At that very moment one does not care about anything or anyone but himself or herself. Surely she must understand that someone else may have been in a much more dangerous situation in which a life was at stake. Corpus Christi has established a telephone reporting unit designed to take reports, precisely like Ms. Van Dover-Reed's. This will assure that officers are indeed available to those whose lives are truly in danger. Maybe Ms. Van Dover-Reed is more upset that she lost her personal belongings and was careless enough to leave them in her vehicle than she was because no officer was dispatched.
Humans have a tendency to look to others to blame for our own personal mistakes.
Should Ms. Van Dover-Reed ever find herself in a life or death situation, she can rest assured that an officer will be dispatched, and she won't have to wait for the officer to finish taking a burglary of a vehicle report before coming to help save her life. Sanctions on other schools by the UIL have been overturned in the past. Honorable adults do not withhold information that impacts students. The students, who have been denied participation through no fault of their own, know that Robstown committed no wrongdoing. Clearly, Robstown committed no wrong.