Students suspended for drinking on European trip
WESTPORT, Mass. -- A group of students went to Europe for a class trip and came home to a suspension for drinking alcohol.
Sixteen of the 32 Westport High School students who traveled to Paris and Barcelona on their Spring Break were suspended for nine days for drinking on their trip.
The drinking age in only 16 in Spain, which made them legal at the time. The students said this trip was not school sponsored.
The Westport School Committee argues that they approved the trip, therefore the students had to follow the school policy.
Some of the students plan to go face-to-face before the superintendent and school committee on Tuesday night to talk about the issue.
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