Did you go on any weird field trips in school?
We were taken to a taxidermist in 1st grade. Who approved that?
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exexec · 61-69, C
We went to a National Historical Site that consisted mostly of mounds built by various American Indian tribes. At the time, some of the graves were open behind glass, so we could see the skeletons. Some kids said, "They're just Indians." Others realized for the first time that these were human beings, just like us. The deceased have since been reburied with appropriate Native American honors, out of sight of prying eyes. Disturbing trip.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@exexec We went to a local natural history museum in 6th grade and they had shrunken heads on display back then in the late 60s .
NickiHijab · F
I remember one where I was 5 or 6. We were in a castle, after receiving a tour I remember being in some dark but fancy room where a woman was dressed like Queen Elizabeth the first, pale face make up and everything with a stuffed rabbit on her lap that we weren't allowed to have eye contact with, if she noticed anyone looking she would scream.
She eventually allowed everyone to stroke it.. Anyway, in hindsight it felt more like an acid trip than a field trip tbh.
She eventually allowed everyone to stroke it.. Anyway, in hindsight it felt more like an acid trip than a field trip tbh.
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That sounds awesome! When I was homeschooled for college as I didn’t get in at 16 my teacher taken me to IKEA to look at furniture 😆 it wasn’t too bad as I didn’t have to do any work. I got a free coffee too. With school the weirdest place we got taken to was a supermarket 😆 I hated it but we went to Mac Donald’s afterwards we was only allowed to spend £5 which was stupid as it was our own money. The reason why was because our behaviour was terrible and some kids had disabilities meaning we had to be put away from the rest of the school I hated it so much luckily it was only 3 times a week in year 9 and they taken is there so we could learn how to behave properly in public and on buses 😆 And once to a garden centre we didn’t have time to look around so we just had coffee. I got taken to subway once too and I got free coffee and a Cookie. I hated it at the time but looking back on it I now really appreciate it as I got taken more places than my parents taken me, if it wasn’t for that one teacher I wouldn’t have ever gotten out of the house. We went to a water fall too that was amazing.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@SW-User Can't help thinking the teachers took pupils to view supermarkets and fast-food outlets because they thought that the only career options - or lacked the imagination and initiative to visit anything interesting.
My school visited quite a variety of places, from factories to cathedrals; but my most memorable was the Roman Baths Museum, in the city of Bath - memorable because we had to be evacuated from rising floods!
For those who know the city, Pulteney Weir was completely submerged, ,and we saw someone's garden shed floating away on the torrent. That was in June or July 1968, and the storms caused considerable damage over quite a wide area. I think I still have the copy of the local newspaper I thought to buy while there, showing the aftermath of the floods that had already passed other areas of North Somerset.
My school visited quite a variety of places, from factories to cathedrals; but my most memorable was the Roman Baths Museum, in the city of Bath - memorable because we had to be evacuated from rising floods!
For those who know the city, Pulteney Weir was completely submerged, ,and we saw someone's garden shed floating away on the torrent. That was in June or July 1968, and the storms caused considerable damage over quite a wide area. I think I still have the copy of the local newspaper I thought to buy while there, showing the aftermath of the floods that had already passed other areas of North Somerset.
When I was 8, we were taken to the Discovery Center. It was cool for the most part... what wasn't? The damn heart demonstration... you push a button and it showed how the heart worked, and how the blood pumped through... I was so terrified and had nightmares after that...I also learned I was NOT meant to be a doctor...
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PiecingBabyFaceTogether · 26-30
Not really mostly boring ones the most interesting one was to a military base where there was a fighter just parked in a big hangar and I was amazed at how big the jet was we climbed stairs on the side to take a look inside the cockpit it was fascinating to see all the buttons and stuff. And on our way home they gave each one of us a photo of the a flying jet and besides it was a flag of my country.
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In 2nd grade we took a field trip to a grocery store. Lol. It was a co-op and was a bit more interesting than a Safeway or Fred Meyer, but it was still very much a grocery store.
(I was homeschooled for most of my life, but I still had a loose relationship with the school and got to attend field trips).
(I was homeschooled for most of my life, but I still had a loose relationship with the school and got to attend field trips).
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@itsok My parents spent a lot of time traveling around the Western U.S. with my sister and me in an RV. It was an interesting way to grow up.
I don't remember the rationale behind the field trip, unfortunately, too long ago. I think they just wanted us to get a behind-the-scenes look at it and see all the organic stuff.
I don't remember the rationale behind the field trip, unfortunately, too long ago. I think they just wanted us to get a behind-the-scenes look at it and see all the organic stuff.
KristinaM · 36-40, F
Yes. A small ensemble from the school band went into a prison and played the national anthem in the yard with about 50 convicts for some sort of ceremony. I don’t think our director went through the proper channels to allow us to do that. It was actually pretty interesting. But the older I get the more I realize how inappropriate it was.
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itsok · 31-35, F
@tiggerandariel13 you had a gf at 8?
tiggerandariel13 · 41-45, MVIP
@itsok I did she grew up with me
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Piper · 61-69, F
I can't recall any really weird ones, so I guess not. I'm pretty sure my parents would have excused me from the one you experienced, since they already knew by the time I was five...that I'd have found it disturbing.
The field trip I remember most clearly, is going to the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany when I was around ten. I thought it was really cool.
The field trip I remember most clearly, is going to the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany when I was around ten. I thought it was really cool.
Istas · 51-55, F
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So funny!
They also gave us Dixie cups of non alcoholic beer. They had all these 5th graders acting like we were drunk.
It was the first place I bought a shot glass. I thought I was so cool.
Looking back, it’s funnier now than it was back then. 🤣🤣
So funny!
They also gave us Dixie cups of non alcoholic beer. They had all these 5th graders acting like we were drunk.
It was the first place I bought a shot glass. I thought I was so cool.
Looking back, it’s funnier now than it was back then. 🤣🤣
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Yes it was. I was expecting freshly made chocolate chip cookies.🍪@ArishMell
Frank52 · 70-79, M
When I started teaching I worked with a somewhat jaded senior teacher who seemed to know where all the pubs were whenever we took a group on a trip. 'Free time' for a lunch break was ever expanding and looking back I shudder at the irresponsibility of it.
When I was school student, I remember many of our visits to castles (Caernarfon) museums (York), London Airport (as it was then known and had a public viewing gallery) and many other vomit-inducing long coach journeys.
When I was school student, I remember many of our visits to castles (Caernarfon) museums (York), London Airport (as it was then known and had a public viewing gallery) and many other vomit-inducing long coach journeys.
MaryJanine · 61-69, F
@Frank52 As I get older, I see more and more of these so-called 'lunch breaks' that turn into two-hour dinner parties. This is for people who like their liquor but should be off school grounds and fully after hours. I don't drink and would be out of place for an instance you describe.
Frank52 · 70-79, M
@MaryJanine As a non-drinker myself, I fully agree. In later years when I ran school trips, nothing of the sort was tolerated and no alcohol featured in the working day.
MaryJanine · 61-69, F
@Frank52 I am glad to meet a fellow non-drinker. If I am going out, I order up a "Horse's Neck" - non-alcholic but the name sounds like it would knock you on your ear. It requires an explanation (It's lemon-lime, 7-Up, or ginger ale with a slice of lemon included), looks like a cocktail and you don't get drunk, either.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Viper · M
I don't remember any weird ones, mainly boring, look at the statue or look at those people acting like it's the early 1800s ones...
And me being bored and like, it's the 2000s now... why are we watching this? By that I mean it was more of a time killer, we weren't actually learning anything, unless you wanted to learn how to build stuff the 1800s way... modern building of those items is totally different.
And me being bored and like, it's the 2000s now... why are we watching this? By that I mean it was more of a time killer, we weren't actually learning anything, unless you wanted to learn how to build stuff the 1800s way... modern building of those items is totally different.
MaryJanine · 61-69, F
@Viper We had that sort of stuff, too. It depends on where you live and hw old you are/were at the time.
In grammar school (6 and 7) we had a picnic in Portage Park, a long walk from school, followed by an afternoon of playing on the playground before returning.
In junior high, it was "The Bozo Show", then a trip to the capitol in Springfield three years later. That was fun - all the kids had hands-on rubbing of Abe Lincoln's nose (big head study). We also took a side trip to the theater where John Dillinger was betrayed by "The Lady in Red" - outlined by the place where he fell under the marquee.
In high school, our Journalism class visited the Tribune Tower; our Girl's Choir competed in the All-City Competition. We won, too!
No bordom here!
In grammar school (6 and 7) we had a picnic in Portage Park, a long walk from school, followed by an afternoon of playing on the playground before returning.
In junior high, it was "The Bozo Show", then a trip to the capitol in Springfield three years later. That was fun - all the kids had hands-on rubbing of Abe Lincoln's nose (big head study). We also took a side trip to the theater where John Dillinger was betrayed by "The Lady in Red" - outlined by the place where he fell under the marquee.
In high school, our Journalism class visited the Tribune Tower; our Girl's Choir competed in the All-City Competition. We won, too!
No bordom here!
SubstantialKick · 31-35, M
This Illinois history museum called Isle A La Cache. At one point during the field trip, we watched a guy come down a river on a row boat, and we were told that he came all the way from France. I was 9 years old at the time and was like, "Yeah, okay". I mean this was the year [b]1998[/b], not [b]1798[/b]...LOL.
Montanaman · M
I know this post is a few months old, but just saw it...
I have to share this, and I never have on here because it might seem inappropriate given today's cancel culture. But it's Really funny af. So hopefully you'll see it as such. Okay...here goes.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PToqVW4n86U]
I have to share this, and I never have on here because it might seem inappropriate given today's cancel culture. But it's Really funny af. So hopefully you'll see it as such. Okay...here goes.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PToqVW4n86U]
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itsok · 31-35, F
@SomeMichGuy Yeahhh, I was somewhere between grossed out and traumatized, and I must not have been aware enough of others at the time to remember how everyone else felt about it. I remember being upset by a raccoon I saw, and liking the color changing pencils with the business name on them.
bijouxbroussard · F
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@bijouxbroussard And I've walked past Ripley's many times, but never went in.
SomeMichGuy · M
@SW-User ...Niagara Falls, ON?
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SomeMichGuy · M
@itsok We were in elementary school, so we couldn't do shit lol. But I think we got an apple. It was ok, but not the sort of experience which a field trip shouod be, since we were in a rural school district, anyway, and apples were not at all surprising in Michigan...(heck, my dad had about 8 apple trees and other assorted fruit trees--cherries, pears, peaches).
I guess if we had been kids growing up in a city, in concrete & asphalt, sidewalks & parking lots, apartment buildings, factories, and little grass or open spaces or trees...it might have been...amazing, freeing, surprising, stimulating. This was...rather unsurprising & ordinary. lol
I guess if we had been kids growing up in a city, in concrete & asphalt, sidewalks & parking lots, apartment buildings, factories, and little grass or open spaces or trees...it might have been...amazing, freeing, surprising, stimulating. This was...rather unsurprising & ordinary. lol
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MaryJanine · 61-69, F
Yeah..."Bozo's Circus" whwn I was ten years old.
itsok · 31-35, F
@MaryJanine my parents both grew up there, and are in your same age range. I believe my dad was in the Bozo audience before. He still likes to watch it from time to time.
MaryJanine · 61-69, F
@itsok When we went, the ticket lists were ten years long. It was a special school-wide field trip for good kids who didn't talk in class (stupid teacher claimed I talked "once" and she kept track. The only word I said was "What?" when the kid behind poked me and said something I didn't catch.)
That was cool, your dad being in the Bozo audience. But how does he watch it now? They changed the format to Sunday morning and made it more "educational: because the city council wanted every kids' program to teach something. No more magic acts or circus performers. The ratings fell through the floor joists and the show was cancelled.
That was cool, your dad being in the Bozo audience. But how does he watch it now? They changed the format to Sunday morning and made it more "educational: because the city council wanted every kids' program to teach something. No more magic acts or circus performers. The ratings fell through the floor joists and the show was cancelled.
itsok · 31-35, F
@MaryJanine you can still find old episodes on Youtube
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