Invasion of the Big People:Football A Letter to the Principal

A list of grievances about NFL Play60

BY ABBY VELA

Dear Mrs. Principal,

My mom told me that I should write you a “strongly worded letter” about Monday’s assembly. I was very very upset with the guests who came during my class’ phy ed. We were supposed to play kickball. I like kickball. I like it because I’m not always the last one picked for teams. Jimmy usually gets picked last when we play kickball. I like Jimmy, though. He is very nice and sometimes we play Pokemon together behind the bleachers when my asthma is bad and my inhaler doesn’t help. But we couldn’t play Pokemon or kickball on Monday because of the football players that came to class with lots of footballs and cones and things for us to run around and jump over.

All class we had to run around and do sports drills. We were told that we had to keep going, even when we didn’t want to. There was a break station with water, but other than when we were at that station, we didn’t get to stop unless we were waiting in line. And the whole time, there were people with big cameras telling us to smile and look like we were having fun. But I wasn’t! My mom tells me I shouldn’t lie, so I did not like that. Quite frankly, I was very disappointed.

When I told my mom about my day, she was not happy. She said that making us do drills is an “infringement of our rights,” and is “training children to be mindless sheeple working for the man.” I don’t know what that means. But I couldn’t show Jimmy my new Pokemon cards. Please never have the football people come to Wide Awake Elementary again.

Sincerely,

Emily Peterson, 3rd Grade