Real or Fake News Headlines 07/25/25

Real or Fake News Headlines 07/25/25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's called twilight Zone. That is a new one from
Ariana Grande Key one hundred with Dave and Jen t
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a bunch of letters? Are all right? Jen? Ready for
some real or fake news headlines? Well? Oh yeah, Tennessee

(00:24):
school district will no longer accept doctor's notes to excuse absences.
Didn't you and I talk about this yesterday? Or was
I talking with Tracy about it? No? You must have
been talking to Tracy about it, because that seems a
little jacked up. Is that real? Yeah? I guess I
just let it out of the bag too. Then I sing,
we were talking about it yesterday, So yeah, right, like,

(00:45):
what's excuse? What's an excuse app to nothing if your
doctor's note? Right? This is Lawrence County School System, not
here in Kentucky, sak the ward this is in Tennessee
has implemented this new policy where doctor's notes will no
longer excuse students' absences. After three absences, schools begin intervention

(01:10):
after eight. Students are referred to juvenile court for truancy.
Well yeah, yeah, I mean but I thought that I
didn't think students went to court. I thought that the
parents had to go to court because of that. Here's
the thing, well saying I thought as well. Officials say
the change is meant to teach reliability and work ethic,

(01:33):
emphasizing that having a sniffle won't excuse missing school. However,
what if they have strip What if they have pneumonia?
What if they do yeah? Right? What if they're throwing
up everywhere they which? By the way, they always say
at work, oh no, if you feel sick, you stay home.
But then when you stay home, they're like, yo, yeah,
faking that. What's going on? You've got a lot of

(01:54):
work to do here. That's a slip slope right there.
I don't like that at all. No parade detour accidentally
roots it through restaurant drive through or routes it through.
I don't know why it roots real is it'd be

(02:18):
so fun, though. I couldn't see them doing that, but
I was like, oh God, going through McDonald's line to
get his a little cheeseburg real quick. It's okay, we
got seventy two cars coming. It's all right, right,