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Field Trips: Discuss

Field trips:  Good? Bad? Discuss amongst yourselves (or comment below - because comments make our day - really comments and chocolate.

Recently, I received 2 field trip forms...one for Thing 1 and one for Thing 2...here is the killer -->same field trip!  Now, anyone who has gone on a field trip knows you sign up to go with ONE respective class.  Here was my quandry:  whose class do I accompany?  (complete lose/lose situation there - if I go with one child - the other child will be upset and vice versa - isn't parenthood grand?)

I have a theory about field trips - they were the reason happy hour was invented (and invented by June Cleaver).  I bet June cracked out a martini, while making roast beef on a Wednesday night, because she spent all day at Beaver's field trip.  It's a theory.

I have gone on more than one field trip.  The positive is that you spend time with your child.  You also get a look into the class life.  Child's friends & frenemies.  Teacher organizational skills.  What the other kids get in their lunchboxes (my 1st kindergarten field trip: a kid had a can of coke, a baloney sandwich and a dunkaroo...despite my nudges...the sandwich was the only thing not eaten).

The negative of a field trip is that you are on a field trip.  A day off paid work.  Noisy school (or TTC) buses.  Sketchy-clean-factors of public bathrooms.  The responsibility of 4 or more kids on public transportation/in public spaces (that's 4 or more uber-excited-on-a-field-trip kids who are probably not on best behaviour).

I'm putting it out to the Club - what do you think about field trips (make my day and comment).

*re. my field trip quandry - Thing 1's teacher chose two other parents so I'm off the hook, available for the other class.

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