What Is NFeLementary? Inside Mary Crippen’s Viral 3rd Grade Class

This year, after the confetti falls at the Super Bowl, they’ll pivot from football to, well, football—the soccer kind—ahead of the FIFA World Cup.

“So many of my kids are soccer fans,” Crippen explained. “We’ll do projects on the host stadiums and the countries represented. It’s a cool way to end the school year.”

By then, her stats speak for themselves. “I’ve had perfect attendance more times that I can count, and I can directly correlate that to what we’re doing in the classroom,” she shared. “The kids want to be here.”

“The mission,” she continued, “is to bring the learning to life and to make school fun.”

In that case, with all due respect to Josh Allen, she might be the real MVP.