Welcome to sideline sanity with Michelle Tofoya, sponsored by Legacy Precious Metals.

There's never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Visit legacy pm.investments.com.

That's legacy pm.investments.com. Coming up, what exactly is school choice?

For nearly three decades, she's reported the action from the sidelines.

She started very young.

She's covered the NBA, NFL, Olympics, and the college football and basketball national

championships.

And now, during these insane times in our world, Michelle Tofoya thinks we need a serious dose of sanity.

This is sideline sanity with your host, one of the sanest people on planet Earth.

Michelle Tofoya.

So for a long time, I've been hearing the term school choice.

And I think one of the side effects that came with COVID was parents' ability to look into their kids' classrooms and see what's really going on. And we have seen almost a little epidemic

of parents going to school board meetings and saying, what, how, what, why, why are we doing

this? And it's very, very interesting. And so the subject of school choice seems to be gaining

some momentum here over the last couple of years. And I've been in touch

with an organization called Ed Choice. They've been around for a long time. And it's important to me,

I was able to put my kids in a school that I wanted to. And not everyone is. And why not? And are

their drawbacks? Let's talk about this. I think it's really important. So we welcome Steve Halverta on. He is the vice president of development from EdChice. Edchoice.org if you want to go, they have amazing resources there if you want to look at this, but this is not an infomercial for Ed Choice.

Steve and I are going to talk as though I know nothing about this, as I hope a lot of you come to this conversation with a lot of questions. Let's try to get them answered. Steve, thank you for your time. Thank you for having me, Michelle. It's an honor to be here. I appreciate it. Yeah, well, so you're hearing this.

What many people may not have seen that I appreciate it. Yeah. Well, so you're hearing this.

What many people may not have seen that I saw from my little vantage point here in my office was you nodding along.

Right now, what kind of experience are you guys having in terms of parents raising their hands and saying, can I send my kids somewhere else?

...