Travel Guidelines

George School has vacation periods during the 2011-12 academic year when students are required to leave campus. When making travel plans remember to allow at least six hours between your child’s departure from campus and arrival at area airports. Please refer to the exam schedule for appropriate end-of-term travel times. Exams cannot be changed to accommodate travel arrangements.

• Thanksgiving Break (follows Term 1 Exams) - November 17 to 28
• December Break - December 20 to January 3
• Mid-winter Break - February 4 to 7
• Spring Break (follows Term 2 Exams) - March 8 to March 26

Travel Details

If your child is flying, we suggest you purchase unaccompanied minor service for younger travelers. Age qualifications/limitations vary by each airline, so please check airlines individually. We know of at least one airline (U.S. Airways) that expects minors to be chaperoned up to the gate. Please note: our faculty/staff drivers cannot personally chaperone students to individual gates.

Departure and return travel details should be forwarded to Ginny Eccles in the Deans' Office. Please include the following information:

•	Host’s* name, address, and phone number
•	Date of departure
•	Type of transportation (car/air/train/other—please specify)
•	Transportation details
•	If your child is riding in a car, with whom?
•	If your child is flying, include the airport the flight departs from, airline, flight number(s), and departure time.
•	If assistance is needed from the Deans’ Office for ground transportation from the train station or airport, please state this.

*Students need an invitation from their host and your permission to ride and stay if they are not traveling directly home. These invitations and permissions can be emailed to the Deans' Office. Please note that unless a day student is a boarding student’s host, boarding students are not permitted to ride in cars with day student drivers on departure days.

If you have any questions, please contact Ginny Eccles at Virginia_Eccles@georgeschool.org.

International Students Only

Please note that all students have school obligations until noon on Tuesday December 20, when the Holiday Break begins. The only exception is for international students who can receive an excused absence on that day for travel back to their home country. (See page 13 of the Community Handbook for further information regarding attendance policies.)

International students must leave campus for the February 4 to February 7 Mid-Winter Break.

During Spring Break (from March 8 to March 26) an international student who is traveling out of the United States and cannot make other arrangements is allowed to stay on campus for no more than two consecutive nights at the beginning of a break, and to return to school no more than two nights early at the end of a break.

On the night of your child’s last exam, he or she will be allowed to stay in the dorm, supervised by dorm faculty. If it is necessary for your child to stay a second night, he or she will stay in the Student Health Center in one of the patient rooms, supervised by a George School faculty member who lives on campus.

Students who stay for that second night will be charged $125 for lodging and meals. If your child must return to school before the dorms open at the end of a break, he or she will stay in the Student Health Center in one of the patient rooms, supervised by a George School faculty member who lives on campus. The fee for returning early is $125 per night.