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What was your worst school trip?

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I remember in primary school they took us to a cemetery, it wasn’t for history purposes or that, the teacher said it was “just to have a look around”

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Inquisitive-m@reddit

Visited the local Sainsbury’s to buy hot cross buns and meet the baker who made them.
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Sorry_Nectarine_3609@reddit

They took us down a pit, into a coal shaft and in the original lift. I remember the boys chipping away at the wooden frames holding the damn thing up to get souvenirs. It was just horrifying I thought they shouldn't be doing that. We were about 6/7. They wouldn't crack that trip off today. Not a chance. Got a certificate for our troubles though.
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IsMisePrinceton@reddit

I went to a catholic school so we regularly went to church as a school trip. I used to be so jealous of the kids who weren’t catholic and didn’t have to go.
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Boris_Johnsons_Pubes@reddit (OP)

If it makes you feel any better they used to take us to the same museum every year and we dreaded that, I think by the time we all left primary school we could have easily got a job as tour guides there, I’m 38 now but still know Bethnal Green Childhood Museum like the back of my hand
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spiritualmoosh@reddit

Ahh the most unengaging monument to childhood ever. Always made toys unfun.
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Willing-Cell-1613@reddit

I went to a non-religious school and we just visited all the places of worship nearby. Mosque, church, synagogue, Buddhist monastery. Would be interesting but this was in infant school!
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himit@reddit

I went to Catholic School and we did church outings for like...actual reasons, but had normal school trips as well. You only did church trips??? We did go to a few abbeys and stuff but I think those were history trips, they never really talked about religious stuff.
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willsagainSQ@reddit

We walked down to the telephone exchange, back when it was still electro- mechanical. I was nerdy enough to be interested in the big vats of acid.
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neilm1000@reddit

What were they for? Were they dipping enormous bespoke circuit boards or something?
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willsagainSQ@reddit

Part of the battery array if I recall. They smelled very sinister.
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neilm1000@reddit

I bet. And I imagine they came with the overwhelming urge to chuck a load of bicarb in 'as an experiment, sir.'
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willsagainSQ@reddit

Oh we were much too young, I reckon I was 7-8, maybe 9. We were kept well back, as if we weren't already nervous about being too near vats of acid. And they were huge, like horse trough size but made of glass like aquariums.
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psychopathic_shark@reddit

Went to a brick making factory. A whole day of learning how bricks are made! You can actually fit the workings of brick making into 20 minutes but just for our pleasure the fun went on for 5 hours! You even got to decorate a house brick at the end and take it with you!
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unknownuser492@reddit

Honestly that sounds kinda fun. Not the dragging 20 minutes out to 5 hours bit, but the learning about bricks.
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ceb1995@reddit

Slate museum
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woods_edge@reddit

We were going to Manchester for the week, the slight improvement was that we stopped for a tour of a sewage works on the way there.
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EllieW47@reddit

It wasn't an actual school trip but my mum was a Physics teacher and decided that a tour of Sellafield would be educational for me and my brother and might get her some useful background information for the A-level course. Driving round in a bus on a rainy day being told what happens inside various massive concrete cubes, but absolutely nothing to see.
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neilm1000@reddit

A mate at uni told me about this, he was hoping to see in the control room and stuff but ended up being stuck on a bus before being taken around an exhibition about their plans to put nuclear waste in a cave nearby. Soon after I went to the Lakes for Easter and went past Sellafield: my then girlfriend's dad was on the hunt for Wabberthwaite's sausages so we drove all over Cumbria, including to the church where Alfred Wainwright is buried (except he got the wrong one). He actually said "oh there's a tour, we can go tomorrow" at which point my extremely pissed off and period ridden gf said "no, it's crap and anyway Julian's penis shrunk when he visited." Shut her dad up for a few minutes at least.
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irv81@reddit

1990 in Primary School, Newcastle upon Tyne, we had a trip up the river Tyne on a boat, we had to collect the murky brown river water as samples using pop bottles with bits of string attached to them. These were for science experiments in class. Andy, one of my classmates, wouldn't stop singing the Elton John song, Sacrifice, very badly for the entire boat trip, over and over again. The whole trip smelled of dirty river water and diesel fumes. Enough to knock you sick to your stomach. It wasn't until we were a bit older we realised we were essentially collecting sewage water, we didn't wash our hands and we ate our packed lunches after having handled the sewage filled and covered bottles.
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neilm1000@reddit

>Andy, one of my classmates, wouldn't stop singing the Elton John song, Sacrifice, very badly for the entire boat trip, over and over again. This bit made me absolutely howl. To the point where I think I may have woken my neighbour through the paper thin wall.
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Impossible_Disk_43@reddit

>pop bottles po**o**p bottles FTFY
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Athleticathiest82@reddit

Done a geography field trip to Swanage because I heard it was legendary for carnage. was well disappointed.
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neilm1000@reddit

Feisty one you are.
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trojan10_om@reddit

Hope paedo Kennedy is no longer invited on the trip.
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Jamin881@reddit

I heard there’s a yummy mummy who wants you to spunk on her tummy down there?
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Hamsternoir@reddit

It could have been worse. We had a new kid at our school, moved from another part of the country. Soon after his dad died and was buried in the cemetery. We had a visit to the cemetery for a history lesson. Hey look here's a fresh one says some kid. Teacher takes us to have a look, you can guess where this is going. Total melt down and certainly the worst school trip for the kid who wasn't expecting to see his dad that day. He left the school soon after
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powpow198@reddit

Savage
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Boris_Johnsons_Pubes@reddit (OP)

Jesus fucking Christ, that’s brutal for that kid, bet you he still has nightmares and PTSD from that
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Hamsternoir@reddit

This was about 30 years ago but wouldn't be surprised if he's still got issues.
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meinnit99900@reddit

Once went to Pleasure Island in Cleethorpes, a now abandoned “theme park” where the highlight of the day was just jumping on and off the slow moving park train
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JoanneSmith567@reddit

The source of the River Thames. Which was just a small pile of rocks. Huge coach journey to get there and back from where we lived
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Adventurous_Train_48@reddit

Trip to a castle. Cool, right? Except this castle is in the middle of a council estate. The same council estste the school was in, and that 99% of the pupils lived in. It's not a spectacular castle, and has no interesting history attached.
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Over_Entertainer8049@reddit

Sewage works
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Zestyclose_Key_6964@reddit

I just posted the same. Were you at school In Belper, Derbyshire by any chance?
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Skeleton200000@reddit

We also had this one in year 6. It wasn’t even relevant to what we were learning, so I’m not really sure why.
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Boris_Johnsons_Pubes@reddit (OP)

Glad to hear your plumbing is alright, but what was your worst school trip?
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The88tench@reddit

Sewerage works here too. Year below and above got to go on a nice trip to the Malvern hills, meanwhile I had to go and look at turds all day.
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blue-eyed-zola@reddit

This sounds like some teacher humour. 'How do we get back at this year's crop for being little s****?'
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The88tench@reddit

Must be! That or that particular teacher lost a bet and had to go on the shit trip
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Boris_Johnsons_Pubes@reddit (OP)

My school fucked is over like that as well before, the year above us got to go to Southend and go to the theme park there, we ended up going to Hainault Forest, which was 5 minutes away from our school, the injustice was unreal
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The88tench@reddit

Oof! Yeah, I know how you feel. I'm still bitter about that trip even though it was almost 20 years ago. Ah well, at least uni made up for it with some cool trips there!
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Treadonmydreams@reddit

We had this one too. My mum complained!
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Zestyclose_Key_6964@reddit

A sewage treatment plant we had to walk to from school, not even a trip out on a coach.
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SaberReyna@reddit

Was supposed to be going on a tour of the Nou Camp. Coach broke down in some random French village, all the lads got bored and started setting smoke bombs they bought from somewhere. Someone then ate a snickers on the coach resulting in a girl going anaphylaxic and us all going home after getting nowhere near the Nou Camp.
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happypotato27@reddit

I got lost in nou camp with my friend on a school trip, he was unbothered but I was panicking and we ended up having yo get security to contact our teacher lmao
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soverytiiiired@reddit

Box museum. One of the kids went missing and then his dad showed up having an absolute meltdown thinking his son had fallen into the machinery and had been turned into a box.
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pajamakitten@reddit

"You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel."
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spaceshipcommander@reddit

Was he eventually brought back by a load of little orange men singing a song about not running away?
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ArmadilloOtherwise77@reddit

I'm absolutely dying from a hangover and can't stop laughing at this!
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surviving-everything@reddit

I do love [that episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqLGU97UDoo)!
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DonGorgon@reddit

“My boy is a box!”
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desertcanyons@reddit

DAMN YOU! A BOX!
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nayR2003@reddit

HIS LUCKY RED CAP!!
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soverytiiiired@reddit

Omg did we go to school together?? Remember how unbearable he became afterwards. Thought he was some sort of celebrity!
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SnackMacandCat@reddit

In secondary school they used to organise a big trip for the year 11s right before they left; think paint balling, theme parks etc. But when it got to our year 11 leavers trip we got told we were going to the local zoo... Which the entire year thought was such an anti climax compared to what the other year 11's got to do so no one went and we had a normal school day instead.
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littlenymphy@reddit

How bad was the local zoo? During year 9 and 10 my school got to go to Drayton Manor and I think I spent more time in the little zoo section than on the actual rides so I would have loved a full zoo visit (depending on what zoo it was)
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Invisible96@reddit

man is drayton manor zoo depressing these days
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wildgoldchai@reddit

Tbf, most zoos are. Can’t bring myself to take the little ones. It all feels so sad
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SlackerPop90@reddit

My school used to do a week long residential trip at the end of year 7 doing stuff like high ropes courses etc. For some reason they decided not to do it for my year but all the years before and after got to have it.
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himit@reddit

I missed my school's Year 8 residential trip because I moved to Aus. But the school I went to in Australia did a residential trip to a nearby sand island, so I got to go spend a week camping there. It was...pretty fucking different, I assume. My British school did a week on the Isle of Wight and everyone came back covered in mud. We were camping behind the dunes by the Pacific Ocean. Weren't allowed in the ocean past our ankles because of sharks; we had 3 toilets and 3 showers and by the end of the week two toilets had massive spiders and one shower had a snake so we couldn't use them all. One of the activities involved trying to catch little crawfish from a stream with our bare hands and then lying on our stomachs and drinking from the same stream (historical re-enactment -- very clean water, but as a kid fresh out of London I was grossed out!) But there was no mud and it was a brilliant time. Also basically 55 out of the 60 kids caught some kind of stomach bug (I escaped it) and two kids had to be airlifted home due to illness, so that was fun. The teachers came back saying 'thank god for sand' because every time a kid puked on the floor they just buried it.
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soverytiiiired@reddit

Our school used to have a residential for the Year 7s that looked so much fun (my older sibling went on it) The year above us were apparently so badly behaved that the venue banned the school for a year so we didn’t get to go, but the year below us did!
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LondonCycling@reddit

Ugh we went to a factory which made confectionery. It was a fucking nightmare. Before we even got in one of the kids' parents was complaining they couldn't read the NDA because they hadn't brought their glasses. Then we get in to the main manufacturing area and one of the kids contaminates a massive batch of chocolate by scooping it up with his hands. They removed him from the factory, much to the surprise of everybody else. We went through some corridors to a room where they make egg-based confectionary and one of the proper spoilt kids (rich parents) whinges that she doesn't have her own factory equipment, and indeed hens to lay eggs. Her dad tries to buy things from the factory owner but he says they're not for sale. The child damaged a bunch of equipment and produce in rage and ended up falling down a rubbish chute so staff had to hurry around just to find this arsehole to save on the compo claims. Then we ended up in a lab area where they were trying new ideas. A girl pinched a sweetie from the production line which hadn't been tested yet, and she ended up very sick very fast. Then towards the end, the granddad of one of the kids decided to climb what should've been a sterile processing centre. Him and his son managed to climb down but they whole thing had to be sterilised. Bizarrely, the guy who ran the factory forgave this last lad's granddad and struck by the kid's enthusiasm actually gave him massive shares in the factory. Fucking wild trip.
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Necro_Badger@reddit

"Fucking wild trip" I bet the factory owner was even Wilder.
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LondonCycling@reddit

He had nice Genes on though.
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wildgoldchai@reddit

I feel well smart for understanding that
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Wonderpants_uk@reddit

You had me up to the bit about the girl complaining about not having her own chocolate factory..
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LondonCycling@reddit

I want one now!!
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EllieW47@reddit

Ok, you win, I got to Verruca Salt before I saw through that one! I obviously need more caffeine.
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Unlikely_Egg@reddit

Sat in a coach in a lay-by on the dual carriageway next to a power plant and told to draw it. It was absolutely shite and a graveyard would have been infinitely more interesting.
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Invisible96@reddit

I went on a trip to an outward bound center to do things like high ropes, caving, ziplining, and so on. Everything went fine until tuesday when an outbreak of norovirus happened, sending around 80-90% of the kids home barfing their guts out. It was truly a wonderful week as a severe emetophobe as you can imagine! My teachers wouldn't let me have my phone to talk to my mum because, in their words, "she would only come and pick you up and it would make us look bad". So I was stuck in a dorm full of voniting and shitting teenagers for 5 days.
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Grotbagsthewonderful@reddit

I don't think I've been on a bad one to be fair, I think even the dullest trip still beat time spent in a classroom.
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Helpful_Bird_5393@reddit

Reading this as someone now from the UK is utterly hilarious. Cemeteries and box factories 🤣
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Boris_Johnsons_Pubes@reddit (OP)

I’m not sure if this will be a good trip or bad trip for my daughter, this week she is going away to the Scottish highlands to do outdoors things like canoeing, rock climbing and camping, which does sound like s really fun thing to do in the summer, am I right in thinking November is the wrong time to go camping in the highlands?
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Jenschnifer@reddit

We did this in primary and secondary. It will actually be really good, just make sure you pack her loads of extra socks and t-shirts because she will get soaked and having wet socks is miserable. The t-shirts are for layering because guaranteed there will be a night activity of some sort and nothing is as cold as an outdoor centre at night
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Willing-Cell-1613@reddit

Oh and pack toilet paper in a plastic bag. When I did this the toilet paper in the camp toilets was always soggy. Plus it was useful on the overnight hikes.
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VardaElentari86@reddit

The weather will be miserable but even in summer at least a day or two probably would have been anyway.
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luker1771@reddit

Wasn't a school trip but a football one, to France when I was about 10. We were in northern France so we were put on a bus to a really remote area, then taken to an abandoned barn type thing with a really old tree next to it. The French tour guide proceeded to explain how multiple british soldiers were caught and executed at the tree. Bit heavy for 10 year olds tbf.
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Impossible_Disk_43@reddit

I'd have been terrified that I would be next.
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The-Rog@reddit

Shrooms during double geography. I thought the tectonic plates slipped out of my textbook onto the floor... I was panicking, thinking my mate was going to die in the Mid Atlantic Ridge, so pushed him off his chair to safety. I got sent home, and suspended for a week. Actually, I suppose it could've been worse.
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Impossible_Disk_43@reddit

>I got sent home, and suspended for a week. This is how your school treated heroes?
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t0ppings@reddit

We went to the moors where we walked around in mud, went back to a hostel that overlooked a graveyard, had a cold shower and then wandered around the local town the next morning where everything was shut, we had no money and were warned that the locals might say incredibly racist stuff.
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BIGBIZNIZ1999@reddit

Victorian experience pretty much a excuse for the staff to treat the kids like absolute shite
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Phinbart@reddit

I had this at Beamish. We had a traditional Victorian lesson. As someone who was already usually afraid of teachers and nervous about doing anything that could be misconstrued as me misbehaving and getting told off or shouted at, I am really surprised the way the staff got into their roles and treated us all hasn't traumatised me long-term.
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BIGBIZNIZ1999@reddit

tbh it did for me remember clear as day one of the 'Victorians' calling me , thicky , when i couldnt fold a duster (have disabilities for context) or them screaming at a friend of mine and then me when i tried to comfort said friend ​ wonder if they still do those trips
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annoyedtenant123@reddit

Belgium…. Up at the crack of dawn on to a coach; across on ferry to belgium quickly visited some trenches before going to a museum. Then back on the coach was basically just a long coach ride.
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Necto_gck@reddit

Chester Zoo, we were a bunch of 15/16 and it took us all of 1hr to walk around the whole place but we were there for 6hrs in total. Luckily we managed to find a pub/restaurant inside, one of use looked old enough to be served managed to get 3 pints deep before being clocked by one of the teachers hoping to have a pint themselves. We didn't get in too much trouble just got told to leave before other saw us, so we had to spend 3ish hours walking around Chester Zoo half cut.
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CLBUK@reddit

We were meant to be going to Beamish open air museum (which is great, by the way, you should go if you've not been) but didn't get there as our coach crashed into the back of a tractor on the way. We spent several hours at the roadside in the rain waiting for a replacement to take us home and our parents spent the same hours knowing we'd been in a crash but not that everyone was ok (this was pre mobile phones).
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herefromthere@reddit

Our Sixth Form organised our own trip to Alton Towers. They got the cheapest coach, which burst into flames about three miles out from the theme park, while we stood on the grass verge watching columns of smoke fall across the road. We only got there because some kind other school sent their mini bus back to ferry us there. Then it rained on us a lot.
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neilm1000@reddit

Sounds like the Jolly Boys Outing!
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Phinbart@reddit

I'm from near Beamish and throughout my childhood I must've gone a few times, at least once with the school, in Y9 IIRC which you could sign up for in the last week of the school year. Outside of school, I remember, as a family, we bought a year long pass once and only used it once more in the year! I boycott the place now as I've heard the owners/boss treat the staff like shit.
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iwanttobeacavediver@reddit

Can confirm, I’m from the area and I love Beamish.
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HarassedPatient@reddit

Not from the area and can confirm it's really, really good.
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iwanttobeacavediver@reddit

Beamish is one of the few places I’ve seen actual teenagers be interested in things for once. I think it helps it’s all very much immersive, hands on. If you’re ever in Wales then St Fagins is worth a visit for the Museum of Welsh Life. It’s similar to Beamish in being open air and you can tour a number of sites including an old school, a traditional chapel and a wool mill among other things. It’s all very well presented and very interesting.
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HarassedPatient@reddit

St Fagin's was on my list of places I wanted to visit ever since I saw a program about them dismantling an old building and taking it there - the way they numbered every stone as they took it apart so as to be sure to put it back correctly really impressed me.
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iwanttobeacavediver@reddit

Definitely worth a trip for sure IMO.
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thisaintriight@reddit

I have a massive grudge against Beamish and am never keen to return. I’m a teacher and we took a school trip up there and it rained like I have never seen rain before. The old timey trams couldn’t handle the rain and stopped working, so I was trapped in the middle of a farm with 30 kids who, of course, hadn’t brought a rain coat.
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Boris_Johnsons_Pubes@reddit (OP)

Mate I’ve been to Beamish once like 20 years ago and til this day it’s still one of the best places I’ve ever been, I honestly can not hype that place up enough, they should have one in every town or city to show kids their town or cities history in a fun way, I live a good couple hundred miles away but I’m planning on taking my daughter there soon, totally worth the travel, I totally agree with what you say, if you’ve not been you should definitely go there
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I_really_love_pugs@reddit

A trip to an industrial estate in Doncaster. We had to count paces between the factories and draw diagrams of the area for geography. Maybe my teacher was casing the joint, dunno. I got into trouble because on my evaluation form I wrote that my favourite part was going to the food van at the end and then leaving. Weird arse trip.
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nightcoreangst@reddit

Zoo in the rain. We had to wait out the rain in the rhino house. It absolutely reeked.
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Skeleton200000@reddit

When I was in year 3, we went on a school trip to a church. It didn’t have anything to do with what we had been learning about. Anyway, they claimed the people of the church were going to do a play for us about the birth of Christ. Not long into the play, a group of girls were being a bit chatty and one of the people acting told them to shut up. We ended up leaving early because everyone was talking too much. The teachers made us simultaneously say sorry to the actors, like in assembly back in the day when you’d drearily be like “good morning everyone” except we had to say “sorry”. When we got back to the school we had to have an assembly about our behaviour and some of the naughtier/chattier kids had to write letters of apology to the church.
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Phinbart@reddit

This reminds me of an incident during sixth form when we had a succession of representatives from different unis come in; we were in the North East, and they were all NE unis. One of them asked us to write down something, I believe what the ideal subject would be for us to learn at uni, and the rep asked one of the less academically dedicated ones their idea - I can't quite remember exactly, but it ended up being a joke about 'gingers'. There was a follow up after that, and it got worse, but my memory betrays me as to how. I later learned, probably overhearing teachers, that that uni had told the sixth form they wouldn't be coming back. Still don't know whether it's more embarrassing than the time a rep came from another uni asked us if anyone was considering applying to go there and no-one raised their hand.
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snapmyhands@reddit

Eden Camp. Not because the museum is bad but because the coach company had hired a brand new driver and as a prank they'd given him directions that turned a 40 minute journey into 2.5 hours
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soverytiiiired@reddit

I felt like I lived at Eden Camp from Years 5-9. Every year they took us! I still remember the smell
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sandboxlollipop@reddit

My friend and I refused point blank to go through the blitz cabin. We were really young and just 2 girls who were emotionally mature so knew we couldn't cope with the terror of what was causing the screams we could hear from outside. Fucking hell. A "helper" dragged us both through. I can still hear and see the plastic child screaming rocking back and forth on a broken gate/wall, screaming at the terror all around them. Fuck. That.
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neilm1000@reddit

Sorry, wtf?! That's a school trip/activities week thing?! Good god. Where is this place? I mean, it's hilarious in a dark way but also...no.
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sandboxlollipop@reddit

Eden Camp, near York (UK). Give it a Google. Really informative place on WWII but 90s (and of course, prior to that too) teaching/attitudes towards kids really was something else.
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Purple_One_9288@reddit

Oh my god I also have a visceral memory of that blitz cabin - the woman with her baby hanging out the window… shudder
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herefromthere@reddit

Oh God, the Smell!
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snapmyhands@reddit

All I can remember of Eden Camp is the smell
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The_Queef_of_England@reddit

I opened the door to the man on the toilet there.
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Sparklypuppy05@reddit

Well. I was home educated through primary and secondary school, and took plenty of trips to museums, etc during that time, but those don't really count. My only real school trip-esque experience happened when I was in college. It was the spring term of 2022, and my college had announced a department trip to London Comicon for my department. I was excited, at the time - I go to Comicon every year anyway, but it was free transport and I would get to go with my friends. We had to buy our own tickets, but we were all fine with that. Not a big deal. The day rolls around. We had been told to gather at a certain point on the college grounds at 9AM, where the coaches would leave promptly at 9:30 for an 11AM arrival time. It was a fucking scorching hot day, something like 30C outside, or close to it. The area they had instructed us to meet at had no shade. This was just the start of the problems. The next problem was that we were not being allowed to board the coaches. Nobody was explaining what was going on. Several people got heat sickness in the meantime. 9:30 came, then 10, then 10:30. We'd been waiting in the direct sun for an hour and a half, several people were quickly getting sick, and we were now a full hour late for the con. There was no seating. We had to either stand, or sit on the pavement. We had bought our own tickets. We had paid for this nightmare. Finally, an explanation comes - not only were there not enough seats on the coaches they'd hired for all the people who had signed up for the trip, but a good portion of the people going on the trip didn't have the correct paperwork to board the coach in the first place, because several teachers hadn't handed out the right paperwork - two forms were necessary, and several teachers had only handed out one. This included my class. We were not allowed to board the coach. It was at this point that I broke down into a full on crying, snotting fit, which was maybe not an incredible move given that I was horribly dehydrated at the time, but I was nauseous from the heat and I had been standing for around an hour and a half. I have arthritis. It wasn't diagnosed at the time, but the pain was still very much there. I was in hell. I had paid to be there. I demanded to leave, figuring that I could just get to the train station and take a train down to London and hopefully salvage the afternoon of the convention. I was 17 at the time, and the teachers in charge of the trip refused to let me leave since they had a legal duty of care over me. I was pissed at this point and texted my mum explaining the situation. She called me and explained to the teacher, over the phone, that I was allowed to leave if I wanted to and she would take legal responsibility if I got hurt or anything. It was at this point that an admin staff member finally came over to see what was going on. He asked how old I was. I said I was 17. He let me on the coach. I figured that it was probably easier for them to just let me go on the trip rather than let me go on my own and potentially have me get hurt and risk them being on the hook for anything legally. I was FINALLY on the coach at this point, but none of my friends were able to come. It was another half an hour in the blazing hot coach before we finally started moving. I cannot describe to you the genuine ecstasy in that coach the moment we started moving. We finally arrived at around 12:30PM, 1.5 hours after we had intended to arrive, but we didn't get into the venue until around 1PM. I'd missed everything I wanted to do, but I was confident that I could still salvage something from the trip. We were told to gather at a certain point for a headcount at around 4PM, so I went off and enjoyed myself for three joyous, joyous hours, before going for the headcount. It was not a headcount. We were told to do anything else that we wanted to do, go to the toilet and head back to the coach. We were going home. Everybody was fucking horrified - by our tickets, we still had another 2 hours at least. But no. We were supposed to be back at the college by 6:30pm. So, we went back to the coaches. All in all, a good chunk of the people who signed up to go couldn't go at all, everybody who turned up had to suffer in the blazing heat with no seating for around two hours, and we only got to be there for about half of the hours we had paid for. Oh yeah, and we paid for our own tickets. That was the first and last trip I ever went on at college.
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Phinbart@reddit

This is just dreadful. The fact it took so long to tell you anything about what was going on. Were there any repercussions or did they, as I expect is more likely, get away with it (despite parental complaints)?
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bradandbabby2020@reddit

The local Anglican church. A 70's built montrosity, and a boring sermon. All of 5 minutes walk from school.
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Phinbart@reddit

Every year at secondary school, we had to go to this church a few minutes' walk away on the last day of term before Christmas. I'm pretty sure no-one actually wanted to be there, and I got a bit annoyed when I found out in my last year you didn't have to go if you asked. It was a pretty good microcosm of my teen years, though, encapsulating my rebellion as I became an atheist by refusing to sing "God" in any song, and how it took my naive, repressed self a few years to realise why people were stifling giggles during "Oh, *come* let us adore him..."!
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iwanttobeacavediver@reddit

We used to go a couple of times a year to this tiny church building very near my school which was basically a converted unit next to a convenience shop. The priest there was likely well meaning but obviously far more used to babysitting the elderly people who came to the church from the local sheltered housing than a group of schoolchildren.
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flummoxed_flipflop@reddit

In nursery, we were meant to be going to a farm but it got cancelled that morning. We'd all got our packed lunches and the parent-helpers were all there. So, with a couple of big parks and woodland nearby, they did the logical thing and took us a short train journey to a teacher's house. We ate our lunch in her living room, had a story or two, then back on the train. We had to be really quiet the whole time we were there because her husband worked nights and was asleep.
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Over_Entertainer8049@reddit

That is so so weird, most teachers I know don't want anyone to know where they live let alone take the little shits to their house lol
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flummoxed_flipflop@reddit

Well we were 4 so at least no danger we could have ever found our way back! :) It was very strange. I would've thought it was a dream but my mum was one of the helpers.
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himit@reddit

You should ask her if she remembers the rationale for taking you to the teacher's house instead of a park? Might have something to do with why the trip got cancelled.
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flummoxed_flipflop@reddit

Aha! I was wrong about the farm: "You were supposed to be going on a train ride to Chapeltown, and having a picnic in the park. When we got there the weather was too bad. The teacher lived in Chapeltown."
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himit@reddit

ahhh that makes much more sense!
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Over_Entertainer8049@reddit

Jeez who wants a class full of 4 year olds in their house lol!! Why didn't they just take you all to the park or library or something lol
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Aggravating-Tower317@reddit

dry slope skiing. the messed up thing was that i actually picked it lol. rather have stayed at school
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oh_no89@reddit

In year 1 my class went Warkworth castle. Everyone was excited since it was a big castle. After about an hours drive on the coach during a boiling day we arrived at the castle. However, we didn't get off the coach, we just sat there sweating away, stuck in our seats. We weren't allowed out side of the coach for another hour. The tour guide fell of the battlements about 10 minutes before we arrived and died. So instead of going to a giant castle we walked about the idyllic village of Warkworth, which is very beautiful but to a bunch of year 1's who were promised a castle, we were naturally disappointed.
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BeanOnAJourney@reddit

We were taken to Kit Hill in Cornwall, split into small groups, and had to navigate our way around a set route using map and compass skills and a guide who was basically a sixth former who had been roped in against their will. It was horrible weather, our guide decided to fuck off midway and leave us to find our own way back which took hours. When we did find the carpark again, obviously the last group to return, the teachers gave us hell, packed us into the bus, and halfway back to school we realised one kid was missing so we had to turn round and go back and find him.
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Bulkinglife@reddit

School trip to France. The bus caught on fire and we spent the rest of the evening in a service station 😂
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Single-Aardvark9330@reddit

When doing my GCSES our history teachers took us to see this exam prep thing at a theatre in London, part of it was a play based around the syllabus, but most of it was just dull. They actually apologised for taking us.
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Purple_Committee_216@reddit

Terrys chocolate factory in York. Very interesting but the smell was nauseating and I couldn't eat chocolate for ages afterwards. But I've got over it now unfortunately 🐖
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takesthebiscuit@reddit

My worst school trip was no school trip. We had a new teacher and she didn’t want to take the class out, so she arranged for some acting group to arrive and do some rubbish performance art piece After we had to write a thank you letter, I had to rewrite mine as I wrote something along the lines of ‘thank you for doing the job you are paid for, and denying the class a school trip’
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d_smogh@reddit

Sounds like you had a visit from Legz Akimbo. [Did they perform Scumbelina?](https://youtu.be/plfm0zjYE5Q?si=SUnoyImCOC0j4XXC)
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takesthebiscuit@reddit

They perfectly capture the horrific 1984 show that I was forced to endure 😣
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ZimbabweSaltCo@reddit

I was going to say a similar thing actually. The school made everyone out on this fair to fund a trip to some local food or water plant or something in town. Was this big industrial place, sounds boring, but it had the vibe of going on an adventure so everyone was excited. The fair was more a formality and to give you experience in running stalls with whoever made the most money getting a cake. But then that year, they said not enough money had been raised and so the factory had “cancelled the contract” and because it was so embarrassed was now never going to offer school trips to our school again. Was framed as if this was somehow our fault and no cake was given to the winning stall. A lot of parents were utterly furious this had been for nothing (and technically turned into a punishment) so they got one of those theatre groups in to shut everyone up. At least the play was sort of alright.
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neilm1000@reddit

>We had a new teacher and she didn’t want to take the class out, so she arranged for some acting group to arrive and do some rubbish performance art piece I used to loathe those visiting drama groups. Put yourself in a child.
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Boris_Johnsons_Pubes@reddit (OP)

Don’t take this persons advice or you’ll end up on a register
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neilm1000@reddit

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/the_league_of_gentlemen/episodes/1/4/
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hhfugrr3@reddit

I went to a cemetery too. I quite enjoyed the trip tbh
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alloftheplants@reddit

My parents ran a local tourist attraction. I went there 6 times on trips. The thing that annoyed me most about it was that, at primary school age, my parents used to bring me into work with them early, then they'd drop me off at school, a mile or so away. On trip days, the school would insist that I had to come in as normal, then we'd all walk back again together.
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macurly@reddit

Sewage processing plant. Saw where all the 💩 and toilet paper got separated 👀 impressed some 10 year olds!
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GarethGore@reddit

mine weren't too bad, peak district, stuff like that. We did go to Paris and stayed in a hostel when I was like 14 which had more bodily fluids on the bedding than most people create in a lifetime
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NorthernSoul1977@reddit

Went on an activities trip to Wales when I was 11 My friends dropped out at the last minute. Ended up in a dorm with an alder kid who kept wanking. And another kid who'd been recently circumsised and had to get a teacher for him in the middle of the night cos he'd 'started to bleed'. Next day we went caving and I got trapped in this section called the cheese press behind a fat kid nicknamed Panza. Took them 20 mins to pull him out. Day after we went abseiling. I was first up, got to the top and realised I had a massive fear of heights and told them I didn't want to do it. The guy in charge tried to cajoke me into it, but then stopped as he realised I was starting to silently weep. I had to do the descent of shame down the ladder. The next kid was my wanking roommate, who propelled himself down jovially without breaking a sweat. Good times.
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Awordofinterest@reddit

Assuming we went to the same place - One lad in our group got hypothermia while we were climbing a waterfall. The guide basically made him get naked and for everyone to huddle around - I understand that's sort of the right thing to do but we weren't that far from the mini bus. Also they left the storage cupboard door open by the vending machine - So that was nice.
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Boris_Johnsons_Pubes@reddit (OP)

In all fairness the kids wrist strength must have been insane, probably why he made abseiling look easy
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NorthernSoul1977@reddit

Good point.
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imgonnapooyourpants@reddit

In my secondary school we took a school trip to the local gym. It was part of work experience week, anyone who didn't have a placement already arranged had to do work experience with the military. For the most part it was ok, two recruiters came into the school for a week, talked about their roles and showed us their toys (we got to drive bomb squad robots, and dick around with a sniper rifle). On the last day they took us to the local gym, where we were given access to one room, with about 10 exercise bikes to 20 students, most of which didn't work. The school had a pretty decent gym that could have fit us all too.
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snuffly22@reddit

At my primary school, each year's class was taken on a trip. Every other year went to Alton Towers and had a fantastic time. My year went to Martin Mere nature reserve and looked at some birds. The injustice of it! I mean, birds are fine and all, but compared to a theme park... you can understand why we felt deprived.
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questionskiddo@reddit

Going to a very dodgy seaside town in Lincolnshire to learn about seawater corrosion/sea barriers. It obviously didn’t help that it rained like hell on that day, but this town was so dire. So we just sat at this breakfast cafe for the entirety of the trip.
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ld4484@reddit

Mablethorpe?
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questionskiddo@reddit

Ah I put the wrong county! Meant Yorkshire & it was Withernsea.
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ld4484@reddit

>Withernsea I've never been, but a quick google shows its as dire just a bit bigger. Least you didn't go Cleethorpes...
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questionskiddo@reddit

Just had a nosey at Cleethorpe, yep that looks… depressing. The promenade is basically 80% fantasyland and 20% unused cafes
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ld4484@reddit

Least you know to never go..and makes your school trip seem a lot better :)
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Inkyyy98@reddit

The trip wasn’t bad per se, it just was for me. We went to see a production of Roald Dahl’s the Witches. We were late getting there so it was going to start any minute. I was too shy to ask the teacher where the toilets were so I spent the entire play trying not to piss myself. It was so uncomfortable
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anonymwasalady@reddit

The first elementary school I went to every grade would take a field trip to The Cradle of Forestry. I hated it. Something about that place made me uncomfortable, like it has a dark, secret past the rangers aren't telling you about. And having to go there every year👎
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Green_List@reddit

Back in late 80s we would routinely go to a farmhouse called Horton Kirby. We would go on walks down country lanes and there was even a massive hill you were allowed to run down in your nerves could take it. Anyway - this one time we arrived our socks and shoes were soaked by a sudden downpour. So we were instructed to place them on a fireguard that was at least 6 feet away from the gas fire. As we were going outside I saw my class mate place his socks on the mantlepiece directly above the fire and I told a teacher. I was told to be quiet. 20 minutes later we're all filtering in from the playground and as I was the last one through I went to collect my socks from the fireguard but they weren't there. I looked puzzled until I saw my classmate putting my socks on and I tried to get them back. He began bawling and looked terrified like I'd threatened to kill him. Our teacher was trying to mediate and remembered what I told her - but said I'd told her that I had put MY socks on there. They were Batman sock. Black with a yellow symbol that I got for my birthday 2 weeks prior. His were red and black diamonds though they were burnt badly some of the pattern remained. I was told to wait until we got back to school and had to go home without socks. When my dad collected me I told him what happened and my teacher handed him the remains and said I'd almost burnt a farmhouse down. My dad exclaimed that these weren't my socks but the teacher was insistent they were. So I was never allowed back to Horton Kirby and I was known as sock-boy for a bit. I did find out my classmate came from a poor family and was scared his alcoholic dad would beat him for losing his socks so I didn't pursue it with him. David Connell - you little bugger!!!
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shoes_on@reddit

We were taken around a sewage treatment plant when I was 12. I’ll never forget the smell.
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Disastrous_Candle589@reddit

Primary school trip walking through the country in small groups led by staff. I remember cutting through a field and getting towards the end of it when we were ushered to speed up as someone had realised we were walking through a field with a bull in it. we then ended up having lunch in a dark, cold old pub with a real stench of smoke and general unpleasantness in the air.
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Terrible-Hope-9177@reddit

I can remember spending a afternoon visiting our local town’s incinerator. It was exciting as you imagine
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The_Sown_Rose@reddit

To be fair, that has potential to involve a lot of fire which can be exciting.
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IdiotsSavages@reddit

We had a trip to Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. Was a great day! Until our bus crashed into a car on the motorway on the way home and we almost ended up on our side.
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DangerShart@reddit

Some girl from our school found some dinosaur bones in a quarry, what a 10 year old was doing in a quarry I don't know but she was in a few newspapers and even went on Blue Peter. Anyway, they decided the whole school should go to the quarry and see where she found the bones. However it had rained A LOT in the preceding days so 100 primary school children spent the whole day in what was now a quagmire. Obviously this quickly descended to the biggest mud fight ever known and everyone went home covered from head to toe.
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GeneralDefenestrates@reddit

Our school decided one day to let the whole school go out on school trips, called it the 'big day out'. Was the day of the 7/7 bombings in London. Lucky all of us ended up okay if not for a few close shaves. Safe to say a lot of people were worried for the other groups. Our group didn't even find out until we got back to the school. We ended up in an allotment and had a bbq so there's that..
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MikeSizemore@reddit

History trip to a local Manor House. Class was split into small groups. Each room had different actors playing various members of the household. Lord and lady, various servants etc. everyone stayed in character until a kid called Jason groped a young woman ‘thief’ tied up in the kitchen. Everyone was back on the coach after 15 minutes.
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ElectronicBrother815@reddit

Chessington in the 90’s. They had a selection of boats we had to look at at draw for a project and we weren’t allowed on any rides.
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ComfortableWish@reddit

We went to Raasay. It was an outdoors place. In winter. I’ve never been so cold in my life. I fell in a loch and ate nothing but cheese sandwiches the whole time because that was the vegetarian option . Then everyone was sick on the bus on the way home because it was so bendy coming round Loch Lomond.
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CreativeGarden2429@reddit

My primary school once took us to the cemetery to do grave rubbings 😑
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Lazer_beak@reddit

odd teacher :)
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Expression-Little@reddit

Year 6 trip to somewhere in Cambridgeshire. We went "orienteering" aka walking through some cabbage field in the blazing hot summer heat with the teachers insisting we weren't lost.
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Jenschnifer@reddit

Catholic school, we went to Cardin Grotto which was 10 miles up the road and basically was a statue of Mary on a hill. We had to stand through the longest mass ever said and then a talk from a visiting priest. The Catholic kids had the bonus of being "allowed" to make a confession (wasn't their first one, just random).
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_FreddieLovesDelilah@reddit

After a day of skiing, walking, or horse riding, the teachers kept us up until 11pm and then got us up at 6am. I nearly cried. This happened four nights in a row.
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VixenRoss@reddit

Supermarket visit. We went to a supermarket to look at packaging on different types of stood items. Naturally being opportunistic 13 year olds we attempted to buy our lunch because it was cheaper than the canteen. We got caught and threatened with detention.
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IllustriousLimit8473@reddit

Did you need to go to the canteen? Did you not get to go to the local shops at lunchtime?
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VixenRoss@reddit

We were not allowed of premises during lunchtimes. The canteen was heavily overpriced. Initially it was run by the school, and everything was cheap. They contracted out to another company who tripled prices overnight. They brought in chocolate bars and crisps, but they were extortionate. So locally crisps were 20p but this company charged 30p. The year before, it cost 75p to buy a basic meal there. When the company came in, you couldn’t get anything for less than a pound. So chips were something like 40p, then we had a price hike to a pound. The quantity went down. And they would do things like save the chips from the day before and reheat them. This was 1990s south London .
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IllustriousLimit8473@reddit

OK, because in Scotland people are allowed to go to a restaurant and eat at school, inside the restaurant or in the park.
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Forgetful8nine@reddit

We went to Binbrook. There's not much in Binbrook. We went to the town centre and walked to the school. Where upon we sat down and ate our packed lunches on the school field. We weren't allowed to play - either as a class or with the Binbrook kids. Turns out, one of the Binbrook kids was an ex-pupil at our school. Anyway, we got back on the bus and went home. I still don't know what the purpose of the trip was.
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patscott_reddit@reddit

I really enjoyed our school trip to the cemetery, we learnt about some important local people, did rubbings of old stones, had a discussion about the long list of names on the wartime memorial and saw some amazing gargoyles! We did a challenge to find the oldest dated stone we could find and I remember being really sad about the number of children's stones we found. All in I think it was one of our better school trips, but I suspect this is one of those examples of the difference having a good teacher makes.
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josh5676543@reddit

We turned around and went back because there wasn't a parking space
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Suspicious_tuna@reddit

Local leisure centre. Except I went to school about 20 miles from home so it was 1 hour bus ride to school, only to get on a bus and do the return journey to wander round a leisure centre for...reasons? Of course, they wouldn't let me bunk off when the trip was done so it was back on the bus to do the reverse journey.
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Aesthetictoblerone@reddit

For our leavers trip in year 4, the year above us went to a big park that had water and stuff (called Stanwick lakes). For us, we went to the local park.
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SuccotashCareless934@reddit

Malham Cove. I'm TERRIFIED of heights and we had to walk down via these super steep steps hewn into the rock, with a sheer drop and no railing on one side.
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barriedalenick@reddit

For me it was Buleigh motor museum aged 8 or 9. Nothing wrong with it per se but a couple of days before I went I accidentally jumped through a glass door and shredded my legs a bit. I ended up in a wheelchair so I was pushed around it at a great rate by one of the teachers who seemed to hate it and everyone on the planet.
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The_Queef_of_England@reddit

Do you mean Beaulieu? There surely can't be two motor museums with hard to remember spelling and pronounced the same?
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barriedalenick@reddit

That's the one.
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The_Queef_of_England@reddit

Your spelling makes way more sense though. How does Beaulieu sound like bewlee?
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The_Queef_of_England@reddit

Ski trip. I wasn't allowed to go because my pe teadher didn't like me, but that bitch let me sit through an assembly about how awesome it would be, and the when I went to get the form, she snatched it off me and said "You're not coming. You'll ruin it for everyone else".
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PeggyNoNotThatOne@reddit

I was a Teaching Assistant before I retired. I had to accompany a child with a broken wrist to hospital. The kid had been told to get off the wall, didn't, showed off arsing about on it and fell. The teachers complained that it wrecked their child to adult ratio and when the parent turned up at the hospital I got grief from him as if I personally had injured the child, and they'd had to leave work. It didn't help that the child was a little shit but I understood why when dad turned up effing and jeffing and saying they were going to put in a formal complaint about me.
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Bald__egg@reddit

In year 3 we had a teacher who did not like school trips. So the school trip we went on was for a walk around the grounds of the Henry Moore museum thing with sculptures like [this](https://images.app.goo.gl/DDyY4q7bGaNwG4nV8) Now some people like this but to a bunch of 7-8 year olds it was the most boring thing in the world.
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VxDeva80@reddit

Not a single trip, but a single place. Chester Zoo every single year. Everyone lived within 2 miles of Chester zoo and most families had season tickets. It's a great place, but the whole class would beg to go somewhere different.
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TheHarkinator@reddit

Sewage treatment plant. It fucking stank and to make matters worse it seemed to my young eyes that the computers through which the whole operation was controlled were from the 1970s and didn’t require much input. I wanted there to be control panels of people regularly pressing buttons. We were then treated to a lecture on how to save water properly.
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CocoNefertitty@reddit

I wouldn’t say it was the worst because I had a great time. In reception we were taken to our local laundrette. We got a picture taken and everything!
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Crab-Turbulent@reddit

We had a similar one when we went to France with the philosophy teachers. They took us to a cemetery and told us to go and find famous peoples graves. While we had our luggage with us (it was the last day) and it was hot out. Plus there were people mourning while we were running around like complete fools. Some of us refused to engage in the circus and we went to a cafe with the teachers and had beer the whole time. Actually the whole philosophy trip to France was a mess entirely. The teachers got us children’s train tickets and a group of us got caught during our free time and they got held up by french police. The teacher had to go there and he had to pay a huge fine out of pocket. Apparently it was a significant amount and he was pretty displeased about it. It was a genuine failure of a trip from all sides but in retrospect I wouldn’t change anything about it. Maybe the fine because I felt bad for him.
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deanomatronix@reddit

Went to the tip at the end of the road in year 9 geography Didn’t even go in just drew it from the outside. Couldn’t really see anything because it has trees around it and apparently this was the lesson, that you can sometimes use trees to hide unsightly buildings
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greenhail7@reddit

Match factory. Mental to take kids to one.
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katie-kaboom@reddit

They took us to a farm where they trained service dogs. It was all terribly educational and all I'm sure but they wouldn't let us pet the puppies. So basically they showed us puppies and went "haha but not for you!"
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neo101b@reddit

How big was the cemetery? I love walking around the big ones and looking for super old graves.
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Boris_Johnsons_Pubes@reddit (OP)

It looked big and old back when we were kids, might have just looked big because we were kids though
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ButItIsMyNothing@reddit

I had a friend who went on a young farmers trip to an abattoir. Turned them vegetarian.
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Danph85@reddit

A day trip to the landfill. I just remember about 100 13 year olds walking around and looking at the broken toilets sticking out of the stinking piles of rubbish.
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Ragnor01@reddit

Acid at school was a very bad trip 🤣
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betterman74@reddit

Local tip. The highlight was standing on the massive scale the trucks use when they weigh in. Plus it was chucking it down and I was bursting for a piss.
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fletch3059@reddit

The local library. Not to go in, but to stand outside to wave at Princess Micheal of Kent who was coming to reopen it.
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Faerie_Nuff@reddit

Primary school: Sandhar's supermarket. A small convenience store that also sells Indian spices and things. Nice little shop don't get me wrong, but as an outing for the class, odd call haha
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JP198364839@reddit

Dungeness Nuclear Power Station always sticks in my mind.
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RunawayPenguin89@reddit

The local church was pretty dire, especially after the Jain Temple and the Gudwara and being fed. Though the Co-op I currently work in has a school trip coming in soon, so that's gonna be interesting...
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Warngumer@reddit

Are you sure there was no one in your class they were trying to loose down an open grave?
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Flat-Pomegranate-328@reddit

Going to look at spoil heaps outside a disused coal mine.
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