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Show | MICELI, TILL LLL a tl Ua WASATCH COUNTY Made Them Do It | a teaching between the teacher and the students. Junior High who won't tolerate someone who doesn’t fit the mold (Mr. than substance. Well, so much for a Webster isn’t LDS) and who, heaven forbid, actually MOTIVATES and TEACHES his students. After talking “secular” public school system. In the end the blame for this can’t be laid solely at the feet of the Junior High administration. The Superintendent with your methods, handover the course material to the kids, and then sit and watch as they go nowhere.” wire COUNTY ® COND! While it is the usual policy that the Board rubber stamps the recommen- dation of the principal, with the petition, the letters and calls from par- AND SAY THEY RE ents, the School Board should have BUI IM,OPTIMISIIC...o How else to explain the decision not to renew the contract of Doug Webster at Wasatch Mountain. Junior High? The reason given for not renewing his contract was that, “he didn’t interact with his students.” Well let’s see, over 150 of his students, on their own, signed a petition asking the School looked ‘ f f —— F ee nT Ft as students _ Who paper in their community) to try and publicly embarrass their elected offi- The tion of CUP cials into repenting. If that doesn’t . — work and they have been harmed in | ~ the process, they may even take them to civil court like the residents of Canyon Meadows have done. But if the problem is perceived to Ee criminal in nature, concerned citizens may end up going to the county attorney, or in this case, the Utah Attorney General’s office to complain. If the prosecutor is conscientious and cares about his or her duty to uphold the law, he or she would investigate and prosecute any corrupt public officials just like they would any pimate citizen who has broken the law : _ . ‘Unfortunately, when County’s concerned Wasatch citizens approached the AG’s office when Jan Graham was the AG that was definitely not the case. She was a gutless, spineless politician who did not want to apparently water feuidulent alloca- to the Jordanelle and pun-. Will Be the First to Talk? BY SAM ALLEN: activities. School District ter” curtain we'll be glad to give you 1,200 unedited words on this page to explain your actions. moved shen I was in; elementary ; \X | school I was taught that : lying always catches up to you. Once you tell a lie, you spend the rest of your life trying to cover it up by telling new lies until one - day you can’t keep your story straight and you are caught. County ~The Wasatch Commissioners and their assistants in crime have now backed themselves into a corner that they may not be able to get out of. When Commissioners ‘Kohler and Duke first got into office they could’ve tried to clean things up by opening up the secret workings of county government but they didn’t. After awhile they became part of the problem by covering up the problems of their predecessors in office with new duesvonable County matter instead of hiding behind the “this is a confidential personnel mat- freely in and out of the class.) You say _ OPINION them- PS: If any administrator or Board member wants to speak out on this | Tt AN XXLLL AS talking about the world in general (the varied for ish success. Mr. Webster during their lunch break number matter Where we promote failure ot iy Yip a were 12-15 students hanging out with Wasatch s 4hYt { Hy, : i Tirhin There the the School Board with any backbone. Oh well, the old status quo at “if tf Gf _f iY Board to reinstate him. We went to his. into selves. Too bad there isn’t anyone on Se ee ; | ji and the Board of Education are the ultimate decision makers in the district, and as Truman would say the buck stops there. —— TE EXPERTS SAY THAT ITS A DROUGHT | YEAR AND THAT THE RESERVOIRS ARE HALE EMPTY.© into an administrator who disagrees unannounced. a kids. There was an obvious bond School District stationary. If you don’t fit the profile of a typical. Wasatch County School District teacher, that is, active Mormon, non-innovative and non-engaging (also known as “boring”) we don’t want you for a teacher. As one parent told us, the safest way to keep your teaching job is to, “not run class at lunch, degree to tell when teacher is reaching his students. Mr. Webster was clearly in tune with his to a number of parents, teachers and ex-teachers, we feel this matter is more closely tied to religion and style ee mered back down.” This phrase should probably be engraved over the doors of our schools and imprinted on In our opinion we ae! what we real- ly have is an administration at the e this man sce t interact with his students? This is pure BS. It doesn’t take make any political waves by prosecuting politicians. As a result, her office so important that we have made it one of our primary responsibilities to encourage fair and honest elections all over the world. But here in Wasatch County our elected officials have basi- _ the house of cards as long as possible ‘because the alternative, public expo-_ | sure and maybe harsher prosecution, is worse? The strange thing about this whole their noses at the will of affair is that certain people, like the the people and extended their term as dictators illegally. County Clerk and the County. Attorney, are acting, knowingly or unknowingly, as enablers and protectors for those I feel should be thrown cally thumbed By ignoring the will of the people as expressed at the ballot box, the County Clerk, the commissioners, and County Attorney, have pushed the AG’s office into a corner. The citizens did what ce were told to do, solve the problem at the ballot box, and the problem, mainly the com- out of office. And they don’t seem to be getting anything out of it except tar- nished reputations and the risk of being tarred with the same brush as their bosses. The wheels of justice grind slowly, missioners, are still in office. The only © but they do grind. -It almost seems solution now is for the AG’s office to — inevitable, baring some surprise resiginvestigate those who may have bro~ nations from the powers that be, that ken the law. If they don’t, they will be © someone will eventually end up ratting out the others in order to earn leniencondoning possible criminal activity. The irony here is that all the ethicy or even immunity from prosecution. cally challanged politicians in Wasatch Hopefully, some publicly elected County could have avoided any risk of © officials who have. been around for prosecution completely if they had just much of the controversy surrounding resigned from office when the probformer’ County Attorney Dan lems came to light. Jan Graham’s Matthews, former County Planner Bob told the citizens in Wasatch County - Special Service District in order to that she would rather see the prob- | office never would have spent the Mathis and Commissioner LaRen obtain bonding, the seemingly illegal Provost, may start talking. They still lems solved at the ballot box instead of _ ‘resources necessary to prosecute outpurchasing policies that reward county of-office politicians and the citizens of have professional careers they can in the courts. | officials and their friends, and the The citizens of Wasatch County Wasatch County probably would have | look forward to and families to protect. secret oe are just a few examThe rest—they’ve lived long lives full tried to do exactly that by passing a been willing to give them all “Get Out ples : of Jail Free” cards if they left gracefulof power brokering and probably think ballot initiative that changed the form When citizens identify problems it was all worth it. ly. ers like those mentioned above, there are . of county government AND threw out all three incumbent commissioners. Thankfully, Mark Shurtleff’s office Hopefully, my teacher was alt 7 many ways they can be taken care of. is a lot different than Jan Graham’s about liars eventually getting what But Brent Titcomb, the county clerk, If the problem is minor, citizens may You’ve got to wonder what is going on they deserve but I’ve learned a lot apparently under the direction of the . just try to make their elected officials in the minds of Wasatch County politisince grade school. Especially, that Commissioners and County Attorney, aware of it in public or private meetcians. Now that the risk of potential crooks can often get away with murder has refused to organize a new election ings without ever getting caught. I feel If that doesn’t work, citizens may _ for new county officers as the initiative - prosecution is higher, do they really _feel trapped by their own lies like my they've managed to do it so far in required then try to take their problems to a elementary teacher taught? Do they Wasatch County; nies hope it’s differThe foundation of our déhisetacs in newspaper, willing to risk controversy feel like they have to try and maintain ent this time. the United States is the ballot box. It is _ (Gf they are luck enough to have such a a he iL apanese have a saying, “the nail that sticks up gets ham- MAY 16, 2001 a ery COURIER |