AIR TRAVEL FIELD TRIPS CANCELED STUDENTS' PROTECTION CITED.Byline: Helen Gao Staff Writer BURBANK - Concerned about the threat of terrorism, the Burbank Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. has suspended all out-of-state field trips that require air travel, officials said Thursday. As a result, local high schools have had to cancel plans for choir competitions, sports tournaments and an educational field trip to Washington, D.C. ``As a result of Sept. 11 and uncertainties surrounding not only flight safety but venues, we have not approved field trips that require flights across the country,'' said Deputy Superintendent Deputy Superintendent, or Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), was a rank used by police forces of the British Empire. In some territories it was called Deputy District Superintendent of Police (DDSP). Gregory Bowman. The district adopted the policy in the weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the East Coast. The policy has forced the cancellation of this year's Close Up Program, which for more than a decade has taken dozens of Burroughs, Burbank and other local high school students to the nation's capital. ``At this point, approving a trip to Washington, D.C., would be fraught with concerns not only we would have but parents would have as well,'' said Bowman, noting that access to major government buildings remains uncertain. While some students have criticized the policy in Burbank High School's newspaper, Burroughs Principal Emilio Urioste Jr. said his students understood the rationale for the policy. ``I did not encounter any resistance,'' he said. ``The focus of my part in talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to them is this is not against them. This is in the best interest of our school.'' The Burroughs High School choir had planned to attend a national competition in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and the softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' team a tournament in Orlando, Fla. Burbank High School Burbank High School may refer to:
Bowman said he is not sure how long the administrative policy will be in effect. ``It's an open book ... It is until we have more reasonable beliefs the safety of young people would be secure,'' he said. The neighboring Glendale and Los Angeles unified school districts The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. have not adopted similar policies. Vic Pallos, spokesman for the Glendale district, said his district did initially restrict student travel immediately after Sept. 11, but has since shifted its energy to improving security measures Noun 1. security measures - measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc.; "military security has been stepped up since the recent uprising" security . ``We have improved and tightened our emergency preparedness communications procedures,'' he said. ``We know more precisely when we have an emergency what the roles and responsibilities of our staff are.'' |
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