Garfield Cancels all Field Trips for the School Year
Principal Ted Howard II and the Garfield PTSA sent out this message today. It's confusing because he says there will be no field trips "for the current school year" (which would be 2014-2015) but then says it may change in Jan. 2015, depending on the recommendations of the taskforce. Apparently he didn't check the link to the taskforce because they won't have recs until Oct. 2015. Maybe he meant January 2016. I have already heard from parents who have had students go on successful trips in the past. Will he actually say no if the Garfield Jazz Band is again invited to the Essentially Ellington competition? I find some of the "suggestions" for future field trips both surprising and sad, mainly because I can't believe they weren't in place already.