What could attract over 200 people to a breakfast in the span of three hours? Was it the food? The company? The answer is the kids.
The breakfast, held on Feb. 1 at the Springs Firehouse, raised money for eighth graders’ final field trip as Springs School students. The trip will be an overnight to Philadelphia, where students will see the Liberty Bell, climb the steps featured in the movie “Rocky,” and go to the Franklin Institute Museum of Science. Students will also take a dinner-dance cruise on The Spirit of Philadelphia. The following day they’ll stop at the Six Flags amusement park before heading home.
At the breakfast, the smells of French toast, pancakes, sausage, eggs, hash browns, toast, bacon, and coffee filled the air. Eighth graders helped set up, serve, and clean up. Laura Foti, an eighth-grade math teacher who is organizing the field trip, arranged the breakfast, which she explained helps “to offset the cost of the eighth-grade trip.” The Springs community has a way of coming together to support its eighth-graders and in this case, “The Fire Department donated its food and time,” Ms. Foti said, thanking its members for their generosity.
The breakfast raised $6,075 for the trip, and Ms. Foti is planning events like bake sales to raise even more.
By Isabelle Etzel and Lena Musser, Grade 6