Sanger Courier (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1988 Page: 2 of 14
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The commissioner does not read well, what we wrote was
This week (November 7) Jacobs suggested the court drop The
Pledge of Allegiance to the flag." Also, an item named A
Moment of Silence. Jacobs said that neither has anything
to do with business before the court.
*****
Jacobs, was reorganizing Judge Burgess meeting agenda.
(Burgess was not present). Jacobs made the above statement
twice and she knows it. The court makes tape recordings of
its meeting to resolve disputes. These tape recordings have
her statements. The minutes do not.
*****
Jacobs has sent her letter to other county newspapers
whose readers did not get to see the article. This is typical of
Jacobs fairness.
I state again our article was correct and Jacobs is again
trying to manage the news. She caught Burgess out of town
and she sought to reorganize his agenda. Tills Is a battle of
turf between Jacobs and Burgess. Jacobs often wins.
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Taking of minutes is a duty of the County Clerk by law. Ms.
Jacobs makes objections nearly every week about the
minutes and demands the minutes be changed. The Clerk
compiles usually. The tape recordings cannot be changed, it
is much harder for the voters to check the tape than the
minutes. Recently she handed the court 4 objections she had
to the previous meeting and Instructed the clerk to change
the minutes.
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Sometimes changes are merely typo's or misspelled words,
but most are objections to what she has been reported to say.
Occasionally all members of the court make changes in the
minutes but usually they are limited to Jacobs and one other
commissioner. The other 3 members of the court seldom
quarrel with the minutes. Judge Burgess seldom changes
minutes, and in fact I don't recall his doing so.
*****
A couple of weeks ago the court had a meeting of
redlstrlctlng. Commissioner Jacobs spoke for one hour.
When the minutes appeared this week her remarks covered
six pages. . . every word she spoke was In the minutes.
Others. Including citizens who spoke had only a limited
space In the minutes.
This writer asked the Clerk of the court If she made
minutes or transcripts of minutes. She replies she had
never done so before, but In this case Jacobs instructed her
to be "specific" about her remarks and she took the tapes and
reported every work. That Is what commissioner Jacobs
requested” the clerk said.
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The writer of this column has lodged several complaints
both with former County Clerk Mary Jo Hill and with the
present Clerk, Marilyn Robinson. We've also talked to their
deputies about the frequent change of minutes and usually
got "nods" of agreement, but these changes continue to occur.
*****
I reject Ms. Jacobs complaint and I repeat this story as
reported is true. Ms. Jacobs is very political and I
understand Tier wanting to maintain the best political
posture, but her statement "eAroneous and ridiculous" would
sort by description of her version.
*****
I am wondering and looking forward to what the minutes
* Last week this newspaper received a letter from Sandy
Jacobs, County Commissioner, Precinct 2 that this writer
wrote an article stating she wanted to eliminate The Pledge
of Allegiance and A Moment of Silence from the
commissioners court agenda. Jacobs said this is not only
erroneous but ridiculous!
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say about her attack on Virgil Vahlenkamp in which she
attacked his professional qualifications after the court by
the 3-1 appointed his Count Judge Court #2 last week.
Jacobs was trying to get a Carrollton man appointed to the
bench.
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When an official body, such as the Commissioner Court
wants to change anything in the minutes, even typos, there
should be a motion second and vote of the court, and this
action recorded in the minutes stating what the mlnutec
said and what they are charged to this procedure preserves
the integrity of the minutes and does not allow the official
body from changing what actually transpired to what they
would like the public to believe.
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The past few weeks has brought a continuing controversy
over the Carter High School football team in Dallas and
their alleged use on an Ineligible player because of the
no-pass, no-play rule. The road between Dallas and Austin
has been kept warn by forces from both sides arguing and
seeing the scales tipped first one way and then the other.
Secretly, a lot of people hope the team will lose so the
squabble will end. but each week, they move closer to the
state championship. Amid all the charges and
counter-charges, the hostility from school districts whose
teams have been beaten by Carter, we need to see what the
underlying principles are. what Is really at stake.
No one wants to take anything away from young men who
have worked hard to reach the lofty plateau of the state
finals, but some things may actually be more important
than winning. Too many people have subscribed to the
Vince Lombardi theory that. "Winning isn't
everything...it's the only thing!" In process of fighting
about a game, we forget there is a bigger game all of these
players will have to be involved in...life! Ten years from
now. it will be nice to remember how far they went in the
tournament, but it won't help put bread on the table. We
need to remember that the reason for going to high school
(or college) is to get an education. When anything takes
priority over that, the whole system is in deep trouble.
Long after this finally gets resolved, the real Issues will
still be debated and need to be settled.
1 think there are a few fundamental things that only a few
people are dealing with. First, this whole problem has had
a devastating affect on teacher morale. When control of the
classroom is taken over by the administration so that a
star player can play. It destroys the control teachers have
over their students. I could never be a teacher In that
school with the knowledge that my Judgments of a student
could be overturned on any whimsy of an administrator.
The relationship between faculty and administration must
be at an all-time low. It is a small wonder teachers are
leaving urban schools at an alarming rate. The basic task
of administrators is to support teachers, not countermand
them.
The second fact that will have to be dealt with is the future
of the authority of the U.I.L. (University Interscholastic
League). Whether the rule about no-pass, no-play is a good
rule or not. I'm not certain, but it cannot be administered
selectively. Either everyone has to conform to it or no one.
When judicial bodies can intervene and overthrow
administrative decisions, it silently affirms anarchy as
the norm. Several teams that lost to Carter had lost
players who were ruled out by no-pass, no-play. We will
never know whether those players might have made a
difference in the outcome, but who knows? How will
anyone keep future players out if Carter is allowed to win
the state championship? It has all the makings of a
controversy that will not end for years.
The third and most important fact is what It will
ultimately mean to the players. Football is a game of fair
play and sportsmanship. It means playing by the rules.
This action send a subliminal message that you can get
ttwwvwM'h .arrrtHtaQd if you have the. beat team. Our whole
society winks at-putting scholarship ahead of athletics in
our value system and then wonders why many of these
athletes become a drag on society when their formative
years and then tell them to face the real world when they
have not prepared themselves for it. The real tragedy in
this whole mess is not who wins, but who loses. Regardless
of how the scores come out, Carter has lost more than it
can ever hope to gain.
It is too late to salvage much from this situation.
Hopefully, it does alert us to the necessity of dealing with a
problem it gets out of hand. If it happened this year, it will
happen again. It finally comes to the point of who has the
authority. Unless we live in a society of rules and
acknowledge those who have the responsibility, we will
witness the decline and eventual demise of our whole way
of life. Let's hope that never happens!
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Sanger Courier (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1988, newspaper, December 15, 1988; Sanger, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1282378/m1/2/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sanger Public Library.