This is what mines says ....

I/We _________ authorize ****** ***** and emplyees or volunteers of her day care to rake my/our child ________ on walkink trips. I/We also authorize the child to ride a a passanger in vehicles driven by **** **** ad employees or volunteers of her day care. I/We understand that I/We are responsible for supplying an apporpriate car seat for all children under that age of at all times (emergencies happen) to **** ****. I/We also authorize the child to take public transportation with ***** ***** and emplyees or volunteers of her day care. I/We understand that I/We may not be notified of any such trips.

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Then there is s check of section to indicate what type of carseat the parent will be providing or if they are old enougph and wiegh enougph to not need one.

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That is followed by a place for both parents to print name, date and sign.



For me it is not a problem getting parents to sign this because I specialize in school age and they expect that I will be transporting thier child to/from school. One time when a parent read the slip before signing it they said so this gives you permission to take my child anywhere not just to/from school.

So I explained that I wrote it this way so that I did not need a different slip for every field trip. Also , this way if we plan a trip to the bowling alley and it closes down because of a fire or something unfore seen I can change the filed trip with out hunting parent down and getting them to sign a new slip.

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