Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 23, 1992 Page: 2 of 16
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campus.
IN THE PAST THIS column has
often enough been used to discuss the
plight of education in this nation.
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References have frequently been to
public radio and television documen-
taries, and afterwards to fairly broad
reading. But almost never can I recall
reaction or commentary from people
actually related to the subject, school
board members, administrators, teach-
ers. Parents, yes, but there usually
from those of my own vintage whose
consider t
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*ill be leaving the how the former w^ofScer wS
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Tidemarks
offspring have passed school years.
ONLY LAST WEEK, mention was
made of the highly qualified men and
women who will soon be leaving the
aimed forces. Ignoring the role they
C.M.
Henkel Jr.
might play in improving educational
standards in the schools of average
istedfor
American communities, suggested for
them were two rather less desirable
challenges. First that they be dele-
Out of the mouths of babes
Vhen we elect our letiers in gov- soring Candidates’ Nigh
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eminent on the basis of 30-second
commercials we arc, in effect, shoot-
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When we elect our
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, in eifi
ing in the dart. *
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to
figurcthat out, either.
As we were driving down Alister
Street one day this week, our nine-
year-old daughter, Libby, noticed
some people out putting up signs and
she asked what they werp up to.
I explained that they were political
candidates seeking election. A lofof more about them than that!
peoplecwant the same job, I told her, ” ' ^
and they’re putting up signs asking
people to vote for them.
Mary
Henkel
Judson
Nights where
voters can come to see and hear the
candidates.
We do a lot of hollerin' and bell-
erin’ about our elected officials. We
ought to be screamin’ mad at
ourselves. We pushed the buttons that
put them on the boards and councils
and in Austin and Washington.
We, as voters, need to do a better
job of finding out who we’reelecting.
Politicians need to do more than put
upbillboards and make glitzy or heart-
rendering (and meaningless) commer-
She sat quietly for a Tew blocks,
reading the signs as wp passed.
Finally die said “We lave to know
How right you are, Libby.
I told her that our newspaper tries cials.
hard to do just that with stories about
elections, offering candidates the Like I said, it doesn’t take a rocket
opportunity — free of charge — to scientist to figure it out Ask your
tell about themselves and why they, elementary school children, they’ll
are running for office, and by spon- tell you.
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nanri r*\r\ rnmiril 8 city council meeting last fall that than a possession. It means seeing the
DdllU'dlU LUUllLil they have been dealing with this sani- other as a separate spirit. Yes,itdoes
Our family owns rental houses in taiion problem for over 20 years, mean caring for, protecting, nurtur-
Port Aransas and has for many years. That’s over 20 years! My question to ing, teaching,communicating values,
Our family ties to Port Aransas span city government is how many years virtues. It is definitely not enough to
four generations since the early will it take, another 20 years, before say to the child: Don;t lie, cheat, steal
1950’s. We know many fine people, they revise the sanitation ordinance etcetera. Words alone don’t do it. It
We have cleaned up after a few hurri- and just maybe put some teedTinto it is through example that values, i.e.
canes over the years, continually and some enforcement provisions? virtue is truly communicated. It is
invested,ifi the city and its future and Uptill now its been one band-aid after example that gives words meaning,
most of all we enjoy visiting and another. A parent who refuses to lie, cheat,
vacationing in Port Aransas. For those of you who are tired of steal or succumb to greed, etcetera
The sanitation ordinance on the subsidizing other people’s sanitation does not need to say anything about it.
books and recently revised by the city bills, maybe it’s time that noone pays Children do notice. They do not start
council last fall under the leadership their bills - and just maybe city gov- as liars, politicians. They will acquire
of Gordon Beck, city manager, and eminent may deal with this issue re-
May or .Barr is, to say the least, a sponsibly once and for all and throw
haphazard attempt to make the own- the box of band-aids away!
ers of liental property (investors) the The Sam Frenches
member who is your next door neigh-
bor. After observing the Jan. 13 seg-
ment of tha series I came away con-
vinced of a view expressed before in
this space that the youth educated in
‘methods” courses, the certification a resume of the Persian Gulf book,
would take a full year and a "half."" Yr’s from Pritndolig Island.
Profile
continued from Page 1
scapegoats for the city government’s
ineptnqss in collecting past due sani-
tation bills from some jsland resi-
dents. Most residents pay their sani-
tation bills, and rightly so, but some
do not. The city now says that if
tenants do not pay their bills, then the
owners of the property must pay it
However, half of the outstanding
sanitation bills are owner/residents,
so who should pay their bills?
I have spoken with some people
who do not pay their bills and for the
most part they respond by saying,
‘why should I?”, nothing will happen
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our negative habits. One cannot get
rid of negative habits. They can be
replaced with positive habits.
It is necessary in a world of liars to
refuse to lie. Apersonwhodoesn’tlie
finds that there are advantages to being
a truth teller. Of course, sad to say,
when you speak truth to a habitual liar
you are perceived as a liar by them.
Persons who lie habitually, who no
longer know they are lying, are pro-
grammed to only believe lies. A friend
said to me recently, “Liars have to
have good ipemories, others don’t”
Lying may get you things, but it turns
out to be a great burden, a strain on the
brain.
I had a sister who got caught up in
untruth at a very young age. She
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to me. Aside from the moral and J each by PYfimnlp woke up to this when she was 42 years
ethical questions raised by this re- r of age. It disturbed her greatly. She
sponse. everybody on the island knows > ne parental re*1 }s- committed suicide. Her mistake was
sponse, every body on the island knows
that nothing will happen to them if
they do not pay their sanitation bill.
The last time city government took a
resident to JP Court for a delinquent
sanitation bill was August 1986, over
five years ago even though thousands
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Mayor Barrtold me during, visit to
To raise a child to leave you... in a^ng ^ because it took her
To love them as much as you are 42 years to become such a mess that it .
would take her 42 yean to clean up «•*
her act This is not so. It does require
a resolve to quit. It might be neces-
sary to join Liars Anonymous if there
is such a thing. If there isn’t, there
should be.
MH :
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able.
To let go, when “they” say so....
To continue to love the child in
you.
Love and Peace,
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Francois
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Who are these men and women? be more encouragingly met than that
Looking at the army, Hines notes that of the Missouri applicant.
250,000 are scheduled to leave by
1995,20percent are officers of whom Without being familiar with mili-
99 percent hold baccalaureate degrees. taiy applicants, Inaveknownofpoople
gated to salvage the youths of troub- At the rank of major and above 80 with degrees from major universities,
led, inner-city school systems where percent have either master’s degrees desiringtoteach.whohavebeen freed
they might instill the values and disci- or doctorates. Many have already had with what they afterwards referred to
plines they learned in the services, teaching experience, as instructors at as “Mickey Mouse” courses, courses
Again it was suggested that they the military academies, the National required for a teacher’s certificate
undertake another salvage job, the War College or at one of the Army which are of little or no benefit to
almostimpossible, remaking the lives branch schools. themselves and even less in the class-
of prison inmates under 30 years of Considering the nation’s critical room. Discouraging and contrary to
age. Never mind that I have never shortage of qualified math teachers, it the military experience is die influ-
believed in successful prison reform, is noteworthy that one-third of the ence of labor unions upon the Texas
officers leaving the Army are quali- educational system. There is much,
ONGOING ON KEDT TV: fied to teach high school math. Also, much more to be said.
“Learning in America: Is education between 10 percent and 20 percent “TRIUMPH WITHOUT VIC-
on trial - Are our public school’s have engineering backgrounds that TORY: The Unreported History of
beyond repair?” Participating are would enable them to teach high the Persian Gulf Conflict,” by Joaeph
parents, teachers, administrators and school physics. L. “Joe” Galloway, US News & World
othersconcemed. At the end of each WHERE’S THE RUB? Hines Report, Senior Writer, published by
of the three hour-long programs, lis- points to the case of a colonel who Time Books will be in book stores
teners, watchers, are asked to call in will retire in another two years, tyith Jan. 22. Another book by Galloway
their judgements. Fair then to ask a master’s degree in history he indi- and U. Gen. Hal Moore will be pub-
concerned parents who viewed the cated interest in returning to his na- lished by Random House in the corn-
series: Have you asked your children’s five Missouri to become a classroom ing autumn. The book will be a rec-
teachers if they were tuned in on the teacher. Upon inquiry he learned he ollection of their experiences during
program? And the same question to would have to first complete 15 to 20 the Vietnam War. Galloway was a
the administrator or school board hours of “methods” couraes to obtain correspondent for United Press Inter-
a teaching certificate. Since he would national A South Texan, he is a
have to hold down a full-time job native of Refugio County. The cur-
while attending night school for his rent issue of US News A WR f
held last Wednesday were recorded, A brochure will be developed using Finalists will be interviewed by the
without the names of those making that information and information about board in mid-April, the home district
them, by school administrative secre- the district Applications for the posi- of the final candidate will also be
tary Penny McFadden. She is making tion will be received through March visited in mid-April, after which the
a list of the characteristics listed by 20. The applications will be reviewed board is expected to make a final
each group and will present it to the by the consultant, then by the consult- decision,
board and the TASB consultant. The ant with the board. Interviews with Superintendent Dr. Dale Pitts, has
consultant will analyze the comments semi-finalists will be conducted in resigned effective with the end of his
and come up with a profile that best early April, then the consultant will contractor June 30. the new superin-
fits the consensus of the groups. review the finalists with the board, tendent should start to work June 1.
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Judson, Mary. Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 23, 1992, newspaper, January 23, 1992; Port Aransas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth568783/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ellis Memorial Library.