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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My rising 5th grader didn't get to go to Jamestown. I'm pretty pissed about that.[/quote]

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Other schools went. Ours didn’t.[/quote]

Not all schools go to Jamestown. I taught 4th grade for a few years about 7-9 years ago and we didn’t go. I don’t ever remember the 4th graders going to Jamestown.[/quote]

My current school has never gone to Jamestown. My last school did - they went to Williamsburg in the same trip (the farms rate was about 10%). It cost $70 per person. This is why my current school has never gone. Parents at Title 1 schools don’t have that kind of money to spare. And no, there is no money from the school or the virtually non-existent PTA.

In fact, for some grades in my school there is ZERO money from the school to go on any field trips (but I’ve seen it in the county budget plans so that’s always confusing). And you can’t go far because you leave at 9:30 and have to be back at 1:00.[/quote]

I'm the first person that complained about Jamestown. Our PTA could afford to send the entire 4th grade at $70/kid, they have an excess of funds every year -- far more than the $7000 it would have cost to send 4th grade to Jamestown.[/quote]

So why not complain to your PTA? Better yet, run to be on the PTA board to help make these decisions.[/quote]
Because it wasn't a PTA decision, it was a school decision. The PTA can't pay for a field trip that teachers don't want to plan.[/quote]

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