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Speaker 1: Who's the damast person You've ever met? Okayop, this is Okayop.

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Speaker 1: I'm Samuel daughter, I'm Johr. And we tell the funniest

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Speaker 1: stories on the Entranet's almost like we sing them to

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Speaker 1: you with the sweet, sweet lungs of.

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Speaker 2: Singing of the air of the gods, of the gods.

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Speaker 1: I'm actually imagining like like a Mariachi band, but full

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Speaker 1: of zoos Symphocida.

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Speaker 2: That's definitely our style.

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Speaker 3: The question is like, is it like zoos Symposeidon, with

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Speaker 3: like the full outfit, full.

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Speaker 1: Outfit, Yeah, yeah, full aff of everything. Yeah, it's gotta

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Speaker 1: be anyway, it's just bulging out.

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Speaker 2: I got a question for you, John, actually, and not

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Speaker 2: even a story. Oh, let me know what is it?

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Speaker 1: Who's the damast person You've ever met? It's not uncommon

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Speaker 1: as a teacher to have students who are a bit

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Speaker 1: behind the curve in certain aspects, but ninety nine point

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Speaker 1: percent of the time they are keen to understand something.

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Speaker 1: They might not understand how to identify it now or

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Speaker 1: what theme is, but they somehow know how to make

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Speaker 1: a mean plate of nachos. Like you know, you learn

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Speaker 1: pretty quick not to judge a fish for their tree

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Speaker 1: climbing ability. You know, I thought this was the rule

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Speaker 1: when I was teaching until I met Kevin. Kevin Kevin

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Speaker 1: isn't his real name, but it doesn't matter because he

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Speaker 1: can't spill it anyway.

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Speaker 2: Kevin was a student divine.

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Speaker 1: During my last year of teaching, he came to my

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Speaker 1: classroom with very little to show for his academic past.

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Speaker 1: He had moved a few times and thus was missing

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Speaker 1: a lot of typical test scores that we used to

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Speaker 1: try to ballpark their ability. Don't worry, it was ballpark.

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Speaker 1: We didn't make any decisions until we actually had a

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Speaker 1: chance to sit and talk with them and work with

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Speaker 1: the student for a bit. Okay, I thought, that's fine,

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Speaker 1: I'll just do some one on one with Kevin.

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Speaker 2: See what's up, good idea.

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Speaker 1: One on one with Kevin was like conversing with someone

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Speaker 1: who'd forgotten everything in a freak, if not impossible, amnesia incident.

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Speaker 1: There was no evidence that he had learned anything past

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Speaker 1: the second grade, and he was a nice grade. Oh

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Speaker 1: dear flabbergacid. I figured we needed to get more serious

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Speaker 1: with this. If he was going to be in my class,

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Speaker 1: I needed to know why and how he didn't understand anything.

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Speaker 1: I decided to meet with him, his guidance counselor, his parents,

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Speaker 1: and another teacher to see what was really going on.

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Speaker 1: This is where it all became clear. It was some

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Speaker 1: incredible fluke that his family hadn't been wiped out of

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Speaker 1: the face of the earth years ago. Odds are his

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Speaker 1: entire heritage was based on blind luck and some kind

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Speaker 1: of sick divine intervention that saves his family every time

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Speaker 1: a threat presents itself. Kevin was the genetic pinnacle of

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Speaker 1: this null achievement. Even with my instructional lead, this woman

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Speaker 1: couldn't even find a redeeming trait at the bottom of

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Speaker 1: the Marianas Trench, and she failed to see any reason

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Speaker 1: this kid or his family should be alive today. So

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Speaker 1: here's the list of events that made it abundantly clear

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Speaker 1: that God exists and he's laughing uncontrollably. Kevin frequently forgot

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Speaker 1: when and where classes were, and on more than one

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Speaker 1: occasion I had to retrieve him from other classrooms. Kevin

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Speaker 1: ate an entire pack of twenty four crayons. A ninth

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Speaker 1: grader puked and then did it again the next day. Oh,

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Speaker 1: this is ninth grade. I have no idea where he

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Speaker 1: got the crayons.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 1: Kevin was removed from the culinary art program after leaving

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Speaker 1: a cutting board on the gas stove and starting a

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Speaker 1: fire twice. Kevin threw his lunch at the school resource

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Speaker 1: officer and tried to run away. He ran into a

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Speaker 1: door and insisted it wasn't him. Oh my god, Kevin

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Speaker 1: stole my phone during class. I called it it rang

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Speaker 1: He denied it was ringing, not that it wasn't his,

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Speaker 1: not that he did it. No, he denied that the

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Speaker 1: phone was actually ringing. He tried it three times before

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Speaker 1: the end of the year.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: Kevin called the basketball coach a mother F and B

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Speaker 1: during Jim basketball tryouts were that afternoon. Kevin tried out.

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Speaker 1: It did not go well. Kevin's mom could never remember

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Speaker 1: which school he went to. She missed Liberal meetings because

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Speaker 1: she drove to other schools, none of which he ever attended.

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Speaker 1: Kevin would say the N word a lot. Kevin was

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Speaker 1: white and this high school was eighty four percent black.

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Speaker 1: Kevin got beat up a lot. Kevin stole another student's

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Speaker 1: iPhone and tried to sell it back to them. Kevin

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Speaker 1: didn't understand that his grade was dependent on tests, quizzes, homework,

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Speaker 1: class work, and participation. Kevin finished his first semester with

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Speaker 1: a three percent average average. He then tried to bribe

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Speaker 1: me with eleven dollars. Kevin spit on a girl and

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Speaker 1: said you should get out of those wet clothes. The

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Speaker 1: girl was a Spanish student teacher. Kevin didn't know dogs

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Speaker 1: and cats were different animals.

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Speaker 2: That's all for this one. God, I don't even know

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Speaker 2: what to say.

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Speaker 3: At first, I was like, Wow, this poor kid is

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Speaker 3: just so stupid, and I'm just like, I don't even

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Speaker 3: know what to think.

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Speaker 2: Like Kevin seems like a mean stupid yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like at first I was like, oh, it's kind

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Speaker 3: of adorable in some way, like he's just eating crans,

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Speaker 3: and then it's like, oh, he's like so mean, Like

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Speaker 3: what's going on here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Is not Kevin's no good, no good, but you

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Speaker 2: know it's always good.

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