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Silver Creek board approves middle school travel club, OKs June 12, 2027 London–Paris trip
Summary
The Silver Creek School Corporation board voted to create a middle school travel club and approved a June 12, 2027 field trip to London and Paris, expanding a long-running high school travel program. The board also approved a liability waiver and assumption-of-risk form by 4–1.
The Silver Creek School Corporation board on May 27 approved a new Middle School Travel Club and unanimously approved a field trip to London and Paris scheduled for June 12, 2027.
The travel-club proposal, presented by Matt Horton, Silver Creek High School teacher and travel club sponsor, and Amy Compton, assistant sponsor and counselor, would open international travel to students entering sixth, seventh or eighth grade in the summer of 2027. "We have a very rich history of student travel at Silver Creek," Horton said, describing a program that has taken students to about 20 countries since 1972.
The board’s action matters because it formally extends an established high-school program to younger students and sets program rules and safety expectations. Supporters said the planned trips aim to build language immersion, cultural exposure and cross-school connections; opponents were not recorded during the deliberations on the club itself.
Horton and Compton described a three‑year rotation of itineraries the…
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