Rooming
Update for Parents Going on the DC Trip (5/17)
Your son or
daughter will be bringing home (hopefully) a rooming
signup sheet for you if you are chaperoning the DC trip.
If you have no idea who is going or who to room with,
don't worry, we'll pair you up with someone. Any
questions give Janice Schweihofer a call in our main
office.
Students
will be signing up for their rooming partners next week
(4 to a room). This ALWAYS causes me a headache.
Please help stress at home that this isn't like a family
vacation where you might spend a bunch of your time
hanging out in your hotel room. Who you room with
is such a minor, minor, minor part of the trip.
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Here is a
copy of what is being sent home with your child.
If they forget, lose it, have it stolen by gang members
to sell on the black market, have it eaten by a land
shark or it doesn't get home for any other reason, we
have more copies in the main office.
TEXAS HOLD’EM FUNDRAISER
This is the third time we’ve used this fundraiser and
it’s worked very well in the past. For those that have
never been involved with this type of fundraiser, our
part is easy. We don’t deal, we just work the cashbox
and act as a runner if one of the tables needs
something. The response I got from the parents in the
past is that they all had a good time. The man in
charge explains everything when you show up. Here’s the
plan. We have four separate “dates”, each one being
four days long. If it goes like last year we can expect
to earn about $1000 a night. The school is going to keep
around 40% of the profits (believe it or not, we have
expenses that we need to cover….it’s not going toward my
vacation fund). Around 60% will go toward the DC trip
of that worker’s child. The reason I say “around” is
that last year we worked it out to the penny and some
parents earned more than others depending on the date
they worked (a little confusing but trust me). To make
it more fair, I’ve decided to give each worker $100
toward their child’s trip. If we make considerably more
through this fundraiser, once all is said and done, I’ll
divide up the extra and give each worker a bonus. Once
each 4 day fundraiser is done, I’ll send the money
directly to Gerber. If you owe $175 and work two
sessions, you’ll earn you $200. That will pay off the
trip and get a $25 refund from Gerber. The one catch
that I don’t see happening is that you can not make more
than the trip costs. If that happens (which it won’t)
the “extra” will go to SCMS. If you are interested in
helping out, please fill out the form below with the
dates and times you are interested in. My first
priority is to give everyone interested an opportunity
to earn some “DC” bucks to help offset the cost of the
trip. If we have too many wanting one time slot then
I’ll make some phone calls to see if we can work it
out…if not, I’ll draw names out of a hat. Once everyone
who wants to help out gets a slot, if there are still
openings I’ll fill those from the names of those parents
that would like to do more than one time. After I
figure this all out (it’s like a tetris game), I’ll
e-mail a schedule out to everyone that signed up as well
as put it on our SCMS/Washington DC link. Your phone
number will be on the schedule that is e-mailed out
unless you make a note that you do not want me to print
it..but it will not be on the website. The reason for
the phone numbers is so you can contact those working
the same day/time to arrange rides or call someone to
fill in for you if an emergency comes up. You’ll notice
that the last time slot is not the same as the other
two. The reason is that the people working the last
time slot have to stay after to count the money and one
person in that last group has the responsibility of
taking the money to our Central Office on Meisner Road
the following day. I’ll send out more information via
e-mail after I get the lists completed. I am going to
post this on our SCMS website under the Washington DC
link. Any questions give me a call.
Our dates:
June 23-26 June 27-30 August
10-13 August 14-17
1:00pm-2:00 am each night
Location: Snookers on Hall rd. (West of Lakeside)
Please plan on showing up a few minutes early. At times
the traffic is horrific.
Two people needed 1:00pm-6:00pm
Two people needed 6:00-11:00pm
Two people needed 11:00pm-2:00am*
*Remember, the late shift is responsible to bring the
money to C.O. the following morning
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Return this to the Middle School Office by Friday May
11th
Parent’s Name_______________________ Phone
#______________________
***e-mail address
________________________________________
Student’s Name______________________
List your dates/day/times in preference….I’ll do my
best.
Preference Date
Day Time Slot
***Updates/corrections
will be sent via e-mail. Please make sure I can read
your e-mail.
(if you don’t have
e-mail…it’s time)
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Thanks to
everyone that attended the meeting last night. Two
important things to remember.
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It's an
AWESOME trip
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If you
have ANY questions, don't hesitate to shoot me an
e-mail or pick up the phone and call me.
I sent an
e-mail to our tour company regarding the question last
night on the payment plan dates. As soon as I get
a reply, I'll post it on this site. Also....one
very important piece of information that I did not
mention last night, and this is not meant to be a scare
tactic, but we do have limits as to the number of people
we can have go. We are limited by the number of
seats on our tour buses. Like most things in life,
this trip is on a first come (sign up) first serve.
For example, if our buses hold 150 people, we can't have
151 people go (which is a bit of a nightmare for me).
If we go over the number of seats available, we'll start
a waiting list. If we get a workable number on the
waiting list, we'll add another bus. In all the
years we've been doing this, we've had waiting lists but
it's always worked out that we were able to take every
student that wanted to go. My fingers are crossed
that we'll be able to accommodate everyone, but with
that said, please register early.
Here is the info/dates I
received regarding the payment plan:
| Date |
Amount |
Description |
| 2/1 |
$125 |
Deposit |
| 3/1 |
$130 |
Payment #2 |
| 4/1 |
$130 |
Payment #3 |
| 5/1 |
$130 |
Payment #4 |
| 6/1 |
$130 |
Payment #5 |
| 7/1 |
$125 |
Payment #6 |
| 8/1 |
$125 |
Final Payment |
