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Backseat Driver

(4,646 posts)
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 08:45 PM Oct 2024

My grandson left this morning on a 4-day 8th grade trip to Washington, DC.

It's a full agenda every day; a whirlwind of government buildings, museums, and monuments including a stop at Gettysburg. Ummm, speaking of their daily itinerary, before the trip a student was chosen to participate in an essay contest for the honor of participating in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. My grandson will be doing the honors for his most excellent essay. Imagine that...what a great young man! I'm so proud.

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My grandson left this morning on a 4-day 8th grade trip to Washington, DC. (Original Post) Backseat Driver Oct 2024 OP
Oh, that's wonderful. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2024 #1
You should be proud. That is really a once in a lifetime honor debm55 Oct 2024 #2
My daughter's ws cancelled due to COVID's onset Bristlecone Oct 2024 #3
I am proud of him also! MLAA Oct 2024 #4
Great for having the trip, and this special honor Congrats!! electric_blue68 Oct 2024 #5
My kid went in fifth grade IbogaProject Oct 2024 #6
Really? Wow. I was in Nalder's district, too. electric_blue68 Oct 2024 #10
His school had a whole supplemental budget IbogaProject Oct 2024 #11
That's wonderful!! So glad you shared it with us!! ailsagirl Oct 2024 #7
Impressive. Kudos to your grandson. LoisB Oct 2024 #8
Super! ... littlemissmartypants Oct 2024 #9

electric_blue68

(19,806 posts)
5. Great for having the trip, and this special honor Congrats!!
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 09:26 PM
Oct 2024

I don't know when I first heard that some schools would have school trips to DC. I certainly had forgotten about it
So now it comes back as a surprise.
Heh, we never had that in NYC!

I went w my family in '64 as a kid to DC bc we visited, and stayed w my aunt & uncle in Virginia just outside DC.
I don't remember much of visiting places. Maybe bc my dad was suffering from shingles!
But we did visit the then very iconic white picket fence of JFK w the Enternal Flame.
I had the photo for decades.

IbogaProject

(4,014 posts)
6. My kid went in fifth grade
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 10:35 PM
Oct 2024

Nyc public school. Some how a parent tweeted Rep Nadler and Mr Nadler met the kids. The school is in his district.

IbogaProject

(4,014 posts)
11. His school had a whole supplemental budget
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 01:00 PM
Oct 2024

They raised hundreds of thousands every years to supplement their budget. That way they could pay a few extra staff and fund some trips. Washington DC and two overnight trips one in 4th and one in 5th grade. The level of fundraising at the posh public schools always bothered me as you'd go to a less posh school in Brooklyn and their whole fundraising goal was $60 or $70,000 trying to get one part time gym teacher or whatever. I'd like to see a sharing between the most lucrative PTAs and the most needy ones. I really wish the Dept of Defense or big pharma had to run bake sales to make their budgetary needs.

littlemissmartypants

(26,524 posts)
9. Super! ...
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 11:54 PM
Oct 2024

I hope he really enjoys himself. Children are so powerful but many don't hear it enough.

Their power is their ability to give us hope. Please thank him for that on my behalf.

🏆Congratulations🏆 to your grandson on his achievements. I'm sure that he will have many more. I share your pride.

Thank you so much for sharing this, Backseat Driver.







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