Did you go on a HS Senior Trip and if you did, where?

[LBIJim]

There was a 3 day trip to Disney World when it was just the MK (1977), but I didn't go. About a week before graduation there was also a day trip to Great Adventure in NJ, before it was a Six Flags park.

Maybe 100 of 750+ seniors went to Disney; most went to Great Adventure.

Jim

 

[superdisneydork]

Whoops... that was supposed to be a new thread!

 

[keiraliz]

I graduated in 2011 and was in a class of 54 students. We went to Hawaii for about a week, and we also had Grad Nite at Disneyland a few days after our graduation.

 

[Yoshi]

My senior class trip was to Disney World. It was a 4 day, 3 night trip with us leaving the school at 3:30 a.m. for a 6:00 a.m. flight and then we went to Animal Kingdom for 8 hours then Epcot for 4 hours. The next day was Magic Kingdom then Hollywood Studios for Fantasmic. Day 3 was Blizzard Beach then Medieval Times and the last day was Hollywood Studios again. It was a great trip except for short amount of time spent at Epcot. My school had a trip for each grade level in high school (9th grade was Gettysburg, 10th grade was Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty, 11th grade was Baltimore all 3 were day trips) but for some reason a few years after I graduated they got rid of the 9th - 11th grade class trips.

 

[Disneyland1084]

My senior class went to Mexico, but I didn't go. Personally I think graduating seniors are too young to travel to a foreign country to party.

 

[wvjules]

There was no school-organized senior trip. However, a bunch of friends and I all went to Myrtle Beach right after graduation. I'd say there were 20 or so of us. One girl's parents came. They stayed elsewhere and I don't recall ever seeing them again until the drive home.

DD graduated last year and went to OC with friends for the week.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

1983 grad here. No senior trip existed in my district.

Oldest dd did not go on a "senior trip" but she was able to go to the Obama Inauguration her senior yr. She also went to DC for 8th grade.

Youngest dd is officially a senior now. She has never been on a school trip. Not sure what we will do. Hmmmm....

 

[luvsJack]

graduated in 81. We went on a "trip", rode the school buses to NOLA and went to Pontchartrain Beach--an amusement park back then. For the WHOLE day! We had a ball though. It was in the days between our finals and graduation (had a week between the two back then)

Now they have the option to go to Europe but so few seniors go that they had to open it up to the whole school to get enough kids to go to keep the discount they get for group travel. Most of the kids go on smaller group trips to Gulf Shores or Destin.

And activity groups travel. DD's class will be the first seniors that her choir teacher will have had all 4 years (he was a first year teacher her freshman year) so he is planning a big trip to NYC to be the choir trip their senior year and to also give them a great senior trip. Their are upcoming juniors now and are already talking with him constantly in the planning of that trip.

 

[pioneer89]

My graduating class was a year behind one of the worst behaved classes the school had ever seen. They did so much damage, and got into so much trouble during their senior year that the school didn't allow our class to do anything.

No senior trips (no field trips of any kind), no 'official' senior prom (we did do a student organized prom, completely independent of the school, and they still tried to shut us down, anyone passing out fliers or caught organizing at school was given detention.)

A few small groups did do things on their own, such as trips to Chicago, etc. My group of friends went camping.

 

[DisneyDreamer2504]

Nope, no senior trips for our school. The only thing we did was a post gravitation dinner cruise. However, I was lucky and went on 3 different trips my senior year anyway: France with my French class, NYC with band and chorus, and Washington, D.C. with my AP US history class. All three trips were done in a little over a month, so I have no clue how I managed all my classes!

 

[mom2rose&john]

I graduated in 1989. Our class trip was from Western NY area to Cedar Point. No overnight or week long trips were allowed because I grew up in farm country. Can't take the kids away for extended periods because we had to help on the farm.

 

[Donnainnj]

We went to a dude ranch for the day. Donna

 

[leebee]

1974… No senior trip- not even sure anyone'd heard of this concept back then! We DID do a senior skip day, to Lynn/Nahant beach (Boston's North Shore area). I bet 90% of my senior class (of over 1000 kids) were there. It was a blast!

2011… DD's senior class trip was to Belgium. Seriously? No way we could afford that. I think fewer than 10 kids went. I hate it when the trips are so over-the-top that most can't go. How can you call it a class trip when most of the class can't afford to go?

 

[eh24fan]

I graduated in 1996. We (and several years before us) flew to Florida, stayed in a hotel overnight, boarded a "cruise" to the Bahamas (basically old cruise ship operating as a ferry) that left early AM and arrived around lunch time. We spent 3 days and 2 nights in Freeport where we partied, snorkeled and partied some more....while our chaperones were enjoying themselves elsewhere. LOL Then we boarded the cruise back to Florida, stayed in a hotel, spent about 6hrs in the Disney park of our choosing and flew home that night. It was exhausting and tons of fun! It was a school trip and our class had an absolute blast! There were only about 60 of us out of 200 or so that went. Our class was the last to get to do that trip...we had a little too much fun and talked about it way too freely once we returned home.

 

[ilovepcot]

Atlanta for a week. Had an *outstanding* time!

 

[pigletgirl]

Nothing that was "official" with the school, but a few friends of mine and myself spent 5 days in NYC. We had a blast. I would love to return.

 

[Dizneefamily+4]

Italy, 1989. Our school chose a different locale each year for a trip. You didn't have to be a senior, you just had to cough up the money. We did a LOT of fundraising and my parents paid the rest as a graduation present to me. One of my friends also went on the trip. We were gone for 10 days and did Rome, Venice, Florence, Sorrento, the island of Capris, Vatican City and many other smaller towns and villages. We were there over Easter and were blessed by Pope John Paul II. One of our chaperones videotaped all throughout the trip and had it edited, narrated and set to music. We had to option of buying that tape, which I did.

It was a fabulous, unforgettable trip. I will be forever grateful to my parents for allowing and enabling me to go. As a parent of a 9 and 13 year old, I can't imagine the bravery it took my parents to let me go to a foreign country without them!

 

[Mickey'sApprentice]

1974… No senior trip- not even sure anyone'd heard of this concept back then! We DID do a senior skip day, to Lynn/Nahant beach (Boston's North Shore area). I bet 90% of my senior class (of over 1000 kids) were there. It was a blast! 2011… DD's senior class trip was to Belgium. Seriously? No way we could afford that. I think fewer than 10 kids went. I hate it when the trips are so over-the-top that most can't go. How can you call it a class trip when most of the class can't afford to go?[/QUOTE

That just don't seem fair.

I hated that only about half of my class got to go in our trip. Our class sponsors insisted that they and their spouses go for free plus a principal. That increased the price, which made people drop out, which raised the price, etc. it wasn't fair. The next year they made a particular teacher permanent senior sponsor partly because she was willing to pay for some of it and because she was married to the elementary school principal.

I can't imagine that any member of our class could have paid for a trip to Europe.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

Disney World!

1997. Our high school traditionally went to Toronto for the senior class trip, but before our year some parents came across the "shocking" news that the seniors often ended up drinking while in Canada. It simultaneously came across as news to everyone else that there were still adults out there that didn't realize this was the entire point of the trip. So the Toronto trip was cancelled and the school representatives had to come up with a replacement idea quick. My friends and I (who weren't really into drinking anyways) were very happy they chose Disney World. That year there was actually a counter-trip sponsored by a number of parents who wanted to make sure their kids did get to go drinking in Toronto as per tradition, so you had your choice of which one to patronize.

 

[chicagodisneyfan]

Private school - 2 weeks in Europe. Best of fun!
1986

Our school had several options - Hawaii, Caribbean, or Europe. My parents said since they were paying for it - it at least had to be somewhat educational.