1 00:00:11,697 --> 00:00:14,937 Speaker 1: You're listening to The Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure 2 00:00:14,977 --> 00:00:17,977 Speaker 1: you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or 3 00:00:18,017 --> 00:00:21,457 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody, welcome to the 4 00:00:21,457 --> 00:00:25,697 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. On this episode, we have Bridget Ziegler 5 00:00:25,897 --> 00:00:29,377 Speaker 1: with us. She is a vice president at the Leadership Institute. 6 00:00:29,417 --> 00:00:33,577 Speaker 1: She is a school board superstar. She'll explain what that 7 00:00:33,617 --> 00:00:36,897 Speaker 1: means and also have some other interesting projects that she's 8 00:00:36,937 --> 00:00:38,297 Speaker 1: going to talk to you about in the realm of 9 00:00:38,697 --> 00:00:43,977 Speaker 1: how we get parents more involved in their children's education, 10 00:00:44,137 --> 00:00:48,337 Speaker 1: how we stop the woke madness in schools, lots of 11 00:00:48,377 --> 00:00:50,737 Speaker 1: stuff like that. Ridget, welcome, great to have you. 12 00:00:51,297 --> 00:00:52,897 Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you for having me. 13 00:00:52,977 --> 00:00:56,097 Speaker 3: Now. There's no shortage of conversations around education right now. 14 00:00:56,377 --> 00:00:59,377 Speaker 1: So tell me this. Tell everybody your story quickly. Because 15 00:00:59,457 --> 00:01:04,297 Speaker 1: you're you're a school board what are you now? President? Like, 16 00:01:04,337 --> 00:01:06,657 Speaker 1: how did you get into this game? Because you're in Florida. 17 00:01:07,177 --> 00:01:10,857 Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis himself, I believe, endorsed you for school board, 18 00:01:10,857 --> 00:01:13,617 Speaker 1: which is pretty cool, and this has become a big 19 00:01:13,617 --> 00:01:16,457 Speaker 1: movement among conservatives more broadly that there are parents who 20 00:01:16,457 --> 00:01:19,217 Speaker 1: are just like, I'm taking action here. What happened with you? 21 00:01:20,817 --> 00:01:21,137 Speaker 2: Yeah? 22 00:01:21,177 --> 00:01:23,457 Speaker 3: So mine kind of goes back a little bit farther 23 00:01:23,617 --> 00:01:28,297 Speaker 3: back at twenty fourteen. I have three girls now, ages four, seven, 24 00:01:28,337 --> 00:01:30,617 Speaker 3: and ten. My oldest was only eight months old. My 25 00:01:30,657 --> 00:01:33,617 Speaker 3: husband's pretty active in politics, and I did a lot 26 00:01:33,657 --> 00:01:36,657 Speaker 3: of nonprofit work that worked in corporate insurance. And there 27 00:01:36,697 --> 00:01:38,257 Speaker 3: was a vacancy and I remember he was like, you 28 00:01:38,257 --> 00:01:39,377 Speaker 3: should run for school board. 29 00:01:39,377 --> 00:01:41,417 Speaker 2: And I thought it was insane, But you. 30 00:01:41,417 --> 00:01:43,577 Speaker 3: Know, when you're raising a family and you realize that 31 00:01:43,737 --> 00:01:46,697 Speaker 3: education plays such a pivotal role in their trajectory, and 32 00:01:46,697 --> 00:01:48,017 Speaker 3: you looked at the school board, there was no one 33 00:01:48,017 --> 00:01:50,817 Speaker 3: there with young kids. So I stepped off the ledge. 34 00:01:51,297 --> 00:01:52,977 Speaker 3: There was a vacancy, so I did apply for the 35 00:01:53,017 --> 00:01:58,017 Speaker 3: appointment governor then Senator Rick Scott, but former governor did 36 00:01:58,017 --> 00:02:01,497 Speaker 3: appoint me, and then that elevated the polarization. But you know, 37 00:02:01,537 --> 00:02:03,137 Speaker 3: I came out and just said I was an novice. 38 00:02:03,417 --> 00:02:06,137 Speaker 2: I didn't work in education. I was a mom. 39 00:02:06,297 --> 00:02:09,617 Speaker 3: I was a business person and believed in things like 40 00:02:09,657 --> 00:02:13,177 Speaker 3: school choice and accountability and wanting high quality education for 41 00:02:13,217 --> 00:02:16,537 Speaker 3: every person, no matter what was that's a four letter 42 00:02:16,577 --> 00:02:19,897 Speaker 3: word in the world of education, and particularly for unions. 43 00:02:19,897 --> 00:02:23,137 Speaker 3: And so they had a field day going after me. 44 00:02:23,217 --> 00:02:24,577 Speaker 3: But you know what I would tell everyone, and a 45 00:02:24,617 --> 00:02:26,257 Speaker 3: lot of stuff that I do in a training is 46 00:02:27,017 --> 00:02:28,417 Speaker 3: there's a lot of ways people going to talk. 47 00:02:28,457 --> 00:02:30,937 Speaker 2: You can talk yourself out of things. 48 00:02:31,577 --> 00:02:36,017 Speaker 3: We're risk adversus human beings, but you will surprise yourself 49 00:02:36,017 --> 00:02:38,337 Speaker 3: when you step off that ledge, especially when you're focused 50 00:02:38,377 --> 00:02:41,337 Speaker 3: on fighting for your kids and fighting for the future generation. 51 00:02:41,537 --> 00:02:46,057 Speaker 3: So I got elected by less than one percent my 52 00:02:46,137 --> 00:02:49,417 Speaker 3: first election, and was elected in twenty eighteen, and then 53 00:02:49,497 --> 00:02:52,617 Speaker 3: my last election, the most recent went in twenty twenty 54 00:02:52,657 --> 00:02:55,777 Speaker 3: two by sixteen percent. So it's been was a good, 55 00:02:55,857 --> 00:02:58,817 Speaker 3: good election year for us. But what I saw was 56 00:02:58,857 --> 00:03:02,937 Speaker 3: alarming a lot of just people who are incredibly out 57 00:03:02,937 --> 00:03:05,537 Speaker 3: of touch as public servants. And I think I saw 58 00:03:05,577 --> 00:03:08,017 Speaker 3: that early on as a board member. But so what 59 00:03:08,057 --> 00:03:11,417 Speaker 3: people experienced during COVID and they went to petition their 60 00:03:11,417 --> 00:03:14,497 Speaker 3: government or asked their elected officials for help as parents 61 00:03:14,817 --> 00:03:15,937 Speaker 3: and were met with disdain. 62 00:03:16,137 --> 00:03:17,737 Speaker 2: That has been going on for a. 63 00:03:17,777 --> 00:03:22,417 Speaker 3: Really long time, And through that I found myself in 64 00:03:22,457 --> 00:03:25,497 Speaker 3: the midst of the gender ideology fight, although I didn't 65 00:03:25,537 --> 00:03:26,377 Speaker 3: know that that's what it was. 66 00:03:26,417 --> 00:03:26,937 Speaker 2: It was just. 67 00:03:28,497 --> 00:03:31,897 Speaker 3: Guidelines that came about around twenty seventeen, and I had 68 00:03:31,937 --> 00:03:33,457 Speaker 3: a provision in it that said it was up to 69 00:03:33,457 --> 00:03:36,977 Speaker 3: the student and the student alone to determine their pronoun 70 00:03:37,017 --> 00:03:40,697 Speaker 3: and what facilities they'd use, and had very explicit language 71 00:03:40,697 --> 00:03:44,537 Speaker 3: in there that prohibited staff from including parents in these discussions. 72 00:03:44,537 --> 00:03:47,097 Speaker 3: And I just thought that was crazy. So that's when 73 00:03:47,097 --> 00:03:49,897 Speaker 3: I said my hair went on fire. And I worked 74 00:03:49,897 --> 00:03:52,697 Speaker 3: with our state legislature to draft the Parents to Feel 75 00:03:52,697 --> 00:03:54,657 Speaker 3: of Rights in Florida, and it took us through legislative 76 00:03:54,657 --> 00:03:57,777 Speaker 3: sessions to pass, but nothing worked at the local level. 77 00:03:57,817 --> 00:04:01,457 Speaker 3: No one was interested in really looking at protecting the 78 00:04:01,577 --> 00:04:01,937 Speaker 3: role of. 79 00:04:01,897 --> 00:04:03,177 Speaker 2: A family and the role of parents. 80 00:04:03,217 --> 00:04:07,257 Speaker 3: And as a conservative, I believe that parents and families 81 00:04:07,257 --> 00:04:10,217 Speaker 3: are really ultimately more important than the government. I think 82 00:04:10,257 --> 00:04:12,657 Speaker 3: that's what we all believe in, is conservatives, And it's 83 00:04:12,697 --> 00:04:15,657 Speaker 3: sad to see how our public education system has really 84 00:04:15,697 --> 00:04:20,177 Speaker 3: devolved into what we're seeing today, which is activism centers. 85 00:04:20,897 --> 00:04:22,617 Speaker 3: That's just a blip of my conversation. 86 00:04:22,817 --> 00:04:28,617 Speaker 1: I think one area of this where everyone gets really 87 00:04:30,417 --> 00:04:35,217 Speaker 1: gets very heated very quickly. You have the national Democrat 88 00:04:35,337 --> 00:04:41,017 Speaker 1: narrative right now is that books are being banned in Florida, 89 00:04:41,617 --> 00:04:45,617 Speaker 1: and then I see what happened at that press conference 90 00:04:45,617 --> 00:04:48,977 Speaker 1: with Ron DeSantis and the kind of material that is 91 00:04:49,017 --> 00:04:52,217 Speaker 1: being banned. And I got a lot of questions, but 92 00:04:52,297 --> 00:04:54,377 Speaker 1: you've dealt with this directly on the school board, and 93 00:04:54,377 --> 00:04:58,057 Speaker 1: I know that you're also working with other folks to 94 00:04:58,137 --> 00:05:00,657 Speaker 1: try to address this issue. What if people need to know, 95 00:05:00,697 --> 00:05:04,817 Speaker 1: like what's actually in some of the school curriculum and 96 00:05:04,897 --> 00:05:07,737 Speaker 1: in the school libraries for kids that is objectionable. 97 00:05:09,137 --> 00:05:12,177 Speaker 3: It's so I usually have them right next to me, 98 00:05:12,177 --> 00:05:13,657 Speaker 3: and I'm sorry I don't because I could flip to 99 00:05:13,657 --> 00:05:16,217 Speaker 3: the pages. Because we're at the point where, if you 100 00:05:16,257 --> 00:05:18,137 Speaker 3: think back a couple of years ago, being called a 101 00:05:18,217 --> 00:05:20,817 Speaker 3: racist was like the worst thing, but now it's overused, 102 00:05:20,857 --> 00:05:24,337 Speaker 3: but it really shut down the conversation. Then it was bigot, transphobic, 103 00:05:24,377 --> 00:05:26,617 Speaker 3: all those book banner is now that new buzzword, if 104 00:05:26,657 --> 00:05:29,057 Speaker 3: that makes sense, and it's shutting down the conversation because 105 00:05:29,097 --> 00:05:29,977 Speaker 3: it triggers people. 106 00:05:30,377 --> 00:05:32,937 Speaker 2: And even conservatives are like, oh, you guys need. 107 00:05:32,817 --> 00:05:35,857 Speaker 3: To stay away from this book banning, and I'm like, no, 108 00:05:35,897 --> 00:05:36,457 Speaker 3: it's book. 109 00:05:36,657 --> 00:05:37,977 Speaker 2: We're vetting material. 110 00:05:38,377 --> 00:05:42,697 Speaker 3: Whether it's explicit pornographic videos, we wouldn't be okay with that. 111 00:05:43,217 --> 00:05:44,857 Speaker 3: You're not okay with it when it's a book. And 112 00:05:44,897 --> 00:05:47,937 Speaker 3: I don't think people would really believe us until we 113 00:05:48,017 --> 00:05:50,017 Speaker 3: show it. And so we recommend when we talk to 114 00:05:50,057 --> 00:05:54,377 Speaker 3: people across the country is don't you have to show 115 00:05:54,937 --> 00:05:57,497 Speaker 3: to intel and so that because it doesn't do it 116 00:05:57,697 --> 00:05:59,897 Speaker 3: justice for me to explain it today. So as much 117 00:05:59,937 --> 00:06:02,257 Speaker 3: as I don't want to give the publishers more money, maybe, 118 00:06:02,457 --> 00:06:06,417 Speaker 3: but go buy Genderqueer. Go buy a book called Choked 119 00:06:06,457 --> 00:06:09,537 Speaker 3: that we just recently found. Go buy farm Boy. I mean, 120 00:06:09,657 --> 00:06:13,057 Speaker 3: go buy this book is gay go By. It's perfectly normal. 121 00:06:13,297 --> 00:06:15,777 Speaker 3: And you have that's a book for forty eight year 122 00:06:15,777 --> 00:06:21,057 Speaker 3: olds that talks about very detailed explicit penetration details for 123 00:06:21,177 --> 00:06:22,177 Speaker 3: a for an eight year old. 124 00:06:22,617 --> 00:06:23,457 Speaker 2: You have Gender Careers. 125 00:06:23,497 --> 00:06:26,537 Speaker 3: They have pictures in a cartoon esque aspect that shows 126 00:06:26,937 --> 00:06:30,777 Speaker 3: people in very explicit sexual acts in their miners and 127 00:06:31,097 --> 00:06:36,777 Speaker 3: their characters of miners in explicit sexual acts with sexual toys. 128 00:06:37,257 --> 00:06:41,697 Speaker 3: And I just I don't know what world that's acceptable ever, 129 00:06:42,017 --> 00:06:43,777 Speaker 3: and what I do as a board member, because I 130 00:06:43,817 --> 00:06:46,377 Speaker 3: am I'm chair of my school board and we are 131 00:06:46,617 --> 00:06:49,097 Speaker 3: you know, I'm at the point because the book banning 132 00:06:49,137 --> 00:06:51,777 Speaker 3: has triggered people to shut down the conversation, so no 133 00:06:51,777 --> 00:06:54,737 Speaker 3: one's asking what books are we talking about They just 134 00:06:54,777 --> 00:06:57,057 Speaker 3: hear book ban and they say, oh, that's bad. Well, 135 00:06:57,377 --> 00:07:00,057 Speaker 3: this material is bad and I want someone to defend 136 00:07:00,177 --> 00:07:02,777 Speaker 3: this material. And to your point, when Governor DeSantis had 137 00:07:02,777 --> 00:07:06,177 Speaker 3: a press conference, the irony when we have that, he 138 00:07:06,297 --> 00:07:08,657 Speaker 3: tries to illustrate it and show the pictures and the 139 00:07:08,697 --> 00:07:12,457 Speaker 3: images and the various outlets had to shut it down 140 00:07:12,457 --> 00:07:13,777 Speaker 3: because they would have been fined. 141 00:07:14,617 --> 00:07:15,897 Speaker 2: But it's okay for our kids. 142 00:07:15,937 --> 00:07:18,137 Speaker 3: I mean, we really have to have a gut check 143 00:07:18,217 --> 00:07:21,857 Speaker 3: here as a society. And I would rather be called 144 00:07:21,897 --> 00:07:23,857 Speaker 3: a book banner all day long. And know I'm fighting 145 00:07:23,937 --> 00:07:27,137 Speaker 3: for our children's innocence. And I know that there's a 146 00:07:27,257 --> 00:07:30,337 Speaker 3: diverse set of community members and beliefs that we serve 147 00:07:30,337 --> 00:07:31,817 Speaker 3: as a public education institution. 148 00:07:32,377 --> 00:07:34,177 Speaker 2: But as an elected official. 149 00:07:33,937 --> 00:07:35,897 Speaker 3: It is our job to make sure that we're vetting 150 00:07:35,897 --> 00:07:39,577 Speaker 3: materials so that it's appropriate for all families, of all backgrounds, 151 00:07:39,577 --> 00:07:42,537 Speaker 3: of all beliefs, and that we're focused on educating our children, 152 00:07:42,617 --> 00:07:47,057 Speaker 3: not providing any of this material which there's no justification. 153 00:07:46,577 --> 00:07:47,377 Speaker 2: Whatsoever for it. 154 00:07:47,577 --> 00:07:50,937 Speaker 1: Well, that's what I wanted to ask you. Who is 155 00:07:50,977 --> 00:07:55,057 Speaker 1: in favor of this, Like when you're dealing with removing 156 00:07:55,097 --> 00:07:56,697 Speaker 1: this stuff from the curriculum. 157 00:07:57,377 --> 00:07:57,657 Speaker 2: Is it. 158 00:07:59,177 --> 00:08:02,817 Speaker 1: School you know, school principles who are saying, no, we 159 00:08:02,857 --> 00:08:05,697 Speaker 1: think this should be included. Or is it activists who 160 00:08:05,737 --> 00:08:08,297 Speaker 1: don't even necessarily live in your area or even the 161 00:08:08,337 --> 00:08:11,217 Speaker 1: state of Florida, who are saying, how dare you like? 162 00:08:11,617 --> 00:08:11,737 Speaker 2: It? 163 00:08:11,737 --> 00:08:14,617 Speaker 1: Seems like this is one of those issues where there's 164 00:08:14,657 --> 00:08:19,217 Speaker 1: a huge amount of noise from the opposition that wants 165 00:08:19,257 --> 00:08:21,977 Speaker 1: these books to be there. But I never see, like, 166 00:08:22,017 --> 00:08:24,377 Speaker 1: I've never seen anyone go on TV be like, yeah, 167 00:08:24,497 --> 00:08:28,057 Speaker 1: this book with this photo for kids totally legit, you 168 00:08:28,137 --> 00:08:30,737 Speaker 1: know what I mean exactly. 169 00:08:30,377 --> 00:08:31,777 Speaker 2: Well, And I think that's a really good point. 170 00:08:31,777 --> 00:08:34,257 Speaker 3: And I'm at that point, So stay tuned and may 171 00:08:34,257 --> 00:08:36,297 Speaker 3: have to follow up at an an upcoming school board 172 00:08:36,337 --> 00:08:38,977 Speaker 3: meeting where I'm going to have to showcase this is 173 00:08:39,017 --> 00:08:41,377 Speaker 3: what we're talking about. So you have to defend this 174 00:08:41,537 --> 00:08:43,617 Speaker 3: mister or missus school board member who wants to keep 175 00:08:43,657 --> 00:08:45,817 Speaker 3: it in or activists, because there are a lot of 176 00:08:45,857 --> 00:08:49,097 Speaker 3: people within our education system who are amazing people. They're 177 00:08:49,217 --> 00:08:53,417 Speaker 3: very strong beliefs and want to preserve high quality literature. 178 00:08:53,417 --> 00:08:56,537 Speaker 3: We're not talking about classics, right, We're people always like 179 00:08:56,577 --> 00:08:58,977 Speaker 3: to bring up Oh, Tom Sawyer, huck Finn yes, years 180 00:08:58,977 --> 00:09:00,617 Speaker 3: ago those were challenged books. 181 00:09:00,777 --> 00:09:04,217 Speaker 2: You have Tony Morrison books, which at a high school level. 182 00:09:04,017 --> 00:09:06,417 Speaker 3: There's an argument about is it more explicit, does it 183 00:09:06,457 --> 00:09:09,817 Speaker 3: have literary context? But the ones we're talking about are 184 00:09:09,857 --> 00:09:13,737 Speaker 3: being targeted towards elementary and middle even if it's high school, 185 00:09:13,777 --> 00:09:16,177 Speaker 3: they're so explicit on sexual acts that they. 186 00:09:16,057 --> 00:09:17,617 Speaker 2: Don't have any literary value. 187 00:09:17,617 --> 00:09:20,377 Speaker 3: There aren't classical novels that stood the test of time. 188 00:09:20,897 --> 00:09:24,217 Speaker 2: These are explicit. I mean, I think someone used Playboy 189 00:09:24,337 --> 00:09:26,737 Speaker 2: or some other magazine. I said, I don't know. 190 00:09:26,897 --> 00:09:28,337 Speaker 3: I have to argue, I don't know, I don't know 191 00:09:28,377 --> 00:09:30,297 Speaker 3: what's in it, but I think these might be worse. 192 00:09:30,377 --> 00:09:33,337 Speaker 3: And the worst part is they're they're detailing younger kids, 193 00:09:33,857 --> 00:09:36,537 Speaker 3: and that's even more alarming. So you've got to if 194 00:09:36,537 --> 00:09:38,177 Speaker 3: it was an act, if it wasn't a drawing and 195 00:09:38,217 --> 00:09:40,417 Speaker 3: it was a picture that person, you'd be in jail, 196 00:09:40,617 --> 00:09:43,897 Speaker 3: no doubt about it. It would be child pornography. And 197 00:09:43,977 --> 00:09:47,417 Speaker 3: so that is again we have to understand why are 198 00:09:47,417 --> 00:09:49,857 Speaker 3: they utilizing this, And so there are people that are 199 00:09:49,857 --> 00:09:53,057 Speaker 3: in the education aspect who are worried about it going 200 00:09:53,097 --> 00:09:56,697 Speaker 3: down the path of literary classics that in the past 201 00:09:56,737 --> 00:10:00,417 Speaker 3: decades ago that were challenged for racial issues, but instead 202 00:10:00,857 --> 00:10:03,457 Speaker 3: no one's talking about these ones. And that's why people 203 00:10:03,497 --> 00:10:05,457 Speaker 3: like myself and people like in Moms for Liberty and 204 00:10:05,497 --> 00:10:07,817 Speaker 3: even Rondo Santis or any other parent groups across the 205 00:10:07,817 --> 00:10:11,417 Speaker 3: country are actually reading the at books but getting shut down, 206 00:10:11,417 --> 00:10:13,657 Speaker 3: and then no one's actually going the next step of saying, 207 00:10:14,057 --> 00:10:15,057 Speaker 3: so why is it. 208 00:10:15,017 --> 00:10:15,977 Speaker 2: Okay to have that one? 209 00:10:16,017 --> 00:10:18,697 Speaker 3: And so is I mean, I, like a school board member, 210 00:10:18,777 --> 00:10:20,897 Speaker 3: I have the unique ability of the bully book that 211 00:10:20,897 --> 00:10:22,937 Speaker 3: I suppose, and if this continues, I think we're just 212 00:10:22,937 --> 00:10:24,697 Speaker 3: going to have to force the conversation at the dais 213 00:10:24,777 --> 00:10:28,817 Speaker 3: and make people defend these items being in there versus 214 00:10:28,817 --> 00:10:29,537 Speaker 3: the other way around. 215 00:10:29,857 --> 00:10:31,657 Speaker 1: I mean, so you're a school board memory, you're also 216 00:10:31,697 --> 00:10:35,457 Speaker 1: a mom. Why do you think people want these books 217 00:10:35,457 --> 00:10:38,497 Speaker 1: in there? I mean, honestly, someone clearly does, because there's 218 00:10:38,497 --> 00:10:40,737 Speaker 1: a huge or are they Is it more that they're 219 00:10:40,817 --> 00:10:43,937 Speaker 1: pretending they want these books there so that they can 220 00:10:43,937 --> 00:10:47,017 Speaker 1: talk about the book ban more broadly and use it 221 00:10:47,057 --> 00:10:50,537 Speaker 1: as a political smear or you know who who? If 222 00:10:50,577 --> 00:10:53,217 Speaker 1: anyone wants this stuff to be there for kids again, 223 00:10:53,257 --> 00:10:55,697 Speaker 1: it brings you back to I've never heard anyone make 224 00:10:55,737 --> 00:10:57,857 Speaker 1: the case for any of these books. But they just 225 00:10:57,937 --> 00:11:00,457 Speaker 1: want to say, you guys are book book burners, basically 226 00:11:00,497 --> 00:11:02,737 Speaker 1: book banning right. 227 00:11:02,817 --> 00:11:04,777 Speaker 3: Well, and I think there's an important context is that 228 00:11:05,017 --> 00:11:07,497 Speaker 3: seemingly I've reached every time, not just in my district, 229 00:11:07,537 --> 00:11:09,577 Speaker 3: but I follow these cases across the country pretty well, 230 00:11:09,737 --> 00:11:12,657 Speaker 3: no one can find out who put them in ever, doesn't, 231 00:11:12,697 --> 00:11:14,857 Speaker 3: I mean never even in my district. We had to 232 00:11:14,897 --> 00:11:17,217 Speaker 3: have a whole workshop. I said, well, what's the process, 233 00:11:17,257 --> 00:11:19,537 Speaker 3: how what's the selection process? And this is before the 234 00:11:19,617 --> 00:11:22,497 Speaker 3: legislation came down that everyone got went bananas and in 235 00:11:22,537 --> 00:11:25,937 Speaker 3: Florida thinking that Ronpantas is banning books, and it was 236 00:11:25,977 --> 00:11:29,737 Speaker 3: merely just adding elevating the vetting process and accountability because 237 00:11:29,777 --> 00:11:30,497 Speaker 3: we couldn't. 238 00:11:30,217 --> 00:11:31,457 Speaker 2: Find out who put these in. 239 00:11:31,737 --> 00:11:35,017 Speaker 3: But the aspect is that it's important to notice when 240 00:11:35,057 --> 00:11:37,817 Speaker 3: you have it. It's very important from a policymaking standpoint 241 00:11:37,857 --> 00:11:40,097 Speaker 3: to keep them out because then you deal with a 242 00:11:40,377 --> 00:11:43,297 Speaker 3: litany of First Amendment challenges because there is a Supreme 243 00:11:43,337 --> 00:11:45,057 Speaker 3: Court precedent about First Amendment. 244 00:11:45,097 --> 00:11:46,737 Speaker 2: Although I argue that. 245 00:11:46,937 --> 00:11:49,177 Speaker 3: Maybe it's time for this to be revisited because we're 246 00:11:49,177 --> 00:11:52,897 Speaker 3: talking about a very different aspect of literature. It's not 247 00:11:52,897 --> 00:11:57,177 Speaker 3: even literature, but they reference that and so then the 248 00:11:57,577 --> 00:12:00,657 Speaker 3: risk of legal challenges is what oftentimes causes people to 249 00:12:00,657 --> 00:12:03,017 Speaker 3: shut down. And it comes down to we have a 250 00:12:03,217 --> 00:12:05,337 Speaker 3: you know, parental rights, which I'm a big advocate of. 251 00:12:05,697 --> 00:12:09,017 Speaker 2: I have people on the left, or I say radical left, 252 00:12:09,017 --> 00:12:11,537 Speaker 2: they're not. I mean they're they're on the just in the. 253 00:12:11,497 --> 00:12:14,937 Speaker 3: Fringe where it's that no, you can't tell us what 254 00:12:15,017 --> 00:12:17,777 Speaker 3: we select for our child. And I said, no, yes 255 00:12:17,857 --> 00:12:21,217 Speaker 3: I can. I was elected by the community in one 256 00:12:21,257 --> 00:12:23,857 Speaker 3: of my jobs is creating policy to put guardrails in place. 257 00:12:23,897 --> 00:12:25,577 Speaker 3: If you don't want me, you can vote me out 258 00:12:25,577 --> 00:12:28,297 Speaker 3: the next time, but I will have no problem defending that. 259 00:12:28,457 --> 00:12:30,537 Speaker 3: And I think if people want to challenge and support 260 00:12:30,577 --> 00:12:35,497 Speaker 3: this disgusting filth in Ork twelve for minor children's schools, 261 00:12:35,857 --> 00:12:37,337 Speaker 3: then I say we need to bring it on. We 262 00:12:37,377 --> 00:12:39,537 Speaker 3: need to allow these challenges to take place and not 263 00:12:39,617 --> 00:12:40,417 Speaker 3: be scared about it. 264 00:12:40,897 --> 00:12:43,097 Speaker 1: Bridget, I know you're following some of these school battles 265 00:12:43,137 --> 00:12:44,657 Speaker 1: elsewhere across the country. I want to ask you to 266 00:12:44,657 --> 00:12:48,057 Speaker 1: tell us about it really very disturbing case that I 267 00:12:48,097 --> 00:12:53,177 Speaker 1: know you're following out of Texas plane View ISD School 268 00:12:53,217 --> 00:12:56,137 Speaker 1: and what happened there. I think parents across the country 269 00:12:56,417 --> 00:12:58,617 Speaker 1: need to know about what's happening in some of these schools. 270 00:12:58,617 --> 00:13:01,217 Speaker 1: So we'll come back to that in a second, But 271 00:13:01,337 --> 00:13:04,297 Speaker 1: first we're from our sponsor here, My Pillow. I love 272 00:13:04,337 --> 00:13:07,377 Speaker 1: all of my pillow products everybody. They're amazing. 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I think very few people 293 00:14:02,697 --> 00:14:06,177 Speaker 1: right now listening know the story of what happened to 294 00:14:06,177 --> 00:14:09,177 Speaker 1: playeview ISD, So would you just tell us what happened 295 00:14:09,177 --> 00:14:11,497 Speaker 1: and then we can discuss how something like this could happen. 296 00:14:13,057 --> 00:14:16,017 Speaker 3: Well, to be fair, there's still a lot of outstanding information. 297 00:14:16,217 --> 00:14:17,137 Speaker 2: But what happened. 298 00:14:17,137 --> 00:14:19,177 Speaker 3: There was an incident that occurred as far back as 299 00:14:19,817 --> 00:14:22,337 Speaker 3: mid April, so a couple of weeks ago, and we're 300 00:14:22,337 --> 00:14:25,937 Speaker 3: talking about that impacted a elementary lower I think it 301 00:14:25,977 --> 00:14:28,857 Speaker 3: was first grade. I'm sorry, it was kindergarten and it 302 00:14:28,977 --> 00:14:31,377 Speaker 3: was where there were two children at the ages of 303 00:14:31,457 --> 00:14:33,537 Speaker 3: six that what a six year old was forced to 304 00:14:33,577 --> 00:14:36,977 Speaker 3: perform a sexual act on another child And there is 305 00:14:37,017 --> 00:14:40,417 Speaker 3: a video of it which has been and I don't 306 00:14:40,417 --> 00:14:41,817 Speaker 3: know who took the video. I don't know if it 307 00:14:41,857 --> 00:14:46,377 Speaker 3: was another child, another student, but there was a teacher 308 00:14:46,537 --> 00:14:50,017 Speaker 3: at least present. They say they weren't supervising, so the 309 00:14:50,937 --> 00:14:53,297 Speaker 3: current claim is that they didn't see it. It's been 310 00:14:53,377 --> 00:14:57,097 Speaker 3: presented to Child Protective Services and there's an investigation going on. 311 00:14:57,497 --> 00:15:00,457 Speaker 3: But what happened is, and this is so often what 312 00:15:00,497 --> 00:15:04,617 Speaker 3: I find is in a mistake of bureaucracies, but particularly 313 00:15:04,657 --> 00:15:08,457 Speaker 3: in the education institutions, is that there was no communication. 314 00:15:08,537 --> 00:15:12,257 Speaker 3: And yes, you have to protect privacies of a myriad 315 00:15:12,257 --> 00:15:14,297 Speaker 3: of people and any kind of incident that occurs at 316 00:15:14,297 --> 00:15:17,297 Speaker 3: a school. But what didn't happen is there's commonly there's 317 00:15:17,297 --> 00:15:19,177 Speaker 3: a lot of sweeping under the rug because people don't 318 00:15:19,177 --> 00:15:21,337 Speaker 3: want bad press, school districts don't want bad press, but 319 00:15:21,977 --> 00:15:24,337 Speaker 3: these things come out every single time, and so what 320 00:15:24,737 --> 00:15:26,537 Speaker 3: would happen was the cover up ended up being I 321 00:15:26,537 --> 00:15:26,937 Speaker 3: don't know if. 322 00:15:26,857 --> 00:15:27,577 Speaker 2: It's worse than the crime. 323 00:15:27,617 --> 00:15:30,417 Speaker 3: This is pretty atrocious, but it was a lot of 324 00:15:30,457 --> 00:15:34,497 Speaker 3: no answers and to the point where parents organize rightfully. 325 00:15:34,497 --> 00:15:36,297 Speaker 3: So because it started to get out there that there 326 00:15:36,337 --> 00:15:39,057 Speaker 3: was a video, someone has the video, my understanding is, 327 00:15:39,097 --> 00:15:40,777 Speaker 3: I don't know if it's been shared, because again there's 328 00:15:40,777 --> 00:15:43,537 Speaker 3: a whole litany of child pornography issues that hopefully that 329 00:15:43,537 --> 00:15:47,257 Speaker 3: that wasn't shared, making, you know, exempt you know, exacerbating 330 00:15:47,337 --> 00:15:48,497 Speaker 3: the victim even more. 331 00:15:48,857 --> 00:15:51,897 Speaker 2: But what happened was the district didn't. 332 00:15:51,657 --> 00:15:53,897 Speaker 3: Do any kind of response or any kind of outrage, 333 00:15:53,897 --> 00:15:57,017 Speaker 3: even allegedly to the family or the family that was 334 00:15:57,057 --> 00:16:00,217 Speaker 3: involved with the child, until it got out there that 335 00:16:00,257 --> 00:16:03,337 Speaker 3: this occurred, and then there was limited information. What happened 336 00:16:03,377 --> 00:16:05,937 Speaker 3: is the parents organized to the point where they had. 337 00:16:05,777 --> 00:16:07,737 Speaker 2: No answers and they had to cancel school. 338 00:16:07,817 --> 00:16:11,257 Speaker 3: When I read that's that's pretty sut ordinary where you 339 00:16:11,377 --> 00:16:15,257 Speaker 3: have a school fully shut down, But it seems that 340 00:16:15,297 --> 00:16:18,737 Speaker 3: there was such a lack of transparency and accountability that 341 00:16:18,777 --> 00:16:21,017 Speaker 3: at some level to the superintendent that they chose to 342 00:16:21,017 --> 00:16:24,457 Speaker 3: shut down the school to investigate, which again just shows 343 00:16:24,497 --> 00:16:27,497 Speaker 3: the lack of systems for that to even happen is atrocious, 344 00:16:27,497 --> 00:16:29,377 Speaker 3: and it again kind of spins off of what we're 345 00:16:29,417 --> 00:16:33,457 Speaker 3: talking about, what our children and the environment they're learning 346 00:16:33,537 --> 00:16:36,617 Speaker 3: and reading and exposed to that that would even ever 347 00:16:37,457 --> 00:16:40,297 Speaker 3: happen is heartbreaking, And as a mother of a like 348 00:16:40,377 --> 00:16:42,337 Speaker 3: I said at a four, seven and ten year old, 349 00:16:42,337 --> 00:16:45,377 Speaker 3: and these are the kind of things that we want 350 00:16:45,417 --> 00:16:47,857 Speaker 3: to fight deeply against to make sure that they're not 351 00:16:47,897 --> 00:16:50,177 Speaker 3: exposed to these kind of things so that that never 352 00:16:50,257 --> 00:16:51,857 Speaker 3: presents itself as a situation. 353 00:16:51,937 --> 00:17:03,857 Speaker 1: It's disgusting when you're seeing the obvious shortcomings, failures, irresponsible 354 00:17:03,977 --> 00:17:07,737 Speaker 1: or even catastrophic failure like what we're talking about here 355 00:17:07,737 --> 00:17:13,497 Speaker 1: from some of the schools. Easy just that there's a 356 00:17:14,097 --> 00:17:18,697 Speaker 1: Is it a bureaucracy of no accountability? Is it the teachers' unions? 357 00:17:18,737 --> 00:17:21,737 Speaker 1: Like what when you find there are school districts where 358 00:17:21,777 --> 00:17:23,577 Speaker 1: kids are either not as safe as they should be 359 00:17:24,057 --> 00:17:28,457 Speaker 1: or being taught stuff that's completely inappropriate for them, or 360 00:17:28,937 --> 00:17:32,337 Speaker 1: even just where the school is dramatically underperforming what it 361 00:17:32,337 --> 00:17:35,097 Speaker 1: should relative to the resources available to it, what do 362 00:17:35,137 --> 00:17:38,257 Speaker 1: you find are generally the problems? The main problem? 363 00:17:38,497 --> 00:17:41,737 Speaker 2: So it's there accountability and lack of systems. 364 00:17:41,777 --> 00:17:44,497 Speaker 3: I mean, and yes, the union plays a role in it, 365 00:17:44,817 --> 00:17:47,137 Speaker 3: but it's easy to try to make them escapegoat. 366 00:17:47,177 --> 00:17:48,897 Speaker 2: Listen, we know what the union's role is. 367 00:17:49,177 --> 00:17:52,377 Speaker 3: Their job is to try to protect protect the environment 368 00:17:52,417 --> 00:17:54,377 Speaker 3: and ultimately just keep getting more money more dues. 369 00:17:55,377 --> 00:17:57,377 Speaker 2: That's their job. I mean, don't make no mistake. They're 370 00:17:57,417 --> 00:17:58,297 Speaker 2: not elected officials. 371 00:17:58,337 --> 00:18:00,577 Speaker 3: They should not have an equal seat at the table 372 00:18:00,657 --> 00:18:02,937 Speaker 3: like they do every almost every district. 373 00:18:03,377 --> 00:18:05,337 Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, elected. 374 00:18:05,017 --> 00:18:07,577 Speaker 3: Officials school board members have a lot more authority than 375 00:18:07,617 --> 00:18:12,417 Speaker 3: they're willing than they're actually invoking. At this point, and 376 00:18:12,537 --> 00:18:14,857 Speaker 3: they need to find superintendents to have a backbone that 377 00:18:14,897 --> 00:18:17,817 Speaker 3: are going to hold put those systems in place. 378 00:18:17,977 --> 00:18:20,857 Speaker 2: And work with the school board if there's a good 379 00:18:20,897 --> 00:18:21,657 Speaker 2: school board in place. 380 00:18:21,697 --> 00:18:23,137 Speaker 3: I mean, the problem is that so many people are 381 00:18:23,137 --> 00:18:26,057 Speaker 3: captured or their warm bodies and they don't want I 382 00:18:26,097 --> 00:18:28,937 Speaker 3: think it's a ceremonial job. This is not a ceremonial job. 383 00:18:29,217 --> 00:18:31,657 Speaker 3: We are there's a battle right now being waged in our. 384 00:18:31,577 --> 00:18:34,137 Speaker 2: Public's education systems, to make no mistake. 385 00:18:34,217 --> 00:18:36,857 Speaker 3: And we need people who are who have grit and 386 00:18:36,857 --> 00:18:39,417 Speaker 3: who are willing to ask the tough questions and sit 387 00:18:39,537 --> 00:18:45,257 Speaker 3: against the firing squad and not not cave because people 388 00:18:45,417 --> 00:18:47,737 Speaker 3: what happens is they get worn down and then they 389 00:18:47,817 --> 00:18:51,617 Speaker 3: leave and then the radical left who's been overseeing our 390 00:18:51,697 --> 00:18:54,297 Speaker 3: education system for decades just wears. 391 00:18:53,977 --> 00:18:54,697 Speaker 2: Out that clock. 392 00:18:55,577 --> 00:18:58,097 Speaker 3: But parents and concerns that is since seriously need to 393 00:18:58,177 --> 00:18:59,297 Speaker 3: take need to take it seriously. 394 00:18:59,297 --> 00:19:00,097 Speaker 2: You need to fight back. 395 00:19:00,457 --> 00:19:03,577 Speaker 3: But I think it comes down to understanding where the 396 00:19:03,657 --> 00:19:06,417 Speaker 3: levers are. How much authority public education school I'm sorry, 397 00:19:06,457 --> 00:19:08,657 Speaker 3: local school boards have. They have a lot, a lot 398 00:19:09,057 --> 00:19:12,257 Speaker 3: they can change and rip up the contract. Again, you 399 00:19:12,297 --> 00:19:13,937 Speaker 3: have to have a majority do that. But there's a 400 00:19:13,937 --> 00:19:15,777 Speaker 3: lot more that can be done at the local level. 401 00:19:16,017 --> 00:19:18,457 Speaker 3: There's a lot of finger pointing. And meanwhile, our kids 402 00:19:18,617 --> 00:19:21,577 Speaker 3: are not able to proficiently read at a third grade 403 00:19:21,657 --> 00:19:25,337 Speaker 3: level and they're they're graduating. So we as a community 404 00:19:25,377 --> 00:19:27,897 Speaker 3: in society need to stop the blame. 405 00:19:27,657 --> 00:19:30,737 Speaker 2: Shift and see what we can do to change course. Correct. 406 00:19:31,977 --> 00:19:37,057 Speaker 3: We're talking about decades worth of bureaucracy, bad processes, corruption, 407 00:19:37,337 --> 00:19:38,057 Speaker 3: special interests. 408 00:19:38,057 --> 00:19:39,097 Speaker 2: I mean, I could go on. There are a lot 409 00:19:39,097 --> 00:19:42,497 Speaker 2: of buzzwords, big money. We're talking billions and billions of dollars. 410 00:19:42,537 --> 00:19:46,057 Speaker 3: You have organizations like you know, the Democrat Party, the Union, 411 00:19:46,217 --> 00:19:49,897 Speaker 3: then a at the what is it, the af neat 412 00:19:49,977 --> 00:19:53,937 Speaker 3: AFT and yeah, and then you have Planned Parenthood, who 413 00:19:53,977 --> 00:19:55,817 Speaker 3: has been at the front and center of a lot 414 00:19:55,857 --> 00:20:00,377 Speaker 3: of this sexual education curriculum for almost one hundred years. 415 00:20:00,657 --> 00:20:03,777 Speaker 3: Human rights campaign playing a huge role in providing sample 416 00:20:03,897 --> 00:20:07,097 Speaker 3: draft policies that are you know, playing at the at 417 00:20:07,137 --> 00:20:09,937 Speaker 3: the forefront of the separation between parents and their children 418 00:20:10,657 --> 00:20:13,697 Speaker 3: about you know, withholding information. So a lot of bad actors. 419 00:20:13,857 --> 00:20:16,257 Speaker 3: And then you have a whole new litany on the 420 00:20:16,417 --> 00:20:19,977 Speaker 3: you know, the whole ESG, data collecting zandpoint. So local 421 00:20:20,217 --> 00:20:23,617 Speaker 3: educate like local school boards are elected at the local level, 422 00:20:23,817 --> 00:20:26,217 Speaker 3: they're closest to the people that they serve and protect. 423 00:20:26,897 --> 00:20:30,257 Speaker 3: That is where the most direct accountability can take place. 424 00:20:30,377 --> 00:20:32,937 Speaker 3: If people are paying attention and they're willing to fight 425 00:20:33,057 --> 00:20:35,097 Speaker 3: for it, and a lot of change can occur, a lot. 426 00:20:35,417 --> 00:20:37,417 Speaker 1: I want to ask you about the change in perception 427 00:20:37,577 --> 00:20:40,017 Speaker 1: that you've seen among parents. You mentioned the AFT. I 428 00:20:40,057 --> 00:20:42,417 Speaker 1: think that's Randy Winingarten's outfit, right. I call her the 429 00:20:42,497 --> 00:20:45,137 Speaker 1: Chief Education Commissar. I don't think. I don't think she 430 00:20:45,337 --> 00:20:47,657 Speaker 1: likes me very much. I've made a lot of noise 431 00:20:47,657 --> 00:20:49,537 Speaker 1: about how awful she is, and I mean it. 432 00:20:49,697 --> 00:20:51,537 Speaker 2: I think she's Have you invited her on your show? 433 00:20:52,697 --> 00:20:54,657 Speaker 1: Oh she will not. We wanted her to come on radio. 434 00:20:54,737 --> 00:20:56,897 Speaker 1: She will not. Oh no, she won't come on. Fout, 435 00:20:56,937 --> 00:21:00,137 Speaker 1: she won't come on. We try. But I want to 436 00:21:00,137 --> 00:21:01,857 Speaker 1: get into that in just a second. 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All right, bridget Have 456 00:21:56,537 --> 00:22:01,977 Speaker 1: people realized more than ever that they have to get 457 00:22:02,017 --> 00:22:05,337 Speaker 1: involved with their children's education because they saw the zoom 458 00:22:05,577 --> 00:22:08,137 Speaker 1: teaching and they realized the schools were shut down not 459 00:22:08,217 --> 00:22:11,537 Speaker 1: as bad in Florida obviously as other places is and 460 00:22:11,657 --> 00:22:14,057 Speaker 1: has that resulted in a lot of I mean, do 461 00:22:14,097 --> 00:22:15,577 Speaker 1: you talk to a lot of parents who were saying, look, 462 00:22:15,577 --> 00:22:17,057 Speaker 1: you know, I love what you're doing on the school board, 463 00:22:17,097 --> 00:22:19,457 Speaker 1: but what about charter schools? What about home schooling? Right 464 00:22:19,497 --> 00:22:22,577 Speaker 1: alternative options to the system. How do you factor that into. 465 00:22:22,417 --> 00:22:26,097 Speaker 2: All this, Well, it's a huge component. So two things 466 00:22:27,097 --> 00:22:28,617 Speaker 2: I think you have to consider. 467 00:22:28,697 --> 00:22:31,017 Speaker 3: We have over I think it's seventy seven percent of 468 00:22:31,137 --> 00:22:34,777 Speaker 3: America's children are educated in a public education institution. Now 469 00:22:34,817 --> 00:22:37,937 Speaker 3: that does include charter schools because they are public, they're 470 00:22:37,937 --> 00:22:41,337 Speaker 3: publicly funded. But in school choice plays a pivotal role 471 00:22:41,377 --> 00:22:43,457 Speaker 3: as well. You have both levers that need to be 472 00:22:43,657 --> 00:22:46,097 Speaker 3: You have to have somewhere for people to go. So 473 00:22:46,217 --> 00:22:48,537 Speaker 3: the monopoly is broken up. We still have a lot 474 00:22:48,537 --> 00:22:50,337 Speaker 3: of work to do, but at the same time, you 475 00:22:50,377 --> 00:22:52,777 Speaker 3: can't give up on the system that's educating seventy. 476 00:22:52,457 --> 00:22:56,017 Speaker 2: Seven percent of America's future. And so both play a role. 477 00:22:56,097 --> 00:22:57,857 Speaker 3: And I think that what having been at this for 478 00:22:57,897 --> 00:23:01,897 Speaker 3: a while, you know Erica Donald's congressman, Donald's wife, who's 479 00:23:01,897 --> 00:23:04,017 Speaker 3: an amazing she was initially a school board member. We 480 00:23:04,017 --> 00:23:07,217 Speaker 3: call ourselves the ogs. Back in twenty fourteen, we're seeing 481 00:23:07,257 --> 00:23:08,337 Speaker 3: this and yelling like, have you. 482 00:23:08,377 --> 00:23:11,217 Speaker 2: Guys seen what's going on? But Conservative weren't paying attention. 483 00:23:11,617 --> 00:23:13,657 Speaker 3: You know, they were only paying attention up ballot and 484 00:23:13,817 --> 00:23:16,577 Speaker 3: those are important too, But unfortunately we've been asleep at 485 00:23:16,577 --> 00:23:17,977 Speaker 3: the wheel and so there's a lot of work to 486 00:23:18,057 --> 00:23:21,657 Speaker 3: be done. But I think that making what happened at 487 00:23:21,697 --> 00:23:22,657 Speaker 3: COVID is that. 488 00:23:22,737 --> 00:23:23,657 Speaker 2: People were alarmed. 489 00:23:23,737 --> 00:23:25,537 Speaker 3: They say, hey, I live in a nice you know, 490 00:23:25,977 --> 00:23:28,977 Speaker 3: my property values are high, my district's well rated. But 491 00:23:29,137 --> 00:23:30,697 Speaker 3: this so we didn't think any of this was happening 492 00:23:30,737 --> 00:23:35,097 Speaker 3: in their district all the unbeknownst to them. During COVID, 493 00:23:35,137 --> 00:23:37,257 Speaker 3: they saw that. So a lot had stepped up. We 494 00:23:37,297 --> 00:23:40,457 Speaker 3: saw amazing elections across twenty twenty two. As conservatives, we 495 00:23:40,457 --> 00:23:42,457 Speaker 3: didn't see the red wave, but we did in school 496 00:23:42,497 --> 00:23:44,457 Speaker 3: board elections across the country. I think New York's a 497 00:23:44,497 --> 00:23:46,977 Speaker 3: great example how it actually impacts up ballot when things 498 00:23:47,017 --> 00:23:50,137 Speaker 3: weren't on play. Keep an eye in Minnesota, which is woke, 499 00:23:50,297 --> 00:23:52,937 Speaker 3: woke as that gets. There's a lot of action happening there. 500 00:23:53,017 --> 00:23:55,897 Speaker 3: And watch California, I mean where people are. These are 501 00:23:55,937 --> 00:23:57,577 Speaker 3: parents that are just have had it And this has 502 00:23:57,657 --> 00:24:01,057 Speaker 3: nothing to do with you know, traditionally conservatives. 503 00:24:01,137 --> 00:24:03,617 Speaker 2: These are common sense issues that have just gotten too far. 504 00:24:04,937 --> 00:24:07,097 Speaker 3: But we have to have school choice at the same time, 505 00:24:07,217 --> 00:24:12,577 Speaker 3: because these are massive with bureaucracies that are wound very tight. 506 00:24:12,977 --> 00:24:15,177 Speaker 3: It's gonna take some time to unravel them, and so 507 00:24:15,297 --> 00:24:17,217 Speaker 3: our children don't get that time back. So there has 508 00:24:17,257 --> 00:24:20,457 Speaker 3: to be other options. Home schools growing exponentially has for 509 00:24:20,697 --> 00:24:24,337 Speaker 3: a decade, and I can see why. Classical education I'm 510 00:24:24,377 --> 00:24:26,897 Speaker 3: a huge proponent of that, or my children are educated 511 00:24:26,897 --> 00:24:31,137 Speaker 3: as well as Montessori, all those models are dramatically different. Unfortunately, 512 00:24:31,177 --> 00:24:34,177 Speaker 3: we're seeing a lot of private schools be captured by 513 00:24:34,457 --> 00:24:38,857 Speaker 3: woken doctrination as well, and comes down to just accountability 514 00:24:38,897 --> 00:24:40,937 Speaker 3: and people fighting back people but with their feet. If 515 00:24:40,977 --> 00:24:43,337 Speaker 3: there's no enrollment, there's no money, and that's a quick 516 00:24:43,377 --> 00:24:44,097 Speaker 3: way to change things. 517 00:24:44,497 --> 00:24:49,897 Speaker 1: And I recently spoke to another podcaster, Chris Williamson. I 518 00:24:49,897 --> 00:24:51,897 Speaker 1: don't know if you've ever seen his stuff. He gets 519 00:24:52,177 --> 00:24:56,977 Speaker 1: a lot of play on particularly TikTok Instagram, where his 520 00:24:57,097 --> 00:24:59,577 Speaker 1: podcast is Modern Wisdom, and he spoke to one of 521 00:24:59,657 --> 00:25:05,137 Speaker 1: his guests was essentially a woman who specializes in women's 522 00:25:05,177 --> 00:25:09,737 Speaker 1: mental health and the issues that particularly young girls are 523 00:25:09,737 --> 00:25:10,817 Speaker 1: facing these days. 524 00:25:10,937 --> 00:25:11,057 Speaker 3: Right. 525 00:25:11,337 --> 00:25:15,017 Speaker 1: The data that he gave me on this was staggering. 526 00:25:15,137 --> 00:25:18,537 Speaker 1: I mean the number of girls who would consider themselves 527 00:25:18,617 --> 00:25:21,217 Speaker 1: and teenagers, thirteen year olds, fourteen year olds, fifteen year 528 00:25:21,217 --> 00:25:24,897 Speaker 1: olds who would consider themselves to be clinically depressed or 529 00:25:24,897 --> 00:25:28,017 Speaker 1: who would qualify as it, and even who have considered 530 00:25:28,257 --> 00:25:31,017 Speaker 1: or attempted some form of self harm. In this country, 531 00:25:32,137 --> 00:25:37,297 Speaker 1: it's staggering proportions and obviously deeply problematic. You're involved in education, 532 00:25:37,497 --> 00:25:40,137 Speaker 1: you're a mom of three girls. What's going on with 533 00:25:40,217 --> 00:25:41,697 Speaker 1: young women's mental health these days? 534 00:25:41,737 --> 00:25:41,777 Speaker 2: Like? 535 00:25:41,817 --> 00:25:45,977 Speaker 1: Why are so many girls in such a difficult place 536 00:25:46,217 --> 00:25:46,937 Speaker 1: in this country? 537 00:25:48,817 --> 00:25:51,817 Speaker 3: So we have to be very honest about what social 538 00:25:51,857 --> 00:25:53,657 Speaker 3: media is doing to all of us, even as adults. 539 00:25:53,697 --> 00:25:55,737 Speaker 3: But we have at least had the foundational aspect of 540 00:25:55,857 --> 00:25:58,617 Speaker 3: going through the awkward time of adolescence. 541 00:25:58,697 --> 00:26:02,257 Speaker 2: I remember high school, middle school, hated it. 542 00:26:03,337 --> 00:26:06,457 Speaker 3: I done with mean girls galore. I felt awkward. I mean, 543 00:26:06,617 --> 00:26:08,377 Speaker 3: I would never want to go back. And I can't 544 00:26:08,417 --> 00:26:10,977 Speaker 3: even imagine that was before social med Yeah, I can't 545 00:26:11,017 --> 00:26:14,457 Speaker 3: imagine how much more amplified that is. 546 00:26:14,697 --> 00:26:16,937 Speaker 2: And so it's just an awkward time. 547 00:26:16,977 --> 00:26:19,017 Speaker 3: And then it's a time of trying to find yourself, 548 00:26:19,057 --> 00:26:23,297 Speaker 3: to figure yourself out, and kids with I mean kids 549 00:26:23,337 --> 00:26:24,697 Speaker 3: are kids, right, it's human nature. 550 00:26:24,777 --> 00:26:26,537 Speaker 2: There's a growing part You're going to be. 551 00:26:27,217 --> 00:26:29,657 Speaker 3: Childish and what have you and mean and whatever, but 552 00:26:29,777 --> 00:26:32,337 Speaker 3: you now it's there forever and then on top of that, 553 00:26:32,497 --> 00:26:37,417 Speaker 3: you have special interests like intentionally targeting these young minds 554 00:26:37,497 --> 00:26:41,697 Speaker 3: at a very pivotal time, vulnerable time, particularly with the 555 00:26:41,737 --> 00:26:46,057 Speaker 3: whole gender ideology trend that you're seeing is particularly impacting 556 00:26:46,137 --> 00:26:49,257 Speaker 3: young girls. So as a mom, my husband and I 557 00:26:49,497 --> 00:26:52,697 Speaker 3: are very concerned about what we're seeing. I know a 558 00:26:52,777 --> 00:26:56,977 Speaker 3: handful of parents myself that they're children at around almost 559 00:26:57,017 --> 00:27:00,057 Speaker 3: without question, it's always thirteen fourteen. They go through it 560 00:27:00,657 --> 00:27:03,857 Speaker 3: where they're gender non binary or questioning because it's kind 561 00:27:03,897 --> 00:27:06,377 Speaker 3: of in vogue, it's a thing. It's also on social media, 562 00:27:06,417 --> 00:27:08,937 Speaker 3: and it's also also massively protected and promoted it in 563 00:27:09,457 --> 00:27:14,057 Speaker 3: public education. And to me, not only is the mental 564 00:27:14,097 --> 00:27:16,217 Speaker 3: health part we need to have. We need to again, 565 00:27:16,297 --> 00:27:19,217 Speaker 3: these are societal issues that it's not the school district's 566 00:27:19,257 --> 00:27:21,257 Speaker 3: responsibility to fix these issues. 567 00:27:21,297 --> 00:27:23,057 Speaker 2: They need to teach your kids, that's what they need 568 00:27:23,137 --> 00:27:23,617 Speaker 2: to focus on. 569 00:27:24,177 --> 00:27:27,417 Speaker 3: And our families and as a society, we need to 570 00:27:27,457 --> 00:27:30,297 Speaker 3: do a better job of supporting the nuclear family and 571 00:27:31,017 --> 00:27:33,537 Speaker 3: lifting that up. It's important. It plays a pivotal role 572 00:27:34,097 --> 00:27:38,537 Speaker 3: in the stabilization of your future. And not anything everything's perfect, 573 00:27:38,617 --> 00:27:41,257 Speaker 3: but we are seeing a massive dismantling of the nuclear 574 00:27:41,337 --> 00:27:45,457 Speaker 3: family of traditional values and I think that that combined 575 00:27:45,457 --> 00:27:47,857 Speaker 3: there's a lot of lost aspects and then people seeking 576 00:27:47,977 --> 00:27:52,257 Speaker 3: social media and not having normal conversations with the human 577 00:27:52,297 --> 00:27:54,937 Speaker 3: to human connectivity is gone. So it's kind of all 578 00:27:55,057 --> 00:27:57,377 Speaker 3: unraveling in that very negative aspect. 579 00:27:57,417 --> 00:27:59,217 Speaker 2: And I think that the best way to do it 580 00:27:59,377 --> 00:28:01,177 Speaker 2: is as a school board member. 581 00:28:01,217 --> 00:28:05,057 Speaker 3: I have been trying to see us ban I like banning, 582 00:28:05,097 --> 00:28:08,097 Speaker 3: I guess, and getting rid of school plums during school 583 00:28:08,217 --> 00:28:10,617 Speaker 3: belde Belt. I just think that they should not be 584 00:28:11,337 --> 00:28:15,617 Speaker 3: available during campus because they are a distraction and their 585 00:28:15,617 --> 00:28:18,337 Speaker 3: impediment to We know they're addictive, we know that social 586 00:28:18,377 --> 00:28:20,577 Speaker 3: media is a problem. We know that it's an impediment 587 00:28:20,657 --> 00:28:24,457 Speaker 3: to their development, the cognitive development, and it also is 588 00:28:24,537 --> 00:28:25,457 Speaker 3: pervasive and bullying. 589 00:28:25,537 --> 00:28:28,737 Speaker 2: Yet we are I can't win that one. I'm still 590 00:28:28,777 --> 00:28:30,537 Speaker 2: working at it though, but I think we all need 591 00:28:30,617 --> 00:28:31,537 Speaker 2: to really feel bad. 592 00:28:31,577 --> 00:28:34,817 Speaker 1: When I was in grammar school, to make a call, 593 00:28:35,017 --> 00:28:36,937 Speaker 1: you had to go to like the one phone in 594 00:28:37,017 --> 00:28:40,537 Speaker 1: the building, and it was you know, you know, you 595 00:28:40,657 --> 00:28:43,177 Speaker 1: had the little the phone that I remember like putting 596 00:28:43,777 --> 00:28:46,577 Speaker 1: like a rotary phone, I guess, old school rotary phone. Yeah, 597 00:28:47,097 --> 00:28:49,737 Speaker 1: so that is very different now, I know with all 598 00:28:49,777 --> 00:28:54,697 Speaker 1: the kids I mean you mentioned the gender ideology component 599 00:28:54,777 --> 00:28:59,257 Speaker 1: of everything. Is that stuff just I always hear? So 600 00:28:59,737 --> 00:29:03,257 Speaker 1: we know that these different social media algorithms reflect back 601 00:29:03,417 --> 00:29:06,777 Speaker 1: to people both their likes dislikes and also tries to 602 00:29:06,857 --> 00:29:11,577 Speaker 1: target them based on demographic age, location like that, and 603 00:29:11,777 --> 00:29:16,057 Speaker 1: so you know, they're probably less likely to you know, 604 00:29:16,377 --> 00:29:19,817 Speaker 1: be showing like fifty year old guys or you know, 605 00:29:19,937 --> 00:29:22,577 Speaker 1: sixty year old women and a lot of gender ideology stuff. 606 00:29:23,057 --> 00:29:25,377 Speaker 1: But on TikTok and particular minunderstanding as they show it 607 00:29:25,457 --> 00:29:29,097 Speaker 1: to kids is that, like, you know, do you how 608 00:29:29,137 --> 00:29:30,977 Speaker 1: do you police that? I mean, maybe that's not the 609 00:29:31,057 --> 00:29:33,217 Speaker 1: right word, but how do you deal with the fact 610 00:29:33,737 --> 00:29:35,577 Speaker 1: that there's what your kids are getting in the classroom. 611 00:29:35,617 --> 00:29:39,457 Speaker 1: There's also the social media fire hose of you know, 612 00:29:39,657 --> 00:29:42,017 Speaker 1: gender isn't a real thing and all the other We 613 00:29:42,097 --> 00:29:43,097 Speaker 1: could talk about that forever. 614 00:29:44,457 --> 00:29:46,577 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, the only way I can see it 615 00:29:46,697 --> 00:29:50,457 Speaker 3: is parents really do need to understand that this is 616 00:29:50,777 --> 00:29:51,377 Speaker 3: not a joke. 617 00:29:51,497 --> 00:29:54,857 Speaker 2: It's not some little trend, it's not one thing like 618 00:29:54,937 --> 00:29:55,457 Speaker 2: it's a fad. 619 00:29:55,537 --> 00:29:58,897 Speaker 3: I mean, we have we're talking about literally the chemical 620 00:29:59,017 --> 00:30:02,617 Speaker 3: castration of children, the sterilization. I mean, I've met with 621 00:30:03,497 --> 00:30:07,937 Speaker 3: quite a few detransitioners who cannot have children, and for 622 00:30:08,057 --> 00:30:09,857 Speaker 3: me as a mom, it just it breaks my heart. 623 00:30:10,057 --> 00:30:12,377 Speaker 3: I don't know how people can be supportive of this 624 00:30:12,497 --> 00:30:14,297 Speaker 3: and the continuation of it and not see it for 625 00:30:14,377 --> 00:30:17,097 Speaker 3: what it is, but you know, as parents, and I 626 00:30:17,497 --> 00:30:20,537 Speaker 3: feel for their parents too, because they're trying to find 627 00:30:20,577 --> 00:30:23,337 Speaker 3: a way to support their child who is depressed. And 628 00:30:23,417 --> 00:30:25,897 Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, it's almost this immediate affirmation 629 00:30:26,017 --> 00:30:30,497 Speaker 3: that the medicals industry has completely jumped on board and 630 00:30:30,617 --> 00:30:33,737 Speaker 3: almost bully parents that if they if they aren't immediately 631 00:30:33,777 --> 00:30:34,577 Speaker 3: affirming that. 632 00:30:34,657 --> 00:30:37,097 Speaker 2: You have states like Minnesota and Idaho and. 633 00:30:38,577 --> 00:30:41,457 Speaker 3: Minnesota, California for sure that are you know, safe havens 634 00:30:41,497 --> 00:30:42,737 Speaker 3: and refugee places. 635 00:30:42,857 --> 00:30:46,217 Speaker 1: Oregon I believe is now Oregon is now a safe havee. 636 00:30:46,217 --> 00:30:49,457 Speaker 1: I think Washington State is as well for transition transitioners. 637 00:30:49,977 --> 00:30:52,297 Speaker 1: I think it's in uh I forget, it's either Oregon 638 00:30:52,377 --> 00:30:55,177 Speaker 1: or Washington State. Where now if you go to a 639 00:30:55,257 --> 00:30:59,857 Speaker 1: shelter as a runaway out of state in state too obviously, 640 00:31:00,057 --> 00:31:03,737 Speaker 1: but there's no obligation to inform the parents if the 641 00:31:03,897 --> 00:31:07,737 Speaker 1: transgender identity of the child. We're talking about kids here 642 00:31:08,897 --> 00:31:10,697 Speaker 1: is considered to be an issue for those parents. 643 00:31:11,697 --> 00:31:14,577 Speaker 2: That's great, and they won't. They will not recognize any 644 00:31:14,577 --> 00:31:15,657 Speaker 2: subpoenas from out of state. 645 00:31:15,697 --> 00:31:17,697 Speaker 3: So if you're dealing with a family custody battle and 646 00:31:17,777 --> 00:31:19,457 Speaker 3: one parent's okay with it and the other is not, 647 00:31:19,937 --> 00:31:22,097 Speaker 3: if you go to those states, they will not recognize that. 648 00:31:22,337 --> 00:31:26,457 Speaker 2: It's again, these are like, we're an upside down world. 649 00:31:27,377 --> 00:31:29,817 Speaker 1: If the people running the Biden campaign had any smarts, 650 00:31:29,817 --> 00:31:32,577 Speaker 1: they'd be quick to subscribe to Chalk's Male Vitality Stack. 651 00:31:32,897 --> 00:31:36,097 Speaker 1: Would that campaign benefit from the testosterone replenishment, sure would. 652 00:31:36,297 --> 00:31:37,897 Speaker 1: Would they have the energy to get through a day, 653 00:31:38,497 --> 00:31:41,777 Speaker 1: a week, a month, maybe, well, not even with the 654 00:31:41,817 --> 00:31:43,657 Speaker 1: strength and focus that comes with Chalk, I think with 655 00:31:43,697 --> 00:31:46,217 Speaker 1: this Biden White House. 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I mean, this is, you know, I'd 674 00:32:44,737 --> 00:32:49,097 Speaker 1: rather have conversations about, you know, creating economic prosperity and 675 00:32:49,137 --> 00:32:51,937 Speaker 1: a secure border and you know, less crime on the 676 00:32:51,977 --> 00:32:55,497 Speaker 1: streets than getting into gender transitioning for twelve year olds. 677 00:32:56,377 --> 00:32:58,737 Speaker 1: They make this the issue, though it's very clear there's 678 00:32:58,777 --> 00:33:00,817 Speaker 1: this agenda not just in the school system, but all 679 00:33:00,857 --> 00:33:03,497 Speaker 1: the way up to the Biden White House and in 680 00:33:03,737 --> 00:33:06,857 Speaker 1: state legislatures as well. Across the country. They keep pushing 681 00:33:06,937 --> 00:33:09,377 Speaker 1: the issue further and further, and I have to say, 682 00:33:09,537 --> 00:33:11,457 Speaker 1: I think you what you will see at some point 683 00:33:12,337 --> 00:33:16,217 Speaker 1: is it'll be considered really a form of abuse, and 684 00:33:16,377 --> 00:33:20,417 Speaker 1: child services will intervene against parents who don't or or 685 00:33:20,537 --> 00:33:23,497 Speaker 1: parents to your point about custody issues who do not 686 00:33:23,577 --> 00:33:24,657 Speaker 1: want a child to transition. 687 00:33:26,257 --> 00:33:28,177 Speaker 2: I agree, and so listen. 688 00:33:28,257 --> 00:33:30,017 Speaker 3: As a school board member, never did I think or 689 00:33:30,097 --> 00:33:32,377 Speaker 3: get into this thinking this was going to be my issue. 690 00:33:32,497 --> 00:33:35,217 Speaker 3: But sadly, over the course of time and it's gotten 691 00:33:35,297 --> 00:33:38,057 Speaker 3: more extreme. And you know, I always say, I think 692 00:33:38,657 --> 00:33:40,777 Speaker 3: Shapiro talks about like the slippery slope. We're at the 693 00:33:40,777 --> 00:33:43,137 Speaker 3: bottom of the slope. We are at the bottom of 694 00:33:43,177 --> 00:33:45,817 Speaker 3: the slope, and it's unfortunate. But it is very pervasive, 695 00:33:45,857 --> 00:33:49,217 Speaker 3: and it's continuously pushed, very aggressively, but more and more 696 00:33:49,257 --> 00:33:52,337 Speaker 3: people are waking up to what's actually happening. I think 697 00:33:52,377 --> 00:33:54,697 Speaker 3: it's very important people have their eyes open and don't 698 00:33:54,737 --> 00:33:56,857 Speaker 3: think that there it's you know, it's only some group 699 00:33:56,937 --> 00:33:57,297 Speaker 3: over here. 700 00:33:57,737 --> 00:33:59,617 Speaker 2: If you think your children are safe from it, they're not. 701 00:33:59,777 --> 00:34:00,617 Speaker 2: It's everywhere. 702 00:34:01,177 --> 00:34:03,577 Speaker 3: But and you know, at the end of the day, 703 00:34:04,137 --> 00:34:07,577 Speaker 3: I think that we that I really do think that 704 00:34:07,897 --> 00:34:11,337 Speaker 3: that we see a handful of trial lawyers coming thankfully, 705 00:34:12,057 --> 00:34:14,977 Speaker 3: who would have imagined kind of stepping up and causing 706 00:34:15,057 --> 00:34:18,497 Speaker 3: charge to medical clinics and different places, and so I 707 00:34:18,537 --> 00:34:21,177 Speaker 3: think that we're going to see a lot of litigation, 708 00:34:21,457 --> 00:34:23,657 Speaker 3: particularly around class action suits, and that's what's going to 709 00:34:23,697 --> 00:34:25,937 Speaker 3: make this fall. And so be it whatever it takes 710 00:34:25,977 --> 00:34:28,297 Speaker 3: to make this fall and make this the abuse that's 711 00:34:28,297 --> 00:34:31,497 Speaker 3: happening to children. And when people look back, I think 712 00:34:31,497 --> 00:34:34,257 Speaker 3: they're going to think, how could that have ever happened? 713 00:34:35,097 --> 00:34:37,857 Speaker 3: And it is unfortunate, but people need to take it seriously. 714 00:34:37,897 --> 00:34:40,737 Speaker 3: It's pretty it's pretty pervasive, and I know it's not 715 00:34:40,897 --> 00:34:42,297 Speaker 3: very I know there I would like to talk about 716 00:34:42,297 --> 00:34:43,897 Speaker 3: economics all day long, or reading. 717 00:34:44,137 --> 00:34:45,577 Speaker 2: You talk about reading proficiencies. 718 00:34:46,537 --> 00:34:49,537 Speaker 3: It's so very important too, By the way, so we 719 00:34:49,617 --> 00:34:51,377 Speaker 3: need to make sure our children have more hope and 720 00:34:51,577 --> 00:34:53,497 Speaker 3: are able to think of for themselves so they don't 721 00:34:53,537 --> 00:34:56,977 Speaker 3: get down these rabbit holes when when they feel hopeless. 722 00:34:57,497 --> 00:35:00,097 Speaker 1: So Bridget, I want you to tell everybody what you 723 00:35:00,297 --> 00:35:02,337 Speaker 1: are up to, projects you have coming up, so they 724 00:35:02,377 --> 00:35:04,497 Speaker 1: can continue to follow your work if they want to 725 00:35:04,497 --> 00:35:05,657 Speaker 1: reach out to you. By the way, I'm sure there 726 00:35:05,657 --> 00:35:08,137 Speaker 1: are some moms and dads who are thinking about maybe 727 00:35:08,897 --> 00:35:12,017 Speaker 1: you know, running running up the side of that mountain 728 00:35:12,097 --> 00:35:16,017 Speaker 1: and joining the fight on the school board education issue. 729 00:35:16,097 --> 00:35:17,017 Speaker 1: So what are you up to? 730 00:35:18,417 --> 00:35:18,577 Speaker 2: Right? 731 00:35:18,697 --> 00:35:22,097 Speaker 3: So I am the VP of school Board Programs at 732 00:35:22,177 --> 00:35:25,217 Speaker 3: Leadership Institute. So we created a school board program that 733 00:35:25,417 --> 00:35:28,177 Speaker 3: I am training everyone from concerned citizens, activists however you 734 00:35:28,217 --> 00:35:31,137 Speaker 3: want to call yourself, or people who are running for office, 735 00:35:31,177 --> 00:35:33,497 Speaker 3: helping them be effective and then once they get elected, 736 00:35:33,817 --> 00:35:36,097 Speaker 3: helping them hold the line. Because group think is pretty 737 00:35:36,137 --> 00:35:39,217 Speaker 3: powerful when you talk about these massive establishments. And there 738 00:35:39,257 --> 00:35:42,337 Speaker 3: really is only one training ground for school board elected 739 00:35:42,377 --> 00:35:44,257 Speaker 3: school board members and that was under the National school 740 00:35:44,257 --> 00:35:47,457 Speaker 3: Board Association, which all parents domestic raists. So you can 741 00:35:47,577 --> 00:35:49,697 Speaker 3: understand why we found ourselves in this situation we're in. 742 00:35:50,217 --> 00:35:52,377 Speaker 2: So it's something I'm very. 743 00:35:52,337 --> 00:35:54,737 Speaker 3: Passionate about because when I was newly elected, it didn't 744 00:35:54,737 --> 00:35:56,817 Speaker 3: feel like there was anywhere that really could help us. 745 00:35:57,777 --> 00:35:59,297 Speaker 3: We don't know what, we don't know, but we wanted 746 00:35:59,337 --> 00:36:02,017 Speaker 3: to serve our constituents in the best way possible. But 747 00:36:02,297 --> 00:36:04,217 Speaker 3: taking that back is there's a lot of lovers when 748 00:36:04,217 --> 00:36:07,217 Speaker 3: it comes to activism, so people can't leave once you 749 00:36:07,257 --> 00:36:09,217 Speaker 3: get those people elected. Making sure you don't leave them 750 00:36:09,257 --> 00:36:11,497 Speaker 3: at the altar need members of the community continue to 751 00:36:11,497 --> 00:36:13,617 Speaker 3: support them, and we need to continue to have a 752 00:36:13,657 --> 00:36:17,217 Speaker 3: pipeline of people stepping up because again, we've been asleep 753 00:36:17,257 --> 00:36:19,617 Speaker 3: as conservatives for quite some time, and the left has 754 00:36:20,017 --> 00:36:23,697 Speaker 3: completely captured education and we're seeing the byproduct of that 755 00:36:24,177 --> 00:36:25,577 Speaker 3: pretty aggressively. 756 00:36:25,137 --> 00:36:27,857 Speaker 2: Now in the workforce and even in the military and 757 00:36:28,217 --> 00:36:29,617 Speaker 2: so on and so forth, and we need to take 758 00:36:29,657 --> 00:36:31,657 Speaker 2: this very seriously. It starts with education. 759 00:36:32,297 --> 00:36:35,017 Speaker 3: The only people who can ultimately reclaim our education is 760 00:36:35,617 --> 00:36:37,617 Speaker 3: us as parents and consitizens. 761 00:36:37,657 --> 00:36:38,737 Speaker 2: So we help train you. 762 00:36:39,737 --> 00:36:41,897 Speaker 1: Ridget great talking to you. Hope you come back soon. 763 00:36:41,977 --> 00:36:43,057 Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out, Thanks 764 00:36:43,097 --> 00:36:43,537 Speaker 2: For having me.