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sent you. Hey everybody, this is Heidi St. John. Thanks for tuning in today. You guys have

found me at my little corner of the internet today is Friday, December the 17th. It's

meet my friend Friday and today I am thrilled beyond measure to have one of my dearest friends

in the world on the show with me. Dr. Kathy Cook is here and we're going to talk about

the ever changing standards in education and how you can be a part of making sure that

our children receive a good education. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

All right, you guys. So before I get started today, want to remind you that I still am

loving receiving your Christmas cards and your letters here at Friendly Planted. We are

putting pictures of your families up on the walls at the homeschool resource center.

You guys can continue to send those to us. We'd love to hear from you. And if you're inclined

to support what we're doing here, we're planning on opening up homeschool resource centers

across the country and you can support the nonprofit organization that is Friendly Planted

Family. I will link back to that in the show notes today. All right, you guys. I am

thrilled and honored to have one of my most favorite people in the whole world with me

on the show today. Dr. Kathy Cook is here. Kathy and I have talked about a lot of things

over a lot of miles or several years on the show. And today we're going to take a topic

on that we've never taken on before. Many of you guys heard me talk about last week.

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