For your consideration…
1. Students going on the 2009 Washington, D.C. Trip will need to be at school on Saturday, May 9, at 9:00 P.M. Dr. Srygley said the buses will be on campus at 9:00 and we want to be loaded and leaving the campus by 10:00 P.M.
2. Students going on the trip will return to campus on Friday, May 15 at 11:00 A.M. Mrs. Semore has requested that we are back for the Yearbook Assembly which is scheduled for around 1:30 P.M. on that date. Remember that students will also receive their yearbooks on that date. We will have the Stepherson Room available for us to place our luggage in if the students need a place to store their suitcases. I am assuming that if you, the parent, are going on the trip that someone will be here to pick you up and you can take your child’s luggage with you when you leave campus. Students can leave campus at about 2:30 P.M. on May 15.
3. For students not going on the trip, activities have been planned for them as well. They will have a wonderful week of “fun and educational” activities; however, no homework will be given, at least not in mathematics. Everything will be done in class and of course, grades will be given for each day’s work. Please remember from the earlier letter you received back in February that if your child is absent any day that week, a doctor’s note must be given for the absence to be counted as excused. This is the one week where a parent call is not going to give a student an excused absence.
4. The following is the Itinerary for the 2009 Washington, D.C. Trip:
May 9: Leave Harding Academy at 10:00 P.M. from the front of the school and travel all night.
May 10: Breakfast will be at Cracker Barrell in Abington, VA. We will have a devotional at some point during the day. Lunch will be in Shaunton, VA. We will visit Monticello anad then on to Manassas, VA.
May 11: Iwo Jima Memorial, exterior of the White House, National Cathedral; Ford’s Theater, Petterson House, and tours of the Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam War Memorial, Korean War Memorial, World War II Memorial, and Jefferson Memorial
May 12: Mount Vernon, Library of Congress, Capitol Visitor Center, and Arlington Cemetery
May 13: Holocaust Museum, Capitol Building Tour, Senate Gallery, Photo with Senator Corker, FDR Memorial, Kennedy Center
May 14: The entire day will be spent at the Smithsonian Museums. Students will need to go to the Museum of American History, Museum of Natural Sciences, National Archives, Air and Space Museum, and any others that you can work into the day. Leave Washington, D.C. at 5:00 and begin our bus trip back to Memphis.
May 15: Arrive in Memphis sometime around 11:00 A.M. unless something unforeseen happens. Students will get back in time to eat lunch on campus and to be present for the Yearbook Assembly where they will receive their yearbooks.
Please remember students will need money for lunches ($55-70 depending upon how much you eat) and money for souvenirs and snacks. The simulator ride at the Air and Space Museum is about $7-8 if you have a student who wants to do the simulator ride.