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Speaker 1: strawberry letta. Oh Morgan Freed all right, subject, I need

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Speaker 1: to help this poor child. Dear Stephen Shirley. Thirteen years ago,

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Speaker 1: I became friends with a newly married, young couple at church.

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Speaker 1: They have two children, and they are good, god fearing

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Speaker 1: people with large heart. The only problem is that they

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Speaker 1: common sense department too. They both speak terribly and their

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Speaker 1: subject and verb agreement is always off. Their spelling is

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Speaker 1: even worse. I hate to admit it, but when I

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Speaker 1: first met this couple, my first impression was that they

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Speaker 1: were They both had learning disabilities when they were younger,

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Speaker 1: and that's how they met. After knowing them a while,

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Speaker 1: I know that's not true. The husband never graduated from

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Speaker 1: high school and the wife just recently got her ged.

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Speaker 1: We are all in a church group and we discus

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Speaker 1: family stuff. So since it's back to schooltime, we were

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Speaker 1: all of us except this one couple. They announced to

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Speaker 1: the group that they planned to homeschool. They're eight year old.

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Speaker 1: This semester, everyone in the group started looking around and

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Speaker 1: we were all quiet. We left the church meeting, and

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Speaker 1: before I could get in my house good, I had

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Speaker 1: three messages from people in our group telling me I

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Speaker 1: for life. Since I'm the closest one to them, they

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Speaker 1: suggested I tell them. How can I tell my friend

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Speaker 1: that homeschooling her child may turn her child into a

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Speaker 1: Or should I mind my own business, Mind my business

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Speaker 1: expect it to. I feel like I owe it to

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Speaker 1: the child to speak up thoughts. Okay, now, you know

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Speaker 1: you can't tell these people how to ray and educate

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Speaker 1: cause major problems. You can only suggest to them. You

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Speaker 1: can only just try to help them in some way.

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Speaker 1: You say they speak terribly, they don't have much common

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Speaker 1: sense or book sense. You say they're good, god fearing

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Speaker 1: people with large hearts. You said that in your letters,

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Speaker 1: so hopefully these good, god fearing people with large hearts.

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Speaker 1: They will welcome your advice and your suggestions. But you

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Speaker 1: can't go in there, you know, trying to take over

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Speaker 1: and oversteps. These are their children, not yours. Talking to

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Speaker 1: the school counselor telling the mom that the homeschooling will

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Speaker 1: that's out of line. Okay, as a friend, just try

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Speaker 1: to help her, maybe set up her homeschool procedure, you know,

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Speaker 1: the processes, the things you have to go through to

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Speaker 1: do that. You can contribute and help the kids read

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Speaker 1: and things like that. I think the fact that the

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Speaker 1: that means that she's trying to do better, and she

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Speaker 1: for her kids. Uh, So support her, encourage her, be

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Speaker 1: there and you know, yeah, you shouldn't mind your own business,

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Speaker 1: up resenting you, and this couldn't This wouldn't be good. Steve,

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Speaker 1: I disagree. So damn what somebody got to say these babies.

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Speaker 1: Somebody need to stop this forward happen to ignorant ass

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Speaker 1: and sitting up here sarily. See that's your problem, should it?

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Speaker 1: You just you're a Christian and y'all way wanting anything,

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Speaker 1: We got to get involved here involved. You got to

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Speaker 1: say these kids, this is not no time to be Christian.

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Speaker 1: We ain't got time for that. Listen to me, them

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Speaker 1: dog on kids. You don't know nothing. You just said

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Speaker 1: fitting to be a congregation full of little dummies, all

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Speaker 1: of them sitting over there, don't know nutting you're sending

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Speaker 1: better have some little ninjas dropping in at that home

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Speaker 1: they said up. You said in your letter that the

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Speaker 1: only problem is that they're not book smart and the

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Speaker 1: to school. Everybody in the little church group celebrating septies two.

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Speaker 1: They didn't told y'all they fit the home school day

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Speaker 1: go home school? These two little poe ass kids. That's

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Speaker 1: what this letter is about. But let me focus on

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Speaker 1: the line here, and surely I'm gonna need your help

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Speaker 1: the same sentence never apply. So now, surely you don't

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Speaker 1: know what they're talking about, but I do. So what

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Speaker 1: I want you to do, Shirley, so I can prove

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Speaker 1: my point. You need to get these kids ask up

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Speaker 1: go to school. First question, all right, what time do

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Speaker 1: you have to get up to go to school today?

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Speaker 1: What that is fault. What uh see? That means? Why

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Speaker 1: to go? Ahead? Uh? What did you get for lunch today?

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Speaker 1: What do you have for lunch today? I'd be fitting

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Speaker 1: Did you lay your clothes out to go to school tomorrow?

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Speaker 1: What you're gonna wear clothes? Me to wear it tomorrow? Okay,

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Speaker 1: ain't got to be school okay, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

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Speaker 1: What's your favorite TV show? TV? And media? Watching up

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Speaker 1: theren for that thing? Did you see you off in

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Speaker 1: the name? Yes? Yes, yes, huh let's give me ye?

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Speaker 1: Why they ask need to be in school? Come on?

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Speaker 1: What's your first and last name? My last name and

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Speaker 1: photo pholded? First one was over with kids need to

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Speaker 1: get immediately. I told I don't getting these people. Bis

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Speaker 1: you better say these damn babies. This ain't even funny.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, no, it's it's it's definitely not funny. Um okay,

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Speaker 1: so um oh, I know, I know. So what do

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Speaker 1: you what did you learn today when you went to church?

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Speaker 1: I for church and learned it that that lesson for them? What?

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Speaker 1: How old did you say what lesson? For? Learned it?

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Speaker 1: I learned it? I learned it that the cross was

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Speaker 1: you say? You were? Fifteen? What this letter is? Eight?

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Speaker 1: This is what's gonna happen if you'll get two more questions? Okay,

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Speaker 1: what's your favorite food? What's the chips? And corn bread?

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Speaker 1: Can you spell corn bread? Hell? Yeah? Okay, let's hear it.

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Speaker 1: Corn bread? Ceo in b ed? Come bea corn bed

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Speaker 1: corn bed? Okay, you don't like corn bear? No? I

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Speaker 1: like corn bread? Oh see, Oh you fancy no for that?

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Speaker 1: that's usually how it goes. Yeah, that ain't that ain't

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Speaker 1: for high. I go for my mom and my daddy.

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Speaker 1: My mom and my daddy told me school ain't that important.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they said that, did they. My mama

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Speaker 1: jes got her ged and her cousin took the test

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Speaker 1: for her. See I looked at that positively, or her cousin.

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Speaker 1: Her cousin took the test for her. All right, Steve,

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Speaker 1: you've proved, you've proved your point. That's why you got

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Speaker 1: to get these kids a lot of kids that are home.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to listen to my home school Winton. How

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Speaker 1: you think that win? What you did home schooled Winton?

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