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Glenn Greenwald joins the show to talk about what's going on with Elon Musk and the media, and why it's time for parents to wake up to the fact that we're in a new world, and we're not going to get it all our own way.
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Oh, Stu, what an exciting show today, filled with exciting things for our children.
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No, I'm trying to see what part of today's presentation could actually be spoken in a
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Yeah, okay, so the first hour, a lot of it you needed a decoder ring because I couldn't
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use any of the language that's being used in our schools.
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Yeah, you can use them to eight-year-olds, you cannot use them on radio to adults.
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But also, we had Glenn Greenwald on today, who I thought was fascinating about, are we
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What's really happening with the media and Elon Musk?
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Yeah, we have a mom who decided to go to a school board meeting, got attacked, basically,
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Excuse me, ma'am, this is our meeting, not yours.
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And now, she's running, so it will be her meeting even more so in the future if she
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And a hero, a guy who wrote a letter, he runs the State Board of Education in Oklahoma,
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he wrote one of the most scathing letters to an independent school district.
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You can, by the way, subscribe, and you can see the material and all the background stuff
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in case you don't believe some of the stuff we'll talk about on radio today.
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You did a show, a special last night on Blaze TV, blazetv.com slash Glenn.
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It's appropriately blurred, but you'll get the sense, and it's jaw-dropping.
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If you're one of the millions of Americans who suffer every day from pain, I want you
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There is hope, and it comes in the form of Relief Factor.
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Every day on the show, I see testimonials of people who have tried Relief Factor for
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I know firsthand, because I didn't think it was going to work.
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I mean, it was boobs like Stu that were on the radio, you know?
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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And you're going to listen to this, and you're like, somebody's got to do something.
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And you'll listen to this, and you won't think it affects your children, but it does.
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We have been pushing back on critical race theory for a couple of years now.
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And I want to give a shout-out to people like Chris Rufo or Asra Nomani.
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Also, different people that I think are quite remarkable as well.
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Kelly Skye is one that really has been doing a lot of work on this, and I appreciate all the work.
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It is people like this that help the rest of us understand.
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We are now pushing back on something called comprehensive sexuality education.
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But I don't think parents really understand how deep this is.
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I did a show on CSE about a year ago and had no idea how deep this well went until we really started doing research on it.
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Governor Ron DeSantis brought this to the forefront by signing the Parental Rights and Education Bill.
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This banned sexual orientation and gender identity curriculum in kindergarten through the third grade.
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Jen Psaki was crying about it the other day, saying what a horrible, horrible thing this really is.
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Disney repeated the lie that it's the don't say gay bill.
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I'm going to show you what it does have to do with.
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Last night, I showed the textbook and I read things verbatim that made me so uncomfortable.
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Finally, our attorneys advised us, if you show these things on the screen, you could be in trouble for exposing child porn.
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First one was a naked boy looking into a mirror and his genitals are exposed.
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If it was if this is what Christians and common sense people were saying, this is outrageous.
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I mean, we used to be very, you know, scientific about it, very sterile when we would teach these things.
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The young girl is bent over looking at herself again.
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It was blurred last night, but fully visible to children in schools.
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OK, if that were it, I would be OK, I can see both sides here.
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But that's not that's not this is K through 12.
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Merely showing kids with their genitals exposed.
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They also have to show actual actual sexual acts that would make porn stars blush.
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Last night, I showed a blurred image and a quote from one of these textbooks.
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In fact, let me ask my radio executive producer, Stu.
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If you watch the special last night, you know what all of that is.
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And one says to the other, I can't wait to have your in my mouth.
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The textbook goes on with an image of children performing some of the sex acts they were just talking about.
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This is what the left wants to show K through third graders.
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I showed at the top of the show last night a gender questionnaire.
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It was produced by the new Hanover Title IX coordinator.
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He claimed he got it from a university and adapted it for K through 12 students.
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Another form from the school district in North Carolina.
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It specifically states that there should be measures taken to conceal information from parents while the school continues gender identity treatment.
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There's actually no way of knowing because the schools are being told to keep it from you.
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I would think that we would all agree that a groomer is somebody.
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I know if I, you know, we happen to have a creepy uncle.
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And then said, let's keep this from your parents.
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I, you'd have a hard time me not killing that family member.
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Quite honestly, I'd chase him out of the house with a shotgun.
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Wouldn't you claim rightfully so that he was grooming your children?
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Now, consider all of this and then keep in mind the views of our new Supreme Court justice in, you know, giving light sentences to sex offenders.
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But surely that's not the view of the mainstream Democratic Party, right?
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Well, really, here's Dick Durbin making the case that somehow the abundance of child porn on the Internet makes everything OK.
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These guidelines that you promulgated don't reflect the reality of today.
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We know as well that the guidelines were written, some were written, in an era when the materials we're talking about were physical materials.
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And we now live in a world of Internet and access to not just tens and hundreds, but thousands of images.
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If that is your decision, if that is your decision, if that is your decision, who is protecting our children?
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We have got to be the ones protecting our children.
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And our children will protect their schools and their teachers because they don't want you.
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I know mine don't do not want me going in through the halls and talking to the teachers and everybody else and going, wait, what the hell are you teaching?
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Because then they feel they'll be singled out and they will be.
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They also, because they've watched enough Disney and everything else, they also think this is normal.
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This is this is one of the people from the San Francisco Gay Men's Choir.
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It'll happen bit by bit, quietly and subtly, and you'll barely notice it.
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How about this from the most popular kids network in the world?
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In honor of International Transgender Day of Visibility,
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meet Time and Nickelodeon's 2021 Kid of the Year finalist, Rebecca Brusehoff.
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Growing up in the LGBTQ plus community has given me a different perspective on how I see the world.
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Trans kids are so much more than their gender identity.
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This is like maybe a nine-year-old, ten-year-old that is talking about trans kids
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and saying that they're so much more than their gender identity.
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Everybody is much more than their sexuality and their gender identity.
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Here's a gay porn star that bragged about talking to his preschoolers, preschoolers, about sex.
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This is a fifth-grade teacher openly disclosing proudly her lesson plan for teaching gender and sexuality.
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Then we have gender expression, which is how you show your gender to the world.
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It's usually based in a sort of binary system, which isn't perfect.
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Again, you can slide these up and down to show the different gender.
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You know what's great about this is it has a giant stuffed unicorn off to the side.
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So the kids, I mean, when you have to have a stuffed unicorn standing next to these charts,
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Now the Biden administration is pushing puberty blockers for trans kids
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and radical trans agenda being openly bragged about and taught to five years old, five-year-olds.
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Does anybody have any idea the damage that is being done?
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Do you know the experiments that are being conducted on your children?
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And quite honestly, I don't think they're experiments.
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I remember the day my probably eight-year-old son, seven-year-old son, ran into porn on the Internet.
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And you don't, I want to show you the slippery slope.
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Remember when we said pedophilia, the next thing we'll just start normalizing pedophilia.
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Anyone who says a man cannot menstruate is considered transphobic.
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The entire audience laughed at him, laughed at Dennis Prager for saying, it's crazy what's
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coming, what's going on that men can menstruate.
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Those same people that laughed three years ago are now the ones enforcing it and saying
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that you are a hateful bigot if you say, no, men cannot menstruate.
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We want to welcome to the, um, to the program, Stephanie Allad.
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Uh, she is running for the, uh, Texas school board, uh, position, uh, and that voting I
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begins, uh, begins, I think Monday, the 25th, which is next Monday, right?
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I wanted to put you on because I wanted to, um, use you as an example of somebody who is
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just a normal person, uh, just a parent that started seeing problems and you're getting
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So I actually moved to Texas about nine years ago.
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So it's the Frisco independent school district.
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And my husband and I moved here nine years ago.
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I was born and raised in California, lived there my entire life.
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And when we were trying to select, you know, community to join and be a part of, we had
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two, we have two kids who are still in Frisco schools.
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They were much younger than everywhere we went.
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We heard Frisco ISD was the best school system in North Texas or one of the best, right?
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So we, husband and I, we wanted to do the best for our kids, of course.
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And so we said, I guess we're moving to Frisco.
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And the first few years, it was really amazing.
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And then we started to notice some things and we didn't really know, you know, maybe
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that's just how things are, you know, as our kids got older.
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Um, and then we started to notice some more things.
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And then I think like a lot of parents in COVID during COVID, we really started to notice
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some things about how, how things were run, what was going on, what, what they were
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And so I decided to show up to a board meeting last April, actually.
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Um, and as I was sitting in the audience waiting, you know, very politely for my turn to speak,
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the school board president at the time said, this is our meeting.
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And I thought, wait a minute, isn't this supposed to be the community's meeting?
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I was really kind of flabbergasted, quite honestly, by the comment.
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So instead of reading my prepared comments that I had brought with me, um, I decided
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And so I said, you know, you said this was your meeting and I don't, I don't think so.
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And I think the people who've been sitting here for that point, almost three hours deserved
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a little more respect than that when they were spending their time trying to be involved
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And then I started, you know, just, I was also interested, I'd been hearing about the
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And I just wanted to make sure we weren't doing that in Frisco.
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And I was assured, oh no, we're not, we're not doing that in Frisco.
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And then I started looking and I, and one day, um, I went on the board's website and
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I read their board priorities and they have one specific priority about equity, diversity
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And one of the bullets underneath that said, work to eliminate unconscious bias and support
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equity and social justice through institutional leadership.
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It's got, there's a, there's a, there's a lot of buzzwords there.
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And when did you decide you have to be involved?
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Well, I think in that moment where they said, this is our meeting, I think something inside
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And I just got, I was, I couldn't believe that that's how our, you know, so-called elected
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And there was never any apology or clarification either later in that meeting or, you know,
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afterwards where we said, where someone said, you know, actually it really is all of our
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And I realized that's how they really think like we're subjects or something.
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And so at that moment, I knew I had to do something.
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I don't think I knew I was going to run, but I knew I had to do something.
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So I started meeting with other parents who were equally concerned.
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We started to learn about some of these, you know, CRT inspired assignments.
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Um, at the next board meeting in May, there was a parent who came, who read from his son's
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assignment and the writing prompt for his eighth grade middle schooler was, um, basically the,
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the prompt was, you know, was assumptive that we're a systemically racist society.
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And so he came because he was very offended and upset by that.
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And he wanted to bring it to the board's attention.
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And he also filed a formal grievance about the assignment and nothing was done.
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So it just sort of snowballed from there where parents wanted to do something.
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And we had dozens and then it turned into hundreds.
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And then it turned into a Facebook page of over a thousand parents and community members
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who've kind of had enough and who, who want to do something.
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And so in the midst of all that is when I decided to run for the board.
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So Stephanie, have you found, uh, SEL social emotional learning in the district?
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Well, they, they talk about that all the time and they're implementing it and they're,
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they're quite proud of their efforts in that regard.
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And I just learned at the last board meeting that they've, they've approved some kind of
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I haven't had a chance to really dig into it yet because I'm in the midst of the campaign,
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but they've basically approved a program that's going to, you know, survey students and,
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and ask how they're feeling and their emotions and, you know, things like that.
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And I know that parents can opt out and I will be opting, you know, my, my kids out.
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Well, they just don't realize what's really going on and they don't know that these things
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are even occurring, let alone, you know, how problematic it can be because they can ask
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questions like, you know, do you have a trusted adult you can talk to at home?
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You know, well, those kinds of questions can be very invasive.
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And we've seen, you know, I haven't seen a ton of that in Frisco yet.
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I've seen little bits and pieces, but you see where, you know, the schools sort of come
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in and start to sort of take over the role of the parent.
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And so, again, I haven't seen a ton of it in Frisco.
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I've heard little bits and pieces, but I'm just afraid this kid could make it work.
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And I also, you know, my big thing, Glenn, too, is that I really just want the schools
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to teach my kids math and science and, you know, Spanish and whatever else they're taking
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and focus on academics instead of all of these other character building things.
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Everyone should be treated with respect at school and have some, you know, behavior standards.
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But we also don't need to be spending time and resources on things other than the academics,
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because while we're doing that, our academics are falling off a cliff.
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I just did a special last night on SEL, and I urge you to watch it because this one comes
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from the CDC and then through the Board of, I mean, the Department of Education to our schools.
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And it's the reason why they can say, oh, we're not teaching that sexuality stuff.
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We're not teaching CRT because it's embedded in everything.
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And so you'd have math problems that are dealing with, you know, social injustice.
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S social emotional learning SEL is, I think, the key to understanding all of it.
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There might be something bigger than this, but this is coming right from the the CDC.
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I mean, I just you've got to get on the parents like you've got to get on the school board and I don't know,
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take on the teachers union and the rest of us have got to start standing up and demanding that the Department of Education is abolished
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Well, I think in Texas, the larger issue is really the Texas Association of School Boards.
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I think it's up to 22 or 23 states now who have left the National School Board Association because of, you know,
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the stance that they took on calling parents like me domestic terrorists.
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Right. Texas is not on that list. Texas has not left the National School Board Association.
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California has and Texas hasn't. That's embarrassing to me.
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I will tell you, I think it's California and current Texan.
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It really is. Stephanie, Stephanie, people like you are more awake than Texans that have grown up here.
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And they're not getting involved because they've just grown accustomed to being Texas.
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The people who are coming in for the right reasons, you know, you might move here because your job transferred you,
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And you know what you know what that looks like.
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It's really vital that people like you that understand the state you came from.
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Take this one by the reins and say, ah, don't go that way, because most Texans, I don't think, get it.
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Well, that's such a good point, because because I am from California, I see this stuff a mile away.
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I see the seeds of it and how it starts and how it grows.
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And, you know, we moved to partially, yes, because of my job promotion,
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but we had been talking about leaving California for a couple of years prior to that.
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And when all this stuff came up, you know, like I said, the first few years, we kind of lived in a bubble.
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And so my husband and I looked at each other and we said, I guess we better get involved and fight here because where else are we going to go?
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I'm sure there's no polls or anything, but if somebody wants to find out more about Stephanie,
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if you happen to live in the Frisco area, it's Stephanie, the number four, F-I-S-D dot com.
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Stephanie, good luck with your campaign and your election.
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I saw a letter that honestly, I want to frame and hang in my office.
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It was from the office of the secretary of education to the Oklahoma state board of education.
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And Ryan Walters is the name of the Oklahoma secretary of education.
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He writes, I am asking the state board of education for an emergency special board meeting this week to address the Stillwater public school boards,
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complete avoidance of their elected duty to protect, educate, and oversee the care of our most important asset, our children.
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Since the Stillwater public school board has neglected to do this, I'm asking the Oklahoma state board of education to give crystal clear guidance that boys use the boys restroom and girls use the girls restroom.
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It could, I could not be more disappointed in the Stillwater public school board after they had heard from parents, teachers, and leaders across the state and country, asking them to stop playing this woke gamesmanship.
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Our kids need better role models, and it is disappointing that the board members of the Stillwater public schools did not pay attention in their biology classes, and they need further instruction on what a male and a female are.
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Both myself and the attorney general have tried to offer them a common sense solution.
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I don't know how much more clarity I can give them.
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Special accommodations have been made for students struggling with gender dysphoria in the past,
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allowing them to use private bathrooms that every school has,
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instead of using common sense, the Stillwater public school board has caved to far-left radicals.
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Our schools should be focused on educating kids in reading, writing, and mathematics,
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and not involving themselves in a role that is not within their authority.
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There are basic values that we as Oklahomans strive to live by.
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Chief among them is the desire to put our children's safety first.
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The Stillwater public school board has failed to put their children first, and I need you to guide them back to reality.
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Perhaps you can succeed in giving Stillwater public school board the clarity they so desperately need.
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Again, what I'm asking you for is to instruct the Stillwater public school board on what a male and female are.
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I'm sensing there was a little, you were a little peeved when you wrote this.
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I mean, you know, I have sent them, I sent them a letter a few weeks ago.
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I told them not to put radicals over their students, not to put ideology over biology, and not to put wokeness over safety.
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We've had school, we've had parents, grandparents showing up at school board meetings,
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talking about that we have girls in the school that are telling their parents they're not drinking any liquid during the day
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because they don't want to go to the bathroom because there's males in the female bathroom, and they are uncomfortable.
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We're talking about middle school girls, Glenn.
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But we've got a far left extreme group that is showing up and getting in the ear of these school board members.
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And again, they're caving to them rather than putting student safety first.
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And we're not going to tolerate it in the state of Oklahoma.
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I tell you, you couple this with just CSE, I don't know if that's in schools in Oklahoma, but you couple this with CSE,
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and your kids in middle school are all screwed up and hyper-sexualized, and it's going to be a disaster.
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And when I talk to parents across the state, parents want the reading, writing, arithmetic.
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We want our kids to go to school and a focus on academics.
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We want them to have opportunities in life that comes from that understanding of our academics standards.
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But this whole nonsense of pushing in radical extremism under the form of CRT or this hyper-sexualized curriculum,
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I mean, we're going to continue to fight on this front, and we have to stand up.
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And I have gotten hundreds of emails and phone calls from parents, you know, asking for more help on,
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hey, we're speaking up, we're showing up at school board meetings, and this is still going on.
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We have to stand with families and say, your child is not going to go to school and face indoctrination.
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I have to tell you, I wish Texas was as bold as you are right now, but unfortunately, Texas, I think, is asleep at the switch in many ways.
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Do you have SEL being incorporated into your schools now, social-emotional learning?
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We're starting to look back through our textbooks and look back through what's actually going on.
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Again, I've got a stack of complaints and issues from parents that I'm sifting through.
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We've got parents that, again, are doing a great job here of being engaged, and they've been sending me stuff,
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and we're digging into this because, again, you've seen these national groups that are sticking all this in curriculum.
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And, again, what in the world are we talking about all this stuff in a math class?
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I've got teachers that send me this stuff going.
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I just got this curriculum and told I need to teach this in my class.
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And so, yeah, I've been getting it from parents and teachers sending me this curriculum going, hey, what is this?
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Governor Stitt and I are very committed to ensuring that our students are getting academics and not indoctrination in our schools.
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So we are actively taking a look at all those materials and what's available and making sure parents have that transparency that they deserve and seeing what's being taught in their schools.
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And, again, you send your kid to school, you're expecting them to learn that those academic standards, not to be part of a social experiment by the far left.
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So, Ryan, when I did a special last night on SEL and I found that it really started through the CDC and then through the Department of Education down into our schools, all these radical groups are involved in it.
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I mean, I think I think a the the board of or not the board of education, the the Department of Education needs to be abolished.
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It needs to go to the states and the states need to take care of it, not the national, because the federal government is just corrupt through and through with all of this stuff.
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Also, I think everything shows me that the schools, the teachers unions, they may not be involved in the local level, but they are involved up at the top in a big way.
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What's the biggest problem that we should be aiming for?
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I'm going to give you I'm going to give you three things going.
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Amazing how many problems we have in education that come from the feds.
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The Federal Department of Education should have nothing to do with the states.
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That's why Article, you know, Amendment 10 of the Constitution reserves power to the states.
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And that's where education should be wholly located.
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And so that's where we've got to get back to that.
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I mean, that's something I'm a champion for school choice, because at the end of the day,
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you've got to empower a parent to say, I want to send my kid to this school.
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I want to say, if you're going to do this in the school, we're taking the money and we're
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And by the way, that's why the Biden administration is attacking charter schools now.
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I mean, the Biden administration, they force indoctrination.
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And then they say, and by the way, you can't opt out of it.
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So that's part of this bigger national plan there.
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And so we absolutely have to have school choice.
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And lastly, we've got to have transparency so that parents can actually see what's being
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taught in the school, have that relationship with the teachers and the school board.
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And, you know, that's one of the things we want to see is school boards that are actually
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very open with what's being taught in their schools.
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Again, my background is I'm a former public school teacher.
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Every time I have a parent that wanted to talk to me or wanted to work with me on their
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There's nothing better for a kid's success than an engaged parent.
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It is outrageous that you've got a federal department of education and a president that
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act like it's a problem for parents to be at school board meetings.
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We have to keep parents engaged and we need to be finding ways to get them more engaged.
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I will tell you that I've had teachers actually tell me, Mr. Beck, we've got this covered.
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When I asked for, tell me the books you're going to be reading.
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Do you have an extra textbook I can bring at home and work with them so I know where you
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You are to supplement me, not the other way around.
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A good teacher, and again, you know, I work with teachers every day.
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Good teachers say, absolutely, parents, come on.
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Here's things to reinforce what we're learning.
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If my kids go home and mom and dad are going over World War II with them and asking them
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about what we covered in class and are showing the kids that, hey, what you're learning in
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school is important and we want to be a part of it, I'm telling you, there's nothing
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better in an educational experience than to have a parent like that.
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So I have, it is outrageous that we wouldn't have that approach in all of education to
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include parents, grandparents in their kids' education.
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I mean, we all know the family unit is what's central to our society.
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We need to be ensuring that those conversations are happening.
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And that's where, again, I want the conversation around the kitchen table to be about school
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choice, what school's best for you, but about what's going on in your school.
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That should be the type of behavior we're encouraging rather than labeling parents to show up at school
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board meetings, domestic terrorists, and trying to make it tougher for charter schools around
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Every good teacher I've ever met has always said, my gosh, we're so glad that you and others
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We're so grateful because so many parents are disengaged.
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We've gone from that to parents need to shut up and sit down.
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Thank you so much for your frank words and standing true to American values.
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Oklahoma Secretary of Education, his name is Ryan Walters.