Anyone else in a school which does this?
Our school has always asked/begged parents to help out with school trips and has almost always got enough parents. There are plenty of us who are SAHM or who work PT and are always happy to help out. There is almost always also a PSA (TA) also on the trip, but they have always utilised parents.
New SMT - (Head & 2 deputes) - and all of a sudden parents are not being requested for trips. DD1 has had 4 trips so far this year and has another 1 this week and we haven't been asked to help at all. I asked her who went on the trips and she said the teacher and 2 or 3 PSAs. (As well as student teacher who is currently assigned to their class but that was just for last week's trip.)
It's not just her class trips either because I have seen several trips walking past our house (we live next to the school and the kids who know us always wave in at the window if they see me) and there haven't been any parent helpers - just teachers and PSAs.
I don't understand this - why would they send PSAs out of the school for a trip and thereby taking them away other classes when they could be using parents?
Anyone else have any similar experiences?
(There has been some speculation about it being a further indication of the SMT trying to keep parents out of the school - this is one of many changes along these lines since the new Head took over a year ago, but I don't want to cast aspersions if there is a genuine reason for it. I'd just like to understand because it seems odd.)
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PSAs on school trips instead of parents
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Jedbartletforpresident · 04/12/2017 11:10
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