PLACENTIA/YORBA LINDA : District Studying Students’ Side Trips to Theme Parks
Students attending competitions, conventions and other extended field trips might no longer be allowed to take side trips to visit amusement parks.
Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District officials began a review of the district’s policy on extended field trips at the request of school board President Judy Miner.
The issue of side trips to nearby amusement parks on weekend field trips came up at Tuesday’s board meeting during discussion of two planned Esperanza High School field trips.
Field trips of more than one day must be approved by the board, which usually does so with little comment. But last week Miner questioned side trips to Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm being planned for students attending a weekend journalism convention in Anaheim next month and a side trip to Marine World Africa USA for students participating in a band competition in Northern California in November.
“I am nervous about students spending the evening at amusement parks,” which are difficult to supervise, Miner said.
The board approved both trips, but asked district officials to determine if the side trips violate any board policy and to weigh potential liability problems.
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