High School In California Cancels "Stay-At-Home" Field Trip For Seniors

Howard Blume wrote in the Los Angeles Times (5/19) "LA Now" blog that on Tuesday, Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga, California, "abruptly canceled a three-day 'stay at home' field trip for seniors after a parent and officials questioned it." The purpose of the field trip "was to get seniors off campus during the three days of annual standardized testing of underclassmen." The school is now "scrambling to arrange a daylong study hall in the auditorium for Wednesday and Thursday." The Los Angeles Times notes that typically, area schools provide activities for seniors to do in school while underclassmen test. These activities include "prepping for graduation ceremonies, special assemblies, senior picnics, career days, class photos, movies, make-up work."