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This is the most lame field trip ever.
A few days ago, they finally gave us flyers for the 8th grade trip, and it completely sucks. The best they can do for us 8th graders, the ones who have endured the blighted hell of their crappy school the longest, is sending us to a family entertainment center in the middle of who-the-hell-knows. The place includes unlimited DJ/dance floor, 1 hour of bowling, and 2 measly slices of cheese pizza, a Sprite, and a bag of potato chips. All for 20 bucks.
Wow.
In previous years, they actually sent 8th graders to Universal's Islands of Adventure, but now the best they can do is take us to a crappy FAMILY FUN CENTER. (kinda sucks when compared to Universal...) I wasn't going to go on the field trip either way (not a fan of amusement parks) but it still blows because if I did change my mind and want to go at least it's somewhere with a lot of food and rides that I don't get to go to very often at all. :/
If this is what they're giving us then I can only imagine where the 7th and 6th graders are going. *sigh*
I know they probably couldn't afford taking us to an amusement park this year but they surely could've done better than this garbage.
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This is the most lame field trip ever.
It's probably broken, too. Gee, at least my 6th grade class could afford a trip to Washington DC and a bus with non-working WiFi, but THAT? REALLY? THAT COSTS TWENTY BUCKS? FOR ME, THE TRIP WAS FREE! THAT IS GRADE-S BULLSHIT.
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This is the most lame field trip ever.
I went to Washington D.C. when I was in eighth grade. It wasn't as fun as I would have liked.
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This is the most lame field trip ever.
95% of field trips I've been on sucked horribly. The only fun one I recall is during senior year when they sent us to a cider mill for the day and we got to do pretty much whatever we wanted. T'was good times.
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This is the most lame field trip ever.
worst school trip of my life was to a amusement park cause we had to study while on the rides
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RE: This is the most lame field trip ever.
Those trips to fancy places require chaperones. And being a chaperone burdens you with responsibility and loss of time. No one wants to do it! In my case I won't do it. No way. My time off is too precious and if some kid gets caught having sex or smoking weed someone is bound to try to find a way to scapegoat it on me. Usually the school is asking for people to do this for free. Ha! I would need around $2000 a day to even consider it.
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(03-22-2014 01:31 AM)darkmind15 Wrote: worst school trip of my life was to a amusement park cause we had to study while on the rides
WTF??
How are you supposed to crack open a notebook on a ride without papers flying everywhere and getting lost?
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RE: This is the most lame field trip ever.
(03-21-2014 10:50 AM)Christian Hellhound Wrote: A few days ago, they finally gave us flyers for the 8th grade trip, and it completely sucks. The best they can do for us 8th graders, the ones who have endured the blighted hell of their crappy school the longest, is sending us to a family entertainment center in the middle of who-the-hell-knows. The place includes unlimited DJ/dance floor, 1 hour of bowling, and 2 measly slices of cheese pizza, a Sprite, and a bag of potato chips. All for 20 bucks.
Wow.
In previous years, they actually sent 8th graders to Universal's Islands of Adventure, but now the best they can do is take us to a crappy FAMILY FUN CENTER. (kinda sucks when compared to Universal...) I wasn't going to go on the field trip either way (not a fan of amusement parks) but it still blows because if I did change my mind and want to go at least it's somewhere with a lot of food and rides that I don't get to go to very often at all. :/
If this is what they're giving us then I can only imagine where the 7th and 6th graders are going. *sigh*
I know they probably couldn't afford taking us to an amusement park this year but they surely could've done better than this garbage.
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You know, in 4th grade, they were supposed to take us to COSI. And every other year, the 4th graders were allowed to go. But no, not this year. They took us to the freaking nature center instead of a 3 hour trip of fun and actually enjoying learning. Nope, they take us to walk in forests to see nothing but plants. Then, in fifth grade, we were supposed to go to Camp Butler, spend the night there, and have an awesome time. BUT NO, THEY HAVE TO TAKE US TO SOME FREAKING MILITARY AND HISTORY OUTDOOR MUSEUM. Not to mention it was super cold and miserable. They specifically screwed the schedules of our group of kids. I'll always hate Mann elementary, those little morons. I can't believe some dipshit gave them a blue ribbon.
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(03-22-2014 02:26 AM)TheCancer Wrote: nd if some kid gets caught having sex or smoking weed
I don't think 8th graders are going to do either of those. :/
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A field trip is the institutional equivalent of sticking a kid in front of the TV because you don't know what to do with him. Entertainment and amusement (even lame entertainment and amusement) is meant to be a pacifier.
This is because an institution cannot relate to you, you can only be processed by it. You might be amused or entertained. You could even learn something. However, these are almost incidental to keeping you compliant so that you can be assimilated.
Carry a book you enjoy with you when you go on such a trip so that you can pursue your own interests if things get too lame.
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This is the most lame field trip ever.
I was in DC for a few days, but it was for the Science Olympiad national.
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(03-23-2014 01:48 AM)Lime Wrote: (03-22-2014 02:26 AM)TheCancer Wrote: nd if some kid gets caught having sex or smoking weed
I don't think 8th graders are going to do either of those. :/
Wow. You're very sheltered.
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RE: This is the most lame field trip ever.
Wtf who complains about a field trip?
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(03-26-2014 07:07 AM)stephen926 Wrote: Wtf who complains about a field trip?
Stephen my man, we'd like to see that project anytime soon.
As for field trips? The ones I took earlier on in my schooling were enjoyable. Then they started charging money for some of them. I was lucky in that I got to go to the same astronomical science camp in the sixth grade (for free) I attended before I started the fourth(which cost money that time). Both times didn't end on the best of notes, but I liked it anyhow. (Only time I've ever made television, incidentally.)
I can't blame people like Hellhound for feeling like a worn-out Soviet citizen on a cheap state vacation, the way things are these days.
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This is the most lame field trip ever.
The last trip I went on was a tour of a Kleinpeter dairy plant outside the state capital...
...whose idea was this, again? And why would I want to tour a freaking dairy plant?
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This is the most lame field trip ever.
Oh, I wouldn't mind a dairy plant. That field trip doesn't sound all that engaging, though...
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(03-22-2014 01:31 AM)darkmind15 Wrote: worst school trip of my life was to a amusement park cause we had to study while on the rides
My highschool did something similar to this. It was for some physics classes. I forgot much of it, but I do remember that the students have to do an assignment, writing about how each of the rides they've been on relates to motion or some other physics concept.
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(03-26-2014 07:07 AM)stephen926 Wrote: Wtf who complains about a field trip?
Obviously me, since I just did.
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Well that's just dumb. Complaining about something that the school doesn't even need to do/you don't need to go to.
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This is the most lame field trip ever.
Perhaps his parents forced him.
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(03-27-2014 11:10 AM)stephen926 Wrote: Well that's just dumb. Complaining about something that the school doesn't even need to do/you don't need to go to.
Yeah, well, it still bothers me.
(03-27-2014 12:25 PM)Gwedin Wrote: Perhaps his parents forced him.
I am a "she." And the field trip hasn't even happened yet but I'm staying home on the day that it does.
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(03-22-2014 05:23 AM)planetfall666 Wrote: (03-22-2014 01:31 AM)darkmind15 Wrote: worst school trip of my life was to a amusement park cause we had to study while on the rides
WTF??
How are you supposed to crack open a notebook on a ride without papers flying everywhere and getting lost?
studying the momentum all that shit
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Ok, so you don't have to go to the field trip, but your complaining about it? That's dumb.
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I don't really see how, considering people complain about stuff they aren't participating in all the time. It's ust stating an opinion.
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This is the most lame field trip ever.
quiet Stephen. We're discussing how half-assed the trips are.
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(03-23-2014 09:40 AM)TheCancer Wrote: Wow. You're very sheltered.
I, for one, never heard about any of my peers engaging in such activities when I was in 8th grade.
For that matter, I don't hear about it in high school either, so you probably have a point there.
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This is the most lame field trip ever.
In 5th grade i went to Philly. The ride up was kinda long (I live in essex county), but overall, the trip was pretty fun. We could go anywhere in Philly (as long as we had an adult with us).
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Best field trip I went on at school was to the Baltimore Aquarium, partly because there were no follow-up worksheets or tour guides--just a day of exploring the aquarium at our own pace.
Since then, I've only been to some random swamp next to an amusement park for a very dull mandatory environmental studies trip and *gasp* the local fitness center!
Oh, and we did go to our state's Holocaust Museum one year. That was interesting. And very sad.
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