Everyone can understand the challenges teachers face in organizing and supervising field trips, challenges that are even greater when the students have special needs and live in poverty. But how daunting, the authors ask, are the challenges these students face every day? Very few people who have never tried it are truly aware of all the preparation, care, and challenges that go into taking any group of students on an evening outing of dinner and a play. The following story of one teacher's experience taking six prevocational, special education secondary students to see Beauty and the Beast, followed by dinner at Bennigan's, describes not only the challenges of a field trip with students with disabilities but also the plight of children living in poor, rural school districts.