I don’t think it has anything to do with public schools. You’re just in a much more liberal area. Which is why I’d take lunch with a grain of salt, so to speak.
My daughter’s gone to the zoo and the science center. Of course, she’s in grade school, but I wouldn’t expect there to be a “literary field trip” at any time in her schooling here.
Next week I’m chaperoning any overnight field trip at an “environmental camp,” but I expect it to be about nature and conservancy, not about polar bears and melting ice caps.
And I hope xsjr told the teacher that minimum wage jobs are for the young and inexperienced, not for grown adults with any modicum of talent.
They are covering the Reagan era in her history class right now and she has her hands full setting them straight on that. They had a chemistry field trip last week to some military installation in MD last friday, can’t recall exactly what the place was. And the week before they went down to Richmond, to the state capitol to participate in a mock legislative session, and also hit up the Edgar Allen Poe museum, they went on to Charlottesville, toured UVA, spent the night and then went to Monticello the next day. This weekend is prom. She has a date, she’s not enthused about him, but she’s going.