pens to ensure they’re safe on the trip. We have to arrange for the cafeteria to provide bagged lunches. Then we have to get chaperones. Then arrange transportation. Then assign chaperones and groups and keep track of everyone. Then ensure we get the money from the kids whose parents signed them up. Then remind the kids whose parents haven’t signed up of the deadline multiple times. It’s a LOT of moving parts. [/quote]

Oh wow, that is a lot! If I were a teacher I’d never take my students on a field trip if I had to do all this coordination to make it happen.[/quote]

I enjoy field trips and when it was easier to get a bus approved, I would plan them. That being said, yes, it’s a lot of work and there are years that I was not willing to do it for the students I had whose behavior I couldn’t trust to be acceptable while we were out and who  had done nothing to deserve me being willing to do all this for them. [/quote]

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