field trip question

[Mizzoufan]

When your kids go on school field trips does the school make you pay for the whole trip? My daughter field trip is to a place similar to Chuckie Cheese they are asking for parents to pay 15 for unlimted pizza buffet and drinls and a game card. Is this the new norm?

 

[Gracie09]

We pay for most if not all the cost of the trip. If you are a chaperone you often have to provide your own transportation and entry fee.

 

[ColoradoDisneyFreaks]

Are you expecting to get a discount due to the number in the party? If it's like a Chuckie Cheese, they're busy enough that you're lucky if they don't charge a premium due to the large party!

 

[Mizzoufan]

Are you expecting to get a discount due to the number in the party? If it's like a Chuckie Cheese, they're busy enough that you're lucky if they don't charge a premium due to the large party!

It during the week hopefully won't be busy.

 

[JanaDee]

Yes, why wouldn't we pay for a field trip?

 

[Mizzoufan]

Yes, why wouldn't we pay for a field trip?

In previous field for my kids the school pays them. I have never had to pay for them expect for souvenirs

 

[PrincessShmoo]

When your kids go on school field trips does the school make you pay for the whole trip? My daughter field trip is to a place similar to Chuckie Cheese they are asking for parents to pay 15 for unlimted pizza buffet and drinls and a game card. Is this the new norm?

As above, when our kids went on field trips, each person was responsible for the costs involved (entrance fees, food, whatever) for the activity. As well as a portion of the bus/travel costs (on some).

 

[mnrose]

Depends. Some field trips were "free", but most we pay for. For example, my son's German class went to 'German' Day at the zoo. It cost me $20, for the bus trip, a t shirt and admission. Lunch was either packed or you sent $. There was an option for students of lesser economic means to go for reduced cost or free. There was also an option for an alternate assignment rather than going at all.

 

[sam_gordon]

It depends on the field trip. Sometimes we need to pay admission, sometimes not. Sometimes we need to pay a portion of the bus, sometimes not.

 

[scrapquitler]

When your kids go on school field trips does the school make you pay for the whole trip? My daughter field trip is to a place similar to Chuckie Cheese they are asking for parents to pay 15 for unlimted pizza buffet and drinls and a game card. Is this the new norm?

I think that our schools subsidize parts of the field trips, but it depends on the trip and on the amount of money in the PTO budget. An educational trip for the whole class is usually more subsidized than a 'fun' trip for a club/smaller group (like Chuck E Cheese would be)...when we went to the Art museum, the trip was free, when they went to Six Flags, I think we paid the whole amount.

If you are paying $15 for the pizza/drinks/games, don't forget there's probably a transportation cost as well, which you might not be paying (those school buses aren't free).

And frankly, our school wouldn't be going to Chuck E Cheese on a field trip because there has to be SOME educational component of the Board Of Ed won't approve it (The Six Flags trip was physics related, and another group did a Six Flags trip because the band performed there).

 

[JanaDee]

In previous field for my kids the school pays them. I have never had to pay for them expect for souvenirs

With education budgets continually being cut in our state, our school can't afford to pay for school trips, so if they go on field trips, parents pay for the activity if it requires a fee, as well as a transportation fee.

 

[Dawnlight]

When my kids were in private school all trips, including to Washington D.C (flying from Boston and staying in hotel), were included in the tuition price. In public all field trips are on the parent and are not required.

 

[Mizzoufan]

Thankfully no mentioin of transportation fees.

 

[cabanafrau]

My youngest is in HS, so can't say for certain anymore, but back when she was in elementary parents covered activity and food, PTO covered bus transportation. Early on when my now college-age DD was in younger elementary there were a couple trips where parents only had to cover food, but I'd say that ended about 2000 at the latest due to budget constraints.

 

[Laura66]

We always pay for field trips!

 

[jbmom]

The only time we had to pay anything for a field trip was the fifth grade trip to Greenfield Village because a charter bus was used. We paid for the bus admission was covered. The PTO has paid for all other field trips.

 

[Happy Snowman]

If there was a cost associated with the trip, we paid. Sometimes they went somewhere local, the fire station, for example, and walked so no fee for that. Other places they my not have had an entrance fee but we paid for the bus to get there. Every year the 6th grade class went to a nature camp for a week. There were large fundraising events for that and most years the families did not have to pay, but some years there was a small fee that fundraising did not meet.

 

[HM]

We usually had to pay for the outing and the transportation.
If a child couldn't afford it, the parent could ask for a grant from the PTA or the Principal.

 

[mjkacmom]

I always have to pay something, not sure if it's the whole thing or not. Honestly, I don't think the school or PTO funds should be used towards a trip to chuck e cheese!

 

[Mizzoufan]

I always have to pay something, not sure if it's the whole thing or not. Honestly, I don't think the school or PTO funds should be used towards a trip to chuck e cheese!

I don't think a field trip to a restaurant is a good choice.