The Michael Berry Show.

Yesterday was the first day back to school for the Houston Independent School District,

largest district in the region.

And the new superintendent, Mike Miles, came to town to chew gum and fix the district

and he's all out of gum.

This guy is serious and he has upset the apple cart.

And they're making him out to be a monster for giving a damn about the kids.

It reminds me of that scene in Lean On Me when Joe Clark is explaining to a room full of

parents why he expelled 300 students that morning at a school assembly.

And Dr. Napier came to me, offering this job, I saw the lightning flash.

I heard the thunder roll.

I felt breakers crashing, swapping my soul.

We are not in church, Mr. Clark, fell down on my knees and I cried, my God, why I have

the heart for sacred meat.

And the Lord said, Joe, you know damn good, I don't have even more than you realize.

You know earth be good at all unless you take this opportunity and do whatever you have

to.

And he didn't say Joe be polite.

Joe, whatever you have to, to transform and transmogrify this school into a special place

where the hearts and souls and minds of the young can rise, where they can grow tall and

blast them out from under the shadows of the path, where the minds of the young are

that tree.

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