Since the whole Dianne Critchlow affair went down at Fox C-6, a number of senior executives have departed from the school district. Each time, the Leader has run a story on the exiting individual, often in puff-piece format. But in each case, the paper has strangely refused to mention Critchlow at all, even though it is the biggest news story to come out of Fox in many years. Imagine if the Leader wrote an article about the 1985 World Series and didn’t say the name Don Denkinger. That’s what this is like.
This time, the departing executive is John Brazeal, Fox CFO. While the previous profiles covered assistant superintendents who were at best willfully ignorant about, and at worst complicit in, Critchlow’s reign of terror, Brazeal uncovered and revealed many of Critchlow’s schemes, and pointed out that his predecessor as CFO, Mark McCutcheon, shredded documents before abruptly leaving the district as the scandal unfolded.
In the Brazeal article, as in the others, the problems at Fox were gently alluded to. In this case, the Leader wrote this:
“If the district would have continued on its pathway before John got there, it was set to crash,” said [Jim] Wipke, who is now the superintendent for the Ladue School District. “People don’t always believe that when I say that, but the Fox School District, if it wasn’t for John Brazeal stepping in and making some tough decisions that not everybody liked, would have crashed. He stopped that from happening.”
But, what could have possibly caused Fox to be in such a bad situation? You won’t find out from this article.
In each Leader profile, the events of Critchlow were highly relevant to the tenure of each official. But in each case, she-who-must-not-be-named was not mentioned at all. The question is, why?
Jefferson County Penknife 
Because they probaly change what is said! I know because they did it to me!
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