Top Stories 2 (11-20-2025)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Top Stories at the top of the hour with Nashley
nixt two. Florida lawmakers have introduced bills that would that
would once require cursive back in schools. So cursive was
removed from Florida's require curriculum back in twenty ten. This
new legislation would mandate teaching cursive from second, second to
fifth grade and include a state evaluation at the end

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of fifth grade.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
So the change is needed because.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
A lot of students can no longer comprehend it's cursive.
I saw on TikTok this guy wrote a a sentence
in cursive. The girl had to be I don't know
twenty She couldn even read it. It's like, come on, are.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
You kidding me?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
They can't even read the nation's founding documents. It's being
argued that cursive supports brain development coordination and can even
help identify learning differences such as dyslexia. Not everyone is
on board, so Lee Bryant, he's the president Panilla's Classroom
Teachers Association. He says the proposal at to get another

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requirement to the already overburdened teachers. He said, listen, with
modern technology, these kids are not signing documents, and if
they are, and it's all electronically, He said, lawmakers should
instead focused on higher priority issues, including teacher pay, which
he is right.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
We're fiftieth in pay for the second year in a row.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
We need to pay our teachers, and the state can
afford to do better when it comes to paying our teachers.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Just saying so, it's kind of like it's kind of
like math in the sense of we have calculators. Okay,
does long division really matter anymore?

Speaker 3 (01:43):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:44):
So we type everything now, We text everything now. Rarely
are you reading handwritten things. It just seems like an
absolute waste of everyone's time to teach us. Why so
we can read the Declaration of Independence? Yeah, google the declaration.
Guess what happened? You could just reads so well.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
If approved during the legislative session that begins January thirteenth,
cursive instruction could return to Florida classrooms as early as
next year.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
And I think they should learn cursive. Megan the Stallion
team they were building court.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
She spent around two hundred and forty thousand dollars on
an emergency four week therapy program after a deep fake
porn video of her went viral. Yes, it caused her
to seek therapy because it triggered PTSD level symptoms, leaving
her anxious, overwhelmed, and apologizing to her team for breaking down.
So the testimony came during her defamation trial, where Megan

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argues that a blogger's false content and deep fake attacks
shattered her sense of safety and call severe emotional damage.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Listen those AI videos. I guarantee you scone call some problems.
Scone call some problem.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Now, my performance was well in the aid. I might
feel like I did that last but not. I'm not
shocked by this. Former Oscar winning actor Kevin Spacey. He
said he homeless.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Y'all. He living out of hotels and airbnbs. He ain't
got no money. He said he had to sell his
home in Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
This all happened after the wave of sexual misconduct allegations
beginning in twenty seventeen that just derailed his career throughout
that he pretty much lost everything. He has all his
stuff in storage and he's now moving around chasing whatever
work he can get in it. Last time I was
seeing Kevin spacey on TV was.

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