Definition of School Trips
Created | Updated Feb 3, 2007
The definition of this word thank to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition is A group excursion for the purpose of firsthand observation, as to a museum, the woods, or a historic place.
The actual real life (depending on your definition of real and whether or not you believe that this is real life) definition of this word is highly debated amongst students, teachers, and high paid quacks that assume to know how students think.
The quacks call it a chance for children to gain education while not being combined to a classroom.
Teachers have two different definitions. One from the teachers who are on the trip and one from the teachers who are not. The teachers in the trip say that it is a chance to get out of the class and take a break from teaching. It is essentially a free day for teachers. They do not have to do much with the exception of sit on a bus, watch the students (if they are good teachers), and leave something for the substitute teacher to do. For teachers that are not on the trip though have a tough time and are not really too happy about them.
The main reason that teachers that are not on the trip do not like school trips because it screws up with their lessons. With some students gone from one class or another and they can not do what they had planed because there are to many students missing.
Ironically both students and teachers that are on the trip have the same definition of what a School trip is. For students it is a chance to get away from the dullness and drag of school. To students a school trip is like a vacation with friends. The only difference is that for the student there just might be an assignment given after the trip, and that ruins the fun. Also the ever prominent fact that you still have to go back to school at the end of the day never goes away.
This debate is still taking place and will most likely to continue to take place till the end of time.
The actual real life (depending on your definition of real and whether or not you believe that this is real life) definition of this word is highly debated amongst students, teachers, and high paid quacks that assume to know how students think.
The quacks call it a chance for children to gain education while not being combined to a classroom.
Teachers have two different definitions. One from the teachers who are on the trip and one from the teachers who are not. The teachers in the trip say that it is a chance to get out of the class and take a break from teaching. It is essentially a free day for teachers. They do not have to do much with the exception of sit on a bus, watch the students (if they are good teachers), and leave something for the substitute teacher to do. For teachers that are not on the trip though have a tough time and are not really too happy about them.
The main reason that teachers that are not on the trip do not like school trips because it screws up with their lessons. With some students gone from one class or another and they can not do what they had planed because there are to many students missing.
Ironically both students and teachers that are on the trip have the same definition of what a School trip is. For students it is a chance to get away from the dullness and drag of school. To students a school trip is like a vacation with friends. The only difference is that for the student there just might be an assignment given after the trip, and that ruins the fun. Also the ever prominent fact that you still have to go back to school at the end of the day never goes away.
This debate is still taking place and will most likely to continue to take place till the end of time.
