Good field trips for young-uns

[tater03]

We have an Apple Butter Festival here every year and one year we took the boys and they had a blast. They have a one room school house there also and they got to see how the apples are picked and made into different things. Actually this would be a great field trip now that I think about it.

[Fatma Zanaty]

I like field trips very much, I remember I had it once when I was a child but not in elementary education, and not all the students were allowed to go but only a group chosen by the teacher of social service or something like that, I don't remember exactly. Unfortunately, it was not common at all in the elementary education here, we took it as .. you can say pictures and explanation, read it in a book,...etc.

[mamab]

I can't imagine choosing certain children to go on a field trip and making the rest of the class stay home. That doesn't seem right. I guess it's different in your country.

[tater03]

Yes, that would be awful for the children that did not get picked. I am glad that we don't have that here. We do have children that don't go for one reason or another. But that is because the parents have chose not to allow their child but that has happened only on very rare occasions.

[SageMother]

Yes, that would be awful for the children that did not get picked. I am glad that we don't have that here. We do have children that don't go for one reason or another. But that is because the parents have chose not to allow their child but that has happened only on very rare occasions.

There are times when certain groups get to do things and others don't get the same chance here.  Music groups like choirs and orchestras go places where the other classmates are not invited by virtue of their not being part of a particular group.  Sometimes having a B average gets you certain perks, when it comes to field trips, that the C students don't get.  These exclusions are very present here.  They are often camouflaged, that's all.

[trevab]

lol that's a great idea. What age group did you take? Young like pre-k or kindergarden?

[kayak29]

I used to take my Year 1 students on a bus ride into the city -- they all lived in the suburbs, seldom rode on a bus, seldom went to the "City". They had to pay the bus driver individually, so I had to inform the Metro bus line that 20 students would be getting on the bus at a particular bus stop at a certain time. When we arrived we had lunch, which we had brought with us, in the park near the Supreme Court Buildings after looking at the Public Art pieces there. Then we walked through a Shopping Mall, visited a Hungry Jack's outlet and saw behind the scene preparations, visited a shopping arcade with escalators, visited a themed shopping arcade, and rode in a lift to the lookout floor of a high rise building to view the city spread out below us. Then we walked to the river to catch the ferry across to the other side where our school bus picked us up for the short ride back to school. It was always very enjoyable.
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