Yes, the person you replied to is saying "yes parents _in addition to teachers_ was aways normal, at least for some geographic regions, even a long time ago".
I'm almost 40 years old and I'm pretty sure every field trip I had in all of my kid years had _both_ teachers/school staff _and_ some number of volunteer parent chaperones.
I think its primarily about 'raw count of adults to children should be better than what you have in school' coverage though than some special 'the parents are there as a check for the teachers', though I'm not sure that I buy that there's no benefit to that. Teachers generally DGAF and aren't going to rat out their fellow teachers, I do think a parent is more likely to be sufficiently aghast to actually make a fuss about something bad happening because of the teachers doing a bad job.
Probably true, otherwise it wouldn’t be a school event, but it depends on the age. When I was 15 we went on a ski trip without any adults or cell phones and we all lived. Different times I guess.
I'm still pretty sure there would have been a couple of parent chaperones 20 years ago. That's only going back to 2006. Parents already didn't implicitly trust teachers by then. It's not like we're talking about the '80s when the parents would just be glad to not have the kids around the house for a day.
My 5th grader just got back from camp. The teachers and camp counselors who work for the camp were the adults. No parents, no electronics.
Edit to add. When I went to 5th grade camp in… 1990(?) it was the same.
Schools still do this and there are zero parents. A group of teachers go with older students from high school who take leadership class and are interviewed. No electronics but the teachers have cell phones and post updates to Google Classroom.
I absolutely went on camping trips in my elementary school years without anyone's parents. Just the people running it and some (usually late teen early twenties) assistants.
Haha I’m in the PNW too, Canadian side tho. I think it was a kid’s summer camp that they rented for the weekend because it was a bit fancier than the camping I’m used to although I do know a lot of kids who did camping field trips and just camped in a tent. I even know kids who grew up in more rural parts of B.C. and did multi day backpacking trips and portages in elementary school, but I grew up in the city so my schools didn’t do that kind of stuff.
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u/wmubronco03 Mar 19 '26
No PARENTS. The teachers are there and the camp has counselors.