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We had the option of going to the state capitol building or a slaughterhouse.

Oct 08, 08 - 01:15 pm Comment from: HMCIV

Remind me to be NOWHERE near one of these Apple Stores hits. God I hate chaperones!

Oct 08, 08 - 01:36 pm Comment from: Demon

interesting,

@ MikeH

So you choose Slaughterhouse?

Oct 08, 08 - 01:36 pm Comment from: TowerTone

Well, that's one way for a teacher to get an Apple.

When I was in High School, a field trip was a day picking shrooms...

Genius: "For the last time, kid, this ain't a real bar. Yeah, I feel smarter when I drink, too. No, we don't even have apple juice".

Now only if there was a apple store to go to,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Come on Apple, How about a apple store in NW Indiana!

Another great idea.

Oct 08, 08 - 02:37 pm Comment from: s

"Now only if there was a apple store to go to,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"
Time for Apple to setup a Mobile Apple Store or Apple Genius on Wheel (A Mac class room with large screen display in a trailer)?

Oct 08, 08 - 03:00 pm Comment from: qka

@MikeH

Wasn't it Bismarck who said said something to the effect that lawmaking is like sausage making, and the the squeamish should not watch either happen?

Oct 08, 08 - 03:19 pm Comment from: rstlz

cool ideer

Microsoft's trip to Redmon...
Your students can play with devices and take a guess what the device is supposed to do (because microsoft stole it from another company).
Also, they can became expert in Copier machines.

Viktor watch what you are saying there. Microsoft hires brilliant minds so there's a great potiential that innovative ideas comes out of brilliant minds. I would not recommend teachers taking a class on a field trip to the Apple store because it's a waste of time and not very educational. What does a Apple store have to do with education I guess nothing since there's not much to see around here. Besides I would recommend teachers taking a field trip to Microsoft campus at Redmond, Seattle and explore the innovated prototypes they have in the research labs and have a better understanding how Microsoft is changing the world one step at a time.

Oct 08, 08 - 05:53 pm Comment from: Predrag

Joy of Tech:

You are no Zune Tang. Keep trying, though. With a lot of practice, you may get closer (eventually).

Yes, teachers everywhere -with their extremely limited budget, extremely limited time, high stakes tests up their butts, mountains of Student Expectations to cover, Loads of paperwork to fill out, lessons to plan, papers to grade, and 140 screaming and/or hormone filled kids to care for- should take time out of their schedules to go to an Apple Store for a field trip

Oct 08, 08 - 08:00 pm Comment from: MacSheikh

Lucky brats. My field tripe were trips to parks to "study nature". :-p

Oct 08, 08 - 08:06 pm Comment from: MacSheikh

I mean "trips" not "tripe". But then again, those trips could also be described as tripe i guess! Lol!

I guarantee you that Apple has very little interest in offering these students an educational experience. Targeted marketing of its products to 25 impressionable students in one sitting could be very profitable for Apple.

It works like this: Teacher duped into taking class to Apple Store for an "educational" experience = student sees cool technology at Apple Store = student goes home and pesters parents to buy Apple products = parents buy Apple products = Apple's marketing people laugh all the way to the bank.

By the way, when did retail shopping suddenly qualify as an educational experience? I'd might be willing to accept a behind-the-scenes tour an Apple R&D;facility as educational. But students really should be (gasp!) visiting a museum, observing a session of their state's legislature, going on a nature walk, etc.

And people wonder why the USA's K-12 education system is in ruins...

Typo: "I'd might" should read "I might".

In my day, the school trips from Oxford in England, managed to get us to places like - London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Paris, Strasbourg, Vienna and Bonn ... Some, not me, even ventured as far as the Amazon.

Whenever we could, we would get up all kinds of shit, just typical gung-ho for kids, aged 9 through to 13.

The Dragon School, Oxford, at times, a boys version of St. Trinians, tisk tisk! they wont like that annotation. However, the Sunday Times Magazine once voted it the scruffiest school in England.

The trips these-days are organised by an external company, no doubt, putting safety before FUN.
I bet these-days the boys don't even try to smuggle the classics like booze, smokes and flick knives through customs, while on their trips back from -

-Outward Bound centres, Italy or Morocco
-Cevennes trip in August
-Versailles Drama Festival
-Spring half-term canoeing trip
-Chamonix climbing course
-Keio Yochisha School Exchange (Japan) and New York School Exchange
-Easter Athletics training in Mallorca.

I hope they do!

Now I'm feeling kind'a old.

As much I like Macs I dislike Apple Stores:(

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