The Crookston Music Trip Parents Organization (Crookston High School Music Trip) has made the difficult decision to cancel the trip that the current Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors were supposed to take in March of 2022. (The CMTPO is a group of parents of music students. The school isn’t involved in the decision-making process on the cancelation of the trip. Don’t contact the school with any questions or comments/concerns because they won’t be able to answer them.)
The decision was made after the number of kids that were planning on going dropped below 60 students, which is over 100 below the previous trips, making performing as the marching band, choir, and orchestra difficult.
The other concern is the re-emergence of COVID and the delta variant. The committee chair, Chris Fee, said the decision is for two reasons. “Low numbers and COVID are the reasons why we have decided to cancel the trip,” said Fee. “Believe me, this wasn’t an easy decision to make for us parents on the board. We went back and forth for several meetings over the summer, but with COVID causing problems once again, we decided to cancel the trip. COVID has had a terrible effect on music classes across the country because they weren’t allowed to do anything the past year. Crookston is no different.”
The group will be refunding money to students that are currently enrolled in music and have reached the goal of $1,500 that they were supposed to have in their account over a year ago. There will be a parent/student meeting in a couple of weeks and we will distribute the money back to the students at that meeting. KROX and the Crookston Times, along with the music teachers will have the meeting information when the board gets all the refund checks completed.
If a kid is NOT currently enrolled in music, they won’t be getting money back. ONLY students currently enrolled in music and those that had raised the $1,500 total or more because they were the only ones planning on going on the trip still.
All questions will be answered at the refund meeting in a few weeks.
The CMTPO is still planning a music trip in March of 2024 for the current sixth through ninth graders. There will be no fall frozen food sale this year, but there will be a spring frozen food sale. Stay tuned for more information on the next planned trip.
