Beeville ISD has no plans to rename A.C. Jones High School “Beeville Jones High School,” board President Nick Cardenas vowed Tuesday.

Cardenas was responding to concerns of Jodi Huegler.

“I am here representing 54 people on our petition: parents, students, former graduates, who are concerned about the name of A.C. Jones High School being changed to Beeville Jones High School,” Huegler told trustees during their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday. “They are concerned about the breach of heritage and tradition.”

She said she and others were alarmed to learn that the school district was considering changing or may already have changed the name of its only high school to a name that incorporated the word “Beeville.”

Huegler reminded trustees of the expense associated with the changing of logos, signs and uniforms and she noted that other schools are named after individuals and those school districts have no problems with identity.

The news media already notes that A.C. Jones High School is part of Beeville ISD, she said.

Even the school district’s stationery notes that A.C. Jones is part of the Beeville ISD, she added.

Huegler said she and the others on the petition see no reason why the high school cannot continue to be named after A.C. Jones, one of the community’s founding fathers.

“There are other petitions circulating, but, really, there is no problem with keeping the name of A.C. Jones High School that we can see,” she said.

Cardenas assured Huegler her fears were unfounded.

“I just want to clarify that we are not changing the name of the high school,” he said. “I don’t know where that came from but we have not changed the name of the high school.”

Huegler pointed out that an Aug. 14 letter to students and parents from Superintendent Dr. John Hardwick included the term Beeville Jones High School.

In that letter, Hardwick explained the recent reorganization of the secondary campus.

“Mr. Jaime Rodriguez will be the interim principal at Beeville Jones High School,” Hardwick wrote. “Mrs. DeeDee Bernal will be the director of secondary services at Beeville Jones High School.”