So, the other day my son comes home and tells me he didn’t enjoy playing football at recess. I asked him why and he said his team didn’t do well. I dug deeper and this is what I found. It seems that in typical class order, the 5th graders decided the teams. In particular, all the 5th grade “studs” decided the teams. They essentially said, “OK, how about all of you 3rd and 4th graders on one team and the rest of us will do our best to give you guys a fight.” Well, being an “underclassman” the younger kids agreed. I mean, hey, there were more of them, right, so it should be fair. And besides, the 5th graders are older than them and it is a class system, so what were there choices? Well, needless to say the bigger faster and older kids took care of them. I’m sure there were plenty of interceptions, fumble recoveries and long runs and passes for touchdowns. Who doesn’t like to be on the winning side of that? Well needless to say it wasn’t much fun for the younger ones. I told my son that he DID have an option though. He could choose not to play and/or speak up about the lack of parity. Lesson learned.
On a completely unrelated note <wink wink>, I’d like to congratulate the New York Yankees on another World Series championship. I know a lot of Yankees fans who are very happy about this. I’m happy for them. For the rest of the fourth-graders out there….well, maybe next year. :-)
