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

[Kathryn Merteuil]

We got no senior trip when I was in high school. A bunch of seniors made the principal mad with their "skip day", so he cancelled it. Only about 20% of our class skipped, but we were all punished. I was at school on this alleged "skip day". In fact, nobody even told me such a thing was planned.

 

[AllisonK]

My school was huge so we didn't have true senior trips. A few of my friends went on the language department's Europe but I didn't go because it was too expensive and I had other stuff going on at school while they were away. We did have a senior skip day but I think I went to school that morning to take a test and then just signed myself out and went home. As afar as other big trips - 11th grade the drama club went to NYC for the day to see a Broadway show (all around a miserable trip for me - what should have been a 3.5 hour bus ride took 5 hours, we got to the city, had an hour for lunch, saw the show, which was TERRIBLE, got right back on the bus and left the city during rush hour and got home about 5 hours later...) and my 8th grade Spanish class trip to NYC - it was 2 days, I believe, and we did Ellis Island, the UN (that was really cool), a really bad Spanish restaurant and some sightseeing. We were the first (and last...) class ever allowed to go overnight!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

My Sophomore year in HS I had 1st hour with a bunch of seniors. One kid who skipped on Senior Skip day didn't graduate because of it. He had a B in the class, but 20 unexcused tardies. His next one meant an "incomplete" for the class. Showed up every day on time for a month, then skipped the last day. No credit for the class LOL

We got no senior trip when I was in high school. A bunch of seniors made the principal mad with their "skip day", so he cancelled it. Only about 20% of our class skipped, but we were all punished. I was at school on this alleged "skip day". In fact, nobody even told me such a thing was planned.

 

[pryncess527]

60 of us flew to Cancun for 5 days at an all-inclusive resort. It was AMAZING.

It was not an official school event, but the entire Senior class was invited to participate -- the more who came the lower the price got -- but it was mostly organized by parents, and they sent two young lawyers down to be our "chaperones"

 

[FlightlessDuck]

No, we didn't have a senior trip as far as I remember.

My children's school district doesn't do a senior trip, either.

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

We went to Kings Island in Ohio for our senior trip.

 

[JoeA]

There was a trip to France but we could barely afford French fries at the time! We had a senior day at Kings Island, does that count?

We went to Kings Island in Ohio for our senior trip.

Hey, I think I saw you!

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

Hey, I think I saw you!

At least you still got to enjoy the Eiffel tower...

 

[Patch'sD]

We had unsponsored trip to Lake Placid NY back in 1976. Skiing at Whiteface Mountain and Gore Mountain. 3 days of Skiing and two nights of drinking. The hotel where were staying had the kitchen condemed while we were there. A great time with many memories.

 

[Patabel]

Senior citizen here.....graduated in 1969 and our trip was to Disneyland (from Chicago!) The bug bit me bad...and, as you can see from my signature, I'm still "suffering" the results!

 

[Gary M]

I'm really old. Graduated in '60 from a small school with 37 graduates. We went by train to Washington DC and New York City from Indiana. All but one of us went. The guy that didn't go, could afford it, but just didn't want to go. We held fund raisers that helped with the expenses.

 

[nkereina]

Our senior trip was to Washington DC and it was a nightmare!

It was arranged by a tour company that supposedly specialized in school trips. Unbeknownst to the tour company, they planned the trip smack in the middle of the Cherry Blossom Festival - a global event and the single busiest time in DC. Naturally, this caused our bus to be stuck in traffic for hours. We had to forego several museum/monument visits we had plan. On our last day, day we ate a crappy continental breakfast in our hotel around 7am, had to miss lunch due to traffic delays, and they didn't feed us again until we were a hundred miles outside of DC heading home around 8pm - at a McDonald's, no less. Not only was our intinerary thrown off because of festival traffic and happenings, but the itinerary itself allotted zero travel time on a good day - for instance, it said "Holocaust museum - 1pm-3pm. Washington Monument 3pm-4pm" ... no time for the commute. They took us to an "off broadway" production of Cats which turned out to be a second rate dinner theater in suburban Maryland, with college kids as our servers that turned into the performers after dinner. And icing on the cake - it poured rain the entire time we were in DC.

It's been 10 years since that trip and even though I cried while we were there because it was so awful, I now have fond memories

 

[powellrj]

I went to France with the French Club and DH went to New York with the Honor Society, but our schools didn't have Senior Trips. We did have 1/2 day off when we had graduation practice and graduation was the week before the lower classes got out for the summer, so we had a week off then. None of our kids had senior trips at their schools, but they all had senior skip days.

 

[Andtototoo]

Nope, the school board stole the money that was in our class' bank account and used it to fund a deficit caused by board members suing each other. Yup, all the fund raising we did for 4 years was stolen by the school board to pay their legal fees. Worst of all is that it wasn't a ton of money -- our senior trip was just supposed to be a day at an amusement park.

The paper refused to report on it (in cahoots with the school board president). They refused to return the money. We were screwed.

The valedictorian's speech at our high school graduation was quite exciting because she stood on the stage with the school board arrayed behind her and blew the whistle on it to the community. It was a riot watching the looks on their faces as she laid it out, point by point. She got a standing ovation from our entire class.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Our senior trip was to Washington DC and it was a nightmare!

It was arranged by a tour company that supposedly specialized in school trips. Unbeknownst to the tour company, they planned the trip smack in the middle of the Cherry Blossom Festival - a global event and the single busiest time in DC. Naturally, this caused our bus to be stuck in traffic for hours. We had to forego several museum/monument visits we had plan. On our last day, day we ate a crappy continental breakfast in our hotel around 7am, had to miss lunch due to traffic delays, and they didn't feed us again until we were a hundred miles outside of DC heading home around 8pm - at a McDonald's, no less. Not only was our intinerary thrown off because of festival traffic and happenings, but the itinerary itself allotted zero travel time on a good day - for instance, it said "Holocaust museum - 1pm-3pm. Washington Monument 3pm-4pm" ... no time for the commute. They took us to an "off broadway" production of Cats which turned out to be a second rate dinner theater in suburban Maryland, with college kids as our servers that turned into the performers after dinner. And icing on the cake - it poured rain the entire time we were in DC.

It's been 10 years since that trip and even though I cried while we were there because it was so awful, I now have fond memories

We were there during Reagan's 2nd inauguration AND the Roe V Wade anniversary LOL. Great trip despite the record cold snap & the crowds. School ended up cancelled that entire week - no homework to make up

Edit: I think we ate at that same dinner theatre in Baltimore - the bus drivers missed our exit, tried to come in from the back side & got stuck on an icy hill. We had to get off the his while they took a wild run at it. Bus made it & we all climbed the icy hill in slick dress shoes LOL

 

[SallySkelington]

Being that we were a fairly small charter school, and the first graduating class we had to keep things local (I suppose no one wanted to go anywhere???). We had a bunch of smaller trips (picnics etc) through out the year, and 2 big trips at the end to Carowinds and to see Wicked at the local theatre.

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

No senior trip but those in Language classes, like Spanish, French, etc would take trips to countries that spoke that language. They were expensive and I remember those classmates always fundraising. We did get to Washington, DC for two days (flew in early, flew out late) in 8th. grade. I believe it was subsidized because we did a photo shoot with Jack Kemp.

 

[jennseiler]

My school has never really done a senior trip - My parents and I went to Disney World afterward instead.

 

[Lita]

Grad Night at Disneyland. We also had Senior Cut Day at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

 

[low-key]

If they had one , they didnt tell me about it