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Ep. 19 | Is Your School District Covering Up Sexual Assault? · The Myth of Education Podcast

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SPEAKER_03: As of 2001, April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, or SAAM for short.
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SPEAKER_03: And although this is something to be aware of,
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SPEAKER_03: I had my suspicions that this was a woke,
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SPEAKER_03: believe all women kind of thing.
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SPEAKER_03: And I was right.
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I looked this up and AI says that SAAM originated from decades
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of activism by
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SPEAKER_03: anti-violence advocates,
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SPEAKER_03: primarily women of color.
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SPEAKER_03: And when it comes to adults, a lot of SA incidents can
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We here at the Myth of Education Podcast think that SAAM should
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primarily recognize
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SPEAKER_03: all the students who are sexually assaulted on school grounds.
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SPEAKER_03: We have a special guest with us today.
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SPEAKER_03: Welcome Miss Kelvia Campbell to the Myth of Education Podcast.
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SPEAKER_03: Glad you could join us.
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SPEAKER_01: Good to be here.
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SPEAKER_03: Kelvia is a former Turning Point Action cult member.
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SPEAKER_03: Just kidding.
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SPEAKER_03: Just kidding.
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SPEAKER_03: I think Turning Point is how we know each other.
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And so it's pretty cool that we've come full circle and we can
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start having these conversations.
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SPEAKER_03: Now,
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first angle that I want to talk about this sexual assault
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awareness is the adults
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SPEAKER_03: in the school districts are basically attacking students.
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SPEAKER_03: A board member at the Washington County School District in Tennessee.
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They're sitting in a board meeting and he basically is looking
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at this student
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SPEAKER_03: that's sitting next to him.
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SPEAKER_03: He caressed her, embraced her and said, dang, you're hot.
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SPEAKER_03: You know that.
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SPEAKER_03: What school did you say you go to?
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SPEAKER_03: This is, like I said, in the middle of a board meeting.
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SPEAKER_03: It was really disgusting.
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SPEAKER_03: He was 30 years or something her senior.
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SPEAKER_03: It's totally crazy that he got away with it.
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SPEAKER_03: I actually think he was drunk or something.
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SPEAKER_03: He was not sober during this board meeting.
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And then there's also that case in Peoria of two teachers that
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were grooming
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SPEAKER_03: students and one of them was allegedly sleeping with a student.
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SPEAKER_03: The other sent nude photos and videos.
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There were two principals at different high schools who knew
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about the incidents
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SPEAKER_03: but they chose to ignore it.
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SPEAKER_03: The Myth of Education Podcast
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SPEAKER_00: Well, to give you an idea, it goes really deep.
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SPEAKER_00: I found many examples and the data shows it's not just antidotal.
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In fact,
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I was looking specifically for recognized teachers,
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award-winning teachers.
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SPEAKER_00: and I cut it off after five.
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So we've got the San Diego Teacher of the Year that many of us
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heard about.
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SPEAKER_00: In March of 2023, she was sexually abusing two male students, 11 and 13.
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SPEAKER_00: This was at an elementary school, San Diego Teacher of the Year.
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She was sentenced to 30 years to life and is now doing her time
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in California.
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SPEAKER_00: That means about a year and a half probably.
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And then we have the Minnesota Teacher of the Year from 2016
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abusing a 14-year-old
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former student and began months after he received the award and
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this was an eighth
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SPEAKER_00: grader.
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SPEAKER_00: that's being abused.
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SPEAKER_00: Then we have Colorado Teacher of the Year finalist in 2025.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is a 16-year-old student that was exploited.
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SPEAKER_00: In Louisiana, we've got Teacher of the Year from 25 to 26.
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SPEAKER_00: She was named Teacher of the Year in September 2025.
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Early 2025,
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I believe she was accused of sexually abusing a student,
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arrested and charged.
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SPEAKER_00: The case is ongoing.
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SPEAKER_00: And then in New Jersey, twice nominated for Teacher of the Year.
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SPEAKER_00: She was charged in March of 2026,
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SPEAKER_00: just weeks ago,
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SPEAKER_00: with first degree sexual assault of a minor,
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SPEAKER_00: a middle schooler.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't think any of these are high school.
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SPEAKER_00: I think they're all grade school age.
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And police allege multiple sexual encounters in her vehicle and
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in classroom in 2021.
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The data is just really set when we look at it and we see that
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it is the number one
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SPEAKER_00: problem right now.
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SPEAKER_03: According to the American Journal of Psychotherapy,
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SPEAKER_03: less than 10%,
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so that's less than 1 in 10 of child victims lie about being
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sexually abused.
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SPEAKER_03: That means that 90% of the time, above 90% of the time, the child is not
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SPEAKER_03: not lying or overreacting.
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SPEAKER_03: And I realize that one-tenth,
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that can seem like a lot as far as someone maybe lying or not
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reporting something
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SPEAKER_03: in good faith.
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SPEAKER_03: But just know that above 90% of these victims are telling the truth.
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It's so interesting that the personalities that garner the most
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attention,
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SPEAKER_03: that get the awards,
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SPEAKER_03: Teacher of the Year,
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SPEAKER_03: this and that,
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SPEAKER_03: are the ones abusing children.
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SPEAKER_03: And they get away with it for so long.
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SPEAKER_03: Kelvira,
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what are your thoughts about what you're seeing with
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teacher-to-student sexual
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SPEAKER_03: assaults?
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One of the trends and one of the phenomenons I actually learned
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about was,
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SPEAKER_01: have either one of you ever heard of passing the trash?
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, I have not, actually.
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SPEAKER_01: So that's one of the trends right now,
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SPEAKER_01: and that's where a lot of legislation and lawsuits are coming from.
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Title IX is helping with it,
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but any of the listeners that don't know what passing the trash
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is,
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SPEAKER_01: it's when a teacher a staff faculty coach they have indecent behavior and
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inappropriate behavior with students maybe a sexual
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relationship favoritism you
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SPEAKER_01: know grooming and they get to voluntarily
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SPEAKER_01: And they just transfer and hop over to the next district undetected.
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and that can be dangerous for many reasons because they're just
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taking their
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predatorial career just over to the next district and obviously
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justice is not
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SPEAKER_01: served and you know like I said these people go undetected so
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that's one phenomenon but what's trending is is people are
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actually taking a stance
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they recognize it for what it is and they're trying to create
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laws and cases to
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limit that so there's stronger background checks they have to
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have documentation of
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all the investigation and the report so that's a big goal right
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now for school
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systems is to be stricter on that so there is not passing the
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trash going on
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SPEAKER_01: between districts
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Well the good thing about the story in Peoria Unified is that a
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majority of school
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board members with common sense voted to fire one of the
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teachers recently and I
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think that's what sparked off the story again about the
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grooming and the sexual
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SPEAKER_03: deviance that was going on.
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I would rather the district be sued by the accused being
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dismissed than to be sued
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SPEAKER_03: by the family after the child was assaulted.
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SPEAKER_03: We have a bad culture in our schools of passing the trash and
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SPEAKER_03: When it comes to passing the trash,
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SPEAKER_03: I'm suspecting that that happens way more than we even know of because
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boards of education across the country all report this is the
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number one reason
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SPEAKER_00: they issue disciplinary action.
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SPEAKER_00: And that was shocking to me.
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That's more than fraud or theft or violating your contract or
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physical assault or anything else.
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SPEAKER_00: It's inappropriate sexual misconduct with a student.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like,
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SPEAKER_00: in some cases,
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twice as many times do they discipline for that reason than the
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next most common
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SPEAKER_01: reason.
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Arizona is one of the few states that keeps really good records
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of this in Arizona
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it's 36% of all disciplinary actions are sexual misconduct with
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kids and in other
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states it's over 40% and in a few years back it actually in
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Arizona went over 40%
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so it's a major problem and I see it as if they're not taking
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action like Kelby has
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said if they're passing the trash just quietly moving somebody
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on I've seen that
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SPEAKER_00: happen in my own district if they're doing that
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Then maybe it comes a time when districts just don't want to
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take action that the
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SPEAKER_00: State Board of Education has to take action.
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And so maybe it's because the can's been kicked until it can't
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be kicked anymore
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SPEAKER_00: and it's at the very end and it's when it has to be that kind of level.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know if that's the case or not,
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SPEAKER_00: but it might explain why it's the number one in every state.
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SPEAKER_00: And the other thing is the parental notification.
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There are only,
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I believe,
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four states in the whole country that require districts to
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SPEAKER_00: to tell parents about this.
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SPEAKER_00: And no state,
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SPEAKER_00: if it's a student on student sexual misconduct,
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SPEAKER_00: no state requires school districts to notify parents.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's only Washington,
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SPEAKER_00: Wisconsin,
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SPEAKER_00: New York,
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and Texas that have laws on the books that require school
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districts to tell parents
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SPEAKER_00: if a adult staff member sexually models a kid.
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SPEAKER_03: We need to push for that in Arizona.
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SPEAKER_03: That needs to be on the books.
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SPEAKER_03: There's no reason why parents shouldn't be notified when this happens.
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SPEAKER_03: That should be something that
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SPEAKER_03: is rang from the rooftop because it's a safety issue.
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SPEAKER_03: Well,
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SPEAKER_03: another study that I had looked at in 2017,
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SPEAKER_03: it was the National Criminal Justice Reference.
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It was a survey that found an estimated 10% of K-12 students
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will experience sexual
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SPEAKER_03: miscommunication
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SPEAKER_03: misconduct by a school employee by the time they graduate high school.
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SPEAKER_03: And I interpret that number to be low.
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SPEAKER_03: Of course, that was almost 10 years ago.
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I interpret that also to only represent situations where the
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victim was believed
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and or there was enough evidence that warranted a policy change
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at the site or
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SPEAKER_03: district level.
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SPEAKER_03: But I want to segue into something because earlier I
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SPEAKER_03: When you were giving us that list of Employees of the Year,
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SPEAKER_03: Employee of the Month,
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what I noticed was that there were lots of females preying on
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male students.
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SPEAKER_03: And that's also the case in Peoria Unified,
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SPEAKER_03: is that you have these students who are male,
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SPEAKER_03: athletes,
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SPEAKER_03: etc.,
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SPEAKER_03: that are being preyed on by female authority figures.
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I always like to point this out because I know as a culture
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we've had a mentality
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SPEAKER_03: for a long time that it's male authority figures that prey on
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SPEAKER_03: young female students.
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SPEAKER_00: What I found is that it is still disproportionately male.
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There were 1400 roughly allegations of sexual misconduct across
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country for
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teachers on students and 1000 approximately were male and about
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300 were female.
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And then you add on top of the fact that it's a female
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dominated profession.
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SPEAKER_00: So men are multiple times more likely to be the offender.
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I think a lot of the increased sexual deviance and awareness is
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coming through the
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SPEAKER_03: fact that we have gone overboard with sex education and LGBTQ ideologies.
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SPEAKER_03: There's this huge investment in K-12 education.
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SPEAKER_03: that now includes gender conversation.
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Dan and I,
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we covered that in episode 17,
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sex education for kindergartners.
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SPEAKER_03: I mean,
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it was just incredible the amount of adults who think that it
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is okay to talk about
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SPEAKER_03: sex with very,
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SPEAKER_03: very young children.
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These children would have no idea what's even going on in some
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of those pictures,
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SPEAKER_03: but they just know that it's wrong.
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SPEAKER_03: And Kelvia, I think you were looking into some of those trends.
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SPEAKER_03: Let us know what you found
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linking the LGBTQ ideology to the sexual assaults and abuse and
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just basically
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SPEAKER_03: desensitizing kids on school grounds.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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So one of the things that I wasn't crazy about while I was
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researching it,
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SPEAKER_01: I was paying attention to verbiage and I find that they are saying,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: of course it's biased,
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SPEAKER_01: but they were saying how LGBTQ
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LGBTQ students and trans students are actually more in danger
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than heterosexual students.
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SPEAKER_01: But the interesting thing is,
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SPEAKER_01: is that they consider bullying and name calling sexual abuse to LGBTs.
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LGBTQ students and trans students and I think they do that
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because you know it
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comes down to their gender and sexual orientation so they see
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name calling
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microaggressions insults and they also said that LGBTQ students
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feel unsafe they
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feel more unsafe especially in bathrooms and locker rooms and a
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part of me is
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thinking common sense it's like because you're in the wrong
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ones I would feel
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SPEAKER_01: unsafe too I would feel uncomfortable too
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SPEAKER_01: But I think that the information in the data set skewed because,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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SPEAKER_01: And it seems like,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: for straight victims,
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SPEAKER_01: it's inappropriate touching,
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SPEAKER_01: inappropriate pictures,
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SPEAKER_01: sexual
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sexual comments innuendos but it seems like for the trans and
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LGBTQ all it takes is
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SPEAKER_01: making them feel uncomfortable but I don't think that they're necessarily
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SPEAKER_01: victimized more what do you think?
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I don't think so either it's what you said it's the whole
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microaggression and
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basically having to change your whole language around this
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false reality that this
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SPEAKER_03: person has created
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and when you are still operating in reality which is a binary
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biblical biological
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fact that there are only two genders and when people want to
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deviate from that if
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you don't go along with it then they can consider that to be
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assault so yes I agree
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the data on that is probably skewed and it does speak to
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probably a larger problem
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of children being indoctrinated once again that needs to be
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exposed Dan what are
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SPEAKER_03: your thoughts
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SPEAKER_00: Whenever we read LGBTQ scholarship,
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SPEAKER_00: it's entirely based on this cultural Marxist ideology,
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SPEAKER_00: which requires them to be part of a victim class.
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SPEAKER_00: So the whole enterprise...
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SPEAKER_00: stands or falls on whether they are an oppressed victim or not.
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SPEAKER_00: If you take the victimhood away from them,
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SPEAKER_00: then they're no longer what they set out to be,
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SPEAKER_00: is this LGBTQ.
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SPEAKER_00: They're very exclusive in a victim mentality.
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SPEAKER_00: So whenever we're reading about that,
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SPEAKER_00: That's going to be woven in,
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SPEAKER_00: even if it sounds innocent,
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SPEAKER_00: because they have to have it,
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SPEAKER_00: otherwise the whole thing falls apart.
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SPEAKER_00: So when you bring this cultural Marxist philosophy into play,
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SPEAKER_00: you remove authority and you let the zoo run wild,
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SPEAKER_00: so to speak,
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and the kids who look to you as a responsible authority figure
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based on our
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Centuries of Judeo-Christian ethics when you throw that out the
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window it's just
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kind of where the wild things are so that's I think what we
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need to be watchful for
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SPEAKER_00: is this Marxist ideology coming in and really corrupting everything
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You can tell a lot about a nation and about the culture and a
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society by how
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SPEAKER_03: children are treated.
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And to put us in that category of Marxists,
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because we do have a Marxist movement.
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SPEAKER_03: We have several, the LGBTQ being one of them.
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SPEAKER_03: We have several Marxist movements that are in play right now in America.
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SPEAKER_03: And I think a lot of parents are not understanding.
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SPEAKER_03: Maybe they're waking up, maybe slowly.
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They're not fully understanding yet how this is being deployed
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in the education system.
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And we have plenty of time and plenty of episodes where we can
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talk about the
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SPEAKER_03: different curriculum and teaching standards that are following a Marxist
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SPEAKER_03: philosophy.
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We're just headed in a wrong direction and you said a moment
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ago at the beginning
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of your spiel about the sources that we use are going to be
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skewed based on the
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victimization that's being put out there and it made me think
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of the Trevor Project
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I don't know if you've ever heard of this but it's just all
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leftist information and
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you would think that children are being attacked more than what
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they are based on
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SPEAKER_03: what Kelvia said a moment ago
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of how we have these inflated numbers of people just basically
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misgendering someone.
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SPEAKER_03: And we're calling that sexual harassment, which is totally ridiculous.
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I wanted to share kind of as far as trends,
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we are going into a positive direction.
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SPEAKER_01: And I do think it's because of our current administration.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, the last 10 years have been really rough.
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SPEAKER_01: But the new trend is, is that we're pretty
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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or don't say LGBTQ laws and that basically means you can't make
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homosexuality and
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SPEAKER_01: trans and the LGBTQIA community part of the curriculum.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't talk about it.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't talk about what you do with your partner outside of school.
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you know basically the stuff you know that the LGBTQ community
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has been wanting to
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push in the school systems you can't do now on the other side
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you have like
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SPEAKER_01: California and Washington State
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they're the ones pushing for the protection laws anti-bullying
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laws inclusion laws
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but it's evenly split now I think that's good you know I think
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there needs to be
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some tension in the road because we saw the past five years
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that the woke agenda
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SPEAKER_01: was just swallowing up the school system so now there's more tension and
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And teachers and staff and students are reporting they have to
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watch their mouth now.
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They feel like they have to watch their mouth now more in the
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classroom and what they share.
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SPEAKER_01: Kentucky, Iowa, Alabama, they're going by the no gay laws.
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SPEAKER_01: And you know,
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Florida with Ron DeSantis has set a really good example in a
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really good tone for
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SPEAKER_01: this type of legislation.
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I think that term don't say gay was originally derogatory with
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a law that DeSantis
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had passed a few years back and everyone was rebelling against
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his authority in the
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SPEAKER_03: state of Florida.
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SPEAKER_03: They were rebelling, calling it the don't say gay bill.
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But if we've harnessed that derogatory term and we've
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controlled the narrative on
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SPEAKER_03: that now,
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SPEAKER_03: that is a great thing because when it comes to talking with children,
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SPEAKER_03: about sexual things, that really is the place of a parent.
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And we're just going to harp on that every episode that we talk
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about this topic
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SPEAKER_03: because that's just the truth.
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We have a parental rights bill and it protects the rights of
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parents to introduce
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SPEAKER_03: topics like that and to decide what language,
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SPEAKER_03: what photos,
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SPEAKER_03: how that topic is discussed with their children.
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SPEAKER_03: And government education systems just don't have the right
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SPEAKER_03: to come in and disrupt that bond that the parent and the child have.
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I wanted to circle back to what was mentioned earlier about
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student-on-student sexual assault.
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SPEAKER_03: As I was looking into this,
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statistics mostly point to student-student sexual harassment
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and assault on college
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SPEAKER_03: campuses,
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with about one in five college students experiencing some form
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of sexual assault or
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SPEAKER_03: misconduct.
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SPEAKER_03: Majority of the time,
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SPEAKER_03: about 80 to 95% of the time,
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SPEAKER_03: the perpetrator is a friend,
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SPEAKER_03: a partner,
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SPEAKER_03: or a classmate,
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SPEAKER_03: so it's hardly a tax from strangers.
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SPEAKER_03: Now,
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SPEAKER_03: when it comes to K-12,
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SPEAKER_03: again,
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SPEAKER_03: another 2017 study,
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SPEAKER_03: and it was published by Campus Safety Magazine,
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found roughly 17,000 official reports of sexual assaults on
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school grounds,
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SPEAKER_03: and I think that was within about four years.
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So that only represented,
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again,
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10 to 30% of the incidents being reported.
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And surprisingly,
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student to student sexual assault and abuse is statistically
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more common.
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SPEAKER_03: At least that's what these sources are saying.
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And that can be due to several factors of inappropriate
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behavior,
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interpersonal relationships.
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SPEAKER_03: I mean, we can do a whole
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SPEAKER_03: I am a
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SPEAKER_03: and verbiage and pictures and things being shared.
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SPEAKER_03: And it's desensitizing children.
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SPEAKER_03: I always want to come back to the adults in the situation are going to be
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SPEAKER_03: responsible for what's happening on school grounds.
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And I really think that parents have to take control of the
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situation as much as possible.
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SPEAKER_03: Dan, what are your thoughts?
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SPEAKER_00: I just went looking
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through my daughter's seventh grade sex ed curriculum in the
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public school.
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SPEAKER_00: And you can opt out of all of it or you can opt out of part of it.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, in Arizona, it's a opt-in required state.
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SPEAKER_00: And I get the feeling I'm the only parent.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not patting myself on the back,
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but I've been told when I go to look at these materials that
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nobody else has done
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SPEAKER_00: it.
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They blow off the dust and sit me down and find all the stuff
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to show me and then
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SPEAKER_00: put in the VHS tape.
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SPEAKER_00: but what I've found is that there's little subtleties there you mentioned
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appropriate touch and they guide them on that what I keep
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seeing over and over
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again is that the rule is there's unwelcome touch and then
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there's presumably
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welcome touch so as long as you consent to it it's fine and I'm
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reading between the
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SPEAKER_00: lines a little bit they don't say it that way but
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What I do know has happened is that any sort of biblical ethic
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has been stripped
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out of the schools so that you have a hard time injecting
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anything other than
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consent so maybe you shouldn't touch in a certain way until
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you're married but they
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won't say that I don't know what kind of framework of rules
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they would have other
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than consent and if they don't then does that mean anything a
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child consents to is
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SPEAKER_00: okay
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SPEAKER_00: Well,
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SPEAKER_00: we know with comprehensive sex education,
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SPEAKER_00: they're giving us a rule book or a handbook,
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SPEAKER_00: rather,
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SPEAKER_00: of the kinds of sex acts you can have with your partner.
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SPEAKER_00: And presumably with what they're saying about consent,
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SPEAKER_00: as long as you consent and as long as the other person consent,
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SPEAKER_00: have at it.
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SPEAKER_00: So it seems like the adults have left the room.
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SPEAKER_00: They've given up on any sort of moral framework.
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SPEAKER_00: Except for this consent, which I think is a pretty low bar, right?
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, who wants to say at least we're not raping each other, right?
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, if consent's the only rule, then we're in for a world of hurt.
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SPEAKER_03: What a bunch of lawlessness.
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Although sexual harassment and abuse of minors on school
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grounds is a well-known
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SPEAKER_03: epidemic,
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SPEAKER_03: none of our major law enforcement agencies are consistently tracking,
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SPEAKER_03: investigating,
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SPEAKER_03: or prosecuting the
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SPEAKER_03: The Myth of Education Podcast
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SPEAKER_03: They're able to change jobs or schools easily,
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SPEAKER_03: and the victims and their families are left holding the bag.
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SPEAKER_03: This is something that needs to stop.
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we just hope to raise awareness with this podcast so if you're
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listening and you
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know someone who maybe hasn't spoken up about an issue that's
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on school grounds we
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SPEAKER_03: definitely want you to share this podcast and encourage all victims
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SPEAKER_03: to come forward,
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SPEAKER_03: even if they do it anonymously,
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SPEAKER_03: so that there is no shadows that any of these teachers,
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SPEAKER_03: coaches,
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SPEAKER_03: school bus drivers,
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SPEAKER_03: administrators,
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SPEAKER_03: board members,
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SPEAKER_03: there's no shadows that anyone can hide behind.
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SPEAKER_03: Indeed,
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SPEAKER_03: April is sexual assault awareness and child abuse awareness month,
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but we want to make sure that we're not leaving children in a
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situation for seven,
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SPEAKER_03: eight hours a day
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all throughout their young lives from the time they're four or
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five years old until
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SPEAKER_03: they're 18 years old,
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SPEAKER_03: where they are being exposed to LGBTQ ideologies,
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SPEAKER_03: harsh sexual curriculum,
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SPEAKER_03: and adults who don't care for them.
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Kelvia what are your final thoughts kind of what Dan was saying
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it as you were
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talking about well if you consent to it then you know it's not
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illegal or it's not
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wrong that is part of grooming and that's what I was reading
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about so you have a
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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And you know people underestimate educators have a lot of power
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especially in K
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through like fifth grade those I mean they're child development
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years these are
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developing humans and you spend more time at school than you do
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at home with your
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parents at a point in your life so it's in the power of the
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teacher whatever
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boundaries they teach or like Dan said if you allow it and you
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consent to it then
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SPEAKER_01: it's okay
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and that's not really their place to do but they hold a lot of
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power to our children.
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but I'd like to close with some preventative optimistic things
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like what can we do
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about this and number one is the answer that I'm always going
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to give for any issue
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whether it's academic moral or otherwise and that is elect a
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good board if there's
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not a good board get active and be part of it somehow whether
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you're the candidate
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SPEAKER_00: or supporting a good one secondly engage your kid
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SPEAKER_00: Find a way to make them engage with you.
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Watch for the warning signs because we see commonalities with
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all of these teachers
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SPEAKER_00: of the year that I mentioned before.
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SPEAKER_00: We see all of them gave preferential treatment,
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SPEAKER_00: extra time,
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SPEAKER_00: one-on-one meetings,
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SPEAKER_00: phone messages,
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SPEAKER_00: things that you can see as a parent if you know what to look out for.
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SPEAKER_00: We do need parental notification laws.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a slew of things that parents think
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are required of school districts to notify them of that aren't
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and we talked about
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SPEAKER_00: one of those today which was a sexual abuse situation.
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SPEAKER_00: We need to ask our districts how are they screening employees?
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SPEAKER_00: What kind of things do they do for background checks?
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SPEAKER_00: How do we make sure kids are taught clear boundaries?
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We need harsher penalties for offenders and harsher penalties
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for schools that pass
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SPEAKER_00: the trash and don't report when they're required to.
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SPEAKER_00: And then the last thing is chaperones or never be alone with the child.
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SPEAKER_00: There should never be any teacher one on one alone with the child.
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SPEAKER_00: Based on what we know, there's some easy things parents can do.
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SPEAKER_03: Ultimately, power really belongs to the parents.
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SPEAKER_03: I know educators do have power in that classroom,
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SPEAKER_03: but the supreme power,
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the ultimate authority belongs to the parents and it's time
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that they start making
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SPEAKER_03: some demands.
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