Stricter Chaperone Regulations May Be Too Stern For Some
The Verona Board of Education will once again re-examine how they choose chaperones to give equal opportunities to parents.
The Verona Board of Education is once again contemplating a re-evaluation of some district procedures when picking chaperones from school trips. At the June 19, 2012 board meeting, the board announced it will tighten its rules about chaperoning class trips after a group of fathers supposedly held a party in a cabin during a fifth-grade camping trip. H.B. Whitehorne Middle School Principal Yvette McNeal emailed details of the incident in a letter to parents of all fifth graders earlier that week. Additional details were learned at that night’s meeting, including information the fathers, who were supposed to be chaperoning the 10 boys, left them without a chaperone while they lit fires and drank alcohol at another cabin during a five-hour …
