The Tri-Township Consolidated School Corporation is cutting back on overnight field trips. Superintendent Kelly Shepherd says an updated field trip policy was approved by the school board last week.
The idea is that the traditional overnight trips for seniors and eighth graders will be replaced by extended day trips. Shepherd told the school board last month that he was concerned that having an overnight component excludes some students from taking part and that the amount of fundraising was getting to be more than the community could handle.
“We might have a class reach their senior year that’s got, let’s say, seven grand there and want to plan this elaborate three-day trip, and the class behind them might have $1,500, solely because of, maybe, the difference between three different sets of parents who were involved,” Shepherd said.
But he says that other types of overnight trips, such as those related to extracurricular activities, could still be approved by the school board on a case-by-case basis.
