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| Rughugger:
--- Quote from: Gen. Nick on October 26, 2009, 08:57:27 PM ---It has its ups and downs. Upside is higher education standards, downside is you got a bunch of snobby rich brats. --- End quote --- Not to mention that depending on the parents teaching, information can be horribly inaccurate. Or that parental beliefs and norms are enforced and no individual point of view is reinforced. (ie people who still grow up with the belief that racism is still cool) But more beneficial because kids aren't spending their class time oogling over pretty girls. |
| WhatevaGuy:
--- 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. --- End quote --- Yeah, I agree, but the great thing is that I did actually do many things German related. Ate German food, sang German songs, etc. So it wasn't a complete waste. |
| Nightzet467:
Going to Stratford Ontario to watch Shakespeare. We go to a great mall nearby and always pass by Stephen Mckichan's house. It's also a day off school. |
| Skyra:
6th grade I went into a cave. I really liked it. |
| Rughugger:
--- Quote from: WhatevaGuy on October 26, 2009, 09:08:47 PM ---Yeah, I agree, but the great thing is that I did actually do many things German related. Ate German food, sang German songs, etc. So it wasn't a complete waste. --- End quote --- Well that's the kinds of exceptions I see as educational. I had a German class and one of our field trips was to go to a zoo in Minneapolis and actually make a presentation of animals in German for actual German tourists to learn. Probably one of the best means of education I could ever get. Actual interaction with Germans to help with pronunciation and what not. Afterwards, we hit a traditional German brewery house to eat traditional food (We had to order in German) so everything we learned in class was put to the test over that one afternoon. That is what I consider a proper educational related field trip. |
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