Hey, let's talk about these schools again.

So anybody who's listened to anything I've done for the last handful of years knows that I'm very interested in the very active cell phone company, Patriot Mobile.

And they have a few candidates that they've supported on the school board in Great Vine Collieville where i live where we're closing schools and three of those people are up for

re-election in may so i sat down with three people who are running uh for those spots these candidates

they've been on the board for three years they ran on culture war stuff and they've gotten to the

bottom of that rampant litter box problem.

But the school district is not functioning well and engaging with the community in any meaningful way at all.

So these three people are running.

If you live in the district, check it out.

If you know somebody who lives in the district,

maybe send it their way. We'll have a high team movie review next week. But for now, more schools.

Okay, we are here recording a podcast about one of the only school boards I know of where there's

been a podcast actually produced about it. This is the Grapevine, Colleyville Independent School District. I'm here with Matthew White, Darrell Brown, and Lindsay Shegett. You are correct. Got it right. So we're just going to start out, jump right in with you, Matthew, just sort of a, why are you doing this? Why now? What sort of goals are you looking to achieve by diving in at this

point? Okay. Good question. So I have three small kids. I have a 10-year-old, a six-year-old,

and a four-year-old, and we're in GCSD. And I got involved when the district started talking

about closing the elementary campus that my kids attend.

That's not why I'm running, but it definitely got me, it woke me up. And I think that that was, it woke a lot of people up.

And because it, when a school district like ours, GCSD has a legacy of excellence.

We've been, we've referred ourselves as a destination district

for a lot of years and when a destination district starts closing campuses because of

enrollment, that is a sign of crisis. And so I got involved along with Darrell and

Lindsey and a lot of other people and started, you know, talking about, hey, what's going on here and, you know, how can we help and that sort of thing.

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