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The year is winding down and our student council has been finishing their senior class gift for the year. I challenged the students to think up a gift or contribution to the campus by which when they leave school, they will have left it in better condition then when they found it.
This year’s student council chose to put the old dusty field behind the school to good use and create a flag-football field. One day after school, the whole council (minus one member) spent two hours mowing and cutting, measuring and digging, to literally plow the way for our new sports field.
After all the dust had settled, it didn’t look half-bad! I was surprised that after some well placed mowing and weeding along with palm tree end-zones, the field actually looked like a field. The students all had a great time working together; I was very proud of their efforts.
Then as the school year wound down, the last day came when we could present the new field to the school and student body. We celebrated the new senior gift with a grand football tournament pitting class against class, boys against girls, and the elite boys basketball team basically against everyone else. However, in their showboating and pride (having convoked themselves they’ve won before the coin was tossed) they got what they deserved.
The tournament was a lot of fun. We had to use a little persuasion to get everyone to participate, but with “first-one-to-score-wins” rules the games went quick and we had a full tournament with both a winner’s and looser’s bracket.
The elite basketball boys with the big chips on their shoulder came out on the field first walking like giants. No one wanted to be the “David” to face off against them. Finally, we got a weak little team, on their their first pass, they scored a touchdown against those big-headed boys. The boys next game was against the girls. Again the girls scored before they could stop them. Now at this point those big-shot boys started to pout and whine (blame the ref, anything). But throughout the day they kept on losing. “God cannot be mocked, you will reap what you sow.”
The championship game came down to the girls team and the underdog boys, who after going back and forth up and down the field finally it was the underdog boys who came out at school champions.
Years ago the desire to see a ball field on this property was envisioned, but was wasn’t until the student council got together and worked together that the dream became a reality. And this reality, coming towards the end of the school year was quite a welcome respite from class.