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Field Trip Guidelines

The following field trip restrictions are currently in place:

• No international field trips are permitted.
• Field trips within the United States are permitted.

The following are general FCPS field trip guidelines:

• A parent can always choose to excuse his or her child (opt out) from any instructional field trip without instructional penalty, if the parent is concerned about safety.
  
• There remains a possibility that a travel ban could be imposed in the future, based on world events. If future travel restrictions should be imposed, the school system would not be liable for any monies spent in advance.
  
• Non-school-sponsored trips (such as an overseas trip led by a foreign language teacher) are not under FCPS jurisdiction. The school division strongly advises teachers to cancel these trips. Such trips are not sponsored by FCPS and the school system has no liability for them.

FCPS policies and directives related to field trips can be reviewed at this site.