Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Bucksexton show on this episode. We have Bridget Ziegler with us. She is a

Vice President at the Leadership Institute. She is a school board superstar. She'll explain what

that means. And also have some other interesting projects that she's going to talk to you about in

the realm of how we get parents more involved in their children's education, how we stop the

woke madness in schools, lots of stuff like that. Bridget, welcome. Great to have you.

Thank you. Thank you for having me. Now there's no shortage of conversations around education right now.

So tell me this. Tell everybody your story quickly because you're a school board. What do you now

president? Like how did you get into this game? Because you're in Florida. Ron DeSantis himself,

I believe, endorsed you for school board, which is pretty cool. And this has become a big movement

among conservatives. We're broadly that there are parents who are just like I'm taking action here.

What happened with you? Yeah. So mine kind of goes back a little bit farther back.

At 2014, I've three girls now ages four, seven and 10. My oldest was only eight months old. My

husband's pretty active in politics. And I did a lot of nonprofit work that worked in corporate

insurance. And there was a vacant scene. I remember he was like, you should run for school board.

And I thought he was insane. But you know, when you're raising a family and you realize that education

plays such a pivotal role in their trajectory. And you looked at the school board. There was no

in there with young kids. So I stepped off the ledge. There was a vacancy. So I did apply for the

appointment governor, then Senator Rick Scott, but former governor did appoint me. And then that

elevated the polarization. But I, you know, I came out and just said I was an obvious. I didn't

work in education. I was a mom. I was a business person and believed in things like school choice

and accountability and wanting high quality education for every person no matter what your

zip code was. That's a four letter word in the world of education and particularly for unions.

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