Field trip

So I was able to go on a field trip on friday with my students and they allowed me to be a chaperone!!!!!  We went to the NJ poem festival and it was a blast, besides older teachers thinking that I was a high school student ( it is getting kind of old)  But we went to listen and hear tons of poems and I think the best part in my eyes is that we were able to listen to the US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey.  I think this was a really good experience.  I was with two 10th graders and two 12th graders, and I felt like I was able to understand more of the school problems.  How they feel about budget cuts, one girl just came back to the school she went to the PA cyberschool, because some of the classes she really enjoyed were cut at Manheim.  She said the cyber school was not at all challenging, and she felt like she learned nothing so she came back for her senior year and now if she did not get an A, it upset her because she was use to that for that time.  I learned how students do not feel like they are prepared for their SAT's or how to write a letter to apply to a college.  It upset me that we push for students to do well in both, yet give them no type of guidance.