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created_time: 2026-01-12T14:20:00.000Z
title: 01-09 Meeting: Servite High School Admissions and Programs
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Speaker 1 00:00:00
Focused on preventative maintenance and, you know, the longevity of everything, so everything has, you know, aged and stuff like that, but we're really getting together, like we just redid the tint or the skins on all the aquatic stuff right here, so it's looking really good and we're just continuing to do that with everything else. We just remodeled the entire library, so we're slowly doing projects like that to revitalize the campus, really bring it into this 21st century.
Speaker 2 00:00:31
Do you guys have any upcoming revitalization plans. 
Speaker 1 00:00:35
So we're planning capital campaigns, so since I work in Advancements, like that's all the fundraising and all that, I'm not exactly sure what capital we'll fund in the coming, like years, but I know we want to put... Covered coverings over the parking with solar so we can you know Offset that as well as have an excuse to cover the parking stuff like that put restrooms out by the field. That's another one.
Speaker 1 00:01:06
I think restaining the concrete to make it look not as, Not as bad, but you know make it look better. Those are the main ones and I think we have like a big pie in the sky is. Yeah, so this is all homes when I was here.
Speaker 1 00:01:38
And like right around here was the original Carl's Jr. Which I had choir class in, And then they came by with a giant crane picked it up and took it away on the truck. So yeah, we own a couple of the houses. We're slowly trying to expand and get a bigger campus to allow for more activities and different things like that. And I'm not sure how you or your sons, I guess, are with this, but there are girls on campus after school.
Speaker 1 00:02:08
So we share the pool with them, we share the practice, we share the theater with them, and we share the arts. The all-girls school goes through .
Speaker 2 00:02:15
Yeah, they're robotics. Robotics are pretty cool.
Speaker 1 00:02:18
Yeah. That's the one thing that I didn't do here that I .
Speaker 2 00:02:23
What is he doing up there, Allie? So that's exactly, yeah. He's in technology now, OK? That's not a judgment. That's like a common sense. I mean, I literally have an MBA in IT. See? Electronics, it would have fit. It makes sense.
Speaker 3 00:02:39
And you move quick. In eight years, you've, you know.
Speaker 1 00:02:51
Yeah, I did the 4 plus 1 program, and after I finished there, I decided to come back here.
Speaker 2 00:02:58
Were you a part of any of the honors. 
Speaker 1 00:03:02
Yes, I had a couple of classes that were honors. You can kind of pick and choose between CP, which is college prep, like the normal classes, which are, you know, comparing to the local public schools and stuff like that, which you're not really looking at, but our rigor classes are kind of like our honors classes in terms of rigor and expectations, assignments, and all of that. And then we have our honors program, and then we also have AP.
Speaker 1 00:03:36
So we just had mass in here. It's game day for soccer. So the soccer team is just in here. As you can see with all the incense. There's a lot of praying going on in here. We have daily mass in here before school. So if the boys would like to attend, it's not mandatory. And then we have once a month father-son masses. So we have donuts, coffee, stuff like that. It's kind of a meet and greet so you can kind of build community with the other fathers and the other.
Speaker 1 00:04:10
young men with each other here. And then we also have monthly mother-son masses here as well. So if you ever want to come and attend the mass before school with your son, you're always welcome to. And then we have all school mass about twice a month. How does that look like? So it's every other week. Well, not every other week like a set schedule, but it kind of lays out, you know, once every two, three weeks, somewhere in there. And then, so what they wear is a.
Speaker 1 00:04:41
button-up shirt, tie, dress pants, dress shoes, and black socks.
Speaker 2 00:04:48
Where is that held? In the gym. 
Speaker 1 00:04:50
So that's in the theater. I'll show you that. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:04:54
I've seen it, but you haven't. Only because I've had, like, I've been to performances here and whatnot. I was like, oh yeah, I never got to see that. I'm like, oh wait, I've been to these.
Speaker 1 00:05:06
This is the robotics head over here. I don't know if you want to take a look at it or not. I don't know if your sons, are in Boy Scouts or anything, but we have, like, various Eagle projects that we have around the campus, so, we've got the Stations of the Cross, we have the Statue of Mary, with the cover, we've got the fence holding it. This is the robotics height. Our robotics team is super good. I think we've competed in international tournaments the last six years, and we've ranked pretty highly in each of those, so, pretty cool stuff.
Speaker 3 00:05:42
I heard there's a no-cell phone policy.
Speaker 1 00:05:45
Yeah, so we started the no-cell phone policy a few years ago. Anyway, now there's a no phone on campus during the school day policy. I feel like it wasn't really a problem when I was growing up, because social media was kind of just starting, but when I started here in 2014, Instagram was out for a couple years. So it wasn't really all the rage, and we just got all this dopamine. It wasn't really out there, it was all natural.
Speaker 1 00:06:25
But yeah, so we had actually interacted with each other, but now the tendency is go to lunch, go to school, when you're at lunch or during your break, you just look at your phone. And you don't really build community that way, you don't interact with other classes or anything. You just kind of join a school or be on your phone, and you wouldn't not have that. We wanted to preserve community and building relationships.
Speaker 2 00:06:49
How have the boys handled that? Pretty well, actually. So as far as, I'm not really... They had to have got to it.
Speaker 1 00:06:59
Yeah, I'm not really super involved with the disciplinary actions or anything like that. But as far as I know, they kind of like it. Because it's kind of nice to just go here and not have to worry about anything else.
Speaker 4 00:07:14
Everybody was on the same page, yeah.
Speaker 1 00:07:16
Yeah, everybody's on the same page. And especially now, we're not the only place that's doing it. I think as of... This semester or next year or something, LA Unified is doing the same thing and a bunch of other schools are doing the exact same thing where they're banning schools and camps.
Speaker 2 00:07:32
It's like the first good thing that they've done in a long time! Sorry! That's the case! Wow! They should talk about that! So this is your library. 
Speaker 1 00:07:45
Yes. You have very little books in here. Yes! So we don't have any real physical books. Each of the young men gets a laptop when he gets here. And it's a full Windows computer, not a Chromebook. If that makes any difference to you guys. It's an actual computer that they will use in real life type of thing.
Speaker 2 00:08:07
Is that managed by you guys here. 
Speaker 1 00:08:10
Yes. It's all yes at the firewall and all that.
Speaker 2 00:08:13
Are we paying for that to be able to rent that? It's all bundled into tuition. Okay. Is that returned to you guys every summer. 
Speaker 1 00:08:23
No, he gets it when he's a freshman, and then he keeps it all the way until senior year, and then he returns it at the end of senior year.
Speaker 2 00:08:29
Okay, good to know.
Speaker 1 00:08:31
Yep, so then we have thousands of e-books that we have online that they have access to, and then we also auto-enroll all of our students into the Anaheim Public Library. So if he needs physical books or anything, you can drive down to the Anaheim Public Library and just show him his student ID, I believe, and that works as the library card there. So you can get physical books, or you can go online and access any of Anaheim Public Library's e-books. Can I walk back a little bit? Of course.
Speaker 1 00:09:05
It's just back here by the corner. So if they have any problems with their laptops or anything, to the right actually. And then hopefully none of your sons... Oh they took it down. There used to be a laptop that was drilled to the wall that was, they have the most damaged laptop every single year. That's actually really funny, I would keep that up. They really change it to every single semester or so, but it was really funny to show people.
Speaker 1 00:09:36
I'm like hopefully your son isn't the next recipient of the most damaged laptop of the year award. That's really funny. That would be our youngest.
Speaker 3 00:09:47
What else do we have. 
Speaker 2 00:09:52
What's the last one. 
Speaker 3 00:09:55
No I didn't think, what else did we do. 
Speaker 2 00:09:57
So academic programs and college, college readiness and counseling and what not. You have a bunch of schools that do things like for example, kind of have different focus on what is your, what is your.
Speaker 1 00:10:21
So we don't have any like marketed formalized like pathways system which we offer the same things but we don't have like a market of like oh these are for the pathways that you can take I don't know why but that's the decision we've made I don't know I'm not in marketing, sometimes it's just lack of resources but yeah yeah it could be but um okay we can walk down to the counseling office to see if any of them are in there. So when you start your freshman year, everybody gets a freshman counselor because freshmen have very different needs than everyone else at the school when it comes to their counselor, what they're going to need.
Speaker 1 00:11:04
So then you can kind of plan your four years with them if you want to email them before the school year starts when he's incoming over the summer. You can plan, you can email him, have a meeting with that counselor and kind of set the next four years of the classes that you want him to take or he wants to take over those four years and kind of plan out the different classes that he's going to take. Again, we have different courses, of course. I'll show you kind of what a classroom looks like.
Speaker 1 00:11:37
We have different things, like we have computer science classes, we have health classes, anatomy, all those different classes. We have business classes. um so we have everything pretty much that everyone else has where you can take those different classes and kind of build your course load around where you you know where you want to go in for college or what you want to do specifically for your major how often do your.
Speaker 2 00:12:05
teachers change get new faculty versus lose faculty uh what's the churn rate the churn rate.
Speaker 1 00:12:14
is about you don't have to like if you like three years for faculty is the average um but we have like this classroom specifically i have this classroom for geometry with this teacher that is still here. I saw him today, which is funny, so yeah, and I bring you into this classroom because this is like the weirdest classroom So it kind of shows you how we can we like customize the classes to what each individual classroom needs So this is film classes the film classes classroom.
Speaker 1 00:12:48
As well as film clubs, so they have the really nice projector with the surround sound speakers They have the black board and the white boards and then for, like math classes they have the smart board so you can draw on the, projector with the smart pen but most rooms have a, flat screen TV or like a 55 inch TV because a projector bulb costs more than a brand new TV for some reason which I find really funny, so You know if they don't need the projector than they get the TV.
Speaker 2 00:13:28
How do you explain that? You're like, I bring you into the weird one. I'm like, this is weird? Yes, this is the weird one.
Speaker 1 00:13:35
I think a lot of it is because we do an internal news that young men create all by themselves, sort of like TV, that talks about what's going on and stuff like that at school. So a lot of it is props and stuff like that, which is a big thing in the way that we do it. How many classes, how many, I don't know. I think our average is about 20 kids, usually the biggest lessons, like the Englishes and the math classes.
Speaker 1 00:14:16
Those are, let's talk about around 30, 33 kids. That's like a huge class, and then the more niche classes. like art or drawing or painting or anything like that, those are, you know, as little as 10. This is our counseling office. So like I was saying before, when he arrives here, he gets a freshman counselor. So he can plan his four years here. And then after that, so sophomore through senior year,
Speaker 1 00:14:48
he gets assigned by last name a counselor. So that way he doesn't have to re-meet his counselor every single year as he goes through school. And you can kind of tell the counselor, OK, who are you? What do you want to do? Where do you want to go? All of the different stuff that is super pertinent. And then you don't have to redo that every single year. You kind of build this relationship with your counselor. And they can help you go wherever it is that you want to go.
Speaker 2 00:15:24
What is this. 
Speaker 1 00:15:29
I think it's just... Jeff, do you want to take it? Yeah, I'll just take it.
Speaker 2 00:15:39
Take the whole thing. Hi! I'm Ashley, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Do you have a son that might be coming in? I have a few.
Speaker 3 00:15:58
We've got three boys.
Speaker 2 00:16:01
Getting there.
Speaker 3 00:16:03
Think about the future. Yeah, they're all three years apart.
Speaker 2 00:16:05
Yeah, okay. Or a card. They're all in private school right now. Honestly, if one of them came here, it would be just cheaper, so it would be fine. But, um... But yeah, so we're at an eighth grade point right now where we're looking at schools and we know we're getting, we're already behind being that it's January and people apply.
Speaker 5 00:16:24
I know, it's scary, isn't it? Yes. But you're not really behind, you're sort of right on time.
Speaker 2 00:16:28
So, don't panic. I've been like, I've done like a lot of the, like questioning and whatnot, but this is kind of, I'm like, we need to get out here and do this right now, so that way we're not like rushing. Yeah. Do you have any questions? So, academically, our kids, two of our kids are coming from Fairmont Private. What does it look like in that transition? Because they're both in the honor.
Speaker 5 00:17:02
So, they'll take in a, we'll look at the file and review it, but we review it with a placement test to try to see where we might put them in, whether that's full honors, partial honors, or no honors, right? Very likely, if you're talking about... It also means maybe their math might be strong. So we don't advance students because we take them from all over, so we have no idea what Algebra 1 means. Yeah, that's true. So we have a challenge event, and then they would advance to Algebra 2, Trig, and Freshman year. And then that allows either Geometry in Junior year, or we have an advance, so we put that.
Speaker 5 00:17:37
in the summer so they could get to Pre-Cal, Calculus, Calc 1 and 2. And Geometry is more conducive in the summer than the Algebra, that's why we do it though. Is it because we all failed? I liked Geometry. I think Geometry is a hard one. Well, I think all of us do struggle with it. Geometry was the one thing I got. Really. 
Speaker 3 00:17:58
I could do the rest of them, but Geometry, because I can go around, I did just fine. I can go around. There you go.
Speaker 2 00:18:05
Summer school. Yeah. As far as... Yeah. Classes that they can take that might be transferable to colleges, other than the offerings. 
Speaker 5 00:18:17
So there's AP classes. We have AP offerings. If they want to take college classes, we don't do what's technically called a dual enrollment. We're offered here, and they're considered a college. But we would certainly allow them to take classes in the material. And by junior and senior year, our grad requirements have changed slightly, so that a student could take just six classes and go one and two. That was what they wanted to pursue. However, if they're in sports, it's probably not an option. We can kind of talk that out.
Speaker 2 00:18:44
Okay. I think that covers it for now. Let me give you my card, and if you have any other questions, you can call us. Great. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 00:18:53
And I remember asking how often the teachers change. She was my counselor. The counselors do not really. Okay, thank you. So they were worried about, you know, are the teachers going to change, you know, often, or are they going to build relationships. 
Speaker 5 00:19:09
Well, the whole point of what we do is building relationships. with the boys, and I think why they have to stay consistent, is it's actually quite to support young men. So we stay fairly good. I mean, we had a turnover recently, but then it was more that it was time. There was an attrition. We had a lot of older employees, and so there was a change, but now we're holding steady again and growing a little bit that way.
Speaker 2 00:19:32
How long have you been with Servite. 
Speaker 5 00:19:34
20 years.
Speaker 2 00:19:34
OK. Yeah, just a little bit of time.
Speaker 3 00:19:37
Yeah, just a tiny bit. How long does Servite do in the right frame? College admissions? Yeah, college admissions on an academic level.
Speaker 5 00:19:45
I would say we do very well. I think obviously our numbers in terms of comparable competitive academic schools, we have a smaller population at the top than our other counterparts. But those top kids in the top 20% do very well. Right now we're looking at, We just heard for Notre Dame for two or three of our students, which is pretty strong in that early admissions, but at the higher end of rating, we're getting in on that one. We'll hear soon on USC, but we have one going to West Point. We're looking at another one that's going to go into another Naval Academy.
Speaker 5 00:20:18
And there's been a couple other grabs here and there. So I think our top kids do very well, and I don't mean that to mean our other kids don't. But they'll compete with the best at any school, I guess is how I would look at it.
Speaker 2 00:20:30
On a more, like, not personal to you, but the experience that you've had, when they stopped requiring for the kids to do the testing versus now they're starting to require it again, how has that impacted the boys. 
Speaker 5 00:20:44
Well, for some, you know, the actual optional probably helps some kids more on the little bit maybe lower end, but strong in the classroom, but not the test takers. You know, it helped them a little bit because they could choose optional and then they could share their, they had to look at their portfolio more as opposed to just a number. And make a decision off numbers. Which, unfortunately, some schools, they say they're holistic, but then they come up with, hey, you just took our top three, right? So, but now it's coming back, which I think, you know, it's a double-edged sword,
Speaker 5 00:21:16
but it's positive for some of our kids that didn't get to showcase that. That we're exceptional test takers, and it was taken away from them.
Speaker 2 00:21:21
Yeah, we have a very good, like our oldest is an extremely good test taker, but our youngest one definitely has an IEP, and is dyslexic.
Speaker 3 00:21:29
That might be another good question. So, you know, he's, because right now he goes to Fairmont, he goes to Prentiss, he's a fourth grader, so obviously we've got a lot of time, but we're going to start moving him back. But he's got dyslexia and ADHD, and, you know, so we pop him with pills, and we send him to. 
Speaker 2 00:21:50
Well, no, that's good to know, because I will say that Prentiss is definitely, they push more orange children than they do Cervite, and like the feedback that I've gotten, Which is, she's kind about it, but she goes, last I checked, SURVIVED did not have an established program necessarily for children who have IEPs, at least as developed.
Speaker 5 00:22:11
So that could be wrong. No, and that was a true story. Even Lisa, who's in charge of it here, would say, we'd be honest too, they might be able to support you better. But we're now growing in that way. So we've added, we actually have a math progression now, so the students don't just drop off after the first year. So they are in classrooms together in math versus having to, if they have learning challenges, it might be your son or not. And then a different geometry class, and they're potted that way. And a support class that's involved, and then we've added two more people to the support program.
Speaker 5 00:22:46
Okay, that's good to know. So we are moving in the direction of making it more articulated. Actually there's a fee to it now, or before there wasn't, because we weren't more articulated. So we're definitely moving in the right direction. I think where we excel sometimes with someone is if you can, walk with us a little bit is what they're getting holistically and how they're developing and managing their diagnosis, not just what they're doing in the.
Speaker 2 00:23:09
classroom. Do you think that, so the youngest, he's our youngest so that will be four years. Well nothing scares me about what you said at this point. He's been an apprentice for a long time and we're now just at the point where we feel like it's holding him back. He could do so much more if they don't hold him as responsible. So we need to switch that out. That is the challenge and they're probably right to be doing that now. So for us, that's why we're looking for something that's a little bit more in between. But we'll have about four more years until he goes into high school. So would you say in four years this program would be stronger. 
Speaker 5 00:23:42
We're going to continue to develop it, yes. The big thing that we haven't what we don't cross over is we don't modify. In other words we're not going to change the test he has to take. For now we might make it less questions. you know has something some issues right but they're still going to have to know the same content yeah but we'll make accommodations okay so the classroom where he sits um if he needs to test somewhere else right um if there's another situation where we might need to have a different class that or a support class so uh but yes the intention who's doing this now which is lisa.
Speaker 5 00:24:14
bernard she's very intentional she has a whole plan laid out so okay um funding and everything.
Speaker 2 00:24:18
else willing we are we are headed that direction well that's it that's good we got time so yeah. i know i never it never used to occur to me like i used to be i cannot believe how old i feel sometimes and how they call me in my generation and whatnot like okay.
Speaker 2 00:24:50
So but now I have to start thinking like that because we have boys going it's like one starts now for high school And then two years another one starts and in two years just when one graduates and the other one goes in so it's just like are.
Speaker 5 00:25:02
You thinking that they will all go to the same place? That would be nice, Well, the reason why I ask and again, you'll see if this is the right fit for you or not I didn't feel like you want to be here, but well the community is a big deal. Community is a big deal and Getting to develop that over time with all your boys is not only good for them But for you in terms of how you support them and it's one of the things we do, So I think that's a real positive thing if they all come through and that works out that way.
Speaker 2 00:25:31
I think that's why, it's like I say a lot of, which is odd because I never used to think about schooling like that. When I went to school it was like you and your sister will go in the same school, like there's no ifs, ands, or buts. Like taking you to a different school would be because of the fact that you got kicked out. Not because, you know. Right, there was never a choice. Right, but now I have all these friends who will drive their kid, this son to here, this, their daughter to here. Oh, they didn't like it here, so we're gonna transfer them over here. And I'm like, holy moly, like I can't do that.
Speaker 5 00:25:59
Like, the idea of going to different schools next year is going to be... Well, no, and you're not. That workaround is not teaching. Right. You know, there's a point where it's always finding the workaround is not helping in the membership.
Speaker 2 00:26:07
And I think that there's something to be said about having a legacy within. I mean, we have three boys, and, just as one, you know, like there's always something building into that. So ideally that would go and, you know, this would have cultivated that or whatever school that they went to. Totally agree. Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it. Of course. I mean, okay, thank you again for the questions.
Speaker 1 00:26:27
Thank you so much. Enjoy your walk.
Speaker 4 00:26:43
Actually answered all your questions? Yeah. I don't know.
Speaker 1 00:27:08
I'm thinking the back. But I don't know. Yeah, but it's funny that you say that. The last time I was up here and I didn't... It's stressful. I know. because i was like they put these in here in 2013 much extra room. but it isn't called 32 like 32 then we got to pick up 100 yeah and we are out of states all right.
Speaker 1 00:27:45
hi hey guys how are you hi this is the teachers look pass through having a party yeah there you.
Speaker 6 00:27:54
go yeah and then here's the feeling and it's just like this is like home for you yeah somewhat yeah.
Speaker 1 00:28:09
yeah so this is where we have all of our old school maps we have a fall everybody can fit in here yeah yeah i think it seats 950 or 960 or something like that so, You can fit them all in here with a little bit of extra room.
Speaker 2 00:28:26
950 is a big number. When I look at this room, it doesn't look like 950 people.
Speaker 1 00:28:30
Yeah, it is kind of crazy.
Speaker 2 00:28:38
Cool. Thank you.
Speaker 4 00:28:39
We're going to be back to the main.
Speaker 1 00:28:55
If you have any questions for our actual admissions team, we can answer them for you. Like next steps and whatever else you need to learn. No, I mean, it's not the best way to report. You have eyes. But preventatively, not reactionarily, we have... at all times. We have presents on campus. So nothing happened but we do have a gift.
Speaker 6 00:29:34
Yeah. I don't want to bring it up in a long evening. Honestly, my next wife, Holly, you beat me.
Speaker 1 00:29:41
I would be okay with that. He's around here somewhere because he's still here. I just didn't even see him. Michael, great guy. Do you want me to follow you here? Let me see if you're here. I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 00:30:36
All right.
Speaker 2 00:31:23
But he did the tour already, I was like one of two pairs that stuck around, and it was like I'm like I'll just put in the other one, I wanted the day that we had, so yeah. I'm sorry I forget your role.
Speaker 2 00:31:53
That's right, you're 19 years.
Speaker 7 00:32:02
Okay, great, great.
Speaker 6 00:32:04
So what do you think he was? Where did he stand? So we've got three boys as well.
Speaker 3 00:32:14
Please, that's easy, okay. Eric has the oldest, yeah. I'm saying three now. I think, you know, the only question I can think of, like, that didn't go, didn't have a chance to ask, you know, we talked about the benefits of an all-boys, and I was thinking that you might do this.
Speaker 2 00:32:46
I mean, for me, it's like three boys at home. So, like, there's something to be said about boys who grow up with sisters, because there is a protective instinct that they learn. My boys do not have it. They do, but they don't. Like, you know, that might come over time, maybe, as I look more fragile, but as far as they're concerned, I'm as good as they are.
Speaker 7 00:33:11
So one thing you see in information weekend, which is something they do in July, it's a three day, not three days, it's two days now. They're taught so many different things. They're doing things, I liken it to a mini boot camp physically, right? But then spiritually, they have a lot of spiritual time. They, and they also get taught about, and Pierce can talk more about this, is about respecting their mother, women in general, right?
Speaker 7 00:33:46
Right. They are changed when they come back from that weekend, right? They come back. And when does that happen? That's July. Okay. July incoming. So is that, that's for freshmen or is that for incoming freshmen? And they come back changed. Then as far as the girls, the social relations stuff. I mean, I laugh at my son when he, but he's 36 now, by the way. Him and Jim were like, they said they have dance classes.
Speaker 7 00:34:19
I was not, right? But the girls are on campus. They use the track, they use the pool. We share the robotics program with them, and we share the theater. So those girls here are after school, and then there's that event. We can sort of get to socialize and meet other girls. And some of the boys have girls that are friends from their current school that they'll see around. So that, as far as that socialization goes. But they really emphasize the respect for females, for the boys here on campus.
Speaker 7 00:34:50
I have just a quick story of my sister-in-law. Her sister had her son here. She was coming with Grandma, and they were redoing the track. And she said a bunch of kids, she actually went out of her way to call me, she said a bunch of kids saw us from way far away and they actually moved some of the plywood pieces and moved things around so they can get the wheelchair up over and over to watch a game.
Speaker 7 00:35:22
She goes, I've never seen that before. I've been to so many schools with my grandpa to take them to see other grandkids things and I've seen that before. And the boys are really, I mean they were knuckleheads at times because there were going to be boys, but they really step up. And it's insisted upon and really, I don't know how else to explain it.
Speaker 1 00:35:48
if you come here in the middle of the day if you're carrying something heavy good luck still being carrying that by the time you get to your destination, like especially if you like walk for the quad because you know especially when i you know when i was here we were taught like if somebody's walking to campus it's a parent you know sister father anything offer like hey do you need help do you want me to carry that for you, uh yeah do you need do you need me to show you where yeah your destination is and then they'll walk in there instead of just saying oh it's around the corner type of thing so it's you know.
Speaker 1 00:36:20
that's not like you know it's kind of like my experience but it's i'll walk across this and.
Speaker 7 00:36:26
i'll have something that looks heavy i hope we can almost think it can be good okay this is great working at a boys school okay i need five of you come with me and then you get six or seven you guys come with me we're gonna take this across campus yeah. I mean, that's just from my perspective. There's so many other stories like that. And also, I think for the boys, they can just be themselves.
Speaker 7 00:36:60
You know, I don't know what your son said about girls passing notes or things going on in the classroom.
Speaker 2 00:37:05
He's kind of put off by it. In fact, they bug him. They really bug him because they all seem like a lot went wrong with it and it caused problems.
Speaker 7 00:37:12
And so they really can just be themselves. That's one of the things Nick and his friend Justin, when I was driving them home one day, I'm always listening, right? And I heard them saying, you don't have to deal with the passing of the notes and you don't have to deal with this and that. And they were just talking and I'm high alert just listening to what they have to say. But they really can be themselves, you'll see. The kids tend to be competitive with themselves here, not just athletically or in robotics.
Speaker 7 00:37:44
or the theater program, but also academically. They challenge each other to do better. And they also teach to the boys, which kind of offers speak to the teacher, teaching to, it's different to teach to the boys, to teach co-ed and to teach, right? It's a different market. How many periods do you guys have in class? Well, there's six periods, there's seven periods.
Speaker 1 00:38:16
There's seven periods every day. There's eight period, which is homeroom. We call it priory. That's kind of more like a life skills class that we'll be here more towards. And then there's also a zero period. So that one's an optional before school period that they can attend. So if he's doing soccer, let's say he's on varsity, the seventh period for any varsity athlete is gonna be their practice. So that kind of leads into their day type of thing. So like my junior year, what I did was I had.
Speaker 1 00:38:47
varsity wrestling, but I needed to fit more classes in. So I did zero period, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and then I had seven periods with my sport. And then after that, I had theater. So you can really fill out your days and that's kind of what it looks like.
Speaker 7 00:39:02
And then as far as the schedule goes, there's three regular days and two block days. I don't know what they do at his current school, if they can go to every day.
Speaker 2 00:39:10
It's like seven classes, so it's like one, three. The next day, two, four, seven. So they're longer classes.
Speaker 7 00:39:18
Yeah. So they break it up for three days a week. They have all their classes and then they have two block days a week. So those classes could take the time to do more lectures or the science classes. Okay. So they alternate the schedule. But they don't have block days. That's what survey does. Right.
Speaker 1 00:39:41
We do a mix of both of them.
Speaker 3 00:39:45
I just remember when I was listening like that. Many of the students, you know, most of their days, they're 14, 16 hours.
Speaker 7 00:40:01
Well, if you talk to a swimmer, they swim at 6 o'clock or 6.30 in the morning. They're here. And then they go in the locker room and probably do some homework. point going home right the practices so they'll they'll come they'll come early some kids come early for weightlifting before school depending on their sport and then they're going to their classes the freshmen have pe built into the school but sophomore juniors and seniors their practice.
Speaker 7 00:40:31
is typically that seventh period class but sometimes it goes into after school or depending on if it's freshman sophomore jb the practices are different so some of the coaches will take the lever they'll get a classroom after school to get their kids to do homework as a group in, a classroom to do homework before their practice yeah and when they have games some of the things that are later at night just depends on but they can be here.
Speaker 1 00:40:59
Like, so like my junior year, I'd get here, you know, 7 o'clock for my zero period, and then I'd stay here until school ends, you know, 3 o'clock, but I'm in wrestling practice, so I'm there in practice until 4.30 or 5 or so, and then the theater starts, and I'm in the theater, and if it's like the week before the show, I'm there until, you know, maybe 8, 8.30 p.m., and then I'm going home, so that's how those long days go.
Speaker 7 00:41:25
And they learn to manage their time, really, and that's why that block schedule's really helpful. They started a new one, what's it called. 
Speaker 1 00:41:33
Oh, yeah, we started this year, flex schedule, which is a block where it's like odd classes or even classes, but then we have in the middle of the day a flex period, so it can be like, you can go to like a study hall, or you can go to like office hours, and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 00:41:50
Our kids are, like Fairmind actually does that as well, where they have a flex period, and they can do their homework. Like, they're taught to do their master teacher job.
Speaker 7 00:41:59
And when you come to events, and sometimes we have the students who just say, okay, we've got three or four students to speak in asking questions. Parents are asking questions. And a lot of them, they talk about most of the learning. Like if I was telling my freshman self I would manage my time better or I would learn to do this. But they want it.
Speaker 2 00:42:22
Right. Open campus or closed campus? Closed. Completely closed. All the way. And all the way. But as far as like seniors are doing the class, are they allowed to have like everything. 
Speaker 7 00:42:36
So they have, some of the students have enough credit. They have to get permission, right? They sign up from their counselor and they have permission, right? So they have a special pass where they can leave. They can leave. Most of them, if they leave, they end up coming to private. But it is a closed campus and we do have security out front. um but once the school day ends you know um you guys are together i'm not concerned about safety.
Speaker 2 00:43:07
a bit yeah i'm more thinking about like as a senior can they leave and go get lunch and come.
Speaker 1 00:43:12
back so yeah they can't leave during the middle of the day and i think one of your other questions was yes the as soon as they get their license um and they're 16 they can drive their car here um and then we have assigned parking spots all the spots are numbered so does everybody get a sign um it depends if you get your pat parking pass like in the first month you're almost guaranteed to get a spot but some of the kids like they turn 16 like in april or whatever like maybe there's there's going to be no more passes left so it's like okay park on the street but then you.
Speaker 7 00:43:45
still need a pass but they can't have them get a pass because it's the neighbors right. I mean, I just had a transfer come in and really wanted to pass. I heard the business officer tell me we just sold the last five yesterday. So they are able to get a pass in the next week.
Speaker 7 00:44:17
But when they come to school on summer registration, most of them are getting there. There's always passes throughout the year. I was surprised this year that they... And how is it for the other guys, the younger ones. 
Speaker 2 00:44:34
They are all on two years of discussions. So it's going to be 14... Gosh, Eric's 14. You just turned 14 in December. 14, 12, and 10 is what we have. So he had a way to get here, the 14-year-old. Is that his December birthday? He is. Yeah, that's me. So he'll be... Well, we didn't change it. They're all going to be the oldest. Well, I'm thinking about that for my 12-year-old, he's great, so by the time, he's going to be.
Speaker 2 00:45:08
a sophomore. I was a sophomore on Flywise. I don't know what you're saying, but that's crazy to me. It's terrifying. They're big. They're starting their freshman year. Well, I think with the modern days, especially with their sports, and I don't know, but I'm sure on some level, a lot of schools are starting their freshman year. So, there's no joke. I've had a lot of times where kids go into a traditional environment, and they don't.
Speaker 2 00:45:46
really accommodate that or make that a big deal, and so now you have these freshmen who are on varsity. Kids are like, we're all men. We're all men. And then you have like little children, you know, or 13 to like some 16-year-old freshmen. Yeah. I think it's a really good question.
Speaker 7 00:46:05
What I've come up with over the years, what I've seen is I've seen some kids get put into some sort of program that they prefer. The kid takes the test when they're in eighth grade, their true eighth grade, and then they take the test again and they come down. Yeah. Because the school isn't Yeah, I agree. They're going to these academies. I don't look mom-to-mom or parent-to-parent.
Speaker 2 00:46:33
You need to choose something that's I think if you're going to do that, like I think, I think holding back kids, boys is smart, but I think you do that when they're younger, not necessarily when they're older. Like for athletics. When they're younger, it's like the birdie's not there. But when they're older, then they're just lacking motivation because they're repeating. Yeah. But anyways. I think we're good. Okay. Well, have you guys started the application? We haven't started anything yet. We went on a date night a couple of nights ago and it was like, all right, we got applications are being,
Speaker 2 00:47:04
I saw you guys did early admission already. Yeah, so once you start, once you do the application. 
Speaker 7 00:47:10
if he takes the test here and you want us to share, let's say, cause you said the orange was running off, you mentioned them, we can share the results with them, but you only want them to take it once.
Speaker 2 00:47:21
Oh, really? So they won't take it, they'll take it either here or there. So either way, and that's the same test. It's the same test at the Catholic schools.
Speaker 7 00:47:28
Orange Lutheran calls their scholastic testing test, but it's not the same result. So they do their own in-house test. If they tested at Orange Lutheran, I still want them to take it.
Speaker 2 00:47:40
Does Orange Lutheran take, accept your test, though? Yes. Oh, that's fine. Okay, that's good to know. That's really good to know. And then if your son is in advanced math, because he's at Fairmont, he's probably a very good student.
Speaker 7 00:47:54
He's not a great student, but he's extremely intelligent and has an advanced math. So here's a math thing, just so you know. When they take the HSBT in January, the end of this month, based on that, they can be placed, let's say, in on this math. But that on this math is on. So fast forward to May, they take what we have the challenge test. We have geometry, math, algebra. And so if he challenges the algebra, he takes the test and he gets a certain percentage,
Speaker 7 00:48:24
he can go as high as algebra 2 honors, algebra 2 for honors. So depending on what he does. And then if he has Spanish there, he can spot that.
Speaker 2 00:48:34
So he's already in, I think this would be his, well, he's done Spanish up until there. Technically, like the way that Fairmont tells us is that they would be capable of going. testing into spanish too and then you would want him to take that test and then because he would.
Speaker 7 00:48:50
he would pump up for that and then is he by chance in geometry so he's in a he's in geometry okay so, what we do with geometry the cal states and the uc's have allowed to a challenge out of geometry so if he takes our test i want to say like 76 or 78 he would he'd skip geometry and uh he'd go into.
Speaker 2 00:49:15
you know yeah i think that's kind of that's what we would i'm not like we would expect like we i think that's kind of what we've known to see like the progression of academics if he didn't pass it we can always try it again at the end of freshman year passing tests is not a problem it's doing the work i think it gets him out of trouble it's a classroom it's the best yeah so like.
Speaker 7 00:49:43
Because we get kids that have a geometry high school level at all different schools, parents that are real kids or some do, but our Fairmont kids tend to...
Speaker 2 00:49:54
Yeah, he'll do pretty well. Yeah, he'll do pretty well.
Speaker 3 00:49:58
Well, they teach from a grade ahead, and they do, I mean, so...
Speaker 2 00:50:01
It's the ISL, so they're not allowed to progress until, and then they'll let them out if they're not keeping up or not. So, our oldest wanted to actually maintain honors English and honors math since he was in fourth grade. But he just doesn't like doing work. So, there you go, when you're like, I bet you he's a good student, and I'm like, maybe, testing the 99.9 percentile in the nation, as far as, like, test taking going...
Speaker 2 00:50:35
But, by missing assignments... And his, like, blondish, like, ways of going about doing things is ridiculous. Okay. No, no, this has been, thank you. This has been extremely helpful because I don't think we would have even known to kind of know what these, yeah. I just thought when you started talking about his academic stuff, I just wanted to mention that to you guys. No, it's helpful. Both of our, both of our old employees would be on that track. And then in the opposite way, we have one with an IEP who is an apprentice.
Speaker 2 00:51:10
So, so we did.
Speaker 7 00:51:11
So depending on his needs, when he comes, or comes, we have, Lisa, our art works with our students with learning differences. Yeah. And she would look at the IEP. She would even look at it the summer before and say, they saw what he needs and what he uses. We can do this, this, and this. We can accommodate students, but we don't modify.
Speaker 2 00:51:33
Right, that's why it's a room we met with.
Speaker 3 00:51:35
No, I missed Reckner. Oh, so, yes.
Speaker 2 00:51:39
so she was really good at explaining to us that have now recently more been put in place to help children and like they're a lot stronger than they were so on that and i was telling her that, apprentice pretty much is a feeder school and don't work with your friend and they have a pretty good program established with them and while they're not against her like they just have no and mr rector mr rector was like yeah that's very true but more recently they have.
Speaker 2 00:52:13
done a good job at the establishment program so it'll be that much further which is great to hear, so what is the what is the advantage when you say we do not modify the material but we i just don't.
Speaker 7 00:52:25
know anything about it so as schools high schools we are approved with the cal states and the uc's. And if we modify our curriculum, which means we change it to help the student, then we're no longer... Who's modifying curriculum? Well, some kids need it modified based on what they're doing. Oh, okay. And a lot of the public schools will do that. So we need to make sure that the parents know that we can accommodate them. They need extra time for tests. We don't give them extra time for assignments, but they can have extra time for tests.
Speaker 7 00:53:01
They can be testing in a quiet space. They have preferred seating. Lisa works with kids a lot, yeah. Yes, that would be our sons and daughters. Yeah, so there's different things that she will help them with and give them the tools to help them succeed. Okay. But we won't change our...
Speaker 2 00:53:19
How do you... Sorry. I don't know how long it's late. No one's home. How do public schools get away with modifying curriculum when you guys can't because...
Speaker 7 00:53:29
So, because they have different curriculums, and so not all of their kids... In the past, over the years, about 99% of our kids get accepted to four-year units, right? So we're college prep, right? But we don't have students who, I don't know how out of six, minus two, but...
Speaker 3 00:53:54
Don't plan to go to college.
Speaker 2 00:53:56
That's still literally a fair amount of private students. Yeah. That's what we're planning to go to a junior school or a tech school. Okay. Because they won't meet the criteria. Yeah, that's fine. I'm not a, we're on the very different ends of, nothing is offensive to us. And it's kind of the middle of the street.
Speaker 7 00:54:14
And you know, we don't, you know, the public schools have the gamut. Yeah, they have, right. They have the military ones. They have the ones that want to go to a tech school. Right, they have multiple programs. And multiple programs that they're going to go to their colleges.
Speaker 2 00:54:29
Okay. Ours is strictly college prep. Okay, okay, that makes sense. That helps me understand, honestly, it kind of also helps me understand why I would do, because again, they have, they're very big at their academies and all this kind of stuff, but why they might be as accommodating as they are, for like somebody with an IEP and you, or.
Speaker 7 00:54:47
But they have to tell the parents from the beginning, your son is going to graduate and have a degree from whatever school it is, a grad, but they may not be to the point where they can be accepted to a four-year at that time. They might have to go to a two-year before they can be accepted. Interesting, interesting, that's really good to know.
Speaker 2 00:55:07
So those are questions that, you know. No, it's good to know.
Speaker 1 00:55:10
Yeah, with ours, like even if you do the bare minimum, like all the Cal States UCs, they will, you know, you'll be at that level to, well, not the UCs, because they have the GPA, but for like the class-wise, requirements, you'll be able to, you know, meet all of those requirements, yeah.
Speaker 2 00:55:27
Okay, so that's probably just like a philosophy. It's weird because you know, yeah my age it was like you're supplying and you go. I know I have dyslexia, but I didn't really I didn't partake it in any of the IEPs because they just were not developed very well Now they have these little pens that you could like use to read. I mean like they have a bunch of things as far as I'm concerned I don't see letters flipped backwards. If anything, it's just more like a memory recall like issue for me.
Speaker 2 00:55:58
Well now they have the books on tape. I have so many. I know there's so much stuff. It's almost like it's actually, Because of our younger son, Sometimes because I had to struggle through it and I had to figure it out and a lot of dyslexia. It's just memory recognition It's like I literally see the word in my brain as the word, itself and that's how I know it you know like I don't sound it out I just know it from memory recognition practice yeah you have to practice over and over and over again until you grow up but they're not forced to do that anymore or like.
Speaker 2 00:56:33
and the way that he's learned it's like oh we've got all these tools they'll just read to you and that's great but also you want to do the hard stuff too, you know anyways okay it's getting late guys and it's 4 30. i'm sure you want to go home yes i'll watch for the application all right thank you oh so here's the thing that happens.
Speaker 7 00:56:55
you apply let's say you apply it over the weekend we import the application and you're going to log back in and you're going to see a checklist of things okay you're going to upload photo birth certificate you're going to add english teacher math teacher emails principal email or counselor email you're going to add those things you're going to print out a records request to send it to school to send us the records and you'll schedule it so two things that you'll do at the very last page of the application one is pick his interview date which is january 27th.
Speaker 7 00:57:26
and then the test is january 24th or february 7th okay wow it's coming up i'm glad that we're here.
Speaker 2 00:57:32
then okay that's good to know and it tells us when we do the administration process, They'll automatically, and that test is a part of it, it'll kind of give us guidance as to knowing that. The information is there.
Speaker 7 00:57:49
And then Paul, if you have any questions.
Speaker 6 00:57:50
I put my business card and the director of admissions is there.
Speaker 2 00:57:56
Thank you so much. Have a good weekend. Thank you guys. Thank you. I appreciate your time. This is for you. I appreciate it. Thank you. Alright guys. Have a good weekend. I know. I always think about that. I'm going to lose them to their wives.
Speaker 4 00:58:20
Not really.
Speaker 6 00:58:31
No. Hold on a minute.
Speaker 1 00:58:38
Whenever you last hang out with my friends, I'm of the age where we go to bars and stuff. Uh, the last one we did was in, so a lot of my friends are from, like, Thousand Oaks and in that area, so we usually go to, like, West Hollywood, because it's, like, kind of the middle West Hollywood, Sherman Oaks, and that area, Ventura Boulevard, so, like, you know, yeah. Do you live in L.A. in between those? No, actually, I'm in Fullerton and stuff.
Speaker 1 00:59:09
Oh, okay, I was expecting you to be, like, downtown Fullerton. No worries, yeah, it's funny, I've only ever been to downtown Fullerton one single time, well, for the bars. I've been there for dinner and stuff. Well, if you go to school up there, like, that's our center of gravity is, like, Sherman Oaks. We did, like, the thing where we take everybody's zip code and then we, like, weighted average them, and we're like, that's for us to be here. It's funny because that's like exactly at one of our friends' houses.
Speaker 1 00:59:40
So we're like, we'll meet at his house. So I'm the foreground house one and then the... Do you go to church? Uh, usually a friend's church, Yolanda, uh, you know. That was pretty cool. Yeah. Hey, nice to meet you.
Speaker 4 01:00:07
Nice to meet you.
Speaker 1 01:00:08
Of course. Do you have any questions you can reach out to them? Got it. Nice to meet you. Awesome, thank you.
Speaker 4 01:00:24
I'm pretty curious.
Speaker 3 01:00:39
um sorry about that let me uh happy hour day and i'm late so let me if it's okay i mean if you all right i'm sorry i actually would prefer to talk to you i'm sorry it's okay i love you.
Speaker 4 01:01:27
Thank you.
Speaker 6 01:01:46
There he is.
Speaker 3 01:01:47
You're bald! I am? I don't think so.
Speaker 6 01:01:52
Hey. 
Speaker 3 01:01:56
Not yet. You look skinny, sir. I look skinny? You look skinny. I'm overweight. Watch. Let me, let me go to my... You don't have kids in there. I was... You don't have kids in there. Let me go to my... I downloaded an app. I was helping to find that app, that food app, and it says I'm overweight too. You don't have kids in there. Stupid app. What? No, I don't have kids around.
Speaker 6 01:02:24
Did you pass any other boys that you never know. 
Speaker 3 01:02:34
Yeah. No, we were touring Servite, and it was supposed to be from 3 to 3.30, and I'm literally leaving, right now.
Speaker 6 01:02:48
He's very happy if he's over there. Who would be very happy? That's what we call it. That's what we call a survival bug. It was... Yeah. He would literally... Yeah, he would literally... I'd eat him.
Speaker 6 01:03:27
Yes. I'd love to. Gotcha. A random, like, fish in the...
Speaker 3 01:04:04
Is it a urinal or a stall? Like into a stall? Because the urinal's got the guard, right. 
Speaker 6 01:04:18
Okay.
Speaker 3 01:04:22
The what to rise? I'm wishing I had a drink right now. Yeah. Oh, I went to go open my thing thing. Yeah. My wife gave it to me and no this is the this is no this is the super expensive one that I told her never to buy again. She's like hey I got a great deal on them so I bought some and and then I showed Maddie and and he didn't want it because he didn't doesn't like that flavor so you have to eat them.
Speaker 3 01:05:10
So wait a minute here. I told you that I refused to see any of them when you buy them because they're too expensive and I don't think that our kids should have this because they're too expensive and I appreciate that you found a good deal on this and you're at least you know respecting me or yeah whatever the right word is there but now I gotta eat them all?
Speaker 3 01:05:56
So this is from Trader Joe's? No, I think, but anyways, what is this one? It's a hundred.
Speaker 6 01:06:32
Talking about stuff. Yeah, I'm getting the short list. I just texted 100 people. You're giving me the list of bourbons. All right. Nope, an inch.
Speaker 6 01:07:15
Yeah, I'm six feet.
Speaker 3 01:07:17
You know what's funny is the last time I went to the doctor, though, they're like, oh, so you're 5'11 and a half. And I'm like, no, I'm not. You know, your measurement's wrong. And she's like, no, it's right. We have it all certified and everything. And I'm like, I don't really care. You did something wrong. I'm not losing this.
Speaker 6 01:07:45
Oh, you are? Last year, I think they measured me like four. Give me back my house. Yeah. I didn't do it, but I did change it. Okay.
Speaker 6 01:08:15
You were comfortable that way. I don't want to be here.
Speaker 4 01:08:27
No.
Speaker 6 01:08:28
I don't want to be here. The deal. 
Speaker 3 01:08:60
Alright, I know, well luckily, luckily, well you guys have heard my story, right, where, I told Ashley Ann before we got married, I said, hey listen, Grandpa's 5'5", Dad's 5'8", I'm 6 foot, we got a good thing going here, I don't need your people screwing this up.
Speaker 6 01:09:33
So, I'll believe that, he used to put his head on my chest.
Speaker 6 01:10:10
I'm going to send her a text right now.
Speaker 3 01:10:24
Yeah, it's funny. He sent me a text and he's like, don't tell anybody, but it's old. And I'm like...
Speaker 4 01:11:27
yeah but we talked about we talked about her paying rent of like 200 a month.
Speaker 3 01:12:08
she's gonna pay for the elevator so okay this is nobody knows this but it's like she's gonna pay for the elevator the elevator's gonna cost 35 grand bathroom like five grand to make an 88 she'll pay like 200 bucks a month, so she's gonna pay for all of that and then you know um because look if we put her in her home it's gonna be three grand a month easy right so it's just like so it's so it just makes sense.
Speaker 3 01:12:45
you know i mean yeah oh wow right so.
Speaker 3 01:14:11
Erica, Bryce will wipe you. Chloe will be taken care of no matter what. Bryce will wipe her too if he needs to.
Speaker 3 01:14:45
Yeah, Maddie will wipe her too. You know? No, Maddie will wipe her. Maddie will wipe you. Maddie will wipe Bryce. It's all good. Maddie will wipe me. He'll even build a, I'm sure he'll build like a machine to like, you know. He's like, spread them.
Speaker 3 01:15:44
Smile Sean, let's see if it works for you too.
Speaker 4 01:16:21
It's not a good look, Sean.
Speaker 3 01:16:27
You froze it like the, it's like that whole, you know, it always catches you at your worst moment. Hear what I said?
Speaker 3 01:16:58
Okay, no, I just wanted to make sure you heard me when I said not a good look, why I said that, not for, okay.
Speaker 4 01:17:05
I feel like I have to duck to see you.
Speaker 3 01:17:42
and she says oh because no i so i i sent aaron the taxes eric erica says that she wants the sailboat and and then i see it says red and then i like waited like a good 45 seconds and then i put jk and she put and she said omg you literally gave me a mini panic attack.
Speaker 3 01:18:19
i i didn't even make a a comment about who has what blood or anything like that.
Speaker 3 01:19:17
yeah i let's put it this way i don't even think that like i'm sure auntie lily would have problems but um there's a reason why lisa has preemptively said michael is not allowed to come to my house. so both the boys uh you know it's lisa's fault that that ron ended up with her so both like.
Speaker 3 01:19:50
when lisa came around at one point in time he's you know eric's like i'm not gonna be in the same room with her yeah i'll meet with you but you tell her to be somewhere else, and it's like dude she didn't step out on your mom. No, he was treating her so bad that even Eric, right? That's funny. Um, can you imagine if I.
Speaker 3 01:20:34
had the foresight to do that? Like in there? Oh man. Um, so he was treating her so bad that even Eric, uh, went in there to say, mom, you need to leave dad. I can't, I love my dad. He can't talk to you like this. So, but Aaron threatened her like it's me or him kind of thing. You know, because it was, it had gotten Aaron threatened her and said, you know, make the choice,
Speaker 3 01:21:09
you know, me or him. And, uh, or, or him, Uncle Ron. So that's how he got, she got, so she got Aunt Lily to leave him, but because it was so bad that, so bad, um, that, you know, even the kids were like,
Speaker 3 01:21:40
we can't allow this to happen. She wouldn't, yeah, I mean, she wouldn't, she wouldn't leave him for that. We, we, you know, so anyways, I shouldn't say more than that. So, um,
Speaker 3 01:22:27
Hey, she picked me, didn't she? Just, you just, you just got to trick one.
Speaker 4 01:22:53
Yeah. Hi.
Speaker 3 01:22:58
He can't hear you. Do you want to hear? Oh, look it. Two of my kids love me. That one and that one. But this one is sheepishly coming this way.
Speaker 4 01:23:15
Is it good. 
Speaker 3 01:23:23
too much flies too much fun there were no flies it's too windy flies so i guess when they when eric went to go towards um at cervite like they were they were like just attacked by blasts so.
Speaker 6 01:23:43
no it was just uh great parents i guess where was cervite there was uh there was a it was it was.
Speaker 3 01:24:09
ontario i mean like the fly oh yeah well but it was much worse in chino ontario wasn't that bad but chino like where brian danielle was lit it was it was real bad.
Speaker 6 01:24:23
My car would be cool. My car would be cool.
Speaker 7 01:24:29
I think it has every window. You can check.
Speaker 3 01:25:20
Yeah. yeah i don't know the details with mike necessarily you know but right right oh yeah oh sean i don't think i told you did i what i didn't tell you about the service at all did i. well so sorry different service what erica's referring to um so tony passed away right.
Speaker 3 01:25:57
grandpa tony right so his his service was on saturday so you know we're we're showing up we're about like five minutes late or something like that is that because it was at rose hills um, in whittier and as we're walking up, Connie is, like, screaming, you know, in Spanish, just going off, and Mike's, like, escorting her out of the chapel, and so, um, I, like, look at him, and he's, like, gives me, like, this, like, don't even start right now with me, right, you know, and look, and then I walk in, and Erin's there, and, and she gives me kind of the same look, like, and, like, I'll tell you later, and so we sit down, and, you know,
Speaker 3 01:26:59
and the pastor's just going on, doing service, and whatnot, and, I mean, you can hear Connie, like, from inside, and it's just, like, so I get up, and I go to, like, shut the door, because it's so loud, and, like, and, like, she's literally, like, sitting. like she she'd see me shut the door if i shut the door so i'm like i'm not gonna do it you know.
Speaker 3 01:27:31
so um so i go back and we're doing it right and it wasn't a long service but i mean she went on for 20 minutes and as the i lost you can you hear me.
Speaker 3 01:28:07
oh there you are okay 30 seconds sean give me 30 give me 30 seconds is that okay so. The funeral's closing, everybody's starting to get up and whatnot, and from the front row, we're waiting, and a sheriff walks in, and we're like, oh, no. And Aunt Lily gets up to see the guy, to talk to the guy, and she starts talking to him, and then she stops, and she goes, I know you.
Speaker 3 01:28:41
And I look up, and no, it was Aunt Lily, and I look up, and it's Junior, and he just stopped by, yeah. Yeah, so, you know, we talked to him for a bit, and then he left his partner in the car the whole time. He was probably with us for like 15, 20 minutes, and then the guy's like, hey, chief, we gotta go, and he's like, oh, sorry, bye.
Speaker 3 01:29:12
Right, right, right. Yeah, so you can, you can cut us off. Yeah, it was good. So, oh, because he started. So, you know, it was a big thing because we couldn't figure out like, there was like, I guess some.
Speaker 3 01:30:17
a couple kids left over who hadn't partnered up to be in a room like so they they were like hey if you guys don't figure out this partnering thing like we're just gonna put you guys all in the same room you know and said the kids that still didn't have partners and so it's like you guys know who you are if there's something going on tell us if not you know and so i'm like eric what's the deal he's like it's not a big deal like we're all good like and then they're like.
Speaker 3 01:30:49
hey we got it all figured out it's all good okay go right and then you know um and ashley ann knows, um so we find out that he's gonna room with this guy dean, and dean's little brother is ben's age and they are really good friends they're all rich people, No, you're thinking of Maddie's best friend, Maddie's friend.
Speaker 3 01:31:24
At Fairmont, they're all rich. So, and so Ashland has a really good relationship with the mom. And the mom's like, hey, you know, like, we're Muslim. And Dean's a little, bless you, Dean's a little sheepish about, you know, I mean, he's going to pray every day, you know.
Speaker 3 01:31:56
And, you know, they do, like, the full line, like, he's going to be on his knees, you know. And we're like, and Ashland's like, yeah, no problem. Eric's like, you know, Eric's good with that. We pray too, you know. She's like, okay, he's just a little, you know, he's timid. That's self-conscious, yeah. But yeah, we'll make sure that all's good, and so we talked to Eric about it, and yeah, why would I care about that, right?
Speaker 3 01:32:26
So we'll take a little trip, we'll check it in, see everything we can. Hey, dude. 
Speaker 4 01:32:45
What's up, dude. 
Speaker 3 01:32:55
Oh, I'm not sure, here, I'll catch you up real quick. Eric gets paired up with one of the kids from school. and that Ashland knows the mom really well because the kid's little brother is Ben's good friend. So, and she's like, hey, we're Muslim. He's a little self-conscious about, like, he's going to be praying every night.
Speaker 3 01:33:28
He's going to be doing, oh, and he plays hockey, so he's going to be doing all, like, his coach made him do, like, all these drills and stuff like that. And he's a little self-conscious, and we're like, yeah, we'll make sure Eric doesn't say anything, right? We talk to Eric, and he's like, yeah, why would he say anything? You know, so the trip goes well, and we're checking in with Eric. You know, he's seeing, and it was during the government shutdown, so he couldn't see everything. Yeah, yeah, but they opened some stuff up, like, the last day that he was there.
Speaker 3 01:33:60
before they had to play out, and so they got to see a couple things. So we get back, and Ashley Ann checks in with the mom. What's up, Augustine? And so we get back, and everything's fine. We had a couple issues, you know,
Speaker 3 01:34:30
with one of the friends there, but it wasn't this kid. Did you hear, did you cut off, Sean, or you heard her? So Ashley Ann meets up with the mom later. It's like, hey, it sounds like everything went well, da-da, and the mom goes, okay, everything went well, thank you for that. The reason why he felt that way.
Speaker 3 01:35:01
is because Eric called him a terrorist one day. he's muslim and you know so you know i we're like whoa you know and you know the first time you ever been called it anything like that you know so i go to eric i'm like hey dude like.
Speaker 3 01:35:33
oh we lost him um right he's like disowned bye so turns out that that you know eric picked it up from the kid's best friend who also called him so sean now you're good, As it turns out, that particular kid's best friend always called him a terrorist, and Eric jumped in one time on it.
Speaker 3 01:36:09
So, if I can believe my son. But, you know, always blame Whitey, you know what I mean. 
Speaker 4 01:36:24
So, well, you know...
Speaker 3 01:37:24
Well, so dad brought him up yesterday, the day before, yes, and said, you know, he's got no filter, this, that, and the other, he just says whatever comes to his mind, and then immediately goes, like, and he goes to say, like, yeah, because you've got to be careful with that, because, like, you know, I told you about that lady that, you know, like, 50 years later, hit me up on Facebook and said, like, I said this stuff to her.
Speaker 3 01:38:15
You know, because like when I was a kid, you know, I just kind of said whatever I was thinking, you know, like it's just, you know, you just can't be like that and he's kind of like telling me this story and I'm thinking, it's your fault. It's your fault. He picked this, you, all right? I learned this by watching you. Oh man.
Speaker 3 01:39:13
He told me that story, he told me that story that same day.

[AI_SUMMARY]
The meeting covered various topics related to Servite High School, including campus revitalization efforts, academic programs, and the admissions process. Key points included updates on campus improvements, a no-cell-phone policy to foster community, and the school's commitment to a college-preparatory curriculum without modifications for individual students. The support for students with learning disabilities is growing, with new staff and programs being introduced. The admissions process involves placement tests and interviews, with an emphasis on maintaining strong relationships between students and faculty.