Lindbergh and Later

Lindbergh AND LATER

Table of Contents

News

Book Banning - 6 & 7

Labor Shortage - 8 & 9

Feature

Bread Club - 4

Music Trends - 5

Theatre - 10

Future

College Plans - 11

Pilot Staff

Elowyn Wells Sam Elliott

Elizabeth Cleary Natalie Van Audrey Branding Kyra Bast Gavin Berry Ava Kelly

Savannah Millheim Lindsey Pham Lavia Raof Meadow Roy Joey Haberberger

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The 2022-23 Pilot Newsmagazine Staff

Letter From the Editor

Hello Flyers! We’re so excited to show you the first issue of the Pilot Newsmagazine for the 2022-23 school year! In this issue, you’ll read about the people and events affecting Lindbergh High School, as well as some information about the after high school plans of our student body. For more stories and content, please visit lindberghlookup.com. We look forward to producing more content through out the year!

The Cover Story

This cover is a linear timeline of student time spent at Lindbergh High School and afterwards with a background of the Flyers Football Field, a staple of community at the high school.

Elowyn Wells Pilot Editor-in-Chief

Photo Credit: LHS Publications

Photo Credit: Mr. Kuchno

THE EVOLUTION OF BREAD... CLUB

The consumption of carbohydrates in the classroom

Arguably the most unique club at Lindbergh High School, Bread Club has been in the limelight of the long list of extracurriculars students can pursue at school. But what about bread-eating is so appealing to the student-body?

Mrs. Switzer, teacher in the English department and sponsor of Bread Club, has witnessed this collective fascination with the club first-hand; an interest that has evolved during her four years in Bread Club from creation to present.

“I don’t know how [the] word of Bread Club has traveled so far, but I think it’s just because it’s kind of a novelty,” Switzer explained.

Bread Club does exactly what the name would suggest, they eat bread– though there are a few extra intricacies within that process. Switzer, along with the student heads of the club– Grace Herzog (12), Caitlin Kearns (12), Francesca Kohrs (12) and Blake Hebert (12)–host an activity during each monthly meeting, such as a challenge to write a loving ode for bread, whose winner(s) determine which type will be eaten for the next get-together.

“[It’s] something to get them involved, listening and learning about bread,” Hebert commented.

Occasionally, a Google Slides presentation is shown during the feasting for educational purposes; a recent one being an exhibition of the history of the loved food item. From Raising Cane’s Texas Toast and garlic bread from P’sghetti’s to a DIY cinnamon waffle (via a brought-in waffle iron), there are no limits to what can be brought in– the true limit is the amount of people who can actually attend.

“We really try to advertise and recruit at the beginning of the year,” Switzer said, “and then, unfortunately, with having to have a set number of people that we’re buying bread for, it’s hard to have an open-door policy.”

Bread Club has a restrained member capacity based on how many students can be safely held in a classroom, as well as how much the cost is financially, as the bread comes at no cost to the members.

“We really try to advertise and recruit at the beginning of the year,” Switzer expands, “and then unfortunately with having to have a set number of people that we’re buying bread for, it’s hard to have an open-door policy.”

Originally, at the beginning of the 22-23 school year, 40-45 people signed up for the first meeting, but, due to conflicting clubs held at the same time, about 20-25 generally attend each meeting currently. Grace Herzog, the co-president of Bread Club, notes that these restrictions only add to the tightly-knit community that students have created over their common interest: bread-eating.

“I think it’s a really nice ‘destress’ type of club… it’s just fun to bond over something as silly as bread,” Herzog said.

LAVIA RAOF STAFF WRITER

All Around the Record of Lindbergh

Students share their favorite musical trends

Ava Kelly- Staff Writer

Music is a huge part of many people’s lives. It can have a profound impact on pop culture, especially when it comes to high school students.

According to Pew Research Center, in 2021, 68% of Americans (12 and older) reported streaming audio content online. In a recent survey conducted on the LHS student body, 165 students responded with their favorite genre; here are the top five most answered genres.

The number one favorite genre students reported listening to is the underground Soundcloud, a newer yet older genre that has been popular since 2015.

Coming in second place was the genre of indie music, specifically produced independently from commercial record labels that originated in the United States said David Schwartz with the musical journal Repeat-Replay.

In third place was hip-hop music, which, as Merriam Webster pointed out, is a cultural movement sweeping up music, dance, art and fashion that consists of rhythmic lyrics.

Coming in at fourth place, R&B, a music genre originating in African-American communities which combine soulful singing with a strong backbeat, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

Then, last but not least, rock music at number five. Rock music evolved from rock and roll, initially characterized by drug-related or anti-establishment lyrics, states Oxford dictionaries.

Although there are many diverse groups at Lindbergh combined with different personalities, a similarity between members of each class that responded to the survey was their musical tastes. According to the survey, members of the class of ‘26 tended to spend their time listening to pop and indie. Those that responded said they obtain their musical tastes on their own or from popular radio stations.

Sophia Rupp (9), shared her preferred musical artists, “The Lumineers and probably anything by The Weeknd.”

The portion of the class of

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‘25 that responded said they spend almost their whole day listening to Kanye West, Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti and indie artists.

Oliver Barrera (10) shared his taste, “Experimental,” and said he enjoys listening to artists like Beach House and King Cool.

In addition, responses from members of the junior class showed a more diverse taste consisting of country, rock and rap. A few of the popular artists mentioned were Pierce the Veil, Kanye West and Backseat Lovers.

Luke Hamel (11) said he enjoys country artists like Tyler Childers. He said he found his musical taste from “My seniors give me good new music,” and claimed seniors have the best musical taste.

Senior class survey respondents said they spend the majority of their time listening to rap, R&B and indie music. The class of ‘23 has a diverse list of favorite artists consisting of Kanye West, A Boogie W Da Hoodie, Gunna, Steve Lacy, and Rihanna.

Mirsad Dakic (12) listens to rap artists such as Sheck Wes and Travis Scott at any chance he can get, “My favorite song is probably Sicko Mode by Travis Scott,” he exclaimed, “That song kind of goes crazy!”

All in all, the music trends of the Lindbergh student appear to show that students in the different classes aren’t so different from one another.

New Missouri Law Aims to Ban Your Books

A look at how far modern day censorship will go

Elliott - Co-Webeditor & Elowyn Wells - Editor-In-Chief

Here are some of the books that have been removed in other schools: 1984 (graphic novel), American Gods 1: Shadows, American Gods 2: My Ainsel, Annie Leibovitz at Work, Crime and Punishment (graphic novel), GenderQueer, Himawari House, Milk and Honey, The Daughters of Ys, The Handmaid’s Tale (graphic novel), The Human Body in Action, The Sun and Her Flowers and Women.

And Lindbergh has removed some from it’s shelves, including the graphic novels of Game of Thrones (vol. 1-4) and The Walking Dead (vol. 4,7,8,11) series. Another removed book was Gender Queer, which The New York Times credits with being the most banned book in the U.S. in 2021.

It seems the influence of the bill is primarily targeting graphic novels.

“It impacts books that have illustrations,” said Whitehead. “a little over 600 graphic novels in selection in a collection that’s about 15,000, which is about 4%. So a relatively small percentage of the collection is illustrated text.”

In this modern day and age, it isn’t abnormal for younger audiences to be reading more mature content. As kids, the most recent generations grew up reading books like A Series of Unfortunate Events, Hunger Games and Maze Runner; which all have depictions of death, suicide and some overall violent and/or explicit material. Now, in 2022, a new Missouri law aims to put a ban on ‘sexually explicit content.’

The ban orginates from the Senate Bill 775, which was signed by Missouri Governor Mike Parson and enacted in late August. Bill 775, the Sexual Assult Survivors’ Bill of Rights, prohibits any educator (public or private) from providing “explicit sexual material” to students. This includes, “any pictorial, three dimensional, or visual depiction, including any photography, film, or video, picture or computer-gen erated image that contains ‘sexually explicit materials.’” This means that any challenged book deemed eligible to be banned can be taken off the shelves in school libraries.

“This is my sixth year and this is the first time I’ve experienced anything like this,” Ms. Anna Whitehead, a librarian at Lindbergh High School said.

While the law impacts the accessibility of usable content in the classroom, it does make some exemptions. “The law does make exceptions for specific things,” said Ms. Whitehead. “For instance, art is exempted, a book of Renaissance paintings, that would not apply. Anthropological significance is also exempted, like National Geographic; where they have photos of different groups of people around

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Graphic novel section of Lindbergh High School’s Library- Photo Credit to Sam Elliott

Non-Fiction section of Lindbergh High School’s Library- Photo Credit to Sam Elliott

the world or books about Native American tribes. Things that would be for educational purpose are exempted; biology textbooks, for instance, would be also be exempted,” added on Ms. Chelsea Pulley, another of the school’s librarians.

Not only does this bill impact the library, but it also impacts the English department.

“[The librarians] were focusing specifically on the books because that’s what we provide to students, but movie adaptations (like Romeo and Juliet) that don’t impact the library directly necessarily still affect the English Department, a larger impact of the bill,” said Pulley.

Counselors here at LHS have shown discontentment with the restriction of books and express that information about situations and topics should not be restricted.

“Banning/restricting books because it makes others uncomfortable does not make the information/situations within them go away. If we stop talking about sensitive topics like racism, sexual assault, genocide and many other complex issues, they are not going to go away; they will still exist. We have to face the discomfort to keep it from happening again,” said Tricia Hays, a LHS counselor.

“Because SB775 is a legal issue and there are legal repercussions, that is taken into account,” said Pulley. “But we want students to have a library that is representative of them and their interests and we’re doing our best to provide those resources for them.”

“I am not a fan of banning books in any manner, and I do think some books that are pretty explicit should be available in the library, but not necessarily a required part of the curriculum,” said Mr. Benjamin Smith, another LHS counselor.

Not only has this impacted students’ access to liter ature, but it has left the librarians with the stress of pulling each individual book from the shelves.

“We’re all checking once, checking twice just to make sure that we’re complying while still looking out for our students and making sure we’ve got all the materials they need. It’s just an added layer of extra work that goes into it to make sure that we’re not violating anything,” said Pulley. Even though the extra work is proving to be a time restraint, the librarians are making sure that the students are still their first priority.

“Because SB775 is a legal issue and there are legal repercussions, that is taken into account,” said Pulley. “But we want students to have a library that is representative of them and their interests and we’re do ing our best to provide those resourc es for them.”

Lindbergh left “frustrated” with the effects from the national labor shortage

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How the national labor shortage has affected Lindbergh High School

According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, “In 2021, more than 47 million workers quit their jobs.” This impacted the U.S. economy greatly and there have been shortages in almost every industry, especially in education.

Brian Mckenney, who has been Lindbergh’s chief human resources officer for the past eight years, agrees that the national labor shortage has been affecting Lindbergh High School. He explained how jobs in the education system have been on a decline and how Covid-19 changed the workforce, most prominently in education.

“Covid definitely has affected us. Due to the pandemic, staff were doing their jobs remotely. Now, these essential people are not coming in to do these jobs due to many different factors,” McKenney said.

McKenney explained how the national labor shortage has affected schools everywhere with the increasing scarcity of people going into teaching careers. Luckily, Lindbergh has been fortunate to not have been affected by the national teacher shortage.

“We are fortunate to not have a shortage of teachers. We actually had 60 open teaching spots that were all filled, but the custodial staff, food service workers and substitute teachers are the groups that have been the most affected by the labor shortage at Lindbergh,” Mckenney said.

Problems have arisen with the limited number of workers. These groups’ shortages in staff have been noticed by students, teachers and administrators. Mckenney said one of the problems that have been apparent directly affected the students at Lindbergh.

“It’s not ideal that we have to send students to the commons to be monitored by a substitute teacher when there are other groups of students that are also being watched over by that same substitute.”

-Brian Mckenney-

“It’s not ideal that we have to send students to the commons to be monitored by the substitute teacher when there are other groups of students that are also being watched over by that same substitute,” Mckenney said. Having this as a solution works when there are multiple teachers gone and multiple groups of students need to be watched over by a single substitute teacher when there aren’t enough substitutes to monitor all of the students in their original classrooms. Unfortunately, due to the circumstances, it’s hard to find solutions that work efficiently. Having these students being monitored in the commons is not ideal. Mckenney and others in his department have been planning for solutions that help alleviate the lack of substitutes issue.

“A proctoring substitute would be a substitute that would be paid more and specialize in proctoring students in a large space, such as the commons, and be trained in how to help these students with things like with Canvas or assignments that are assigned to do,” Mckenney stated. This doesn’t eliminate the problem of having students in the commons when they need a substitute. This solution could be a promising fix to help aid when there aren’t enough substitutes to go around to sub these classes and these proctoring subs are able to help students more with their school work than their traditional counterparts.

In the commons, classes of students are monitored by a substitute teacher.

Van & Lindsey Pham

Additionally, Lindbergh is also a part of labor shortages involving food. Main principal, Dr. Cochran, is enlightened about this and the situations it has created for Lindbergh.

“I know students get frustrated, especially when we can’t open a lunch line that they would typically use. The food service workers are like many other workers, they can get sick and have to stay home, or sometimes they have kids and they get sick and have to stay home with their own kids. And so when we don’t have enough people to work behind those lines, we sometimes have to consolidate,” Cochran said. Not only has Lindbergh been looking for solutions to shortages within the food service staff, but they sometimes have to do this for bus driver services as well. On days when there is no one to drive a specific bus, they have no choice but to adapt to it the best they can. Cochran has acknowledged those concerns.

“We do the best we can. We just sometimes have no one and so we have to shut it down or consolidate that bus today due to no one being able to drive it. So let’s take those kids to another bus. It’s no fun, but it’s the reality of running a school,” said Cochran.

Since COVID-19, staffing shortages have become a regular feature of the past school years. The pandemic was an eye-opener for some workers as it changed their ideals of work. Despite the one-time solutions, Lindbergh still strives to fix the problem.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, as the graph demonstrates, jobs openings are outpacing hires in public education. This data was collected by the The Jobs Opening and Labor Turnover Survey program

Jose Valencia, one of the food service staff working in the new cafeteria.

Antonia Franco , one of the food service staff working in the new cafeteria.

A Peek Through the Curtains

What theater has in store for the public this year

Gavin Berry Staff Writer

Michael Frayn earned a Tony Award nomination in 1984 for his show, Noises Off, which follows a determined director and his troupe as they put together the production Nothing’s On.

Recently, the Lindbergh Theater Department decided to produce a take on Frayn’s show, premiering as one of the last shows within the old auditorium, with the new auditorium on its way to completion.

“We wanted to do it with a bang and go out with a big old set,” director Jessica Winingham stated.

“As long as you enjoy your after-school activity, that is almost a break from school,”KathrynKoehler (12) stated, “When you get home, you can think about your assignments…know what commitments you have and prioritize them.”

Some thespians advise that people put themselves out there, to express their talents on the stage without overdoing it. Winingham suggested that new students get the chance to try everything, from acting to, eventually, directing, as they must find their theatrical art style.

“I think being exposed to all the elements of theater is really good for an artist,” Winingham replied.

Premiering first on October 13th, the LHS version of Noises Off showed itself to be a success as the seats were full each performance. Within the show, it consisted of a main two-story rotating stage, which Winingham and Technical Director Dave Blackwood for thirteen years have been wanting to incorperate into a show.

“It went really well, people said it was the funniest show they have seen in a long time,” responded Lily Kimbrell (11)

These shows are rumored among the community, but are hoped to be produced as theater continues to bring in more people every year, and it all means a heavy commitment for those individuals helping to put the show on. With the unbalance between thespians and their homework, they must try to balance these tides and manage their priorities.

Following the success of Noises Off, the theater crew planned even more shows. On November 11th, the theater held its improvisational show, a show full of comedy and thespians in a series of short acts. Followed by Shakespeare clubs’ hour performance of The Tempest, which was planned to drop on the twelfth of November, but got canceled due to illness. Winingham said she decides which shows to perform based on what will challenge her students the most.

“I choose shows that I think are worthy of being on stage...shows that I think my students will learn from and enjoy,” said Winingham.

The public can also expect more shows to come with productions such as Beauty and the Beast, which is rumored to be set to premiere in February, a musical is set to drop in February of 2023, and finally, in the future, the Senior One Acts that will be directed by senior thespians showing off their experience.

“I think a lot of people who participate are amazing and work really hard,” Koehler responded.

Improv Crew’s afterschool practice for upcoming show in Black Box Theater

Planning Your Future

Different resources can help when applying to colleges

Savannah Millheim | Staff Writer

It’s senior season! Thinking about college can be pretty overwhelming for most people. Have no fear, college guidance is here. Cost, housing, transportation, majors, location and so much more are all things that don’t need to be dreaded. Having a solid plan can help with the stress of applying to college.

“Colleges are way more competitive than when I went to college,” said Ms. Keegan, College and Career Guidance Counselor.

With colleges becoming more selective with who they accept, this can come as quite a shock to many hopeful students. Having help while applying for colleges can make a huge difference. Ms. Keegan is available for guidance in the counselor’s office.

“Make an appointment to come see me!” said Keegan.

During the second semester Ms. Keegan works mainly with seniors because of how busy she gets, but after that she opens up her schedule for everyone. If students need ACT tutoring, they can get in contact with CAPP.

“CAPP is willing to help students and walk them through it,” Jacob Kroenlein (12) said.

While taking the ACT is not a path all students chose to follow, it is highly recommended by staff, as colleges are becoming more competitive. CAPP is a free student-led ACT tutoring system;

Contact CAPP advisor Jacob Kroenlein 23jacobkroenlein@indberghschools.ws

it is run by 10 students that help in specific areas of the ACT test. The club meets during B lunch on Fridays in the collaboration space outside of room 314 in the east knuckle. Students can reach out to Jacob Kroenlein or Althea Bartz-Willis to get help from CAPP.

“The new implementation of Common App has made it so much easier to apply to colleges,” Kroenlein said.

Websites have also been a huge help when it comes to applying for college. Schoollinks. com, wix.com and commonapp.org are simplifying the application process for students. School Links, specifically, has a lot of information about colleges, such as an overview, campus setting, student body, programs, athletics, student life, cost and financial aid, admission, application re quirements, deadlines and suggestions for similar schools. The website also does scholarship matching and financing. Putting down SMART goals is another feature the website offers.

“Students hear so much about college, and they think that’s their only option, when there are actually a lot of options, not everyone is college bound,” Keegan said.

Trade schools and occupations are another path that students might follow after high school. College won’t always be everyone’s plan. Nonethe less, a plan for after high school is always helpful.

LHS college and career counselor Ms. Kate Keegan katherinekeegan@lindberghschools.