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To test or not to test.................p. 2 Lunch Lady serves up smiles. p. 5 The Day the Earth Stood Still...p. 7 Immigrants bring new sports...p. 8 With TAKS testing prominent in Kristin Harmon, a long-time em- A highly anticipated box office Immigrants from Latin America, Asia the Spring, students and teachers ployee for BISD, serves food with a remake dissappoints with bland and Africa bring their love of sports, ponder the pros and cons complimentary attitude. characters and a tiring plot. like soccer, to the U.S. Free A deca de of... The Junior HawkVolume 10 X Issue 7 X Birdville High School X North Richland Hills X TexasX X April X 2009 Basinger, Eccles, Horton retire with plans for fun Teachers inspire students Over his 29 years of teach- teaching and coaching basket- girls Varsity basketball. Kenney Basinger joins the of everything coming together. to learn everyday. Three of ing his love for history shows ball for twenty-eight years After retirement, Eccles will group of retirees after 29 years Basinger said he has no those teachers are retiring at from teaching Texas history, Eccles’ career began after work at Stone Creek Soup Café of teaching chemistry and immediate plans except to just the end of the school year. World history, American his- acquiring his degree at the Uni- in Burleson which has been his coaching. take life as it comes, and to Dudley Horton attended tory and geography, as well as versity of Texas in Arlington. family’s business for two years. Basinger said he received watch Birdville football games. Texas Tech University to ac- health and P.E. Eccles said what really The thing Eccles is going his degree from Oklahoma All three were honored at quire his teaching degree. Horton is going to miss the inspired him to teach was his to miss the most about Birdville Central State University and a retirement reception in the Horton realized he would people he works with the most father who was a principal. High School is coaching the just wanted to work with kids. library. like to become a teacher be- and plans to spend his retire- Through his career he has girls basketball team and the He will miss the relation- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cause of his love for coaching ment traveling and playing golf. taught many subjects including time he has gotten to spend ships with the students, football, Mitchell Kempe football and teaching history. Terry Eccles has been I.P.C., health, P.E., and coached with them. the coaches, the overall aspect Staff Writer Armed gunman invades and attacks citizenship class On April 4 in Binghamton, shot in the stomach waited for shot. I heard no screams, just told the Associated Press. Police later found out that about people making fun of New York a Vietnamese im- the gunman to leave before silence, shooting,” she said, “I Though the call for 911 the gunman was a 41-year-old him because he did not know migrant invaded the American calling for 911. heard shooting, very long time was minutes after the shoot- man named Jiverly Wong that English very well. Civic Association and shot 13 As the gunman headed for ... and I was thinking, when ing, it took three hours for po- was born in China but lived in “We have no idea what the people before committing sui- a room in the reception area, will this stop? I was thinking lice to establish that the gun- Vietnam. motive is,” Zikuski said. cide. she crawled underneath the that my life was finished.” man was dead. After doing so He was supposedly upset xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The bulk of the victims desk and proceeded to call the Zhanar Tokhtabayeva, an they were able to rescue the about losing his job at a vacu- Olivia Nguyen were citizens attending an police immigrant from Kazakhstan, other victims. um plant and was also upset Staff Writer English class required for The gunman continued citizenship. The gunman, not a down the hall and entered the stranger to the American Civic citizenship class and started Association, drove his car to to fire at least 98 times in less Obama proposes school increase the back doors of the building than one minute hitting each to block people from exiting person four to seven times. Obama has proposed a that require school six days a home. jobs and relax. and entered through the front He killed 13 people then com- new plan to increase school week, year round. Students spend about one Longer school days mean of the building. mitted suicide. Police said 37 days and hours. The first part of this plan third of the day at school and that students will have less Once inside, he shot one people exited out of the build- On the positive side, the is to increase hours spent in on average one third sleep- time for their families, home- receptionist and then the other ing safely and 26 of them were goal would be to help Ameri- school. ing. So it leaves students work and jobs. in the stomach. hiding in the boiler room. cans be more competitive On the negative side, this with one third of the day to do “I see the benefit, but that The receptionist who was “I heard the shots, every with people from countries would take time away from home work, work at part time would take away from time at home and overall not very beneficial,” Keith Lyons said. The second thing that Death of actress raises public awareness Obama is trying to do in this plan is increase the number of 45-year-old actress Na- family as they faced a similar Connie and Donald Mc- enough to make her cry. Where Natasha’s story days students attend school, tasha Richardson died on situation. Cracken, treated it with an “We were putting her in did not turn out so lucky, which means summer vaca- March 18 at Lenox Hill Hos- The McCracken’s 7-year- ice pack. bed when she started to com- Morgan’s did. tions will be shorter. pital following a ski accident. old daughter Morgan Mc- The ice pack appeared to plain of a headache,” Connie This time delay between Students will be obligated What appeared as only a Cracken was hit in the head cause the bump to go away. said. Morgan and Natasha raised to either go late or return ear- bump on the head turned out with a baseball two days be- After treating the injury, Morgan’s parents had some questions. ly during summer break. Stu- to be the cause of her symp- fore watching Natasha’s story Morgan was doing fine ac- watched Natasha’s story ear- Natasha experienced dents spend three quarters of toms and death. on the news at Ohio. cording to her parents lier in the day. symptoms within two hours the year in school. This incident has opened Morgan only had a bump “She didn’t even blackout After watching that, they where as Morgan’s symp- Some people feel this is the eyes of the McCracken’s on her head. Her parents, and had no blurry vision or realized the similarities be- toms did not show for three too long of time to spend out any of the things you’d kind tween Natasha and their days. of school, and others feel that of associate with a severe daughter. “It depends on the type of it is not long enough. The HAWK is printed on head injury,” Donald said. The pediatricians’ gave blood vessel that’s torn,” Dr. Many feel that the Na- 100% Recycled Newsprint For two days, Morgan Morgan a CT scan. Cohan said on Good Morning tional government should get lived life normally. She went Once the doctors discov- America. “In Natasha’s case out of education and let the to school and showed no ered she was diagnosed with it was probably an artery. In individual states set their own symptoms of a hematoma or epidural hematoma, she was Morgan’s case it was a vein.” standards. any serious effects. sent on a helicopter to Rain- Natasha’s story may Some feel that the stan- “We watched her con- bow Babies and Children’s have resulted in death, but dards should be equal across stantly for two days, and Hospital in Cleveland. the cause of her death has the country and help Ameri- there was no signs until two Immediately they sent her opened the eyes toward oth- cans become more competi- days later,” Donald said. to the operating room. er people and saved lives. tive in a global economy. On the third night, Mor- Please recycle this newspaper... The surgery was a suc- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx give it to a friend or family member! gan began to have a head- cess, and Morgan soon re- Josh Holbrook Bryan Hamby ache. The headache was bad covered from her injury. Staff Writer Staff Writer 2 The Junior Hawk Opinions April 2009 Critics take sides on TAKS test Hide under the desk! preciate the insight they give to provides good practice for mat. Assuredly, there would be The Quick, TAKS is coming! their students’ needs. Teach- students, and while they may a collective cheer at the news This is the general reac- ers gain an understanding detest its standardized nature, of the TAKS tests’ demise, at tion to the dreaded TAKS of what their students do not they do gain basic problem- never having to bubble anoth- Hawk tests. Their eminent arrival is a grasp by analyzing the results solving skills.

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