My senior class, all girls, travelled by bus from New York City to Montreal in 1968 to attend the Worlds Fair. We stayed in apartments in a high rise that I think were built to accomodate visitors to the Worlds Fair. We had a very good time.

If they did, I sure didn't know about it. I was so glad to get out of school, I'm sure I wouldn't have gone anyway. The last day of high school was the happiest day of my entire life...still to this day I can't think of any day better than that. HA!

Nope. Our grade 12 French class did try to go on a trip to St. Pierre though (French owned island off the south coast of Newfoundland). We raised money by having bake sales. I think there were about 20 in our class. We drove with 2 teachers to where we were supposed to get the ferry to St. Pierre but it was so windy for 3 days that the ferry couldn't go, so we turned around and came back home. Too bad.

Well, kind of. We walked from the high school to a city park (about a mile) and had a picnic. Then we walked to the local movie theatre (another mile) and saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. 1973.

Am loving these stories!

We did not have a Senior Trip.

We went to Washington DC. Wish we could have went to New York City too.

No.

Kathsgrdn, you wore a dress and heels to grad night at Disneyland because it was the dress code. The boys had to wear suits. You might have been able to wear flat party shoes but I think you really were supposed to wear at least 2" heels. All the girls I know wore long dresses--I don't know if that was required or just a more modest way to do Disneyland. My school didn't do grad night, but I almost went with a friend from a different school, who didn't have a girlfriend. In the end, I think there was a girl at his school who needed a date. I wasn't sad not to go. I'd heard of lots of girls getting felt up during security checks looking for girls smuggling booze under their long skirts, and I thought going to Disneyland in a formal was stupid. (Nowdays the dress code boils down to decent and respectful, and actually prohibits anything you could trip on!)

My school had class trips for every class, except the seniors. I think we could elect to go with the juniors or something but I don't think anyone did. I got a couple weeks off in the late Spring. I did study some, probably for AP tests. Probably went to morning ballet. (I loved morning ballet. 6:00 pm class is cruel.)

No such thing in 1959. But in the mid 1960s, I taught high school in Bethesda, Maryland, where the senior trip was to Russia one year and to Israel the next.

Yes, my senior class went to Washington D.C.; however, I didn't get to go. My father passed away in October of my senior year and we couldn't afford the trip.

No.

I was 17 when I graduated in June 1967. Our class did not have a Senior trip. There were about 350 kids in my graduating class. A bit unwieldy for a group trip.

No.

My sister was in the class ahead of me and they got into so much trouble they wouldn't let us go. Sadly, our class was the last graduating class from the school. Our schools now take an 8th grade trip to DC. For 5 days. I went with our kids and it was really fun. They had a swimming party night and a roller skating evening planned for them. We also went to a huge mall with a really neat glass elevator. They were having a prom there that night. Great time!! Had lots of teachers and parents go.

My class didn't have a trip, but most of the extracurricular clubs did. I traveled to NYC with my art club to visit several museums....we lived in a tiny town in central NYS, so it was an easy, but very memorable experience.

We also had a Shakespearean Society....a drama club.....we traveled to Stratford, Ontario for their Shakespearean festival. Wonderful, fun, such a lovely place. Christopher Plummer was thrilling in Hamlet. :-)

Other clubs traveled to France, Germany, and Spain and other places.

There were 256 kids who graduated that year from the only high school in my community.

Not even close to the largest graduating class, DH's 2 years previous with their 518, but still too many to orchestrate any kind of trip. We had an all night party at the local elks club after graduation services....food, dancing, photos, games and prizes. Heavily chaperoned, once you were in, you were in, and if you left you couldn't come back.

No senior trips for us. The band took an out of state trip to Nashville. My sons band went to Disneyworld.

Pillog, very few girls wore dresses, actually. At least when I went.

Yes my school in Louisiana had our trip to Galveston beach, we stayed at the famous Hotel Galvez . We had a blast. Super fun trips.

I'm slightly pre-war. Our junior high school did a trip to Washington. I didn't go, having BTDT with my mother a couple of times. I also remember a field trip to Springfield, IL in grammar school. I don't recall any HS graduation trips. (As some have said here, we were *expected* to graduate HS -- much as you were expected to move on from kindergarten! Just another step before college -- or a job -- for most. It would only be remarkable if you did NOT get a HS diploma at 17 or 18.)

My HS graduating class was nearly 1000 kids. (All you Baby Boomers!) We were on split shifts. Hallways and stairwells had designated one-way traffic during the middle of the day when *everybody* was in attendance. This was a township HS system, and the taxpayers wouldn't pass a referendum in time to cope.

A second HS opened the year after I graduated, then a third. A fourth was only open a few years before enrollment declined.

Harrison Ford was two years behind me -- a geeky sophomore in my yearbook, where his only 'activity' was "audio-visual". (Remember those shy boys who wheeled the film projectors around to classrooms?) I can't avoid seeing another alum on TV now, during the caucuses, but she and her brothers are all younger than I.

Kathsgrdn, that's interesting. Maybe yours was soon after they changed the dress code so the idea that you had to wear a dress was still floating around? Unless there's someone you were trying to impress, I can't imagine wearing a dress and heels if it weren't required. I remember a friend wore a sheer (over lining), navy dress with white pin dots, and a really low neckline. :) It was chosen, if I remember right, to distract the guards while someone smuggled something in. If I remember right, the pooled knowledge said that a girl could tape something flat to her inner thigh, and the guards wouldn't pat that close to home. I think they also all wore dance shorts under their gowns so they'd feel more modest climbing out of the Matterhorn and things like that, and that helped hide the contraband.

Ah, you "young folks!!"

I graduated in 1938 in depression years. A trip would have been unheard of in those days. I was only 15, much too young, really. We were lucky to have a prom that year. Only 31 in our Senior class-quite a close knit group.

Our senior class had a bus trip to Nashville. My best friend and I had new slack suits to wear. Jeans weren't popular yet. We saw Andrew Jackson's home, The Hermitage, which I don't remember , and a replica of the Parthenon which was an art gallery. Most fun was the Grand Ole Opry, in Ryman Auditorium. I remember Eddy Arnold singing "I'll hold you in my heart till I can hold you in my arms" and thought it was wonderful. We drove all the way back to Mississippi in the wee hours and slept most of the next day. We did not have a prom but did have a dinner at a nice restaurant. This was in 1947. My class had a fiftieth reunion in '97. Nice memories.

Graduated in 1988 with a graduating class of 520. No senior trip. The Latin club went to Chicago every year though and I went my junior and senior years. We rode the bus overnight, spent the day in Chicago, then rode the bus overnight home again. Graduation night there was an all night party with chaperones, couldn't leave without a parent picking you up and if you left you couldn't come back.

LOL! Crl, you remind me that our post-graduation school party was shut down by the police...

No sponsered senior trip here, pretty sure my parents didn't have them either in the same school districts back in the 70s.

8th grade had a sponsored trip to Washington DC but I didn't go on it.

There was a cruise. I do not think it was a long standing tradition. I did not go. Now one of the teachers who was instrumental in putting it together is on a list of clergy accused of pedophilia. I heard stories while he was at my school but oddly no one has come forward from those days to join his accusers. Is it possible that in our town he behaved? That is not likely, and as I said I heard rumors back in the day....

Yes...my brother's class of 1947 was the first class from our school to take one. They took a small school bus from Kansas to New Orleans. My class was 1959 and we got to take a bigger school bus and made a big loop down to New Orleans, Mississippi, Memphis, Branson and back to Kansas. Times changed...classes moved up to chartered busses to Florida...now they still go to Florida (Disney), but they fly. Kids are "softer" now than we were!

Graduated public HS in 1975 and joined our senior class trip to Hawaii. I think about 100 students (out of a class of 711) went on the trip. IIRC the cost was about $500 for airfare + hotel (4 kids to a room). My dear grandpa paid for the trip as a graduation present. I was one lucky girl! The trip was a long standing tradition at my HS in the Midwest and chaperoned by a school vice principal and several teachers (and their spouses). When I look back I think it's unusual we had a class trip to Hawaii as I definitely did not grow up in a wealthy area.

I made it to Hawaii before my parents who went on a long awaited and very well deserved trip to the islands about 6 weeks after I returned.

My son's high school did not have a senior class trip that I'm aware of when he graduated in 2010 although it's possible some of the extracurricular clubs may have.

A bit OT my dad loved to travel and sparked the same interest in me, so I have been very fortunate to have returned to Hawaii a few times with my family as well as traveled widely for business and vacation throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia.

No senior trip. They canceled those forever a couple of years previous over something that happened on the senior trip. I can't remember what it was....probably someone got caught smoking a cigarette or drinking a beer. (It was a Quaker town and those things were very frowned upon. At that time, you couldn't buy beer (or wine, etc) in the town and cigarettes were only sold under the counter at one service station.) We did have a senior day and we went to the beach at Matagorda Island, where one of our classmate's family had a beach house.

I went on a trip every other year in marching band (Orlando and Phoenix). I also went to Memphis for TJCL. They still do that. My son's concert band group is to go to NYC this spring (? I think). Year before last marching went to Hawai'i. And next year's marching trip location isn't announced yet. His eighth grade class went to DC. He's been to Memphis, Murfreesboro, and Knoxville for TJCL. All of this from Nashville. He goes loads of places with school. They went on a "math camping" trip in fifth grade (also the whole class), but I don't remember where. So, undoubtedly, they'll go somewhere his senior year too. Someone will.

We did not have to pay for our senior trip, only had to have some spending money. I am sure I would not have gotten to go if we would have had to pay for it. We were gone for a week. I still have the letters I wrote my now husband that were written on the hotels stationery. I know we got to see the Rockettes and also saw the movie Shane. I don't think we were turned loose on our own, but the girls went with the lady teacher and the boys with the man teacher. Special trips like to see the Rockettes and the movie as well as other things we all went together.

Sue

IDK My senior year I went to high school in the morning, college in the afternoon, then had an evening paper route to pay for it all.

When I was 14 my spanish class went to Mexico for a week. The teachers father owned a grocery store and cashed in coupons for us to pay for it all + spending money and I paid for 1/2 of my 2 friends trips. (my mothers church group collected the coupons for us)

Class of 87. Niagra Falls and Toronto.

I am in fifth grade at PS 13 Queens Clement C. Moore, and I am having a senior trip to Pocono Valley at Pennsylvania on June 8th this year. I am so excited I even made a countdown calendar, and I have thirty-one more days to go!

Grace, I hope that you have the best time ever!

Be sure to be careful about posting too much personal information on a forum like this. Not a good idea to share names, schools, etc. with a bunch of strangers.

We went to Grad Night at Disneyland. It was a slightly earlier year than Kathsgrdn's trip; I wore a pant suit, so I am sure those were an option for female attire. I still have the Pooh my boyfriend, now husband, bought for me. Honor Society members got a day at the beach in La Jolla every year. The Library Club went to Sea World or the San Diego Zoo yearly; we voted on which destination.

No senior trip at my high school. Any trips that were made were done in connection with a particular study during the school year. There was no money in the budget for non-study related activities. At my school, by the time the end of the senior year approached, students were anxious to say goodbye and move on to the next adventure. The main exit event was graduation ceremony in the gymnasium. Parents were invited to watch their offspring receive their diploma and mention by the principal if they had made a particular accomplishment. After the ceremony, all were anxious to turn in their rented gowns and get a piece of cake, and then take off for glorious summer.

We were free at last!! That is, until the draft board called or in 3 months, headed off for another school.

Yes, my high school had a Senior Class Trip. I graduated in 1996. We went to Williamsburg, Virginia for the weekend. We left the school on a Friday Morning in June and came back that Sunday Evening. We went to Water Country USA and Busch Gardens in Williamsburg and to Kings Dominion near Richmond, Virginia. I had a ball on my Class Trip. I really enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun. Still remember that trip to this day over 20 years later. Having that experience made me want to travel more and travel the way I do now. When I look back I am so glad I took advantage of that once and a lifetime opportunity. I will always have the memories.

Yes, it was very nice. We went to Flanders in NJ. It was a large park with swimming, Horseback riding and lots of things to do. If I remember correctly that is....it's been a very long time.

My senior class went on a trip to Europe. I did not go - I wanted to go, but my parents could not spare the money.

Wow, this is an old thread that popped back up. No senior trip for my class. We did have a graduation party at the local YMCA. Whoop dee doo. This was 1965.

We went to Disneyland. We flew there in the afternoon and had the park to ourselves overnight with about a gazillion graduates from other schools. At around 7:00 the next morning, we got on shuttles to go to the airport and flew back home.

The 8th grade class at the elementary school where I worked take a graduation trip to San Francisco. They spend three nights and see a baseball game (either Giants or A's depending on who has a home game when the class is in town), visit Alcatraz, have a fancy (to them) dinner out, attend a play or other performance, tour the Jelly Belly factory and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember. They are exhausted when they get back and the chaperones are even worse off. They hold fund raisers all during the school year to pay for their trip.

No school trip for me and my fellow students. We were lucky to get a graduation ceremony. If you played a competitive sport or played in the band, you'd get to ride the team bus to games.

I did get three trips in high school due to science projects. The first one was a butterfly collection, 2nd was a phono oscillator that had a range of nearly 1/4 mile - had to be careful which frequency I broadcast with on that one - and for the 3rd one, I converter the phono oscillator into 5 tube superhet AM radio. For each of the three, my science teacher used his personal car to provide transportation. At the regional fair, I snagged a first place rating with the 3rd item and was entitled to compete at the state fair. Again, my science teacher came through. He arranged the trip and again, he used his car. We stayed at his brother's house; It required most of a day to get there. While there, his brother drove us to a couple of places in his Hupmobile. Yes folks, I have ridden in a Hupmobile! This was my class trip in 1954.

Frankly, I don't know whether my class had some sort of senior trip as even if they did, my family could never afford to send me on it. It's possible I was unaware, or that kids took their own trips. My own kids took a little trip on their own; the one I remember the most is middle girl taking a road trip with her friends to Disneyland.

No class trips at my school (no spring breaks either). My 7th grade class - or maybe it was 8th, don't remember -- did have a 3 day bus trip across Ohio to see some of the state's sights -- Marietta, the Y bridge in Zanesville, Serpent Mound, and the statehouse. Part of the state history class.

Now I think 6th grade camp is a statewide phenomenon (at least, a lot of districts do it). My daughter also went on 2 joint trips with students from the Navajo Nation as part of one of her high school classes-- the first to Ontario, Canada, the 2nd to the Navajo community.

With over 800 kids in my senior class. No way.

We went to Washington D.C. I wish we could have went to N.YC. Too but lack of class funds didn't allow it. :(

We went to New Orleans by train. I missed so much of the journey because the sound of the tracks put me to sleep both coming and going. I think of the class only 4 did not go. One for religious reasons, the other three worked. I was one of the few that was over 18 and could legally drink. Since at that time I had already been sampling the stuff that was leftover from the holidays it was not that big of a thing. Not certain where the boys went as they disappeared only to return when it was time for meals and to leave. Only one of the girls had id that was not hers. She borrowed her 36 year old mother's drivers license. She was also the only one that had not had some form of alcohol by that age. Her first drink was a Grasshopper. The barmaid knew she was not of age but she was identical looking to her mother. We earned every penny for that trip and it was well worth it.