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good evening, good evening, good evening,

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and welcome to another exciting fire side
chat without the fire, hallelujah,

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the lungs and the burning flames.
But we're gonna burn some information. We're

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gonna get it straight and set it
straight for you. Good evening to everybody

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under the sound of my voice,
hallelujah. Anyhow, we're gonna pray,

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and then we're gonna welcome everybody.
Lord, we just thank you, we

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praise you, we give you glory, for you alone are worthy to be

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praised. Lord, I just thank
you, I thank you, we thank

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you. We thank you for your
love, your saving grace, your mercy,

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your peace that passes all understanding,
your unconditional love, your favor,

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Father God. And more importantly,
this is for you shedding the blood to

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set us free. Father God,
we know that this is the weather right

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now is causing some aches and ailments
and things, and we intercend for anybody

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that's got sniffles and coughs and sore
throats right now, we ask Jesus that

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you do what you do best and
that you heal them. Father, Please

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Lord, just heal them and help
them to feel better. Guide them to

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that old fashioned remedies or whatever over
the counter they can take so that they

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can feel better and remove the aches
and the pain. We just thank you,

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Father God, as always, this
is your show. We're your daughters,

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we're your people. We're getting behind
the cross. We're letting you do

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what you do best, and that's
set your captives free. All this and

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more we ask in Jesus' name,
Amen and a man hallylujah, hallelujah.

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Anyhow, we're just thankful, But
tonight and trade trade. How you doing

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up there? How you doing all
right? Did you have to you know,

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dig you way out that you know? Now? We actually it was

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odd. We had some close to
seventy degree weather. Okay, okay,

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very good again. So okay,
very good, well, very good to

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that, Tommy. How's your week
bed? How's it going over there?

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In Jbill is going okay, look
living a couple of buildings on five,

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but everything else is all right.
Oh Lord have mercy, Oh God,

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we're got a fire on here.
Well Jesus. Yeah, we passed and

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my daughter and I passed by a
church the other day and she said,

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oh, and I know, I
kind of smelt something charcoally and I was

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like, she goes, oh,
I wonder what happened. And this church

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on the right hand side, whole
side just was it's just black. So

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I don't know what happened. And
I don't know, but we just gotta

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be careful with these heaters and things
like that. If it was accidental,

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you need to be checking your wires. You need to be checking the wire

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ring, you know, and the
city you know, need to be checking

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these lines out here as well,
and not wait until we're up on you

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know, hurricane season or we're up
on you know something and and uh uh

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and then you're gonna go check something
after somebody gets hurt. So we got

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you know, you gotta stay in
touch with your your utility folks and tell

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them. You know, if you
suspect something is not looking right, you

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need to report it. Okay,
we gotta we gotta take more action.

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We can't just we gotta stop standing
by and looking and then trying to film

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it and then so you can go
viral and stuff. You know, come

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on, guys, you know,
come on, people stop stop. I'm

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sorry. My dog. My dog
is under the table. She she wants

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to make her debut earlier. This
stop it. Anyway, I'm hoping and

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praying that everybody's had a safe week. Just a lot of things going on

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in the news. I know you've
been watching it. Folks pulling out of

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the race, and you know,
people trying to stay in the race,

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and and people. I think I
read where there was a second what do

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you call it when they falseley send
the sheriff department to your house. I

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think that Nikki Haley has experienced that's
it. Yeah, twice she's had that.

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And this time the call was that
she had killed her son or shot

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the sun or something, so they
raided her house. You know, I

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mean, come on, can we
just grow up? Can we just grow

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up. Things are happening. They
are happening in this world, and it's

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happening quicker than we get this here. It's fulfilling. The Bible's fulfilling yourself.

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The world is doing what it does. You need You need to stop.

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You need to stop and take care
of yourself. I'm telling you things.

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Whatever's gonna be happening. Look Overseas, they already killed the two old

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soldiers or three, thank you,
three soldiers. Biden has already said we

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going to war. It's done.
He's already sending aid. I just saw

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where I think three hundred to six
hundred National Guard folks are getting leaving Illinois

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and going over you know, come
on, now, come on now,

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it's here. It's here. And
people have been predicting and saying world War

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three, world War three, and
now you're not calling into existence. Thanks,

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thanks, Now what we're supposed to
do, because just in case y'all

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been through a war. Have y'all
been through a war? I've not been

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through one. I've read the books. I've seen the aftermath people, you

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know, the looting and you stuff
like that. No, God help us

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if the story is shut down and
stuff like that. For some for whatever

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that's gone. The trucks can't get
the food in. I mean, we

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can only imagine. Twenty twenty taught
us some things. Hurricane I Irma taught

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us some things when the power lines
were down and they couldn't the trucks couldn't

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even get into Tallahassee. They couldn't
even get into the state to bring the

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grocery, to bring the food.
And now we're talking about a war that

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most of us have never experienced,
never experienced. Then you got all kinds

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of fake stuff going on about seeing
the aliens and all that kind of stuff.

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I don't know if they were come
on you trying to And then you

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supposed to get the sheriff down south
saying, you know, everybody need to

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arm themselves. G thanks, we're
in a state where you don't have to

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be licensed to carry. Really,
that was bright. Then we just had

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just this this afternoon, some kid, look like he's a young fellow nun

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shot up four people and a priest
and his and a priest and I think

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it was a priest's sister, went
in the home shop and then went back

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to his grandfather house, shot him, killed him or killed somebody else.

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And then he went to the birthday
party, okay, and then shot two

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officers. And you know, come
on, now, come on, guys.

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And I'm sorry it sounds like I'm
yelling. I don't mean to be

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yelling, but I'm telling you.
You know, enough is enough? Now,

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what is this? You gotta stop
this because they're gonna shut us down.

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They're gonna shut the states down.
We're not gonna be able to move,

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We're not gonna be able to go
anywhere. They're gonna tell you get

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on the water you can. I
was at publics when we were in published

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yesterday. These these these these shelves
are empty. They're empty, one or

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two maybe one or two they're putting
out if you need to take your hand

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out the saying now, don't say
this doesn't pertain to you. Yes it

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does, because guess what, it's
the people with it. It's the community,

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it's the neighborhoods. If people,
if your neighbor's going through something,

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you don't know what their last resort
will be. You don't know what their

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voices are telling them. And just
for the just for the record, everybody

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hears voices. Some of us can
control it without medication. Some of us

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cannot done because I'm telling you,
I'm pulling out my garage. I know

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my routine. But by the time
I'm halfway down the road, I'm like,

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did I close the garage? Then
I close the garage, I look

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that if where any package is outside? Okay? And what? I sat

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in the CBS parking lot today wondering
why I was there. I kept saying,

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I got to go to CBS.
I gotta go to CBS, and

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I'm sitting in the parking line.
Might here, what did I look up

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the city? I know I had
twenty six dollars worth an extra bunks to

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spend, but did I really did? Then I said okay, and the

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lord brought it back to me.
I said, okay, thank you father.

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There's some things I needed to get
and that I only get from CBS.

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But I sat in the parked perfectly
backed up and then handicap. So

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if I'm going through that, I
can only imagine someone who is working.

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Somebody's got a boss that's telling them, now, you know what, we

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got a meeting first thing in the
morning, and we're gonna be getting ready

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to cut back stuff and all this
kind of stuff. People on the radio

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stay at today. My boss said
that we have an eight am meeting.

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Well, you know, are you
paying me to work nine to five?

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I'm not coming in at eight?
People talking back to people? Now,

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how long you been coming in early
for a staff meeting or staying late doing

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a work lunch. Come on,
now, this is nothing new, But

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these people out here said no,
told the supervisor, no, you pay

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me from nine to five, work
nine to five. No compromise. No

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okay, if we're doing that,
then you can we get off at four?

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Can we leave it four instead of
at five? Ain't nobody trying to

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compromise? So my whole thing is, guys, please please be safe,

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be mindful, Know which war you're
gonna tackle on, Know which conversation you're

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gonna get involved in. You know, tonight we're talking about school is back

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in. I've invited some educators out
there to just, you know, hopefully

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listen in and if they have some
comments how things are going. I know,

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Tommy, you in that environment now, so you're definitely gonna hear from

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you. But you know, come
on, now, these kids out here,

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these families out here, I mean, you know, you got some

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strange stories and now it's tax season. Now you know, now you already

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know to twenty ninth, it's the
only time starting today you can you can.

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You can submit your stuff, upload
your stuff to I arrested for your

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income tax stuff. Well you thank
god I've not heard it crash because you

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know, everybody at eight twelve oh
one last night this morning, they were

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already trying to submit stuff. So
thank god it didn't crash. It's still

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up and running. But come on, now, come on, y'all,

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get you got. I mean,
we've been talking to you all year long

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about how to decompress, how to
quiet the voices, how to quiet your

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mind, do hobbies. I mean, this is not something we just you

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know, say well you know what, let's just oh what are we gonna

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talk about? No, we take
great thought and we're praying about it.

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God is telling us what we need
to talk about to help people. So

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you could calm down because of what's
coming is the issue. What's here And

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already overnight they're killing people. And
our president said, oh no, uh

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uh, that's war now. And
it's already been told in us that that

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it's gonna be an this is gonna
be an extended war. What's going on

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in Israel. It's gonna be extended
already. Prophet's already saying that that was

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from two years ago, and we're
here now, we're here. Now.

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You see how people A driver just
cut over We're a two lane street,

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just cut right in front, and
the car is trying to stop and blow

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his horn at the same time.
And that car didn't care. He's just

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speeding round along. Could have could
have had a three to six car accident,

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don't even care. I'm looking at
accidents now. They'll hit so hard

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they are ripped off the front end
of the car. You can see the

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motor. Then it was on the
news to eighteen wheelers crashed on ninety five.

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I don't know how they did it, but it shut the whole rods

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down. Are going to sleep,
they're falling asleep. They're not getting good

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sleep. People taking over the count
of medicine and trying to go to sleep.

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You ain't able to wake up.
Come on now, hospitals are filling

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back up again and there's not much
cough medicines on the shelves. I noticed

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that I'm going down that aisle at
CBS today. I was like, oh

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my god, this is not good. This is a season where these shelves

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need to be packed. So you
know, in schools, you know,

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we want to talk about you know, what's going on. I have Tommy

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come on and and and share with
us what is going on? How is

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it looking? What? What?
What? This? Oh? Hey,

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country, see this is not looking
good. Do you think human kind will

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band together to make a difference.
Well, it's gonna take up We need

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to you know, it's gonna take
a few of us. And we have

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to know. One profit is already
doing. He set up a twenty four

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hour call line for the next seven
days. So we all went on those

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who could and you got it's a
central time. But I had to figure

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out that. But I was able
to do mine the other day yesterday,

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got on my knees at the last
fifteen minutes by myself, unassisted. But

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I was determined to get on my
knees to do the last piece of my

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praying. And it's gonna take everybody
purposely doing this. You got to purposely

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pray for our country, for our
nation and people in general because these other

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countries, other people are still fleeing, people are still trying to cross the

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border, people are still leaving their
countries because of what's going on the government

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and stuff like that, presidents and
people getting assassinated in their homes and stuff

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like that. So I mean unrest
is everywhere almost now. So yes,

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country, see, we have to
pray. We got the band together to

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start. I would say, you
know, pick a time every day that

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you're gonna pray strategically for an hour
that every little bit will help, every

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little bit will help. Right now
for the next four days, three days,

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You've got over ten thousand people praying
on the hour right now, right

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now, and as they're praying,
we're praying for everything from the country to

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your personal stuff. Everything. Your
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it is covered right now, and
I believe he's gonna have to extend it

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beyond into February. We're just gonna
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But yes, you can. It's
good to see your country see. Thank

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you for coming on. So Tommy, tell us what that was the environment

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is like overall, because you know, what are you hearing, what are

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you seeing? How are things out
there? Her family is doing the sad

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part about it, and just today
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need parents to be the first line
of teaching. It's too many babies out

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here that they can't even write their
name. Half of the school year is

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boomed. This is January. They've
been in school since August. And the

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teachers, the teachers and administration,
they're trying to get tutoring and trying to

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pull out resources to help our babies, just our babies. I ain't talking

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about the old ones, the babies. And they're doing too finale, trying

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to pull resources, trying to get
people to stay over, have the staff

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to do the extended day, the
tutoring and all this. But parents,

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you gotta work with them too.
You can't just depend on the teachers.

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And instead it's we must put on
the God many blessings, Amen, because

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and and me and the just today
the principal walking through the doors, quoting

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scriptures, walking through the door.
She hadn't even got your office out of

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her card, coming into school,
quoting scriptures, binding and rebuking, you

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know, trying to give a light
to a day sometimes seems so damn And

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it's like parents call then, I
mean, I'm sorry teachers calling parents.

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You know, you dress your child
up like a doll, but that doll

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not able to write their name,
and then they say, I don't want

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to do it no more, Yes
you do. You need to. Let's

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get busy. We're encouraging them.
I sat with the baby to day.

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She was she said, I can't
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no sustain I traced it and I
had three k kindergarten and the rapid pace

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that the school system has. It's
sad to say this, but they can

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fall through the cracks very easy.
For the simple fact of the matter.

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They make it so hard to retain. And if the parents are not on

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or it's a new point. You
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t do all this paperwork and still
that y'all get moved on. Up sell

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parents, please take the time with
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teaching them and getting them in the
practice of doing their little homework. The

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girl dressed so cute. She said, my mama, don't we don't have

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no crams at home. I know
your mom can get some grands if you

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got what you got on. I'm
saying to myself, I have a band

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and I need to go. I
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I have creans. I have pencils, I got paper. You know,

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my high schoolers, I have to
say, I see a difference when they

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see you care they do. Last
Friday, I was in a high school

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and they were going over I never
taught Spanish. I ain't ever took a

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Spanish class. But the teacher left
the packet and I took it upon myself.

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With the notes he had around,
the books that he had available,

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they were able to use, and
I started doing it. And so the

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first two they worked and did it
find that last class, Oh my god,

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we had a blast. We was
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girl, she was so on it. I said, but so they were

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saying, but no, that is
I said, look here, check this

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out and she said, oh you
are right, miss Brown, thank you.

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You know she was. They were
so engaging. I enjoyed them so

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much. I really did, and
it was just a joy to see them

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engaging. So I know that baby
can get to their point, but it's

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got to start at home. But
Tommy, how long we've been saying this

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though, how long we've been pleading, almost begging and parents to find some

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sort of interest in your child and
their education, their homework. It doesn't

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really matter what you don't know if
you can at least try. We've been

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saying this before twenty twenty, before
the world's shut down. Then the world

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shut down. Yeah, I wish
some more of my educators would come on

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because we think, give us an
idea, you know, you know what's

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going on. I mean, hire
things. What can we say, hey,

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past Miguel, the focus is on
hold it instead of the process of

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learning. Amen. Amen, Yes, And then you're losing the teachers.

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You're losing the teachers. I think
we start out at negative four hundred for

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Orange County schools needing at least four
one hundred teachers. I mean they found

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they barely got some bus drivers.
That's also a major issue. But the

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first part is getting them. These
parents bring these kids to school. Most

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of your pre K and whatever,
their parents bring them to school. But

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it's just a point of making time
with them. I mean, it's elementary.

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You. It don't take a rocky
scientist to teach a child of colors.

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It doesn't take a rocket scientist.
The teachers are sending the homework,

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sending the tracing so they can show
the baby how to write their names.

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They sending it home, and they
not doing my homework. Where are you

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Where are you teaching the work work
ethic? You gotta do that. So

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I'm just I'm just I was just
heartbroken. I was and just went in

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the prayer because it's like and the
teacher said, you wonder why we can't

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stay off my knees. Yeah,
yeah, Trey. I mean I'm sitting

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here and just taking all of this
end. And so coming from a family

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of educators, I can definitely see
the struggle. You know, my mom

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was making a fun family Yeah,
making fun of family time. So I

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remember my mom teaching when I was
coming up. She that was the first

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educator, you know, in our
household, and then my sisters followed suit,

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and so I hear different things.
And then you know, we have

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close friends to is that are educators. And I'm and I think that's the

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least profession that I would rather get
in. I mean, give me mental

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health sounds crazy, but I think
it's so many challenges there. So I'm

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I'm coming around to different things.
So one thing I look at, having

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been working in the area that was
impoverished, didn't have a whole lot of

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had some resources. But then you
have to look at to the literacy level

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of the parents. Some people,
you know, I know, even some

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that might not have the education want
the best for their children. But once

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the children get home, are they
able to answer the questions or are they

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able to help them learn something?
You know, it's a comfort level too,

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because you have to understand what you're
doing. So if I were a

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parent and my child came home with
the math and the math that I've seen

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today, I would be at a
loss. And I call myself, you

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know, having pretty much a lot
of resources, but I don't think I

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would be able to help them because
things have changed so much and so and

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if you're looking at it from that
standpoint with a person that has a little

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more resources than maybe the next person, what is it that we can do

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with the parents that might not feel
comfortable, first of all, feel intimidated.

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I don't know what to do with, you know, with teaching my child

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to do this, that and any
other thing. And I know that,

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just but making sure that resources are
available, you know, posting it,

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putting in the different languages, maybe
having a round table of parents to find

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out and ask the one question other
than one or two questions, what is

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your dream for your child? And
just get them to what is your dream

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for your child? Because I know, excuse me, you care about your

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child and I know you want the
best for your child, But what is

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your dream for your child? Then
breaking it down. If you want to

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have your child the best education,
sometimes you have to break it apart.

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Well what does that mean to you? What does that look like? I

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want my child to be able to
read. I want my child to be

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able to write. Are you able
to help your child? Well? No,

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I'm not efficient. So what you
need some resources to so actually peeling

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back the layers to make it less
intimidating. And so once you do that,

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because like I said, you have
to kind of prevace it. I

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know you want best for your child. Even with the crayons. We've been

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there. We've been to the Christmas
toys giveaway and the backpack giveaways and yeah,

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they come dressed to the NYE unfortunately, But I think if you look

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at it, playing devil's advocate for
lack of a better phrase, people don't

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want to say, seem like the
child is not that I was lost with

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the stem and at least my person. I learned it from university. I'm

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attending house a process unalized in life
today again, So but we know that,

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but people don't want to feel like
they're not taking care of their child.

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So how does that? What does
that look like to some people?

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If I dress them up, it
looks like I'm masking all the other stuff

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that's going on. They have the
best of the best, the highest of

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the high, you know, I
want to show. Does it look kind

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of awkward and lopsided? Yes,
it does, But it depends on your

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upbringing what that looks like to you. And it's a whole lot of different

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things that could kind of it takes
more time than this, but I think

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that will be a start, you
know, inviting the parents of all incorporate

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something with it where you bring your
child, the resource, resource fare,

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and you have to really be honest
with it, you know, or be

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createive with it. Resource fare.
Sometimes you have to feed them, especially

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if you want them to come around
dinner time. Don't worry about that.

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You bring your child. We have
some resources, we have childcare. We'll

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pair you off. Now, parents, what's the problem, what's the issue.

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And it takes a little out a
time and then once you get that

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goal, then maybe they can start
doing their own little parent groups to support

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it, become peer support. Then
they have their peers supporting them instead of

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walking into a school because I keep
trying to say, everybody thinks that or

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the feeling is you walk into a
school system and feel like intimidated. And

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let's say some of us professionals,
our approach can make you feel like you

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don't know anything and that you know
that you don't value and I'm the expert

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and I have BAA, b be
all that behind my name, and I

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know what's best for your child.
Yes, you probably do from that standpoint,

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but where does it come when you're
building their alliance between the educators,

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the professional and the parent. The
parent knows some stuff and let's let them

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feel like when they come into the
school system that they're less stand you know,

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and something. And I've seen stuff
like that, like you know,

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you know, kind of poppits and
making them feel like they're less stand.

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So there's a there's a communication barrier
too, you know, how do you

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communicate and get the same results that
you're trying to get without making people feel

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belittled or less than when they walk
into a situation, and I think that

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it's some dialogue, but it just
has to be strategically planned because I think

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everybody's goal is the same thing.
Nobody wants nobody. I don't believe a

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parent wants their child to fail in
life at all. But it needs to

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be some dialogue about it. Well, but I know I went over there,

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but I know it's okay. No, it's okay, and I appreciate

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it because this is what we're trying
to do. Set some things straight,

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help people understand. But where's the
disconnect. My parents were raised in the

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country with the third grade and sixth
grade education. They were amongst the oldest

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of their siblings, so they had
to get out and they had to work

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the field. They had to work
the vineyard, the plantation, whatever they

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had to work out there in the
fields. And all my parents wanted me

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to do was get my high school
diploma. That's all they wanted. And

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then that's what I was saying,
We're gone, where gone on the ways

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we can help one another get by? Yeah, we all should talk and

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see what we can do for each
other. Misty, That's what I'm trying

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to do. I'm trying to get
people to the table. Can I just

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get you to the table. I
know you're working two and a half jobs.

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I can only imagine what you're doing. Now. I get it.

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I'll feed you if you come to
the meeting. But we need to talk.

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We got to be real here.
What can we do? And it

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seems like as the generations go on
this further disconnect. They want to drop

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them off and go. The schools
said, you know what, this is

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what we're gonna do, because remember
you could walk your child that first day

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in almost to their classroom or to
the cafeteria. Staff stood in the front

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said, you know what, mom, dad, we got them from here.

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You have a great day. Kids. They had to grab them and

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yank them, you know, from
their parents cause they cried. I falled

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out, no, you know,
so that was a great step, Like,

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okay, parents, we got them. But I can't we can't even

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get the parents to come to the
conversation. Everyone has something to bring to

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the table. Exactly, Misty,
that's what we want. Tell me what's

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working in your family? How can
I get I remember I was teaching at

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the private school and this little girl
I was teaching kindergarten for third grade all

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in the same classroom, and I
had the child just was not retaining at

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all. I was sitting there.
I could not work with her. Had

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I didn't have a pair of professional
in the classroom. I had to do

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what I needed to do. I
had to get these spelling words down.

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So I finally called her mother in
with the principal, calling the parent to

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come in to talk to me because
I just wanted to know. And I

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can hear her in the hallway on
the way to the classroom. Let me

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go talk to this teacher who I
don't know who she thinks she is,

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but let me go talk to her. And when she rounded, well,

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I knew exactly where she was said, here comes this parent, probably already

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untalked about me like a dog.
I knew she was gonna she can hear

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me because I can hear you and
you coming in with attitude. By the

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time I kept saying, Mom,
you know what, look miss so and

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00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:37.440
so, I'm trying to help your
child. Tell me what you know.

410
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:39.519
I had to go back and put
the social work hand on and say was

411
00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:45.640
it a full term labor? Is
she premature have to do that? Does

412
00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:49.559
she have any diagnosis? Seyes we
need to know about. I had to

413
00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:52.000
just go there. Finally she calmed
down, she said, well, you

414
00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:53.000
know, I'm gonna be honest with
you. She don't want to do it

415
00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:55.720
for me at home. I'm like, so what am I supposed to do?

416
00:32:58.680 --> 00:33:02.400
What am I supposed to do?
I said, And we're gonna have

417
00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:07.400
to push her through. We had
to push her through. And she couldn't

418
00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:13.240
write and couldn't spell through third grade. Yeah, I went well in my

419
00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:15.160
classroom was k through. I had
kergarten, I had a first grader,

420
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:20.440
I had a second grader, and
had third grade. That's what private schools

421
00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:22.519
come out to, based on charter
schools and stuff. You got a bunch

422
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:25.440
of all up. So I had, you know, three different levels of

423
00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:30.480
teaching, four different levels of teaching
I had to do. And that's gonna

424
00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:32.759
be that I'm going to tell you
that that's teachers. Weren't you know,

425
00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:37.759
they didn't have teachers And that's common. And you know what the sad part

426
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:47.160
about it, The system don't pay
pair of professionals. Every kindergarten, every

427
00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:55.240
kindergarten, pre K first grade at
least through second grade all need pair of

428
00:33:55.319 --> 00:34:04.000
professionals they needed Because what I did
was It was as funny the roles kind

429
00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:08.920
of changed today because the parent professional
knew the role with the teacher would have

430
00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:16.559
done, so she led the class. So I in turn sat with different

431
00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:23.440
ones to work with them and try
to get them to catch on. I

432
00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:29.800
know there's ten or fifteen minutes may
not made a difference, but I tried

433
00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:36.280
to make a difference because they need
that help. And I have been in

434
00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:44.400
classes where I've had twenty two little
people. Out of the twenty two,

435
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:52.000
you always have one to two that
really need that one on one. It's

436
00:34:52.039 --> 00:35:00.360
not that they can't do it,
but they need that little extra And if

437
00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:06.760
you were able to do it,
because my heart goes out to these teachers

438
00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:12.840
that, oh my god, you
got twenty I've had a class of little

439
00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:19.760
people as many as twenty three by
myself, and I'm not the regular teacher.

440
00:35:20.079 --> 00:35:23.800
Now, the regular teacher did leave
everything that needs to try to be

441
00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:28.920
covered in that time. She say, don't look at time, but see

442
00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:36.920
what can be accomplished. And I
understood that. But you got about fifteen

443
00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:44.199
as ready to roll. They got
family members or older siblings and what have

444
00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:49.719
you that will sit and work with
them so they are ready. Where you

445
00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:55.360
got these three or four, that's
not and they need that little extra attention.

446
00:35:57.159 --> 00:36:04.480
Para professionals are so mean, but
I understand why because they don't want

447
00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:12.519
to pay. They are just as
as vital as a teacher, but just

448
00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:15.880
a little bit because you spending that
one on one time, you can get

449
00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:22.320
that little group and work with that
little group while the teacher continue to teach

450
00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:28.880
and keep it rolling, just keep
you, keep you a little more and

451
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:34.920
a little more to kind of bring
them along. It's necessary, it's needed,

452
00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:43.159
it's needed. But you gotta be
careful to these para professionals. They

453
00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:49.440
gotta have patience, they gotta have
understanding, they gotta want to do it

454
00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:55.920
because them babies need that patience.
Some of them are so quiet. Excuse

455
00:36:55.960 --> 00:37:04.000
me. They're quiet because they don't
get it and they don't understand. And

456
00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:07.239
those are the ones that fall through
the crad You try to jump around and

457
00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:13.800
get to them all, but sometimes
it's just not enough time in the day.

458
00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:17.800
You know you can, and then
I feel sorry. Where you have

459
00:37:17.920 --> 00:37:23.119
a pair of professional you're working with
the kids, but yet you got your

460
00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:31.239
on set need that real attention,
you know, So I mean it's it's

461
00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:37.920
a way you got It's it's it's
like you're teaching, but you're also organized.

462
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:45.639
A teacher hand is so full,
it's so full, and I'm just

463
00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:49.519
wondering, you know, but I
guess you know, you got a lack

464
00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:55.239
of teachers, so you can't do
a smaller classroom side mm hm, because

465
00:37:55.280 --> 00:38:00.920
you got so many teachers two of
the amount of kids that's coming in that

466
00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:05.760
school. And yeah, I do
that. I was looking at, you

467
00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:10.079
know, to like the resources and
and I remember taking the going to a

468
00:38:10.119 --> 00:38:17.639
workshop for seminar regarding efficacy and that
was like an eye opening and so what

469
00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:23.280
the presenter was saying that you know, they would tell the person child or

470
00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:27.360
whatever. I think at the time
it was a child. I think CSC

471
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:31.840
kind of sponsored that that workshop,
Lisha and so. But it was talking

472
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:37.480
about efficacy being it's not that you
can't get it, it's just how you

473
00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:42.719
get to it. You know.
Everybody processes differently. And I remember it

474
00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:45.639
takes me. I have to see
it, I have to hear it and

475
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:51.519
have to comprehend it and do it, you know, practice it in order

476
00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:54.400
for me to get things even to
this day. So I comprehend a little

477
00:38:54.480 --> 00:39:00.239
differently, and so you have some
some people like when math, when I

478
00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:05.599
first was doing doing long division,
my pages not wrote big, so my

479
00:39:05.719 --> 00:39:09.320
pages would be long. But that's
the way I could see. I couldn't

480
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:14.440
shortcut it because I would get confused
and lost. So I had to see

481
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:19.719
the steps of how to get to
the particular answers. I can't like some

482
00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:22.639
of that math they do. They
doing boxes and squares and stuff. I

483
00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:28.639
can't. I couldn't, I couldn't
grasp that. You know, I would

484
00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:30.920
have to take a different you know, different levels. But I think you

485
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:35.880
know, looking at it too,
just having a dialogue, and I think

486
00:39:36.400 --> 00:39:40.800
administrators in the school system need to
maybe do a survey or do something of

487
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:45.760
why people are not why they can't
get teachers in. It's a lot they

488
00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:49.519
need to do for the little bit
of money. I'm telling you, I

489
00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:53.519
think teaching needs to be one of
the highest paid professions because you can't have

490
00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:59.039
another profession without a teacher. Somebody
had to teach you to read. Somebody

491
00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:00.840
had to teach you to write.
Somebody had to teach you to analyze.

492
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:04.559
Somebody had to teach you to do
this. Somebody had to teach you to

493
00:40:04.559 --> 00:40:07.440
do that, and so for them
to get the little amount that they get

494
00:40:08.159 --> 00:40:12.480
is ridiculous. And for the stuff
that they have to put up with,

495
00:40:12.599 --> 00:40:16.000
just like you were saying, Tommy, twenty something kids and you have small

496
00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:22.000
people, you need the help.
And then you have to the bureaucracy.

497
00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:23.440
And that's one of the things I
said, I don't want to be the

498
00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:29.519
bureaucracy of the school system. It
is too much. You know, you

499
00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:32.519
can't say this and you can't do
that. I'm not saying abuse the children,

500
00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:37.760
but you know you're looking at different
things that they have and you have

501
00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:40.599
to tiptoe around it. And even
now in this climate, you can't even

502
00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:45.559
tell them to read a book or
you could face going to jail. How

503
00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:50.039
ridiculous is that, you know what
I mean? How ridiculous is that?

504
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:54.119
And so I don't know how they
deal with that. And it's not you

505
00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:58.440
know, when people who teach a
lot of them to have the passion for

506
00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:01.400
it, because there's no money,
not gonna get rich teaching. You're gonna

507
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:07.280
be enriched by teaching, especially if
you get children that you're teaching and they

508
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:09.760
come back and oh I remember her, I remember this person, and I

509
00:41:09.840 --> 00:41:14.760
remember the effect that they had.
I have teachers to this day that are

510
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:19.039
in my heart like that now.
But it's not it's it's I don't know

511
00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:24.840
where it's gonna take. You know
what it would take. Parent Parental engagement

512
00:41:25.159 --> 00:41:30.599
is very important. It's very important, and I think if you get that

513
00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:35.639
piece, that could probably decrease some
stuff. But then you have to look

514
00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:38.199
at it too. Parents are getting
younger and younger. Oh thank you,

515
00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:43.480
country. Parents are getting younger and
younger too, and so we have to

516
00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:46.599
realize that growing up with this,
their maturity level is not there. What

517
00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:54.639
do you think they're doing with the
children. Yeah, and what you said,

518
00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:59.920
Trey about you said Survey. I
remember when my kids were going to

519
00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:04.760
school open house day. I go
in and greet the teacher and I said,

520
00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:07.840
okay, let me tell you about
this one here. They he likes

521
00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:10.679
to finish his work real quick.
He'll check it twice and he'll just sit

522
00:42:10.760 --> 00:42:14.599
there. He's not gonna disturb the
classroom. But I need you to have

523
00:42:14.719 --> 00:42:17.079
extra work for him. Make sure
he knows where that box is. I'm

524
00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:22.280
gonna tell you about her. She's
a socialite. She she likes she's not

525
00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:24.280
a talker talker, but everybody will
try to draw her in to talk.

526
00:42:24.679 --> 00:42:28.760
She'll be a part of you know, she got a little squad. She's

527
00:42:28.760 --> 00:42:31.280
smart and you just got to just
talk to her one time. I don't

528
00:42:31.320 --> 00:42:37.599
want you to report to me on
Thursday behavior issues that you had on Monday.

529
00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:42.360
This is my cell number. They
know. I have been known to

530
00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:46.639
make a U turn in a street
because the teacher was calling me. Okay,

531
00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:52.119
so right there and there. But
I watch other parents and then when

532
00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:54.440
I was a teacher in that in
that setting, they just come in.

533
00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:58.119
They just want to look at the
classroom. Oh, this is your death.

534
00:42:58.159 --> 00:43:00.280
That's where you're gonna put your stuff, will put your supper? I

535
00:43:00.320 --> 00:43:01.840
was there or not? You know
this one you're gonna and that was it.

536
00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:07.159
They didn't even talk to the teacher
about their child. Let me tell

537
00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:09.960
you about this one. And that's
what I did for all of them,

538
00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:15.719
all of them into high school on
open house day. Let me tell you

539
00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:19.440
about this one. This is what
you need. Next thing you mentioned the

540
00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:23.320
survey, I did a survey as
when I was in school. Recently last

541
00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:30.519
year, I networked with a private
Christian school that was K through twelve.

542
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:38.039
They had over thirty teachers. Do
you know, I only got six responses

543
00:43:38.079 --> 00:43:49.719
back from the teachers, six on
satisfaction climate satisfaction. So how was you

544
00:43:49.760 --> 00:43:53.159
gonna get the rest? I wasn't. I had to report it on the

545
00:43:53.199 --> 00:44:00.239
six and I went in and spoke
with them ahead of time. This is

546
00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:02.000
what we need, this is what
I'm doing, and I was gonna do

547
00:44:02.039 --> 00:44:07.840
some other things based on their you
know, their responses. I was setting

548
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:12.519
it up. The principal's good to
go. I only got six responses,

549
00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:21.840
and it's all electronic. See now, we have after school programs here in

550
00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:25.599
some of these schools. Over a
year ago, they were looking for people

551
00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:30.239
to do the after school program.
They're looking for staff. But all they

552
00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:35.119
could do is do homework. They
couldn't even get to those skill building know

553
00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:39.400
anything else. All they could do
was homework in some cases if they weren't

554
00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:46.719
fighting. You See, So I
don't I don't know, Trey, if

555
00:44:46.760 --> 00:44:53.199
you, as a parent don't have
any interest in your child, I don't

556
00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:58.079
know where it's gonna start now,
because now it's it's like a ball of

557
00:44:58.239 --> 00:45:01.519
yarn and the cat pull the strings
so bad you don't even know how to

558
00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:10.199
roll it back. And if you
don't care, now when when well Trey

559
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:20.679
hit it when she said, it's
a younger generation, and it's sad to

560
00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:30.519
say some of our younger generation,
their priorities are so mixed up, and

561
00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:39.079
that I thanks them by babies having
babies. You know, grandmama is almost

562
00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:46.840
half the age of the grandchild,
not the child, the grandchild. So

563
00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:54.639
somehow, and I'd like the idea
of the survey, but like Ms.

564
00:45:54.760 --> 00:46:00.880
Gray say, you don't even get
the response back. You need the response

565
00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:06.719
in order to know where you're going
and how you're gonna get there, or

566
00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:14.480
even communicate what needs what can be
done for Okay, you don't have crams.

567
00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:20.000
We got a cram drive. We
gotta we gotta a surplus of prams.

568
00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:25.159
Okay, so we undersigned crams going
out. You have them? What

569
00:46:25.320 --> 00:46:35.039
else needs to be done? But
I can't blame the child. I blame

570
00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:42.800
the parents because they're not instilling in
them what needs to be done. And

571
00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:50.159
I like what you said. Everybody
is important. Everybody deserves a decent income.

572
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:55.239
I love how my aunt Moys said, the doctor think that there's so

573
00:46:55.440 --> 00:47:01.159
much she used to work in in
the food and you know the food servant.

574
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:07.800
She said, the doctor come in
and think he's so important, she

575
00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:12.400
said, but he can't scramble the
eggs or bake the bread. I do.

576
00:47:14.440 --> 00:47:16.920
But if I don't feed you,
you ain't gonna have the strength to

577
00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:21.639
go ahead and do that surgery or
take care of that patience. So we

578
00:47:21.880 --> 00:47:28.840
all are important. We all play
apart. Just like the teacher is there

579
00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:35.800
to assist your child to progress the
learning habit. You're to start the learning

580
00:47:35.960 --> 00:47:40.639
habit and continue at home. At
some point in time, when do you

581
00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:46.880
cut off all these gaming systems or
letting them go out there and play to

582
00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:57.159
get their work. They got to
somebody has to be the bigger person sometime.

583
00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:00.320
You know, we only got two
more minutes. I want to kind

584
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:07.360
of segue just real quick. Yeah, I just don't. I just shake

585
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:09.679
my I don't know what else to
do. I don't know what else to

586
00:48:09.719 --> 00:48:15.400
say. There's programming out there,
and folks are not meeting the quota because

587
00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:19.960
they're seeing no progress, and schools
are not meeting the levels and stuff like

588
00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:22.199
that. It's just and you know, I was just thinking that. You

589
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:27.639
know, most upon a time,
students who were gods only one more minute

590
00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:31.159
majoring in education could come in and
do their internship. We don't have that

591
00:48:31.239 --> 00:48:36.719
anymore. So anyway, we're gonna
see y'all next week. Missy. The

592
00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:38.559
next time you come on, remind
us of your question that you had from

593
00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:42.920
the last show. We want to
go into that, but definitely want to

594
00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:45.719
make sure we meet that. We
want to thank you for the new folks

595
00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:49.719
that joined us tonight and everything.
We're gonna see you next week, same

596
00:48:49.880 --> 00:49:45.559
time, same station. Y'all be
blessed and be safe. Bye bye.