Music Special Olympics is very important to my students because it gives them an opportunity to do sports like everybody else gets to do. We have a silent auction to raise money for the special Olympics. We are auctioning tickets to the OU Texas game. It's the Red River rivalry. It definitely increases their self-esteem. They feel like they are like everybody else. Many of our students that are in special Olympics also have high medical costs. So it's very difficult for them if they have to pay anything out of pocket to be able to attend this event. Because we have around 15-20 kids, we can't do the fundraisers like all the other clubs do where they send their kids out with a brochure and collect money. So basically it falls upon us faculty to try to support our students. My husband's father is retired faculty from OU and the sons of all had tickets for years. And this time the family got together and we decided that if we had any extra tickets they would allow me to put them up for auction so that we could help with fundraising for special Olympics. My students deserve everything that they get. They have such a rough life. And if this family giving these tickets, oh my goodness, I was speechless when she told us. It showed me that there are people out there that do care about special needs and they don't ride them off like a lot of people do. This is a silent auction so there's a sign-in sheet in the front office at Central Mental School. It's open to the public. You don't have to be associated with Central at all. You can come to the front office. We're not accepting phone calls. It does need to be in person. We are starting the bidding at $220 for a pair of tickets. All proceeds will go to support the Special Olympics program here at Central Middle School.