How did you manage school trips?

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I have a video of me (now converted on to DVD) on a school trip when I was 11. Nobody knew it was being filmed until after the trip, when we all watched it in class as a surprise (the teachers knew already). I remember being consumed by anxiety the entire time because of homesickness. On this trip we were at a viking village where you dress up as vikings and live like it for a day, and there was an entertainer type of bloke there who's job was to be like a shouty sort of king or whatever ruled the vikings in each village, I don't know. He was just pretending, and the other kids thought he was funny, but I was scared and just wanted to go home.
But I didn't look very anxious in the video. I kept fiddling with my viking tunic thing I had to wear, looking in a dreamy daze, and I remember just pretending to stand still and listen when in reality I was longing for home, and my mind was just miles away.

I didn't mask much on the trip because I remember I cried a lot there during the day in front of others (I just happened to not be crying in the video). I couldn't help crying, I was just very anxious and bewildered because of not being at home in my safe zone with my family.
I remember chatting and giggling and fooling around with my cabin mates in the evenings, so no anxiety there lol. But on excursions during the day I became really bewildered. I remember the teacher telling me off for sleeping on the coach because of the way I was too hyperactive at night, and I sobbed "sorry" and started crying. Little triggers like that just set me off and I remember my chest muscles tightening as I was crying. So I was not doing it for attention or anything, I was genuinely feeling very anxious and lost.

I think if we could just go swimming and do other leisure activities like that with our friends, I probably would have enjoyed myself more. But school trips involve too many rules and regulations and you're usually put into groups with kids you don't really like, and everyone has to be orderly, nothing like a vacation away with your family - where I felt 100% relaxed and at home and never cried once.

worse thing that was
i didn't mind school,
strangely i liked going to school although everyday was problematic at some point
but the pointless being huddled into buses to do absolutely ridiculous things
dread and despair

you won't find me enthousiastic for any group event,
maybe hiking, and even that,
where i am now i absolutely can't stand the random bragging up and punching down anymore

I don't recall having too many troubles on school trips, however my memory is pretty bad of back then and perhaps I had young naivety so maybe I had troubles but didn't recognise them as autism symptoms at the time.

The only trip I remember having trouble with was in Secondary school where we had a reward trip to Alton Towers. My friends bugged me to go with them, so I did, and one of my so-called friends wanted me to ride on the rollercoasters with her. It was loud and chaotic, and I had terrible thoughts of the heights and the horror stories of people dying from malfunctioning rollercoasters, so I really didn't want to go on them. She of course ended up moping and being gloomy because she didn't want to ride on her own (and for some reason couldn't ask the other girls now that I think about it?) so I felt guilt tripped and agreed to ride on a couple of some of the more manaegable ones for her.
Big mistake. I had never ridden a rollercoaster before so I ended up getting some serious whiplash from the rides. I came home and flaked out on the sofa, a seriously massive pounding headache I'd never experienced before, my head feeling like it could snap right off my neck at any moment, and my body feeling like it was constantly flying when I was on the ground. I decided I wouldn't try rollercoasters ever again.

But I can't otherwise think of any other situation. Sorry to hear about your experience, I think if I had something similar to that, I probably would have cried the entire time too.

I remember going to Walton-On-The-Naze on a school trip when I was about 8 or 9, but I loved it because we just got to go on the beach and then ride the rides on the pier, and I had fun.
Then I remember going to Thorpe Park as a reward trip when I was 15, and I loved that too. Back then I didn't get so ill when going on rollercoasters as I do now.

I'm sorry that happened to you.

I didn't go to school trips at all - but for three cases in my elementary school and two cases in high school.

The only school trips I went on were field trips & we were back at school by the end of the school day. I liked those because we got to miss all our classes for the day I had more problems with taking tests or quizzes & being required to remain mostly still while pretending that I was trying to take notes than I did on filed trips.

I've been on two field trips that were not only during our school day.
First was after our mid-term for General Business class during my senior year. One of my classmates worked at Sonic & after our exam he gave us a tour & explained what he did & stuff like that. He was given an extra point or two but I still had the best grade out of both the classes our teacher taught. Field trip was voluntary & I chose to go because it seemed interesting. Plus I had never been to a Sonic before & I'm an extremely picky eater who loves fast-food & my parents might have given me some money to use so I was not wanting to pass up that opportunity
The other was an overnight retreat thing my senior year. It was a Catholic school & each year the seniors went on a retreat to some churchish place. The boys went to one place & the girls went to another. Place I went to was former monastery. I still don't really know what the point of the trip was. It was voluntary but we were highly encouraged to go. The seniors who chose not to go were required to go to school both days & do busy work instead of their classes My year was supposed to be the last time it was gonna be voluntary.

I actually enjoyed most of my school trips, since I didn't have to be in class and generally we were allowed to screw around the whole time.

One of my favorites was one where we had a 90-minute bus ride and one person had to pee the whole time. We were given the time to use the bathroom before we left but for some reason he didn't. I got a good laugh out of watching him beg the teachers to let him pee on the bus for the entire ride. It seems mean but he was a little bit of a bully so I feel justified.

My mother didn't allow me to go on any school trips.
Education was a waste of time in her opinion.
Anything outside the school environment was pointless extravagance.
In year 7, my whole class went on a trip to the nation's capital.
I spent 3 days colouring in and cleaning the classroom.

My idea of a school trip must be different from what others consider a school trip. We'd normally only go somewhere for half a day. Or the whole school day if it was somewhere further away. When I was really young I remember us going to watch a puppet show at a theater, but I don't remember much of it. About once a month we'd spend the morning at the skating rink or the swimming pool, depending on the season. And then we might have gone to McDonald's for lunch. I loved the swimming, but I was never good at skating. But I was usually fine with the trip.

I never had any issue or any incident in any school trip.

Got excited over the novelty of it. I liked most of the trips I've been.

Been in a school trip on a zoo (more than twice), a historical museum, an amusement park (at least twice), a planetarium, a playful science display, a grand church, a factory, an official government office...

But like most kids on a trip, we're all accompanied by a parent.

In my own case, my mom.

Otherwise, I mostly just did my own thing.
My mom's just the one who ensures that I don't get lost and hungry and that's mostly it.

At the time, I really like the idea that I go and do my own thing alone.

Tho...
It would've been more memorable and truly more enjoyable if I don't have to deal with internal noise within me.

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Kinda random question but Why were those trips called field trips(at least in the US) since none of mine involved going to a field

One time on an overnight school trip, we had journals where we could write about the experience. Under the category of 'Favourite part of the trip', I drew a stickman and a thought bubble that said "thinking about going home" with a badly drawn bed and a night stand.

I loved going on school trips when I was a boy except during my high school years.

Many of my HS peers were hipster-wannabes, punk-rocker types, or peers who took themselves too seriously.

I only went on two school trips at high school; one to Thorpe Park when I was 15, and one to the Royal Albert Hall in London also when I was 15. I didn't like the trip to the Royal Albert Hall because I only knew one person in my music class and she backed out at the last minute, so I had to go without her. It was an after school trip, in November. So I had to endure a whole day at school then board a coach all the way to London during rush hour, and by the time we got there it was dark and I was a long way from home.

I preferred the Thorpe Park trip, because it was during the day, we didn't have to wear school uniform, we got a day off school, and I got to be with my friends and ride rides. Such fun.