What Field Trips Are Really Like For Teachers
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
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Kid: "Can you sign my permission slip?"
Teacher: "Can I file you on my taxes?" 😂
Bahahaha! 🤣
Imagine if that was what Professor McGonnagal had said to Harry Potter when he wanted to go to Hogsmead. XP
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@@SetonGirlMara I was looking for someone who would say that😂
Who else is not a teacher but still watch these videos
Me lol
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🙋🏾♀️. Plus my two older sisters are teachers...I get ALL the tea 😂
Me
On every class trip, my OCD explodes because I’m determined to keep them all alive so constantly count them all like sheep. I count to 30 at least a hundred times!
My 4th grade teacher worked for the FBI in Chicago before getting married and going into teaching. She had everyone in the class numbered (I was #11); when it was time to be on the bus, she’d start with Jenny Ballard and we’d all sing out our numbers in order. If someone was absent, the person before them would call out, “#( ) isn’t here.” She’d verify that on her list, and we were off.
I’m a Spec. Ed. sub, so that wouldn’t work for me. We also have some runners, so you *know* I’m counting heads! “I gotta count you because they get really cranky if I lose anyone!”
Thank you for keeping our kids safe on field trips!!❤
I constantly count too!!!! Even on the bus when obviously no one has left! XD
One time I counted and had 2 extra kids!!! I was sweating bullets at my 2 over recount. We were at a museum and a random pair from another school's field trip joined the end of my line as we left the picnic area. We all walked back to find a frantic teacher looking for her 2. Lol I hate field trips with a passion.
Yep! Constantly having to count is exhausting, but necessary 😅
I like how you can’t tell if this is elementary school, middle school, or high school lol
That is so true 😂😂😂😂
YES
Because it doesn't matter how old they are, they act the same. In fact the little ones are better behaved because their parents are still involved. Junior and Senior high students think they are "grown".
The only difference is with HS you have to work harder ensuring that no babies are made.
Highschool you dont get field trips
“They didn’t make this weather for folks thicker than a Snickers!” I’m going to have to remember that and use that! 😂
😂🤣👏👏👏 And it is accurate!! Summer is just terrible. Hate the heat, the bugs, the humidity, everything I'm allergic to....if I could live somewhere that the temperature never gets above 50°F, I'd be an extremely happy human!
@@chrisbecker4412 I’m the opposite no cold,
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That made me bust out laughing too!!
@@chrisbecker4412 I'm the same! I hate heat and bugs, 40-65ish degrees is the perfect temperature range for me!
I went as the room mom. Before we left the teacher asked the kindergarten class. “
And why is it important to stay together as a group?”
A child raised his hand and said “Because we could die”. 🤣
Oh that’s golden 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"If Mrs. Richardson has to wait on ya people, imma get a attitude"
Dude. That was the most true thing in the whole video.
The get there on time and respect other people's time. Being late is rude, inconsiderate, disrespectful and shows a lack of etiquette.
Liquor stores really should have teacher discounts.
Nope. I would spend time in rehab than I would in front of my students! 🤣
I'd have to keep a bottle under the seat of the car and go out to the car on lunch break before I go to jail for child abuse 😫
Im an aesthetician and I give teachers discounts
I always said I needed an extra drawer for a bottle of wine during hall breaks! 😂
They need to have a Teacher section so they don't have to interact with anyone but the cashier.
🎶 “Jesus ….be a fence….all around me.” 🎶 …..love it!
As a former museum educator, I can say this is accurate! LOL God Bless you, teachers!
Thank you very much 🙂
Forgot about ALL the paperwork before the field trip ... cafeteria for lunches, scheduling busses, collecting permission slips, calling parents....
Finding somewhere for that one kid who can't go due to behavior
@@desslou oh Lordy. Yep
I was so happy we didn't have field trips due to the pandemic! I don't miss any of the prep.
That's what I was thinking, all the insane paperwork involved.
This is 100% true!I'm a brand new teacher but I was a camp counselor while going through college to become a teacher. Keeping track of 40 kids in an amusement park or a zoo is just awful. Teachers should get a bonus for field trips.
Follow up....I have to take my 3rd graders on a field trip tomorrow. Ugh....
@@SetonGirlMara How did the field trip go?
@@raykings5244 It was actually fun. We took a hay ride through a cornfield and pumpkin patch. There was a petting zoo and we fed the animals. It brought out my inner child as well. But still keeping all of the kids in line and getting them to follow directions is always hard. But that’s the teacher life. Lol.
Or hazard pay🤣
Yes! Hazzard pay!
I went with one of my kids on a trip once. It was an overnighter to an historic site. As a former Scoutmaster, I could not believe the gross lack of discipline amongst the kids! No Scoutmaster I know would ever tolerate the behavior or lack of respect these kids showed. So, as a teacher, I know you have it much worse dealing with boys, girls, and parents. RESPECT to all the teachers!
Like not disciplined how?
@@Cheerleader644860 Failure to follow directions for their own safety and wellbeing.
This happened to my niece when she was in senior high school 12 years ago. Her school organised a 10 day trip to Europe from Australia for modern and ancient history students in her year group which occurred during the school holidays. The flight is about 20 to 24 hours long including transit time. About 30 students went with 4 teachers. They went to France, Italy, Germany and the UK. The UK was their final destination. That was the week that volcano in Iceland decided to erupt and the volcanic ash and smoke caused all air traffic around Europe to cease for almost 2 weeks. They were staying at a youth hostel and hadn’t checked out when they found out all flights were cancelled. They were stuck in the UK for an extra week with money running out. One teacher went to the airport everyday to find out when a flight out of the UK could happen as it was almost impossible to ring the airport. The teachers had to find free activities for the students to do e.g playing soccer in Hyde Park, going to the British Museum, visiting Cambridge University. They managed to stay at the same youth hostel, but the hostel already had bookings for that week, so they brought up extra mattresses and the girls were put into one room and the boys in another room. The teachers shared rooms with other adults. My niece rang home crying because she was home sick and then abruptly stopped and asked for her parents to put more money into her account and phone credit. Finally they were able to fly home via Munich and Thailand. It took them 48 hours to get home as they had to wait for connecting flights. The teachers deserved medals for the extra supervision and stress they were under. When they arrived back at Sydney Airport, the principal met them and gave the teachers the week off as the new term had started while they were away. Everyone was relieved once they landed at the airport. Their story even made the newspapers.
Lowkey she's a good singer
I love her, she is HILARIOUS. And SPOT ON.
Ditto!!!
I swear you act out “my inner child” thoughts within all of you videos. 🤣I’m 4 years shy of retirement. Keep me Jesus!
Brilliant. Don’t forget counting heads all damn day.
All I do on field trips is constantly count heads.
What do you think big families do? Did you watch Home Alone? My brother got lost at Niagara Falls.
But Ms. Richardson, if they could not have their cellphones with them, how will they call their people? 🤣 Your videos are bang-on. Love them.
As a parent who has volunteered to go on field trips several times, I've always wondered how the teachers manage to keep their cool when they have a bunch of children bouncing around like wild monkeys. I only get assigned 3-4 kids to keep track of. The teacher has to keep track of the whole crazy group, plus listen to the same speaches/act/video for the 10th year in a row.
we don’t
Lmfao 😂😂😂😂😂
*speeches. and idk, ive only been a teacher briefly for a summer jawn, so not even the same. but i did have to take the kids for walks n shit to the playground, n they were little, and we live in the hood hood in Philly, so the stakes werent exactly low. but the thing is, kids actually tend to stick w the group usually, outta social cohesion. it really surprised me, actually, csuse i was always the deviant asshole going off on her own, taking others down w me if theyd agree to come hahahahaha esp once i got to middle and high school. i spent basically all of school sneaking away to either get high, and/or meet my friends and/or boyfriends. good times!
@@IDontKnow-pf6en Did some time teaching and it felt like karma for pulling the same kinds of shit you describe.
My kids knew how to behave....with me. Having a teacher aide didn't hurt. I think my students used to be more exhausted than me afterwards.
I might be the only one that truly missed the field trips. I love it when I get the parents to volunteer and set them up in groups and make sure that they get their own Children.
i hated getting my own ma! i was like noooooo, please dont put me w this crazy woman
It's hotter than a second level of hell!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm not a teacher but that line and the whole skit is was funny
If only a Skit! No skit!
My daughter's 3rd grade teacher was amazing. She took them walking every 2 weeks to the city library. The kids had to memorize a short poem every week and recite it in small groups. I never saw a teacher before or since who made it through each textbook: science, history, English, math.
Real hero there!
Kat, my friend's children went to school in Bakersfield and their teacher did that too! (Then they moved the library down four blocks...m
Our teacher used to do this but now the climate is so bad not even teachers are allowed to leave the school without signing a release.
One of the best parts of retirement: Never having to be in charge of/go on a field trip again.
Former teacher here. Rounding them up and getting them all to stay in the bus to go home at the end of the day can be lots of fun, too.
Girl, I can't tell you how many times my husband comes home from field trip day, telling me parents were over an hour late, picking up their kids!!! I say fine them! Next time a field trip coming up & you need to send home the permission slips, attach a letter explaining $50 has been added to your field trip fee. This was your late fee for last time. And if you want your child to go on anymore field trips, BE ON TIME FOR PICK UP!
Threats to call CPS or cops to pick up abandon kids works too.
My school charged extra for every minute passed 5:30pm After After-school care was over. My mama wrote ALOT of checks & I spent many evenings praying in the chapel with the nuns till she came to get me 🤣
This is so accurate! 😂😂😂 Field trips are great for kids, but not so much for the adults. Need a Prozac drip in the staff lounge afterwards.
"I better not see a phone!" "Call your people.."
The bathroom comment was spot on. Just working on an activity in the school courtyard is stress inducing, let alone in a field trip.
Loved this video! When I worked in Maryland, fifth grade teachers were required to take their students on an OVERNIGHT camping trip. It was HELL on earth. The icing on the cake was that teachers received no additional pay or compensation for doing this. Some thoughts on parent chaperones...In my experience, parent chaperones on field trips were very judgmental and either criticized the teachers for not adequately controlling the students, or criticized the teachers for having too many rules and not letting the students enjoy themselves. Rarely did teachers receive a "thank you" for taking students on a field trip. I'm happily retired now and grateful my field trip days are far behind me. It still feels good to "vent." 😁
Preach!
@@lorettamorris6835 😅
Yay!
And yes so annoying!
In my country, overnight or week-long school trips are very common in schools. When I was still teaching we would have annual week-long school trips for each grade in 2 of the high schools I taught at. We didn't get overtime, it was hell cause someone always managed to get themselves hurt and we always had a crier who wanted to go home cause they missed mommy, and we barely got any sleep on the one trip I went on because it was at a CoEd school and we had to make sure no one's kids went to do the dirty in the bushes. I've since moved over to the corporate world and as much as I sometimes miss teaching, I'm very happy where I am now.
34years in the system…. She ain’t lying‼️🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yep, I can relate! I am a retired teacher and so is my husband! We taught in the same school together! We chaperoned school trips together! Good times, good times! One time, a parent went to a baseball game instead of picking up their child from the school trip! This was before everyone had a cell phone. My husband had to go to the baseball field in the next town over and get the parent while I waited with the student! They were hours late!
Been there, done that. Brought an extra couple of sandwiches for the kids who invariably forget their lunch.
As a student I forgot to get the permission slip signed though I had the money. Asked the teacher about it to be told in an exasperated tone: you’re 18, right? You can legally sign it.” I was, and I did. It felt amazing, like I was a real adult. Now it’s quite laughable at how innocent I was to the grind of being an adult truly is.
I've done so many field trips...
Oh so many...
This is exactly...
I'm speechless...
Field trip PTSD...
If teaching doesn't pay well you can always go in to comedy. As a nurse the crazy stuff I could tell you 🤣. Thank you for all you do ❤☮
THose field trips; I used to do the PTO stuff. After about 3 field trips, I had to step down. Field trip number 1 tip: keep everyone together in the SAME location. They had this not so brilliant idea of different buses and different buildings. When I got back on the bus, who knew whose kid was on what bus???? Field trip number 2: tip. Please try to pair two parents together if possible. The kid who doesn't want to go where the rest of the kids want to go. We went to the museum. I was one parent in charge of a group. The one kid was scared to go in the Egyptian section. The rest of the kids couldn't go in there because the 1 kid was scared. If I had another parent with me who could have watched him, then I could have taken the rest of the kids in the Egyptian section. They complained all the way back. Field trip number 3: tip: Don't be that parent who spends their whole time talking to the teacher and doesn't watch the kids. On the bus, I'm in the back while the teacher is in the front seat talking the whole time with a "cute" Dad on the field trip. Neither of them watched any of the kids on the bus. Meanwhile I've got them jumping seats, chewing gum, etc. That was it for me. Teachers should so get paid more.
That time the 8th graders were twerking on one of the battlefields at Gettysburg...... yep.
Seminary Ridge, to be specific.
was it you? cmon, be honest!
She speaks the truth. God bless our teachers. They put up with ALL of our kids💓❤💗
That part with the wasp 🐝 🤣. That was me a week ago during a fire drill. I was walking 1st graders back inside and a bee started zooming at me. I ducked, squeaked, and ran in a little circle to get away. Kids were too busy giggling to be scared. 🙄🤷🏼♀️😂
I'm an Anglican minister, and have had some very similar experiences during our "outdoor worship" times, when we have services on the lawn of the church, or at outdoor weddings and cemeteries. I try to hold it together and not react, but sometimes the bugs just don't let me!
BATHROOM is always the issue. The stories I can tell. #2 Takis and licking your fingers and passing them out to the rest of the class. #3 Phoning home after returning and they don't know or have the phone #. 🤯😤
I was so dead when she called out Conner and Katy 😂.
This is just too true LOL!!! As I am the person who actually books fieldtrip for the teachers I have had plenty of conversations with teachers and they have told these types of stories. And once the kids get to my location. Just watching the teacher say the same thing 30 times because they kids arent paying attention. Bless yall teachers cause fieldtrip day is very stressful. And lets not even talk about the chaperones LOL!!!
Can I just say this channel is hilarious and educational at the same time on how my kids and I can better to our hardworking teachers?
Falling down laughing...yes, this is what it is really like! I was, however, unable to sing to comfort myself in those days!! Nice touch. Thanks
I would love to work with this woman! She tells it like it is! 😂
I learned years ago, with small kids to say "y'all go to the bathroom, it dosen't matter if you NEED to go, you going right now, this is you last chance for a really really long time" and then make sure they at least go in the stall.
The "If I see it, it's mine" gave me flashbacks 😭😭😭
"They didn't make this weather for no folks that's thicker than a Snickers" YES!!! This line forever! LOL
This is me just standing outside during duty.
"How hard is it to find a partner?"
Truth! 🤣🤣🤣
Assign partners! :)
If you're popular or your BFF is also on the trip, not hard at all. Otherwise, it's harder than you might think. My sympathy there was for the introvert trying to find a partner, but everyone they ask is already paired off.
@@melaniem2744 I think the point is that the concept of "2" is too challenging.
bless all the teachers, I nanny during summers and just the 3 I'm in charge of are a handful and a half and they're all generally very well behaved. bless the teachers who take all them kids in public, they all need hazard pay for that
I taught in California in the early 2000's. 1 field trip and 1 assembly per year. Bell to bell teaching. One recess per day for elementary (supervised by teachers). Four minutes between classes for middle and high (supervised by teachers). No bathroom breaks for staff. No time to prepare between classes. "Asked" to sub during my prep periods. I think factory workers have a better working conditions. As much as field trips suck I wouldn't have minded getting out of the sweat shop once in a while.
This is why I never do field trips!! I am not taking high schoolers anywhere!
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When I was teaching daycare, there were certain kids that weren’t allowed to go without a parent or guardian!! No exception!!
Former teacher 🙋🏻♀️ I don’t miss that life…
I just retired. I don't think I'll miss it either.
If I see it, its mine!
I need this on a t-shirt... So I can just point.
I love this lady.😁Being a teacher too, helps me relate to her completely.
You southerners have THE best sass lines!!
teachers like you are that HAVE TO stay teaching. WE NEED YOU!!!
I'm so serious field trips sound amazing to the children and their parents but damnnn it's a hell of a stressful occasion for a teacher, we can all laugh now but we definitely need more than one glass of wine when you return the kids safely back to their parents.
Every moment is memorable around children they make sure of that
The way she holds the pen and waves it around… accurate.
"Didn't I tell you to put some deodorant on? YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TERRORIZE ME AND THE BUS DRIVER!" LMAO
My dad was a teacher for many years and these videos are so relatable to what teachers do daily.
Thirty minute heads-up for parents? You are still going to be waiting at least an hour after you get back. You tell parents you’re getting back at 2:00 PM when you know darn well it will be 3:00 PM. Then you might only have to wait half an hour on the last pick-up.
see im not a parent, but im always late by hours (i hate it, but ive always been a day late, and a buck short, im tryna work on it tho), so my friends n family n people will do that to me hahaha i need it tho!
It was so nice last year with COVID to have an excuse for not going on field trips!
Field day. Dear God I hate field day.
Corona still around. There still that excuse
@@rebeccafoster-faith6647 Wow! Speaking as a teacher or parent? I LOVED field day (elem and middle schools) That's when the nicest parents, college kids, eighth graders, some other teachers and staff all got together to create a wonderful day of camaraderie for the kids. That is one thing I seriously miss doing as a teacher. Sometimes I wished we could have one at the beginning of the year too because we really got to spend the time with people we might not otherwise have done. Of course, the first round of organization might be overwhelming without help, but it doesn't take long to evolve into a blueprint, one that allows for changes in activities and set-up each year.
Hopefully, you will eventually have a good time at a field day... good luck.
Baby, when I tell you if I don't say these things out loud I'm definitely thinking them. I HATE field trips as a teacher. The counting every time you turn around is enough to drive you crazy, but all the shenanigans too? No ma'am. No sir.
I got an attitude watching this... Four hour bus trip listening to elementary school students sing Old Town Road 😩pure torture 😀
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It’s the “Jesus, take the wheel!” And “Jesus, be a fence all around me!”
😂 Those are my go-to songs everyday.
Too funny! I am retired, but can relate to all of this!!
You are hilarious! You are the most natural actress in this channel
I giggled for a solid 3:52 minutesI Why is Ms. Richardson not on prime time?
On our first and only ever field trip to the aquarium in elementary school... what we thought was the smartest boy in our class climbed up on this giant turtle statue before we went into the aquarium and jumped off the head which was about 8 feet from the ground. He claimed that he was trying to prove to his friend that heavier things fall harder so essentially he believed that his lower body weight would make him fall softer/slower and prevent him from getting hurt.
He broke his arm and the whole grade immediately went home.
Excellent! This teacher needs her own channel!!
Jesus, take the wheeeeeeeeel! YES! Rumor has it the kids are still trying to find a partner...
At first I thought she was from Texas, but she sounds like us in Louisiana! She done stole the words right outta my mouth!
She’s in Alabama
i love this woman. Why didnt we have teachers like this
Is this supposed to be elementary school or high school? My high schoolers act like this. Lol
My moneys on middle school but my high schoolers would act this way too 😂😂
@@jacquelynroe9036 she’s a 6th grade teacher. Joke’s on y’all. I’m a daycare teacher. We don’t have to go on field trips hehe
@Hannah Scott the daycare i briefly worked at did, like i said in another comment that you actually commented on too hahaha sorry if thats creepy. we had to take like five and unders out in the hood hood where we live in Philly, like at least 17 of em, it was surprisingly less stressful than i thought it would be, but i was also not a full time teacher.
@@IDontKnow-pf6en oh Lordy I feel sorry for ya hahaha
😂😂😂
Field trips are the worst! And when the chaperones come and DON'T chaperone because they are all into their phone or anything else but the kids in their charge...just wasting everyone's time 😅
I swear…you need a comedy show live
I had 2 full busses of kids an parents on a trip once. The one bus driver just waked off somewhere and abandoned us. That was fun. Or the one where we get banned from spots cause parents shoplift from the gift shop. Or the one time I caught an auntie shooting up in a bathroom at a museum designed for young children. Or the one where the relative wanted the bus to make a detour and drop her off at a known crack house.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good lord
I could observe these teacher struggles even when I was a student. I think the best (worst? Up to you lol) field trip moment was at this historical event thing with lots of other people and lots of other schools (way better behaved than us). We were the “good kids group,” but still, one of my friends pulls a full magazine page out of her pocket with none other than a giant picture of the Pope’s face on it. We were right in line and everyone was absolutely judging “those kids.” Our teacher was choking back laughter.
My dad loved field trips and would volunteer for them.
Can you do one on what actually happens during fire or lock down “drill”? 😏
Please don’t stop making these. I’m weak 😆
High school trip to a National Monument for 2 nights. Had record rainfall and no fires allowed on premise....it was wild but so memorable! Hiking the next morning with crazy clouds and all my kiddos was so surreal. Great memory...and yes, very on point! Ha!
Love this!! ❤️ It's all true!
On a more serious note,
We almost lost a student on a district-wide fld trip of all MS in our sector.
I was on a bus w/a driver, the ISS aid, & myself.
The AP placed us on an equal level because she hated what she called church folk teachers.
I was given the 1st group on a count off & the aid was given the rest.
Knowing full well who'd tk the heat, I did a full bus count & was told by the aid pay attn to your own kids. I said all students are the responsibility of all staffers.
As we boarded & were abt to lv, I said someone is missing. I did an actual count not a call out count.
I refused to allow the bus to depart. The aid & AP stated I was showing off & miss counted because she had all her students accounted for.
I wd not let it go. So, the principal boarded my bus & did a count, someone was missing.
After 5 min, a student said, "I told her not to go because she was on this bus & this teacher don't let kids get away with nothing. This teacher see everything.
She aksed her mom if she cd do a sleep over but her mom said unless they pick you up I'm not driving that far."
So, she conspired to board the bus of her friend for a sleep over.
The principal boarded that bus retrieved the student & called her parent. What we heard we don't repeat.
Then, the principal called ahead for bagged lunches because hundreds of children fm all the MS in our sector had missed their lunch, which is gov by state & fed guidelines, illegal.
All because one student tried to circumvent the rules.
It was said by staffers I over-reacted.
My principal said if anything uncanny had happened to that child at the stranger's house the school & district wd be liable, not the child, who's under our supervision, & not the mom.
This teacher is hilarious and spot on
Been there...oooo Jesus, take the wheel. 😆 love your kids....when they’re going home. 😆
I respect the hell out of teachers. They don’t get paid nearly enough for the shit they have to deal with. That said… I can definitely go from not needing to bursting for a pee within five minutes.
I am not a teacher, and I LOVE THESE!!! This reminds me of when I was In college, listening to stories from education majors!!! Love it and please keep them coming!!!😂❤😮😅
Fieldtrips are more stressful than fun for teachers. 😅
This lady is AMAZING 🤣
When I started as an assistant to level 5, we went on a trip every Wednesday. Every trip, everywhere we went, I counted off students. We never lost a student because every aide regardless of student assignment counted off students.
However, the high school left a mostly nonverbal student at the mall. We teach them if lost to approach a police office and frequently introduce them to officers so they know the uniforms. The student stood by an officer who couldn’t get him to talk but he showed the officer his school ID. The police officer called the school at the same time the teacher realized he was left behind. 😢😊
Thank you for making these videos!! I can't tell you how much I needed a laugh.
The "Jesus be a fence" song definitely plays in my head at least once an hour with these kids!! 😂😂
The only thing worse than field trips are class parties. Have you done one on those?
I see that Ink Joy pen. 🤩
"jesus be a fence all around me~"
jesus sitting in the AC in the heavenly clouds thinking "i'm not coming down there - she's on her own"
I was a T.A. In daycare in Boston in the 80s and we took the Toddlers & Pre-K on a field trip EVERY FRIDAY ALL SUMMER. I’m still stressed just thinking about it. We even went on the Swan boats in Boston common 🦢