Yes, God, God. God don't never change. Well, welcome to Plodcast. Well, I'm still happy about the name.

Welcome to the Plodcast. I like saying, about the name. Welcome to the the podcast. I like saying

podcast. Welcome to the podcast podcast.

Good afternoon, good evening, good morning, where, where,

good night, whatever it is you're doing,

it's good to have you here.

Thanks for listening. I want to talk a little bit about the government school system and I want to begin by talking about a woman in the ancient world named Cassandra.

Cassandra was cursed or had a peculiar affliction.

Her affliction was that she was a prophetess,

she could foretell the future, and the curse was that she,

when she foretold the future, whatever she said would come to pass, and no one would believe her.

So she would predict the future accurately.

She would say what was coming down and it would come to pass.

But when she predicted the future, her curse was she would not be believed.

So what does that have to do with the government school system in the United States today?

Well, here's the problem. We have, I think it's charitable, I think it's fair and

charitable and somewhat grim to say, that our government school system, along with the rest of our culture is actually

circling the drain things are just going from bad to worse they're bad on an academic

level they're bad on a moral level, they're bad on a cultural level,

it's just a, it's simply a failed and

all the things that we're grappling with all the things that we're dealing with are

things that were predicted years before these things were predicted long before and when people made the

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