What the Worst Thing That Happened on a School Trip? | School Stories #72

[@jessicaetter5103]

I was on a school trip to a state-wide convention, and in the closing ceremony the host announced that the teachers from my school needed to leave the ceremony and meet organizers in the front of the convention center. Turns out our bus driver had been hit by a truck, and we were stranded for 3 hours waiting for a new bus driver to drive out to the convention center and get us. She lived though!

[@QueenSunstar]

During a field trip to a fish farm, a daddy’s princess ended up in the tank. She said I pushed her and all her friends backed her up along with most of the class. There was one tiny problem. I was with the Principal and his son in another area of the farm, both of us sitting down praying our recently eaten lunches would not make a return trip. Thankfully, nether one of us tossed our lunches. We just rested and sipped water. Teacher storms up to the Principal and starts to yell about me only to see me and stop. She turned and demanded the truth. Again I was accused until Principal told them I was with him the entire time, and if the truth didn’t come out, the trip was going to be ended right there, and the entire grade would be banned from field trips for the rest of the year, including the trip to Disney World in June. Welp, the truth came out very fast. Daddy’s Princess jumped into the tank in order to get me in trouble so Daddy could order me expelled. Instead, Daddy’s Princess was banned from all future trips. To her horror, Daddy sided with the school. She blamed me of course. Turned my life to hell. Daddy found out. Princess found herself pulled from school and sent to the Learning Center. Basically it’s the school for special needs and problem kids, also known as the school for R words. Ran into her much later and yep, she still blames me for ruining her life.

[@sierrastanley3109]

Well I can commend the dad for at least trying. (Don't know if he let her issues get this bad or just never noticed her crazy a*s till that moment) But glad to hear that the little b*tch got backhanded by karma.

[@nextella1652]

Jeez

[@Davtwan]

Kids don’t spoil themselves. Dad’s intervention was either too late or too hands-off. Probably both.

[@janedoe-hq9vn]

Well, don't let it bother you. Sounds like she has some issues. Glad the truth came out and you weren't punished. Some kids are just turds....

[@bimates2690]

“School for r words” yikes, don’t you sound civilized. Maybe you deserved the treatment if you’re gonna act crappy yourself. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@BrokenHedgehog]

Was a student, not the teacher, but in third grade, we went on a trip to the zoo. One kid responded to being told not to bang on the safety glass of the meerkat enclosure by wailing on the glass even harder and screaming profanities at the animals. Our teacher freaked the entire class out by nabbing the little bastard by the back of his clothes, yanking him back, and thrusting him at one of the chaperones telling her to "take him back up front and keep him there until the end of the day." Kid was completely stunned into silence and didn't fight it. Looking back, I'm shocked the teacher didn't get in trouble for grabbing that kid, even though he deserved it.

[@pink_sky_morning4842]

he seems like the type of person to jump into a shark tank even with 100s of signs saying not to do that

[@hamishstewart5324]

Thank god the glass didn’t break. Apparently meerkats are one of the most homicidal mammals on earth.

[@Manglethefox238]

I am so glad the glass didn’t break.

[@danielhooper502]

Teachers can restrain children if there is a risk to their safety

[@dakuten7883]

10:00 So you're telling me they wouldn't take a headcount or roll call since it's a school before they left for the airport? Wow, I would be pissed if I were the parent.

[@sturmovik5448]

Plot twist: They were all in on it. Parents, teachers and two busloads of students conspired to abandon him in a foreign country. And he beat them without the slightest effort.

[@mkuti-childress3625]

I wonder if they had already done a headcount and the kid needed the restroom at the last minute. At the school where my cousin works, a first grader was left at a museum on a school trip, and they didn’t realize until they were back at the school. That teacher was fired.

[@AkameGaKillfan777]

That's why Peggy Hill should've never been a Spanish teacher

[@0_dearghealach_083]

"KEVIN!!!"

[@bulaluigi]

This is why you do the roll call on the bus

[@ixaix]

Drumline trip where they took us skiing. One guy snapped his leg and two others broke arms, among some other minor injuries I don't recall. I found I hated skiing and just gave up partway down a hill and ended up taking the ski lift back down. Drank hot chocolate and watched as the injured people get brought in one by one.

[@txftwisted6269]

Did they teach your drumline how to ski or did you guys just go straight to the chairlift?

[@ixaix]

@@txftwisted6269 I remember it being a brief overview and demonstration by someone who worked there before we were set loose. Only one of us had ever really done this before. He was one of the kids that broke an arm. I think our instructor might have gotten in a little trouble for choosing that as our side activity. This was years ago, though, so I can't recall if that was just rumor.

[@gustavmoller5634]

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[@janedoe-hq9vn]

Yeah, I'm naturally clumsy so I'll take a pass...lol

[@pink_sky_morning4842]

@@ixaix Wait, so they didn’t even teach you how to do turns or even how to stop? They just got someone to demonstrate skiing?

[@sojingames5305]

I have a phobia of snakes. We went to the zoo and they had a situation where one of the (thankfully non venomous) snakes got out. I found it. I fainted. Fell on top of the snake. My teacher got bit by it picking me up. Lol i got yelled at for "not telling them of the phobia." Despite my parents writing a note about said fear of snakes on the permission form. Sooo

[@janedoe-hq9vn]

You poor thing!

[@foodafen7406]

You fainted over an oversized worm that bites? You absolute pussy.

[@mannequingaming54]

“not telling them of the phobia” “my parents writing a note about said fear of snakes” 💀

[@CreeperCart]

@@mannequingaming54 ikr

[@VelociraptorAnimations]

Most snakes, especially nonvenomous ones, are nothing to worry about :)

[@doodle_freak]

6th grade, my school took all the students to go had citizenship (no failed classes that year and no office referrals) to a local roller skating rink Little did we know, while we were having fun roller skating, back at our middle school, they were in a lockdown, not a drill The police had tried to do a mental health check on a man who lived near the school, he locked himself in the house and escaped into his car through the back door, police chase ensued and school was placed on lockdown The dude had a relative graduating 8th grade that day and they were worried he was going to try to get into the school as he was believed to be armed He would have made it into the school if a parent hadn’t tackled him outside the front doors of the school and held him down while the police ran up the stairs We came back from our field trip to the school parking lot and the streets surrounding our school swarming with cops and cop cars, we were terrified I can’t remember if the guy actually was armed, I’m a Freshman in high school now so it was a few years ago, it was all over the news in our town though

[@WASDLeftClick]

Parents getting mad about students drinking while on senior trips to European countries where the legal drinking age is actually sensible baffles me. Like, just don’t let them go if you’re that big of a prude?

[@hiitskatsuki9503]

Tbh I actually find that really funny American thing Bc my family and I come from a country where the drinking age is 18 so for my 18th we made alcohol and drank to celebrate and I forget that’s not how it in in America so when o told my friends about it they looked at me like I was crazy because my parents let me drink casually then I remembered the drinking age is 21

[@WASDLeftClick]

@@hiitskatsuki9503 We also changed the legal age for tobacco from 18 to 21 back in 2019. But you can still be legally conscripted into the military at 18. Please get me out of this Puritan hellhole.

[@hiitskatsuki9503]

@@WASDLeftClick FR!!! If I can get drafted I should be able to legally drink

[@hotwax9376]

There is nothing sensible about letting an 18-20 year old drink. The brain isn't fully developed until some time in your mid to late 20s. And letting the most inexperienced drivers drink legally when they might try to drive afterwards is asking for trouble. That said, if the seniors in question are 18 and visiting a country where they can legally drink at that age, then they shouldn't be given any trouble about it by parents unless they don't want their kids to drink at all (which IMO would be the best decision.) As the adage goes, when in Rome, do as the Romans do.

[@hotwax9376]

@@hiitskatsuki9503 Except that the US doesn't currently have a draft, and serving in the military doesn't impair judgment like drinking does. And letting people whose brains still aren't fully developed use such a drug is a terrible idea, especially when they're less experienced at driving as well.

[@cassidymyer5614]

I found a potato at a Jesus camp, it was “Outdoor Ed” and my friend group refer to it as the Outdoor Ed Potato nobody knows it’s origins, all we know is that it was about as talked about as the killer clown rumors that circulated as anticipated with a bunch of fifth graders in the woods in 2016

[@amanda5nicole]

First year of teaching, first outing with the class, we went to the armed forces day celebrations. It was absolutely packed. I lost one of my students in (luckily he had seen another teacher and stayed with that class). They got to tour a bus and I was standing at the exit door. No idea how we didn't see each other. Then there were soldiers who were skydiving and the wind picked up and one crashed into one of my students and a kid next to him. Luckily they were all fine. Kids had a blast, but I did not enjoy that day. My heart was beating hard.

[@lscblackwell9202]

Early '80's - Spanish class took a trip to see Flamenco dancers at a large Expo venue. You could travel by bus and get school credit. If you were a licensed driver and had written parental permission, you could drive yourself but you would not get credit for attendance (very poorly conceived protocol, IMHO). I was not in attendance but I was very close to one of the attendees so I got the full scoop. Several of the attendees drove themselves and brought liquor and beer. They met before school and got pretty buzzed. Then they drove to the venue. I have no idea how that went, no one ever said anything detrimental about anyone's behavior at the actual event, but apparently, alcohol was swapped around amongst the attendees. On the way back, several of the drunken students who were riding the bus kept pestering the teacher to stop and let them use the restroom. He declined. One drunk sitting mid-bus, peed in a can and then threw it out of the window. It, of course, blew back into the open windows and sprayed pee on several completely sober students. They arrived back at the school and everyone went home. At home, one of the students told her mom about the incident and the proverbial pee hit the fan. Lots of student interviews, suspensions, and threats to withhold diplomas. And the teacher came within a hair's breath of losing his job. Nothing even remotely similar to that ever happened on any of my field trips! 😄

[@hamishstewart5324]

I was lucky enough to go on a school trip overseas to Tanzania, where on the last four days we went on safari. As we were returning from Lake Manyara on the first day, our Jeep is stopped by a small group of elephants up ahead. All of a sudden, we hear this massive cracking sound in the bushes to our left, and our guide tells us to get down and be quiet. Unfortunately, the girls in our car didn’t hear him and he hissed at them to get down, and just as they did so a massive bull elephant burst out from the bushes right next to our Jeep. Fortunately, the bull didn’t attack us and just walked out to the trail in front of us, but our guide told us later that it was genuinely one of the most dangerous situations he had ever been in.

[@sgtwhisker26]

My class was heading back to school from a pumpkin farm and I had the mother of all bloody noses basically I used all of the absorbent material on the bus, tissues paper, towels, medical gauze, at one point in time I had to hold my face over a plastic bag to bleed into, the teachers almost called an ambulance on the highway for me, when we finally made it to the school my mom was already they’re, she gave me Afrin and my nose bleed stopped immediately, in short a I miss school for the rest of the day, ruined a white T-shirt, traumatized my teachers and classmates.

[@sierrastanley3109]

I know I shouldn't find this funny but imagining something like this and it's something you'd see straight out of a comedy.😂

[@sgtwhisker26]

@@sierrastanley3109 That’s why I I wrote it I know it’s funny as hell.

[@Gilhelmi]

I imagine that they now look back at the whole thing and laugh. Especially when they get to the part where your mother seen it happen enough and just gave you a pill to make it stop.

[@pirategirl1588]

Ahh. Don't feel bad. It happens! I was in our school's show choir and because I was one of the taller kids in my class at the time, I was on the top, third row of the risers. Our school had finished building this really nice cafeteria and the show choir was going to put on a performance one night, to honor the completion of the cafeteria and its opening to the students and faculty. Our choir director told us to stand up straight, smile, and sing, while pushing from our stomachs. I don't remember everything that happened, but we were singing, "This Little Light of Mine," and I was on the end of the row on the third riser, then I woke up on the floor a few minutes later. Three of the students' parents were nurses, so they were all gathered around me, checking my vitals, looking in my eyes, and calling my name, along with my mom, when our choir director popped her head in the crowd and exclaimed, "Your light went out!" When our choir director told us to "stand up straight," she didn't mention anything about not locking our knees. I'd had my knees locked for several minutes while singing, which is what caused me to pass out, and fall off the risers. From that point forward, the music teacher/choir director would tell every performing group and class to "stand up straight, but DON'T LOCK YOUR KNEES!" My accident became a legend, in the warning sense!

[@deontaeavila3514]

Nice

[@civilwildman]

Classmate's older brother snuck in booze on my senior class trip and a good part of my class got drunk partying in half of my hotel room, making an embarrassment of our class. I was one of the few students (if not the only one) who got off scott free, and thankfully my dad was one of the chaperones, so he had my back. Of course, my bully/archenemy thought I snitched on him and tried to blackmail me, but I got my hand in front of the camera lens JUST before he got to take the picture, so his plan was foiled.

[@civilwildman]

Ironically, said bully/archenemy's mom was the other chaperone. She finally got to witness (part of) her son's misbehavior firsthand. Dunno if it make a lick of difference, though. I've found in about 3/4 the cases, once an asshole, always an asshole.

[@janedoe-hq9vn]

@@civilwildman pretty much!

[@Chelle8847]

25:00 DO NOT hold a seizing person's tongue!! Just leave it, don't put anything in their mouth! It always surprises me how many people don't know how to deal with a seizing person! Just leave them to have the seizure, put something soft under their head so they don't bash it, give them space, and just let them ride it out. If they start foaming at the mouth or anything, try to put them on their side in the recovery position. If not, just leave them, speak to them gently as they come out of it, encouraging words and that they're safe etc (I have epilepsy so I know what it feels like). They'll be pretty confused so just keep them in the recovery position. Then let paramedics or whoever take over, or just slowly try to sit them up. Anyway yeah, when I heard that she held his tongue I was like noooooo! It'll make it so much worse. Sorry for the essay I just had to say something!

[@lexirenay1730]

I went to NYC with my highschool band. My friends were almost pick pocketed multiple times. My friends ditched me in the middle of time square and I have terrible anxiety so I thought I was going to be the next episode of SVU. My band directors made us go to bed late and wake up super early so we were all so exhausted by day 2 of a 5 day trip. I only got to really sleep during the Broadway shows. And I slept the entire tour of the Hudson River. Saw more than 30 people on drugs on the subway. Many rats and the city smelled like pee and smog. Worst. Trip. Ever.

[@belphy205]

I wasn't there, but there was a school trip where the school borrowed a bus from another school nearby. One of the tires on the bus exploded on the way back and the teacher couldn't get the knuts off the wheel. So they had to wait 3 hours for a car service to get out to them. Eventually the wheel was fixed and the teacher and remaining kids (parents were given the option to come pick up their kids. The bus was 3 hours away from our town) headed back home and got back around midnight.

[@pirategirl1588]

We went to an away game on a charter bus where the school was almost 2 hours away from us. The bus came through the town near where a number of the students and chaperones, including myself lived. The dufus driver decided he was going to stop at a Burger King in this town, turn the bus around in the tiny parking lot, and wait for parents there at 12:00 am. Had the driver gone less than 1000 feet down the road, he could've pulled into the Food Lion, Dollar General, strip mall parking lot behind the Burger King, which was huge. The Burger King had an approximately 45° angle from the road to the entrance, with a 90° angled turn, from the road. The dufus driver tried to make the turn and got the derned bus stuck on the cement by the ditch, with one front wheel up and one down. They had to get a tow truck out there to pull the bus out. My mom came and picked me up, but the other students and chaperones didn't get back until after 2 am. All of them were required to be in school the following day. Most of them didn't get home until after 3 am. It was like, "Really, dude? You couldn't drive down to the bigger lot?"

[@belphy205]

@@pirategirl1588 ouch that sucks. Glad you got picked up earlier.

[@pirategirl1588]

@@belphy205 me too!!! That driver was one of many charter bus drivers I questioned driving kids at my school! When I was in the 5th grade, on a field trip, our driver backed over a sign, then later that night took the front end off a car, while backing the bus up in the hotel parking lot, then upon realizing he'd hit something, threw the bus in drive, jerked it to the left, and took out the right side of the car beside it! Very happy to have made it through school and multiple charter bus rides, safely! 😆

[@belphy205]

@@pirategirl1588 impressive. I'm glad you made it. Hahahaha

[@aokiaoi1669]

On my last day of high school, the seniors and a few juniors went on a band field trip. We were on a bus for four hours, ate dinner and the principal suddenly called my band director to come back home immediately during dinner. None of us knew what was happening but word eventually got around on the bus. Turns out a junior band student who wasn’t on the trip committed suicide. The worst part was, when we were on the bus ride back we didn’t know if he had survived or not.

[@godzillatoons3947]

One time, my 2 older sisters got lost in Michigan. Here's how (I wasn't there, so this is what I think sorta happened): Sister #1: I think we're lost. Sister #2: Bus driver, why is it taking so long? Bus driver (calmly): Don't worry, we're just lost in Michigan.

[@carbonliquidmetalstarman2095]

so for some reason at a youth camp everyone was obsessed with having clothes pins, and collecting as many as possible. so some of the dudes took it too far and started grabbing people, dragging them around the corner, beating them up, and stealing all their clothes pins. then for some reason they elected me as "manager" and I would distribute the clothes pins equally among them. then they accused me of keeping more for myself (which was false) and they beat me and just made me leave, I didn't want to be apart of it but I definitely didn't appreciate getting punched.

[@UncleBillyBob732]

Used to be an amusement park in Nashville called Opryland. It was very nice and similar to Six Flags or maybe Disneyland. Our HS band stopped every year on the way home from band camp. While riding in a cable car that went overhead across the park, a couple of our students decided it would be fun to get stoned and throw firecrackers at the people below. Security was waiting at their cable car destination. My band director got there before the police arrived and made a big show of taking his belt off and whipping their butts, and the boys cried so hard the people in charge decided it was good enough punishment and released them into his custody. They were all over acting. Those boys would never have let anybody see them crying. He did it to keep them out of jail and it worked. He also managed to keep the school officials from knowing so the kids never got into any additional trouble.

[@Traci2000]

When I was in high school, we went on a field trip somewhere. I remember going but I can't remember where we went exactly. When we were almost back to our school after a fun day, we came upon a car accident. It was clearly teenagers involved and it had just happened. There were no emergency responders in sight yet. The car had flipped and was upside down on top of a girl. We could see her legs sticking out from underneath the roof just over the driver's side window. There were at least two other teens in the car with her and it looked like every last one of them had been thrown from the car. I can still remember all the blood and broken glass and how they looked lying under and around that smashed car. It remains to this day the most horrific thing I've ever seen in real life.

[@hiitskatsuki9503]

That one about the school bus I feel that person was trying to end themselves and didn’t care who they took with them

[@DeadHouseMouse]

One of the moms burst her guts on the way back from DC, about an hour & a half into a 3 hour bus ride The only reason we made it out unscathed is bc 2 of the other moms were nurses and another had insisted on having Walmart bags for trash There’s a store with a tree growing out of the roof in Lynchburg, which is remembered by my family bc on one of my dad’s Boy Scout trips they ended up leaving a kid who is now a minor local celebrity there & had to add an extra thirty minutes to their trip to turn around and get him all bc he wanted a burger

[@janedoe-hq9vn]

Bust her guts? Like throwing up? Ah, that smell...esh...

[@tidepodpadthai2633]

For a second I thought you meant literally bust her guts and was really confused

[@DezyVic93]

SIL went to see CATS the musical. They showed up and didn't realize it was a NUDE musical til they got there 😂😂😂😂

[@markparkinson6947]

Where did you see this?

[@DezyVic93]

@@markparkinson6947 it was my sister in law and she went to Broadway.

[@markparkinson6947]

@@DezyVic93 Interesting...

[@markparkinson6947]

@@DezyVic93 Broadway sounds quite experimental.

[@lscblackwell9202]

😂

[@christyricker8736]

Biker dude at the end was a total legend!! I love how even in this day and age of supposed open-mindedness, most people assume the worst based on a simple description (dreads, gang patches, chopper, etc). Most bikers I know (who are in clubs) are professionals, i.e. lawyers, doctors, etc. In their private lives away from work, they look thuggish and scary, but are in suits and lab coats during the week (unless they are working trauma call during the weekend).

[@pirategirl1588]

I have four: 1. In the fifth grade, we went to Washington, DC, on two charter buses, with my class and a host of parent chaperones. Our bus driver was an elderly man, who should've retired years before our trip. He managed to take a wrong road, then proceeded to back over the sign at a fork in the road, as he was trying to turn the bus around. He then drove onto the cement, where the sign previously stood, before managing to get the bus turned around and on the right track. As we were parking in the hotel lot that night, our driver had the bus in reverse and we heard a nasty crash! He had managed to obliterate the front of a car parked behind him. Realizing he'd hit something, he puts the bus in drive, jerks the bus to the left, and takes out the side of the car parked beside it, while going forward. We had to spend extra time sitting on the bus, waiting, while the hotel manager tried to figure out who the vehicles belonged to! 2. In the seventh grade, we went to a really nice restaurant, on the third floor of a building, after touring the city on a field trip. We had multiple people taking our orders, but with over 30 kids, plus parental chaperones, it was taking a while to get all the orders straight, cooked, etc. Two of the girls in our class had fake IDs and decided to sneak down to the second floor, while we were waiting, and buy alcoholic drinks at the bar. They got the drinks, finished them, and were on to their second rounds. I'm not sure if a parent or teacher found them, when she was touring the building while waiting on the food, but she saw them at the bar, and busted them. 3. My brother had an equally exciting adventure, on his fifth grade trip to Washington, DC. While his bus driver didn't get into accidents, he didn't have a lot of patience. At one point, they were stuck in traffic, and the charter bus driver said he knew a shortcut. Mind you, this was in 2004, three years after 9/11/01. The charter bus took my brother's class on this grand shortcut, right through several signs that said, "RESTRICTED AREA" in bold letters. Out of nowhere, cop cars, police SUVs, and canine vans surround the bus, with their guns drawn and pointed at the bus. An agent in charge comes up, knocks on the bus, door, and the driver let him on. The agent informs the driver that he is in a restricted area and the contents of the bus must be emptied and thoroughly searched to ensure that there isn't a threat to the President, or members of Congress. The agent then comes further into the bus and tells that passengers, (my brother, his class, teachers, and chaperones) that a team of drug sniffing dogs are going to come on board the bus and smell everything on there to assure that there are no bombs or weapons on board. But...BUT the passengers on board were not to take pictures of the dogs, because that would upset them, make them hostile, and they'd have to take them off of the bus, for 30+ minutes to calm the dogs down. The bomb sniffing dogs come on the bus, people pull out their cameras, and start snapping away! The dogs got so upset, the handlers practically had to wrestle them off the buses. They wait for the dogs to calm down, then they came back on the buses to search again, followed by going through all the baggage beneath the bus. It took them more than 2 extra hours to reach their destination, (less than 10 minutes away) because the impatient bus driver "knew a shortcut." 4. One of my brother's other class field trips, which my dad went on, my dad and brother and another dad and his son were staying in the same hotel room. After the day's festivities, the other father staying with my dad asked him if he wanted to sneak to one of the strip clubs, just down the street. Dad said, "Aren't we supposed to be watching the kids?!?" The other father said, "Oh, they'll never miss us!" Dad said, "You go ahead, man, I'm going to stay here and get some shut eye!" Great role model!

[@167logan]

I can't believe some of our taxes in 04 went to traumatizing a group of fifth graders.

[@pirategirl1588]

@@167logan it was the bus driver and his impatience where our tax dollars fell in the river!

[@SniperkingSogeking04]

My high school used to go to Great Wolf Lodge in Pocono PA as an overnight trip for the Juniors. Please note I say that they *used* to. The class in the year before me (Juniors when I was a Sophomore) got our school banned because a bunch of kids thought it would be great fun to try rappeling from one of the balconies. Using bedsheets that had been tied together. Because of this, I didn't go to the Junior class trip when I was a Junior because it had been changed to just an overnight trip in a museum in Maryland iirc. I am eternally grateful that they didn't get us banned from Disney (the Senior class trip) too.

[@vickit9190]

That last story was so wholesome though! Glad that nice biker helped that student catch her bus!

[@joijuaire-darfler4614]

Kinda scary that the child would go with a complete stranger though, regardless of how he was dressed.

[@AwkwardBlackGal613]

Hoping no Harambe esque stories. Just heard on another video a kid at the zoo with his baby sitter smuggled out a penguin in his backpack. She gave him a bath and had the dead penguin in the tub with him 😭

[@janedoe-hq9vn]

That is just crazy...

[@tidepodpadthai2633]

I saw that one too

[@dhampir_days]

my brother was on a trip to the bog, we live in Ireland so there's quite a few of them and they're often found to be archaeological sites because the peat/turf preserves bodies and artefacts incredibly well. anyway, my brother's friends were messing around, and one boy comes up behind another and shoves him. kid falls into the bog, and sank up to his waist. like quicksand, the more you struggle in a bog, the faster you sink. kid was up to his chest when the teacher actually bothered to look after students begged her and he was finally pulled out. worst part? teacher screamed at him about it for being careless. this kid could have died, ma'am, and it wasn't his fault.

[@alexhat5085]

I'm a student but this happened in 2nd grade(one, if not is, of the worst days of my life). My second grade class went to a symphony, and a lot of other schools were there too(about 20). I was the line leader. We were heading back to the bus because it was time for us to go. Well my teacher never told me to stop and I kept going until I got to the entrance, when I found out that I was lost. I was found by a teacher from a different school and asked me if I was lost. I told him what exactly happened and when my teacher finally found me after 30 minutes, the other teacher started arguing at my teacher asking why she let me get lost. Short ending, my parents kept me home from school for a week because I was traumatized and I was too scared to go on school trips for a year.

[@PalmistsHouse]

the high school i went to was banned from going to disneyland for the senior trip because someone started a fight and 13 people got injured

[@alyssabaines7911]

Student here, on a trip to London on wednesday (4 days ago from rn) the guy and girl behind me snuck alcohol on the bus and got pissed (drunk). eventually on the way to the services stop the guy couldn't hold it anymore and pissed in a bottle. the two and the guy next to them got sent home (we were about 2-3 hours away from the school at this point) after we spent an hour at the service station waiting for the teachers to sort it out. there was a rumour that a bunch of students got covered in piss, especially about my friend joe. even the school and also the other school in my town got live coverage of the incident. other things that also happened: 1. On the Other bus someone broke a seat 2. someone was sick (not that uncommon) 3. someone got jumped whilst in London (in my classes - nothing got stolen and he was fine) 4. The air vent above my row was leaking water? 5. some guy we did a questionnaire with tried to convert me and a bunch of others to jesus lmao (for context this was a geography trip where we had to do questionnaires about urban regeneration and whatever) 6. some people were 10 minutes late from free time at lunch and one of them had like an underwear shop bag? idk what happened with that one we are year 11s (15/16 year olds) and it is the most interesting trip ive been on id say

[@redthewarrior1569]

Not a teacher, but on our 8th grade trip to DC somebody pulled the hotel fire alarm, but they never figured out who did it. Some people, including me, made a bunch of prank calls to both, other rooms, and to businesses in the area. Some guys got caught looking into the girls rooms from a shed near the pool. Five people got in a huge fist fight and one got arrested. Me and a few others snuck out of our rooms and went to the pool, which is where I found the guys watching the girls rooms. I ended up losing $35 to a hotel maid, and lost my hat in the mall we went to. Looking back on it, it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was. And while on the bus to DC, we hit a pot hole, and since I was sitting in the back, we literally flew up from our seats and hit the roof. Thankfully it didn’t hurt. Such a fun bus ride.

[@alsmith7382]

Dang... times must be hard. I lost mine to a hotel maid for $20...

[@lunaleonhardt4703]

When I was in 9th grade the grade 11 students went on a 1 week camping trip. The camp site was next to one of the biggest rivers in the country. The students went swimming and canoeing everyday. Parents were also allowed to go on the trip to help the teachers. The students were divided into groups with one parent or teacher per group. One day while the students went swimming one of them swam off to far. When all the students were called back, everyone realised that he was missing. They find his body the next day

[@Rockas360]

I don't get why they ban a school for one students bad behavior

[@AkameGaKillfan777]

Just ban that person. Only ban the school if the majority of the class does it, or it happens on multiple trips.

[@skittstuff]

Oh shit! I have a long story and a short one. Short one: I was at a 3-day overnight convention at a college town, which was planned yearly for high school students across the state who took a certain class. It was right at the end of the school year, around May 20th or so, and it was already really hot out. Second day we were supposed to head to the football field for spirit events. Part of the event was that every day had a theme, and this theme was throwback, so I was wearing a sailor outfit from the 60s or so. I had a heat stroke. All I remember was being so dizzy I couldn't use my brain, and I was shaking like crazy. It was scary as fuck. Thought I was gonna die. This really nice chaperone from another school walked me back to the dorms, bought me a drink, and helped me cool off until I could think straight again. I hope she's doing well. I might have told this story in another comment section, idk, but here's the long one: In 7th grade I was in this nature club that would take a trip up to a lake in the spring as a reward for hard work. It was only one day, but it was packed full of activities and fun stuff to do. They taught us how to fish early in the morning, and us wee kids were psyched to try it out again in the evening. So much fun stuff later, we're there on the docks as the sun begins to set with our fishing rods. One of the guides was explaining to us that the lake area was dealing with an invasive species of fish. I forget the name, I think it was called Goby? Gobi? Anyways, he's telling us 12-13 year olds that, should we catch that fish, we have to kill it. We're all like 'yeah, ok, sure.' We all just think they're playing and that we'll actually just throw them back in the water or at the very least leave it on the dock until it runs out of oxygen. Because again, we're kids. We didn't expect shit to actually go down. Until some kid caught one. I remember him being so excited! He was like 'yo I caught a fish! It's so cool! Guys, check this out!' And the tour guide's head perks up like a fucking wolf on the prowl. I swear this guy moved like Terminator over to the kid and was like 'That's the fish we're talking about. Give it here.' Shit you not. My man takes the fish off the kid's hook and BODY SLAMS IT INTO THE DOCK. He then proceeds to stomp the everloving shit out of this little black fish. Me and the other kids watched in horror as the things eyes popped out and it stopped twitching. After all that, the tour guide just looks up at us, dusts his hands off, and goes 'that's what you gotta do when you find this fish!' Nobody wanted to fish after that. Oh yeah, we later went to a restaurant for dinner and a seagull pooped on this kid's head. So that made up for it.

[@Phoebe5448]

Uh... I'm no ecological expert, but I'm pretty sure you don't deal with invasive species like that. I'm sure its more of a block off the lake and try to thin out the numbers. Not recruit a bunch of kids. That sound super messed up tbh. But at least you got a good dinner out of it.

[@dauntlessasmr7910]

In high school, our drama teacher decided to organize a massive senior trip to London. Nearly everyone in the class went. This was back in 1993. I decided I needed to save up as much money as I could for college. So, I didn't go. When they got back, it was clear everyone had a fantastic time. Though most of it involved getting very drunk, though very close to each other while there. Yes, I regret not having gone with them. It was several days of a fantastic time. This was back just before the U.S. Dollar stopped being the Almighty King of currency in the world. Just before the British Pound took over that spot and has held it ever since. Prices were low for everything if you had dollars. The trip bundle was a massive discount too. College? Wasn't worth it. Just a frickin' scam. Take some good advice, unless you're parents are truly obscenely rich and willing to pay for it; go to a Trade School instead. You'll graduate in less time with zero student debt, and you'll easily be able to find work in any major city once you graduate.

[@deontaeavila3514]

Thanks for the advice

[@jacer445u5]

5 guys wouldn’t stop tapping on the glass fish tank.

[@vladimirenlow4388]

While on a church youth group trip to Myrtle Beach, these twin girls in our group got an invite from these two random guys to visit them at their beach house. They figured it would be okay since it was during daylight hours and if they got a chaperone--namely, me, only one year older than them at 15 years of age (I knew this was a bad idea, but I also knew these girls were determined to go there anyway, and my presence might prevent something bad from happening.) What the twins didn't tell me was that the other guys' beach house was _twenty-five blocks away_ and the girls couldn't even find the place when they got to the street it was supposedly on. Whether they were deliberately misled by the boys as a cruel joke or were legitimately bad at directions, it couldn't be helped. Back to our own beach house, _twenty-five blocks_ the other way. All my chivalry got me was sore feet that evening and our pastor threatening to send all three of us home (fortunately, he changed his mind the next day).

[@Hello-eq4db]

On the way back from the 8th grade trip to DC, our flight was cancelled in Phoenix, AZ, and the whole class stayed in the airport for the whole afternoon. Then, when night came, they got the girls into a motel, then at 2:00AM, the boys got rooms at some hotel. Because they rushed to get the girls out, they got a really shitty motel, and when one group went to their room, some meth junkie was already in there and he jumped out at the girls. They said they couldn't sleep for the rest of the night, and they had to get a new room. We got a flight out the next morning, but damn that was a boring layover.

[@misscyanic2484]

Punched a dolphin?! Wtf

[@Phoebe5448]

Mr. T over here punching sharks and dolphins.

[@brynpladdy6753]

My Grandma was going to substitute for a teacher who wasn't well for a residential trip with a class of around 30 students. This was in upper primary school so people aged from 9-11. Last minute my Grandma couldn't go. I don't know the circumstances, but anyway they stayed at a youth hostile and they had a massive swimming pool on the site. I'm not sure if it was indoors or outdoors. On one of the mornings they open up the swimming pool and there was a child's body floating in the water. They were not sure on the circumstances of the death, they think that he went for a midnight swim and got into some difficulty and just drowned. But how can you be sure?

[@Hello-ll7ht]

In second grade, the school decided to take us to a park that was about a 5-10 minute walk away from the school, so instead of taking a bus we just walked to the park. As we got there, some pretty dark clouds started to roll in, so the teachers just decided to have us quickly eat lunch (those terrible paper bag lunches that you get for free on field trips) then start the activities. The clouds then started to go over us more and make everything darker as they did, signaling that it was going to rain but the teachers had us finish lunch and then go play games anyway (we were eating lunch in one of those big seating areas with the metal benches and tables as well as with a metal roof). One of the activities was playing (American) soccer, but as we were playing soccer, we noticed there was some lighting off to the distance. The teachers said that we would have to leave if the lightning continued or got closer and obviously what happened was that it started to pour rain and the lightning got worse. This park had a huge metal playground and that big seating area with all the metal, as well as big open fields, so we had to pack everything up and walk back to school in the rain. The most unexpected part is that it actually started to hail as we were walking back and the hail ranged from sizes of marbles to ping pong balls!! Just imagine a bunch of screaming, drenched, second graders running around some random neighborhood, crying because giant hail balls were hitting their bare skin (it was sunny like 2 hours beforehand and earlier that day so many kids just wore shorts and a t-shirt. Also, we had to walk through a neighborhood to get to the park). Some of the people in the neighborhood even opened their garages to let the kids who saw them take shelter until the storm passed. The teachers literally just told us to run back to the school, with the chance of them losing us Lol. Since this was second grade, it was a long time ago so I don’t remember much, but what I do remember is it took a while for the second grade teachers to make sure everyone got back to the school safely and then we played math games while magic school bus played in the background until the end of the school day. Lots of kids had bruises up their arms and legs and some of the kids’ parents picked them up from school. I remember being pretty disappointed because what was supposed to be a fun field trip turned into us sitting in the classroom with wet clothes and burning skin. The field trip sort of became an inside joke after that all the way up until around 5th grade. 2nd grade was weird lol

[@Katt30]

Not a huge trip compared to some, but....In elementary school. My elementary school was a bit odd, but one of the cooler things they did was, in the hotter months(we lived in Phoenix AZ), they would take a class down the street to the local public pool, a few blocks down so we'd just walk there, and wore our suits under our clothes for the day. Anyway, I think this was one of the first times they started doing this, and my class was among the ones going. We were all hyped, and excited, all week to get out of school for a few hours and spend time having fun in the pool. What was so awful about this little trip, that I still remember it 30 years later? My very first period also decided to start. When did this glorious wonderful thing decide to happen? The VERY NIGHT BEFORE the trip to the pool. To say I was devastated is an understatement. And because of rules, I couldn't take my suit with me and change there. So instead, I got to shamefully walk down to the pool(cause for whatever reason they wouldn't let me stay at the school either), with the rest of my excited class, and got to sit on the sidelines and watch as they all had an absolutely awesome time. Meanwhile I was hating life, and wondering what I did to deserve such cruelty. TL;DR: this is how I came to hate my period forever more.

[@firechasersparkles2023]

I honestly don't understand why anyone would take a field trip to the arctic. Most people don't go there for a reason. At least the bear was killed so it couldn't hurt anyone else. But I'm sure the kids who experienced the maulings were traumatized.

[@sierrastanley3109]

Honestly I feel sorry for the bear. The bear was just trying to live it's life then some noisy ass humans just rolled up in it's hood.

[@tiamystic]

I bet that story was fake

[@cabbybrocolimania5297]

it’s obviously a joke, why would kids go to the arctic.

[@TheCaptainFatBelly]

@@cabbybrocolimania5297 some kids have a sense of wonder maybe. Idk, who wouldn't want to go to the artic at least once

[@TheCaptainFatBelly]

Maybe people would go to the artic because it seems like an interesting place to visit at least once in your life. If things go right, of course

[@Samizaman123]

Not a teacher but this is my mom's story, they were suppose to get on the train but they were 2 seconds late. They ran 100km with 80kg bags

[@dorothylloyd1804]

Thanks for the stories

[@tidepodpadthai2633]

Everyone's getting these fancy ass trips in other countries, I'm jealous

[@grandmastermud]

same

[@Phoebe5448]

I went to the planetarium and museums a few times as a school trip. Pretty cool because I love science and stuff. But yeah still jealous too.

[@YoungInfamous]

That train story was rough

[@buffya8012]

It was one of those “is the driver f****** stupid/crazy? She could of killed a bus full of kids for gods sake(not to mention the teachers and herself) and then says “I can’t reverse” then why the f are you driving a bus in the first place!

[@AnshuOP69]

@@buffya8012 yesss

[@AkameGaKillfan777]

I actually thought she was suicidal

[@ItsJustJay737]

We were in 5th grade camp and we got hit by a tornado. This was my very first overnight school trip and the whole 5th grade had to take cover in the dining hall basement. 10 year old me was terrified. Thankfully, no tornado hit the camp but there was one north of us and one south of us. Also, we live in Michigan so tornadoes are kinda rare.

[@sharkeystudios]

My old orchestra teacher almost forgot most of my orchestra on the way back to school. It was for a regional Honors Orchestra concert. He has also forgot a few students on previous trips, but he's still the best teacher ever (however good your best teacher was, x5).

[@rosykindbunny1313]

In 6th grade our tall school bus decided to go under a very low tunnel. It scraped against the roof, and the emergency exit that was sticking up almost fell on a kid in the seat next to me. Eventually we got out of the tunnel. That was an interesting field trip.

[@wildflxwrr0628]

In 7th grade my grade went on a camp trip. We stayed there for 5 days, and so many of us got sick. Like it was people throwing up the everyday of the trip, and on the buss ride home. Apparently a guy that was sick decided to go anyways and passed his illness on to so many kids. I was one of the lucky ones that didn’t get sick. But in the cabin I stayed at 6 of 12 girls (I believe) got sick. Our poor teachers had to run around during the night , cleaning up puke and taking care of the students.

[@caseyo5524]

Not a school funded camping but it happened while I was in high school. I went to a week long church camp every year during my school days and this one was one of my last years going. The camp usually choose someone for keynote, pastor, or something along the lines per week/summer and this time it was an older guy. A chick that I made friends with during the week told the counselors and us other hs kids what he told her. She had dye hair and some piercings, uncommon for camp but not unheard of, and the guy said something along the lines of “doing it for attention”. He also made some remarks to others and they told as well, he lasted all of 2 days I think before he was told to leave the next morning as the adults were trying to not make a huge deal out of it. The girl definitely didn’t do anything for attention, I think the guy was just stuck in old times and didn’t like the color/piercings that was becoming more common. This was about 2012/2013 time so definitely things like above were along more normalized then in the 90’s/early 00’s

[@ghostcraft3370]

22:13 EXTREMELY similar story. I was in girl scouts, at that point I believe I was a brownie. Anyway we had an overnight stay at the museum of science in Boston. My group settled down to sleep in the dinosaurs exhibit where there was a giant t rex statue. Anyway, a mouse ran across someone's sleeping back and the girls FREAKED (some of them were known for being very dramatic). One was even crying even though she was sleeping on an air mattress. Admittedly younger me thought they were all stupid for being so freaked out about a little mouse. Took a while for the girls to calm down and get to sleep.

[@keelanbrown7747]

A kid got his foot stuck in an escalator and almost died. On the same trip I nearly got all the skin on the palm of my hand shredded off. It was a long trip and a long story. But the short and long of it was we had giant inner tubes and sled down artificial snow turf

[@markiusgalfordii9248]

I'm a student and we were heading towards Boston museum of science which is extremely long drive about 12 hours we're in the middle of nowhere and it's winter time the bus driver has a heart attack and we went off the road this is before cell phones or if you had one you were extremely rich. A group of us older kids hiked down the road found a farmer's house got him to call for a wrecker and his wife and him took turns driving out and picking up kids and bring him to their house. It took the tow truck driver 6 hours to show up and a there's 6 to 12 hours to get the bus out and the driver was dead before the bus stopped I guess we tried to get a hold of parents but we were halfway between where we're supposed to go school sent another bus to pick us up and we end up just going back home

[@gibson17155]

I didn’t go on this trip, but my best friend did. My school’s class Spanish trip to Belize (weird because Belize is an English speaking country) was a disaster. Almost immediately after arriving, the Spanish teacher found out her mother had passed away and was forced to return to the US. The only other teacher there was one of those laid back teachers that didn’t care about much of anything. This meant that there were 14 kids left basically unsupervised on a resort with cheap, very easily accessible alcohol. What was supposed to be an educational trip of visiting historical sites devolved into a week long resort vacation of 15-18 year old kids getting very drunk every night with a teacher who was later fired for texting/possibly secretly meeting up with high school girls a year later. My friend said it was the best week of his life up to that point.

[@avinlia2029]

In elementary school a couple classes of kids in my grade went to a theme park with rollercoasters. I didn’t get to go but during the trip some kids and a teacher went on this rollercoaster. At a part when the coaster went upside down it got stuck and the kids and teacher had to stay like that until they were brought down. Couple days later and I saw the teacher wearing an “I survived” shirt with a picture of a rollercoaster on it. This is why I hate upside-down rollercoasters…

[@itsmelissa5788]

5:05 I went canoeing with my class last year 🤮. I hated every second of it, I just HATED my class and had to get into a boat with the 3 classmates I hated the most. They made the whole thing hell for me, complaining about the way I paddled the whole time, even though they didn't do it any better. We often got stuck on the sides of the river in bushes and of course they said it was my fault, even though 1 person alone can't influence the movement of a 4 people canoe this much. Then they told me to completely stop paddling which I eventually did and then they complained about how lazy I was, like wtf?? Damn I really wanted to punch them in the face with my paddle and go home.

[@bexxa4837]

Almost my exact experience. In the first grade, my class was going on a field trip to a bowling ally and I had pinkeye. The nurse told me to go get my stuff because I was going home. I just went to my class and hoped that the nurse when it came for me, she did. I didn’t get to go bowling.

[@larsharris]

I was not there. But had to question those involved. Church event Kansas City. 1 Pastor, chaperones from 2 churches. 1 chaperone was trouble. “Rules are not for me”. Causes many issues. The worst? He decides only idiots wait in line for included meal. There MUST be a place to eat nearby. He invites kids (FROM OTHER CHURCHES, in other states) to sneak out with him. “Unless you are scared”. (Very simple rule. You do NOT leave convention center). He gets them lost. Kids are calling THEIR Pastor, Chaperones, and in at least one case MOM AND DAD BACK HOME.. “we are cold, hungry, & lost, this guy can’t find the restaurant, or the way back to convention center….” To this day he KNOWS he did nothing wrong. “I didn’t force them to follow me”. So multiple Preachers, chaperones, parents were very upset. Not that I blame them. Sadly he was from the other church. I really could do nothing (after the fact)

[@zsu-23-4shilka2]

Back in 2018 I went on an end of year senior trip to Dollywood & at one point I was on the Wild Eagle roller coaster. Long story short, I ended up blacking out right as we passed the camera where you take pictures. I looked *_SO_* baked!

[@bboops23]

A McDonald's worker chased down our bus to give me my purse. That was the weirdest I went on.

[@benbadguy1237]

I never got to enjoy any cool event that involved school since grade 5, getting sick on those days, COVID-19 (muskoka and possibly Ottawa trip), and just an outright “minor” injury

[@Ultimaetor]

Not a school trip. Our class won a school prize for something I don't remember. We went to a local pizza place. As the whole class were eating, a kid decided that it would be a fun idea to drink the whole bottle of Tabasco sauce. Needless to say, he ended puking in the bathroom. TL; DR: don't try to be an idiot and enjoy a free meal when someone else invites.

[@rubysroom9469]

Coming home from a huge marching band competition, a kid had a seizure in the gas station we stopped at for dinner. Another time, while pulling out to leave a marching band football game, the driver of the bus I was on almost hit our pit players. I think he was visually impaired because the only reason he stopped was because we were all literally screaming for him to stop

[@lucasfragoso7634]

The Europe trip story got off to a great start with a classic London moment

[@paul2019.]

I’m obsessed with school related ask Reddit

[@mavenmargaret8259]

Not a school trip, but a Girl Scout one. My dad, one of the chaperones, ended up spraining his ankle on day one of the trip.

[@rosykindbunny1313]

My dad's school's band and chorus went to perform at Disney World. Since he teaches in the music department, he got to chaperone, and got to take me, my mom, and my brother with him. Luckily we also got to visit the different parks. One of the students went on Tower of Terror with her phone in her pocket. Needless to say, it dropped right to the bottom. A few days later, it was found and mailed to her absolutely shattered.

[@AkameGaKillfan777]

That's one of the less terrifying things about something coming out of someone's pocket while on a ride.

[@MINRoadkill]

Damn that 180 that happened from the child getting run over to then a kid wiping his swamp ass on someone’s backpack gave me whiplash

[@UncleMikeDrop]

It's not a proper donniebrook until a broken bottle is brought into the dustup.

[@JoseGutierrez-ry1bk]

It's so sad that we go to habitats like the Safari or the antartic and when animal protects their cubs which is more than likely the reason they attacked we end up saying that there are the horrible beast that's in that when in reality you would do the exact same thing is somebody walked into your house with your kids you would try hurting that person or do whatever you have to do that is exactly what these animals are doing they don't necessarily attack just to attack if they literally want to take care of their kids just as much as we do and in most cases that's the case people wander far too close to an animal's babies without noticing or even being aware that they are around something like that that's why you have other attacks

[@msdiedara]

When I was in Girl Scouts we went on a field trip to sea world and camped in the polar exhibit. It was super cold. My mom woke up earlier than any one else and saw the whales *cough* out an trying to get some.

[@perkibest22]

Huh?

[@beastmaster0934]

@@perkibest22 The whales were trying to bang each other

[@zsu-23-4shilka2]

*_AYYOOOOOOOOOOOOO_*

[@grace5033]

Obligatory "not a teacher" comment, but allow me to tell you a little story I like to call "The Senior Retreat From Hell" (and the best part, this all happened TODAY so you get the most accurate retelling possible): Okay. So I'm currently a senior in high school, and today and tomorrow was supposed to be the annual senior retreat. It wasn't a sleep-away thing. We would come home today and then continue with something else on day 2. Anyway, the plan for today was to go to this church camp in our state, a little over an hour drive away from the school. There was a pool, a low ropes course, paddleboard stuff, everything you could think of for the perfect team-building retreat for a bunch of high school kids. We get there, and it is POURING DOWN (it wasn't like that at school, but that was in another part of the state so that wasn't the weird part). We get off the bus and make our way into the gym building, trying so hard not to get drenched but obviously that wasn't freaking happening. I go into the bathroom, and when I come out, everyone is still just playing basketball and hanging out and stuff. There's no discussion of what the activities for the day are gonna look like. Obviously, I'm confused. One of the teachers should've definitely told us the first activity by now. Well...as it turned out, the people running the camp NEVER EVEN SHOWED UP!!! So we were basically screwed as all the adults had to be flexible and figure out a plan B. Then, they had an idea. We would go back to school and watch an inspirational video about being able to accomplish great things if we work hard or something like that, because what else would you show to a bunch of nervous teenagers who are less than a year away from going to college and leaving their childhood behind? Then we wrote cheesy letters to our future selves that would be given back to us at graduation, because of course that's what you would do next. I was just hungry and tired, and luckily one of the teachers made burgers for us to have before we left for our "change-of-plans" destination. That destination? An escape room at the most infamous haunted house in our state. Luckily the drive wasn't as long, since the escape room/haunted house was just in the downtown part of our city. We go in, and we're split into 3 groups of students and teachers, with each group going into a different escape room with differing levels of scariness. I went into the least scary one, with 4 other kids (one of them being my best friend, who is autistic and gets scared easily) and 3 adults (one of them being the principal). It was an Egyptian tomb theme, and we had an hour to escape. Well, our time was up before we could find all the clues. And the fact that I constantly found myself having to remind my friend that the dead body in the corner and evil booming laughter and moans in the background were fake may have contributed to what took us so long. Our time is up, they let us out, and we get out to see the 2 groups from the "scary" rooms both finished before us. I was ashamed. You'd think the least scary option would also be the easiest one. Well I guess the hell not. Then we went back to school, where it was revealed that tomorrow's weather would also be terrible, and we decided to call off day 2 of the retreat and just make tomorrow a regular school day.

[@megatronacepticon]

I sincerely hope that bus driver that stopped on the train tracks and gave no shits is no longer a bus driver.

[@lethalfarm]

This needs to be a movie

[@Paige0_0]

I feel bad for acting this was as a kid but to be fair I was like 6-7 😂 so in my kindergarten class they did this big thing where we decorated balloons and let them go for a cause and the school made a whole field day out of it. I was so excited for that day and you only got to do it the one day in kindergarten. But my brothers and I used to beg my mom to let us skip school for just one day and the one day that my mom gave in and was going to make a day of it at home.. it was the balloon day 😅 I remember being so upset but we all went to the park and fed some ducks and ate the little ice creams that had the wooden stick in it and I know we all had a blast. I’m tearing up thinking of it now. I lost my mom in 2017. 4 days after my 20th birthday. We were super poor but she made our childhood fun with no need for monetary things. She was a wonderful woman

[@hotwax9376]

Not a teacher but I have two stories, both of which are from middle school. Every year there was a period of time in gym where we got to go bowl at a local bowling alley. Unfortunately, on the last day of bowling when I was in sixth grade, one of the other students thought it would be funny to pull the fire alarm as we were leaving. I never heard it and I never found out who did it, but as punishment the two gym teachers didn't allow us to go to the bowling alley the following year and we had to make do with bowling balls and pins at the school. Later, when I was in eighth grade, my class went to a Holocaust museum, and while I didn't go on the trip, I heard later on from one of my classmates that a couple of boys as a joke kept saying, "Kill the Jews, kill the Jews" on the way there. (This would've been bad enough on its own, but is even worse when you consider that my hometown is heavily German American.) The moral of both stories is this: just because something seems funny or ironic to you doesn't mean that you should do it.

[@mr.nemesis6442]

This guy and girl disappeared for 45 minutes and the guy came back looking sheepish. Turns out that they banged on the roof the of hotel we were staying at.

[@nosferatadentata965]

Im my middle school every year on one day all the classes go on a trip. They climb a mountain through the woods and have a picnic on the top. Well one year a student was bored out of his mind so he was throwing cones and pebbles in the schrubs. Well, one of them hit wasps nest. Entire school scattered in the forest running around in panic. Total chaos and needles to say the event was completely ruined. Someone also needed medical attention because of supposed anaphilactic schock due to wasp sting (or maybe that was just strong panic attack) and some sprained ankles. And of course local newspaper couldn't miss that gem and made an article.

[@jacobmartinez2351]

Link?

[@nosferatadentata965]

@@jacobmartinez2351z I'm afraid not. It happened in Poland a couple of years ago. Headmaster himself told me this story years after I graduated from that middle school

[@AkameGaKillfan777]

I'm pretty sure the shock was an allergic reaction. But as redditors would say: frick the guy who caused that, good times lol

[@kendoruslink7017]

That bus teacher on the tracks sounded kinda suicidal

[@2010-paswg]

I almost never finish your videos because it’s so much interesting stories.

[@nikkivillemaire4855]

I was a student at the time, and it wasn't really bad, but on a trip to the capital of Missouri, Jefferson city, one of my classmates had Pinkeye and she couldn't really enjoy the trip because of it.

[@nikkivillemaire4855]

Oh yeah and there was also that one time where we were all at a roller skating rink. Many of my classmates had a bet going on who would be clinging to the walls because they didn't know how to skate, one of the people they guessed was me, well I proved them wrong and that I did know how to skate. But that's not worst part, no, one of my classmates ended up breaking their arm about halfway through our stay at the skating rink.

[@racheleast688]

The D.C. trip story sounds like normal traffic. I really dislike it when I have to work in D.C..

[@MsMoranguinho92]

Not me but a friend of mine told me what happened when the French Club went to France one summer. They were in Paris to receive a guided tour through a company the school used for all the language club trips and as they were being escorted to the tour bus/van, a chaperone noticed one of the girls was missing when she did her group headcount. She heard screaming and ran down the street. Turns out that the girl had been snatched by a man when the group passed by an alley and he was trying to force her into a car. The chaperone scared off the man and was able to get the girl back to the group. The man just jumped in his car and drove away. The tour guide was pissed that the chaperone delayed the tour despite being told about what just happened. When this was reported to the TOUR COMPANY and the school asked them how they could trust the company with any more trips in the future, the company said that it was a common thing for tourists to go missing and they needed to be more vigilant when traveling and basically blamed the girl for almost getting kidnapped. The school no longer uses that company and the French Club hasn't had their trips ever since. This happened in 2008.

[@ladylunaginaofgames40]

Student story: at my elementary school, they made a big deal about a field trip to Salem that is mandatory for like, the whole school I think. I was in 5th grade, and was in a group with a kid who brought 20 bucks to the field trip. At some point, I saw a $20 bill on the ground and picked it up. It didn't click that it was his since I didn't watch the dollar fall out, and he didn't have a wallet. When they found out I have the cash he lost, they accused me of stealing and had a teacher chaperone me for lunch, isolating me from the students while they check the big gift shop. My mom was mad, at the school, because she believed me when I told her that I didn't see the kid drop his cash and simply saw it on the ground. Tl:dr Kids should carry wallets

[@megsmith6758]

On a school trip to Germany, we all went ice skating. One of the girls decided it would be a great idea to file her nails into sharp points. She fell on the ice and grabbed onto her friend. Unfortunately her nails pierced her friend’s hand. They both had to go to the hospital.

[@TDF9055]

24:27 - "Taught in London" "...was about to call 9-1-1" Um....

[@markparkinson6947]

Interestingly, if you call 911, the line goes to the country you are calling the number from.

[@JPaterson8942]

Field trips always gave me anxiety... Kids are shits and as far as kid-me could tell, there was nothing anyone could do to control the other kids. Except the bus drivers - "You want to go home? You better behave yourselves or we'll sit here all night."

[@angrynoodletwentyfive6463]

I graduated in 2017 so wasn't there for the actual field trip but on the class of 2019's 8th grade trip 4 boys set fire to a cabin and got the school banned from the place we did 8th grade trips at, leading to the class of 2020 not getting one. The class of 2020 was still mad about it by the 2017 school year and there was this huge sophmores vs Freshmen thing (almost exclusively the boys). Oh and the boy who was most respponsible for setting his cabin on fire also started a fire in the wood work room in March of 2017. causing the school to be evacuated and since there was an actual fire we were not allowed back in the building that day so anyone who could drive or have their parets pick them up was allowed to leave. So all the juniors and seniors carpooled off into the sunset, and the special needs bus driver who was a real one came out to rescue all the special needs kids. but since there was like half a foot of snow on the ground and it was below freezing they couldnt leave the freshman and sophmores outside for the rest of the school day or until their parents could come get them so acording to the kids who werre still there they devided the leftover kids into 3 groups based on which floor of the school the class they had been in was on. and kids on the third floor walked to the public Library, Kids who had been on the second floor walked to the junior high Gym and kids who had been on the first floor went to the elementary school gym. it was a shit show for all 3 schools in our town. And yes the kid who started the fire was in fact taken away in handcuffs and yes his mother did throw a fit about the school calling the cops on her "sweet baby"

[@alphabravo424]

My mom was in her first years of working and they were driving down a road and a couple stopped the bus warning them that there was a fatal wreck and sure enough the bus was driving by a car completely wreck and dismembered bodies in it. Many traumatized high school students.

[@paxhumana2015]

14:27, that was probably the lightest of the bad trips that happened in this video.

[@soralinklokidottirprincess10]

When I was in my Junior year of high school we took a trip to a camp some students and teachers went for the overnight trip the rest of use were on the day trip on our way back to the school a girl caught car sick and we had to stop, one of the staff members called the ambulance and we had to wait I don’t remember how long (I was trying to save my phone battery)

[@tidepodpadthai2633]

The polar bear trip is definitely the winner

[@TheCubeRootOfGlitch]

We were going to a play once, and some moron stole the money to pay to enter, and I was being interrogated, when I just arrived. This was 1st grade

[@paxhumana2015]

12:41 would have been met with "Do you want three less students graduating from our high school? Keep acting this way and see what happens".