Go England?

[pippin_999]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Mary Jennings" <macloudt at h...> 
wrote:
> As some of you may know, England plays Nigeria in the world 
football  championships tomorrow morning GMT.  On that note, 
my daughter came home 
> from primary school with a letter to all parents.  Here are 
snippets of it:
> 
> "I am writing to let you know how this school will be operating 
tomorrow morning in response to many requests from parents 
and pupils.  School will open as normal for pupils and we expect 
all children to be in by 8:50 am <<

I can't speak to England, but remembering what it was like in 
Chicago long ago when the White Sox were up for the pennant 
(baseball league championship) it would have been hopeless to 
get the children to pay attention to lessons anyway. The school 
got paid per day of pupil attendance, so they wanted us on hand 
rather than watching the game at home. The whole town was 
pennant mad--when the Sox won, the fire chief set off the air raid 
warning sirens and put the whole town in a panic.

Pippin