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Letters to the Editor
December 24, 2005
What’s The Fuss About ‘Merry Christmas’?
What is all the fuss around Christmas? So much being said about what we should call Dec. 25 this year.
To be or not to be politically correct. I choose just to be completely correct.
Sunday is “Christmas.” Not a holiday only, but a special day.
Those that do not want to allow me to say “Merry Christmas” will just have to deal with it. Every year, individuals celebrate a “holiday” called Halloween. I do not choose to celebrate or teach my children to celebrate witchcraft or fear.
We teach our children to be good, do the right thing 364 days out of the year and then one day of the year throw all that away. Well, you don’t hear a bunch of people wanting to change Halloween to “the holiday,” so leave Christmas alone.
Without it, we would be condemned, because without a savior there is no hope.
Don’t wish to celebrate “Christmas?”
Well don’t — but leave it alone and accept there are many of us that will not give up the name, which starts with “Christ.” After all, we are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ our Savior.
Glenda Parrish
Hitchcock
Behold The Silver Lining
If anything good has come out of Hurricane Katrina, it’s that I now know I don't have to worry about anything.
Here I always thought that if my house was flooded or damaged that I was just on my own, but now I know that the city, the state and the federal government are responsible for me.
They will take me away from the floods, give me money, give me a place to stay and even rebuild my house for me.
And people complain about the good old U.S.A. What a wonderful place to live.
Carl Boudoin
Texas City
The Galveston Independent School District’s athletic director was relieved of his duties last week, two days after an angry crowd turned out for a school board meeting to call for his ouster.
Athletic Director’s Reassignment Wrong
As a parent of three sons who graduated from Klein Forest High School and having one son who played on a team that had to forfeit a game in 1993, I am utterly appalled by the recent action by Lynn Hale, superintendent of the Galveston Independent School District.
What our coach, Al Barnes, did was the correct lesson for the players, parents and fans.
No one questioned whether he should report the player.
The ineligible player had moved from another school and submitted a false transcript, and it was not verified until the season was over.
The player had played in one series of plays in only one district game. The coach found out, and he told the team — and he reported it to the Klein athletic director and the District 14-5A athletic council. Klein Forest had to forfeit the game and therefore did not advance to the playoffs.
The players, the administration and the parents understood. In life, things do not always go the way you want, but everyone must play under the same rules.
The superintendent, the principal, the players, parents and fans at Ball High School must all understand that football is a sport played by young men and they are administered and taught and coached by people who either have high standards or play to win at all costs.
The re-assignment of a coach or athletic director for doing the right thing is wrong.
Ray Hollis
Houston
No Moral Decision Unpunished
Let’s see if I have this straight. Brent Jaco was denounced for reporting an ineligible player that had been on the roster all season even after reading the riot act to all of the coaches and informing them it was their responsibility to ensure the eligibility of their players.
Then we’re informed the school district didn’t fire him because of the football debacle or of the parents denouncing him at a meeting just two days prior.
Why doesn’t Galveston just start its own football league so it won’t have to report to the University Interscholastic League?
And while you’re at it, let’s get rid of all those pesky referees. They make too many mistakes anyway.
It seems no honest, moral decision goes unpunished.
Penned from the words of Augustus McCray, “My God, Woodrow.”
David L. Grace
Galveston
AD Shouldn’t Be Alone
I’m writing this concerning the issue with Brent Jaco and his “reassignment,” which should just be called a demotion.
I graduated last year from Ball High. I know Jaco from my participation in sports at the school, but I’ve known Coach Ron Holmes longer. So I’m not getting biased.
Now I agree with former school board member Barry Rochkind that Jaco shouldn’t get all the punishment.
What most of the public doesn’t understand is that Jaco, the athletic director, is not only in charge of athletics but he also oversees every extracurricular activity in the school. This includes the drill team, cheerleaders and school clubs. It’s incredible that one man could take on so much given to him by the superintendent.
I just thought the public should get an opinion from a young adult that notices Holmes, the football coach, should receive some type of consequence, because he was the coach of the player — and also Lynn Hale, the superintendent, for giving Jaco so much responsibility.
Erin Peterson
Galveston
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