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Hi, and welcome back to the
nonprofits. So this article comes from us

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from political It was written by by
Juan Perez Junior and Jason Atterbury on August

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third, twenty twenty three, and
the title of the article is that Florida

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bands sexuality lessons. Now I have
plenty to say about this, as a

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resident of Florida, kind of sick
of all the things that are happening here

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in my state. But before I
give all my wonderful, nuanced, deep

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opinions on what the freak is going
on in Florida, in the state that

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I live in, the Satans butthole
of my existence, I'm going to pass

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it on to my friend Phoebe and
so I can get the British perspective of

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my existence living in Satan's butthole.
So I've holidayed in Florida since they passed

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all this legislation, I must be
absolutely boulders. But I'm not quite sure

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what was expected as the long term
consequences. Well, precisely, I was

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in Orlando. I went to the
Ready Creek Improvement District. It was linear

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tickets say Satan's butth hall on it. No, it's an experimental prototype city

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of tomorrow, all right, and
it was signed personally by someone who supported

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the Nazis. But yes, getting
back to the topic at hand, I'm

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not quite sure what these people thought
was going to hip hop, what they

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thought the long term consequences of this
legislation that they passed that said don't say

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gay. Yes, okay, it
only applied as cars. The legislation said

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to k through third grade. But
that's not where they're stopping. They have

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gone further with their attacks on trans
children and trans adult healthcare, and they

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keep ongoing. But what they are
doing in Florida is going against the Grain

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and Morton society, and that is
what woke actually is. Woke is a

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complaint that they are to stop the
world. We want to get off people.

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It's spinning too fast. I need
to get off. The moon is

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somewhere around here, and you know
what, I don't like it. I

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need to get off. But there
is something that wasn't in this article.

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They may have banned ap psychology,
but they've also banned Shakespeare. Complete readings

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of Shakespearean texts in Florida schools by
a Florida school board district is not allowed

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because it's too sexual. We can't
have Shakespeare. No, he's too sexual.

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We can't discuss all these nineteen so
these sixteen hundreds things. Oh no,

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no, no, we can't do
that. Shakespeare. He's off the

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table. So Ben, do you
like reading your sexy Shakespeare at night?

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Or are you more of you know, an EPCOT person. Oh I do.

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I do love some sexy Shakespeare.
You know that actually is somebody has

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Halloween cast him or lope or something
like someone cars players sexy Shakespeare. Maybe

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I'll do that for Halloween. Thank
you, like you love Summis, spent

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summer extream a glass of wine,
you know, some Marvel gay on the

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stereo. But yeah, this whole
thing with Florida, I mean, we've

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seen several pieces of legislation coming down
like from Florida and the it's all very

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idiocracy esque because you think about all
the things going on in the world and

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the thing that Florida has the biggest
problem with is education. So many things

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like they're trying to block children from
being educated, and we saw this.

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I think the last time I was
on nonprofits was a while ago, but

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I think at that time we were
talking about their banning of ap African American

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history, and so they've kept doing
this, and it's interesting that they're opposing

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people, you know, as Phoebe
was saying, like furthering society, getting

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skills to operate as human in a
modern society. But we kind of know

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why they're doing this. I mean, uneducated communities are a source of power

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for these people in charge, and
they know that they know that their ideas

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don't stand up to scrutiny. But
how can you get away with really bad

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ideas and not get called out on
it. Well, you have your people

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not able to call you out on
it because they just don't know that you're

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wrong. And so this is kind
of the thing we got with Richard Dawkins

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too, is is you have somebody
that has such a huge ego and the

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need to be right in the need
to have authority on things that they would

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rather dumb down the people they're talking
to and have them not be educated than

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actually do the work to gain knowledge
on certain subjects. And it's just wild

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to me. I mean, like, I think all of us here value

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education, Like the majority of the
country is advocating for more funding for schools,

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better education for all communities. And
then Florida's just taking the opposite direction

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and just saying, you know what, that school stuff, we don't need

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it. So Scott, what do
you think? I agree? I mean,

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it's just it's just damaging their whole
educational concept there down in Florida.

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I mean, it's as an educator
and a parent and an American, this

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this whole idea just repulsed me.
I mean, we have the governor who's

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taking away valuable educational content. We
have clipping the wings of the broad diversity

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of human experience. I mean,
how much do we have to learn from

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people who are different than us.
I mean, it's just boggles the mind

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that, you know, how much
we don't actually know about the human experience

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because we always see it through this
little, narrow, little slit of our

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own of our own mind. And
so we're we're we're setting aside valuable information

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and additional perspective. And you know
the worst thing here is that call me

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cynical, but I have to suspect
that this is just a PR stunt.

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I mean it has to be.
I mean it could be. I'm not

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saying it has to be. It
could be just a PR stunt to get

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back in the news too. I
mean, you know, he's running for

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for an office and so needs to
get needs to get a name in the

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news, need to get needs to
rile up the base, rile up the

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voters. And I wonder if this
could be a desperate plea for support.

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It's we're damaging the students in this
case. This ap psychology course is very

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popular course because it satisfies requirements for
their high school graduation and and for many

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many college majors as well, and
so it's a it's a it's an excellent

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opportunity for students to get a leg
up as they as they're progressing in their

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in their in their educational system.
And so when you when you limit those

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and this is also happening weeks before
the semester starts, weeks before the new

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school year starts, and so families
can can plan out their their path years

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in advance. And so if they're
counting on having this class available, it's

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very very damaging to what the students. And this doesn't even touch we haven't

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even touched on the effect that the
content change itself is going to have an

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effect on students whose identities are being
in question, who are being threatened,

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who are being attacked at okay,
and so it's really vindictive and shortstated.

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It's a bigoted decision, and it's
going to ultimately damage the reputation of Florida's

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schools, and it's going to limit
the opportunities for Florida Florida's students. Phoebe,

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what's next year? So I just
wanted to say that this is something

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that was seen a minor way,
and I don't think that this is headline

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grabbing. I don't think it's anything
other than genuine fear of what's going on

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here. It's genuine scaredness. And
I went to school in a country during

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a time when there was something called
Section twenty eight, which banned the promotion

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of homosexuality as a pretend family relationship
in all schools that were given government funding.

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And that is something that got me
thinking. So I went to school

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in an era where this was commonlis, where you couldn't talk about lgbtqubition.

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And I've got a question, would
you be comfortable going to school in Florida

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today? No? I love here, No, absolutely not. I'm glad

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my kids are one that is heading
into graduate school and I have another one

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that joined the Army, and I
am so glad that they're not being infected

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with all the crap that's happening in
my state, because the reality of it

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is that we and a lot of
courses health class, science classes, you

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know, psychology courses, anything like
that, they cannot discuss sexuality or gender

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as a scientific topic. And that
is a problem. And I think that

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you know, the Florida school boards
just think that, well, if we

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don't teach these things, maybe you
know, they'll weigh if that's how it

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works. And we all know that's
never how it works. And I do

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want to point out that you can
still take ap psychology and all the other

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classes that I just name can still
be taught, but you can't talk about

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gender, sexuality, or people of
different rays, all these different things.

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And I find that very frustrating because
we are a diverse population in the United

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States and these things need to be
taught, especially in a scientific way,

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in a way that shows that these
are things that just what human beings are

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and what they do, and giving
kids the education to understand that in the

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context so they understand it as like, oh, this is something that happened,

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and what's happening is like for example, with this ap psychologe Bours,

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this is an upper level of class
that's going to be on it as a

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college credit. This is as Good
pointing out, it's going to have a

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long term effect on a lot of
students for them to get into top universities,

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either nationally or internationally, because they're
looking for that broad spectrum of education

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people are getting within that. There's
a lot of rhetoric of parents choice happening

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in my state. But they're not
talking to queer parents, they're not talking

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to people of colors parents. They're
not talking to parents of kids that have

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disabilities, the diverse you know,
array of parents and students that live in

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my state. They're doing white,
straight, conservative parents. And that is

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the rhetoric that is being promoted within
the state. And also too as also

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Scott pointing out that now parents and
teachers are now scrambling just a few weeks

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before school started this week, students
went back this week, and when this

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comes out, now they have the
scramble and figure out again how they're going

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to teach this certain subject. And
it gets very frustrating because I pay taxes

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in this state, and I would
like my taxes to go to an even

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education. But nope, it goes
to this bullshit that I exist in living

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in, says asshole. And I
went on a rant like I usually do

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on this show. So then and
and and then I'm gonna give a tea

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and my friend, I mean it
yours, please talk. I mean,

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simple answer. Would I want to
be in school in Florida? Or would

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I allow myself to be in school
in Florida? The answer is no,

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No, I would not. This
is a case I would probably if I

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was a parent in this situation,
I probably would homeschool my kid. I

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probably would find a way to homeschool
if I couldn't move to a different state.

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But if I had no option,
and if I was like in a

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household with both working parents and needed
to send my kid to school and I

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was in Florida, I would probably
find ways to educate them outside of school.

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But the fact is that with so
many subjects being like removed from the

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school, like kind of what are
you left with, You're you're then having

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to correct more than they're probably being
taught in the school. So that's kind

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of a case where homeschooling is probably
valid, although not everybody can do that.

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Scott, what are your final thoughts
on that. Yeah, I think

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that some kind of supplementation is going
to have to happen here. You know,

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College Board, the organization that runs
the AP tests, have these restrictions

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and guidelines on what you can do, what do you have to do to

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take the court or to take the
exam. And so what's happening in Florida

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then, is the Department of Education
is saying, or Governor de Santis was

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saying, you you can't teach these
particular lessons about gender identity, about sexual

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orientation, that kind of thing,
and so he's saying, we can't.

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We can't teach that. Everything else
was okay, and so that's what they're

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saying. Oh, we're not banning
the class, We're just saying you have

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to amend it this way. But
really, but effectively they're banning the course.

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I think I think if there can
be some kind of supplementation. Of

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course, homeschooling is always an option, but it might just be something as

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simple as some kind of supplement that
students can take outside the context of the

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school of the public school and maybe
they could use that to qualify for the

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test. Or I think there's an
interesting opportunity here for the for the colleges

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and universities in Florida to kind of
pick up the slack. Here in Minnesota,

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we have this program called post secondary
Enrollment Option. I checked. Florida

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has a similar thing. They call
it dual enrollment where students can take college

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courses and they would count towards their
high school graduation and for for you know,

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they'd be transfer college credits. Now, the thing with that, at

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least in Minnesota, is that and
I work at a community college, so

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I'm seeing students from the college perspective. Here, I have to treat that

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student as a college student. The
restrictions on K twelve education do not apply.

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In fact, I'm even forbidden from
talking to the parents of the students

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unless they give written, written permission. And so there is a distinction here

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to be seeing the law affects K
twelve education. So there might be an

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end around that can be done here, at least until a better solution is

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reached. But I've been talking enough
here. Let's see, Helen, what

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what are your last thoughts on this? So to on the duel A Roman

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my oldest at that program, and
it benefited them greatly because by the time

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they got through their freshman and sophomore
year high school, the school recognized that

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they were needed to be challenged more
and that helped them get the basic,

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you know, beginner classes for what
you would take in college under their belt

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before they moved into moving into a
four year program. And that's and I

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am so glad that my child had
the opportunity to do this, and I

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would like to see that continue.
It would be great. And I also

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want to point out that we've been
talking a lot about, you know,

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all this crap that's going on,
and what a lot of it, what

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a lot of it has been happening
in my state. We're viewing this problem

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through a white conservative Christian base,
but what's going on is affecting also black

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concern It is within my state,
queer conservatives within my state. This is

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not just like you know, them
pushing out the left going like you guys

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are too woke, blah blah blah
blah blah. It affects other people on

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the other side as well. It's
and I don't I don't know if the

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state government is trying to shoot themselves
in the foot, but it feels that

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way. And I don't think over
time that this is going to be a

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good thing, because we do know
that they are trying to push homeschooling programs

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and charge schools which bring a profit, and a lot of this rhetoric can

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come and a lot of people don't
like that idea, and there's been there's

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pushback against it as well, and
hopefully I'm just I'm just saying as a

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Florida resident that this will stop and
we can go back to a more reasonable

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ledge, you know, make something
out of their lives and not feel this

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pressure to conform into whatever ideology Florida's
sighting that everybody has a live by.

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So anyway, I'm done. We're
going to move out of Florida now because

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I'm done. Everybody moved on Florida, just get out. Well, all

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I will say is all I'll say
is that if you're a brit and you're

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at a certain age, you'll recognize
this phrase. Marry white House, eat

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