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Speaker 1: Talk station. If you're having a great Friday Eve, stick

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Speaker 1: aviation expert Jay Ratliff. Folks out there and listening audience

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Speaker 1: have children and grandchildren that are of K through twelve age.

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Speaker 1: You know you may be disappointed in your school offerings.

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Speaker 1: You aren't going to be disappointed in the Cincinnati Classical Academy.

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Speaker 1: Joining me today back from the fifty five KRC Morning Show,

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Speaker 1: Doctor Jed Hardings, the Westside native. I went to Xavier

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Speaker 1: High School, went to the University of Notre Dame, got

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Speaker 1: a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh, and

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Speaker 1: he served as a medical research officer in the US

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Speaker 1: Army and left the services rank of major. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for your service to our country. And throughout his business

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Speaker 1: life highly successful, and then he realized, well we have

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Speaker 1: a massive decline in American education. He is responsible for

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Speaker 1: founding the Cincinnati Classical Academy back in twenty nineteen. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the morning show, Doctor Hardings. It is a

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Speaker 1: real pleasure to have you on today.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: Brian is one start a school. This is so you know, folks,

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Speaker 1: tonight seven pm it's an Empower You America seminar, a

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Speaker 1: tour of the Sinsint Classical Academy. So you're not logging

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Speaker 1: in from home and you're not showing up at the

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Speaker 1: Empower Youth Studios. You're actually going to show up at

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Speaker 1: the Sin Santa Classical Academy. We'll get the details on

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Speaker 1: that in a minute, but it's a great concept bringing

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Speaker 1: the Hillsdale College classical education on a college level to

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Speaker 1: K through twelve education. So conceptually it's a bulletproof idea

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Speaker 1: given the needs we have out here in the education world.

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Speaker 1: But the idea of going out and starting a school,

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Speaker 1: that'd be like peace of God for me. Doctor Harding's

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Speaker 1: where does one start? And how are you able to

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Speaker 1: successfully pull this off?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean it was a labor of love, Brian,

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Speaker 2: But you know, I was blessed with having a great education,

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Speaker 2: but there were you know, as you grow up and

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Speaker 2: there were of sort of essential knowledge from that education.

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Speaker 2: And when I discovered that Hillsdale curriculum and how rich

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Speaker 2: number of requirements. You know, the course work there. It's

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Speaker 2: not optional, it's not elective to study you know, great literature.

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Speaker 2: You have to study it. So you just get filled

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Speaker 2: with this passion to offer this gift of pure gold

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Speaker 2: that we had to do it, and it took about

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Speaker 2: three years. We started in twenty nineteen on the founding

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Speaker 2: then doing the work to find the answers to how

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Speaker 1: And of course along the way, if from the whole,

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Speaker 1: if you build it, they will come. You build a

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Speaker 1: better mouse trap, people are going to buy it. You

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Speaker 1: build a better school structure, the school system, you provide

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Speaker 1: classical education, people are going to knock down the doors.

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Speaker 1: Wanted to get in. You always have. You've always had

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's been one of the toughest lists in

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Speaker 2: a free tour of the school through our new campus.

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Speaker 2: It's free, just have to register and empower you America

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Speaker 2: dot org and anyone's welcome to come out and learn

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Speaker 2: learn about our educational philosophy, and uh see what it's

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Speaker 2: sort of back to the future, you know, old school

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Speaker 1: I just I'm kind of curious about how you go

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Speaker 2: We have not. We've had we've had exceptional teacher retention

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Speaker 1: And I suppose concepts like woke ideology and DEI mandates

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Speaker 1: That's why it's a refuse for all those disappointed teachers.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? And you know it starts gradually in the in

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Speaker 1: Now, can you explain to me and my listeners? Of course,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Well, it serves multiple purposes, but it kind

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Speaker 2: great schools have used it. But it organizes the students

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Speaker 1: Civics and morality and character, these are all part of

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Speaker 2: Sir. It's it's the aim of our school is to

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Speaker 2: cultivate moral character and civic virtue. I mean, those are

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Speaker 1: I just wish that this concept was embraced by all

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Speaker 1: of ours, doctor Yeah, and and and.

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Speaker 2: Brian, the the the public teachers unions. They came after

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Speaker 2: the public treasury. It's nonsense. Uh More, moral character and

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Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of years ago, morality and character were

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Speaker 1: Because they exist as a factual matter. You got to

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Speaker 1: about this. So the tour is tonight at seven. It

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Speaker 1: begins at seven pm. But they do need a registered

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Speaker 1: empower you America dot org. Correct, doctor, that's correct? Now?

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Speaker 2: Probably aim to show up at seven o'clock. Uh, maybe

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Speaker 1: All right, there's somebody right now out there going, wait

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Speaker 1: what grades? There's got to be some sort of limitations

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Speaker 2: Yeah, enrollment usually begins at the end of the year

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Speaker 1: And this your academy draws people from all over the region.

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Speaker 2: And incredibly those numbers continue to grow. I got corrected

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Speaker 2: forty different home school districts. I didn't know there's forty

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Speaker 1: I've said in a million times, doctor, the second greatest

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Speaker 1: And boy, what a great opportunity to do just that

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Speaker 1: by getting your children in the Sin Sant Classical Academy.

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Speaker 1: It starts tonight. Do the tour. It's seven pm. Go

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Speaker 1: to empower you America dot org. Make sure you register

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Speaker 1: and make sure you they're on time. Doctor Hardings, thank

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Speaker 1: And I can't I thank you enough, and I certainly

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Speaker 1: know the families of the children you educate are truly

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Speaker 1: appreciative of it. And we'll look forward to having you

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Speaker 1: back on the show again real soon. Doctor, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much my pleasure A say twenty one right now if

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