So, my kid's school is right next door to a DNR fish hatchery. So we walked over there for a field trip. Easy, right?
Well, considering that the teachers hadn't really scoped out a path to take over there and came disturbingly close to taking two classes full of five and six year olds through a narrow trail full of poison ivy, no. Not so much. Not only would they have been lost... it would have been easy enough to get unlost, but going on a scouting mission with two kindergarten classes through unfamiliar woods would not have been fun...but they would have contaminated two entire classrooms with urushiol (the gift that keeps on giving).
No planning? Really? Nobody thought to bop over there at any point and see how hard it was to walk over there before bringing a bunch of little kids out there?
Seriously?
I managed to get everyone onto a safe road and get them there and back without getting messed up in poison ivy and oak, stinging nettles, snakes, and fire ants. I think these people simply didn't know what they didn't know. Another classic example of people thinking the world is Disneyland.
I shudder to think what would have happened if I hadn't been there. And I had to watch everyone, too. I actually stopped one of the dads from wading through a patch of poison ivy with a bunch of kids in tow. Talk about having to be on high alert.
I really don't even know what to think about all this, I'm just kind of dumbfounded.
Well, considering that the teachers hadn't really scoped out a path to take over there and came disturbingly close to taking two classes full of five and six year olds through a narrow trail full of poison ivy, no. Not so much. Not only would they have been lost... it would have been easy enough to get unlost, but going on a scouting mission with two kindergarten classes through unfamiliar woods would not have been fun...but they would have contaminated two entire classrooms with urushiol (the gift that keeps on giving).
No planning? Really? Nobody thought to bop over there at any point and see how hard it was to walk over there before bringing a bunch of little kids out there?
Seriously?
I managed to get everyone onto a safe road and get them there and back without getting messed up in poison ivy and oak, stinging nettles, snakes, and fire ants. I think these people simply didn't know what they didn't know. Another classic example of people thinking the world is Disneyland.
I shudder to think what would have happened if I hadn't been there. And I had to watch everyone, too. I actually stopped one of the dads from wading through a patch of poison ivy with a bunch of kids in tow. Talk about having to be on high alert.
I really don't even know what to think about all this, I'm just kind of dumbfounded.
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