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B.A.D.D.2BUSINESS W SHYNEN SAFFRON 8825 · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, I have your attention. Please. The show
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Speaker 1: starts in seven shi.
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Speaker 2: Fr fun, cool, good evening, good evening.
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Speaker 3: Hello to everybody, Welcome to another episode of Bad to Business.
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Speaker 3: I am your fabulous host, Shining Saffron. Glad you can
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Speaker 3: join me this evening. I'm gonna give you guys a
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Speaker 3: chance to come on in. I have some important stuff
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Speaker 3: I'd like to talk about this evening. I tried to
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Speaker 3: send out some information I've been kind of lost in
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Speaker 3: the sauce. I mean, if you guys have been as
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Speaker 3: busy as I am with this back to school stuff
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Speaker 3: and trying to do as much as you want to do.
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Speaker 3: First of all, salute to you for making it through
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Speaker 3: the week, but it's just been so much going on.
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Speaker 3: I had sent out something, something short of a PSA
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Speaker 3: about the PTA thinking about joining the PTA in either
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Speaker 3: one or both of my daughter's school this year, because one,
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Speaker 3: I need to be one of the the first to.
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Speaker 4: Know what's going on.
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Speaker 3: Two I want to be one of the first responders,
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Speaker 3: if you will, And three I want to make sure
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Speaker 3: that my voice is heard learning that if you are
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Speaker 3: not a part of the school or any type of
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Speaker 3: you know, program, something like that, you could just be
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Speaker 3: considered a disgruntled parent, right, just like an employee, you
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Speaker 3: know that that gets let go for something and comes
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Speaker 3: back and blows the whistle right and sweep that under
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Speaker 3: the table as a disgruntal employee. So I definitely don't
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Speaker 3: want to seem like a disgruntle mom or a disgruntle parent.
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Speaker 3: But I need to be in the know, and I
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Speaker 3: don't want to be one of the last to know
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Speaker 3: when it's too late to make a decision about something, right.
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Speaker 3: So I sent out a little PSA about the PTA,
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Speaker 3: wondering if there's anybody who's ever been a part of
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Speaker 3: the PTA, who has or who is on the PTA
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Speaker 3: right now, how is it? You know, what, what are
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Speaker 3: the benefits were, what are the pros and cons?
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Speaker 4: Of course, my first thought is like anything.
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Speaker 3: That you pay dues on, if you pay dues, your
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Speaker 3: voice will get heard. However, if you flip it to
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Speaker 3: how voting is done, you know everywhere just because you
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Speaker 3: vote doesn't mean your voice is heard. So I'm really
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Speaker 3: looking into doing PTA. I really would like some feedback
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Speaker 3: if there's anybody who has any information about PTA's and
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Speaker 3: they're starting to recruit pretty soon, so you know, I
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Speaker 3: will post more things. I will be following this up
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Speaker 3: into the decision making of being a part of a
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Speaker 3: PTA or not. I will be given the updates on
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Speaker 3: the pros and cons right now. I live in a
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Speaker 3: pretty big county where I stay. It's predominantly this county,
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Speaker 3: and yeah, it's just a lot of stuff going on.
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Speaker 3: So I want to know if if it's worth investing
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Speaker 3: my time and my money or should I just stay
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Speaker 3: a disguntled parent pretty good at fighting for the rights
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Speaker 3: and for the good, so.
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Speaker 4: I've never you know, back down from a fade.
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Speaker 3: So I am just trying to get some insight, like
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Speaker 3: I said, and see what's going on. But if you
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Speaker 3: guys give me any insight, let me know what you
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Speaker 3: think about the PTA. Like I said, is it worth it?
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Speaker 3: I would really appreciate it. I have a junior high
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Speaker 3: schooler and a high schooler. It is very important for
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Speaker 3: me to be a part of what's going on. Speaking
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Speaker 3: of that, and I just want to kind of talk
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Speaker 3: all things school today because, like I said, we made
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Speaker 3: it through the first week. I'm proud of you parents,
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Speaker 3: I'm proud of you students, kids, all of the people
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Speaker 3: who you know, had to hit it hard this week
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Speaker 3: after you know, kind of feeling like we've been through
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Speaker 3: a rough summer. You know, it seemed like, you know,
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Speaker 3: sometimes we get kind of prepared back to school things
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Speaker 3: and stuff. But I kind of noticed that this week
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Speaker 3: or I'm sorry this this time around, there wasn't so
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Speaker 3: many back to school events. They kind of consolidated on
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Speaker 3: things like that, and that kind of raised some cause
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Speaker 3: for concern.
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Speaker 4: I noticed that in my.
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Speaker 3: Area they they did a back to school thing at
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Speaker 3: the Convention Center to where they could bring a lot
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Speaker 3: of the counties or a lot of the schools there
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Speaker 3: instead of having them at individual schools.
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Speaker 4: Right, So, yeah, that's cool.
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Speaker 3: But that's a lot of kids and a lot of
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Speaker 3: in one place. Let me say it like that. It's
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Speaker 3: a pretty big space, like I said, convention Center, but
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Speaker 3: that that's it's too much. It's too much. So we
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Speaker 3: didn't go to that one, but we went to a
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Speaker 3: couple of different things and stuff and just the stuff
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Speaker 3: that they're giving out and you know, for for the
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Speaker 3: kids and the back to school stuff, I can see
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Speaker 3: it getting slimmer and slimmer. So again, I kind of
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Speaker 3: want to know what's going on behind the scenes. I
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Speaker 3: am a type of make it make sense type of
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Speaker 3: person I am learning recently here. If you try to
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Speaker 3: make it make sense too much and I just ain't
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Speaker 3: getting it, that's a little bit of coercion. So we
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Speaker 3: don't do it like that. If it don't make sense,
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Speaker 3: I just fly by it. But the PTA right now
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Speaker 3: makes a lot of sense to me. And PTA, of
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Speaker 3: course we know, is Parent Teacher Association, right. I want
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Speaker 3: to get into associating with the teachers who are my
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Speaker 3: bridgeway to the upperclassmen or i'm sorry, the overheads, and
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Speaker 3: I want to know what's going on.
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Speaker 4: I want to know what's going on.
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Speaker 3: You put out all these bulletins about, you know, having
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Speaker 3: strict guidelines. My daughter school said that they would be
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Speaker 3: doing premium food and lunches this time around, which I
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Speaker 3: thought was a little strange because you know, we just
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Speaker 3: got the free lunch program back, so to just get
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Speaker 3: it back right before school started. I didn't see it
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Speaker 3: coming together as such a big, you know, great thing. Again,
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Speaker 3: I'll say, so they're already falling short of that.
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Speaker 4: My key.
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Speaker 3: My kids, my daughters keep me updated on a lot
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Speaker 3: of things going on in school. I ask a lot
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Speaker 3: of questions. So, knowing that they've put out all these
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Speaker 3: bulletins prior to school starting and everything, I'm just kind
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Speaker 3: of following up with it, which reminds me I forgot
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Speaker 3: to hit the teachers up this week. But and you
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Speaker 3: do want to stay on top of the teachers with
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Speaker 3: your students.
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Speaker 4: As far as my daughter.
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Speaker 3: In high school, they have done what I have to
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Speaker 3: call a clean sweep. I don't know if they decided
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Speaker 3: that the teachers there were not just doing what they
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Speaker 3: were supposed to do. I know the students were complaining,
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Speaker 3: and it gets important to listen to these students. Okay,
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Speaker 3: it gets important to listen to your students. I have
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Speaker 3: told my daughters. By all means, when you're at school,
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Speaker 3: you listen to the authority figures. If you ever feel
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Speaker 3: threatened or violated, then you call me. Then I get
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Speaker 3: on the adult level. But as far as I'm concerned,
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Speaker 3: I'm they are your parents at school, So I really
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Speaker 3: want to get into what they're talking about, what they know,
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Speaker 3: what they're teaching, especially with.
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Speaker 4: My daughter having a new board of teachers.
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Speaker 3: Knew this, knew that they switched positions and stuff like that,
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Speaker 3: which I'm kind of glad because the school wasn't going
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Speaker 3: as well as I had wanted it for her in
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Speaker 3: high school. But we're on a pathway right now, and
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Speaker 3: I don't want to take her off of that pathway.
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Speaker 3: So I want to make sure that the teachers know
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Speaker 3: her pathway and they're following that. So one thing I've
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Speaker 3: noticed about myself this year, and only in the first week,
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Speaker 3: is I'm paying way more attention. Of course, we all
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Speaker 3: need to write. There's been a lot of changes since January,
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Speaker 3: so we definitely need to pay attention to what is
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Speaker 3: taking effect, what is being applied, you know, how it
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Speaker 3: affects us in the long run, our scholars in school,
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Speaker 3: and then how it affects us outside of and to
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Speaker 3: bring me or to bring that point up, I was
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Speaker 3: talking to my daughter this week and she goes, well, mom,
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Speaker 3: you know they're getting ready to close down schools. And
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Speaker 3: I told her, well, Ray, they've been talking about closing
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Speaker 3: down schools. And if it's one thing that COVID did
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Speaker 3: show us is that we don't really need the facility anymore. Right,
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Speaker 3: So what they found this year is that there are
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Speaker 3: not as many enrollments in the schools facilities, not just
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Speaker 3: where I live, but in other places that I guess
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Speaker 3: they've taken the census on I was reading that most facilities,
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Speaker 3: school facilities can hold up to seventy thousand students. Right now,
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Speaker 3: there's roughly fifty thousand on an average that's checking in
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Speaker 3: or enrolled in schools right now. I guess they have
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Speaker 3: taken the alternative road, and that is to go to
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Speaker 3: online school or you got kids that's just not going.
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Speaker 3: So what I found interesting is our president has decided
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Speaker 3: to and again I will post a lot of this
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Speaker 3: stuff on my page and to follow up. There's me
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Speaker 3: coming up. I will keep you guys informed because I
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Speaker 3: think it's very important. If it's happening in my area,
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Speaker 3: I'm sure it's going to happen in yours. So he's
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Speaker 3: decided that since these facilities are not holding all these students,
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Speaker 3: let's go ahead and close the schools down.
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Speaker 4: That's the resolution.
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Speaker 3: Let's close the schools down that are not being used,
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Speaker 3: use those facilities for whatever, to make America great again,
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Speaker 3: and then we will consolidate and overcrowd the other schools
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Speaker 3: that are still standing. Don't take me verbatim. That's not
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Speaker 3: what he said, but that is what's being implied on
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Speaker 3: the flip side of that. The irony to that is
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Speaker 3: that you hired someone that you trusted to negotiate and
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Speaker 3: navigate your educational department. And I'm talking about the President
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Speaker 3: and his friend's office, I'm sorry, And you hired Ms
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Speaker 3: McMahon to be a part or to lead your educational department.
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Speaker 3: And now that you're finding out what's going on and
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Speaker 3: how these facilities are just taking billions of dollars and
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Speaker 3: aren't even using them, now you want to start closing
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Speaker 3: down schools and kind of taking some of her authority
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Speaker 3: from her. And it was funny because I was discussing
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Speaker 3: this with somebody else and she made the joke and said,
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Speaker 3: it's almost like she's saying, Bro, I just got the job,
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Speaker 3: but you just gave me the job, and I'm already
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Speaker 3: getting it pulled from under me. And so it's funny
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Speaker 3: to me that his resolution he already lowered.
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Speaker 4: The GPA for teachers.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if anybody's aware of that, but he
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Speaker 3: lowered the GPA because there was such a teacher shortage
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Speaker 3: that he figured, let's hire some hiable people. Trying to
11:48
Speaker 3: find the words as I go, I know that the
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Speaker 3: algorithms can, you know, take me by storm. So I'm
11:53
Speaker 3: trying to find the words that don't offend or anything else.
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Speaker 3: But so he got to hiring some hirable people. But
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Speaker 3: you have parents like me who are concerned about that.
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Speaker 3: One thing that I said to or one point I
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Speaker 3: made to one of my daughter's teachers, is while he's
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Speaker 3: lowering the GPA level for teachers, I'm concerned that when
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Speaker 3: my daughter graduates, she will be graduating with a higher
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Speaker 3: GPA than the teacher who taught her. Make that makes
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Speaker 3: sense or don't don't, because at that point that becomes coercion.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to let that go. However, I'm not
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Speaker 3: in control of that.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 3: I want my daughter to have a good education. I
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Speaker 3: want her to keep pushing, you know, through with some stuff.
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Speaker 3: I want her to stay motivated all those things for
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Speaker 3: this pathway. But but I need it to be done right. Uh.
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Speaker 3: And I do understand that there are teachers that are
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Speaker 3: bowing out. For those of you that are teachers or
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Speaker 3: some type of educational administrator, thank you so much for
12:54
Speaker 3: hanging on. I know it's hard, I know it gets challenging.
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Speaker 3: You know another reason why I wanted to be a
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Speaker 3: part of the PTA. I you know, I'm I'm a
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Speaker 3: whole character and like my podcast, you know, Bad to Business,
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Speaker 3: bringing all diverse discussions to business. It's about finding some
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Speaker 3: common ground in a diverse world. So part of me
13:20
Speaker 3: wanting to be on the PTA is finding how much
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Speaker 3: diversity as far as even different trains of thoughts, where
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Speaker 3: your vision is going for our scholars. Again, these are
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Speaker 3: my kids too, so I need to know where you're
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Speaker 3: going with that. But you know, not to be all
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Speaker 3: over the place. I want to touch back on this.
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Speaker 3: So he lowered the GPA and that was not enough.
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Speaker 3: I guess we still weren't doing it. Kids are still
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Speaker 3: not coming to school, parents are not pleased. You know what,
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Speaker 3: He's real simple in that he doesn't take long to
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Speaker 3: make a decision. Now, on the flip side to that,
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Speaker 3: that could mean it's just, you know, not very well
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Speaker 3: thought out, not very well looked into, not very well
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Speaker 3: well researched. But as I've come to learn, and I
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Speaker 3: saw in a movie, some people are elected to lead
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Speaker 3: and not to read. So you got somebody who's making
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Speaker 3: decisions just to make it as easy as cut it out.
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Speaker 4: Close the schools, let's do away with whatever's not doing it.
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Speaker 3: I saw that in Atlanta alone, there will be at
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Speaker 3: least forty two schools closed, you know, I think they
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Speaker 3: said by like twenty forty, So in the next twenty years,
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Speaker 3: forty two schools. First of all, I'm kind of surprised,
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Speaker 3: Like Atlanta Public school system has forty two schools that's
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Speaker 3: up and running and you know, got kids coming, but
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Speaker 3: so he plans on closing them down. Now, Miss McMahon says, now,
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Speaker 3: wait a minute, Like I said, bro, you just gave
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Speaker 3: me the job. You just gave me the job, So
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Speaker 3: give me a minute. Let me try to see what's
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Speaker 3: going on. So I read that she is now asking
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Speaker 3: the president to back her and help her to promote
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Speaker 3: recruiters to go out and talk to these kids and
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Speaker 3: talk to these scholars and these students and find out
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Speaker 3: why they're not going to school or you know, what
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Speaker 3: is it that they're missing. I think I talked to
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Speaker 3: someone who said that this has happened before and it's
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Speaker 3: still declining. So she's asking him to give her some time,
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Speaker 3: to give her some time.
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Speaker 4: I don't know what.
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Speaker 3: His decision on that is yet, I'm pretty sure he
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Speaker 3: didn't take any time to make a decision on that,
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Speaker 3: but she's asking for some time.
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Speaker 4: So I'm really excited to see how.
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Speaker 3: She incorporates her ptaism to find out what we need
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Speaker 3: to do to not close schools. What are the programs
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Speaker 3: that we need now? If you think about it, and
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Speaker 3: I was thinking about it myself, part of the reason
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Speaker 3: why some of these parents have decided to enroll their
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Speaker 3: school I mean, i'm sorry, enroll their childs in to
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Speaker 3: online schools now is because a.
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Speaker 4: Lot of the programs were cut.
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Speaker 3: I said a lot of the programs were cut in
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Speaker 3: case you missed that. So the reason why the programs
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Speaker 3: were cut is because, well, I'm sorry, I don't know,
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Speaker 3: and I'm not gonna make it make sense to you
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Speaker 3: because I would straight be doing coercion to try to
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Speaker 3: make it make sense. But the programs were cut. So
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Speaker 3: when you got moms like me who have to work
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Speaker 3: later than when the schools are let out, and now
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Speaker 3: I have nobody to watch my child, well I'm not
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Speaker 3: gonna be confused and going stupid and cutting my hours.
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Speaker 3: That is, you know, helping me pay for my little
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Speaker 3: bit of medical So now what I have to do
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Speaker 3: is I'm gonna have to cut the school stuff out
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Speaker 3: because the taking you to school, and then now I
16:47
Speaker 3: don't have anywhere for you to go after school. And
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Speaker 3: I'll be honest with you, my daughters were on online
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Speaker 3: schooling for two years after COVID. I did not have
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Speaker 3: the time, the patients, nor the flexibility to go back
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Speaker 3: to work and them say oh no, we're going back.
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Speaker 3: Oh no, we're going back. Take them in, send them back,
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Speaker 3: take them in. I just didn't have that. So I said,
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Speaker 3: until the world gets a handle on their viruses, my
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Speaker 3: kids would be safely at home.
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Speaker 4: So I did that.
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Speaker 3: There is you know, some pros and cons to it.
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Speaker 3: I was able to keep a monitor on my kids.
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Speaker 3: I want to tell you that they were safely at
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Speaker 3: home instead of in these crazy schools. But as you know,
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Speaker 3: you know as well as I know, your home can
17:26
Speaker 3: be just as unsafe from predators as somewhere on the outside.
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Speaker 3: So you know, it was a chance I was taking.
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Speaker 3: But it was a better chance to keep them at
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Speaker 3: home and not have the ups and downs than to
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Speaker 3: go to work and then fire me over no control
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Speaker 3: of my own. So they did the two years online
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Speaker 3: and it was good. The reason why I decided to
17:48
Speaker 3: let them go back. Is because now the world is changing.
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Speaker 3: My daughter was about to start high school and I
17:53
Speaker 3: did not want her to miss out on the social
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Speaker 3: part of high school. That's a part of her shaping
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Speaker 3: her can character and shaping who she is. So I
18:01
Speaker 3: didn't want her to miss out on that. So I
18:02
Speaker 3: made the conscious decision, Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and
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Speaker 3: let y'all go back face to face. That first year
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Speaker 3: was rough, Okay, I did not have any parent teacher association.
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Speaker 3: I was just trying to get them back and now
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Speaker 3: trying to get into a schedule. I did have to
18:16
Speaker 3: cut my hours to go and get them. A lot
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Speaker 3: of things came out of that, so I'm learning as
18:23
Speaker 3: I go. Like I said, there's pros and cons about
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Speaker 3: them going to school. There's pros and cons about them
18:27
Speaker 3: being on online. So now a lot of kids are
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Speaker 3: going to online. I totally understand the parents. The programs
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Speaker 3: are cut. They don't know what to do. They had
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Speaker 3: to keep their kids at home. It is what it is,
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Speaker 3: and it does work for those that it works for.
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Speaker 3: I'll say it like that. So I am following pretty
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Speaker 3: closely to see how our president and our head of
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Speaker 3: the Educational Department is going to handle these schools not
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Speaker 3: having kids in them. As far as I know, they
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Speaker 3: are still building schools or rebuilding some schools, but I
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Speaker 3: think that there's going to be a halt on that
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Speaker 3: really soon. It's sad to say, but it is what
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Speaker 3: it is. Like I said, COVID showed us what we
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Speaker 3: could and what we can and cannot do without socializing
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Speaker 3: with the rest of the world. So I mean, it's
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Speaker 3: just a matter of time before the convenience comes. But
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Speaker 3: I am also hoping that our president tries to kind
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Speaker 3: of accommodate, see what's going on, bring back some type
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Speaker 3: of programs that help us parents that we're not depriving
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Speaker 3: our kids, because one con about your kids being at
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Speaker 3: home is to cut off that socialization and then the
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Speaker 3: only part of the world that they get to see
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Speaker 3: or understands what's on that TV screen or what's on
19:43
Speaker 3: that phone. It's really not a great thing for the kids.
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Speaker 3: So I'm just saying, y'all stay tuned. I have some
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Speaker 3: especially in my area. I don't know if it's going
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Speaker 3: to be happening in yours, but I have some bulletins,
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Speaker 3: some meetings that are coming up about what's going on
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Speaker 3: and what's soon to develop in the area. There's a
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Speaker 3: meeting coming up at least in my area on the
20:05
Speaker 3: twenty fifth of August. I will be showing up in person,
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Speaker 3: will be taking some notes some things going on. They'll
20:12
Speaker 3: be talking about their ideas of closing schools and what
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Speaker 3: they plan on doing. And I can only hope that
20:17
Speaker 3: they met with the educational director and the president and
20:20
Speaker 3: got some notes before they try to bring it to
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Speaker 3: the public and tell us what is to happen what
20:25
Speaker 3: is not to happen. So I am excited to follow
20:28
Speaker 3: up on that. Like I said, I will be posting
20:29
Speaker 3: that on my page. For anybody who lives in my area,
20:31
Speaker 3: I'd like for you to show up. Show up, show up,
20:33
Speaker 3: show up. That's what it takes. Show up, ask the questions,
20:37
Speaker 3: let them know that there's some pressure on it. When
20:39
Speaker 3: the less people that show up, the more they know
20:42
Speaker 3: that they can have their way in any part of
20:45
Speaker 3: the world for that matter. But definitely want to show
20:48
Speaker 3: up for your kids and keep asking those teachers. There's
20:52
Speaker 3: a lot of teachers that I'm finding that don't know
20:54
Speaker 3: their shoulder shrugging that does not sit well with me unacceptable.
20:59
Speaker 3: Go find out, Go ask your boss, go put it
21:03
Speaker 3: in your group chat. I need to know by the
21:06
Speaker 3: next week. We need to know what's going on in
21:08
Speaker 3: these schools, these areas, and just what our children are
21:14
Speaker 3: going to be headed into. Because while you think that
21:17
Speaker 3: that's just like a school issue, we know as parents
21:19
Speaker 3: that is going to fall on us, like the parents
21:22
Speaker 3: who no longer have these programs because they voted for
21:25
Speaker 3: a president that they thought would accommodate the things they needed. See,
21:30
Speaker 3: that's what happens when you try to be a little
21:33
Speaker 3: deceitful and underhand it and try to undercut other people,
21:37
Speaker 3: you end up cutting off your own people too. Gotta
21:40
Speaker 3: be careful, just be right. So also, real quick, while
21:45
Speaker 3: I'm touching on that, it's really important for me to
21:47
Speaker 3: be a part of the PTA in my county because
21:50
Speaker 3: in my county, and I'm not gonna speak too much
21:52
Speaker 3: on this until I follow up and I have more
21:54
Speaker 3: facts from when it began to what it is now.
21:59
Speaker 3: We had it that was on the board in my county,
22:03
Speaker 3: and he blew the whistle. He found out that there
22:07
Speaker 3: were some funds misappropriated, that they were not being taken seriously.
22:12
Speaker 3: They weren't going to the places that they needed to
22:14
Speaker 3: go to. So he blew the whistle and he was
22:19
Speaker 3: fired for it. He was fired for it, and I
22:24
Speaker 3: may have said something about it before, maybe not, but
22:26
Speaker 3: it's very important. So he was fired for it, trying
22:30
Speaker 3: to swoop it under the table. So they thought this
22:32
Speaker 3: man again, I don't want to say his name. I
22:34
Speaker 3: really need to get all these facts straight first, but
22:37
Speaker 3: I will be following up on it as I follow
22:38
Speaker 3: up on the PTA. This man came back about a
22:43
Speaker 3: month ago, which has been now about four months since
22:46
Speaker 3: he's been fired, and what he said was, I don't
22:49
Speaker 3: even want my job back.
22:50
Speaker 4: I don't even want to work with these people. That's
22:53
Speaker 4: not what I'm here for.
22:54
Speaker 3: He said. What was my job and it's still my
22:57
Speaker 3: job to do, right, is to make sure that the
23:00
Speaker 3: these people, these taxpayers, are getting their money applied correctly.
23:04
Speaker 3: I am telling y'all right now that I myself recorded
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Speaker 3: seventy thousand dollars plus of I'm gonna say unrecorded expenses, meaning,
23:16
Speaker 3: like he said, we have the we have the access
23:22
Speaker 3: to the money, but for some reason it's not being
23:24
Speaker 3: applied right. So he was digging and wondering why. And
23:28
Speaker 3: I even told somebody I was talking to, I said,
23:29
Speaker 3: it seems as though he was hired to be the
23:31
Speaker 3: fall guy and he found you out. And so he
23:34
Speaker 3: told them they he's not gonna do that. So they
23:36
Speaker 3: fired him. Came back now about a month ago and said,
23:39
Speaker 3: it's not about me having my job. It's about these
23:41
Speaker 3: taxpayers money being applied, right, all right. So he said,
23:44
Speaker 3: just go find the money. That's all I'm asking.
23:46
Speaker 4: Y'all to do.
23:48
Speaker 3: Leave me.
23:48
Speaker 4: I'm bringing it to you. Find the money, that's all
23:51
Speaker 4: I'm asking.
23:51
Speaker 3: You to do. So they decided to do some digging,
23:56
Speaker 3: and they decided to see if what he said was
23:58
Speaker 3: even valid.
23:59
Speaker 4: And it out that.
24:01
Speaker 3: The head counselman, I can't tell you if he is.
24:05
Speaker 3: I don't. He's not the mayor of my area. But
24:10
Speaker 3: he was spending money on lavish trips and food and
24:16
Speaker 3: things of that nature in my county where I pay
24:19
Speaker 3: taxes that I would have known nothing about if this
24:23
Speaker 3: man didn't get hired and fired.
24:27
Speaker 4: Oh man, God with the process.
24:29
Speaker 3: You're good. You're good.
24:31
Speaker 4: And that man don't even want his job back.
24:34
Speaker 3: So when I tell y'all it's important to be in
24:37
Speaker 3: you know, in the know of parent teacher associations, what
24:41
Speaker 3: the school board is doing, because you're paying all this
24:44
Speaker 3: money and we sit at home and we wonder where's
24:46
Speaker 3: my money going?
24:47
Speaker 4: Why is this happening?
24:48
Speaker 3: Why we can ask each other all day what's going
24:50
Speaker 3: on and can't answer nothing. Go ask the people who know.
24:56
Speaker 3: Show up for your kids and ask what's going on?
25:00
Speaker 3: And you know, it's funny. I'm saying all this while
25:02
Speaker 3: I pose the question, should I go for the pta?
25:05
Speaker 3: Should I not? What do you guys think? I'm deading
25:08
Speaker 3: that right now. I'm sorry, I'm unliving that right now.
25:13
Speaker 3: I'm unliving that right now. I'm going to move forward
25:16
Speaker 3: and be more involved. I want to know. And it
25:19
Speaker 3: seems as though they put out these little bulletins that say, hey,
25:22
Speaker 3: we have this going on on this date. They don't
25:25
Speaker 3: really discuss it, don't really follow up, they don't really
25:27
Speaker 3: catch our attention like everything else does on these phones,
25:30
Speaker 3: so they figure they won't show up. They know better,
25:33
Speaker 3: and they hold it at the time where parents are
25:35
Speaker 3: just getting off of work. I'll tell you what, I
25:37
Speaker 3: take the day off. I'll take the day off. One
25:41
Speaker 3: thing I remember my aunt telling me, she said, as
25:44
Speaker 3: I was a substitute teacher Shannon. I did not have
25:48
Speaker 3: I did not have any favorites. I didn't show any favoritism,
25:53
Speaker 3: she said. But for the parents who did call me
25:57
Speaker 3: on a regular to check for their child, check how
25:59
Speaker 3: they're I was doing, we seem to pay more attention
26:02
Speaker 3: to those kids. Why because we know the parents are
26:05
Speaker 3: gonna call and they're gonna want an update, and we
26:06
Speaker 3: gotta say something that says we are paying attention.
26:10
Speaker 4: So I got that.
26:12
Speaker 3: I got that, and now I need and want for
26:14
Speaker 3: the teachers to pay more attention to what's going on.
26:17
Speaker 3: They're going to answer the questions to or they're going
26:20
Speaker 3: to answer me to the questions I have.
26:24
Speaker 4: They I really need that right now.
26:26
Speaker 3: So again, you know, maybe you don't have to join
26:30
Speaker 3: the PTA, but it is important that you ask these questions.
26:33
Speaker 3: Show up at your kids' school, you know, once in
26:36
Speaker 3: a while. I'm on this regiment now where I reach
26:39
Speaker 3: out to the teachers and I have a templated question.
26:43
Speaker 3: It's just general question that I'm sending to all my
26:46
Speaker 3: to all the teachers of my daughters, and it basically
26:50
Speaker 3: just says, hey, how you doing. Happy Friday? Because I'm
26:53
Speaker 3: doing it every Friday happy Friday. Just wanted to check
26:56
Speaker 3: and see how Ray is doing, how Nay is doing.
26:58
Speaker 3: Let me know what's going on. Are we staying up
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Speaker 3: or are we falling back?
27:02
Speaker 4: Let me know.
27:04
Speaker 3: And that's something that I have now determined or decided
27:06
Speaker 3: that I will do every Friday, because if that's what
27:10
Speaker 3: keeps my kids on their mind to make sure that
27:14
Speaker 3: they're getting the education. I want the teacher to tell
27:17
Speaker 3: my daughters, you know you better turn that in. You
27:21
Speaker 3: know you don't want to be late on nothing. You
27:22
Speaker 3: know your mom's gonna be calling and asking me, and
27:24
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to tell her. That's what I want
27:27
Speaker 3: Parents Teacher Association. Otherwise, what's the point of a PTA.
27:33
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna pay no dues. That's not gonna get
27:36
Speaker 3: me heard. I'm not going to show up to places
27:40
Speaker 3: and meetings that's not gonna get me heard. I'm not
27:44
Speaker 3: gonna not show up because that doesn't get me heard.
27:49
Speaker 3: So I am encouraging you parents to follow up with
27:53
Speaker 3: the schools. Do it early. They're already trying to make
27:56
Speaker 3: changes after the first week. Apparently they've heard of the
27:59
Speaker 3: changes like I have. So what they're trying to do
28:02
Speaker 3: is get their kids in order shape them, you know,
28:05
Speaker 3: get them to where they need to be, whatever the
28:07
Speaker 3: case may be. But we as parents want to make
28:09
Speaker 3: sure that they're doing it right. We leave our children
28:12
Speaker 3: with them for more parts of the the attentive part
28:17
Speaker 3: of their day. Then we have them. Even when we
28:22
Speaker 3: do have them, you know, even when we do have
28:24
Speaker 3: them on the days that you know we could have
28:29
Speaker 3: them all day, it's on the weekend.
28:30
Speaker 4: That's only two days out of a week.
28:32
Speaker 3: So please, I am encouraging y'all stay up, stay up
28:36
Speaker 3: on what's going on in your county.
28:37
Speaker 4: If you don't want to know what's going on just
28:39
Speaker 4: in the.
28:39
Speaker 3: City, ask them where your money is going, your tax
28:42
Speaker 3: payer money is going. As far as the schools, we
28:44
Speaker 3: know we the lottery is supposed to be paying the schools.
28:47
Speaker 3: But when the schools were shut down during COVID, where
28:50
Speaker 3: did all that money stack up? Because people were still
28:52
Speaker 3: playing a lottery. So, just like our taxes, just like
28:58
Speaker 3: insurance that we pay into it, never use what happens
29:02
Speaker 3: to it.
29:03
Speaker 4: Why are we not asking what happens?
29:05
Speaker 3: I just got my daughter a phone and they tried
29:07
Speaker 3: to tell me it was all these taxes, oh, taxes
29:10
Speaker 3: and extras additional taxes add up to sixty five dollars.
29:14
Speaker 3: I said, oh, can you break that down? Can you
29:17
Speaker 3: break down how that added up? What taxes in my
29:20
Speaker 3: pain that this Great America has put back on me
29:27
Speaker 3: to add up to sixty three dollars when the phone
29:30
Speaker 3: was free? How to phone free and the tax is
29:32
Speaker 3: sixty three dollars? Find out what's going on with your money.
29:37
Speaker 3: You may feel like there's nothing you can really do
29:39
Speaker 3: about it, but you won't know till you find out
29:41
Speaker 3: what's going on with it. You don't even know what's
29:44
Speaker 3: going on with your money. Therefore you can't know what
29:46
Speaker 3: to vote for or what to vote against. You gotta
29:49
Speaker 3: know everything in your voting scale or slide is attached
29:52
Speaker 3: to what you can contribute to it. So at this point,
29:57
Speaker 3: like I said, we're doing all things school though I'm
29:59
Speaker 3: not doing pulle only through you know, our Great America
30:03
Speaker 3: and our great American team in there, because now they
30:06
Speaker 3: are facing with us.
30:09
Speaker 4: You know, little people are facing.
30:11
Speaker 3: I'm just a parent with children at school who need
30:13
Speaker 3: the programs, well, don't have the program But now we
30:16
Speaker 3: go backwards, don't have the programs. My child won't be
30:19
Speaker 3: going to the school. And now I'm just a parent
30:22
Speaker 3: that you want money from that, you want my taxes
30:24
Speaker 3: from that. I will no longer put into anything else
30:28
Speaker 3: until I know that my kids are good. So again,
30:33
Speaker 3: shout out to our kids that made it through school
30:35
Speaker 3: this week. Keep going, Okay, KFG, keep going, parents, keep going.
30:42
Speaker 3: This is only the beginning. We got until almost next summer.
30:45
Speaker 3: So get involved, please, I would love to hear from
30:49
Speaker 3: you all. I be shared.
30:50
Speaker 4: I will be sharing.
30:51
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna start a little PTA something, maybe
30:54
Speaker 3: my PTA journey to show y'all how serious I am.
30:57
Speaker 4: I need my kids to have the support they need.
30:59
Speaker 3: If I give it to them at home, you're gonna
31:00
Speaker 3: give it to them outside of the home, especially where
31:03
Speaker 3: I'm supposed to be paying my tax paying money. And
31:06
Speaker 3: you know, all the education you got, you got all
31:08
Speaker 3: the time with my kids, you're gonna do it right. So,
31:13
Speaker 3: like I said, I'll be following up. I'll be putting
31:14
Speaker 3: bulletins up, I'll be putting the meeting dates up for
31:17
Speaker 3: anybody who's in my area. Want to come out and
31:19
Speaker 3: check out what's going on, get your voice heard, show
31:22
Speaker 3: up for your kids, show up for your community. Let's
31:24
Speaker 3: do it and other than that, those who are not
31:29
Speaker 3: in my area, maybe you can kind of see what's
31:30
Speaker 3: going on and what is on the table on the
31:33
Speaker 3: business table for discussion, and maybe you can bring it
31:36
Speaker 3: up to your council members and see why they are
31:39
Speaker 3: or are not talking about it, why they are not
31:42
Speaker 3: having meetings about what's going on in the counties. And
31:44
Speaker 3: what we do know is what is going on with
31:48
Speaker 3: our deficiencies in America is affecting everybody. So whether it's
31:55
Speaker 3: affecting you now or not, it will somehow. If you
32:00
Speaker 3: are the boss of a company, your employee's gonna quit.
32:04
Speaker 3: Your employees are gonna have a hard time doing some
32:06
Speaker 3: stuff this year if they have kids, So get ready
32:09
Speaker 3: to accommodate or replace. It is what it is. If
32:13
Speaker 3: we don't want another high unemployment rate, let's get with
32:17
Speaker 3: our president and our council members and see what they
32:21
Speaker 3: can offer us with the money they do have stored up. Okay,
32:26
Speaker 3: so I'm gonna go ahead and wrap this up. Like
32:28
Speaker 3: I said, let's get with the PTA Parent Teachers Association.
32:32
Speaker 3: I love to hear from y'all. Let me know what
32:34
Speaker 3: you what your scholars teachers are talking about. It might
32:37
Speaker 3: be something that hits your end that hasn't hit my
32:39
Speaker 3: end yet, or vice versa. But we definitely need to
32:42
Speaker 3: get a conversation about it. I cannot wait to tell
32:44
Speaker 3: y'all what they are talking about in my county. So
32:48
Speaker 3: hopefully i'll follow up with that. Y'all can hit me back.
32:51
Speaker 3: Remember click in, tap in, call in, hit my line
32:54
Speaker 3: and we'll follow up with this discussion. I am excited
32:57
Speaker 3: to tell y'all what is going on with our money
33:01
Speaker 3: in our county. All right, So again, thank you for
33:04
Speaker 3: joining me. Have a great Friday night. I am shining saffron.
33:07
Speaker 3: Peace bad to business, good, good,