Win with grace, lose with dignity -- a testament to Bullard High School
School has started and with that football season. The excitement, the anticipation, the cheering and screaming, and the fans when the stadium lights turn on and your players run onto the field.
As a loyal Knight, I love Bullard football. I agree with Coach Arax: "When the football program is strong the school is strong." Today at school, when talking to fellow students, I learned that after our victory over Clovis East there had been theft in the Clovis East locker room.
This is sad no matter what team you root for, that kind of conduct should not occur. Then to hear that a Clovis East parent wrote a letter to Sports and belittled and degraded not just Bullard, but Jody Sharp our athletic director, Bullard football, Bullard High School and Bullard students. Now that's a lot of name calling in one letter. I came home and looked up this letter to see what all this was about.
Patty Manghera stated that Coach Sharp was upset that "this crime overshadowed an important football win." Yes, it is unfortunate that this has overshadowed an important win for us, and any student or parent alike would be disappointed at the turn of events, I don't care what school you attend.
Ms. Manghera continues with, "At Bullard, they are taught winning is more important than caring for fellow community members." I am sorry, but this is completely untrue and outrageous. How dare a parent say this about another school. I take this as a personal insult. Not only is she putting down every student at Bullard but every teacher and administrator as well -- the same teachers and administrators who strive to instill in us a sense of community and pride. We have many groups on campus that do outstanding works for the community, many of which go unnoticed. We don't feel a need to preach to every one our good works. As a little girl, a wise man told me, "A good deed is no longer a good deed if you tell someone about it."
Yes, there will be another football game next week, next month and next year but no one will ever forget this win. In Clovis their athletes may be taught to "win with grace and lose with dignity," but this obviously has not been passed on to the parents.
This game was won by hard work and pure determination; do not attempt to take that away from the Bullard Knights. Do not question our integrity.
Comments
It's been a while since Clovis schools lost football games to Fresno schools. CW was lucky the lights went out at the Edison game. It must be awfully humbling for them. So its not surprising that a few might lash out.
Posted by: Mike D. | September 26, 2007 7:35 AM
As a student at Bullard High. I also was offended by the outlashing of the Clovis East parent. It is a personal insult. You would expect something like this to come out of a child's mouth, not a grown adult. All it did was show how much "dignity" that she has. It's one thing to bash one aspect of a school but to strike down on every piece of it is a whole other playing field. Since they've gone down to the playing field of a child here's a saying we are taught at a younger age: "If you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all."
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