Please see our website for more information at Facebook at fwps210 or local TV stations. Full Day ECEAP (Uptown Square, Truman, Sherwood Forest, Camelot, Mirror Lake, Panther Lake) will be delayed two hours behind regularly scheduled start time, and will dismiss at the regular time. School will dismiss at the normally scheduled time. Each individual school will determine if AFTER-SCHOOL activities, athletics, or extra-curricular activities will be canceled. All BEFORE-SCHOOL activities, athletics, and extra-curricular events are canceled. Bus pick-up schedules will be two hours later than normal, but road and traffic conditions may impede progress, so the buses could be running later.
Interested scholars may visit the school office for a light snack until lunch which will be served at the normally scheduled times. Breakfast will not be served when there is a two-hour late start. Important information about a 2-hour late start: For students who ride the bus, pick-up schedules will also be two hours later than normal. This means all schools will begin two hours later than normal. When students and staff put on their shirts, uniforms, lanyards with Todd Beamer’s name on it – even 20 years later – it serves as a reminder, said Collin Sawyer, associate head basketball coach.School 2 hours late Thursday, February 24, 2022:ĭue to icy road conditions, all schools will be operating on a 2-hour late start schedule on Thursday, February 24, 2022. “I hope they would look at that as a call of action to do the right thing whatever the circumstance.” “It helps to keep alive the memory of what Todd and the others did on September 11,” he said. “I’m very interested in them wearing the name proudly and being the best they can be in all their activities and living.”īeamer said he hopes that the name of Todd Beamer High School reminds people about the heroism of his son and the other passengers aboard Flight 93. “We’re very pleased to see that the students at Todd Beamer High School are doing so well,” Beamer said. “We will have achieved what we wanted to achieve with a name if that continues to remind people of personal sacrifice for a common good.”ĭavid Beamer, Todd Beamer’s father, said he and his wife continue to follow the accomplishments of students at Todd Beamer High School from their home in Florida. “I hope that what it does is that, unlike more historical names, it has a more continued impact on students and what it means to be committed to a cause, you know, committed to something greater than ourselves,” he said. “People had really great reasons and it turned out to be a really great choice,” Davidson said.
“He was a hero with a strong moral history and it was excellent role modeling for our students.”Īlthough there was some initial disagreement among community members about the name Todd Beamer, it turned out to be a great name for the high school, said Mark Davidson, former deputy superintendent. “This was a peer that the students related to, a contemporary that was part of their time and a part of the history that they were living,” Everhart said.
The school opened in 2003 when the terrorist attacks and Todd Beamer’s story were fresh in everybody’s minds. Among other names considered were aviator Amelia Earhart and Abraham Lincoln.Ĭarol Everhart, a retired principal of Todd Beamer who served on the name-selection committee, said she supported the name Todd Beamer. Federal Way School Board policy stated that the school had to be named after a deceased national hero. Nearly 1,000 future Todd Beamer students voted from a list of five possible names for the new high school before the name Todd Beamer was chosen in 2002. A post office in New Jersey and a building at Wheaton College are also named after him. Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way is one of three buildings named after Beamer.
His daughter was born four months after he died. It is clear that the passengers’ uprising prevented the aircraft from being used as a weapon and crashing into either the Capitol building or the White House in Washington, D.C.īeamer, a 32-year-old account manager living in New Jersey, left behind a wife and two sons. It is not clear whether the passengers ever made it into the cockpit to attack the hijackers, or whose control the plane was under when it crashed.