"When students spend two weeks away from their parents, they get to exercise muscles that they don't have to exercise a lot of times in their day-to-day life, Durbin said."
"Their parents tell them where to go, what to eat, when to go to bed, what to work on next, and we do have a lot of parents' support going on this trip, but they won't be hovering over the kids saying, Make this choice' or Make that choice.'"
"Boitz said this trip took several years of effort and would have happened earlier if the exchange rate between the American dollar and the Japanese yen hadn't been so low."
The Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District approved a two-week international field trip to Japan for about 290 students and 40 staff in June 2026. Saratoga High's concert band, concert choir and symphony orchestra will perform with Lynbrook High School choir students. Performances include the Mount Fuji Music Festival, Musashino Music Academy in Tokyo, a Hiroshima concert and a cultural exchange with the all-girls Hiiyama Junior and Senior High School Wind Orchestra. Teachers Michael Boitz and Shelley Durbin will chaperone and instruct. The trip provides world-class performance opportunities, cultural exchange and practical life-skill development, including increased independence for some students. Boitz said years of effort and past unfavorable exchange rates affected timing.
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