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Speaker 1: I spoke yesterday of a walkout that was put together

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Speaker 1: by the Women's March, and they went after the groups

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Speaker 1: that they go after students. Tony Katz, Tony Kats today,

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Speaker 1: good to be with you. This is a story about

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Speaker 1: how we're paying attention to what happens in our schools,

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Speaker 1: who it is is in charge of our schools, and

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Speaker 1: the issues that they are creating for us. They were

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Speaker 1: gonna have a walk out because ice is terrible, So

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Speaker 1: they walked out. Happened a couple days ago. They walked out,

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Speaker 1: and I asked, how in the world are these students

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Speaker 1: leaving school? And the response that I received was, well,

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Speaker 1: their parents are signing them out. Their parents are signing

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Speaker 1: them ount. The parents hate their kids so much, they're like, no,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to you don't have to worry about

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Speaker 1: getting an education, you don't have to worry about whether

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Speaker 1: you disrupt the other students to what you have an

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Speaker 1: issue with ice and you're seventeen. And so there's a

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Speaker 1: walkout and we're okay with this. That is that is

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Speaker 1: bad bad parenting as far as I'm concerned, really and

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Speaker 1: truly terrible parenting, awful, And so I took note of

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Speaker 1: this and said that this is definitively an issue that

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Speaker 1: we have first parents who would allow this, shamefully allow this,

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Speaker 1: and then we would have an administration that would let

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Speaker 1: this go. Who in the world, who in their right

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Speaker 1: say to a student, let me tell you it's okay,

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Speaker 1: It's all right, you can leave and be a part

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Speaker 1: because you agree that it's okay for kids to miss

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Speaker 1: school to participate in some kind of nonsense, non political protest, Well, Tony,

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Speaker 1: it is political. They're letting their beliefs be known. They're

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Speaker 1: seventeen year olds. Why isn't anybody doing anything to ensure

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Speaker 1: that they're in school like the law says they're supposed

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Speaker 1: to be. When I want to take my kid out

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Speaker 1: of school, I gotta sign nine pieces of paper. I

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Speaker 1: got to prove myself this way, that one the other way.

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Speaker 1: They want to engage in not being in school to

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Speaker 1: participate in a protest from a group of people that

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Speaker 1: are known to be bigots, the Women's March led by

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Speaker 1: Linda Sarsaur group so bigoted, so absolutely gross in their

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Speaker 1: representations that a lot of people dismiss them and said, oh,

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Speaker 1: I can't be a part of this. I've realized what

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Speaker 1: an awful mistake this is, and what an awful mistake

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Speaker 1: it is. Indeed, then you note and so I discussed

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Speaker 1: this yesterday, and then what comes next. What comes next

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Speaker 1: is an email that lives of TikTok. Put up and

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Speaker 1: thank you to Claudia, because I was blacking it out

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Speaker 1: while I was doing in the show, actually had the

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Speaker 1: phone number, and I'm not about to put a phone

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Speaker 1: So thank you Claudia from the chat. Good work. This

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Speaker 1: is an email that was sent out by the principle

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Speaker 1: of Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana, a place I know

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Speaker 1: very very well. It's from the principal guy by the

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Speaker 1: name of Tim Ferris. Every interaction I've had with Tim Ferris,

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Speaker 1: good guy, decent guy. Kids like him, think he's focused,

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Speaker 1: think he's a professional. This was an email sent out

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Speaker 1: January fifteenth. Now I welcome Principal Ferris to call in

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Speaker 1: to discuss his position. And most importantly, is this email

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Speaker 1: a legit? I believe that the email is legitimate. The

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Speaker 1: email reads, good afternoon. This is to the Carmel High

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Speaker 1: School staff. A potential walkout could occur on Tuesday at

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Speaker 1: two twenty five. The City of Karmel has also been

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Speaker 1: made aware of this possible event. Students are planning to

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Speaker 1: walk from the high school to city Hall, which isn't

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Speaker 1: too far of a walk. We met with the student

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Speaker 1: planning this event to better understand the magnitude and the

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Speaker 1: possible disruption this could cause. The student was cooperative and

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Speaker 1: after explaining our attendance policy and processes, they have agreed

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Speaker 1: that any student participating will have their parent or guardian

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Speaker 1: create a pre arranged absence. Now at this moment, I stop.

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Speaker 1: At this moment, we have a problem. And here is

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Speaker 1: the issue. Why is Carmel High School negotiating with a student?

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Speaker 1: Why is any high school negotiating with a student? Under

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Speaker 1: what circumstances? Does the students have a power that forces

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Speaker 1: the administration of the crown jewel of the education system

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Speaker 1: them Throughout the state of Indiana, Carmel is it kids.

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Speaker 1: Carmel is the zenith. Carmel is where the money is.

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Speaker 1: Carmel is a seat of power in a place called

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Speaker 1: Hamilton County, I live here. This is my backyard, this

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Speaker 1: is my home. People move to Carmel, not Carmel, not Caramel, Carmel.

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Speaker 1: They move to Carmel to be in this school district.

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Speaker 1: Everybody within the sound of my voice who lives in

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Speaker 1: a lot of those cities hate Carmel. They love to

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Speaker 1: hate Carmel. Picking on Carmel is a joy and a treat.

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Speaker 1: Carmel is a place that has five thousand plus students

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Speaker 1: in its high school. Why because Carmel doesn't want to

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Speaker 1: have two high schools, because they want to have one

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Speaker 1: high school where they get the best of the best

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Speaker 1: and they win sports, this and other events that and

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Speaker 1: admittedly it's an amazing place. It is surreal what the

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Speaker 1: school does. For the record, that's where my kids went.

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Speaker 1: Like these are this is where I live. Since when

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Speaker 1: is a student in charge of Carmel High School? And

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Speaker 1: at what moment did the superintendent, did the principal, did

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Speaker 1: the school board abdicate their responsibility? When did that happen?

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Speaker 1: But the email continues, and it continues, the scheduled time

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Speaker 1: is during a passing period. An attendance should be taken

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Speaker 1: as normal at the beginning of block four. If a

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Speaker 1: student does not have a pre arranged dismissal in the

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Speaker 1: system and is saying there leaving your classroom, please just

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Speaker 1: tell them they must sign out at door twenty one.

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Speaker 1: We do not want to place you in a difficult situation.

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Speaker 1: We will have our administrative team throughout the building during

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Speaker 1: this time to help honitor to the situation. We are

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Speaker 1: still gathering information. We'll continue to monitor with our SROs,

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Speaker 1: Safety Resource officers and the City of Carmel. Thanks and

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Speaker 1: it signed tim, So you don't have to be signed

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Speaker 1: out by a parent. A kid can just decide to

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Speaker 1: walk out on their own and the school said, whatever

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Speaker 1: you want, just please don't hurt us. We don't want

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Speaker 1: to have a situation. I guess this is what happens

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Speaker 1: when you have a liberal school board, and we do.

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Speaker 1: And there's groups out there, you know, so we support

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Speaker 1: Carmel and all that. They're leftist organizations that pretend to

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Speaker 1: be nonpartisan and they get left as elected because as

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Speaker 1: I said, suburban white women are terrible. Kids are in

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Speaker 1: charge of the school. Ladies and gentlemen and this isn't

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Speaker 1: just this place in Indiana, this is happening all across

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Speaker 1: the country. You just said the students are in charge.

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Speaker 1: Can I ask why we have a superintendent, why do

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Speaker 1: we have the principal, Why do we have this school board?

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Speaker 1: The answer is no, you don't get to leave. Sit down,

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Speaker 1: you cause a disruption, you get expelled. Tell your rich

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Speaker 1: parents they can put you in private school. You know,

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Speaker 1: there's a very exclusive private school called Park Tutor, quite

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Speaker 1: literally right down the road. People have heard of Park

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Speaker 1: Tutor all across the country. Bah Felicia. They gave up.

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Speaker 1: They gave up, they gave up being in charge, they

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Speaker 1: like the college, because these kids go to college and

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Speaker 1: think they're in charge of the college, and the professors say, please,

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Speaker 1: don't hurt us. We just want our tenure. We'll teach

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Speaker 1: you anything you want. Just let us keep making the money.

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Speaker 1: And every now and again getting a little you know

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Speaker 1: what from a freshman who wants a better grade. Oh,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't happen. No, that's just okay, all right, that

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Speaker 1: doesn't happen. Allegedly, there we go. Have I satisfied the lawyers. Great,

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Speaker 1: this is obscene. This is obscene. Now, three hundred students

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Speaker 1: a local publication called you Arecurrent dot com. Three hundred

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Speaker 1: out of five thousand, so less than ten percent. Are

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Speaker 1: you telling me that Carmel has no way to deal

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Speaker 1: with these students if they weren't allowed to walk out

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Speaker 1: and they caused a problem. We don't say we're in charge.

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Speaker 1: We're the best for a reason. We have the best

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Speaker 1: education for the reason. For a reason. They just toubted

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Speaker 1: that their graduation rate is over ninety nine percent. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you it's amazing. And they just said, yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: giving it up to the kids school board failure. And

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Speaker 1: I know that they're listening. You're really bad at this.

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Speaker 1: This is disgusting. Your job is to say no, you kid,

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Speaker 1: go and learn. You don't get to disrupt. You can

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Speaker 1: have a rally on your time. But this is school

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Speaker 1: and we've got rules here, and the superintendent should have

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Speaker 1: said we absolutely don't allow this in this school district.

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Speaker 1: What are we all nuts? You tell the student to

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Speaker 1: sit down and pay attention in class or expulsion. I

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Speaker 1: like the principle. I'm gonna run into this man. You

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Speaker 1: know this isn't somebody who you just are throwing stones

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Speaker 1: at because you're never gonna see him again. And people

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Speaker 1: on social media and influencers can just say anything they

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Speaker 1: want because there's no real world ramification. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: run into this man. I'm gonna buy a coffee somewhere

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Speaker 1: and he's gonna be online behind me or in front

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Speaker 1: of me, and it's gonna be like, oh hey, principal

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Speaker 1: Feris hello, cats Seinfeld Newman. But I'll probably be reversed

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Speaker 1: and this conversation is gonna come up. But am I

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Speaker 1: Absolutely not. We are not going to seed the education

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Speaker 1: landscape to the student in high school. And if this

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Speaker 1: is the case, start sending your kid to private school,

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Speaker 1: start home schooling, break the school in two and they

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Speaker 1: can take that beautiful high school in Carmel, Indiana and

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Speaker 1: they could turn it into condos for all I care,

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Speaker 1: because it's not providing a value. This letter I believe

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Speaker 1: is real. If this is real, this is obscene. If

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Speaker 1: kids were allowed to sign themselves out, who's running the asylum.

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Speaker 1: I'm for new leadership. I'm Tony Katz, And this is

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Speaker 1: Tony Katz today