Killer-tree threat cancels Cupertino schools field trips
By Sharon Noguchi | snoguchi@bayareanewsgroup.com |
PUBLISHED: March 10, 2017 at 9:55 am | UPDATED: March 10, 2017 at 2:13 pm
The threat of killer trees and menacing rockslides has prompted the Cupertino Union School District to cancel its annual field trips to Yosemite Valley, setting off a new episode of ongoing drama in the district.
When they learned last Sunday that a Ponderosa pine had crashed onto a tent-cabin in Half Dome Village, killing a sleeping woman, Cupertino officials ordered eight Yosemite-bound buses carrying Kennedy MIddle School students to turn back. Then they called off three more middle schools’ trips scheduled for successive weeks, disappointing 1,500 eighth graders and their parents.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/10/killer-tree-threat-cancels-cupertino-schools-field-trips/