By Antonio D. French
Filed Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 8:58 AM
PUB DEF EXCLUSIVE VIDEO
Using tactics out of the FBI stand-off handbook, city officials ordered the air conditioning to be turned off yesterday as St. Louis Public School students, some as young as 8 years-old, waited to speak to Mayor Francis Slay about the coming takeover of the school district.
After sitting in the heat for nearly three hours, 18 year-old Howard Hughes, a senior at Roosevelt High, walked over to the two large window unit air conditioners and turned them back on. City Marshal Ron Hill quickly checked the young man, telling him he wouldn't turn his mother's air conditioning on without permission.
Hill ordered a deputy to turn the air back off.
Later in the evening, after these conditions were first reported by Pub Def and other local media, the air conditioning was turned back on.
5 Comments:
Say no to Slay in 09.
3/15/2007 10:07 AM
I am embarrassed for my city. Slay should be ashamed.
3/15/2007 11:51 AM
Whose brilliant idea was it to deny them air conditioning? The image of an armed marshal turning off the AC should be national news.
And where the hell is the Post's coverage of this?
3/15/2007 12:13 PM
Slay needs to get back home and tell the students the realities.
"calm down, kids. We have you covered on the accreditation thing. In order for Governor Blunt and me to take over the schools---for your own good, you have to know we are doing it for you, and nobody else----we have to be a little bit creative. We need to pretend that Dr. Bourisaw did not provide the necessary information, just long enough to legally take over. Once that is done, we will resubmit the same pile of papers, and accreditation will be granted, because the state board of republicans, excuse me, the state board of education knows that this takeover is necessary."
"there is a lesson to be learned from this as you head for adulthood. When you are exploiting children for your own selfish interests, make sure you tell everybody you are doing for their own good----especially when you are being criminally dishonest.
3/15/2007 12:17 PM
The Post Dispatch and Journalism is oxymoronic.
3/15/2007 12:23 PM
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