So I am stumped. Help me please wise parents! DS7 has a field trip next week. (He is partially homeschooled.) He doesn't want to go on the field trip. So, I didn't send in his permission slip. Three separate staff members have called DH and I to find out why DS isn't going and to tell us that he "must" go. The principal even pulled DS out of art to question him. She told him that he "must" go on the trip. What is this all about? The only answer I get is that field trip are important "educational events".