Business Wednesday - Jake talking schools
The Dumb Zone FREE
No Puppet Productions
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ποΈ 4 December 2025
β±οΈ 63 minutes
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Summary
Jake has a roundtable on some of the goings-on in Grapevine ISD
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, there's a story that I'm interested in and it has to do with the school board where I live, where my family lives. |
| 0:09.1 | It's a story I've seen a lot on the local news and I had questions about it. |
| 0:13.7 | I didn't want to take up any of our sweet, sweet dumb zone time. |
| 0:16.8 | So here we are. |
| 0:18.5 | Skip on past if this is an Easter basket's topic for you. |
| 0:21.5 | I get it. |
| 0:22.2 | However, there is a lot going on here. |
| 0:25.0 | The plan here is to close two elementary schools in our district without really any discussion about it at all. |
| 0:32.7 | And the tone and the disposition of the people making the decisions has been super dismissive at best. |
| 0:39.8 | People are pissed. I'm pissed. It kind of feels like the Luca trade in a way that there's a few |
| 0:46.7 | people who don't really know what they're doing that are making decisions that affect their |
| 0:50.6 | public without really much consideration for that public. Unsurprisingly, |
| 0:56.1 | the way they intend to do it, this would disproportionately affect lower income, |
| 1:00.5 | lower socioeconomic level students. So while this may be something that only directly |
| 1:07.3 | applies to a small number of us, I think this is probably just good info in general. |
| 1:12.4 | And it's just strangers working together for something they care about. |
| 1:16.1 | So I thought it was cool. |
| 1:17.4 | The ice water in the bottle in this episode is not me. |
| 1:21.8 | I'm trying to be better about that. |
| 1:23.3 | I am sorry. |
| 1:25.0 | So this is the story of Chip Gaines sister taking over our school board as told by the parents |
| 1:33.5 | involved. |
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