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TRAVELING

Out on the road again

* 61 think fieldtrips are helpful in gaining experi-
■ ence and knowledge for a class,” said junior
Chris Rogers. “ As long as a student keeps up his
grades in his classes, he should be able to take
fieldtrips.”
The purpose of fieldtrips is to enhance learning. It
is to give students information that they wouldn’t
have known otherwise. Students get bored with the
same routine of learning from books, notes, and lec­
tures. Fieldtrips teach the students a more interest­
ing way to learn new things.
One of the main reasons students like fieldtrips is
because they are a learning experience. Fieldtrips
may make the topic or unit they’re working on in
class clearer.
Psychology/Sociology classes have taken two
fieldtrips this year. First, they traveled to Lincoln.
There, students could participate in many kinds of
experiments dealing with the mind. Their second
fieldtrip was to Glenwood Mental Institution in Glen-
wood, Iowa. The students put themselves on a one-
to-one basis with the residents, who were mentally
handicapped.
Child Development classes took a trip to
Nebraska Methodist Hospital to get an idea of what
the delivery room and the nursery are like.
Business Law teacher Deloss Smith and his
classes traveled to the Douglas County Court House
to see how actual court cases are handled.
For the 1980-81 school year, a big calendar is
going to be posted in the office. This calendar will
tell the date, place and time of every fieldtrip for that
year. Band, choir, and drama activity trips will be
limited.
This will help the teachers with their curriculum
and will hopefully eliminate confusion.
Some students choose to take classes outside of
school, at Boystown. Boystown offers classes that
aren’t offered at RHS, such as hairstyling and cake
decorating.
Taking a class at Boystown counts for 20 elective
credits. The courses give the students an idea of
what a particular career is like.
Boystown also gives the students a background
of their facilities and of the people that live there.
They make friends with students from the other
schools that go there including: Millard, Westside,
and Elkhorn.
"The only thing I don’t like is having to take the
taxi there and back everyday,” said junior Kelly
Monahan.

Boarding the but. Junior Leslie Cooper steps on the bus to go on the Health Occupations field-
trip to the University of Nebraska Medical Center.