Dumb School Trips...

My high school had field trips to theaters downtown to watch plays. The only students that went were bored students (including me) who wanted to get out of school for the day.
 
I enjoyed them all!

When we were in elementary school we toured a commercial bakery.

At the end of the tour, we were each given a loaf of spongy white sandwich bread.

I remember that some of those loaves ended up being used in a sort of pillow fight on the bus ride back to school that day.
 

I don't recall ever going on a "tour" - whether with the school, scouts, church, or even professional - that I didn't enjoy and find worthwhile.

- Newspaper printing facility (1950s), back when they set type by hand and newspapers were worth the paper they were printed on.
- Commercial dairy (1950s) when milk bottles were actually returned and reused - what a novel idea!
- Ford assembly plant (1960s). Huge old buildings, dirty, inefficient, classic assembly line production.
- Honda assembly plant (1990s). Small, super-efficient, immaculately clean, could put out 3000 near-perfect cars per day.
- The carillon at Berea College in Kentucky (1960s). 56 bells, 4-1/2 octaves, amazing skill, amazing sound!
- museums, historic sites, so many, many more.

School trips (not tours)
- Riding a school bus for an hour just to eat disgusting food in a "park" (field) followed by overly controlling teachers micro-managing boring and pointless "games".
- Traveling to another school to hear our bad musicians try to out-do their bad musicians (we won).
- again, many more, but you get the picture ... give me strength!
 
I was lucky when I was in school. The only time the school took us places when once a year they took us to a Picnic at an amusement park. Parents were allowed to join us if they wanted to come. We went on rides and ate and had a ball.
 
We had some really good school trips, of course they could have taken us to a garbage dump and I would have preferred that to being in school.

One that was a disappointment was the trip to the Statue of Liberty. After we got off the bus we ate our bagged lunch from home and then we were herded around the base of the statue, stood there for a few minutes looking up and then got back on the bus and headed for home.

I don't know why we weren't allowed to go up or at least in the base. We weren't told and know one asked. All I know was that it was one less day of Arithmetic and English.
 
Our "Personal Civics" class sophomore year took a trip to the prison, sort of a "Scared Straight" program thingy (which is a great thing for kids heading in the wrong directions but I'm pretty sure we were a fairly law-abiding bunch).

The inmates were allowed to yell at us and say some pretty awful stuff. I remember some of the kids were crying (and it wasn't only the girls....) and somebody threw up on the bus. We were all pretty upset and there were some complaints from parents. That was the first and last trip of that sort taken for that class.
 
Falcon said:
IMAGINE, A teacher taking her class of kids to a SLAUGHTER House?!! My friend said that it happened to her
class of pre teens.
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There was an abbatoir on my grandparents street.Often saw lambs,pigs and cattles being herded in there.I was under no illusions about what happened to them!
 
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