Welcome to another episode of The Chicks on the Right podcast. Today we're very excited to have an old friend of the show back with us. It's Tina Daskovic from Moms for Liberty, who you may know from spending time on a Florida school board. She's currently working on several nonprofit boards in her community, all of which support kids. Obviously, that's the cause near and dear to her heart.

So we wanted to catch up with you, Tina, and ask you about some current events, and we'll kick

it off with all this hullabaloo that is happening with this school superintendent, Ian Roberts,

in Iowa, who we don't even know.

Do we call him Dr. Roberts?

Does he even have a degree? We don't know.

Is his name Ian? Like what's happening? But he was just arrested. And so we wanted to get your take

on that, especially when it comes to how in the world he was selected.

Yeah. So as you said, I was on a school board. And so I just don't even know how this guy got his job,

because there is such a thorough vetting process with anyone that's going to be around children nowadays.

Of course there is. But for a superintendent of schools, there's extra layers of that.

All of the elected school board members need to be held accountable

for this. And I had mentioned it the other day. So when I was on the school board here in Florida,

about twice the size of the Des Moines School District that this is the superintendent of,

I actually used to go into school board meetings hours early and ask for the personnel files,

background checks and everything on every single leader in the district that we were voting

on.

And so we had 9,000 employees.

So it wasn't all the employees I did that for, but every principal, every vice principal,

anybody in leadership and absolutely a superintendent candidate. So we used to hire a third-party firm.

I think that's what most school districts do. They do background checks. They do research.

They usually have a pool of candidates that they are constantly checking on and checking in with

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