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2/10/2010
A school day spent at Lambeau - what?
What did your kids do for field trips? Well, if you can remember that far back, what did you do? All those many years ago, I remember the Senior Trip was a long bus ride to Washington D.C. I’m sure we saw the essential wheels of government. And during the year old-fashioned stuff like the Wade House in Sheboygan County and the thrilling geography of the Kettle Moraine.
I’m not well informed about field trips these days except to say the Senior Trip is an excursion to Great America. And I hear friends complaining about kids being awarded field trips to the bowling lanes and a pizza party for good grades or citizenship or something or another.
And now it’s a trip to Lambeau. Give me a break. Has anyone been there on one of these learning expeditions? Let me know what you and the kids learned; I surely may be misjudging. The Press Gazette talks up the experience:
For countless Green Bay Packers fans worldwide, Lambeau Field is a dream destination. For thousands of schoolchildren statewide, it's a place to learn.
…The hall of fame provides students with age-appropriate booklets to study local history and gives teachers supplemental classroom materials. The materials cover numerous disciplines, and are designed to meet state educational standards, said Kris Broderick, educational coordinator for the hall of fame and a former teacher.
"It does go into mostly history or social studies components, but there is reading in there," she said. "We also have daily language components … where they have to put in the correct punctuation or capital letters, things like that.
"What we wanted to do was show the history of the Green Bay Packers, but to do that in a variety of ways with the booklets."
I don’t think I buy it. (Do my tax dollars pay for this stuff? – Of course they do.) Ok, reaching out to the community “to their fans at a younger age.” Is it so uncool of me to yearn for today’s kids to learn about the real history of Wisconsin – i.e., sans Lambeau?
Jo Egelhoff, FoxPolitics.net
COMMENTS
Jo,
I'm with you 100%. But just to try to hold your kid back and you'll feel the push back. Of course no kid wants to stand out. Also these trips often come with an extra fee, something that many parents can't afford. Save em all up and go to Washington or Chicago or something. But Lambeau?
dave allen (Wed Feb 10 07:00:14 2010)
There could be something to be said for exposing kids to this part of our tradition, but only AFTER the kinds of experiences you recall as a part of your 'field trip up-bringing'.
Have they been to the Barlow Planetarium? The Payne in Oshkosh? Have they experienced a production at the PAC? The GB Botanical Gardens, the zoo, and maybe even a working farm? How about a wind farm and the nuclear plant? If they get a broad variety of experiences and really learn about all these things - then Lambeau, in my opinion, might be worth a little time because of its' special place in our community.
If the trip provides a well-rounded experience then ONE trip of this sort isn't (in my opinion) the end of the world.
Do they get to see the training & health / rehab facilities? Do they get to see and learn about the technology that goes in to producing an NFL Game Day? Do they learn how much it takes to get all the food in and prepared?
Do they get to visit the skyboxes and see how the "other half" lives?
All together - if they see more than the bowl, a restaurant, and the gift shop, then I don't see it as too bad.
Jeff (Wed Feb 10 07:08:35 2010)
Jeeze, relax! Schools should do stuff from time to time that is just plain fun! The Packers are, whether you like it or not, a very real part of our traditions and culture. Many of these kids will probably never have the opportunity to experience an ediface as grand as the field. When I was little one of our trips in our school experience was to a Cubbies game at Wrigley Field. What a day! Sunshine Ernie Banks, the Ivied Walls and Wrigley. We also visited the Wrigley Building and the Trib. I remember it like it was yesterday. School should not be a constant disciplined drag!
billie (Wed Feb 10 07:22:34 2010)
The real story here is not the field trips, but the incessant shilling for The Team by the Green Bay Press-Gazette.
Tom (Wed Feb 10 10:18:28 2010)
Just a thought! It was certainly better than a Jr. High School, out West I believe, taking their kids on a field trip to a Planned Parenthood Clinic. They learned how to have safe sex, the use of condoms and birth control methods as well as abortion. Without parental notification. Ready for that?
Or another Jr. High out East gives out birth control pills without parental notification although they have to notify parents to give a student an aspirin. These are 12,13 year olds!
And the secular beat goes on!
John Hyland (Wed Feb 10 10:45:48 2010)
I am with you 100% Jo. How many days are wasted in a year? There are 180 days of school. Use them.
David (Wed Feb 10 14:08:19 2010)
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