Diversi-TEA & Equi-TEA in Education - 11/16/25

[00:01:15] Speaker A: Howdy. [00:01:17] Speaker B: I cannot wish to not. Howdy. [00:01:19] Speaker C: Of all things. Howdy. [00:01:21] Speaker B: Good evening, everyone. [00:01:23] Speaker A: I try to put a smile on my friend face. That's a good evening, everyone. We are diversity and equity in Education. I am Denise, and to my left is April. [00:01:33] Speaker C: How are you all? How are you all? It's been a while. It's been a while. It's been a while. But we're back. [00:01:39] Speaker A: We are back. Exactly. And we are being very faithful to our schedule. And so I'm very proud of us because we've reached the month of November already. Can you believe it? [00:01:47] Speaker C: What? [00:01:48] Speaker A: We did a wonderful, wonderful job. And just want to stop start off by always asking that wonderful question, April, how's it been these past couple weeks for you? This within the month of November? Talk to me. [00:01:58] Speaker C: Look, we just got in November and it's already about gone. That's the interesting part. It seemed like we crept into November, but it took off so fast, I don't even remember where half of the month has already gone. But one thing about it and two things for sure, after this week, we got a break. [00:02:17] Speaker B: My God, we need that break. We need that break. We need break. That break. [00:02:26] Speaker C: Listen, I just realized. I remember back in the days when we first got in school in August, we had like four, five days that was off. And parents was like, why y' all off? What y' all for now. Now we are looking for the days off. [00:02:40] Speaker A: Correct. [00:02:41] Speaker B: Looking. [00:02:42] Speaker C: We've only had two days off since the beginning of the school year. That's a stretch. That's a big stretch. So I know teachers are ready to crash and burn when it comes to next week, and I am excited and here for it. [00:02:57] Speaker A: Yes. And I agree because you're looking at the fact that also praise God when we're so grateful to God that there was no hurricanes that came by that caused us to lose additional days. So we have been going. This would be the first year, I think maybe two years where we've had a full stretch of just no days off other than the scheduled days off. We haven't had to have hurricane makeup days or anything like that. So we are just going, going, going. [00:03:20] Speaker B: That's a praise dance within itself. Glory. [00:03:24] Speaker A: Hey, I tell you, but you better come. [00:03:28] Speaker B: Yes, yes. Oh, my God, I thank you. [00:03:33] Speaker A: Because insurance, the rising cost of construction materials, the. The putting in installing sheds and all that. Sheds, we call it those hurricane doors economy. I mean, so, Lord, you do truly when I said blessed us this year. But again, and then on the other side of that is just. Yes, We've the days I feel like, you know, we've used the instructional time well because the kids didn't lose days. So we have been pumping that information into them over and over again, which is in, in preparation for what's going to come up. And we're going to talk about that a little later. So I know again, that's that this, this month has been flying by. So we are now let you know, parents we are this is the last week, full week of school prior to our Thanksgiving break. So we will have that Thanksgiving break from the 24th to the 28th. So let's talk a little bit about just what we've been seeing happening in the news and happening all around within the schools dealing with our youth and in particular like their discipline and also their accountability. So tell me, let's start off with some of these what you feel apryl. [00:04:43] Speaker B: Go ahead. [00:04:44] Speaker C: So I just wanted to make sure that most understand when we're speaking from when we're speaking from here on diversity and equity and education, in most cases we are looking at things that impact Florida or incidents in Florida. Some cases we will venture out and look at other areas, but for the most part, it's Florida, Florida, Florida. And I don't know if most have not been paying attention, but Volusia county has been arresting children under the age of 13, left and right. They are really taking it seriously when it comes to any type of social media platform threats as it relates to bringing bodily harm to peers and just threats in general. They're not waiting for the action to take place, which there is some pros and cons to that. But I will say on the proactive side of it, we gotta do something before the children actually take the initiative to move forward with what they are obviously thinking about doing. Now, we do know that children will make mistakes and do silly things. However, it's very important for them to understand the accountability piece to it. Yes, we don't know what happens on the opposite side of the charges that's brought against them, being handcuffed and walked into the facilities. And they're blatantly showing the children's faces. They're not blurring them out or anything. And it's unfortunate that to feel this way, but it might make the biggest change or the shift in their lives that they need before they do something just realistically, just stupid. What's your thoughts, Denise? [00:06:32] Speaker A: Yeah, and that is DAN and that's the weight right there that I have because it's like, wait a minute, it's a minor and we have been historically known not to show minors faces or even post the minor's name. But because of how heinous the particular allegation is, we're seeing that look, we just, we going to do give them all a straight up perp walk straight through. And to me, walk okay. And to me, to me it's like this also should be a wake up call for the parents. Because parents, how is it that your child, you, you're not in your child business enough that you don't know that they are creating kill list. They are, you know, gathering up weaponry. They have been having these communications on social media with people of all the people that they hate. They listing out all the teachers. I mean how you know, we, we recently had a, a, A, a, A club and we talked about it with the kids and it's always shocking to me when you ask them the same question. And the question is, do your parents have access to your social media accounts or do your parents have the code to unlock your phone? And nine times out of ten those kids will tell you no, absolutely not. [00:07:41] Speaker B: No, absolutely not. [00:07:43] Speaker A: So you mean to tell me your child on a phone that you pay for and they don't have the code to unlock your phone, they don't have access to your social. You block your parents on social media. Well, what. So again, Wendy's. Wendy's. When the now. The the now, not the administration. What am I trying to say now when the authorities handle your child, you should not be out there screaming and hollering, well, oh, he's just a child. Well, you, you weren't treating them like a child. You are allowing them to do craziness that lead them to get adult consequences. Okay. And it's just like the other day, the thing that you posted on the other day, or reposted rather with the woman. There was a three young men and those three young men, they were armed and they were going to rob a. And unfortunately it was a military veteran, a guy who had marine experience and also of course he had weapons training and he killed him. And here he just pop, pop, pop. And it was done. He would with military accuracy. And here it is, the pair is saying, well, it was the wording for me that really got me. They were just going to rob him. He didn't have to kill him, kill him. [00:08:54] Speaker B: And I was saying to myself, wait. [00:08:56] Speaker A: What wait, that could have resulted in. [00:09:00] Speaker C: Him losing his life. But are you saying that their lives was more. I just can't even wrap my head around the, the loss and the Pain that she may feel. But in that same sense, like, how do you say that? [00:09:21] Speaker B: How do you say that. [00:09:24] Speaker A: You, your. [00:09:25] Speaker C: Child and two other children. Key words, your child and two other children entered someone else's private space, their yard. Let's start there. Then they made the conscious decision to carry firearms and then proceeded to home invade. Let's start there. [00:09:43] Speaker B: We'll never get to the robbery part. [00:09:45] Speaker C: We'll just say home invade. But again, they had weapons. So, yes, that man had all rights to protect himself and the family. Because if they weren't coming there to sell the guns or do gun exchanges. Yeah, no, right. [00:10:01] Speaker A: And remember. And then. Oh, but the key was two. She lost both two children. Out of the three of them, two of them were her sons. So she lost. [00:10:08] Speaker B: I didn't know that she lost both of that. [00:10:10] Speaker A: So, so, so my thing is going back to parenting now. You have. You not. You didn't raise not one, but two children who thought it was okay to commit this type of crime. Then on top of that, let's go back to the, to the, the elderly gentleman. One, he's elderly. Two, you, you got to always be aware of the fact that you don't know who you're running up on. Be very. Because older people, all right, they not going to run. They going to shoot. That's that. I'm just tell you as an older person myself also, you never know. You never know who is, who is, who has gun training, who has a military background. You just don't know who might be a police officer. You don't know who you encountering nowadays. People are going to protect themselves, especially the way the world is right now. So the last thing you want to do is something like that. So again, we are seeing cases upon cases where kids. Because let's just say America has the highest number of school students, all right? Other countries see it and they make proactive laws to stop this from happening. America see the killing and they just say thoughts and prayers. This is the reason why we take. Now you're going to see people taking these every possible threat seriously because people are sick and tired every time you turn on news. Another school student, another school student, another school. So if you make a threat, best believe these people gonna take this breath seriously because you're endangering everyone in the, in that, in that area. When I, when I talk to my students, it's like if you see something or hear something, go ahead and run straight to the authority and tell them because you're protecting. Not only you, you protecting me. You Protect every last one of us in these classrooms. People are tired of, of this. So please let your children know that this, it's not, it's no fun and games. This is not fun. This, this is not a game. And as you see, people gonna take those matters into their own hand. That's what they're gonna do. What you got? [00:12:02] Speaker C: And I know a lot of times we associate guns, the reasoning, I guess you could say, behind the hypersensitivity as it relates to guns. When it comes to schools. No, the key thing that we're missing, I think a lot of times is just our youth having access to so many firearms in general. Forget the part about the schools, the fact that they have access. Like the average could tell you to wear a golden. Get a gun at when, when you want it. [00:12:35] Speaker A: Right, right, the average. [00:12:38] Speaker C: And that means from the quietest to the loudest, the average could tell you who, what, when, why to get it from and how much. And we don't mean filling out no forms, walking in there, getting no IDs, we don't mean no tracking. They have access. And that's where we are currently in this era and our generation, the younger ones that their frontal lobes currently isn't even fully developed. [00:13:02] Speaker B: They have access. [00:13:03] Speaker C: The question is, how do we address this issue? How do we address it? Because as of right now, it's just running rampant. [00:13:14] Speaker A: It's the same. This is why. What I want you all to think about the same way, kids have easy access to like vape pens, okay? Remember, every chop can tell you where they can get a vape pen. And they don't need no ID or nothing like that. And the same way they can have access to, let's just pick something random like video games, something like that. But they have act. They can get access to these things. Just. Yeah, you're right. When it comes to the guns, they, they know where everything is. They may not tell you, but they talk amongst themselves, they talk to their peers. And all the kids know, even, just like you said, even the quiet ones, they like, they know which kids to stay away from because they know access to that. And, and, and, and then you, you, you think about how I'm always concerned about how things are transported. So for example, that child may have a weapon and bring it onto a bus. Now you got a bus full of kids and we, we don't know what's going to happen. And then it could be transported to school. So you, you, you have to understand, it just, it's, it's easy. That's why you have to stay. And I'm gonna go back to this point in your child business. I don't care if you know, this, this time of Sam, we're gonna be friends with my child. I. I don't know what. Yeah, we just raised different because I. Look, the only time I, I actually became a close friend, my mom is probably around 40 because like when I had to start getting her medicine and doing stuff for her, that's when, you know, we, we got close. But I'm, I'm her child. I am her child. She treated me like a child all the way up until, you know, get out my house. Now you can, you know, if you got your own key to your own house. Okay, maybe we'll talk. But your children are your children. Stop accepting the fact that they just because they're as tall as you are, that they grown. They're not. They are not. They are still children. And according to the, the law out there currently, until they 18, technically you ain't grown because you're still frontal lobe still need to be developed. But even at certain ages, even, even 18, you think you still have 18 join the military. You still gotta be 21 to buy alcohol. You still gotta be, what is it, 21 still for firearms. You still got to be old enough to do these different things. So again, these are children getting your child business. Expeditiously getting your child's business. [00:15:25] Speaker C: So as you all can see, there have been several links for the actual. The conversation that we're talking about right now with the 15 year old making threats on the school laptop was what Denise called. Pert walked in, the 11 year old that made threats on TikTok, all Volusia County. Pert walked in, the 11 year old arrested for making a hit list. That was, I believe also. Yeah, it was. [00:15:50] Speaker B: All of these were Volusia County. [00:15:52] Speaker C: The sixth grader make threats. So listen, Volusia county say play. No play around and find out. Y' all add the other word. Play around and find out. And then like a couple months ago in Hillsborough county, you had the two brothers where they were caught with the $34,000. Yeah. I can't see you anymore. I don't know why. [00:16:18] Speaker B: Can you see me? [00:16:20] Speaker C: I can see you. Oh, it's not on my screen anymore. They got caught with the $34,000 and the amount of firearms that was laid out was insane. And they currently were enrolled in a Hillsborough county public school. Hillsborough county public school. But it was an alternative school. Now just process that. [00:16:38] Speaker A: Process that. [00:16:39] Speaker C: We don't mean 2 3, 4, 5. Our firearms, they had a whole spread process that. [00:16:47] Speaker A: Process it. And a lot of times people, adults will give firearms to youth because they figure youth are going to get a lesser charge. Okay. And so a lot of the kids and they will tell, they'll groom them and tell them, okay, you know, you, you, you, they find it on you. It's going to be lesser than they find it on me. But still, still, it is still a weapon. That's the whole point. [00:17:11] Speaker C: Is still a weapon. [00:17:12] Speaker A: And, and, and the laws are, are clear regarding possession of weapons, especially illegal weapons. So please really pay attention to what your children are doing. I mean this, it's, it's, it's going to always lead to, in a direction that's just not going to be positive. And, and, and now the way our society is set up right now, the last place you want your child to be in is in prison because they, they're not letting people out. Okay? They just. This not where you want your child to be because everything now is again, where the, where are the illegals. They saw the illegal immigrants to do the farming. That's, that's that coming from prison. Where are the people who, to do the road work and stuff like that? They gonna pull them right out of the prison. It's all about the prison. [00:17:57] Speaker C: Free labor. [00:17:58] Speaker A: That's where you get your free labor from. So the last thing you want is for your child to end up in a sister because your child could be out there doing slave work. I can't say no other way. I can't say any other way. [00:18:10] Speaker B: I agree. [00:18:11] Speaker A: Okay. [00:18:11] Speaker C: Let's also segue into how we have been seeing in the media locally so many of our professionals, the adults in the space engaging in illegal activity when it comes to our scholars or our youth. Listen, parents, that's why we always say it's so good to get into their business. And that include having those conversations and you know, making sure that that relationship is airtight to be able to say so they could come share with you if something is going on that doesn't make sense to them when an adult is doing something inappropriate not only to them, they may just have knowledge of it to where they could come to you and talk about it. Because the amount of cases that have come across in the last year, this year has been insane. It's been insane. And I'm always baffled by it because I'm like why? What could you have in common with a child? And number two, what benefit do you get out of showing a child sexually explicit videos Like, I just, I don't get it. I don't get it. It doesn't make sense to me. [00:19:23] Speaker A: I think also a lot of those people are not mature. Like, they're, like they got to a point in their, in their life where they, they too are stuck mentally, as in a, as a teenager or as a young person. Like, they can't. So how is it that you're not able to differentiate? And you're employed, this is a job. These are children. But yet you still want to be down on that level with the children. So that's why you can't work with children. If you, if you feel you cannot handle something like that, you should never. [00:19:54] Speaker C: Work with children because now you target children. They target that population because they're pedophiles. They're sick. [00:20:01] Speaker B: That's what that is. [00:20:02] Speaker C: And they, they, they know in their minds they should not be in those spaces. But that, that desire, that disease of it all makes them want to seek them out. It's as if they are. What's the word? I lost my train of thought. It's like they are looking for them, hunting them. Like positioning themselves in a place to where I'm going to be around them all day, every day. I can have access to my phone and media to where I can sneakily record them. Their infatuation becomes so much to where they have to show them the things that basically want to, you know, to meet that need that they have, which is inappropriate when it comes to children. So it's a mental, a mental illness on something else. [00:20:51] Speaker A: Yes, it definitely is. Because you know what? That could be the only reason. Because I was like, how are you, how are you trying to do now? Can you still see me? [00:21:02] Speaker C: Yes. [00:21:03] Speaker A: Okay, good. [00:21:04] Speaker C: All right. [00:21:04] Speaker A: I just got a message. I'm like, oh, wait a minute. Okay, so now, so, but, but you're absolutely right. Let's, let's that, that segue into all kind of stuff. Talking about thinking. I think I posted something. Maybe I didn't post, but I think I posted something also earlier about that. [00:21:18] Speaker C: Yeah, Denise Bianca listed them in the chat. Hillsborough county substitute teacher arrested Accused of showing students sexual content. A former Hillsborough county employee facing over 200 charges of child and animal abuse. [00:21:35] Speaker B: Child and animal abuse. [00:21:41] Speaker C: I wonder if that was the one that was at the, at Chamberlain High School. I'm not sure, but I, I, I just know this. It was a spoto, I think espoto. All I know is this why. [00:21:53] Speaker A: Right, right. [00:21:55] Speaker C: Why? You got too many adults willing to give you whatever you want, right? [00:22:01] Speaker A: Right. [00:22:02] Speaker B: Giving it away. [00:22:04] Speaker A: And in this era, you get one. [00:22:07] Speaker C: You get one, you get one. [00:22:08] Speaker B: But you're gonna look for a child. [00:22:10] Speaker A: And in this era where people like these comedians have been going crazy, they're talking about everything what people are desperate for right now. You could just go and ask somebody, somebody gonna let you slide or something. Come on. Yes. Anyhow, let's talk about some community reason. Okay, listen, okay, bring the, bring it to, to a serious point. All right? We know what's been going on with the government. Okay, I gotta give a shout out to the states who actually have decided to jump into their contingency fund and decide to fund the SNAP benefits within their particular state because they know they had the money right there. The money is there. Department Agriculture, got it. Everybody got the money. But we know the government, the governor, not governor, you know that the government overall, which, and all from, from Washington D.C. is playing with people lies and play with their money. The, you know, they, they, they coming up with all these stipulations again now, now they shrinking it down to like, oh well, maybe we can only give it to you if you only got one kid or here's the other one now we should start drug testing everybody for the, for their SNAP benefit. I mean just the craziest stuff that they, because they refuse to release the money. I personally feel the money went to Argentina. But anyway, that's a whole another story. Okay, but anyway, because that, that's the same amount. The 40 billion is the same amount. But that's me and my conspiracy theories again when it comes to. Right, lean in. That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. But, but what I will say is we, I think we've done an excellent job in terms of community. I've seen some of the people out here just given, just given from the depth of their heart, right? And going against these again, these AI generated videos who are saying that the whole country go fall apart, we all will start rioting. Don't listen to none of that nonsen people have heart that when it comes to it, we especially us people of color have always been community driven. We've always been a community type people. We always been a village of people. And we will provide. We're out here. You go out there, you will see people provide. Now granted that. Could we provide more? Absolutely. Could you? Let's run back to the girl. You know that girl who's now all over tick tock doing the, the one who has been calling the church that broke my Heart. [00:24:16] Speaker C: That really broke my heart. I was like, here is a case study. Imagine if it was real. Oh, wait a minute. It is real. That's how we current climate right now and churches, if you are not a member, if you were not affiliated, the answer was absolutely not. [00:24:40] Speaker A: There was one person, one was about a membership, one was about, oh yeah, oh, they were quick to get off the phone. They were quick to, to, oh, we could refer you to this source and this source. But you, your, your church building is, is beautiful. It is a million dollar building and you've got the pastor, pastor driving a Porsche. And this is, I mean you, if you, you all a tax free entity, that means you don't pay taxes on nothing. You, you receive, receive, receive and you can't get. They said the one, the one she called was a, was actually a Muslim mosque. And then she called one, one where, where the church secretary wanted to give, give something even if the church didn't give. The secretary say one guy said he was going to leave and meet her wherever she was and just bring it to her. But of course, you know, she was doing a social experiment. But I mean just the fact that you, just the fact that you. This should shame a lot of these, these people post with all the churches listed because God good, here you are taking in all this money and, and if you supposedly follow the principles of Christ. Now Christ didn't even have, by the way, a church home because he was pastoring all around. He walked, he walked around, he walked around. He, he didn't have a place to really truly say this was my home. I lay ahead other than where he was born, but other than that, he was, he told his disciples, go out there and if the people don't receive you shake the dust from your feet. That's, that's what he told them. [00:26:08] Speaker B: And keep it moving. [00:26:09] Speaker A: He's just keep it moving. That's how it's supposed to be. There was no such thing as a physical foundational church because you're supposed to go out there and help the poor, the widow, the needy, because, and here's the excuse. The poor supposed to be always with us. I get that. But would they be? Because if all these billionaires coughed up just a percentage of their money, you wouldn't have homeless people, you wouldn't have poor people. So again, back to our community resources. Yes, we're doing a good job, but I'm quite sure we can do a whole lot better because there's some people who are not hurting at all. They're not. [00:26:42] Speaker C: And I will say that a lot of the larger organizations that have always had the ability to be capable of meeting the needs of the masses, of those in the community that are demonstrating this dire need, they've had it. They've had it. It didn't come from nowhere. They've always had it. So the question becomes, have we been trying to shift the mindset of those that are on these programs to where this could happen at any moment? My pastor was saying today that this was just the wake up call to say, hey, you need to be figuring out how to never find yourself in this type of situation again. Whether that be, you know, make a cupcake at the house, a hustle, go get that additional job, go get that additional education or education period. So that next time when the alarm ring, you're prepared. You're prepared because this isn't over. This is not over at all by far. Because if there's any truth to they're saying all the recipients of SNAP benefits have to now reapply. Because do you know what that's going to do to those caseworkers? [00:28:04] Speaker A: Yep. Yeah. And that's going to take weeks. Yep. [00:28:09] Speaker B: Months. [00:28:11] Speaker C: How is it prioritized who gets what first? [00:28:14] Speaker A: Right? And in the midst of this supposedly reopening of a government shutdown, I mean, how many people have, have, have lost their jobs? How many people. So, so, so everything slow. Have you looked at the airport and see how, how long it take you to get through tsa? A simple domestic flight. You gonna be there three hours. Like, you going to international. Okay, so it's like, it's like. And now you want to start again. That's the thing. This, the incompetency is just, is just wearing me out. I mean, listen, I can't watch no more. [00:28:43] Speaker B: Like, I get drained by it. I do. [00:28:45] Speaker C: Like I was saying, most of the time when I'm on social media now is to post this, the videos that I want to post, and they sketch all of that. Like, you think, I'm not on there. The schedule is out there. I can't. [00:28:59] Speaker B: I can't. [00:29:00] Speaker C: Because you'll go down a rabbit hole and be like, what is going on? And those are things that are beyond my means because even in my job capacity, I hear the stories the food pantry has just been weighing. I'm like, oh, my God. Like, it sent me almost into like a panic. And I'm like, you can't panic because you didn't create this and you surely can't fix it. You could just provide what you can do for These families that are here and move forward, that's all you could do. But their stories are, it's a lot. And they want to tell their story because they're seeking out help. But unfortunately there are no helps. There is no help. Put it this way, at the style of community school that we are outside of what is provided to us by feeding Tampa Bay. We are not the community school that received the additional supports financially of the 100k. [00:29:52] Speaker A: We're not it. [00:29:54] Speaker C: We're not it. [00:29:56] Speaker A: So yeah, even within the school we hustling. Okay. So and, and that's, that's the thing to understand. It's like, look, if you can help, go ahead and help because there, I. [00:30:06] Speaker C: Mean there are so many people. [00:30:10] Speaker A: But, but I want to get back to that point that you made, that you made. We said we're pastor mentioned again, shout out to Pastor Hawkins. I really, I just. He's a great guy. Being prepared. You know, a lot of. For generations people have sat there on welfare, food stamps, things like that. And, and because they just thought it was going to last forever. You have to understand nothing in life is permanent. Okay. Yeah. Even our state of existence because we're going to be born and then we're going to die, we ain't going to get something forever. So it's really important to truly now to understanding the necessity of having that backup plan and having a, having two and three and four plans. And just like we tell kids, you know, because everybody wants to be either a YouTube star or a football player. Well, guess what? Those things don't necessarily pan out. You got to have a backup plan. You got to have a plan and then another plan and then another plan in case that plan don't, don't work out. So this, this really is a wake up call because you're going to see and then on top of that, something to pay attention to. Yes, food is expensive, right. But food, food quality is also going to change because you know that a lot of the things that we got from all these different countries because of tariffs and such and such is going to change the quality of the food. So if you, a person that love your junk food, understand those dyes and those colors and all the things that make the food certain way right now Doritos looks like a white. The new Doritos coming out looks like white. Like devoid of color. It's still the Doritos. [00:31:40] Speaker B: We never should have had those dyes in the food anyway. In other is not like that. [00:31:46] Speaker A: Correct. And so you'll see, you're Going to start to see changes in how things look and, of course, how things taste. So, again, learn to go back to basics, because, again, like. Like I think I did a couple weeks ago. I told you, I said, y' all need to learn how to get some potatoes and. [00:32:01] Speaker C: And get. [00:32:02] Speaker A: And get you some beans and get some. Start going back to the struggle meals that. That kept us and allowed us to survive. Because those struggle meals worked out like, look, college. I had spam and ramen noodle, and I could dress that up in 15 different ways from Sunday. But I knew how to survive on some span of ramen noodles. [00:32:21] Speaker B: I was not introduced to a ramen. [00:32:23] Speaker C: Noodle until I became. When I got out of college, I had never heard of a ramen noodle. I had never seen it, heard of it, or eaten it. Now, Spam, tripe, Stewie, Dinty, Morca, all of that stuff, yes, I had seen that. But ramen, I had never seen that in my life. [00:32:44] Speaker A: Never. [00:32:45] Speaker B: So that means I had to be. [00:32:46] Speaker C: Well, in my, what, 20, 21, 22. I had never seen that. [00:32:51] Speaker A: I saw a lady the other day, she dressed up her ramen noodles. She put the. The egg in there. She had a couple pieces of meat in there. Talking about. And the person was like, this ain't no meal. I'm like, please, you better put some on my plate. Yeah, it should not be a meal to you. It's a meal to me. Okay, I'll make it work. So, again, you know, just. Just a bowl of ramen nowadays around you. [00:33:12] Speaker C: $20. [00:33:13] Speaker A: What they mean? [00:33:14] Speaker B: Quality ramen. [00:33:16] Speaker A: Itchy bond ramen. Ramen. [00:33:20] Speaker B: Look, look, look. [00:33:22] Speaker C: Especially in New York, you go to. [00:33:23] Speaker B: The special spot when you're in the. [00:33:25] Speaker C: Private little booth getting your. Your ramen with what. What it said. With bone broth. [00:33:30] Speaker A: Yes, 20 plus. [00:33:32] Speaker B: So don't say, what was the ramen? [00:33:34] Speaker C: And you be full. [00:33:35] Speaker B: You be full. [00:33:35] Speaker C: To cap. [00:33:36] Speaker A: What was that rabbit place you went to in Chicago? We left, it was 20 degrees, and we're like, we gonna get this vomit 20 degrees in full pajamas. Talk about we getting some rabbits. [00:33:49] Speaker B: Yes, and it was good. And it was good. Look, walking. [00:33:59] Speaker A: Y'. All. Yes, sir. Give me the ramen right now. [00:34:02] Speaker B: Throw the egg on and put it. [00:34:03] Speaker C: And it's a go bowl. [00:34:04] Speaker B: So we going, we leaving. We're not there. [00:34:07] Speaker A: The driver's out front. Hurry, he cold. [00:34:17] Speaker B: So don't sleep on a ramen. [00:34:19] Speaker C: Don't sleep on a cup to the noodles. Look. [00:34:22] Speaker B: And they get the kids around here. [00:34:23] Speaker C: Get picky about the brand. They don't Want. They don't like maruchan or maturing or whatever it's called. [00:34:29] Speaker B: They want hot ramen. [00:34:31] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:34:31] Speaker B: They don't want the matcha. [00:34:33] Speaker C: They want top ramen. I'm like, I didn't even know it was a difference until I noticed that the Manchur was sitting up there long. I'm like, well, y' all got ramen. You don't like those? Wait, what? [00:34:42] Speaker A: I'm like, that's the one that got all the flavor. You get the chicken flavor, pork flavor. [00:34:46] Speaker B: That's the ones that always on sale. [00:34:48] Speaker C: Yes. Right, right. Some chicken and shrimp flavor, and that's it. [00:34:53] Speaker A: We. We. Listen, listen, family. Let me expect the whole Facebook family right there. Listen, we are at the point where we don't have time to be bougie about our ramen, okay? So it's about water on that. Sprinkle a little packet in and stir it up. Let's stir it up, right? [00:35:08] Speaker B: We can get some frozen vegetables and throw in there. [00:35:10] Speaker C: They even got to cook extra milk. It'll heat it up and it'll cool it down. So you can eat it immediately. Play with it. [00:35:15] Speaker A: There you go. You got a meal. So we just try to teach y'. All, literally. Listen, feed them babies. You can. You could feed them at. Until everything else come through and work it out. [00:35:24] Speaker C: Just. [00:35:24] Speaker A: Just feed them, but also have that contingency plan. We are not playing around with the contingency plan. [00:35:28] Speaker C: Okay? [00:35:29] Speaker A: We're going to jump right into. Let's talk about the end of the court. Now, this is a. This is a tricky thing, people. Let me show you what it's about. [00:35:37] Speaker C: We don't know about it because I've heard, like, some new. Some new things have happened with these PIM scores. So break it down to me, because when I started hearing it in the meeting, I was like, I can't take this right now, because that means you all have moved the finish line. [00:35:54] Speaker A: Now let's stop. So first of all, just let's keep in mind, parents, we have this week of school right now. This week is our last full week of school before Thanksgiving break. We have Thanksgiving break, okay? After that, when we return immediately, on the 3rd and 4th of December, which is like the Wednesday, Thursday, just. And then Friday is a makeup day. You jump into the PM2, which is. I would not have done it like that because you could give them a PM after a break, after all. So this week, I'm drilling, drilling, drilling. I would have loved to give them a test the following week, because at least we reviewed. But now you give them a week off to have them jump right back into taking a test. And let's break down what this PM2 is because we know we love moving the goalposts on our children. Okay, if your children do not do well on this PM2, basically they're going to reset their scores so they have to score high enough to where when they take the PM3, they're not dropping them all the way back down where they start over again. If your child is already a three, you want them to be a three on this PM2. Because this is like literally the most important. Not the one at the end of the year, this one coming right here. Because imagine if your child dropped to one now, they got to fight their way back all the way up to that 3 for the following year. If they make it on PM3. Cool. But all I need you to understand is this is the one that's really. [00:37:20] Speaker B: Important and this is what counts now. It's really your PM3 and the package and the PM2. [00:37:25] Speaker A: The PM2. Correct. And so understand something. If all I can tell you is they should be reading, they should be trying to get some kind of makeup work. Do, do they be working throughout the Thanksgiving break? It shouldn't be sun up to sundown PS5, because when they walk in the door, they coming back to a test and they come back to the test that matters. It's like to me, they just literally say, what's the best way to destroy these children? Hey, I know how to do it. Let's let them get a vacation. Let's let them sleep all the way. Let's not do, you know, do nothing and then test them as soon as they come back. That's because I, I hate them. Because, you know, we, we love our children until we hate them. That's basically what you're saying. [00:38:07] Speaker C: Oh, the hate is so real on the PM education in general. And for the sake of those that may not still know what PM2 is and live in the state of Florida with school age children. It stands for progress monitoring, testing, Progress monitoring, testing. We just shorten it by saying TM. [00:38:25] Speaker A: Right? We look at them. [00:38:26] Speaker B: There are three of them. [00:38:27] Speaker C: TM 1 and 3. [00:38:29] Speaker A: Three. Exactly. And so I get so frustrated because I'm like, it. It basically what it does is it makes you, especially as an educator, it makes you feel like you've done nothing. You could come in there and work the hardest. [00:38:44] Speaker C: You could work. [00:38:44] Speaker A: You know, your kids got it. You know that they've, they've practiced and all that. And they Gonna come back in after a break and take a test and it's gonna. And it's gonna reflect on you because it's gonna make it look like you did absolutely nothing. Why would you test them at. [00:39:02] Speaker C: Because what happens is most cases when the kids come back from a week later that next week that they, that week that they return is just basically getting them going back over where we like. It's like starting at the beginning of the school year again, getting them re acclimated to these other classroom expectations, school expectations. You know, it's like a startle. It's like a reset, to be honest. And being that they have testing on that Wednesday and Thursday, not Thursday and Friday, that Wednesday and Thursday. The reset is one day and then it's practice Tuesday and then, bam, Wednesday. Here we go. [00:39:36] Speaker A: Exactly. Because remember, Monday, they don't come to school that Monday. Monday is the day for the teachers to return. And. [00:39:42] Speaker B: Wait a minute, is that. [00:39:44] Speaker A: Is that. Yeah, I think. Hold on, wait a minute. Let me go to the calendar. Hold up. In fact, in fact, b, if you're there, can you pull up the calendar for us, please, so we can take a look? [00:39:54] Speaker B: Oh, my. [00:39:56] Speaker A: Yep, Monday the 5th is a non student day. They jump right back into testing the. Oh, I'm so sorry. No, I made a mistake. I'm thinking. I'm thinking about January. I made a mistake, okay? [00:40:08] Speaker C: Because I was like, that is not on my calendar. Okay. [00:40:10] Speaker A: Yes. [00:40:14] Speaker C: Okay. [00:40:14] Speaker B: You had money. [00:40:16] Speaker A: Please forgive me. Let me restate it again, I made an error. I made a mistake. I'm thinking about January, December. When they come back in, they only have Monday and Tuesday, and then Wednesday they jump into the PM too. So again, I cannot stress to you how important it is for you all to really keep those. Engage their brain, get cut down on screen time. There's a feature, I just found that, a feature on my phone that actually, at the end of the week, it tells you how many hours of screen time you've had on your own phone. And I love it because then you can, you can even set your screen time to say, hey, after I reach this many hours in a day, my phone should be off. My phone should be like the. The. I think it turns the monitor down or something. Basically, it forces you like, okay, now I can get a full night's sleep because it's forcing me to get off the phone. Like, hey, stop. [00:41:01] Speaker C: Get off the phone. [00:41:02] Speaker A: Do that to your children's phone. I know your children, of course. [00:41:05] Speaker C: Hold on. [00:41:06] Speaker A: When you get the password. Excuse me. Hold on. Let Me. Because the heat. When you can unlock it. When you can unlock it. [00:41:20] Speaker C: Correct. [00:41:25] Speaker A: Thank you. Cut down your child's screen time. Cut down the PS one time. Cut down the Tick tock to all that. And then on top of that, use. Hey, since we talking about purchase stuff out use Thanksgiving break, the purge out not only their phones but also their backpack because we know Febreze is real. [00:41:41] Speaker C: Thanks. Because that when I tell you them spray grounds are spraying back, those spray grounds when they are being open is. [00:41:54] Speaker B: Unfilling the, the, the. [00:41:57] Speaker C: I'm sure the mold that's at the bottom of the bags. I was like, lord, don't listen, don't take nothing else out the bag. Take it home. I give you a temporary bag. Leave that one closed. Listen, just take it to your mom when you get home. Show them. Because I can't do it. I can't do it. Don't open another bag. [00:42:14] Speaker A: No. [00:42:15] Speaker B: And I put it in the bag. [00:42:16] Speaker C: Tied real tight. Tied. Something spilled in it. [00:42:19] Speaker A: Tied up. [00:42:19] Speaker C: Tied. [00:42:20] Speaker B: Don't take nothing out of that bag. [00:42:22] Speaker C: Pick it up. At the end of the day, I'm. [00:42:25] Speaker A: Going to tell you one of the worst combinations to ever spill inside of a backpack is milk and peach juice. Jesus. The milk alone, the milk alone gonna kill you, dad. It's gonna kill you. But when I tell you milk combined with the liquid syrup from the peach juice, the little peach. The child opened the bag and said, I think something. I said, I think it did spill. Let's zap. [00:42:54] Speaker B: Zip, zip it back. Zip it, open it. [00:42:57] Speaker C: No more, no further. Please don't stop. [00:43:03] Speaker A: So, so that, so then here. That'll lead us to something like this. If you want to feel like volunteering something or donating something to school, please donate a bunch of backpack. They don't have to be expensive, but backpacks, we would love, love backpacks because kids, you know, they, they, you know, it's, it's December is going to be next month. We're at a halfway point. You really think supplies gonna last all year long? Unless you got a real good quality backpack. But just give, you know, if you can donate some backpacks would love that. Pencils always welcome. We always need pencils. Okay, but, and then speaking of pencil, let me tell you outside, your children, some, your children need to stop breaking brand new pencils apart, pulling off the erasers and then taking them that they. [00:43:43] Speaker C: Develop in elementary school because as soon as they get the pencils, they rip the erasers out, the whole eraser. [00:43:53] Speaker A: I don't understand, but I guess they use to Throw it at each other. But my thing is, why would you take a brand new pencil and break it. [00:44:00] Speaker B: Yes. [00:44:01] Speaker C: Take the whole eraser pieces out. And they chew on them a lot too. Which is. I'm like, I didn't see that as much. I would say in the last like three. I say like five years, you didn't see kids. A lot of chewing happening on the pencils. They're chewing the metal piece of it, which is weird. I don't know what that's about. I see a lot of kids. And also the lead. They bite the lead off the pencils. [00:44:27] Speaker A: And I'm like, tie that back to that vaping. Because they need an oral fixation. Think about it. [00:44:34] Speaker C: Didn't think about. [00:44:37] Speaker A: You tie it to vaping. If you. I can't vape in the classroom, so guess what? I gotta put some amount. And it's the metallic. [00:44:46] Speaker C: My goodness, that's. Yeah. And let's talk about the vaping. It appears that we have come up with in our district signage about vaping. Did you see it? [00:44:58] Speaker A: I saw it, yeah. It said, well, one vapor and it's like 10,000 cigarettes or a thousand cigarettes. [00:45:03] Speaker B: Or something like that. [00:45:03] Speaker C: Anyone have a conversation with the children? Do they think they're reading the signs? [00:45:08] Speaker A: None of them ain't reading. Because, look, I stopped because it was a new sign on the door. Only because I like to read. But every child walked through the door was like, y' all saw the sign on vaping? What sign? Let me see. What are you talking about? [00:45:21] Speaker C: And I'm wondering, because there is such. The possibility of there being such an influx of vaping happening on school campuses. I mean, if I had to be the smartest person in a room, I would think that that would have contributed to the reason for the signage. But you know, who am I, right? [00:45:41] Speaker A: Because, I mean, first of all, the last school I was working at, every. Every school, other people, other teachers, I talked to their kids that. That look, they sling them in school. They. They be selling them in the bathrooms and stuff. They just. Hey, because they. They kids that know kids. Just like the kids who know kids who got guns. They know kids who slinging them vape pants. They know them. [00:45:57] Speaker C: And we're talking middle school. We're talking. We're not talking high, we're talking middle, mid zone middle school. And applaud goes to Tampa police department and other law enforcement agencies that busted all the new age mom and pop stores that think it's okay to sell our children undercover HTC fake pins and so on. [00:46:24] Speaker A: And so Forth. [00:46:25] Speaker B: Now we know it probably, you know. [00:46:26] Speaker C: Was very short lived, you know, most of them probably out in the store up and running again on a new name, you know, by them and stuff like that. But the bottom line is kudos to them. But we've been saying it for years. [00:46:38] Speaker B: Thank you. [00:46:39] Speaker C: I just think we just needed to shift the narrative and what they said. Oh, when I took a class at usf, it was called when they shift the media to something else so that it takes the focus off the curse. I can't think of the name of it. [00:46:57] Speaker A: Oh, well, sometimes they call it a red herring, but I don't know, maybe that's not it. [00:47:00] Speaker C: I'm not sure. [00:47:01] Speaker B: I can't think of it. [00:47:02] Speaker C: But long story short, whatever it is that's happening, because, you know, we had some hot stories about our good old law enforcement agencies and the leadership and, you know, people cheat. [00:47:11] Speaker A: Plenty people cheating. [00:47:13] Speaker C: People was cheating. [00:47:16] Speaker A: I can come on the screen, too. Snatch them up. [00:47:22] Speaker B: What did they do? [00:47:23] Speaker C: Snatch them out. [00:47:26] Speaker A: Listen, listen. Again, again. Y' all want teachers. Let me tease that. Y' all want teachers to be so highly. If I had to print out all of the classes, all the certifications, all the crap I had. You want us to be the most overly qualified, overly trained people every and. But if you have the audacity to want to pick me up and pull me over, you got to cheat your way through it. [00:47:48] Speaker C: Play all. [00:47:51] Speaker A: I'm like, can you read this ticket? That's all I want to know. Come on. [00:48:00] Speaker C: But they were able to leave coins. You know, some of them were able to leave with their coins, which is really interesting to me. [00:48:07] Speaker B: Come on now. [00:48:08] Speaker C: Like, what. [00:48:08] Speaker B: What are we doing? [00:48:10] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. I just. I can't. I can't. I. I can't. April, what's the Great American Teaching? Just tell us about that. [00:48:16] Speaker C: For the Great American Teaching is this upcoming Thursday, November 20th, if you would like to be a participant at Jennings Middle School, definitely, definitely, definitely reach out to me. If I'm telling you Jennings Middle School and you want to be a part and you want the information, you can inbox me or you can look up the phone number for Jennings Middle School and call and ask them. Just that simple. [00:48:39] Speaker B: So, yeah, do that. [00:48:40] Speaker C: Do that. Because there's no need to post the information here and if, you know, serious people will follow up. [00:48:47] Speaker A: I reached out to again. She right there on the screen. Right there. That girl right there. [00:48:52] Speaker C: Y' all haven't responded. So then what I don't want to happen is, you know, Wednesday morning of Influx of individuals saying, oh, no, I got not, not, not idea. You have to reschedule, readjust the scheduling with who's getting the speakers and where they're going to speak at and blah, blah, blah. And that's not an easy task for a whole school. So, yeah, if come Wednesday, I'm sorry, I will invite you to try again next year or thank you, but no thank you because it's a lot to keep revisiting things, especially when we're preparing for our families, that we're providing them with Thanksgiving holiday boxes. You know, all of that's happening this week. And then we're also preparing snack bags for our kids that's leaving for a certain population of them. So it's a lot of moving parts. And yeah, last minute. 11:59.59. [00:49:46] Speaker A: We can't do it, ma'. [00:49:48] Speaker C: Am. And sirs, please make the attempt to get it done Monday or Tuesday, please. [00:49:54] Speaker A: Correct. I beg of you. [00:49:55] Speaker C: Which also leads to. If they want to donate items. [00:49:57] Speaker A: Denise. Yep. Yes, they also can. We really want you to donate items to our. Our bags. Actually, we actually also additionally. Because I think we're down to like, I don't know how I got an odd number. But anyway, you know those. What do you call again, the flat. We call the backpacks. April. What do you call those things again? Drawstring bags. Drawstring bags. We'd love to receive drawstring bags. We are packing them with everything we could possibly pack them with of everything from our. We're having like a breakfast, lunch and dinner type situation. So cereal, spaghetti. We're looking for, you know, water, juices, snacks, things like that. But also a loving gift like things like, you know, socks. You know, girls love the little socks, they love the lip gloss, they love the hand sanitizer, lotion, things like that. We just want to keep them going during the break, but we also want to be able to just also uplift them and have them ready to go for this. I'm ready to go for this. This October holiday, upcoming holiday season. Okay. So. But that's pretty much what we make. [00:50:58] Speaker C: Sure all the items are pop tops. Remember, we don't want the kids something that they need a can opener to open with. And a lot of families that are, you know, residing in hotels and, you know, are in between homes, they need items that are pop tops, meaning that they could pull it back versus the need of a can opener. So please be conscious of that when you are making those donations, especially to our girl bags for the holler for the while they're off. And. Yeah, and we appreciate it with all our heart. Trust me. Nothing goes wasted ever, ever, ever, ever. [00:51:30] Speaker A: Mm. That's it. So that's all we have for you this evening. Is there anything else you wanted to add, April? [00:51:37] Speaker C: That's it. Make sure y'. [00:51:38] Speaker A: All. [00:51:38] Speaker C: We won't see. We won't talk to you all until after Thanksgiving. So the key thing is, don't eat too much. You know, some of us, you know, y' all got that status of diabetical Chlorestriol in cholesterol. [00:51:53] Speaker A: Cholesterol. Listen, since insurance going up, y', all. Y' all might want to be. Take care of yourself. The insurance price is going through the roof. [00:52:03] Speaker C: So I would suggest that you. [00:52:04] Speaker A: You eat healthy and take care of yourself, even when you want to gorge. Okay? Maybe get a walk or two around the block, you know, before and after. [00:52:10] Speaker B: You make sure you're doing some walking. [00:52:12] Speaker C: Doing the break, you know, just don't lay around. Teachers. Get up. You know, we want to wind down. We know that you're gonna wind down while you're off, but get up and. [00:52:22] Speaker B: Do a walk or two round the block. [00:52:24] Speaker C: It won't hurt you. [00:52:24] Speaker A: It won't hurt you. [00:52:25] Speaker C: Correct. [00:52:25] Speaker A: Correct. Oh, slide the turkey through that. We got that fryer going, girl. [00:52:30] Speaker C: You know, I wasn't missing that. [00:52:32] Speaker A: I wasn't missing that. We frying up some turkey. Yeah. [00:52:38] Speaker B: I. I never had nothing like it. [00:52:40] Speaker C: Before in my life. And I've had some fried turkey. [00:52:42] Speaker B: But when I tell you over there. [00:52:44] Speaker C: In that house where she resides, there's a person that loves her dearly, that extended the love by cooking that turkey so good. [00:52:53] Speaker B: Ooh, Letiza. [00:52:58] Speaker C: He's getting to say no. It's just gonna be sitting on the porch. [00:53:01] Speaker B: Ooh, one for them, one for me. [00:53:02] Speaker A: Right there at the front door. Oh, we so excited. We don't know. Do it ourselves. When we ready. Turkey time. Anyway, that's all we have. That's all we have for this evening, everybody. We thank you all for joining us. Feel free again to join our coalition. Feel free to reach out to us and be. Be looking for those guest speakers. We just want to keep uplifting the community and engage us in conversation. We're here. We want to listen to you. You talk. [00:53:26] Speaker C: Talk to us. [00:53:26] Speaker A: We will talk Right on back to you. That's it. Have a lovely evening. [00:53:30] Speaker B: You too. [00:53:31] Speaker A: Bye. [00:53:40] Speaker B: Sam.