Field Trip

Jan 16, 2009 at 6:26 PM
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Can I even describe to you the extreme peace and tranquility that descends upon the teacher when the teaching day ahead is to be spent on a field trip? Gone is that feeling as if a 20 pound weight were on your shoulders burdening you with questions of how you are going to make it go and how you are going to get the students to behave and how you are going to get that grading done. You sigh a deep breath as you think how your day is in the hands of other presenters and organizers--all you have to do is keep a head count and name list and get the same number and names on and off the bus two times (piece of cake). Contrast that with the usual opposing feeling, and you'd wish you had a field trip every day.

Anyhow, our field trip yesterday was a trip to Boston University for Latin Day. It was a day spent in two workshops listening to both a Harvard Professor speak about reading Vergil in poetic form and teacher from Boston Academy give some sort of rant about how church and state for us here in America is on par with the Romans. Lunch and a introduction and closing was all we had time for before we had to rush off to be back at school before the last bell. I sensed that the highlight for the High and Middle schoolers was simply the independence of leaving the shackles of school behind and being able to buy a second lunch from the university's food court, but, compared to my feelings of reckless abandon, can I blame them?

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