HCSTC 9/10/2023 Announcement

Dear HCSTC community members: This coming Sunday, September 10, will be the first day of our 2023–24 school year, we welcome you to the HCSTC. Due to the fact that this Sunday will be the first school day; also, there might be some logistical issues with the Marshall High School staff members after a lengthy summer, things may not be as smoothly as we’d like them to be, hereby we ask for your patience and understanding beforehand. For those of you taking Chinese classes, you can purchase the Chinese classes textbooks in the cafeteria. The school will start selling the MLP and other Chinese textbooks between 2-4:30 pm in the cafeteria. This is the only time and date that we will sell the Chinese textbooks for the fall semester. We will only accept cash or checks and textbook purchases will be on a first come and first serve basis, as we only have a limited amount of textbooks on hand. Once the textbooks that we have ordered in the summer are sold out, you can also purchase them directly from the publisher’s website: https://www.heritagechinese.com/order/form/ All students attending classes at the HCSTC must have registered and paid tuition plus registration fees already, otherwise, they might be rejected from our classes. The policy is stated clearly on our website and posted here in this email again as a clear reminder. 2. Tuition Payment: Tuition is due upon registration. To minimize unnecessary close personal contact, we are adding PayPal as a new payment method. Families can choose to mail a check to the School (HCS-TC, P.O. Box 9023, McLean, VA 22102) or pay by PayPal. Again, for the same reason, the School will absorb the PayPal transaction costs to make it convenient to our parents. The School requires every student to fully pay their tuition after they register. If a class is full but not all students pay the tuition, the School will drop those unpaid students immediately in order to make rooms for others and to be fair to everyone. On the 1st day of our school, any registered but unpaid students will be dropped from our registration system to ensure the integrity and fairness of the HCSTC. As many of you may or may not know, the HCSTC is and has been run by a small group of our volunteers who have sacrificed their time tremendously over the years. In order to prolong this proud tradition, we welcome anyone who is willing to help our school by contributing your time and energy in helping our community’s members and families to learn, advance and improve in the curriculums that we offer at the HCSTC. Last but not least, according to the recent CDC reports, the Covid virus/variants are getting rampant again in several states and Virginia unfortunately is listed as one of them. As a precaution, we strongly recommend all of you to take any necessary actions, such as wearing masks and using sanitizers frequently to protect yourself, your families and our community members at our campus as you see most fit and necessary. For doing that, we wholeheartedly thank you in advance. Best wishes, HCSTC