I’d either wanna be able to contact my kid or be there if something went left. People are crazy and I don’t trust just anyone to prioritize the safety of black kids.
No_Client8165 on
I saw this exact same post yesterday, by a completely different person. Somebody lying.
Movedonnerlikeabitch on
What they should do is gather all coaches and teachers in the auditorium and ask who wants to volunteer to take the kids camping and whoever says yes THEY DON’T GO.Whoever is pissed at the question they have to take them kids lol
BakersHigh on
My middle school was always like this.
The point is to give your kid autonomy and learn how to do things without their parent constantly watching them
We’d go to one of those rope course camps the first week of school, only ppl allowed were teachers or school staff like athletic coaches.
My parents joked it made me too self sufficient
I get you can’t trust teachers or students but you’re not always gonna be there. Start prepping for it lol. Tell your kid to call them, they aren’t required to be there, that you will always come get them.
MoomenRider2012 on
Having no parent chaperons would not be normal 20 years ago.
KallusDrogo on
I remember for even day trips at my school there would be parents (mine often) who would take the day off from work to volunteer. The teachers LOVED it. That school is weird as hell.
YizWasHere on
Yeah this wasn’t completely normal 20 years ago lmao. Not a single overnight field trip I went on in elementary school didn’t have parent chaperones. Kids didn’t have their own cell phones but you still had ways to call your parents. This is just weird.
NandoDeColonoscopy on
I don’t recall any field trips without chaperones, let alone overnight trips.
WeenieHutSupervisor on
Reminds me of the group of kids that went hiking with their teacher and froze to death because the adults didn’t navigate properly and they got caught in a storm. No thanks
Over_the_line_ on
The other kids are gonna be so excited and this poor kid will be sad.
Zibai1505 on
I’ve never seen a parent chaperone our overnight school trips. What parent has time for that.
Unless you guys mean the teachers which means obviously?
Back in the 90s im talking about
drewtheblueduck on
I don’t know why a school would even want to have no parent chaperones. You wanna handle all those kids by yourself??
Confident-Unit-9516 on
For the people who are saying no to this, are you also not allowing your kids to go to an overnight summer camp?
Don’t say anything when your child lacks any semblance of self-sufficiency
pepstein on
We had a week long camping trip in elementary school to camp bernie 30 years ago but there were lots of parent chaperones. In fact it made you hate your friends parents that you never even knew you hated
Sea_Carry_1612 on
Even if it was normal 20 years ago, what’s wrong with parenting changing with the times? Now more than ever people are hyper-aware of their children potentially experiencing abuse and injury and they want to protect them. Depending on how old the child is (if they’re 16-18 I can see it being a little overprotective but not ridiculous) this is completely reasonable.
BeboTheMaster on
In a post Epstein world? Hell no
Tanaka-san on
Is it just a European thing then? Went on a week long school trip to Venice and another week long trip to Barcelona in late 90s but there were no parents as a chaperone. Only teachers.
Even now, my neighbour has spare rooms so they signed up to an agency for people with spare bedrooms to host students on a school trip, usually for a week or two at a time, and the school trips don’t seem to have parents with them and it’s always just the teachers. These are mostly schools from Spain, Italy, France. Netherlands, and Poland. Can’t say for sure about other countries.
lilkhalessi on
One of my favorite childhood memories is an overnight camping trip we took at school in 6th grade.
Only female teachers. Boys had their own cabin and girls had their own. No parent chaperones because our class was only 20 kids. And this was almost exactly 20 years ago.
I’m a Latina immigrant but even then my mom never had the anti-sleepover mentality most seem to nowadays.
Nicombobula on
In middle school we had a week long camping trip at a camp with cabins an hour away. The only chaperones were teachers and high school kids. Most of us didn’t have phones. We were all fine. The parents had the contact info of the camp if need be.
highballs4life on
Lol, this isn’t as dramatic as some of you are making it out to be. Obviously there would be chaperones: teachers and school staff. And no, it wouldn’t be just one teacher with 20 kids, it would be 4-5 teachers and staff. And yes, the adults would have phones. Honestly, I trust my kids teachers and school staff a lot more than the other random parents that could be on the trip.
My kids’ school does these kinds of trips, for example 2 nights away at a farm in 5th grade. No parent chaperones. We all get a phone call from our kid every night (using the teacher’s phone).
misdirected_asshole on
They didnt say there are no chaperones. They said no **parent** chaperones. There will undoubtedly be teacher chaperones. Teachers who are employed by the school and are with your kids all day every week and have at least some level of vetting. Do you trust some other adult you don’t know staying overnight with your child more than their teachers?
Sweetest_Berries on
i remember going on a school trip like that with zero contact and my parents were just like “have fun, see you tomorrow” 😭 now i can’t even go a few hours without checking my phone, idk how we all just accepted that back then
Beginning_Key2167 on
This persons reaction to it is exactly why they are doing it. Can’t let her kid go for 24 HOURS! without needing to be in contact.
I am so glad I am a Gen Xer. My parents would have dropped me off, happily and had some alone time.
Several_Hour_347 on
20 years ago you definitely had parent chaperones. The hell are you talking about?
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I’d either wanna be able to contact my kid or be there if something went left. People are crazy and I don’t trust just anyone to prioritize the safety of black kids.
I saw this exact same post yesterday, by a completely different person. Somebody lying.
What they should do is gather all coaches and teachers in the auditorium and ask who wants to volunteer to take the kids camping and whoever says yes THEY DON’T GO.Whoever is pissed at the question they have to take them kids lol
My middle school was always like this.
The point is to give your kid autonomy and learn how to do things without their parent constantly watching them
We’d go to one of those rope course camps the first week of school, only ppl allowed were teachers or school staff like athletic coaches.
My parents joked it made me too self sufficient
I get you can’t trust teachers or students but you’re not always gonna be there. Start prepping for it lol. Tell your kid to call them, they aren’t required to be there, that you will always come get them.
Having no parent chaperons would not be normal 20 years ago.
I remember for even day trips at my school there would be parents (mine often) who would take the day off from work to volunteer. The teachers LOVED it. That school is weird as hell.
Yeah this wasn’t completely normal 20 years ago lmao. Not a single overnight field trip I went on in elementary school didn’t have parent chaperones. Kids didn’t have their own cell phones but you still had ways to call your parents. This is just weird.
I don’t recall any field trips without chaperones, let alone overnight trips.
Reminds me of the group of kids that went hiking with their teacher and froze to death because the adults didn’t navigate properly and they got caught in a storm. No thanks
The other kids are gonna be so excited and this poor kid will be sad.
I’ve never seen a parent chaperone our overnight school trips. What parent has time for that.
Unless you guys mean the teachers which means obviously?
Back in the 90s im talking about
I don’t know why a school would even want to have no parent chaperones. You wanna handle all those kids by yourself??
For the people who are saying no to this, are you also not allowing your kids to go to an overnight summer camp?
Don’t say anything when your child lacks any semblance of self-sufficiency
We had a week long camping trip in elementary school to camp bernie 30 years ago but there were lots of parent chaperones. In fact it made you hate your friends parents that you never even knew you hated
Even if it was normal 20 years ago, what’s wrong with parenting changing with the times? Now more than ever people are hyper-aware of their children potentially experiencing abuse and injury and they want to protect them. Depending on how old the child is (if they’re 16-18 I can see it being a little overprotective but not ridiculous) this is completely reasonable.
In a post Epstein world? Hell no
Is it just a European thing then? Went on a week long school trip to Venice and another week long trip to Barcelona in late 90s but there were no parents as a chaperone. Only teachers.
Even now, my neighbour has spare rooms so they signed up to an agency for people with spare bedrooms to host students on a school trip, usually for a week or two at a time, and the school trips don’t seem to have parents with them and it’s always just the teachers. These are mostly schools from Spain, Italy, France. Netherlands, and Poland. Can’t say for sure about other countries.
One of my favorite childhood memories is an overnight camping trip we took at school in 6th grade.
Only female teachers. Boys had their own cabin and girls had their own. No parent chaperones because our class was only 20 kids. And this was almost exactly 20 years ago.
I’m a Latina immigrant but even then my mom never had the anti-sleepover mentality most seem to nowadays.
In middle school we had a week long camping trip at a camp with cabins an hour away. The only chaperones were teachers and high school kids. Most of us didn’t have phones. We were all fine. The parents had the contact info of the camp if need be.
Lol, this isn’t as dramatic as some of you are making it out to be. Obviously there would be chaperones: teachers and school staff. And no, it wouldn’t be just one teacher with 20 kids, it would be 4-5 teachers and staff. And yes, the adults would have phones. Honestly, I trust my kids teachers and school staff a lot more than the other random parents that could be on the trip.
My kids’ school does these kinds of trips, for example 2 nights away at a farm in 5th grade. No parent chaperones. We all get a phone call from our kid every night (using the teacher’s phone).
They didnt say there are no chaperones. They said no **parent** chaperones. There will undoubtedly be teacher chaperones. Teachers who are employed by the school and are with your kids all day every week and have at least some level of vetting. Do you trust some other adult you don’t know staying overnight with your child more than their teachers?
i remember going on a school trip like that with zero contact and my parents were just like “have fun, see you tomorrow” 😭 now i can’t even go a few hours without checking my phone, idk how we all just accepted that back then
This persons reaction to it is exactly why they are doing it. Can’t let her kid go for 24 HOURS! without needing to be in contact.
I am so glad I am a Gen Xer. My parents would have dropped me off, happily and had some alone time.
20 years ago you definitely had parent chaperones. The hell are you talking about?