Missouri Takeover of St. Louis City Public Schools

Missouri State Board of Education Takeover of the St. Louis Public School District . . .That’s the Subject of the Big B Files.

     On Last Friday’s the Big B Zone on 97.1FM Talk, a part of their Dave Glover Show Survivor Series, the topic of discussion was the takeover of the St. Louis Public School District by the Missouri Board of Education.  I had mentioned that I had researched the St. Louis Public School District and found that the crisis goes as far back as  the Mid 1970s and in some cases . . .the 1960’s!
    Based upon the research I did, I am of the view that there is absolutely no choice for the Missouri State Board of Education to do a complete . . .top-to-bottom . . . takeover of the St. Louis Public School District .  There has been a culture that has been so entrenched in the St. Louis Public Schools that as I said on last Friday’s Big B Zone that the Missouri State Board of Education needs to go back to the drawing board, blow it up (figuratively speaking), and start completely from Scratch.
    Whether it is the School Board, the Administration, the faculty, the staff . . . culture in the St. Louis Public Schools has been a culture of dissarray, complacincy, status and power.   The culture in the St. Louis Public Schools has been so complaciant when any reformerstried to change the St. Louis Public Schools for the better, that the people who wanted to keep the status quo did whatever they could to destroy them or get them to quit alltogether.
    The crisis in the St. Louis Public Schools  has gotten so dire that it led the St. Louis Post Dispatch, a very left-leaning newspaper, to say the following in their editorial “Let’s Get Real” from February 2, 2007:

    Given the district’s dire straits and tumultuous history, decisive action needs to be taken. A transitional school district is the best of several options to address the multitude of problems facing St. Louis public schools. Outrage against the plan is misplaced.
    Opponents of the transitional school district have argued that it disenfranchises voters. It’s true that under the plan, the elected School Board would be stripped of its decision-making power. The board’s governing functions would be taken over by a three-member appointed committee. The important point is that the transitional school district is temporary. State intervention is what it is: a last-ditch course of treatment designed to resuscitate a critically ill patient. The School Board repeatedly has failed to carry out its responsibilities and now emergency measures are required to restore the district to good health. Accreditation, finances and student achievement need to be addressed immediately.

    One person out of all of the callers whocalled into my show last Friday voiced opposition to the state taking over the St. Louis Public Schools.  Even an 11 year old girl understood the crisis.  If and 11 year old can under why the state is in the process of taking over the St. Louis Public Schools . . . why can’t some adults.  
         Now, all of the people who called in to the Big B Zone understood perfectly why the Missouri State Board of Education  is taking over the St. Louis Public schools and I believe they represent the majority of people in the St. Louis Metro Area who support the Missouri State Board of Education taking over the St. Louis Public Schools.  One of those callers was a mother of 2 children who graduated From the St. Louis Public Schools.  She told basically that the teachers in her school, in a round about way, were giving them the questions and answers to the Missouri State Exam.  the woman said they did this by dropping clues when they were teaching their students in preparation of the Missouri State Exam and that she and the other students would figure it out once they saw the actual Missouri State Exam  itself. .  
         Now, If none of the above does not convince you why the Missouri Board of Education is taking over the St. Louis Public schools, I do not know what ever would.  If you want to know more about this, go to the Big B File “Big B Zone Radio Program Stack of Stuff (2/16/2007)” and look under the heading “ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN DISARRAY”.  

    That’s the Big B Files.  Click on the “Comments” link below and tell me what you think . . . I’m Bryan Hewing.

Chief Illiniwek Retired due to . . .Political Correctness! (Part 2)

The effect of the Retirement of Chief Illiniwek and the Political Correctness of the NCAA . . .that’s the Subject of this Big B File.

       Last night, the 81 year old symbol of the University of Illinois, Chief Illiniwek, danced for the last time at Assembly Hall in Champaign, IL.  The students and fans in attendence told the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette that they were saddened and in mourning, including Maren Schuit  of Chicago, former Marching Illini member and one of the few women to try out to be the Chief, who said this:

      “When I was a little girl, they used to show the dance at halftime on TV during basketball games,” Schuit said. My dad “would actually get me out of bed so I could watch the Chief dance at halftime, then he would put me back to bed. It makes me sad that my kids will never see the Chief with me the way that I was able to with my father.
    ”It’s something I’m incredibly proud of having been a part of for even a couple of months.”

     In fact, a large number of the members of Orange Crush, the Official fan club of the Fighting Illini Athletic Teams, changed from orange to black right after halftime was over. there are a group of people to portray the Chief are working to find a way to keep the tradition alive.

     The ramificatioins of the “retirement” of Chief Illiniwek are huge!  According to the News-Gazette, thousands of  Chief Illiniwek supporters have said that thet will never donate to the U fo I as long as there is no Chief Illiniwek, and that means that the U if I could Millions of Dollars in funding that come from Donations to the university.  not only that, but any apparrel (buttons, glasses, clothing, photos, bags, etc.`) with chief Illinwek has been flying off the shelf at local stores since the Announcment las Friday.  As the Champaign News-Gazette Reports:

     ”If it has the Chief on it, people are wanting it,” said Kristi Brownfield, owner of Brownfield Sports in Urbana.
    Rumors had been circulating that the UI would announce the end to Chief Illiniwek, but “since that on-the-record ruling came down on Friday, it has exploded. We didn’t anticipate this much of a reaction. We’re having a lot of fun keeping up with the sales,” said Cory Shumard, manager of Gameday Spirit in Champaign.
    ”Anything with the Chief logo is dominating requests. Especially anything referring to the last dance or the 80-year-old tradition,” he added.
    Since Friday, Shumard estimates the average number of items per transaction has more than doubled – “that’s always nice to see,” he said, adding that about 90 percent of sales since the announcement have been for Chief-related items.
    Hundreds of items, including Chief buttons, glasses and photos, have been listed for sale in recent days on the online auction site eBay. Top sellers on the UI’s Fighting Illini site included a slate Chief Illiniwek sign and a “Hail to the Chief” T-shirt. Even a few Chief-related items, such as duffel bags, were for sale on the NCAA’s Web site as of Wednesday.
    ”We have a lot of Chief merchandise, and we’re getting more every day,” Brownfield said.

   The University of Illinois caving to Political Correctness and intimidation of the NCAA will most certainly embolden the Left. Others might ask, especially in the St. Louis Metro Area might ask “What is the impact of the U of I’s decision to us?”  Here are some of the examples of what could happen now in lite of the Chief Illiniwek decision:

• The animal rights groups could go after Missouri State Bears, Missouri Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis Rams and tell them that either you change your team names and get rid of your mascots because they are “offecsive and Abusive” to animals (the groups themselves) or we’ll do to you what the NCAA did to the U of I or worse.
• The Enviromentalists could go after the Rivermen of the University of Missouri-St. Louis and tell them that either you change your team name and get rid of your mascot because it is “offecsive and Abusive” or we’ll do to you what the NCAA did to the U of I or worse.

      Do not think that the senario above won’t happen is so far fetched, because nothing is beyond theAmerican Left.  Do not be surprised if it happens within the next 10-15 years or so.

    That’s the Big B files.  Click on the “Comment” Link below and tell me what you think . . i’m Bryan Hewing.

Chief Illiniwek Retired due to . . .Political Correctness!

The Retirement of Chief Illiniwek and the Political Correctness of the NCAA . . .that’s the Subject of this Big B File.

    During the Midday Hour Friday, the University of Illinois Board of Trustees announced that the 80 year plus symbol of the University will be “Retired” after Tonight, when the Illinois Men’s Basketball team takes on Michigan at Assembly Hall in Champaign, IL.
    After the Announcement, Lawrence Eppley Chairman of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees said the following:

“While people differed on their opinions of the Chief, the overwhelming majority of those voices put their love for the University ahead of their opinion on the Chief. Now we have the responsibility to work together to maintain other great traditions that will unite our community for decades to come.”

       That comment was followed up a comment by B. Joseph White, President of the University of Illinois, who has never been a Chief Illiniwek Supporter from the beginning: 

       ”I support the Board of Trustees’ consensus decision on Chief Illiniwek. While I understand many people have strong feelings about this 80-year-old tradition, for the good of our student-athletes and our university it is time to come together and move on to the next chapter in the history of this distinguished institution.”

       Board of Trustees’ consensus decision on Chief Illiniwek?  What!?! What a bunch of Bologna!  A “Consensus decision” on Chief Illiniwek  simply means that the University of Illinois caved to the outrageous bullying tactics of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which has swung to the Far Left over the past several years.  these tactics could be compared to the Mafia, which often uses intimidation tactics like this to get whatever they want.
       Dr. White has made his views well known from the beginning of his tenure at the helm of the University of Illinois System (Champaign-Urbana, Springfield, & Chicago)  and has been a member of the vocal minority in the state of Illinois as well as the United States of America that oppose Chief Illiniwek.
       In 2005, the NCAA imposed a new rule that  defined “hostile and abusive” mascots and team names as those mascots and team names  that offend or could offend people of ANY race, ethnicity or national origin . . .including Native Americans . . .a.k.a. Indians! .
       The policy prohibiting colleges or universities with hostile or abusive mascots, nicknames or imagery from hosting any NCAA championship competitions that took effect February 1, 2006.  It sure as heck does sounds like intimidation to me.
       Myles Brand, NCAA president,  said the following in an op-ed piece on Thursday, August 11, 2005:

• “The decision does not mandate that institutions change their mascots. This is a membership-based association where institutional autonomy is valued; there is no league office that can dictate. The decision applies only to NCAA national championships. 
• The affected institutions (18 out of more than 1,000 schools) have six months to appeal their classification and the broader decision of the Executive Committee.
•  Finally, this is a teachable moment. A major part of this effort is aimed at initiating discussion on a national basis about how Native American Indians have been characterized and, in some cases, caricatured. In that, the decision has already been successful.     

         Others, the majority, saw the move as unnecessarily intrusive on local decision-making, bureaucratic kowtowing to political correctness, too impractical or ill-defined to make a real difference, or a decision that simply caught everyone off guard.”

        Not bureaucratic kowtowing to political correctness?  Not mandating that institutions change their mascots? Not overly intrusive on local control?  Come on! Give me a break! Because that is exactly what this has been since 2005.  this has been political correctness run amok and then some.
      There is no way that this cannot be Political Correctness run amuck.  Even Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich says that the NCAA way overstepped their authority. . . and Governor Blagojevich is a Liberal democrat in the Same mold as Ted Kennedy, Chuck Schumer, and Dick Durbin.
       It would be politically Incorrect to keep Chief Illiniwek.  Everyone thought that when Chief Illiniwek  would be “retired”, that the progressive resource/action cooperative  (PRC), the Native American House, and other groups on the Left still aren’t happy and will always want more!   As reported by Sarah Jindra of WCIA 3 NEWS in Champaign, IL (Click here to see the video).

      They say the chief is one of the biggest obstacles to addressing racism on campus.  Now that the chief is out, they hope to fix the problem.  The progressive resource/action cooperative  (PRC) and the Native American House both say there is a racism problem on campus.  PRC also wants the University to remove the name “Illini” and “Fighting Illini”
   The NCAA decided to allow the University to keep those names.
   The University says the name “Illini” stems from the name of our state, and the word  fighting refers to the competitiveness of the University’s teams. The University does plan on keeping those names, but as far as a new tradition goes…administrators are deciding what should be done.

 - Anti-Chief Groups Want More
   Reported by: Sarah Jindra / WCIA 3 NEWS
02/19/2007

       The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that  “Congress Shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free Exercise thereof;  or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of people to peacefully assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of Grievances.”  Where does it say that we have a right not to be offended by anyone?  After all the people are a small but very vocal minority.
       The University of Illinois should get ready to write checks to Alumni who donated to the university who will now want their Donation returned as a result of the decision made by the U of I in relation to Chief Illiniwek.  This will also result in the number of future donations to the U of I to go down by a very noticeable level in the least, as well as a drop in attendance at U of I Sporting events.
       All this as a result of the University of Illinois decided to cave to the outrageous bullying tactics of the NCAA and Political Correctness run wild . . .I hope They’re satisified with their decision.

        That’s the Big B Files.  Click on the “Comments” link below and tell me what you think . . . I’m Bryan Hewing

Big B Zone Radio Program Stack of Stuff (2/16/2007)

         I recently did a Radio Show as a contestant for the Dave Glover Show Survivor contest.  I mentioned a few things from my “Stack of Stuff” and I promised to post them . 

        PLEASE go to the 97.1 FM Talk Website,  sign up to be an Insider, and vote for me in the Dave Glover Show Survivor contest (voting ends Friday, 2/23/2007 at Noon CST).   As promised, here are links to my stack of stuff . . .

CHIEF ILLINIWEK CONTROVERSY                                                             

Chief Illiniwek’s last dance set for Feb. 21
      By Christine Des Garennesof the Champaign-Urbana, IL News Gazette
       Friday, February 16, 2007

ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN DISARRAY                                          

Statement by Gov. Blunt on St. Louis Public Schools
      Gov. Matt Blunt, Missouri Governor
       Thursday, February 15, 2007

State Board of Education Reinstates “Transitional
School District” for the St. Louis Public Schools
      Missouri State Board of Education Official Statement about the Takeover Decision
       Thursday, February 15, 2007

Let’s Get Real
      St. Louis Post-Dispatch Commentary (read below)
       Friday, February 2, 2007

      We understand the concerns of the hundreds of people who packed a three-hour public hearing earlier this week to voice their opposition to a pending state intervention in the running of the St. Louis Public School district. To many parents, teachers and others who care deeply about the district, the idea of the state essentially nullifying the elected School Board and giving partial control of the schools to an appointed committee seems sacrilegious.But let’s get real.
    Given the district’s dire straits and tumultuous history, decisive action needs to be taken. A transitional school district is the best of several options to address the multitude of problems facing St. Louis public schools. Outrage against the plan is misplaced.
    Opponents of the transitional school district have argued that it disenfranchises voters. It’s true that under the plan, the elected School Board would be stripped of its decision-making power. The board’s governing functions would be taken over by a three-member appointed committee. The important point is that the transitional school district is temporary. State intervention is what it is: a last-ditch course of treatment designed to resuscitate a critically ill patient. The School Board repeatedly has failed to carry out its responsibilities and now emergency measures are required to restore the district to good health. Accreditation, finances and student achievement need to be addressed immediately.
    As for all the sturm and drang at the meeting this week, where was that passion and concern last spring when there was a school board election? We hope interest remains high and that future elections attract more than the scant, scandalous 12 percent of voters who turned out last time.
    Education officials and community leaders are acting responsibly by stepping in and taking decisive action when they see a school district in crisis; it is their duty to do so. Ultimate responsibility for ensuring that children in Missouri receive a decent education belongs to the state Board of Education.
    Critics of the transitional school district have asked for more time. But the district’s problems, which include a looming financial crisis, declining academic achievement, unstable leadership and falling enrollment, are long-standing. Too much time has passed already; childhood is fleeting.
    Some have pinned their hopes on Superintendent Diana Bourisaw. They want to give her more time to turn the district around. We wish we had more confidence in her ability to do so. But the district’s problems are so long-standing, deep-rooted and systemic that no one person, however gifted, can turn it around in a matter of months.
    To Mayor Francis Slay and Gov. Matt Blunt we have this to say: You’ve heard the anger, distrust, disappointment, frustration, loss of faith, sense of betrayal – much of it directed at you. You can’t let your shrillest critics stop you from carrying forward the hard, unpopular work ahead. But neither can you ignore the serious message beneath the shrillness. The stakes are high; we’ve all had enough of failure. It’s up to you to exercise due diligence by selecting men and women to the appointed board who have the best interests of St. Louis schoolchildren at heart and who are willing and capable of doing the job well. Don’t let the schoolchildren down.

    Section: Editorial
Page: C10
Copyright (c) 2007 St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Statement by Gov. Blunt on St. Louis Public Schools
       Missouri Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education Core Data As Submitted by
       Missouri Public Schools
       November 29, 2006

O’Brien Needs To Resign
      Resignation Petition for Veronica O’Brien, St. Louis Public School Board Pres.
       January 31, 2007

2005 MO Schools in School Improvement and Restructuring
      Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education -
        No Child Left Behind Data
       August 02, 2006

 A Recipe for Failure:
A Year of Reform and Chaos in the St. Louis Public Schools
      Marilyn Ayres-Salamon
        Published by Trafford on Demand Publications
       Published March 30, 2006

DEMOCRATS’ ANTI-TROOPS RESOLUTIONS, ETC.                                 Senate to Stay in Session This Weekend for Iraq Resolution Vote
      Fox News Channel Story by Major Garrett and Trish Turner
        Thursday, February 15, 2007

 Quotes From the House Iraq Debate
      Associated Press Story via Fox News Channel
        Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Iraq The Model
     Online Blog by Mohammad & Omar, longtime residents of Baghdad, Iraq  
       Provides Updates on the Troop Surge & other things in Iraq not Covered by   
       the Ancient Media

Congressman Murtha Crafts Bill to Prevent Iraq Troop Deployments
      By Greg Simmons of Fox News Channel
        Friday, February 16, 2007

 House Passes Resolution Opposing Bush’s Plan to Send More Troops to Iraq
      By Fox News Channel’s FOX News’ Major Garrett & Jim Mills, and the Associated Press
        Friday, February 16, 2007

WAR ON TERROR                                                                                       American Citizen Charged With Training in Somalia With Al Qaeda, Learning to Become Homicide Bomber
      By Ian McCaleb of Fox News Channel
       Click Here to Read the Criminal Complaint (pdf )
        Wednesday, February 14, 2007

ANCIENT MEDIA NEWS                                                                                     

New Mexico Radio Station Won’t Use ‘Unnamed Officials’ Quotes in News
      NewsBusters Online Blog Posted by Warner Todd Huston
        Friday, February 16, 2007

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The Democrat-Controlled Congress, War on Terror, and effect on the Troops

The Democrat-Controlled Congress, War on Terror, and effect on the Troops . . . that’s the subject of the Big B Files.

         There are currently a number of Non-Binding Resolutions, or NBRs for short, winding through the Democratically-Controlled Congress that are saying it is not in the National Interest and Security to fight the War on Terror in Iraq. These are the same people wanted and demanded a troop surge going three years back and now that these people got their own wish . . . they’re opposed to it all of a sudden! Hillary Clinton recently stated that ” . . . if we had known then what we know now, there never would have been a vote and I never would have voted to give this president that authority.”. Nonetheless, Hillary said that “There are no do-overs in life. I wish there were. You know, I acted on the best judgment that I had at the time, and at the time I said this was not a vote for preemptive war (in Iraq), and the president took my vote and other votes and basically misused the authority we gave him.”

         Should not wage a pre-emptive war? What!?! Got News for you Hillary Clinton, Dick Durbin (Comrade Durbin), Chuck Schumer and others on the left who oppose the Iraq portion of the global war on terror . . . the entire War on Terror IS a preemptive war! Besides, Mohammed Atta and the 18 other hijackers from Al-Qaida started the War on Terror back on September 11, 2001 when they flew two planes into the World Trade Center and one plane each into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Would you rather be proactive or wait until we are hit again which if Pat Robertson’s prediction for 2007 comes true (along with that of a premonition someone I met recently received from the Virgin Mary), you may very well get your wish. By the way . . . Bill ÒReilly has stated a number of times that if we are hit again, the United states will turn sharply right. In this instance, I agree with Bill ÒReilly. What is the effect on the troops?
         I believe Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman put it best what he said the following in a February 5, 2007 speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate:

         Cynics may say this kind of thing happens all of the time in Congress. In this case, however, they are wrong. If it passed, this resolution would be unique in American legislative history. I contacted the Library of Congress on this question last week and was told that, never before, when American soldiers have been in harm’s way, fighting and dying in a conflict that Congress had voted to authorize, has Congress turned around and passed a resolution like this, disapproving of a particular battlefield strategy.
         This resolution also sends a terrible message to our allies. I agree that we must hold the Iraqi government to account. That is exactly what the resolution Senator McCain and I have offered would do. But I ask you: Imagine for a moment that you are a Sunni or Shia politician in Baghdad who wants the violence to end—and ask yourself how the Warner-Levin resolution will affect your thinking, your calculations of risk, your willingness to stand against the forces of extremism. Every day, you are threatened by enemies who want nothing but to inflict the most brutal imaginable horrors on you and your loved ones. Will this resolution empower you, or will it undermine you? Will it make you feel safer, or will it make you feel you should hedge your bets, or go over to the extremists, or leave the country?
         And finally, what is the message this resolution sends to our soldiers? I know that everyone here supports our troops—but actions have consequences, often unintended. When we send a message of irresolution, it does not support our troops. When we renounce their mission, it does not support our troops.

         Now I dislike war as much as the next person, but I also realize that at times it becomes absolutely necessary to fight a war as it is now. Even Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of Al-Qaida, has said (through Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the Al-Qaeda deputy leader) more than once that Iraq is the central front in the War on Terror a.k.a. the War against Radical Islam.
         As for the legal and moral issues that are being raised about the War on Terror, let me address these two issues. In reference to the legal issues, try Saddam violating a grand total of 17 U.N. Security Council Resolutions along with the 1991 Cease-Fire Agreement Saddam signed with the United States and numerous other countries that comprised of the “Coalition of the Willing”. . . including most of Iraq’s neighbors! Therefore, the U.N. Security Council Resolutions and the 1991 Cease-Fire Agreement gave us the legal right to remove Saddam from Power in 2003.
         On the Weapons of Mass Destruction . . . Hillary’s own husband, President Bill Clinton and many in his administration and a number her fellow members of Congress all said the exact same thing in the 1990s.
         As far as the morality, or “Just War” is concerned, there are two moral justifications for the War on Terror. One, we are fighting for the very survival of our nation and our very way of life. We are proud to be a nation where you could worship God and Jesus Christ in whatever way you choose . . . and anywhere you want to do so free of government restriction and/or oppression. If the Radical Muslim terrorists have their way, we would be arrested for just being a Christian or Jew or even killed for not converting to Islam. Those on the left all say that we should negotiate with terrorists like Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah (a.k.a. Hizbollah, Hizbu’llah), and other terrorist groups whose starting point in any negotiation would be, oh shall I say . . . our deaths!
         Second, the majority of the religious leaders during the time of World War II did believe that WW II was a just war because they believed that the WW II generation was fighting to preserve religious freedom for the whole world and keep freedom from being denied by tyrants like Adolph Hitler.
         Now, a number of religious leaders are saying that the War on Terror is not a just and moral war, even though the stakes are much higher now than ever before…including the World War II era. Finally here is quote from the column Conditions of a Just War by the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen in relation for a just war:

         Two practical considerations follow from this Catholic theology of war: First, we Christians should never talk of war, as the world does, in terms of freedom, but always in terms of justice. One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe “liberty” on its banners instead of “justice.” Because “liberty” was considered the ideal it was not long until some men interpreted it as meaning “freedom from justice”; then when religion and decent government attempted to bring them back to justice, organizing into “freedom groups” they protested that their constitutional and natural rights were being violated. The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy’s overemphasis on freedom as the “right to do whatever you please.” No, freedom means the right to do what you <ought>, and <ought> implies law, and law implies justice, and justice implies God. So, too, in war, a nation that fights for freedom divorced from justice has no right to war, because it does not know why it wants to be free, or why it wants anyone else to be free.

-CONDITIONS OF A JUST WAR by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Courtesy of Trinity Communications Copyright © 1994

         I would also have you look at Zenit Daily Dispatch’s “George Weigel on Pre-emption, Just War and the Defense of World Order” and the Address of the Pope John Paul II to President George W. Bush Dated June 9, 2004 for more on just wars, which as an additional benefit, helps defend and preserve religious freedom not only for the United States of America, but for the whole world.

That’s the Big B File. Click on “Comment” link below and tell me what you think…I’m Bryan Hewing.