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Teachers, Coaches
Need Fair Shake
It's that time of year when
• educators and coaches begin to
worry. The schools have made
the downhill turn for another
school year and are beginning
to think about next year. That
means contract considerations
and time for educators and
coaches to be a bit nervous.
It appears that sometimes
educators and coaches (espe-
cially) are not judged in all fair-
ness.
Sometimes, evaluations and
other methods used to measure
how good a teacher or a coach
is, doesn't give a complete pic-
ture. Some educators may be
good at their jobs, but are
judged on personality or other
things that should never be con-
sidered. As in any job, we are
not doing it to win a personali-
ty contest or to be liked by
everyone, they are there to do
the job to the best of their abil-
ity.
MANY GOOD COACHES
have been fired over trivial mat-
ters. There was a coach at my
high school that lost his job sim-
ply because a board member
felt he was being unfair to his
child. The truth of the matter
was, he wa one of the fairest
coaches I'd ever met. Believe
me, I played for a number of
coaches during youth sports,
elementary sports and middle
school.
By the time I was in high
school, I knew if a coach was
fair or not and this man was
very fair. He treated everyone
the same and held each of us to
the same set of rules and stan-
dards.
Some coaches have lost their
jobs because they were consid-
ered to be "too much of a disci-
plinarian." While it's a well
known fact that disciplined
teams perform better and usu-
ally have a good winning per-
centage.
My point is coaches are
judged on factors like.., how
want to enjoy the game.
Contrary to popular belief, kids
like playing first and winning
second.
Another thing that should be
considered is what rules the
coach plays by. Does his rules
apply to everyone on the team,
or just certain players?
Everyone should have to follow
the same rules and suffer the
same consequences, regardless
if the team is winning or losing
or ff the player is a starter or a
substitute.
How much does have the
players lear-ned and improved
should come into play. Tradition
does not come over night and
neither does a good solid pro-
gram.
Another thing that should be
considered is the coach's char-
acter. Does he or she display
good morals and instill those
same morals in their players?
THE LIST could go on and
on, however to put it simply.., a
coach should be judged for
much more than a win and loss
percentage.
After all, superintendents
and principals are charged with
the same responsibilities as
coaches. However, they are not
judged solely on s like the
school's student graduation per-
centage, the percentage of the
students who dropout, whatper-
centage go to college or if the
children have all the necessary
skills to make it life. They are
judged on overall performance,
it should be the same with coach-
many games they've won, what es.
type of personality they have, When a coach makes a mis-
and so on and so on. I would be take, thousands\\;of eyes are
the first to admit that a coach watching. I understand that
needs to win, but other factors
should be considered in the
equation.
The talent a coach has to
work with should be considered.
The type of competition his
team has to play is another.
There are far too many others
to list in this column.
However, when principals
and board members are consid-
ering whether coaches should
be granted a contract renewal
or not, there are several key fac-
tors that seem to never be con-
sidered. First of all, how well is
the coach liked by his players?
To tell the truth, most players
t
because it is the sae way in
the print industry. \\;\
when the average person
makes a mistake on their job,
maybe two or three people
know. When a coach or newspa-
per person makes a mistake,
many know.
I WOULD HOPE our local
schools would'.consider more
than wins and losses when con-
sidering contracts for local
coaches next season. I would
hope character, ability and their
attitudes toward their players
and students would also be con-
sidered.
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D
Flag Pays Tribute To All State Heroe0000!
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What is most uplifting about
Georgia's new state flag is that it
pays honor and tribute to all of
the state's heroes, from the gal-
lant militiamen who fought at
King's Mountain against British
troops and German Hessians in
the Revolutionary War to the GIs
who battled from Pacific island
to Pacific island and stormed the
beaches of Normandy to stem the
fide of tyranny in World War H.
They deserve tribute as
surely, or more so, than those
Georgians who fought in the uni-
forms of the Confederacy, and the
new properly recognizes that
fact - and who can speak against
that tribute?
As Gov. Roy Barnes point-
ed out, the Confederacy is part of
Georgia's history, but it is not two-
thirds of it, as the flag adopted in
1956 proclaimed - loudly and bla-
tantly. In the 267 years since Gen.
Oglethorpe and his colonists
came ashore, Georgia has been a
British colony for 43 years, a U.S.
state for 263 years, and a state of
the Confederacy for just four
yea.
THUS, THE NEW flag is a far
more accurate portrayal of
Georgia's heritage and history.
The forebears of many more liv-
ing C-eorgian fought or lived
through World War H, the Korean
War and the Viemam War than
fought in the Civil War. For some
reason, there is no Sons of World
War II veterans, despite real sons
still alive of those veterans. The
new flag recognizes those gallant
Georgians, "the greatest genera-
tion" who saved democracy for
the entire world.
The '%attle flag" was never
the official flag of the
Confederacy, by the way.
Nor was it the flag actual
Confederate veterans chose as
the state's banner in 1878. It was
adopted in 1956 by legislators sev-
eral generations removed from
the Civil War so th uld e
it at that year's Democratic con-
vention. Party rules forbade the
waving of any banners but state
flags, so the Confederate battle
symbol was added to the Georgia
flag, so it would be allowed. The
flag was changed as suddenly and
without public input in 1956 as in
2001, but without the Iongtime
debate that centered on the recent
flag.
The pre-1956 flag was widely
accepted for more than 80 years
and no group had sought its
change.
But the 1956 flag has been
debated since the day it was
adopted. The most dramatic and
thorough debate took place in
1992-93 when Gov. Zell Miller
sought to change the flag.
The time for further debate
was past, minds and emotions
were made up long ago. A refer-
endum, suggestedby some, would
have kept the state in turmoil for
months and left scars that would
have benefitted no one.
Latter-day Confederates can
st use the battle flag as they see
fit, placing it on vehicles, at their
homes or waving it wherever they
choose.
They just won't be able to
claim that they are flying the offi-
cial flag of Georgia. That flag
belongs to all Georgians now.
WE PARTICULARLY are
proud of this area's state sena-
tors, Dan Lee of LaGrange and
Seth Harp of Columbus, who cast
crucial votes in favor of the new
flag, despite early misgivings and
enormous pressure - eventhreats
- from supporters of the battle
flag. Lee and Harp represent
areas to which tourism is criti-
cally important to the economy,
and Harp represents an area that
is the site of one of the U.S. Arrays
most important installations -
Fort Benning.
They cast couragoous votes
and Harp had the additional bur-
den of voting against the majori-
ty of his own party's senators and
representatives.
Some Republican leaders
now complain they were exclud-
ed from the process of changing
the flag, but their legislative lead-
ers had clearly stated in early
January that the flag was "a
Democratic problem," and
Republicans should not even take
a position on it.
The modern Republican
Party in Georgia has its roots in
Harris County and Columbus, and
its founders stressed the need to
free Georgia from the total
Democratic control of the past,
which had held back its educa-
tional and economic develop-
ment.
It is ironic that today's
Republicans tried to preserve a
divisive remnant of that past. Sen.
Harp did not succumb to that
temptation, and both he and Sen.
Lee now have much stronger
hands to play in the legislature.
Georgia today is about vic-
tory, not defeat; the present and
the future, not the past. It is the
10th mosrpepulous state in the
nation; the unchallenged leader
of the New Soutlx
Sens. Lee and Harp helped
assure that Georgia keeps that
status.
-MiUard B. Grimes,
Presidem, Grimes
Pubficafimm,
PubUsher, Harris Cmatty
Journal
More About Flags
During its four years of exis-
tence the Congress of the
Confederate States adopted no
less than three official flags, none
of which was the battle flag, so
widely associated with the
Confederacy today.
But ironically, that design
- with its prominent display of the
St. Andrew's Cross - was indeed
proposed to the first Confederate
Congress by William Porcher
Miles of South g, chair-
man of the Committee of Flag and
Seal.
The Congress rejected Miles'
proposal, ath one
culing it as
a flag somewhat similar
U.S. flag, with three
a horizontal area
corner containing seven
one for each
that time.
But Miles' "sus
proved popular
and became the official
of the most famous
legion, the Army of
virginia.
Another flag,
larly as the "stainless
because of its use of a
was adopted on May 1,
did include the battle flag
space at the upper left, but I
fourths of it was the white
A third official
approved in March 1865,
added a broad red bar to
end of the stainless
did not enlarge the battle
Georgia's official
a Confederate state
simply
Constitution," supported i
pillars of Justice, Wisdo
Moderation, against a white! S
gr°und,t an 1878 constitut He
convention held after the -e>g
Reconstruction, and do ae
ed by true Confederate vet the
a state flag was adopted tha
only minor changes flew •
Georgia until the sudden an )g
prising change by the le
in 1956, nearly 80 years latunty
nearly 100 years after th att
ended. Sum
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(Most of this
from The Flags of the
by Devereaux D.
tr ated book
The book contains
tions of the various flags,
and battle flags, and may
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Publishing Co., P.O.
Gretna, La. 70054,
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A1
Those Recruits That Didn't Make i
Recruiting season for top
high school football players is
over.
Young men who were
offered scholarships have made
their choices as to which insti-
tutions of higher or lower learn-
ing they will attend in the fall.
Due to the heightened aca-
demic and character require-
ments for incoming athletes at
most universities, however,
some athletes who would have
been eligible for signing under
last year's requirements were
not eligible this year.
I have managed to obtain
a list of some of the high school
athletes who would have been
able to sign had they not been
boneheads and social outcasts.
Here are some examples
from the list:
*Marvin Toodler, wide
receiver, Corn Silk, Nebraska:
Caught 417 touchdown passes
and two known venereal dis-
eases during his high school
Career.
Unfortunately, when he
took his SAT exam, that's all he
did. Sat. Marvin now plans to
work for his father, Mr. Toodler,
in the family worm-farm busi-
ness.
• Leon (Neon) Devon, run-
ning back, Corpus Christi,
Texas: What made recruiters
suspicious that Leon might be
academically deficient was the
questionnaire he sent back to
interested schools. On each
questionnaire, he not only mis-
spelled his name, he also doo-
dled in the margins with a yel-
low crayon and listed his home
town as "Korpus Krispy."
Plans to remain in Texas
and seek work repairing anvils.
•Norman Glovemeyer III,
quarterback, Palm Beach,
Florida: Starred at Palm Beach's
private Ralph Lauren Academy.
Was run over by a polo pony dur-
ing the off-season, however, and
suffered head injuries that
made him think he is a cocker
spaniel.
His father, a wealthy
Eastern industrialist, plans to
buy him his own Gucci shop as
soon as Norman stops chasing
Mercedes 380Sls down Worth
Avenue.
• Arnold (Stumpy)
Wordsworth, linebacker, why-
not, Georgia: 6'3" 290.
Got the nickname "Stumpy"
from his instructors. Not only
didhe not answer any questions
correctly on his SAT, he ate his
pencil. Wants to become air-
traffic controller.
• Gunther Dappleman,
defensive tackle, Shade Tree,
Missouri: Stands 7'3" and
weighs 416. Ineligible because
of steroid addiction.
• Alfonidius Johnson, defen-
sive back, Slick Snake, Florida:
Was courted by over 250 schools
until it was learned he was given
a frog to dissect in biology class
and the frog talked him out of
it. Plans career wrestling alli-
gators at Crazy Al's reptile farm
and discount fireworks.
• Ramundo Santiago
Ornamata Diego Francisco
(Earl) Zapata, soccer-style
placekicker, Bogota, Colombia:
Approached by many U.S.
schools, turned down all offers,
however, to take better paying
job in '' business.
• S&E (Meathead) Monella,
6 '2", 240, linebacker, Thickneck,
New Jersey: Currently at Penn
State. Prison. Convicted of marl
fraud, writing bad checl
trying to rob a Roto-Root0
he mistook for a Brink's 1
Plans to become television
gelist after parole.
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What Exactly Do We Try To Mean?
Just some 19 or 20 days ago
our country inaugurated its
43rd president. As we all know
this election will go down in his-
tory as one of the most, to say
the least, unusual ever.
Although this was a fiercely
fought campaign and election,
as most are, it seeaned to me that
the special interest groups were
also more vocal. I dont know if
they were more vocal or they
just received more media cov-
erage. Be that as it may, as the
election drew to its conclusion
and as then President-elect
Bush began making public his
appo'mtees, once again the spe-
cial interest groups spoke out
in OPlXmition_ It is fib t that
one of the most vocal groups
during this whole process was
the NOW group (National
Organization for Women).
The NOW has made many
claims and many attempts to
dissuade women from the 'tra-
ditional' roles of women in our
society. Patricia Ireland has pro-
meted that those who hold to a
biblical view of males and
females are out to "take back
the rights of women," as she
stated in an article in August of
1997. May I state unequivocal-
ly that is not what the biblical
view of males and females
states, when Bible believing
preachers stand and proclaim
that men are to be the head of
the house and that wives are to
be in submission to their hus-
bands many get the idea that
women are being put down. That
is not the case and if that is not
th case, then what do we mean?
If one would only study the
scripture, one would find that
instead of low rating women,
the Bible seeks to put them in
an honored place. When one
says that men are to be the head
of the house, one is not speak-
ing about superiority or i
ority, nor ability or
being referred to. In
be the first to admit
many ladles who are
superior in maturity,
ability, and emotional
than many men. It must
stood that nowhere in
are men elevated to be
or to women.
IN CONCLUSION,
meant? May I answer
reiterating what is not
The biblical view of
but a matter of God
roles. If we are to see
ety turn around, our
must return to the
created the male and the
