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Where are the parents? DEAR EDITOR: Going to a football game on Friday should be a fun and exciting trip, but it's a trip that I dread every week, especially the home games. You would think that I would enjoy the home games more, because I won't have to drive an hour or so to the game. Last Friday night, I just about got my fill of all the home games. I can't even let my 10-year-old daughter walk to the bathroom alone, scared that she will be trampled, run over, pushed down by all the kids there not even concerned about the game. Where are these kids' parents? I'm not talking about the teenagers or preteens they are huddled in their own little groups over by the fence talking. I am talking about the children that are probably within the ages of 6 to 10 or 11; the children playing in the bathroom, running over people trying to walk down the sidewalk, while these children have no respect for themselves, much less other people or property. So, I walk to the bathroom with my 7-year-old and she literally gets trampled over. Three cops are leaning against the fence, watching the game and I walk up and ask them, "Is there nothing you can do?" Simple response from them was "No." So someone please explain to me the reason I have to be tortured by other people's children to go watch a family member play football on Friday night. I have to escort my children around, because other people can't, won't or don't care what they're is doing. If anyone else has this problem, please let's do something to fix it now, before the problem gets any further out of hand. And, if the cops can't help the school officials control the unruly children, at least make them pay to get in. JENNIFER BURKE Swainsboro | |||||
