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Know Anything About The Phoenix Declaration or the History of Communism? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Speaker 1: Having more fun than any human being should be allowed
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  Speaker 1: to the third hour of The Morning Show with Preston's
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  Speaker 1: to have with us. He is the Commissioner of Education
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  Speaker 1: for the Sunshine State. Anastasioskimuts Us. Good morning, sir, how
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  Speaker 1: are you.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Preston, how are you? It's great to be here.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, before we start to establish some credibility for our
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  Speaker 1: audience here, okay, I'm gonna get give you a little quiz,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Okay, how many genders are there?
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  Speaker 2: There are two sexes. We don't even we don't even
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  Speaker 2: play into the gender game because that's where they go
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  Speaker 2: into the fluidity argument. There are two sexes one male,
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  Speaker 2: one female.
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  Speaker 1: All right, very good, you can stay on the show.
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  Speaker 1: We just covered the supertenitive education in Michigan. Refusing to
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  Speaker 1: answer the question because you know, different people have different
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on that. Thank you so much for coming on
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  Speaker 1: the show. And I understand that there are some items
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  Speaker 1: that have been adopted by the state Board in recent days.
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  Speaker 1: And first tell us what the Phoenix Declaration is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Phoenix Declaration is an affirmative statement that really
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  Speaker 2: sets a framework for our educational system and what we'd
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  Speaker 2: like to see as far as principles that are of
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  Speaker 2: value to our state board. Parental choice and responsibility, transparency
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  Speaker 2: and accountability, truth and goodness and objective truth, character formation,
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  Speaker 2: academic excellence, citizenship. These are the guiding principles of the
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  Speaker 2: Phoenix Declaration.
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  Speaker 1: How will that impact a local school district across Florida.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think you're going to continue to see what
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  Speaker 2: we've been doing all along. I mean, these standards really
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  Speaker 2: reinforce what has been taking place in the state of
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  Speaker 2: Florida under the leadership of Governor DeSantis. When you talk
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  Speaker 2: about parental choice and responsibility, I don't know of any
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  Speaker 2: other state that has empowered parents more than this governor,
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  Speaker 2: particularly since everything we uncovered during COVID and so passing
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  Speaker 2: a parental Bill of Rights, passing curriculum transparency, passing, and
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  Speaker 2: making sure that there's legislation that protects the innocence of
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  Speaker 2: children and what topics they're going to be exposed to,
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  Speaker 2: ensuring that it's age and developmentally appropriate, ensuring that it's
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  Speaker 2: based in the objective, factual truth. All these policies and
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  Speaker 2: principles that you're seeing articulated in the Phoenix Declaration or
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  Speaker 2: what we've been doing all along and what we will
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  Speaker 2: continue to do. It's been wild the amount of controversy
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  Speaker 2: that we've received as a result of folks who just
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  Speaker 2: don't like the Heritage Foundation and its affiliation with the principles.
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  Speaker 2: But not a single criticism has gone towards the principles
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  Speaker 2: articulated in the Phoenix Declaration. And that's because objectively, everyone
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  Speaker 2: can agree these are good things to value and education.
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  Speaker 1: What does that say that they're just mad at the association?
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  Speaker 1: You know, the same thing happened to President Trump. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the Heritage Foundation put out a thing on what they
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  Speaker 1: think ought to happen in the future of this country,
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  Speaker 1: whether anybody embraces it or not as up to them,
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  Speaker 1: but they put out some guidelines and they tried to
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  Speaker 1: hammer Trump with that. It's the same tactic.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. And we just received the letter yesterday from
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  Speaker 2: ten Democrat members of the Florida Legislature, I believe it
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  Speaker 2: was in the Florida Hoigh saying that this Phoenix Declaration
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  Speaker 2: is somehow racist in nature. And I'm just befuddled by
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  Speaker 2: the letter just because, as I articulated these principles, these
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  Speaker 2: are pretty unapologetically across the board, straightforward. I mean, who
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  Speaker 2: doesn't value academic excellence. Who doesn't want our students to
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  Speaker 2: understand civic virtues and the knowledge necessary for self government
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  Speaker 2: and civil disagreement? Who doesn't believe in character formation and
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  Speaker 2: making sure that students are understanding personal responsibility and self discipline.
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  Speaker 2: These are all great things that we should be valuing
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  Speaker 2: in our education system. And I'm thankful to the leadership
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  Speaker 2: of Governor DeSantis, but also the chair of the State
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  Speaker 2: Board of Education Ryan Petty and former Commissioner of Education
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  Speaker 2: Many Diaz, as they were both original signatories to the
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  Speaker 2: Phoenix Declaration when it was signed into existence close to
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  Speaker 2: a year ago, and So this is a document that
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of educational experts from across the nation boord
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  Speaker 2: into and signed off on it, and we're proud to
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  Speaker 2: stand by it.
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  Speaker 1: Stoss. Listeners of the program know, I have been long
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  Speaker 1: advocating that communist socialist Marxist should be allowed to run
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  Speaker 1: for office in this country. I believe it's a direct
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  Speaker 1: opposition to the oath of office to defend this constitution.
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  Speaker 1: But this really points to a bigger issue, and that
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  Speaker 1: is the lack of knowledge and understanding of what communism
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  Speaker 1: is and its failures across time and history. You all
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  Speaker 1: have addressed that tell us about these new standards, Yeah, we look.
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  Speaker 2: It dates back to twenty twenty two when the governor
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  Speaker 2: signed the Victims of Communism Day that required at least
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  Speaker 2: forty five minutes of direct instruction on the history and
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  Speaker 2: atrocities of communist regimes. And then he built on that
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four when he signed Senate Bill twelve
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  Speaker 2: sixty four that required a comprehensive instruction on the history
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  Speaker 2: of communism starting in the twenty six to twenty seven
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  Speaker 2: school here. And so just last week the state Board
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  Speaker 2: of Education adopted those standards and it just continues to
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  Speaker 2: show why Florida continues to be a leader in civic education.
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  Speaker 2: These standards are going to show, you know, specifically the
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  Speaker 2: atrocities that are related to communism. Many people know I'm
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  Speaker 2: Greek by my name, but I'm also Cuban on my
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  Speaker 2: mother's side, and I was fortunate that I got to
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  Speaker 2: hear directly from victims of communism through my grandparents who
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  Speaker 2: fled communist Cuba in nineteen sixty. And so what this
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  Speaker 2: does is it gives students that same education and foundational
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  Speaker 2: knowledge that I had as a kid growing up to
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  Speaker 2: understand the atrocities committed under communist governments. That includes mass shillings,
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  Speaker 2: political prisons for starvation, suppression of speech. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: just horrific the end result. And it also exposes students
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  Speaker 2: to something that we're seeing increasingly become romanticized and popular,
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  Speaker 2: which is versions of socialism, which we all know are
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  Speaker 2: the beginning frameworks and steps for communism.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, we talked just last week about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you know, in Governor William Bradford's documents with
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  Speaker 1: the first Pilgrims, the settlers that came on the Mayflower,
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  Speaker 1: they used communism his word, not mine, and found it
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  Speaker 1: to be an abject failure. Are these lessons going to
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  Speaker 1: go back that far to point out how the people
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  Speaker 1: that came to this land so many centuries ago learned
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  Speaker 1: that lesson fundamentally early on.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to cover all kinds of topics. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to talk about the rise of communism globally
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  Speaker 2: and in the United States. It's going to do the
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  Speaker 2: comparative study of communism, intotalitarianism, and the principles of freedom
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  Speaker 2: that are foundational to this country and what makes this
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  Speaker 2: the greatest country on earth, you know, the political, industrial,
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  Speaker 2: and economic conditions that sparked communist revolutions. It talks about
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  Speaker 2: Cuba and generally Latin America and the spread of communist movement.
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  Speaker 2: So you are going to see a wide array of
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  Speaker 2: the history of communism throughout the world.
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  Speaker 1: Who's going to write the curriculum? Where's it? Where are
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  Speaker 1: we going to get it?
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  Speaker 2: So it's already been written Florida educators and content experts
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  Speaker 2: quite frankly, who graciously spent all kinds of time helping
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  Speaker 2: develop these standards to ensure that history was taught in
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  Speaker 2: a clear on its an unfiltered way or who put
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  Speaker 2: these standards together, and so that is what the board
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  Speaker 2: voted on. So you're going to see there's going to
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  Speaker 2: be professional development over the summer so that teachers are
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  Speaker 2: taught what these standards are because they are going to
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  Speaker 2: be implemented for the first time in the twenty six
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven school year.
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  Speaker 1: How do you make sure the teachers are going to
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  Speaker 1: embrace it and teach it fairly and accurately.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's why professional development is so important. We
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  Speaker 2: provide that at the Florida Department of Education because we
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  Speaker 2: want to make sure that our educators understand the standards.
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  Speaker 2: Gives them an opportunity to ask questions, to let us
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  Speaker 2: know if they have additional feedback. But the reality is
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  Speaker 2: that's how this generally goes. Ultimately, if the bad actor
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  Speaker 2: is going to stray from the standards, as we saw
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  Speaker 2: in Florida Southwestern Stay College with the sociology professor who
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  Speaker 2: was literally part of our work group that put together
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  Speaker 2: the standards and decided to run afoul the law and
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  Speaker 2: teach a gender ideology contrary to what the law allows.
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  Speaker 2: There was accountability that was brought towards that professor and
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  Speaker 2: teachers can expect the same as they're going to stray
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  Speaker 2: away from the standards.
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  Speaker 1: Well, parents, now you've heard it from the Commission of
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  Speaker 1: Education himself, and you'll know to look for it starting
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  Speaker 1: next year. And Commissioner, thank you, appreciate your efforts on
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  Speaker 1: this stuff and look forward to having you back. And
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  Speaker 1: until then, have a great Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, God bless you, and have a great Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: He is the Commissioner of Education, Anastasioskimutzus. See what I
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  Speaker 1: did there, I did my job. I pronounced his name right. Yeah. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how wonderful is that that we're going to
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  Speaker 1: teach communism and how awful it is the unvarnished history
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  Speaker 1: of it all. Seventeen minutes past the hour, Go Florida,
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