TRUE LEGACY:THROWING GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD

 

I love pictographs that pretty much tell a story.  On the left, we have a picture of a bull rider and on the right we have a picture of how profitable this bull riding experience has been for VISD's dance team members.  Parents and students worked very hard for many years to help at this bull riding event, so that the profits could pay for the dancers' expenses.  What has come out very recently, is that the bull riding event, where beer was sold, was NOT a profitable event for the drill team members after all. 

Hmmm, who made money on this event and why was it used by VISD for the last many years?  Did the fact that Bo Davis is related to the director come into play?   It would seem to any reasonable person that maybe if one year didn't turn a profit then it would be questionable whether all the hard work the dancers and families devoted was worth it. Give it one more chance?  Sure, but if no profit was shown, then it looks like other ways of making money would be used. 

How does one person have so much power to keep the bull riding event as a perceived help?  Was no one looking at the books, or where the Stepford dancers/families just believing all the hype? 

TEFLON: CONSEQUENCES ROLL RIGHT OFF

It has finally become crystal clear, why certain people in our community can get away with all that they do; they are been adorned with Teflon instead of the normal skin cells.  This coating comes in very handy when "normal" rules and regulations are too trivial or ordinary to be followed.  Rather than wearing off the Teflon coating, each time rules are repelled the coating in strengthened. 

From a young age, some people knew that they were better than others and relished the idea that they would not need to follow previous procedures.  When she was elected to a popular spot in the senior class, unfortunately someone of color would be in the picture with her.  No problem, have separate photos taken and placed on different pages in the yearbook. 

She was given the position of the dance team director for one of the high schools, then she carried on with the same name that has been around for decades.  That is understandable; however, when that school no longer existed due to consolidation, then the drill team name was to be changed to include both schools.  Girls from both high schools would be on the same drill team and the colors of the uniforms would be changed to match the consolidated school.  Style of the uniforms (dingle bells on matador hats remained) basically stayed the same and the original, albeit obsolete name remained on board, on line, on cars and on everyone's lips.  VICTORIADORES.....Past, present, future?  DDDR? 

The Raider Bells drill team had a history, and they were classy enough to go along with not insisting that RAIDER BELLS were maintained.  Class, you ask?  Yeah, it takes true class to move on, follow the rules and build new memories.  When the drill team director at Memorial thumbed her nose at authority figures concerning the name VICTORIADORES, this added another layer of her non-stick back.

MTV wanted to come and make a film about the drill team and this director so much wanted it that she stepped way out of line.  She didn't even receive a slap on the wrist for all the rules she broke.  She didn't lose her job, her authority or prestige in the town.  People rallied around her and supported her love for her girls and all her dedication for each and everyone. 

Costs to have a girl on the drill team were sometimes too much for families and if they complained, the wrath from others was laced with disgust at the lowly who actually struggled financially.  When the team needed money, BULLS, BEER and KICKING were enlisted.  Was anyone keeping up with the amount of funds that were made, because when the two schools split, half the money should have gone to EAST HIGH SCHOOL?  All the money that parents raised last year should have been split, since the team was split into two schools. 

Here were find the latest incident of rules, regulation and blow back sliding off of the TEFLON back of the drill team leader.  It has been reported that she has been arrested for embezzlement of funds.  Isn't that interesting!  No report on the blotter section in the Victoria Advocate.  The only comment concerning this has been deleted from the Advocate's website. 

I will not post on The Victoria Advocate, because the brain-impaired TSTORM will have my account deleted and he is so not worth it.  He will not hear anything that is based on facts, just the rah-rah that keeps everyone away from the facts that we need boots to wallow through.

When I saw Chris Cobbler in Hasting renting a movie and getting a breverage today, I was so tempted to ask him about it, but I didn't feel like having to do the Heimlich or listen to him stammer around the truth.