Current Events > anyone here go on field trips in high school?

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just wondering really. i had a conversation with some friends and going by their high school experience i'd guess mine was a prison. i mean i already knew that, we had bomb threats/gun threats/mass fights/drug use issues every year, sections of the school had pull down fence barricades to lock down movement, and the security guards were all ex-prison guards. but i just wanted to see what others experienced.

and to start off, no, i went on no school trips and as i understand it the only ones that were regularly allowed were sports related. had an oceanography teacher throw a fit at the administration for blocking a class trip to an estuary near the end of the year.

I don't remember High School having a field trip specifically.

The only one I remember in high school was a Spanish Club trip to Chi Chi's.

The last real field trip was in middle school to the Smithsonian.

We went to Disneyland in senior year for graduation

Yea. Including every year my school had what's called Project Week, where there's a range of 'Projects' like one year my favorite teacher of all time had a week long acting class. Another year I went to Disney World with like a bunch of behind the scenes stuff - meeting the Cirque du Soleil LA Nouba performers and what not was incredible. Another year I went snowboarding in Vale, Co

Then there's out of country trips to like, Italy. But that costs thousands... I went to a small private school full of rich rich kids.

I think there was one or two class related field trips freshman year. But most of my trips were club related. I went to a lot of FBLA and SkillsUSA competitions. With FBLA I won at state every year and went to the nationals competition twice

My math class went on a field trip to an amusement park (Canada's Wonderland).

We had a booklet of math questions that we were supposed to do but I just threw it out and got a zero. I didn't care at all about school by that point. Had a great day though.

Every 4 years my high school marching band was offered to go to Disney World in Orlando to play in the parade. I didn't go because it cost money and I'd already been to Disney World and Orlando with family as a kid. Our marching band also went to Philly for a weekend for some music related workshop I think in Rowan University and to visit the Liberty Bell. Other marching band field trips included going to Rockefeller Center to play on The Today Show which is right next to Nintendo NY or going to a movie shoot (I didn't go).

I've never seen a regular academic class in high school just take a class trip to somewhere.

Where is all of the above? Jesus

MrResetti posted...

Where is all of the above? Jesus

very sorry, the first time i've made a poll and didn't think of that.

We went to Cedar Point at the end of the year

In my kids high school the band & choir take a trip every year (and once every 4 years that trip is Disney World).

Otherwise the seniors always have a trip to DC. Last year the juniors had extra money so they got to go to Newport, RI.

My daughter is in the carbon club and they go to the beach every year. This year the language department has a trip to the state university.

The two I remember most are one where we got to go crawling around in some underground caves and sleep underground in the cave overnight, and another that was I guess kind of a scared straight thing where we visited a prison and some of the inmates talked to us.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

The two I remember most are one where we got to go crawling around in some underground caves and sleep underground in the cave overnight, and another that was I guess kind of a scared straight thing where we visited a prison and some of the inmates talked to us.

honestly surprised they didn't drag classes to the local jail for something like that. we did have a resource officer who enjoyed coming into classrooms and flipping desks looking for contraband though, so i guess it all evened out.

The Chattanooga Aquarium, the Oak Ridge Science Museum, and Dollywood a few times.

Hayame_Zero posted...

Oak Ridge Science Museum

that one sounds interesting.

Definitely, usually tied to history classes.

In my freshman year, we went to a bowling alley and Mount St. Helens
Sophomore year, we went to the Museum of Flight
Junior year, we went to a giant conference to listen to the 14th Dalai Lama
Nothing my senior year

I only had field trips in elementary school. We didn't have any in jr high or high school.

I think I averaged one a year when I was in school (Primary, Secondary and Sixth Form). Some years I think we went on two, one or two years we didn't go on any.

In the 10 years I've been teaching, only supervised 4 field trips, never organised any.

Yes - not frequently, but they did happen. Club trips more commonly than class-related trips.

TuxedoCyan posted...

I only had field trips in elementary school. We didn't have any in jr high or high school.

Same, mostly. We went on a lot of them when I was in elementary. None in junior high and I only remember two we went on during high school (one was to DC).

TuxedoCyan posted...

I only had field trips in elementary school. We didn't have any in jr high or high school.

i remember a bunch in elementary school, middle school had fewer but i remember going to a few museums and things like that.

Im not sure. Only went to HS for like a year.

Only the senior picnic a day before graduation

Yes, mostly for educational purposes.

I don't remember anything for education.

Tbh I only remember a few elementary school field trips (one of those was in the first or second grade). I imagine we didn't have them in middle or high school because of our variable schedules.

There was an annual spirit competition in HS and whichever grade won got to go to a theme park. I never went though

No. My last field trips were in Jr high

Yeah, we had some fairly boring day ones that linked to history or geography learning. But we also had some residential trips to Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Madrid.

Yeah, they took us to Cedar Point.

Not sure if it was in hs but I know we saw plays at the local theater
i do know in hs we toured one of the local colleges and when we got to the art section everyone looked at me as well as the top artist in school who I happened to have a crush on. Funny little memory