Originally Posted by ElizabethN
Originally Posted by Mk13
HK ... except when our child has a younger sibling and we have nobody to watch the younger sibling and the school policy says NO siblings allowed. Therefore my son was excluded from the trips because I, his mother couldn't accompany him because they wouldn't let me take the younger child with us. :(((


I realize that this is a solution that costs money, but - babysitter for the younger? Does the school have a childcare for younger kids? Maybe the accommodation that you need written in is that the school will accept your younger child into childcare on a drop-in basis as needed so that you can accompany the older on field trips.

He's Autistic and needs a one on one care. So we don't really have a babysitter or childcare option for him unless my stepson would take a day off from work or it was on a day when my husband isn't working. It would be so easy to just let us (including the younger one) drive in our car and just join the rest of the class at the final destination! But nope, it's against the policy. In which case the SCHOOL is actually supposed to supply an aid / person to supervise my allergic son and carry his meds and be in charge of him, but that was never offered. ... yet another reason why we ended up homeschooling. Now we go on any trip we want and don't have to worry anymore.