“Parenthood is the scariest hood I’ve ever been to.” - Bri Richardson; just thought this quote should be left here. Great quote on parenthood. There’s just so much no body tells you about being a parent and this encompasses all of it.
I (parent) worry more what nobody tells me about my own kids. Also a teacher, 13 years Grade 2 and 2 years Grade 7. Those babies do strange things. And, with all the things they tell me, and my own 2 incapable of providing context, I'm so afraid of what they might saying 😆 so much that I can't look their teachers in the eye....we teach in the same town so it happens more often than I'd like 😬
I remember going on a field trip for choir in high school to Disneyland and they didn't do a background check for one of the chaperones. I guess she had a criminal record for trying to kill her kid. HOW WAS THIS WOMAN ALLOWED?! I think about it all the time. A lot of the chaperones on that trip were causing drama. It was so wild. Cannot believe adults were acing this way in front of us... My choir teacher, my dad, and I were all like "How is this possible?"
If you don't get taught as a kid, you get older but you don't really grow up. There was a big mistake made when people raised their kids thinking they'd give em everything they never had. They left out teaching their kids respect and showing them what love is. I guess society is reaping what they sowed.
The story of the 12yr old made me think of this. I live in a city prone to earthquakes. I knew a kid who when she was potty training at age 2-3 one of the first times she went number 2 on the potty we happened to have a very large shake as she was pooping. She thought she caused it. Poor girl was terrified of using the potty for quite a long time. Took a couple of years for her to be fully potty trained.
In high school I was sitting by the window looking out and on the intercom they asked for one of my classmates to come to the office, I see my classmate sneaking outside running away and I ask my teacher if that was the person they called for and she looked freaked out and ran out after him😂😂😂
Lmao, my school had the most chaotic trip two years ago that had all trips for every grade cancelled indefinitely. So the grade 12s were taken to Monty Casino(a mall/resort type of place here in SA) and they were staying at the hotel portion. They were absolutely running amok. People were sneaking into others' rooms to have sex, they all had so much alcohol on them out HOD had to take two trips back and forth to confiscate it all. One girl left with her boyfriend, literally left the province, without telling anyone, they thought she had gotten kidnapped. And finally, one of the teachers had a stroke and passed away, so the VP that had been one of the chaperones left to inform his family. Meaning our HOD was left in charge of 15ish 17-18 year olds. It was absolute chaos and we had about 3 pregnancies that year. Anyone that says Catholic Schools are better behaved, are liars.
With four children; I tried to cook food that they would eat. If they did not want what was cooked for supper, then they knew a bowl of Cheerios without sugar was their only option. We kept a box of Cheerios just for that purpose. Lunches were made by the children and checked by me. As a retired high school teacher I love y'all's stories. I can relate.
I remember in high school we went on a scavenger hunt all over the city (Austin). We had to ride a bus and go to multiple locations and take photos there and it was such a blast. They had quite a few requirements in order to go (passing, not too many absence, parent permission, and a few other things). But looking back how crazy was it that the teacher had to do all of that and keep track of their students. Crazy!
I'm currently in my last couple of semesters before getting my degree to become a Childcare Facility Director. My oldest son is in 1st grade, and knowing that some teachers are like y'all makes me feel so much better about him being in school. I'm literally doing homework while listening to this. Thank you all for getting me through some of these ruts! Love y'all lots!
So many field trip memories. The craziest field trip I went on as a student was in marine biology; we swam with manatees. It was also way too cold for Florida weather that day. This week I get to go to horse therapy with my students!
When I was a 4th grader (1995!) We were supposed to do a field trip to George's Island, a Revolutionary era military fort off the coast of Massachusetts. You have to travel into Boston then take a ferry to the island. We got all the way there only to find out there was a murder the night before. The entire fort was a crime scene and we weren't allowed on the premises. Except the ferry left and wouldn't come back. So we spent the entire day playing outside on the grass and stones along the ocean. To this day it is school district lore as the worst field trip in the districts history!
love this content! ideas for future podcasts: 1) current teacher shortage- why it’s happening, how to fix it, & what needs to be talked about 2) featuring a special education teacher as a guest 3) discussing dealing with IEPs and students with special needs in your general ed settings thank you for the good info!
Mrs. Richardson might agree with me... You can never go wrong with fried chicken, and fried chicken is one of the best things to eat as comfort food, dinner, lunch, breakfast, snack, midnight snack, just in general.
I grew up in an area where everyone knew everyone, if someone's kid was acting up in public, another parent would smack their ass and take them back to their parents. This happened to me once and I vividly remember my dad thanking the other parent for beating my ass 🤣🤣
When I was a junior in high school, I was put on a list to go on a trip to explore colleges. My aunt dropped me off with money and said bye. The bus dropped us off at a mall to grab some lunch and take a break. My friends and I were literally being followed by this group of men and it was kind of scary. So I was looking around for my teacher or any chaperones but couldn't find any so I flagged down a cop and showed him my student id and said they were following us all over the mall. The cop talked to them and they disappeared.
Our kindergarten class went to Sea World one year and when it was time to go home one of the moms was missing. No one could find her. She was finally located at the Busch Beer Garden.totally wasted. They had to have a police officer meet the bus at the school to make sure she didn't try to drive home.
I was part of the Wild and Wonderful West Virginia club and we went on a field trip to Point Pleasant to see the moth man museum. The teachers gave us streets we couldn't cross (which we did anyway) and then the teachers had dinner the whole time and turned us loose for hours. One boy got a mullet.
My first and only field trip I ever got to have was in fall of 2019, before the Panny hit us… I took my students to the beach for a photography lesson/photo shoot for the yearbook. It was awesome lol the kids loved it and the pictures turned out so nice!
yeah there’s a massive difference between being the parent of a picky eater and the parent who buys everything in the lunch room before even asking their kid what they want. my mom and i had established “safe food” that i would eat. she would consistently either send me with food or make sure they had something there that i would be comfortable eating. it was fairly easy. there were judgy people, sometimes, but those judgy people were silly n treated my mom like she was buying me every junk food in the zoo just so i could pick it special when she was rly just like “look she eats honey nut cheerios, uncrustables, or plain sliced cheese rn i don’t know what you want from me. that’s most of the food pyramid yall are pushing and she eats enough to scooter around for 6h AFTER school energy ends so”
@@ashruz_3095 I swear you are really obsessed with me or something like dang, every single video even when I link news articles about stories you have problems with you still have something to say 🤣
On of my siblings is special needs, in order for her to go on field trips and camps, one of my parents had to go not a chaperone but as help specifically for her. So my dad went on all of her trips and camps for about 5 yrs. He had to constantly update his police checks and first aid courses, etc. I think they only reason we were able to do it was because he had to have all of it for his job as well.
You know I just graduated highschool and I've only had maybe two teachers seem as chill as you guys and i gotta say it was only senior year wish more teachers like you exist
From K-12th grade,I had to miss half of all the field trips in school cause my mom couldn't afford it. I know a few times in elementary when we would take any overnight(Pittsburgh I think lol)- one week(camp) field trip we would hold a can fundraiser,and had to go door to door asking if they had cans and that money from what we collected would go toward the cost of those trips which did help but it did suck especially in elementary. We didn't have family on either side that could help us, so it was just my mom, siblings and me,no one else. I hated staying behind in the office, the entire time and having to do extra school work to "keep me busy" while rest of class is out having fun, and the rest of the class wouldnt have to do the work I had to do and be graded. I graduated in 2005 so it's been awhile and might of changed now but I don't live in my childhood hometown. When my daughter started school,( 6yrs ago) that's when I found out her school actually holds fundraisers all year to collect money so no child will have to miss a field trip bc of being poor. Wish that's how it was in my childhood but glad my daughter can go on the field trips,cause theirs been a few of them I couldn't pay for it.
@@Jasmine-bn9ex I never tried staying home in elementary cause I knew my mom would be working but in middle school I tried asking if I could stay home that day, they said no and that I would be marked as truant if I didn't come to school so after that shit,I never asked the school a to stay home on field trip days and convinced my mom I was 😷😂🤷🤣
In preschool, we didn’t take buses on field trips, the chaperones drove all the kids in their group in their own vehicle. It was at a co-op preschool at a Catholic church, and it was the 80’s. As a teacher, I had to go pick up a HS student at the local police department, in the city we traveled to, because the student was drunk and wondered into some random person’s house.
so here is my story of one of my most recent field trips: so all the 8th graders that got 1.5 years of growth on our Renaissance Learning Test would get to go on a field trip to a skating rink. well my county has a facebook discussion group- AND THIS KAREN SAID “IT IS SO UNFAIR MY CHILD DOES NOT GET TO GO ON THIS FIELD TRIP!!!” and i’m pretty sure her son didn’t even get that growth if she was complaining. the friday before our field trip (the day after the complaint was made) my math teacher looked PISSED. our admin said we are just gonna take all of our 8th graders but half would go to the skating rink and the other half went to the zoo close to the skating rink. i felt so bad for my teacher because she was like pacing around the room, she was mumbling stuff about admin under her breath, and all that other stuff. so that’s my field trip story…
My youngest son went to a program called Jump Start, it's a four day program to help kids acclimate into kindergarten. I thought it would good for my son to get an idea what kindergarten will be like. On the second day at recess my five year old son went out the gate and decided to wait for mom at the pick up lane. Thankfully the teacher saw him going out the gate. I did warn them that he likes to disappear and run off. It's something that worries me the most with him going off to school. The missing kid story just made me think that will be my kid.... I will probably chaperone his field trips 😬
I was the picky eater of my family, and my mom never gave me any special treatment. I can’t imagine her *ever* even considering driving over to a zoo and picking up even 1 item for me to eat if I’d refused to eat the field trip’s lunch☠️ now I’m in college and am a great eater and a great cook so it all worked out
Thank you Bri for saying what you said at the end. About teaching our kids things for the long run. As well as finding balance. My daughter is the same way with any store really. We're both getting better at about it. When she was 1 I'd get a little dollar thing here and there but know she knows that stores have toys and that's what she want.
When I was in middle school, they stopped selling and straight up banned those single serve Crystal Lite packets because kids kept snorting them. The Cheez-It story reminded me of that, it was a whole thing.
For us it was Smarties (the American chalky kind, not the Canadian chocolate kind) and Pixxie Stixx. They would crush the Smarties and snort them and use the tube of the Pixxie Stixx as a straw.
I did one summer as a camp counselor and we took them to a cavern tour and there was a playground with a retired fire truck and two of the boys climbed up and broke the windshield. That was quite a talk with parents
I have so many summer camp field trip stories for yall!!! We had one kid who liked to run away on field trips and we would have to chase her down. We ended up having to call her mom every single field trip (three days a week) to have her come get the kid or talk to her so she would stop running off. She was going into first grade. We also had a late elementary school student who would poop his pants every single day during summer camp, sometimes multiple times a day. No one would ever say there was a medical or psychological issue, but he would do it all the time. The worst was when he'd do it on the bus! It was awful.
I'm from Memphis so I was LOL-ing at yall. And my senior field trip was to the Memphis zoo!! 😂 we didn't get to do an out of town trip. No way our teachers would have trusted us with that!
No matter if it was a Shelby County School or a private school, we all took a field trip to the Memphis zoo and most of the time it was 4 or 5 different schools all going at once 🤣
Listening to all your stories confirms my life choice of not having kids, LOL. Regarding the kids and eating issue, I'm a GenXer so tantrums got us nowhere. If one of us (usually my little sister) complained we didn't like what was being served for dinner, my mom's answer to that was, "This isn't a g**d*** restaurant. If you don't like what's for dinner you don't have to eat it but breakfast is a long time from now." My strategy was to first eat the things on the plate I didn't care for to get them out of the way, then eat what I did like. Since leaving home, though, there are things I have never eaten again.
So I used to work at a local science museum and boy the stories and school groups that I have encountered, I could write a book. This one story sticks out in my mind of a teacher laying out a chaperone and making the chaperone leave before the field trip even ended. This was a busy field trip day, around 2500 kids in the museum before noon, and this chaperone of an elementary school class decides to leave her group to go out and smoke a cigarette, comes back in to find her group not where she left them. She franticly looks though out the museum, still can't find them where she then goes to the front desk to report it. Well the policy is that once you report a missing child, the museum goes on alert and we walk around looking for them. It turns out that this group was where they were suppose to be which was in the IMAX watching the movie with the rest of their class. They has to interrupt the movie and the teacher came out and laid into that chaperone but the funny thing is that they have had trouble with her before but they were short chaperones so that is why they let her go on the field trip. We have also had daycares leave a child behind and have to turn around a come pick up said child.
Young life is in CA for sure because I know a couple who run a young life program in Fairfield. This couple are a part of young life that reaches out to students whose parents are in the airforce. This couple used to do regular young life years ago so I know it is out here in northern CA.
My mom was barred from field trips because every time she went it would storm or have tornado warnings. Al out of no where. So. Grandma had to start stepping in 😂
Kids that elope are about the scariest thing ever… and I speak as the parent of a child that had elopement tendencies until they were placed in a SPED school.
I remember going to the fair in elementary school and my whole class was lined up and standing on the side of the fence. We watched a ewe give birth. It was so gross and amazing to watch. We all felt so bad for the one that got left out. We were yelling for someone to go and help the runt. We took other trips but I remember that one the most. Also in California the seniors go to Grad Night at Disneyland, schools all over participate 😬🤭.
I live in California and YoungLife was a huge thing in my high school and surrounding schools and they even had a middle school version but I can't remember the name of it. YoungLife was my favorite thing to do we had ours on Monday nights. YL forever dude. Our camp was called Woodleaf. One of our leaders had a freak accident and passed away after falling through a trapdoor for the rock climbing section
there was this one kid at my school who absolutely loved nature and one day we were playing outside and like no one even noticed he was gone. But when we got back inside they realized he was gone (btw we had like a forest next to our school) and it went on for hours of looking for him and it got so close to release time that they had to call the police saying they lost a student! i dont know why but i just thought “hey i should look outside” i look outside and he was in the forest climbing a tree! he full on jumped the fence to get to the forest and theres a river too so that was extremely dangerous! the worst thing though is like 3 or 4 years later that exact same forest caught in fire! i swear that forest gonna kill someone.
When I was in high school we went to Philly on a trip. We went to the mint and was told that we would meet in the lobby at a certain time to go to the next place. I was a need and was reading everything. After a bit I realized I was the only one there. Everyone else had gotten bored so the teachers decided to leave earlier than the set time. They didn't notice that I wasn't there. They only noticed when they got to the next location.
One of my absolute favorite field trips was when n I was a junior in high school and it was a bunch of schools who's juniors and seniors got to go to Hershey park from 11pm-5am. One of the best nights I've ever had!
To know another channel has mad subscribers just only having clips. I was like I remember I seen their podcast Did I make that up in my head? So now I just typed teachers podcast and found yall So that's cool
My dad used to say, "that is my heart with arms and legs" about my sister and I. And you best believe....entitlement...did not exist in my household haha
I’m from Memphis born and raised so I went to the Memphis zoo one time and they started shooting out of no where everyone started running and I’m so glad I my car was in the front and I was close to the exit but that was recently and Memphis just get crazier by the day
I've had a flight canceled and got then the connecting flight got delayed to the point that all airline employees had to sign paperwork to say they could work that late. So much that it was "if we're not wheels up whatever time it was we can't leave tonight." We were wheels up like 2 min before that. And to make that whole thing worse my phones charging port died during that flight and I had enough battery to call my dad when I landed to pick me up and my phone died 5 min later and I couldn't charge it.
We had a time at camp where one of the kids in my brother's group ran off at a baseball game and everyone was searching for him. He ended up seeing his aunt and going home with her. As and adult I still wonder why the aunt never informed anyone before taking him.
I have a story. On a field trip that happened at the end of last year(not grad stuff), a boy from my class took alcohol from his parents or something and was drinking it on the bus ride back to the school with another girl so when we got back to school they were both drunk and the teachers knew something was off so they were asking questions and while they were doing that a group of like six other boys were shotgunning two beers in the bathroom and recording it and that's why we now have a no phone rule at our school. they almost didn't get to go on their grad trip because of it. (this was last year when I was in grade 8, the grade 9's were the ones drinking stuff. absolutely ridiculous to be happening in school with kindergarteners and daycare kids in it or in any school at all so you can imagine how the parents and staff felt about it)
Once I went on a band trip to a different state. Took 17ish hours to get there by bus but yall the ride home took god knows how long because at least 1/3 of the bus got some kind of virus. We would stop every so often for people to use the bathroom but we still and kids and teachers pooping on themselves on the bus. It was so bad I will never forget it 😂
Everyone in or around Memphis always takes a field trip to either the Zoo, The Civil Rights Museum or the Pink Palace. Cannot count the amount of field trips I took to those places growing up in Memphis
@honestteachervibes in 3rd grade my teacher's response to going on a field trip was..." I wouldn't take yall to a dog fight even if it was free" my young mind thought we were going... Smh
Hi, this is off the topic and I have an interesting question. Our school district is currently on strike here in Columbus, Ohio. They are asking for functional working equipment like HVAC and much more including school supplies. What are your thoughts about this and are you guys dealing with the same issues?
In my middle school, the 6th grade went on an overnight field trip every May. It was a place call Camp Crystal Lake and the year my grade went it was over a Friday the 13th weekend and there was a boy in the class named Jason (I kid you not. This was around 1982 or 1983, so those movies were still very much present in our busy little minds; but that's just funny, not relevant). There were 7-8 groups of 10-15 kids, and each group had a teacher and a chaperone. There was an obstacle course and a crafts hut, something about Native American culture, and other little activities, and then there was the hike. It was supposed to take a couple of hours. My cousin's group (he and I were in the same grade) set out after breakfast, and they still hadn't made it back by lunchtime. A little worrying, but they had two sensible adults with them. They'd find their way back. Still a couple of adults from our group and some of the camp staff went looking for them, just in case. Dinner time rolls around, and they've been gone eight hours. Cue the nightmare scenario. One of the kids in the group is a Type-I, insulin dependent diabetic. He's already finished all his snacks, and his blood sugar is still dropping from the physical activity of the hike. So all of a sudden, the teacher has a stubborn, belligerent 12-year-old on her hands who is refusing to walk any further. He's red in the face, ugly crying and trying to punch anyone who gets close enough to try to coax him into moving on. My cousin, whose younger brother also happens to be a Type-I, insulin dependent diabetic, is the only one who recognizes what's going on. He tells the teacher, and she asks the other kids if any of them have brought any snacks or candy with them. They scare something up for the diabetic kid, but now she has a belligerent, aggressive diabetic kid and six hysterical girls sobbing that they are lost in the woods and going to die there. The more they fret the more they find to worry about. Is that a bear? I think I got poison ivy on me! Are there snakes around here? So now, we have a stubborn, belligerent, potentially violent 12-year-old; a teacher quietly panicking because the stubborn, belligerent, potentially violent 12-year-old is gradually approaching a medical emergency and there is nothing she can do to prevent it because their snacks are gone and she doesn't know enough about roughing it to determine what, if anything, in the woods is safe for him to eat; and half a dozen girls panicking loudly because they are lost in the woods and they have no food so they're going to starve to death and die there and rabid animals are going to eat their corpses so there won't even be any bodies to bury when all of their classmates and the whole town turn out to weep over their graves and say beautiful, dramatic things at their funerals. And the adult chaperone decides to go off on her own and look for civilization. Long story short, chaperone found a major highway just over the next hill, led the teacher and the kids to it, flagged down a passing car. The driver took the teacher and the diabetic kid back to camp, nurse looked after the diabetic kid, teacher led one of the bus drivers back to where the chaperone and the rest of the kids were waiting, the bus brought them all back to camp and the camp staff served them all a late dinner. And nobody got killed by anybody in a hockey mask.
Is really hard when parents pack their kids food they know they don't like. Why would you do that!🤦♀️ I literally had a kid gagging while eating what his parents packed. I was finally like, "Honey, you don't have to eat all of that. You've had enough. "
When I moved to Florida in elementary I realized that they had an end of year field trip to an Orlando theme park but there was no way we were going out of state let alone country.
We went on a preschool fieldtrip to the apple orchard and on the way we found a turd rolling down the aisle. The teachers had to check every child to figure out who it came from. We also went to a baseball game and one of the chaperones lost one of his kids because he had been on his phone. Thankfully, I was watching his group and grabbed the kid before they got away. Fiekdtrips are every preschool teachers nightmare.
Oh no maybe the kids around here are like dumber or something, but I would not be able to handle that many preschoolers at once, that’s legitimately one of my biggest fears lol 😂
My 2nd day ever working in a public school I was sent on a field trip with 2 high needs 1st graders. One was an eloper and the other had physical/dietary limitations. The eloper eloped (shocking) at the same time the other tried to independently walk down a 2 story straight down staircase. Also, someone gave my dietary student a SERIOUS choking hazard but it was my SECOND DAY EVER and they could have died.
I'm a children’s church pastor and I teach kids that are k-5th every Sunday for about an hour or two and you learn to tell kids to back off pretty quick when you deal with so many each week. I can't imagine what school teachers go through every day.
22:23 once a tiny baby child ran up to my patio to try to open the door so they could get to my cat, no parent in sight,like get your child, why are you letting a child still in diapers run up to strangers doors, and ive seen needles around that apartment building,theyre lucky their child didn't get hepatitis.
“Parenthood is the scariest hood I’ve ever been to.” - Bri Richardson; just thought this quote should be left here. Great quote on parenthood. There’s just so much no body tells you about being a parent and this encompasses all of it.
I (parent) worry more what nobody tells me about my own kids. Also a teacher, 13 years Grade 2 and 2 years Grade 7. Those babies do strange things. And, with all the things they tell me, and my own 2 incapable of providing context, I'm so afraid of what they might saying 😆 so much that I can't look their teachers in the eye....we teach in the same town so it happens more often than I'd like 😬
The fact they didnt laugh at that!!! Thats so funny and so true lol
@@the06waves it prolly hit a lil too real for em 🤣
I remember going on a field trip for choir in high school to Disneyland and they didn't do a background check for one of the chaperones. I guess she had a criminal record for trying to kill her kid. HOW WAS THIS WOMAN ALLOWED?! I think about it all the time. A lot of the chaperones on that trip were causing drama. It was so wild. Cannot believe adults were acing this way in front of us... My choir teacher, my dad, and I were all like "How is this possible?"
If you don't get taught as a kid, you get older but you don't really grow up. There was a big mistake made when people raised their kids thinking they'd give em everything they never had. They left out teaching their kids respect and showing them what love is. I guess society is reaping what they sowed.
@sewer~rat you know, I never thought about that until this exact moment. 😂 I'd love an answer to that question myself.
"Parenthood is the scariest hood I've ever been to."
What a line 👏 👏👏
Y'all should really do an Am I The Asshole, but only education related stories!!
Rebecca does an "am I the bad apple" series over on her TH-cam so that might step on the toes of her content.
th-cam.com/video/74EGN9B2ZRg/w-d-xo.html
It's not really education related stories, but it's the closest thing I could find
Miss rogers does that called am I the bad apple on her TH-cam channel
The story of the 12yr old made me think of this. I live in a city prone to earthquakes. I knew a kid who when she was potty training at age 2-3 one of the first times she went number 2 on the potty we happened to have a very large shake as she was pooping. She thought she caused it. Poor girl was terrified of using the potty for quite a long time. Took a couple of years for her to be fully potty trained.
In high school I was sitting by the window looking out and on the intercom they asked for one of my classmates to come to the office, I see my classmate sneaking outside running away and I ask my teacher if that was the person they called for and she looked freaked out and ran out after him😂😂😂
Lmao I did that once
@@King_Karnage did you get caught
Did you find out why they bolted?
@@Devin3Anthologie ya I want to know now
@@Devin3Anthologie He was just trying to ditch school
Lmao, my school had the most chaotic trip two years ago that had all trips for every grade cancelled indefinitely.
So the grade 12s were taken to Monty Casino(a mall/resort type of place here in SA) and they were staying at the hotel portion. They were absolutely running amok. People were sneaking into others' rooms to have sex, they all had so much alcohol on them out HOD had to take two trips back and forth to confiscate it all. One girl left with her boyfriend, literally left the province, without telling anyone, they thought she had gotten kidnapped. And finally, one of the teachers had a stroke and passed away, so the VP that had been one of the chaperones left to inform his family. Meaning our HOD was left in charge of 15ish 17-18 year olds. It was absolute chaos and we had about 3 pregnancies that year.
Anyone that says Catholic Schools are better behaved, are liars.
Only in South Africa🤣🤣🤣🤣
With four children; I tried to cook food that they would eat. If they did not want what was cooked for supper, then they knew a bowl of Cheerios without sugar was their only option. We kept a box of Cheerios just for that purpose. Lunches were made by the children and checked by me. As a retired high school teacher I love y'all's stories. I can relate.
I still watch Rebecca’s “Field Trip” story on her individual channel repeatedly at times and it still entertains and horrifies me.
I remember in high school we went on a scavenger hunt all over the city (Austin). We had to ride a bus and go to multiple locations and take photos there and it was such a blast. They had quite a few requirements in order to go (passing, not too many absence, parent permission, and a few other things). But looking back how crazy was it that the teacher had to do all of that and keep track of their students. Crazy!
I'm currently in my last couple of semesters before getting my degree to become a Childcare Facility Director. My oldest son is in 1st grade, and knowing that some teachers are like y'all makes me feel so much better about him being in school. I'm literally doing homework while listening to this. Thank you all for getting me through some of these ruts! Love y'all lots!
So many field trip memories. The craziest field trip I went on as a student was in marine biology; we swam with manatees. It was also way too cold for Florida weather that day. This week I get to go to horse therapy with my students!
I love listening to the podcast, wishing Lauran luck getting on her flight!
Lauran*
@@_kc5892 thanks i wasnt sure how to spell her name 🙂
When I was a 4th grader (1995!) We were supposed to do a field trip to George's Island, a Revolutionary era military fort off the coast of Massachusetts. You have to travel into Boston then take a ferry to the island. We got all the way there only to find out there was a murder the night before. The entire fort was a crime scene and we weren't allowed on the premises. Except the ferry left and wouldn't come back. So we spent the entire day playing outside on the grass and stones along the ocean. To this day it is school district lore as the worst field trip in the districts history!
love this content! ideas for future podcasts:
1) current teacher shortage- why it’s happening, how to fix it, & what needs to be talked about
2) featuring a special education teacher as a guest
3) discussing dealing with IEPs and students with special needs in your general ed settings
thank you for the good info!
"Parenthood is the scariest hood I've ever been too" I need that on a t-shirt 😂😂😂😂😂
Mrs. Richardson might agree with me... You can never go wrong with fried chicken, and fried chicken is one of the best things to eat as comfort food, dinner, lunch, breakfast, snack, midnight snack, just in general.
I grew up in an area where everyone knew everyone, if someone's kid was acting up in public, another parent would smack their ass and take them back to their parents. This happened to me once and I vividly remember my dad thanking the other parent for beating my ass 🤣🤣
Well, it takes a village to raise a child 😂
Yeah not in my village I grew up in. That’s a good way to start a civil war there. 😂
"Parenthood is the scariest hood I've ever been to."
Me: DEAD! 🤣💀
When I was a junior in high school, I was put on a list to go on a trip to explore colleges. My aunt dropped me off with money and said bye. The bus dropped us off at a mall to grab some lunch and take a break. My friends and I were literally being followed by this group of men and it was kind of scary. So I was looking around for my teacher or any chaperones but couldn't find any so I flagged down a cop and showed him my student id and said they were following us all over the mall. The cop talked to them and they disappeared.
Good thinking!
“Surprise Shawwty” 😂😂
Our kindergarten class went to Sea World one year and when it was time to go home one of the moms was missing. No one could find her. She was finally located at the Busch Beer Garden.totally wasted. They had to have a police officer meet the bus at the school to make sure she didn't try to drive home.
That has to be beyond embarrassing
OMG
I was part of the Wild and Wonderful West Virginia club and we went on a field trip to Point Pleasant to see the moth man museum. The teachers gave us streets we couldn't cross (which we did anyway) and then the teachers had dinner the whole time and turned us loose for hours. One boy got a mullet.
My first and only field trip I ever got to have was in fall of 2019, before the Panny hit us… I took my students to the beach for a photography lesson/photo shoot for the yearbook. It was awesome lol the kids loved it and the pictures turned out so nice!
Hey Bri, you mentioning Southaven, MS and Jackson, TN. I was born in Southaven and lived in Jackson for 18 years. 😁
yeah there’s a massive difference between being the parent of a picky eater and the parent who buys everything in the lunch room before even asking their kid what they want. my mom and i had established “safe food” that i would eat. she would consistently either send me with food or make sure they had something there that i would be comfortable eating. it was fairly easy. there were judgy people, sometimes, but those judgy people were silly n treated my mom like she was buying me every junk food in the zoo just so i could pick it special when she was rly just like “look she eats honey nut cheerios, uncrustables, or plain sliced cheese rn i don’t know what you want from me. that’s most of the food pyramid yall are pushing and she eats enough to scooter around for 6h AFTER school energy ends so”
Curious if any story can beat Rebecca’s crazy one that she did a video about.
I swear 80% of her stories are exaggerated or made up😅
@@ashruz_3095 I swear you are really obsessed with me or something like dang, every single video even when I link news articles about stories you have problems with you still have something to say 🤣
@@Rebecca.Rogers 😭✋ I DID NOT EXPECT THE CLAP BACK MRS ROGERS 😭😭
Two videos in the same minut
Imma start throwing hands if you don’t make these longer big dawg
On of my siblings is special needs, in order for her to go on field trips and camps, one of my parents had to go not a chaperone but as help specifically for her. So my dad went on all of her trips and camps for about 5 yrs. He had to constantly update his police checks and first aid courses, etc. I think they only reason we were able to do it was because he had to have all of it for his job as well.
You know I just graduated highschool and I've only had maybe two teachers seem as chill as you guys and i gotta say it was only senior year wish more teachers like you exist
From K-12th grade,I had to miss half of all the field trips in school cause my mom couldn't afford it. I know a few times in elementary when we would take any overnight(Pittsburgh I think lol)- one week(camp) field trip we would hold a can fundraiser,and had to go door to door asking if they had cans and that money from what we collected would go toward the cost of those trips which did help but it did suck especially in elementary. We didn't have family on either side that could help us, so it was just my mom, siblings and me,no one else. I hated staying behind in the office, the entire time and having to do extra school work to "keep me busy" while rest of class is out having fun, and the rest of the class wouldnt have to do the work I had to do and be graded. I graduated in 2005 so it's been awhile and might of changed now but I don't live in my childhood hometown. When my daughter started school,( 6yrs ago) that's when I found out her school actually holds fundraisers all year to collect money so no child will have to miss a field trip bc of being poor. Wish that's how it was in my childhood but glad my daughter can go on the field trips,cause theirs been a few of them I couldn't pay for it.
ik in my old high school and the schools i went to if you couldn’t go you do get to stay home if your parent signs for you
@@Jasmine-bn9ex I never tried staying home in elementary cause I knew my mom would be working but in middle school I tried asking if I could stay home that day, they said no and that I would be marked as truant if I didn't come to school so after that shit,I never asked the school a to stay home on field trip days and convinced my mom I was 😷😂🤷🤣
Y’all should do an episode with group home workers because I have some stories to tell 🤣🤣🤣🤣
In preschool, we didn’t take buses on field trips, the chaperones drove all the kids in their group in their own vehicle. It was at a co-op preschool at a Catholic church, and it was the 80’s.
As a teacher, I had to go pick up a HS student at the local police department, in the city we traveled to, because the student was drunk and wondered into some random person’s house.
so here is my story of one of my most recent field trips:
so all the 8th graders that got 1.5 years of growth on our Renaissance Learning Test would get to go on a field trip to a skating rink. well my county has a facebook discussion group- AND THIS KAREN SAID “IT IS SO UNFAIR MY CHILD DOES NOT GET TO GO ON THIS FIELD TRIP!!!” and i’m pretty sure her son didn’t even get that growth if she was complaining. the friday before our field trip (the day after the complaint was made) my math teacher looked PISSED. our admin said we are just gonna take all of our 8th graders but half would go to the skating rink and the other half went to the zoo close to the skating rink. i felt so bad for my teacher because she was like pacing around the room, she was mumbling stuff about admin under her breath, and all that other stuff. so that’s my field trip story…
It’s the Bre’s wheeze laugh for me
My youngest son went to a program called Jump Start, it's a four day program to help kids acclimate into kindergarten. I thought it would good for my son to get an idea what kindergarten will be like. On the second day at recess my five year old son went out the gate and decided to wait for mom at the pick up lane. Thankfully the teacher saw him going out the gate. I did warn them that he likes to disappear and run off. It's something that worries me the most with him going off to school. The missing kid story just made me think that will be my kid.... I will probably chaperone his field trips 😬
I was the picky eater of my family, and my mom never gave me any special treatment. I can’t imagine her *ever* even considering driving over to a zoo and picking up even 1 item for me to eat if I’d refused to eat the field trip’s lunch☠️ now I’m in college and am a great eater and a great cook so it all worked out
i love watching this, i find it relaxing for some reason-
Thank you Bri for saying what you said at the end. About teaching our kids things for the long run. As well as finding balance. My daughter is the same way with any store really. We're both getting better at about it. When she was 1 I'd get a little dollar thing here and there but know she knows that stores have toys and that's what she want.
When I was in middle school, they stopped selling and straight up banned those single serve Crystal Lite packets because kids kept snorting them. The Cheez-It story reminded me of that, it was a whole thing.
For us it was Smarties (the American chalky kind, not the Canadian chocolate kind) and Pixxie Stixx. They would crush the Smarties and snort them and use the tube of the Pixxie Stixx as a straw.
You guys always put a smile on my face 🙂
I did one summer as a camp counselor and we took them to a cavern tour and there was a playground with a retired fire truck and two of the boys climbed up and broke the windshield. That was quite a talk with parents
OMG! Literally stopped at 7:35!! Did not realize @honestteachervibes was from Jackson TN, me too! Little hey from home!!!!
I have so many summer camp field trip stories for yall!!!
We had one kid who liked to run away on field trips and we would have to chase her down. We ended up having to call her mom every single field trip (three days a week) to have her come get the kid or talk to her so she would stop running off. She was going into first grade.
We also had a late elementary school student who would poop his pants every single day during summer camp, sometimes multiple times a day. No one would ever say there was a medical or psychological issue, but he would do it all the time. The worst was when he'd do it on the bus! It was awful.
Btw my mom wrote this
I'm from Memphis so I was LOL-ing at yall. And my senior field trip was to the Memphis zoo!! 😂 we didn't get to do an out of town trip. No way our teachers would have trusted us with that!
No matter if it was a Shelby County School or a private school, we all took a field trip to the Memphis zoo and most of the time it was 4 or 5 different schools all going at once 🤣
@@allisontallantmcculley1047 haha so true! Or MCS schools! (yes, I am that old. lol)
Hi love your podcast
Listening to all your stories confirms my life choice of not having kids, LOL. Regarding the kids and eating issue, I'm a GenXer so tantrums got us nowhere. If one of us (usually my little sister) complained we didn't like what was being served for dinner, my mom's answer to that was, "This isn't a g**d*** restaurant. If you don't like what's for dinner you don't have to eat it but breakfast is a long time from now." My strategy was to first eat the things on the plate I didn't care for to get them out of the way, then eat what I did like. Since leaving home, though, there are things I have never eaten again.
So I used to work at a local science museum and boy the stories and school groups that I have encountered, I could write a book. This one story sticks out in my mind of a teacher laying out a chaperone and making the chaperone leave before the field trip even ended. This was a busy field trip day, around 2500 kids in the museum before noon, and this chaperone of an elementary school class decides to leave her group to go out and smoke a cigarette, comes back in to find her group not where she left them. She franticly looks though out the museum, still can't find them where she then goes to the front desk to report it. Well the policy is that once you report a missing child, the museum goes on alert and we walk around looking for them. It turns out that this group was where they were suppose to be which was in the IMAX watching the movie with the rest of their class. They has to interrupt the movie and the teacher came out and laid into that chaperone but the funny thing is that they have had trouble with her before but they were short chaperones so that is why they let her go on the field trip.
We have also had daycares leave a child behind and have to turn around a come pick up said child.
Young life is in CA for sure because I know a couple who run a young life program in Fairfield. This couple are a part of young life that reaches out to students whose parents are in the airforce. This couple used to do regular young life years ago so I know it is out here in northern CA.
Grew up in Chicago heights. We also didn't do field trips. With the exception of our 8th grade trip.
Me "eat or you're standing in time out until you eat. If you really act a fool, you're catching a whoopin' and you're still going to eat it."
I went to KAA kamp for 4 summer not a lot of people have heard of that lamp I love it.
My mom was barred from field trips because every time she went it would storm or have tornado warnings. Al out of no where. So. Grandma had to start stepping in 😂
Kids that elope are about the scariest thing ever… and I speak as the parent of a child that had elopement tendencies until they were placed in a SPED school.
I remember going to the fair in elementary school and my whole class was lined up and standing on the side of the fence. We watched a ewe give birth. It was so gross and amazing to watch. We all felt so bad for the one that got left out. We were yelling for someone to go and help the runt. We took other trips but I remember that one the most. Also in California the seniors go to Grad Night at Disneyland, schools all over participate 😬🤭.
I loved field trips. End of 5th grade we went to Schlitterbahn, 8th grade Six Flags, Junior Year went to Paris over summer break ❤️❤️❤️
lol please do more field trip stories, these are so great
I remember hating to farm bc all through elementary the only field trips we had were either to the farm or the zoo and both smelled like crap
I live in California and YoungLife was a huge thing in my high school and surrounding schools and they even had a middle school version but I can't remember the name of it. YoungLife was my favorite thing to do we had ours on Monday nights. YL forever dude. Our camp was called Woodleaf. One of our leaders had a freak accident and passed away after falling through a trapdoor for the rock climbing section
there was this one kid at my school who absolutely loved nature and one day we were playing outside and like no one even noticed he was gone. But when we got back inside they realized he was gone (btw we had like a forest next to our school) and it went on for hours of looking for him and it got so close to release time that they had to call the police saying they lost a student! i dont know why but i just thought “hey i should look outside” i look outside and he was in the forest climbing a tree! he full on jumped the fence to get to the forest and theres a river too so that was extremely dangerous! the worst thing though is like 3 or 4 years later that exact same forest caught in fire! i swear that forest gonna kill someone.
When I was in high school we went to Philly on a trip. We went to the mint and was told that we would meet in the lobby at a certain time to go to the next place. I was a need and was reading everything. After a bit I realized I was the only one there. Everyone else had gotten bored so the teachers decided to leave earlier than the set time. They didn't notice that I wasn't there. They only noticed when they got to the next location.
I have so many crazy stories about my class in general that I dont even think I can fit them all in one comment 😭
One of my absolute favorite field trips was when n I was a junior in high school and it was a bunch of schools who's juniors and seniors got to go to Hershey park from 11pm-5am. One of the best nights I've ever had!
KAA!!!! U KNOW!!!! Went to that kamp when I was younger and was loved it
To know another channel has mad subscribers just only having clips.
I was like I remember I seen their podcast
Did I make that up in my head?
So now I just typed teachers podcast and found yall
So that's cool
How did I not know she was from Jackson tn cause same
I like Lashay on here! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
My dad used to say, "that is my heart with arms and legs" about my sister and I. And you best believe....entitlement...did not exist in my household haha
This sounds worst than it is but I do enjoy the diversity in this everyone has there own way of looking at things ❤ so beautiful
KAAAAA U KNOWWWW!!!! I wanna Bri’s friend for multiple reasons but this one ☝️ is the NUMBER ONE! Let’s KAA Alumni!!!
“supriseeee shawtayyyy”
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Tennessee has so many ancient monuments, who knew
I’m from Memphis born and raised so I went to the Memphis zoo one time and they started shooting out of no where everyone started running and I’m so glad I my car was in the front and I was close to the exit but that was recently and Memphis just get crazier by the day
I've had a flight canceled and got then the connecting flight got delayed to the point that all airline employees had to sign paperwork to say they could work that late. So much that it was "if we're not wheels up whatever time it was we can't leave tonight." We were wheels up like 2 min before that. And to make that whole thing worse my phones charging port died during that flight and I had enough battery to call my dad when I landed to pick me up and my phone died 5 min later and I couldn't charge it.
We had a time at camp where one of the kids in my brother's group ran off at a baseball game and everyone was searching for him. He ended up seeing his aunt and going home with her. As and adult I still wonder why the aunt never informed anyone before taking him.
omg yesss they posted
Hi I love y'all's podcast, I hope Lauren gets gets there for the next podcasts
I have a story. On a field trip that happened at the end of last year(not grad stuff), a boy from my class took alcohol from his parents or something and was drinking it on the bus ride back to the school with another girl so when we got back to school they were both drunk and the teachers knew something was off so they were asking questions and while they were doing that a group of like six other boys were shotgunning two beers in the bathroom and recording it and that's why we now have a no phone rule at our school. they almost didn't get to go on their grad trip because of it. (this was last year when I was in grade 8, the grade 9's were the ones drinking stuff. absolutely ridiculous to be happening in school with kindergarteners and daycare kids in it or in any school at all so you can imagine how the parents and staff felt about it)
I love you all, please ask Mr.Seabolt to not refer to 70's and 80's subjects as ancient! LOL
I went to Windy Gap one year....had a blast!!!!!
My whole family is from Jackson, it gets crazy over there 😂🙈 bless you guys.
12 mins in and I didn't realize I was early for an episode! Love the podcast!
I watched all of themmm!❤❤❤
Once I went on a band trip to a different state. Took 17ish hours to get there by bus but yall the ride home took god knows how long because at least 1/3 of the bus got some kind of virus. We would stop every so often for people to use the bathroom but we still and kids and teachers pooping on themselves on the bus. It was so bad I will never forget it 😂
Everyone in or around Memphis always takes a field trip to either the Zoo, The Civil Rights Museum or the Pink Palace. Cannot count the amount of field trips I took to those places growing up in Memphis
@honestteachervibes in 3rd grade my teacher's response to going on a field trip was..." I wouldn't take yall to a dog fight even if it was free" my young mind thought we were going... Smh
Hi, this is off the topic and I have an interesting question. Our school district is currently on strike here in Columbus, Ohio. They are asking for functional working equipment like HVAC and much more including school supplies. What are your thoughts about this and are you guys dealing with the same issues?
In my middle school, the 6th grade went on an overnight field trip every May. It was a place call Camp Crystal Lake and the year my grade went it was over a Friday the 13th weekend and there was a boy in the class named Jason (I kid you not. This was around 1982 or 1983, so those movies were still very much present in our busy little minds; but that's just funny, not relevant).
There were 7-8 groups of 10-15 kids, and each group had a teacher and a chaperone. There was an obstacle course and a crafts hut, something about Native American culture, and other little activities, and then there was the hike. It was supposed to take a couple of hours. My cousin's group (he and I were in the same grade) set out after breakfast, and they still hadn't made it back by lunchtime. A little worrying, but they had two sensible adults with them. They'd find their way back. Still a couple of adults from our group and some of the camp staff went looking for them, just in case.
Dinner time rolls around, and they've been gone eight hours. Cue the nightmare scenario. One of the kids in the group is a Type-I, insulin dependent diabetic. He's already finished all his snacks, and his blood sugar is still dropping from the physical activity of the hike. So all of a sudden, the teacher has a stubborn, belligerent 12-year-old on her hands who is refusing to walk any further. He's red in the face, ugly crying and trying to punch anyone who gets close enough to try to coax him into moving on.
My cousin, whose younger brother also happens to be a Type-I, insulin dependent diabetic, is the only one who recognizes what's going on. He tells the teacher, and she asks the other kids if any of them have brought any snacks or candy with them. They scare something up for the diabetic kid, but now she has a belligerent, aggressive diabetic kid and six hysterical girls sobbing that they are lost in the woods and going to die there. The more they fret the more they find to worry about. Is that a bear? I think I got poison ivy on me! Are there snakes around here?
So now, we have a stubborn, belligerent, potentially violent 12-year-old; a teacher quietly panicking because the stubborn, belligerent, potentially violent 12-year-old is gradually approaching a medical emergency and there is nothing she can do to prevent it because their snacks are gone and she doesn't know enough about roughing it to determine what, if anything, in the woods is safe for him to eat; and half a dozen girls panicking loudly because they are lost in the woods and they have no food so they're going to starve to death and die there and rabid animals are going to eat their corpses so there won't even be any bodies to bury when all of their classmates and the whole town turn out to weep over their graves and say beautiful, dramatic things at their funerals.
And the adult chaperone decides to go off on her own and look for civilization.
Long story short, chaperone found a major highway just over the next hill, led the teacher and the kids to it, flagged down a passing car. The driver took the teacher and the diabetic kid back to camp, nurse looked after the diabetic kid, teacher led one of the bus drivers back to where the chaperone and the rest of the kids were waiting, the bus brought them all back to camp and the camp staff served them all a late dinner.
And nobody got killed by anybody in a hockey mask.
Is really hard when parents pack their kids food they know they don't like. Why would you do that!🤦♀️
I literally had a kid gagging while eating what his parents packed. I was finally like, "Honey, you don't have to eat all of that. You've had enough. "
When I moved to Florida in elementary I realized that they had an end of year field trip to an Orlando theme park but there was no way we were going out of state let alone country.
We went on a preschool fieldtrip to the apple orchard and on the way we found a turd rolling down the aisle. The teachers had to check every child to figure out who it came from. We also went to a baseball game and one of the chaperones lost one of his kids because he had been on his phone. Thankfully, I was watching his group and grabbed the kid before they got away. Fiekdtrips are every preschool teachers nightmare.
Oh no maybe the kids around here are like dumber or something, but I would not be able to handle that many preschoolers at once, that’s legitimately one of my biggest fears lol 😂
My 2nd day ever working in a public school I was sent on a field trip with 2 high needs 1st graders. One was an eloper and the other had physical/dietary limitations. The eloper eloped (shocking) at the same time the other tried to independently walk down a 2 story straight down staircase. Also, someone gave my dietary student a SERIOUS choking hazard but it was my SECOND DAY EVER and they could have died.
Young life is not only in the south…I’m in Idaho and know what that is…
Don’t do the Memphis Zoo dirty like that 😭
I'm a children’s church pastor and I teach kids that are k-5th every Sunday for about an hour or two and you learn to tell kids to back off pretty quick when you deal with so many each week. I can't imagine what school teachers go through every day.
5th grade I went to SeaWorld , Camp Olympia , 8th grade was Disney but my mom didn’t let me go 🙄 And senior year was Six Flags .
I have an incomplete bilateral cleft lip and palate. My nose is ALWAYS RUNNING!!
22:23 once a tiny baby child ran up to my patio to try to open the door so they could get to my cat, no parent in sight,like get your child, why are you letting a child still in diapers run up to strangers doors, and ive seen needles around that apartment building,theyre lucky their child didn't get hepatitis.
I still love going to the Memphis zoo. I always say if it’s my time it’s my time 🤣😭