Dear Editor:
On Friday, March 10, 2006, the Hoboken High School football team received their State Champion jackets and rings! This all took place in the Hoboken High School Library with the football players, their coaches, city officials and the mayor in attendance for this wonderful moment. As a proud parent of a football player, I was very hurt and upset that we, the parents, were not only not included in this priceless moment, but were not even considered to attend! Not one single memo or letter to mark the special event was
received but there was time enough to invite the politicians! I don’t know how all the other parents feel, however, I know how a select few feel and how I feel. You took away a very special moment in my life; to see my son’s smiling face while he received his first State football jacket and ring. I will never be given that moment again!
Looking back at my memories of the past football seasons, I remember the parents sitting in the freezing rain and cold, game after game, for the whole game, to support and watch our boys play, not the city officials and the mayor who stop by to show face once in a while! Without the parents there would be no fans in the stadiums and no children on the football field, and we weren’t even worth an invitation?
These boys deserved a party for their accomplishment, and their parents deserved to be there! After all, we were there for all of the games, not you guys. I think it stinks how we were overlooked!
My sincere gratitude to the athletic director, coaches, city officials and to our mayor of this great City of Hoboken for making this a special event for yourselves once again!
Sincerely,
A very concerned and upset parent