FFRF warning more than 1,000 school districts about new “Noah’s Ark”

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15. Are there still school field trips?....

I know there are, however I taught in an inner city school (read poor, primarily African-American) district. I taught High School History. We have an excellent Soldiers and Sailors Museum. It has exhibits, etc. from the Civil War to the current wars. They have an excellent WWII program, where we would split up into teams, with platoon leaders, maps & other supplies and each group would study a specific battle, such as D-Day, Iwo Jima & others. It was going to cost the school all of $75 (lunches at the museum) the Museum was supplying me with a grant for the bus.

I got a resounding NO from the Principal. My students rarely if ever left their neighborhood, let alone visited a museum. I even offered to pay for half the cost of lunches, still a NO. I then said I would pay for all of the lunches, still a NO.