Take Note: Looking for a French connection

A wave of terrorist activity in the City of Lights is keeping Carol Rolband and her 8th-grade French class away from their traditional end-of-the-year trip to Paris.

And now, they may even avoid their second choice.

Each April for the past six years, the French teacher from New Jersey's South Orange Middle School has taken about 20 students to Paris to experience the best of French culture firsthand, with stops at castles, the Louvre,...