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It's time to stand up, speak out, get involved, and
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let's speak intention.
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Hello and welcome to Intentional. I am your host, mick
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your support. Now are you ready, because it is time
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for us to stand up, speak out, get involved, and
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let's be intentional. So possibly one of the biggest blessings
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from the twenty twenty lockdowns of COVID was that the
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children were having to go to school on remote learning.
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That's when the parents really seemed to see what the
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system had been teaching them. They weren't learning reading, writing,
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and arithmetic, or how to be free thinking, responsible adults.
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Oh no, no, no, they were being indoctrinated with woke propaganda,
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learning they were an oppressor or a victim. They were
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learning queer theory one oh one, or that they should
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maybe question their gender identity. The woke mind virus was
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not just k through twelve. As the light was exposing
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that the American universities were pushing diversity, equity and inclusion,
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we came face to face with the reality that our
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children were infused with extreamist ideologies, anti Semitism, and Marxism.
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So when we began to see the rise of violent
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riots across our college campuses in twenty twenty three, in
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twenty twenty four, it was no surprise to learn that
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two hundred of our American colleges and universities illegally withheld
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information on approximately thirteen billion in undocumented contributions from foreign governments,
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many of which were authoritarian. So who was influencing our children?
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This information came through an organization called Network Contagion Research Institute.
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They released their findings in twenty twenty three, and it
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was focused on concealed foreign funding of US higher education.
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It's pretty sad to think about truly. Now the whole
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entire Department of Education seems to be full of activists.
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From administrators to your professors to the teachers. They're more
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interested in creating social justice warriors who need a safe
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space rather than building up a bright and energetic mind
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of a future leader. Is it any wonder that the
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recent Epoch Times poll showed that out of thirty one
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thousand people that were pulled, eighty five percent supported ending
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the Department of Education. Well, today we are going to
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discuss woke education and just do a little bit of
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chit chatting with Anna Hibbs. She is the host of
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Let's Talk Podcasts. So welcome Anna. Thanks for being on
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the show with us today.
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Yes, thank you for having me. Thank you. I appreciate
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your offer to have me on. Yeah, well, it is.
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An honor to have you on. I love being able
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to talk to other podcasters and especially about education, and uh,
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you know, I don't want to point out any differences here,
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but but you're you're in the younger generation, right, you
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have a new baby, right, I mean, yes, you're you're
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like right in that niche. So I am excited to
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hear your thoughts and your insights and and anything that
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you want to lay upon my brain. I'm hoping to it.
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Thank you. Yeah, I you know, I have a little
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bit of a different perspective when it comes to education.
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I was homeschooled growing up, but a lot of my
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friends went to public school. And then later in life,
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when I kind of got into high school, a lot
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of the people that I did act like local activities
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with also went to public school, and so I kind
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of started to see a little bit. You know, how
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do you know the public school kids dunt, dun, dun.
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You know, how do they you know, do school? Like,
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how what are they learning? And I realized, you know,
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a lot of the things that I'm learning about, you know,
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American history or just simple you know, math or you
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know language arts. You know, when I was in middle school,
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I was reading at like a college level because I
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had all of that time to sit and read, or
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I had the time to study myself. And when I
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kind of got into high school and I started meeting
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these other high schoolers who were going to public school,
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I started to realize, you know, okay, wow, you guys
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are not as advanced as you would think. You know,
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for the longest time, it was homeschoolers were the ones
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that had the disadvantage because you know, we weren't going
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to school with teachers and everything else. And then I
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was kind of starting to see that, you know, their
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focus became less and less and less on you know,
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the basics of learning and more so about you know,
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how can we make this about the things that are
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happening in in the culture. So that's a little bit
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about about kind of where I stand as far as
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public school goes.
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Yeah, well, just to have full transparency. One, I don't
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have children, but but two, I was raised in Catholic schools, uh,
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Catholic education. I was raised on the East Coast, and
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so everybody there went to you know, Catholic schools or
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you know, some sort of you know, parochial education, and
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so when I came to Oklahoma, I was way more
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ahead of the kids who were in public education.
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So that was always really interesting to me, you know,
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and uh, you know, kind of a different perspective there.
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But I wanted to kind of see what you think
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because not having children, and you know, spending all of
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my years really kind of focused on the healthcare industry
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as a nurse, and you know, doing all that, I
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really didn't think about what was going on in our
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education department, and I really don't think that I recognized
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what was happening until the twenty twenty event occurred. And
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you know, I really remember kind of first thinking about
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hearing the word critical race theory. And I believe that
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was in twenty twenty because I was with a couple
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friends of mine. They had kids in school, and they
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kept talking about social emotional learning, and I was like,
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social emotional learning, what is that? I don't know what
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that is, And so I started looking it up and
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I came across the Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional
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Learning or CASTLE, and I didn't know what they were either, Anna,
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So I looked them up and I was shocked. I
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really was, you know, I mean, you know, I'm not anymore.
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But when I first saw they were really funded by
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Bill and Melinda Gates, the chan Zuckerberg Initiative. They were
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funded by a group called Novo Foundation, and they did
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a lot of funding also from Planned Parenthood and Black
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Lives Matter, and so I was like, what in the world.
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And I was kind of like digging in, you know,
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It's like they they kind of like looking at their website,
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they went back to like twenty eleven and they started
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this initiative with these twenty they called them large complex
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school districts. They focused on like one point seven million students,
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and Oklahoma happened to be one of theirs, the Tulsa District,
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And so that kind of perked up my ears little bit.
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But you know, I really think that the thing that
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got me the most, the thing that really turned my
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head about education, was when I started looking at and
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they had it on their website. I don't know if
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it's still there, but Castle in twenty twenty they changed
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their definition of social emotional learning and they put in
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transformative social emotional learning, and they adjusted their core competencies
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and they started teaching through them. I mean, they were
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very transparent about it. They started teaching through the lens
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of racial and equity. They started using words like self
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awareness through social identities, and then they started talking about
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things like self management and regulating emotional behavior. And then
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they actually came out and said behaviors to promote social
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emotional outcomes and social justice warriors. I mean, that was
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kind of my movie where when I didn't have that
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when I was in school, did I mean, I reading writing,
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arithmetic a pe which I hated yes, yes, recess Tommy,
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were all like, you try doing homeschool pee.
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You're only doing PE with your two other siblings or
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whatever siblings you have, Okay, trying home school PE.
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I mean being a homeschool a person who went through homeschooling.
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I didn't want to call you a homeschool child. I
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almost went there homeschool Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, just
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throw it out there.
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Yeah, but I wear the badge. I wear the badge
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with honor. No jean skirts though, no gene skirts over here.
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But I wear the homeschool badge with honor.
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Yes, and you should because you know, I mean, those
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are the kids who really are turning out to be
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the ones who are well adjusted, able to handle society
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and really have those core values. But did you know
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this about the public schools? I mean kind of like,
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did you kind of like understand that's what was happening
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because you were in homeschooling. Did your parents exposure to
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any of that? So?
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I think the first time that I really realized that
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public schools were kind of taking a different turn was
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I was I actually had a boyfriend who was in
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public school, who I'd met kind of through theater here
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in Des Moines, Iowa. And you know, he was doing
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some homework. I was doing some homework, which people are
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always like, homework, aren't you homeschooled? Anyways, the joke is old,
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but I was doing some homework. I was. I was,
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and you know, I realized, you know, typical grading, you know,
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you usually get like a sixty out of one hundred
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or one hundred out of one hundred, or an A
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or a B. And I'm looking over at his paper
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and I'm like, what are all these like extra words
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that I'm seeing. And he was like, well, my school,
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you know, has changed their grading. We don't get actual
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grades anymore. It's not an A or a B or
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a sixty out of one hundred. It's keep at it.
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It's great job, it's try better next time. And he
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was in high school. We were seniors in high school
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at the time when I was dating him. This isn't
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an elementary school where it's like, oh, buddy, you know, hey, buddy,
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keep at it.
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He was almost.
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Eighteen years old being told, you know, if he had
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a bad grade on a test, keep at it, buddy.
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we treating this so soft. These people are about to
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go out into the world and and face a lot
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of different things, with a lot of different opinions, and
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so I would say that's probably the first time where
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I really realized, you know, things, different things were happening,
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but the same thing happened with me, which was in
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twenty twenty when everything kind of hit the fan, and
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especially because of the Libs of TikTok account on X
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that was to me as I started to see this stuff,
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I truly started realizing, like, oh, because we are made
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to be the crazy people. You know, Oh, that was
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one classroom that had one rainbow flag. You guys need
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to calm down. Or that was one classroom you know
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that did this one thing. Everybody chill out. And you know,
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Libs of TikTok was producing like ten plus videos a
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day of classrooms all over you know, the country, and
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some of them were as little as preschoolers. I don't
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know if you remember this. It was and I don't
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remember the specifics, but it was. I think it was
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during Black History Month a middle school. You know, all
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of the white kids were men made to like sit
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in the corner and they were not allowed to do
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playtime at you know, the black kids were playing in
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the middle and doing all this stuff because they needed
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to recognize their white privilege during this month and let
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the black children play. And Lives of TikTok posted that
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video and I'll never forget it because obviously, you know,
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there are things here and there, but that was the
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one where I was like, Okay, making kids feel bad
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because their skin is different than others is not what
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public schools are set out to do, you know, and
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it's it That's when I realized, you guys are going
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against your own narrative. Everybody's supposed to be welcome unless
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you're the person that we don't want to be welcome
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at that case and point. And so that those two things,
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my boyfriend and then those kinds of videos were kind
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of my way of seeing what was happening. And then
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just doing theater here locally, Like I said, I had
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a lot of interaction with public school kids. You know,
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a lot of homeschoolers didn't do the local theater because
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it was very liberal, very you know, politically intense, and
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when I had first started, it wasn't really like that.
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And then, of course, because of overtime it just grew
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and grew and grew, and in that setting, you know,
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everybody feels a little bit more comfortable to share. And
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I'll never forget coming out of after a rehearsal, this
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girl stood up on the stage and she's like, I
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need everybody to sit down. I need to make an announcement.
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And she announced to us that she was, now, you know,
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a boy, and we all needed to you know, coincide