OXFORD – The resolution of a disputed student trip to Canada set for May is in the works.

SAD 17 Superintendent Mark Eastman said Friday that he met with parents and a teacher involved in planning the sixth-grade Hebron Station School class trip to Montreal and they have reached an agreement to base their decision on how many permission slips are returned in favor of going to Canada.

“I think we worked out the situation. I hope I addressed the parents’ concerns,” Eastman said.

Parents of four children attended the SAD 17 Board of Directors meeting April 2 to voice concerns about a dispute over their plans to send the 13 students in the sixth grade to Connecticut instead of Canada.

The parents, who said the teacher left them in charge of planning the trip, told directors that when an issue about obtaining both parents’ permission to cross the border threatened to keep at least one child from attending the trip, they decided to go to Mystic, Conn.

But when final arrangements were being made for the trip to Connecticut, parent Richard Feely said the teacher sent home a message saying Connecticut was out and Canada was back on.

Eastman said permission slips and information about such issues as the border crossing requirements have now been sent home to all the students, and if enough want the Canada trip planning to continue they will go.

The Board of Directors is expected to act on the request at its April 23 meeting.

School policy dictates that the directors must approve all educational trips outside the United States in advance. The superintendent is charged with approving all overnight education trips within the country.