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today's top three takeaways. Helpful, useful, repeatable, A supreme cop out,
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school censorship, and the disassemble DeSantis administration. My takeaways for
you on this Wednesday, Good morning, and as we get going,
A Supreme cop out. A supreme cop out, and it
started last week with this decision Fox's Shannon Breem.
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Two Catholic dioceses wanted to establish a religious charter school
that would be allowed to participate in the publicly funded
charter school system in the state.
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The Supreme Court.
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Wound up in a tie, meaning the lower court ruling
from the Oklahoma State Supreme Court stands right.
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So the High Court has been supremely disappointing with now
two recent decisions, or should I actually say indecisions in
both of them. First, there was that ruling you just
heard about last week, the Oklahoma Catholic School charter school case.
In this case, Oklahoma's charter school Board executed a contract
with the Catholic Virtual School to operate a religious charter
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school in the state. Stand Attorney General sued argued that
the contract violated state prohibitions on religion and public schools,
or the so called but non exist in separation of
church and state, and the case made its way to
the Supreme Court, where Justice Amy Coney Barrett, without a
reason given, recused herself from the case, and the end
result was no result. The court deadlock four to four,
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meaning Barrett's recusal likely lost the case for the charter school.
Because no decision was made by the Supreme Court, they're
in decision, it didn't set precedent, meaning the lower court
ruling remade in effect and only applied to that specific
Oklahoma charter school, having no impact in Florida, for example,
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which is one of my concerns, because we do have
universal school choice and you are allowed to use your dollars,
your own tax dollars for a religious school if you'd like,
for example. But still not only did the Supreme Send
decision put an end to the first of its kind
charter school at a time when children, no doubt could
use more God in their lives, it was a missed
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opportunity for a ruling that would have actually led to
the creation of similar charter schools across the country. What
that's going to have is a real chilling impact because
I mean, certainly Catholic Church isn't going to take a
look at trying to roll this kind of stuff out
across the country anymore, and any other religions that might
try to do something. And it's just no. It was
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a huge mess and a lost opportunity to allow parents
an opportunity to use their own tax dollars for faith
based education for their children. This should be the most
fundamental thing there is. It's your money, you use it
the way you want. This is what we fought decades
for in Florida, and God should be available everywhere. Then
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there was Tuesday Supreme in decision. So on Tuesday, the
Supreme Court declined to take up the case of Massachusetts
student Liam Morrison. For more on this, foxes Ryn Schmills.
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Liam Morrison and his family argued as Massachusetts Middle School
violated his free speech after he was banned for wearing
a T shirt saying quote, there are only two genders
and another saying there are censor genders on the front.
The Supreme Court declining to hear the case, despite Justices
Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito arguing the court should hear it.
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Right, So, you have a kid who is banned from
his school for wearing a shirt saying there are only
two genders a school where, by the way, they theoretically
teach science. Why you laughing, Joel? Oh, he thought about
that because I was thinking that you know that he
wear it in biology class?
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Right?
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Yeah?
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Yeah?
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What kind of biology you think they're teaching there? Not
the right one, not the facts. Apparently, so the school
said the shirt made other students feel unsafe. Other students
felt unsafe, They're only two genders. The decision to not
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take up the case leaves a lower court ruling in place,
essentially stating that my second takeaway today, Yep, public schools
can sensor messaging. Public schools just censor whatever the heck
they want and as subjectively as they see fit, and
then banished students who don't agree with the censorship along
the way. In fact, in the federal court ruling, the
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ones that it's been allowed to stand. Since the Supremes
didn't take up this case, the court actually went a
step further than even the school did and saying that
the message was demeaning for transgendered students. Now here is
the next relevant point in this conversation. You know what
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grade we're talking about here. We're not talking about senior
in high school. We're not talking about junior in high school. Now,
we're not even talking about a freshman in high school,
because this isn't even in high school. Nope, no, no,
Liam is a seventh grade student. Seventh. Now put this
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out there and mean it with absolute sincerity. Any twelve
or thirteen year old student who is transgendered should have
two things going on in their life right now. First
is a doctor who is spending the rest of their
life behind bars for child mutilation, evil, out and out evil.
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And the second, parents who are evaluated for child abuse.
Those are the two things that should be happening in
the life of any twelve or thirteen year old who
is transgendered, not that somehow or another, they are having
their feelings hurt by a student wearing a shirt saying
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there are only two genders. Also, it is an ironclad
guarantee than anyone at any age who cannot handle a
shirt that says they're only two genders is guaranteed to
get their butt kicked in life so hard. I mean,
life is just going to destroy that individual. But anyway,
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that's what the Supreme Court lets stand. And as an aside,
this is a good opportunity for me to introduce. I've
always believed and I still do that all schools, not
just select private schools, should have school uniforms. Not only
would uniforms make situations like this one moot, but also
reduce bullying too. How much lower do you think bullying
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is when you introduce school uniforms, and Joel, you offered
up a pretty solid gas. Yeah, I was I was
thinking like thirty five percent somewhere on there. That'd be meaningful.
I mean, if you had a greater than a third
reduction in bullying in schools, boy, that would that's something
that's worth considering. Double that and you have your answer,
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seventy percent. There is an average seventy percent reduction in
bullying with the implementation of school uniforms. So that should
happen everywhere. Shouldn't just be select to private schools, it
should be every single school, great school in this country. Period.
You want to get rid of seventy percent of billion
school uniforms. The bottom line is that the Supreme Court's
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indecision allows selective censorship of clothing to continued by the
education establishment, an establishment that is clearly cool was supporting
twelve year old trainings. This was another Supreme cop out.
Two Supreme decisions, two cases involving schools. The net effect
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of the changes is that there is less religious education
available in more censorship taking place. Awesome, man, it's a
good week right there. Exactly great things for children or
our society. My third takeaway today, and actually related to
the education topic as well, the disassembling of the De
Santis administration first award from Education Secretary Linda McMahon.
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President absolutely believed, as do I, that the more choice
that parents have, the better off the students are.
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And we've seen that repeatedly in different states. Bingo, Bingo,
we have none more so than ours, the largest school
choice program in the country, and we had big news
involving a person who really was instrumental in making it
all happen and absolutely critical and implementing that se Yeah,
things have changed quickly in Florida's political scene this year
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from the leadership of the state legislature that has become
borderline dysfunctional, as they've yet to arrive at a budget
for the year that starts July. First, the only job
the legislator legislature is actually mandated to do, the only
thing they actually have to do, is what they haven't
done to the governor's entire cabinet. This side of Wilton Simpson,
things are different in Tallahassee, DC and around our state too.
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First there was Marco Rubio's ascension to Secretary of State
and Attorney General, Ashley Moody making the move to phil
rubio sens seat, which was filled by De Santis' chief
of staff, James Ufmeyer. Then there was Lieutenant Governor Jannett
Nuniez's decision to take the reins as president of her
alma mater FIU. Next there was CFO Jimmy Patrondiz's move
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to Congress to fill the seat previously held by Matt Gates.
Now it's arguably Florida's most consequential Education Commissioner ever, Manny
Diaz Junior, who's on the move. On Tuesday, Diaz was
voted in as the University of West Florida's interim President,
a role he'll take over starting July fourteenth, and the
state legislature, dz sponsored many of the transformational policies that
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he later implemented as the Education Commissioner. These included Florida's
universal school choice program in floridest's parental rights and education laws,
among others. And so that is a big void and
important post in Tallahassee. Speaking of voids, DeSantis has yet
to name a CFO or Lieutenant governor, something that he
had indicated that he would do at the end of
the state legislative session, which of course was thrown a
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wringe because it still hasn't ended because of the aforementioned
issues per Taik to the passing of the state budget.
So it is a vast amount of political change in
the state that's become the epicenter of Republican politics. But
it's a vast amount of change with people who have
been highly successful in their previous roles. So hopefully des
antis is three illumin appointments will be highly successful too.
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He needs them to be, and for that matter, so
do we