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School Field Trips
Rughugger:
Field trips need to be education related only. The fact that schools nowadays take field trips to grab an ice cream cone from a local store 3 blocks away is a waste of taxpayer money. I could see a physics class going bowling to show physical examples for some process in class, but they sure better be tested on it afterwards. Educations should be fun, yes, but if it has nothing to do with education and intermingles into other class schedules. Education is lost. That's what summer and the weekends and are for.
General Nick:
--- Quote from: Rughugger on October 26, 2009, 08:50:25 PM ---Field trips need to be education related only. The fact that schools nowadays take field trips to grab an ice cream cone from a local store 3 blocks away is a waste of taxpayer money. I could see a physics class going bowling to show physical examples for some process in class, but they sure better be tested on it afterwards. Educations should be fun, yes, but if it has nothing to do with education and intermingles into other class schedules. Education is lost. That's what summer and the weekends and are for.
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Hi there, I'm a private school student!
Rughugger:
--- Quote from: Gen. Nick on October 26, 2009, 08:51:42 PM ---Hi there, I'm a private school student!
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I envy you and yet I also pity you all at the same time. Unless you mean towards me, which I wasn't. Although it'd be interesting to be taught that way.
General Nick:
--- Quote from: Rughugger on October 26, 2009, 08:56:24 PM ---I envy you and yet I also pity you all at the same time. Unless you mean towards me, which I wasn't. Although it'd be interesting to be taught that way.
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It has its ups and downs. Upside is higher education standards, downside is you got a bunch of snobby rich brats.
Caution:
Every year my school has a summer event where students who sign up meet at Valley Fair. It's really fun, it's even more awesome how they just let us to whatever we want as long as we're back at the bus by 11.
But thats the first field trip-ish thing I've been on in years.