School Field Trips

[Rughugger]

It has its ups and downs. Upside is higher education standards, downside is you got a bunch of snobby rich brats.

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.

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[WhatevaGuy]

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.

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]

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.

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.

[Diargon]

My school has awsome field trips:

6th grade i went to chicago and tons of other places
7th grade I went to camp for a week and tons of other places
This year I get to go to New York for Orcheastra, I go to a nature preserve every month, I get ot go to DC

For highschoolers, there is a huge trip to somewhere out of the country, this year its a world war II field trip to Germany

[Skele]

Best field trip I had was with my Physical Geography teacher in grade 11. We were going sight seeing in the area to look at the various effects glaciation left on the landscape where I live. The first stop we had to climb a large hill, so we could get a good view of the landscape. The most memorable thing she said was, "Ignore the 'No-Trespassing' sign". We did, hopped the fence, and climbed up to a radio tower. :D

We also trespassed on some farmers field to get a good look at a river.

[Tom]

I guess where going to New Orleans this new years for band, and playing in a combined halftime show in the sugar bowl. If that counts.

[pixl]

Jrs and seniors army school drive to fast food resturants for lunch

[Goron]

If you don't know what ESPN Zone is, basically it's like Chuck E. Cheese's but without the gay furry suit stuff and its all sports n stuff.

Random piece of information: My father used to/still works at the one in Atlanta.

[Tom]

I'm excluded from our lunch check-in, so sometimes I walk to the Runza down the street.

[Netwars4]

downside is you got a bunch of snobby rich brats.

Dress codes suck too.
I agree with the higher education standards though. I've gone to both public and private and I must say that if public remained to be how it was when i was there, id probably be a lot less inspired to do things with my life.

But anyway, my school rarely does field trips. Instead, we have assemblies and other gathering type things.
Once every three years there is a simulated drunk driving accident right outside of the school, and they waste a whole day talking about it.

[-Mike-]

going to october fest thing in german

but only students will be there :(

[tails]

meh school had stuff like, skiing in a place i can't remember, camping, didn't bother with any of it

[Cody574]

I haven't had a field trip since I was in 6th grade (I was 11). It was to some wildlife park up the road.