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[quote=Anonymous]I was a parent chaperone for my kids field trip since I was a SAHM and was available (and wanted to attend) all trips.

I absolutely agree that the field trips are underwhelming and poorly thought out,  for the following reasons -

- Horrible school buses.  These have extremely uncomfortable seating, no AC/heat, very small windos, and all the smoke of the gas and pollution from the road comes inside the bus through the bus.   The few times that the parents pooled in the money (and also donated generously) to get private buses, it was a really great experience.  Still the school administration would not allow parents to fund better busses.

- Not enough chaperones.  Especially when we had several special needs students with behavioral issues.  There needs to be S.Ed teachers accompanying them as well as they need to understand how much does the sensory overload impacts these students.

- Kids not geared properly.  Parents were not informed or given a checklist of what the kids would need to wear/carry, what lunch or snacks they would carry, why not to let kids who are sick join in, if gift shops would be visited.

- No curriculum. There was no reason to go to many of the field trips.  Some of them were just DEI initiatives because otherwise some poor kids would never get to enjoy such outings.  Case in point - utterly worthless and dumb "Medieval Times" which cost the school a bundle. The teachers did not have a plan, or a curriculum that connected with what the museum or field trip contained.

Since I am an immigrant and a SAHM, over the years, I have made sure that I have taken my kids to different museums and historical sites in and near DMV and we have never gone without reading about them, watching documentaries and having a clear idea of what we were going to learn.   I wish I could make these packets for each museum for our public schools to follow.

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