First and foremost, the school faculty often make
efficient plans for field trips. In other words, most faculty members have a lot
of information about managing the field trips within the limited school budget.
Therefore, they can decide appropriate locations as well as activities on the
field trip. Moreover, since they know well about education, their decisions would
allow students to experience an enjoyable educational process. For instance,
when I was in college, all my geology field trips were designed by the
department faculty. They chose Taebaek as a field site, which was related to
our ongoing course and prepared some activities, such as delivering group presentations
and pop quiz, which as a result was helpful for us to understand the field trip
contents better. All students who participated in the field trip were satisfied
with the faculty members’ decisions, and we still talk to each other about the
trip. This example shows that faculty’s professional knowledge is helpful to
making excellent decision.
On top of that, if students take part in making
decision about field trips, it would cause disorder. To be specific, there are
a number of students in school, which is difficult to meet the whole students’
demands. Since each students’ favorable conditions might be different, there
would be too much selections, which results in uneasiness. For example, a study
conducted by the Korean Ministry of Education, 70% of the universities making
decisions with only faculty had a high satisfaction level of their field trips,
and only 20% of the universities having plans with students responded that
their students’ satisfaction levels were low. 20% of the universities said that
there were too much demands from students, and the schools were not able to
meet all students’ needs. Thus, those schools had hard time deciding where to
go as well as the types of activities on field trips. In some schools, their
field trips were delayed due to the late decisions and even cancelled. This study
shows that when it comes to having plans for field trips, students’
participation would disturb the process.
In conclusion, I firmly believe that only faculty’s
decision making is better than including students’ opinions. All things
considered, it is my belief that my argument concerning this issue has been
efficiently and precisely delivered with the reasons mentioned above.