The Disappearing Field Trip
I suspect field trips might be completely gone by now if not for the work of school PTOs and PTAs. Keep it up!
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uspect field trips might be completely gone by now if not for the work of school PTOs and PTAs. Keep it up!
This column in Education Week caught my eye, as it makes a compelling case why we should save field trips. I often think of the work that PTOs do as being about making sure that schools are places filled with life and spirit, not just big imposing brick walls of book-learnin'. Parent involvement (of all sorts). Playgrounds. Family events. Field trips. These are parts of the tapestry that yield the kind of people that we (at least I) want coming out of our schools.
Soap box moment over (though you can feel free to jump up on it yourself with your $0.02 below) ...
UPDATE: I was visiting yesterday (at our New Jersey PTO Today Expo) with our friends from Target, and I was reminded about their generous new Field Trip Grants program. Process is closed for this year, but I'm told it's coming back for the 2008-2009 school year. Nice!
This column in Education Week caught my eye, as it makes a compelling case why we should save field trips. I often think of the work that PTOs do as being about making sure that schools are places filled with life and spirit, not just big imposing brick walls of book-learnin'. Parent involvement (of all sorts). Playgrounds. Family events. Field trips. These are parts of the tapestry that yield the kind of people that we (at least I) want coming out of our schools.
Soap box moment over (though you can feel free to jump up on it yourself with your $0.02 below) ...
UPDATE: I was visiting yesterday (at our New Jersey PTO Today Expo) with our friends from Target, and I was reminded about their generous new Field Trip Grants program. Process is closed for this year, but I'm told it's coming back for the 2008-2009 school year. Nice!
