Welcome to the conversations that matter podcast. I'm your host John Harris. We're going to talk today

about why classical conversations blew it. Yes, why classical conversations, the homeschool

curriculum, in my opinion, blew it, or at least the person running

their social media accounts.

So I should say before I get into this that I'm not telling you that they're thoroughly

compromised, you should dump their curriculum I'm sure many

watching this or listening are using classical conversations for their

children I know the church I attend there's a co-op that meets there and many of the parents who attend my church as well use classical conversations.

So I'm not saying that the whole thing's bad. I don't know enough about it.

All I'm saying is that this one post is pretty bad and a lot of people seem to be unable to

understand why it's bad which is why I felt compelled to make this video because

I've gone over Juneteenth before which is what this post is in relation to

but I think that I need to apply it to a specific case so this is a specific case to apply

some of that critique of of Juneteenth and it's really not even of

Juneteenth it's the way Juneteenth is framed and this is just such a textbook example of

the bad framing that we've been getting since it was made a federal holiday and so I want to talk about that and I've been critical of Juneteenth for a while but this this goes beyond being critical of adopting Juneteenth as a federal holiday.

This is the way that it's framed.

And I'll go through it piece by piece and show you why I think this is not good.

And this was reinforced to me. I didn't know about this post until today

which is why is weeks ago but I posted it today and it kind of became a

controversy to because it went many viral and people were most people were

supporting what I was saying about it I just said that classical conversations

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