Garfield High Updates
Field Trip The proposed field trip last Friday to Vashon Island, an eight-year annual tradition by the Garfield jazz vocal group (about 70 students), had been pulled at what seemed like the last second. This confusion happened because despite the approval of the principal and the district's risk manager, approval was not given by the Executive Director, Sarah Pritchett. They had only two weeks from the time that the ban on field trips at Garfield had been lifted and felt they had all the necessary documentation done. The Vocal Music supporters sent a letter to Ms. Pritchett and Mr. Tolley to ask what happened. They are really upset because there are potential costs of $10K from breach of "various contracts." They maintain they repeatedly called Ms. Pritchett on Friday to get an explanation and she could not be reached. They want the district to help mitigate those potential costs. Richard Staudt, Risk Manager, wrote them back today, explainin...