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Welcome back to a numbers game with Ryan Gurdowski, everybody.

Happy Monday.

I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day.

I try to remember holidays that happened on the weekend the Friday before, and I just,

I never look at the calendar.

Like, what's going on?

So I didn't wish I anyone at Happy Mother's Day on Friday.

Hope you all had a great Mother's Day over the weekend.

Everyone who celebrate all the moms out there.

I know us kids are the ones who made you crazy.

So hope that your kids made it up to you and gave you a good day.

I want to talk to you guys.

I have, we're going to talk about Ohio welfare fraud during the interview segment.

We're going to talk about the, about the redistricting effort, don't ask me anything.

But first, I want to get into a conversation I had with my relatives over the weekend that I thought was very introspective for a trend that is happening with data that is, I think, really important to kind of grasp at this moment.

So I was with my family on Mother's Day, as most of you, probably many of you were.

And we started talking about Catholic schools.

Now, if you're Catholic and you grew up in a city, Catholic education kind of comes up in conversation regularly, or not regularly, but it happens

more than you would think it would. Because a lot of Catholic schools are closing and why are they

closing in? Is it the administration? Is it high tuition prices? Is it whatever? My baby boomer

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