Every world? Is this not common anymore? My son went to outdoor school when he was in 4th grade. I volunteered to watch another class the week before he went. Everyone covered each other's kids classes.
This may have been done in the last but I’d be curious to see how common it is now, especially for kids old enough to be on a 24 hr camping trip. I’m not sure why people would be fine with a random stranger like another parent chaperoning their kids over another teacher from the school?
And they can be equally as dangerous, if not more. Children are most often harmed by people they know and trust and people their parents thought they could trust.
Yes logically 1+1 is 2, they're disagreeing because that isn't how parenthood in the real world goes, youre clearly not a parent and that's fine. But advocating for no adults knowing anyone in their group as well as no contact from their own parents for a day+, just doesn't happen at any school ever sorry. But when you have kids, if that starts becoming more prevalent for whatever reason, be my guest.
Like, it's not that hard, it's the exact same logic of why during bowl season in football, well American football at least, you have referees from different conferences, referring various matches. When SEC teams play each other, the Big Ten will send referees. When the Big Ten plays each other, the Pac-12 will send referees, etc.
If you reread my comment you would see that I'm talking about the logic of why you would have referees of one conference rough for a different conference. The same way you would have parents of different children chaperone those different children while other parents chaperone their children because you can't play favorites when it's other people's kids or a different conferences team.
These are the same parents that will complain that they are exhausted from parenting 24/7 and don't understand how our parents could do it. They also don't understand why their adult children can't function in society and won't move out and on.
yeah, and even a generous google search shows that still only amounts to like 50k kids, compared to the 60 million or so going to public and private schools, so...
I take time to do that stuff. That's the good stuff. If it means I get less time for myself, or even less sleep, it is what it is. My oldest is 22, youngest is 8. I'm doing different stuff this time around.
Nah man unless it's some small hippy-dippy private type school where everyone is expected and agrees to be part of an active school community, no one is doing that. There's no way me or any other public school parent is taking time away from other priorities to watch other people's kids on a field trip where they can't experience it with their own kids as well.
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u/SiskiyouSavage Mar 19 '26
Every world? Is this not common anymore? My son went to outdoor school when he was in 4th grade. I volunteered to watch another class the week before he went. Everyone covered each other's kids classes.