To think schoolchildren should not be turned loose in a rose garden

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I was enjoying the peace in my local park and had just got DS to sleep in his pram. A group of around 30 kids started charging around the rose garden, running along the paths screeching and chasing each other The teachers just sat by the fountain and did nothing! Didn't even tell them to keep the noise down and of course DS woke up when a bunch of them jostled past his pram

It was the same at the zoo and Sealife centre recently, groups of noisy shrieking school kids pushing in front of everyone, shoving each other, getting in the way and generally being a nuisance.

AIBU to think kids on school trips should be kept under control, not left to run wild?

I have honestly never seen a rose garden as similar to a library. I don't think it is.

I took my DC to the rose garden at all ages, but if they'd dared to run or screamed there we'd have left and gone back to the play area to blow off more steam.

Dacre when I go to the park with my children, they are free to go where they want to. It's a park not a museum.

I liked happy 's list for teaching DC consideration for others.

Whoever made the remark about DC raised that way not being joyous with either being catty or missing the point by a mile.

It's about different behaviour being suitable (and thoughtful) for different venues and company, nothing to do with a deficit of joy.

I agree actually. We have a beautiful, peaceful rose garden at our local park, it's quite big but only a small proportion of the park as a whole. I would be wondering why in the whole of the park they had to choose the part designated for sitting and being peaceful? Teachers fault though not the kids.

My children are very courteous. They also happen to be quite quiet. But I wouldn't bat an eye at a group of children enjoying the rose garden.

The OP specifies 40 DC chasing and screeching violet. I really don't think she's BU.

Slightly off topic I do find some families are LOUD. At a small beauty spot at Easter. Full of families walking, watching waterfalls, picnicking. Normal noise levels. Then the LOUD family arrive. Shouting, bellowing screeching at each other. absolutely no awareness of other people. They are the reason Dh will not camp.

YANBU. But this was the wrong place to ask!

Of course it would have been more suitable for the children to be running around the open spaces or in the playground. Formal flower gardens are really for strolling through or sitting in, not playing.

Zoos are also not for running around and screaming in either.

And I speak as a veteran of many a school trip. Children being children doesn't mean they can't be well-behaved.

YANBU op.

Seriously, my kids are 7 & 5 and I would never let them run riot in a rose garden.

We visited a big park back in December on holiday, my dc ran around the paths, played on the playground, rolled down the hills but when we got to the rose garden, we walked around admiring the flowers and the scents and sitting down to enjoy the sun and quiet.

Rose gardens are not the place for kids to be running around and screaming.

happy I think you are spot on. I'm often surprised myself by the number of parents who seem to think being disturbed in their own homes is tuff shit and their children's entitlement to do it.

I'm not holier than though - can't afford to be with a DS who has ASD!

The other day him and his friend were outside after dinner on scooters and jumping on them. The sound of the clanging metal is bloody annoying! A man up the street told them he owned a certain length of path outside the side and he'd prove it with the deeds. My DS said "go on then"

Ds was quite proudly telling me this and being smug he was right. (That's where he ASD comes in).

I, however, told him firmly I suspect the man was fed up of hearing clatter bang and his and friends screams and that in future he does it outside our or his friends houses or he doesn't go out.

Yabu
Kids are kids they should be allowed to play in a park
& will get excited when on school trips to the zoo.
Believe it or not your ds will be running around screaming with the best of them in a few years too!