I woke up at 4:30 am this morning so that I could deliver Maya and three of her friends to the Sandborn Middle School by 5 am. There they boarded buses destined for Washington D.C. and a multi-day school field trip to the nation’s capital. The penultimate experience of their middle school education, Concord students, including both her brothers before her, look forward to this trip with great anticipation. I remained at the drop-off site for another 30 minutes so I could watch the six-bus convoy roll out.