Originally Posted by ashley
Originally Posted by Irena
I seriously think they do not realize that he is planning to stay home that day. I imagine if I didn't sign a permission slip for a trip at my son's school the teachers would be a little frantic wondering what they will do with him if I expect him to be able to be at school that day but not have permission to attend the trip. YKWIM? I am sure once she tells them he will be home that day they will be fine. No school can be this weird... at least not openly! (or can they???)
Our school's permission slip says explicity that those who opt out of the field trip will be placed in the classroom of another teacher for the duration of the trip. I think that this is normal operating procedure for most schools.

Cool! That is not what ours say at all! I guess they do not necessarily want to highlight that parents have a third option (one being attending the trip, two being staying home instead of going on the trip and three being getting to send your child to school that day but still get to opt of trip). Interesting. But I do think that if someone pushed on the issue, the school would do just that - put the child in anther class for the day or something... I think they just do not necessarily want it to be obvious that there is a choice. That's just how our school is...

ETA: Oh and half the time you can't make head or tail out of the permission slip - many times it will have the wrong dates or wrong times, etc... one had conflicting dates and times throughout the sheet so you havd no real idea exactly when the trip was and for what time!

Last edited by Irena; 06/11/14 10:28 AM.