School Field Trips - BCI

OhioMama77 · **School Field Trips - BCI**

I went to Aiden's kindergarten curriculum night last night (which was awesome...as a 1st time kindergarten parent...yes, I'm a dork) & just wondered if your school districts have the same policy on field trips.

Any parent/family member who is a chaperone on a field trip has to have a background check before they are allowed to attend. Does anyone else's school have the same policy?? Not that I have a problem with it, but I just thought "WOW"! I guess it's a good thing for the kids to be safe.

What do you gals think?

Starlite · 09-29-2006, 10:47 AM

My dd's school handles it their own way -- they don't allow parents to go on field trips at all.

I don't know -- it does sound like a bit much, but I guess with our society going into the toilet, you can't trust anyone nowadays. <sigh>

brandk916 · 09-29-2006, 10:51 AM

Our school requires anyone going on field trips, volunteering, or going to class parties to have background checks and confidentiality training. It seems like a pain, because we have to do it every year, but I guess it's worth it to keep our kids safe.

aliadam · 09-29-2006, 10:58 AM

Our school system requires police background checks (although I'm not sure how closely they really check them) and so do our boy scouts and girl scouts. So my dh and I have both had them done years ago and just make copies. Plus they keep them on file at our school, so when I needed wone to go to Russia with HS age dd last year, I just went back to the Jr. High where I'd had it done and it was still there!! It's a pain in the butt when you first have to get them done, but I guess it's really a good idea. I don't want some child perv around my kids.

bjn75 · 09-29-2006, 11:12 AM

since my daughter has started school weve lived in 2 states - neither have required a background check .

OhioMama77 · 09-29-2006, 12:05 PM

I think I'll just have one done sooner than later so I'm not rushing come time for a field trip.

treehugger · 09-29-2006, 12:12 PM

Ours doesn't. I go on all the field trips and volunteer in the class and they have never checked me out (that I know of)

Oregano · 09-29-2006, 12:49 PM

No, but we're a private school. I'd have no problem with it though if our school had that policy and I'd happily comply.

Hannah18 · 09-29-2006, 01:18 PM

Yes our school system is like that. Any volunteer at the school (whether it be in the classroom, as a PTO volunteer at lunch/recess/bookfair, or as a chaporone) has to have a back ground check.

Bsteen · 09-29-2006, 01:59 PM

I know when I volunteered at our local elementary I had to be finger printed. Is that for a background check? I guess if it is, I didn't really realize what they were doing. I guess it's not a bad thing. I know that one of the big churches around here requires a background check for the nursery workers.