Hey everyone, we are going to have a high school field trip from Pitt County Fairgrounds and to Greenville Mall. I just wanted to share thestuff we have with you guys and want to know what it's like going to the fair and the mall on a field trip!
I'm pretty sure most of us can go to the fair or the mall whenever we want. It's not really that special.
I don't go to the State Fair of Oklahoma because it made me vomit in 1997.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 11, 2019, 07:33:45 AM
because it made me vomit in 1997.
That could be an attraction for some board members.
Quote from: mrhappy1261 on September 11, 2019, 07:08:43 AM
Hey everyone, we are going to have a high school field trip from Pitt County Fairgrounds and to Greenville Mall. I just wanted to share thestuff we have with you guys and want to know what it's like going to the fair and the mall on a field trip!
I am so freaking excited!!! Can't wait! :rolleyes:
Speaking of fairs, the only one worth going to is the Minnesota State Fair.
Not once did I go on a field trip in Freshman year.
It's on the 19th, by the way
Quote from: ozarkman417 on September 11, 2019, 07:53:57 AMNot once did I go on a field trip in Freshman year.
That was the only year of High School, if I translate across from our different system, I did field trips - save the below exception:
In Junior-equivalent year, we did a trip to the Science Museum as my teacher wanted to see the new wing that had literally just opened, and so a field trip was a good excuse for her to go. We were broken up into small groups that were allocated an exhibit, given a worksheet that basically asked us what the exhibit we were sent to was about and was it good (well beneath our level, but mostly about giving recommendations and review for the teachers in how they spent the rest of the day) that took 20-30 minutes tops (my group took 15 as we didn't have to walk far - and most of the time we were questioning the simplicity of the worksheet) so they could say we did some work, and then given free reign until it was leaving time on two conditions - we stayed in our small groups and we didn't leave the museum.
The rest of the time we were just too busy to do field trips, and after exams for a jolly was just pointless as it would be like dragging us back for no reason - we were old enough and clever enough to organise our own jollies anyway - and they would be more fun!
We never went on field trips in high school.
roadwaywiz isn't horribly active on here, so you're spared his trademark meme, which I REALLY want to post but am too nice to do so.
Quote from: GaryV on September 11, 2019, 07:36:46 AM
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 11, 2019, 07:33:45 AM
because it made me vomit in 1997.
That could be an attraction for some board members.
It's poo you're thinking of, not vomit.
Quote from: roadman on September 11, 2019, 03:24:59 PM
We never went on field trips in high school.
Ditto
Quote from: roadman on September 11, 2019, 03:24:59 PM
We never went on field trips in high school.
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The only time I get to skip class is when I go for a school sports event. I have a Cross Country meet that lasts all day tomorrow. Then you have the people who skip class just because they want to.
My high school used to cancel* class entirely when the softball team had an important game. Even as a kid, I thought that was a bit beyond the pale.
*Class wasn't officially cancelled, so the day still counted toward the state-mandated 180 days of class, but anyone who wished to go to the game was allowed to, and there were only enough students left over to fill one classroom, so they simply showed movies. Most of the kids were only at the game long enough to make eye contact with the principal and would then leave at the earliest available opportunity.
We didn't have many field trips in high school, but there were some. In 9th/10th grade (whichever grade a given person had Biology; typically 10th, but a LOT of students are on the accelerated math/science program) get to go to Cape Cod as space allows for a whale watch. The AP American students actually get to go to the Strong Museum of Play, as there's a local US history conference for high school students that uses their activity rooms as a venue. The AP Government and Politics class goes to Ottawa to see Parliament.
Also, when I was there the seniors got to go to Darien Lake at the end of the year after the rehearsal for graduation.
Quote from: ozarkman417 on September 11, 2019, 07:53:57 AM
Not once did I go on a field trip in Freshman year.
It could be worse - I didn't even
have a Freshman year!
Explanation: where/when I went to high school, 9th grade was still Junior High School (and never referred as "Freshman year"). High school started with 10th grade; first year was oddly "Sophomore year".
My high school field trip took us to Wash DC from Dover, DE. We visited the usual places ie Arlington National Cemetary, the Smithsonian etc. We got back home really late (2am) b/c a couple of dumbasses went away from the class to explore on their own. The busses wouldn't leave them so we sat around waiting 5 hrs until they showed up drunk & high. I was po'd b/c I was'nt invited :-D
Once you got to high school here, field trips are pretty much nonexistent unless you're willing to shell out $4000 to go to Europe or South America or something over the summer, those are the only field trips offered anymore. No more day-long trips to the museum or three days in DC or what have you/
^ which was exactly what I did in 8th grade. Those trips are usually during some sort of break and are hosted by WorldStrides or similar company rather than the school, like my DC trip where I was on a charter bus for almost 20 hours. Those poor souls taking the trip in the future now have to fly there.
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Since I was in choir, we'd go into Chicago to the symphony,opera, or to see a musical. Once , during some down time, me and two friends went up to the John Hancock center observation floor, stayed up there a while, then came back down to the ground floor. One in my group went into a store to buy some candy, while myself and the other friend waited outside. After the third in our group returned from the store, we were kicked out of the Hancock center.
Funny how that happened AFTER we spent money there.
I remember going on class trips each year in school, although I can't remember if they were either/or subject specific or grade-wide trips especially in high school. In our Senior year, we had our annual class trip flying from Philly to Disney World and the surrounding area.
Quote from: dlsterner on September 11, 2019, 11:34:32 PM
It could be worse - I didn't even have a Freshman year!
Explanation: where/when I went to high school, 9th grade was still Junior High School (and never referred as "Freshman year"). High school started with 10th grade; first year was oddly "Sophomore year".
My school was set up the same way: The Junior High was 7th - 9th grades; Senior High was 10th - 12th Grades. However, in 9th grade we were definitely referred to as Freshmen. Both schools were on the same overall campus, with the football field in between. Oddly, they didn't have a roadway within the campus to get between the two schools. Due to the parking lot traffic flow circulation, it took two roads to get from the Junior High to the Senior High. After I left, they significantly expanded the Senior High which became a true high school for 9th-12th grades, and the Junior High become 7th & 8th grades.
For what it's worth, my school was called Clearview. Absolutely no relation to the font we all like and dislike!
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on September 11, 2019, 07:47:31 AM
Quote from: mrhappy1261 on September 11, 2019, 07:08:43 AM
Hey everyone, we are going to have a high school field trip from Pitt County Fairgrounds and to Greenville Mall. I just wanted to share thestuff we have with you guys and want to know what it's like going to the fair and the mall on a field trip!
I am so freaking excited!!! Can't wait! :rolleyes:
Speaking of fairs, the only one worth going to is the Minnesota State Fair.
My favorite thing in Minnesota is a giant ball of twine in Darwin.
I hardly ever go to the state fair here in Mississippi because I've been many times and is the same ole same ole.
Field trips were definitely more common in middle and (especially) elementary school than high school for me. IIRC, I went on two field trips during high school, both of which were class/subject specific. The first one was in 9th Grade with my Spanish class where we just went up to Chattanooga to eat at a Mexican restaurant. The second one was in my AP Environmental Science class in 12th Grade where we went to the local wastewater treatment center to see first-hand how it worked. Since the center would have been somewhat private and exclusive to people allowed to be there, this also gave me the opportunity to see some new local roads for the first time that I never would have had the chance to see otherwise. On that note, it was also incredibly interesting to see all the huge transmission towers (power lines) along those roads, as I also find those things fascinating (along with cell towers and the sort). There was a Junior Trip offered that visited New York City and Boston, but I was not able to go on that.
We never had field trips in middle school because of our strict principal. The only field trip we would go to is "Special Olympics"
For 9th grade we went to RJ's, Golden Corral, Pitt County Fairgrounds, Greenville Convention Center, and somewhere near downtown. (don't remember where it was) This was sometime in 2016 and 2017.
For 10th grade, I didn't go anywhere besides Special Olympics. I could have went on a field trip but the school bus did not show up and I got SO mad. (2017 and 2018)
For 11th grade, I didn't really go anywhere because nothing was planned. (2018 and 2019)
Now for 12th grade we will go to the fair again which happened 3 years ago finally! And to the Greenville Mall where I've never been before. (2019 - 2020)
WHY would you go to Golden Corral as part of a school trip. My third grade teacher got food poisoned there and I've seem ambulances there twice and everyone I know has vowed to never go back.
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Quote from: ozarkman417 on September 13, 2019, 10:48:00 PM
WHY would you go to Golden Corral as part of a school trip. My third grade teacher got food poisoned there and I've seem ambulances there twice and everyone I know has vowed to never go back.
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Because that's the place they chose us to go to. We don't get to vote where we want to go to, it's up to the teachers. I don't really go to Golden Corral really, it's not the best.
Quote from: ozarkman417 on September 13, 2019, 10:48:00 PM
WHY would you go to Golden Corral as part of a school trip. My third grade teacher got food poisoned there and I've seem ambulances there twice and everyone I know has vowed to never go back.
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Oh my goodness, Golden Corral is so disgusting. You've seen the chocolate fountains there, right? Little kids stick their (probably unwashed) fingers and hands in there, god knows where those hands have been stuck, I've seen flies land in them, people stick foods that really shouldn't go with them there, etc etc. They get clogged up all the time, and at the buffet it's probably not very sanitary either. The food always leaves you feeling sick to some degree, in my experience.
So is RJ's Barbecue better than Golden Corral? At least they serve you and you don't serve yourself. The food is good there, but it's in a very old building.
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.593244,-77.3956315,3a,30.1y,278.5h,93.6t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1soXIG-mCztjAmwMPFDqbioQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DoXIG-mCztjAmwMPFDqbioQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.TACTILE.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D96%26h%3D64%26yaw%3D281.08005%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656
I wish they remodeled it. They said they were going to turn it into a mixed use development, but it's not official.
Golden Corral is an edible cesspool. Why the one here is always crowded is beyond me. Tour buses also stop there.
Quote from: ozarkman417 on September 12, 2019, 08:37:39 AM
^ which was exactly what I did in 8th grade. Those trips are usually during some sort of break and are hosted by WorldStrides or similar company rather than the school, like my DC trip where I was on a charter bus for almost 20 hours. Those poor souls taking the trip in the future now have to fly there.
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You did that? There was no way I was spending a week of my summer break on a stuffy, uncomfortable bus driving to Washington with my deficient classmates.
Quote from: mrhappy1261 on September 11, 2019, 07:08:43 AM
Hey everyone, we are going to have a high school field trip from Pitt County Fairgrounds and to Greenville Mall. I just wanted to share thestuff we have with you guys and want to know what it's like going to the fair and the mall on a field trip!
High School Field Trip is disaster. By the time of High School, the students have plenty of money to be able to buy mostly snacks. The days of Charlie Brown eating Peanut Butter Sandwich from home outside during recess have ended many decades ago. They almost have food courts now. At University, they DO have lots of restaurants. So when they went on Field Trip to some exhibit, they stopped at a shopping mall (or a very large shopping center) to go to an Espresso place. They returned to the buses with Espressos. With the array of foods sold in schools, as well as most bus trips are Sport related, the high school students are accustomed to buying Espressos when they should not be. Coaches were usually unfazed by this but full time teachers were annoyed. They thought they were going to make every body be late. The biggest problem is drinking Espresso on a bus.
Quote from: In_Correct on September 14, 2019, 04:05:39 PM
The biggest problem is drinking Espresso on a bus.
Ahh yes, The Espresso Problem: a famous problem in contemporary public school life.
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on September 14, 2019, 05:07:08 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on September 14, 2019, 04:05:39 PM
The biggest problem is drinking Espresso on a bus.
Ahh yes, The Espresso Problem: a famous problem in contemporary public school life.
o no
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on September 14, 2019, 05:07:08 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on September 14, 2019, 04:05:39 PM
The biggest problem is drinking Espresso on a bus.
Ahh yes, The Espresso Problem: a famous problem in contemporary public school life.
Given a list of Starbucks and the distances between each Starbucks, what is the shortest possible route that visits each Starbucks and returns to the origin Starbucks?
[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem)
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 15, 2019, 03:15:43 AM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on September 14, 2019, 05:07:08 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on September 14, 2019, 04:05:39 PM
The biggest problem is drinking Espresso on a bus.
Ahh yes, The Espresso Problem: a famous problem in contemporary public school life.
Given a list of Starbucks and the distances between each Starbucks, what is the shortest possible route that visits each Starbucks and returns to the origin Starbucks?[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem)
Easy. Whichever way gets me the most routes to clinch. :awesomeface:
The only field trips I remember from 5th grade: Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, MA (Exit 2 from MA I-84) and Boston. That was my first visit to any major American city. It was Thursday, June 3, 1982. I went to the Children's Museum on the Fort Point Channel and then to the New England Aquarium. High school was limited to two meager visits to Avery Point in Groton, CT (for a science class). The trips were from New Britain and Berlin, CT, respectively.
(Despite the closeness, I didn't enter New York City proper until Friday, August 25, 1989, aged 18 years, 6 months and a day.)
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on September 15, 2019, 11:39:52 AM
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 15, 2019, 03:15:43 AM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on September 14, 2019, 05:07:08 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on September 14, 2019, 04:05:39 PM
The biggest problem is drinking Espresso on a bus.
Ahh yes, The Espresso Problem: a famous problem in contemporary public school life.
Given a list of Starbucks and the distances between each Starbucks, what is the shortest possible route that visits each Starbucks and returns to the origin Starbucks?[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem)
Easy. Whichever way gets me the most routes to clinch. :awesomeface:
There's also a button copy BGS at mile marker 26.6, FYI
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on September 15, 2019, 11:39:52 AM
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 15, 2019, 03:15:43 AM
Quote from: MNHighwayMan on September 14, 2019, 05:07:08 PM
Quote from: In_Correct on September 14, 2019, 04:05:39 PM
The biggest problem is drinking Espresso on a bus.
Ahh yes, The Espresso Problem: a famous problem in contemporary public school life.
Given a list of Starbucks and the distances between each Starbucks, what is the shortest possible route that visits each Starbucks and returns to the origin Starbucks?[1] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem)
Easy. Whichever way gets me the most routes to clinch. :awesomeface:
And they said it was NP-hard!
Our senior class went to Williamsburg and Washington DC, from Cincinnati. On the way back, one of our buses broke down in (of course) Breezewood. We spent several hours in a truck stop in the middle of the night waiting for it to be repaired (or replaced, I don't remember). Instead of sending the working buses on......all of us waited.
Quote from: Scott5114 on September 15, 2019, 03:15:43 AM
Given a list of Dunkin's and the distances between each Dunkin's, what is the shortest possible route that visits each Dunkin's and returns to the origin Dunkin's?
Fixed it for you.
I was thinking of posting the video where Hitler was trying to visit every KFC in Germany to try their double-down sandwich and started ranting about NP-hard problems because the route wasn't determined yet, but YouTube appears to have removed it.
These are the pictures at the field trip we had today!!
Horse ride
(https://i.imgur.com/ftciARd.jpg)
Sizzler
(https://i.imgur.com/18nnhYq.jpg%5B)
Zero Gravity! - I went on it! I was very DIZZY!!! And I was afraid at first, but I got brave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5RlOAP_nxQ
The mall was boring and nothing really inside, so I don't have any pictures of it. Sorry!
Quote from: mrhappy1261 on September 19, 2019, 08:18:38 PMZero Gravity! - I went on it! I was very DIZZY!!! And I was afraid at first, but I got brave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5RlOAP_nxQ
You can only be brave when you are scared!
Every year (for 819 years now), my town has a two-day fair. For some years there were two of these exact rides. 19 years ago to the day (fair's always the same two days - and oddly they didn't do much for the 800th anniversary of the town charter!), when I was 14, I went on the biggest one - which was about 40ft in diameter (the middle was about 25ft above ground - you could see almost half over the rooftops when it was up. Held about 50 people with about 2'6" width per person) and spun near vertical. They got rid of it, as it was too big for the location - plus I imagine the owner of the smaller one was annoyed at the presence of the bigger one stealing his customers, and won the fight...
In Physics that afternoon we had been told that centrifugal force doesn't exist and rather its centripetal force pulling you in, with the lesson ending before we could deal with the balance between forward momentum trying to take you in a straight line (and so outward) and centripetal force pulling you in so you made a circle. I was probably about 75lbs when I rode this thing and so, not having much momentum, I kept falling towards the middle by a couple of inches every time I went over the top (though the puny chain nominally there for safety did inspire confidence - not that it would do anything, but because it was so crap it was clear I shouldn't actually fall) - so I was pushing myself out to counter being "pulled in" (gravity did do some pulling down, I guess). I don't like heights. Once I'd worked out the physics, I stopped pushing myself back into the wall - I kept my hands ready to do it just in case, but the last 5 or 6 turns were relatively fun. While far from the least pleasant ride experience I've done, it was the most worried I'd been for my safety I'd been on a ride.
I much preferred the different horizontal spinner where the floor dropped away as it was going much faster and I was definitely stuck to the wall. That and the thing with seats and shoulder bars that spun you round in several dimensions - seeing chimney pots 15ft away, but at that height, and upside down, was a bit interesting (for some reason they hold the fair along the High Street, where people live, rather than in a park or field).