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Hey, everybody welcome to the buck sexton show on this episode mark Hemingway is with us of real clear

Investigations. He's also an editor at the Federalist and the husband of the formidable Molly Hemingway who is a

Fantastic author and writer in her own right mr. Mark how are you doing sir? How is America?

You know America's hanging on but yeah, I'm doing alright

You know one thing that I know you get very focused in on is all the the school stuff you've been on the board of a

Classical school for nearly 18

Years one I want you to tell me about that

But then I also want to ask about you may have seen you know Biden is saying that it's cruel now to prevent

Gender transition surgery for kids that's it's cruel to stop

Kids from getting surgery that is going to almost certainly ruin their lives, but anyway, we'll get to that first

Tell me well, what is what is this classical school you've been on the board of for almost 20 years?

Yeah, my church has had a school in some form or another for you know nearly a hundred years like a lot of different

churches

But you know like I think a religious education in this country kind of suffered an identity crisis in the you know in the sort of the late 20th century and

Our school had gotten very small we were deciding what to do with it and you know

You know the school population got so low like do we close the school or something?

So what we did and this was you know gosh 18 20 years ago now we

Basically doubled down on the religious emphasis of the school and we made it a classical school now 20 years ago

It's kind of funny because you know talking about classical education like like these days, you know

I talked to well-educated parents and they know exactly classical education is I'm gonna ask me questions like are you teaching sacks and or Singapore math?

And they have like you know very you know opinionated ideas about private school because they've had to because the collapse of public education

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