r/AskTeachers • u/Commercial-Truth4731 • 17d ago
My son's teacher keeps taking his entire class on whimsical and magical field trips to outer space or in his body how do I prevent this?
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u/Graphicnovelnick 17d ago
You could ask the school board to cut the funding for magical transportation. It’ll be harder for her to take the kids on a field trip on a magic scooter.
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u/fjhdjdjdk 17d ago
I think she actually created the bus on her own so it’s not technically the schools
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u/Californie_cramoisie 17d ago
Did she create it during school hours or using materials from the school?
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u/fjhdjdjdk 17d ago
No actually, it was a science fair project with her sister
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u/Guilty-Whereas7199 15d ago
Did you know her sister actually teaches at another school?And i'm pretty sure she does the same weird stuff with the kids
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u/pupperoni42 16d ago
So she's driving all the children in her private vehicle, which isn't insured by the school district?
That must be a violation.
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u/EmpressMakimba 14d ago
I think she needs to let us know how a magic school bus "literally" takes you into space.
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u/Hopesick_2231 17d ago
Leave it alone. The teacher clearly knows what they're doing and it's probably best to not fuck with someone who can travel to outer space or inside the human body on a whim.
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u/amber_758 17d ago
That is a very good point, never really thought about it but definitely someone you want on your side
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u/Fyrestar333 17d ago
Maybe she's a lizard person? I've heard she always has that lizard with her and it can do non lizard things.
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u/Areil26 17d ago
Honestly, this is exactly the type of thing that happens when the administration gets rid of the Department of Education. Teachers going rogue, setting their own curriculum, anarchy! Common sense has frizzled out.
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u/Kingsdaughter613 17d ago
On the plus side, my kid is actually learning science now! We’re so pleased that we’ve invited the teacher over for the Passover Seder. (Fun fact: the Frizz is Jewish!)
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u/quarantina2020 17d ago
Is her name.... Frizzle? I may have heard such rumors.
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u/Californie_cramoisie 17d ago
No, it's Valerie
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u/rigney68 17d ago
That Veronica Vaughn...
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u/shoulda-known-better 16d ago
That Veronica Vaughn is one piece of ace, I know from experience, dude!! If you know what I mean.......
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u/CS-1316 17d ago
I’ve been looking for her too. I miss her ginger hair and the way she likes to dress.
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u/FloridaWildflowerz 17d ago
I heard she was suing Lularoe for stealing her designs. She wants the money to upgrade the bus and for lizard food.
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u/MollilyPan 17d ago
Scrolled just for this.
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u/quarantina2020 17d ago
It was rather bleak when I arrived lol, felt like the representative of the generation
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u/jmac3979 17d ago
You all signed the waivers. It's not the Frizz's fault you didn't read what your kid handed you. Smh
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u/DrunkUranus 17d ago
God forbid a teacher try to make learning relevant. Pack a bag lunch and be glad your kid has a teacher
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u/WhompTrucker 17d ago
Don't worry. Now that there's no department of education she won't be doing that anymore
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u/13surgeries 17d ago
My students sometimes called me Mrs. Frizzle (It was the hair, and apparently, the enthusiasm.) I wish I HAD that magic school bus--that or the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile, though I don't know how many kids I could cram into that one.
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u/MyLadyScribbler 17d ago
Does your son's class need a chaperone or two for these trips? I'd be happy to volunteer.
Side note: I'm convinced that Ms. Frizzle is a Time Lord, the bus is a TARDIS, and the kids are all her companions.
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u/rhetorical99 17d ago
I am a vet killing time on Reddit while my nurse sets up an enema for a patient. I shit you not, the patient’s name is Miss Frizzle. I should tell her to just fly up her own butt and do the enema herself 😤
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u/The_Lucid_Writer 17d ago
Oh a vet? I think that patient might actually be named Liz. But I agree, if we’re talking about the same person, I think she could go up their ass and fix the problem
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u/rhetorical99 17d ago
Chart says “miss frizzle last name” lmao. She’s owned by a teacher 😂
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u/The_Lucid_Writer 17d ago
Idk I saw her getting wine with some lizard looking ass thing, so i may not know my reptiles, but that’s not my problem 🙌🏻
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u/Caliopebookworm 17d ago
Given how often they almost got stuck in someones body, that's not a permission slip I'd ever sign.
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u/WillingBake9330 17d ago
If the teacher sounds like Lily Tomlin we may also be having this issue.
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u/d3f3ct1v3 13d ago
Thanks to this post I checked out the wikipedia page and I had no idea so many famous actors did voices for the series, it understandably went over my head when I was 7 years old. And Little Richard performed the theme song?!
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u/itchykobu 17d ago
My kid's teacher too. She took them to the early Jurassic and literally turned them into dinosaurs, sea creatures, whatever. They grew to adulthood, mated, died, had their souls encased in sedimentary rock for MILLENIA just to be resurrected in our current time to win a trivia contest. I did not sign a waiver for that and I'm outraged
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u/ParticularBerry1382 17d ago
Small class size? Kids who listen? Unlimited project supplies in the classroom? Can't be a public school.
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u/SinistralCalluna 16d ago
Don’t forget the 14-step approval process from five different district departments.
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u/Fickle-Copy-2186 17d ago
I just wish we were warned about these magical trips. I'm tired of my kid coming home with sea salt, dirt, dust and solar dust all over their clothes.
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u/Ok_Statistician_9825 17d ago
With a name like Miss Frizzle what did you expect? Is the class pet’s name Scooby Doo?
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u/ItsADarkRide 17d ago
Look, as long as the teacher is also wearing wacky and appropriately-themed outfits on these field trips, it's all good.
And if she's not, she can probably borrow some of my dresses.
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u/Oreoskickass 17d ago
Oooh what dresses do you have? I have dresses with flamingos, under-the sea, colored pencils, tropical birds, dripping paint, and probably more. I have unicorn shoes and my backpack is a shark.
I always say that Ms. Frizzle is one of my style influences.
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u/ItsADarkRide 17d ago
I have many dresses with prints featuring animals, botanicals, and astronomical objects. Right now I can see one with a raccoon print, one with rainbows, and a Christmas dinosaur dress. (Most of the dinosaurs are wearing Santa hats, but the brachiosaurus is wearing an earflap hat, the stegosaurus is wearing earmuffs, and the triceratops is wearing a scarf.)
I'm not a teacher, but I'm a librarian. At a museum. So it's not exactly normal here, but it's not abnormal, either. Like, there are a lot of people at work who own mushroom-print clothing and accessories, and it's not just the botany & mycology department. And yes, I have as many cat-print dresses as you would expect, including one with cats on bookshelves.
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u/Actual_Bat7281 17d ago
Mrs Frizzle! One of my librarians got a school bus and brought her classes on the bus to read to them. What a treasured memory for all of our kids.
She retired over 15 years ago. Bring some fun to school!!
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u/DrawingOverall4306 17d ago
My kid never went on field trips like that at her old school. I think we might move back next grade.
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u/Spitfyre41 17d ago
So who drives the Magic School Bus? Mrs. Frizzle or River Song. They could be twins.
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u/meow_purr_growl 17d ago
According to my research, field trips are beneficial to learning. I say let her do her thing.
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u/Jack_of_Spades 17d ago
It sounds like she is dosing the students with something to make them easier to manage. Maybe LSD, maybe benedryl. Get a full tox screening done.
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u/Snoo_88357 17d ago
That sounds like the teacher I had when I was younger. Fortunately, she got her Doctorate and teaches at college now. Her younger sister replaced her, whom I'm sure is not using her bus to invade anyone else's body
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u/Bartender9719 16d ago
THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS! Proceed with extreme caution, OP - if what you say is true, and this woman is the same woman I’ve heard about, this goes beyond sci-fi shenanigans. She is NOT ONLY capable of incredible feats of space travel, the ability to shrink people and objects, etc, but also imbuing inanimate objects with sentience and binding them to her command. That coupled with the little creature she keeps on her shoulder (likely capable of speech itself, although I don’t have sufficient evidence of that yet), I posit that all signs point to her being a sorceress, demigoddess, or more likely a witch!
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u/Worth-Ad3212 17d ago
Ah yes, Miss Frizzle. She was my favorite teacher! She’s so good that she got famous, and even has her own books now. Is your sons name Arnold?
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u/CanadaHaz 17d ago
Most students don't get the benefit of such hands-on learning. Embrace it! You're son will have experiences that make learning fun and engaging.
Just, maybe keep him home they day they learn about the life cycle of salmon.
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u/NaturalSoftware9372 17d ago
Your kid is in a class of like 6! That is amazing
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u/Necessary-Nobody-934 17d ago
Exactly. 8 kids and a ton of hands-on learning! Where do we sign up???
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u/Aeiroletta_AppleJaxx 17d ago edited 17d ago
Oh crap I think I've had that teacher back when I was younger. I think I had her for 3 years in a row, I knew the year was getting different but we didn't seem to get any older. But I do remember that kid who always complained that he never wanted to go on the field trips yeah we had one of those too. But of course we did have all of her permission slip signed and they didn't cost anything so of course my parents were a okay with her going anywhere and everywhere. I wonder how she's doing? The weird and funny thing that I do remember the bus didn't smell like ever. And no one ever fought in over any seats. Oh yeah and that adorable little lizard we had as a class pet. I'm not entirely sure how but he always escaped his pen and he always had some some kind of cute outfit that unironically coincideed with whatever we were learning that day.! Oh well, I must be misremembering something.
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u/Humble-Set-9652 17d ago
Same school; the teacher took me and some other parents to a vampire den one time to show us the type of field trips they go on… She then forced us to dress like bats and hang upside down…
0/10, removed my kid from the class…
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u/coltonmusic15 17d ago
I think I’d allow a fair bit of whimsical field trip space travel but I’d certainly draw the line at trips directly into the heart of the Sun’s core and I can’t fathom a single teacher who would venture to pull such a stunt.
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u/themilocat 17d ago
At least she reminds them to wear seatbelts. Ughh…some parents just like to complain about the fun teachers.
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u/glipglobglipglob 17d ago
Smh oh please, don't be so uptight. She is showing your kid things other kids only dream of. He is learning things well beyond his average grade level. I wish more teachers took initiative like this. How many kids get to go to space for a spur of the monent field trip? And at no cost to the parents? She sounds highly educated, and seems to really care about the kids. We need more teachers like her!!
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u/roughlyround 17d ago
I really enjoyed space trips when I was a kid. Sure breathing was not always possible, but at least I was asleep.
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u/RFDrew11357 16d ago
Damn, that's one f-ing magical school bus! Just curious if the teacher has frizzy hair too?
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u/ApplicationSouth9159 16d ago
You need to contact the principal and make sure these activities are standards-aligned. The state standard for each learning activity should be clearly posted on the board. If she doesn't have a board, they should be posted on the closest asteroid, intestinal lining, or pterodactyl.
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u/ghostwriter623 15d ago
As an educator, I fully maintain that Miss Frizzle is, hands down, the most irresponsible teacher in existence. I mean, who shrinks an entire bus load of kids to drive around inside another student? Straight crazy town.
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u/Wanda_McMimzy 15d ago
What’s the issue? Did you try to check him out for a dentist appointment and he was in some other kid’s colon? Surely if he has cavities, they can fix that in the next trip.
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u/themilocat 17d ago
With the Department of Education dismantled, I don’t think there will be anymore funding for field trips like this, so I think your problem is solved. However, your child’s science education will now be severely limited and, depending on what state you live in, centered around Creationism. So…whimsical, magical field trips to space or inside a body, or the entire universe being created in six days and women being built from a man’s rib???
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u/Kingsdaughter613 17d ago
I object to that! Man and woman were created together, attached at the spine, as a single di-sexual being. Only the man half somehow managed not to notice this…
“Rib” is a mistranslation. If they want to teach the Bible, they should have to teach basic Hebrew first, so they can read it untranslated. And with the mythological context of the originating Judeo-Samaritan culture, ofc. They can teach the mythological context of Christianity and Islam after covering the originating culture mythos.
Once we’ve covered everything from the 999 times the world was created and destroyed, to Abel claiming ownership of the ground and forbidding Cain from standing on it (what, they were only a day old. Kids, am I right?), we get to Christianity’s boring mistranslated text.
Just turn it into a cultural study. If nothing else, teaching kids Jewish (including Karaite), Samaritan, and Islamic mythology on B’reishis is going to really annoy any Christian parents.
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u/themilocat 16d ago
Wait…are you saying there are OTHER Creationism stories than what the Bible preaches??? Blasphemy!
Jeez, you’re even going so far as to say kids should learn about other cultures and religions! How can we keep kids dumb, Christian, and conservative if this is what’s taught in public schools??!
(Disclaimer: Sometimes people don’t pick up on my sarcasm when typed. Please know that I believe Christianity is mythology and that introducing kids to different cultures is vital to developing empathy, critical thinking skills, and overall intelligence.)
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u/Smileynameface 17d ago
I just saw a YouTube sketch about this. The principal tries to fire ms. Frizzle.
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u/nevermentionthisirl 17d ago
2:13 but the school is being sued and it's
2:16 because it says here Miss Frizzle drove
2:18 a school bus into a child's rectum to
omg!!! this video gets creepy at the end.
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u/Fast_Hawk1547 17d ago
I don’t think I understand what is actually happening here 🤣can someone explain?
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u/econ101ispropaganda 17d ago
Only sign permission slips when they are going to see a movie or something mundane like that
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u/DidntWantSleepAnyway 16d ago
Important question…are they elementary schoolers in a regular class, or are they high schoolers in detention?
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16d ago
I totally understand being unnerved but it’s sound almost…magic! Kudos to your kid’s teacher for being so … dedicated ;)
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u/Dilettantest 16d ago
Can I be a substitute class parent? I never got to go to space in grade school!
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u/taytoes007 16d ago
why are you still signing his permission slips? at this point that's on you. check parentsquare or call admin to revoke permission
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u/BoardSelect1910 16d ago
You leave those kids alone. They’ll never find another teacher like her EVER!
Hell, can I chaperone?
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u/Mindless_Bonus_552 16d ago
Well, I asked the same thing to the principal of the school, and Rocco said that's just modern life.
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u/mariahnot2carey 15d ago
Is there room on that magical school bus? Can it go further than mars? I don't think mars is far enough.
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u/CandyV89 15d ago
I think this is probably the same teacher I had in fourth grade! Our trips were a bit scary but I learned so much. I’ll never forget being turned into a bee to help transport honey.
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u/bemerry123 15d ago
Americans complain about the weirdest shit. Our profesor got shrunk in a magic duel with another teacher and we had to rescue him, and we turned out just fine. /brought you buy my vague childhood memories of The Academy of Mr Inkblot
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u/EowynRiver 15d ago
My son was scared to meet his kindergarten teacher. Until he saw that she had red frizzy hair. Unfortunately her school bus was in the shop that year but it made the transition to kindergarten so much easier.
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u/Kind-Bath-3796 15d ago
My daughter keeps telling me this bus also shrinks and it’s starting to scare her so bad she doesn’t want to go to school if the bus will shrink- any advice?
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u/yawn11e1 15d ago
One class' parents insisted they have a camera crew follow their kids and this teacher around at all times so as to record everything for possible lawsuits. As soon as that happened, the deaths stopped, but the field trips got more extreme. It was as though the filming made no difference to the teacher. I saw the results on TV, and was frequently sick to my stomach. I think once they went up a nostril? Honestly, that has to violate, like, six different civil rights. At any rate, that class all survived the school year, but the next one, which wasn't filmed, lost like 60%, with one kid even getting flung into the sun. I don't know what to tell you, OP. This woman can't seem to be stopped. Transfer schools. Even if the alternative is a former prison with a corporal punishment-happy staff and textbooks from 1960s Manila, just go. You'll be better off.
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u/vexingcosmos 15d ago
Have you considered that your son might end up transitioning and time traveling later in life to become this teacher?
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u/LocalPresence3176 15d ago
I’d demand to see the permission slips you would have had to have signed for all these field trips.
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u/EmpressMakimba 14d ago
The teacher is trying to make learning fun. She might have many students who need movement, and this is her way of doing that. She probably doesn't get that some kids don't respond well to it. I personally don't do that kind of stuff because of my space and the time it takes, but I know ppl who do, and I've never heard of it traumatizing kids before. Changing schools because of one teacher seems pretty weird though. They'll only have her a few more months and you may very well be having another teacher just like that at the new school. Administrators love stuff like that and will never tell the teacher to stop it. Maybe you could get a doctor's note to keep your kid out of these types of lessons in the future due to anxiety issues.
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u/GoodwitchofthePNW 14d ago
I think my kid had the same teacher last year! She took them to learn about salmon and my kid got squirted with salmon seamen! Totally unacceptable!
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u/kteachergirl 17d ago
This is better than the indoctrination of DEI and brainwashing of kids to be trans-furries where the school pays for the cat tail to be surgically implanted. /s in case anyone is dumb enough.
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u/Squish_the_android 17d ago
I think our children attend the same school.
I moved my son Arnold to this school after a recent move.
He finds these magical field trips both exhausting and traumatic. He constantly comes home and says that it was never like this at his old school. He begs the teacher to do a regular school trip instead of a magical one. He constantly wants to skip school to avoid them.
I'm pretty sure he froze to death in space once.
The admin does nothing, we're transferring him to a private school as soon as we can