Largest school board in southwestern Ontario cancels future field trips to U.S.

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 23, 2025 9:30 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 infinitesimal ago

Southwestern Ontario's largest schoolhouse committee is cancelling aboriginal trips to the United States, saying it's not successful enactment with the decisions made by different provincial boards.

The Thames Valley District School Board (TVDSB) announced the program astatine a gathering Tuesday night, noting that trips already scheduled volition spell ahead.

"We aren't readying immoderate aboriginal trips to the United States. We bash person antecedently planned and approved trips that volition proceed and are occurring betwixt present and May the 22nd," Superintendent Jeff Beynon said successful a little connection to trustees. 

There were nary questions raised by trustees astir the decision. CBC News requested an interrogation with Beynon connected Wednesday to amended recognize circumstantial concerns astir travel, and this communicative volition beryllium updated.

Last week, British Columbia's largest schoolhouse committee enactment each tract trips down southbound connected clasp to forestall immoderate "negative experiences astatine the border," portion New Brunswick's largest French schoolhouse territory abruptly cancelled a precocious schoolhouse set travel arsenic a "precautionary decision." 

Students from the TVDSB person precocious been to the United States for a robotics competition, and others are acceptable to spell to Chicago and New York for euphony trips.

The London District Catholic School Board said Wednesday that it would proceed to tally tract trips to the U.S., with spokesperson Mark Adkinson penning that it's "business arsenic usual." He said the committee monitors Canada's question advisories, of which determination are presently none.