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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with

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Speaker 1: me your Girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Long Island Bunker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: I want to start off today with a conversation I

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Speaker 1: was having with my family as I visit them this week,

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Speaker 1: which is, you know, you all know, as I've spoken

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Speaker 1: to you before, that my background is in early childhood education,

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Speaker 1: that my sister is also in education. And you know,

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Speaker 1: we were talking about the crisis right that is happening

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Speaker 1: right now with America's education system and the fact that

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Speaker 1: you know, you if you're if you've been watching the

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Speaker 1: news and we've talked about it on this show. Ohio

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Speaker 1: teachers are on strike. You have Governor death Santis in

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Speaker 1: Florida wanting to bring anyone, any body, literally any physical

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Speaker 1: don't need to have a background in education, don't need

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Speaker 1: to do anything other than I guess, stand in front

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Speaker 1: of a classroom of children because of the shortages. You've

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Speaker 1: heard me talk about Alabama and Arkansas and other places

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Speaker 1: around the country, and you know, my mother in conversation said,

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Speaker 1: this is just you know, the dumbing down of America.

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Speaker 1: This is the dumbing down of these states. We're going

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Speaker 1: to have states that are like dumb down states and

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Speaker 1: then states that are dedicating, you know, their resources into

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Speaker 1: a robust public education system. And you know what we

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Speaker 1: can see right throughout the last several years, right under

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration and Betsy Devas's desire to defund the

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Speaker 1: Department of Education and their desire to defund the EPA,

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Speaker 1: and their desire to defund anything that is about right

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Speaker 1: providing for American citizens. And it isn't just the least

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Speaker 1: among us. It's the fact that our tax dollars, right

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Speaker 1: in this capitalistic system and in this democracy, go towards government.

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Speaker 1: Then having agencies that support the needs of people, public

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Speaker 1: education being one of them that in this country K

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Speaker 1: through twelve is free right. And what is troubling me

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Speaker 1: and what my mother is completely right about, is this

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Speaker 1: desire to under educate the people of America, under educate

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Speaker 1: our children and so they won't be able to be

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Speaker 1: competitive or completely privatize education so that you have Microsoft

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Speaker 1: that train people just enough to be able to want

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Speaker 1: work in their factories, to be able to stay at

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Speaker 1: right in order to be able to move into white

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Speaker 1: suites and executive suites. And you know, this to me

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Speaker 1: coincides right now with Joe Biden and the Biden administration

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Speaker 1: in Joe Biden's speech, when he was talking about how

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Speaker 1: much money it costs right in order to go to school,

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Speaker 1: and the fact that, again my mother was talking to

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Speaker 1: was young, she used pell grants completely in order to

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Speaker 1: be able to cover her education. Joe Biden and his

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Speaker 1: pell grants used to cover eighty percent, eighty percent of

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Speaker 1: And the amount of debt that young people and families

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Speaker 1: And you know, in Jamaica, as in many developing areas,

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Speaker 1: it looks like this that only elementary school is free, right,

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Speaker 1: and then beginning in high school, you have to pay

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Speaker 1: my family is talking about the fact that America always

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Speaker 1: making investments into lower income and middle income communities, making

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Speaker 1: And I said, well, if we lived in a country

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Speaker 1: We still talk about private companies gifting schools the school

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Speaker 1: supplies that they need, and I think to myself, why

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Speaker 1: the state government frankly do not resource schools in the

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Speaker 1: way that they should. So in Joe Biden's conversation, so

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Speaker 1: this is what is going to be happening. Here are

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Speaker 1: some of the highlights. Biden announced that he will forgive

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Speaker 1: delivering financial relief to millions of Americans. This is According

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Speaker 1: to CNBC, Biden will cancel up to twenty thousand for

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Speaker 1: recipients of PELL grants. At least nine million borrowers could

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Speaker 1: relief and this is how it will work. The relief

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Speaker 1: The relief is also capped at the amount of a

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Speaker 1: will also be extending the payment pause on most federal

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Speaker 1: student loans one final time. They are saying through December

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Speaker 1: You know, this is an amazing step that this administration,

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Speaker 1: My point being is that education, to me, has always

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Speaker 1: and yet we constantly talk about global competitiveness and how

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