Everyone who’s been home schooled or knows someone who has been home schooled knows that it’s difficult to have field trips (Especially when it’s a free state-wide cyber school.)
Seeing as field trips are basically the only way for us to meet our classmates, I want to be able to help out and suggest locations and events we could have in my area. But since this is a free school, the only money they get is from the government and donations. So how can I help my school make money (They don’t really hand out chocolate sales and fund raisers, y’know) to do things like rent busses for out-of-state trips and go to museums that cost money for educational groups?
You guys have some good ideas, but here are some problems-
1. I don’t know if any of you have heard, but the school district is actually trying to close down Cyber Schools as of ‘08. So why would they want to provide money? It sucks, but that’s how it is.
2. For those of you that said I should be able to go on trips by myself, a group of friends, or my parents; I have a work-all-day dad and a afternoon-worker mom. She leaves the house at noon, at which time my duty is to babysit.
Since the school gives online live classes during the morning, the only way to make it work is if the school provides the field trip that way I (and my friends) wouldn’t be marked absent.
3. The reason why people in my county are in a free cyber school is because they have no money to pay tuition, let alone field trips (Which usually range from $50-$100 dollars including snacks and souvenirs)
The “fun run” and fund raiser ideas sound good, but I don’t know how to go about organizing that.
(By the way, it’s the Philadelphia School District…And Philly isn’t really a city that likes to give out money.)
Have a bake sale….tried and true resource.
or maybe a fun run….a garage sale, anything like that.