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title: 01-27 Analysis of Covenant Christian School as an Alternative for Matthew's Education
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Speaker 1 00:00:04
There we go.
Speaker 2 00:00:20
Do they have churches. 
Speaker 3 00:00:24
They have churches. Kind of like a mini church.
Speaker 4 00:00:34
You know who you can ask all these questions to? Jameson. Because Jameson went here for a few years. They can tell you. We get a lot of feelings coming. Yeah? This is really fun.
Speaker 2 00:00:59
Do you have that checklist number? I think the coolest thing is to be friends with your parents. Do we add them to the grid line? Everything being in order. Yes. It's different. On the other end, I'll tell you to get out of it. I don't like things out of order.
Speaker 2 00:01:31
One piece of pizza.
Speaker 5 00:01:42
It's not bad, considering the stuff that I pay for at the year school is like $8. And I add on a drink and that's $11.
Speaker 6 00:01:51
Do you give them a drink, too. 
Speaker 5 00:01:53
No.
Speaker 2 00:01:54
No, I never anymore. Just to be kind to you. We do try and get your payment. Do they have money? Yeah. Cool. Yeah. Cool. Look it. I can buy these for you. They're under $40.
Speaker 4 00:02:27
See how many wreaths of pop they get you during Christmas. I know, right? That would be your goal. No, they only give you, looks like this year, they did the 19th, and then the week of Christmas, and the week after. And then you went back on the 5th as well. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2 00:02:52
That's what's true. I'm a little bit dependent to him. OK. Sounds good. Sorry. Hello. Sorry. Thank you. We'll be right back.
Speaker 7 00:03:21
Because mine is just so new. I'm going to close the door here for a minute, because I'm having trouble with my key.
Speaker 6 00:03:30
If they've got enough students, sometimes it's like, well, there's too many students. So they may turn it into two classes.
Speaker 8 00:03:41
Well, you have two fourth grade classes. Sorry. No, you can't cut out. You can't cut out. No, no.
Speaker 4 00:03:52
This one, this one, they have a one fourth grade class.
Speaker 7 00:04:07
Melissa, is your GM working fine when you come in in the morning? Like to open his door? Yeah. I'm not. Okay. Yeah. Because mine is just, I had to get a new one because mine broke off one Saturday in the lock. Oh. Let me see if I can make it. I've never had an issue. Yeah. It's just not. It really is. Yeah. So I had to have a new one made. I'll make it by toll. I unlocked it. Okay. Oh, you're going to make me a new one. 
Speaker 2 00:04:39
I'm going to make it by toll instead of copying and pasting.
Speaker 1 00:04:42
Can I put it inside. 
Speaker 2 00:04:55
Yes.
Speaker 5 00:05:08
It's like they're different, they're different, different things. You know, there's a lot of people that make things like that.
Speaker 4 00:05:53
Hello. 
Speaker 9 00:06:00
Cathy and gang, do you guys want to come back? I did what I needed to do, I appreciate your patience.
Speaker 10 00:06:43
I appreciate that you know you're always welcome as soon as I'm done here I'll be with you sound good yeah come on back you guys.
Speaker 3 00:07:06
Look at Mr. Peary.
Speaker 9 00:07:08
I'm not as young as I'm a little older. But yeah, I had the freckles and that. Hey, you got some cool teeth! I'm so conscious about it. So fun. What's that? I showed you a yoga picture. Oh. What's in here? I'm a crazy kid. Here, you grab that one. I'll grab this one. How's that. 
Speaker 3 00:07:31
Thank you very much. Here's an extra chair right here, you guys. It's nice outside. What happened? It was pretty cold. I'm like, I want to be out there. I want to be in here. Thank you, Dad. I love it.
Speaker 6 00:07:48
I know a good time when I see it.
Speaker 3 00:07:49
I like it. And then put that in my box when she does.
Speaker 11 00:07:55
Mm-hmm. Sitting room. Wherever you want. Anywhere you want.
Speaker 10 00:08:00
I got lots of toys and charts and fun little things. Students just to chill out too if they're having a rough day. That might be what's happening with Skyler that you saw the little girl come in. Students know I have kind of a free office, just a free space to come in and sit and chill out if they need to. If they're having a bad day, if they need to de-escalate, if something's going on at home. So we allow that here. I was one of those kids. Lost my dad when I was in sixth grade.
Speaker 10 00:08:31
And so it was just rough. And I had some rough days at school. And so I was definitely afraid of my principal. And I was like, I am not, if I ever become one, I'm never going to have that kind of relationship with the kids. And so I try not to have that. Well, tell me about your situation. What's going on. 
Speaker 4 00:08:52
This is kind of new. Matthew's here because we had a doctor's checkup before this, and it's just an annual checkup, but he has ADHD and dyslexia, and as a result, he's on Adderall, and so the question came up was like, how are the meds, how's school going, and all those things. And so in talking about medication and how to increase it, and potentially our routine was changing a little bit, it kind of came out that we were looking at, I was trying to kind of dance around it, but he figured it out, so in the car ride home, he was like, or car ride to go grab something to eat, he was like, are we looking at different schools for me, and I don't want to lie to him, so I told him that we were going to have more of a conversation about it later, so he may be hearing some of these things first,
Speaker 4 00:09:42
but he asked to come to this. So he's here now. Well, welcome. We're glad you made it. so um so maybe we'll be kind of careful about how so a lot of things we knew but yeah yeah so.
Speaker 6 00:09:57
so he is at princess right now are you familiar with princess i am okay so um and we're you know we we initially put him in princess so that way and so ashland has dyslexia and probably adhd um. so that's that's i'm diagnosed she's not but we don't need she doesn't need to see a doctor for that we know but you know and they just didn't pair the two together um but but she had an.
Speaker 6 00:10:30
interesting upbringing because schools weren't prepared to handle dyslexia in those days and whatnot and so she kind of went from school to school to school and so we said we're not gonna you know we're not gonna do that but yeah um he started off at fairmont, and we got an email from the teacher there in Fairmont private and so they teach a grade above.
Speaker 4 00:10:50
and we they've seen the grade above right and so either two kids go there how old are they eighth grade and seven and then sixth grade eight and six um and by the way, our oldest son is best friends with Jameson okay.
Speaker 6 00:11:31
So, his teacher at Fairmont reached out to us on a personal email and said, Hey, you know, my son is diagnosed this way, and I'm seeing some similarities. And so that's when we got him checked out. And then it was kind of a private assessment, so we don't have an official IEP form or anything like that.
Speaker 4 00:11:54
It was like a legit private assessment. The doctor, we used to, it's like a 30-page document, and it was done when he was six.
Speaker 10 00:12:00
Oh, okay. So this was, he was at Fairmont when this happened? What grade was he in at six? First grade. 
Speaker 4 00:12:08
He was in kindergarten. So we've had, we are definitely about getting ahead of it, and we thought that Prentice would be...
Speaker 6 00:12:14
So he, yeah, he partners with Prentice, so he kind of set it all up, and we moved Maddie over to Prentice. And Maddie's been doing great over there. And now we're kind of feeling like he might, we think he's up running in many ways. I don't think, you know, is there still, is there still some concerns that we have? Yeah.
Speaker 4 00:12:37
The educational piece we kind of question, but we also wonder if maybe he's just not being challenged enough and being kind of held to some tighter boundaries to be...
Speaker 10 00:12:48
Are you familiar with Prentice? No. It's a school that deals with kids with these types of challenges.
Speaker 3 00:12:55
Okay.
Speaker 10 00:12:56
And, I mean, it can be a wide range of challenges, and they take them in, and they do an amazing job with them. We've actually been recommended two of us from them regarding another family on my second or third year here, and that kid graduated and did very well here. Awesome.
Speaker 4 00:13:13
I didn't know that. Okay. In the past, I would say, Prentice was known right up until about 2015 for taking all kids with ADHD, and the biggest problem that they had to overcome was they couldn't focus on the disability side of it, like the dyslexia that they wanted to. They were more dealing with the behavioral side. Oh, okay. They've gone away from that. They're more looking for the language-based learning disabilities. And oftentimes it's coupled with, and that's what the science has more clearly said, that, like, the spectrum goes is that you have a language-based learning disability.
Speaker 4 00:13:44
that usually has an onset of, like, ADHD or auditory or whatever. Like, it's assigned to it, you know? We have an older kid that doesn't have dyslexia at all, and he has ADHD, but he doesn't struggle in school at all, and he's not behaviorally, you know, like...
Speaker 10 00:14:02
Provided. Which campus are the other two at. 
Speaker 4 00:14:06
Anaheim. Yeah, Anaheim. Yeah, sorry. Anaheim is not enough.
Speaker 10 00:14:10
You mean the one on La Palma. 
Speaker 4 00:14:11
Yeah.
Speaker 10 00:14:12
Yeah, okay, okay. So Vineyard was there for many, many years. I was the VP there.
Speaker 4 00:14:17
Oh, okay. Yeah, they... We were familiar. We read it to them. I had friends of... One of my best friends was a teacher over at Vineyard for a very long time. Julianne Fong. Okay. So I think she taught kindergarten for quite a bit of time. I know Miss Fong.
Speaker 6 00:14:34
If you don't like her, then we're not friends with her.
Speaker 10 00:14:43
Tell her that you know me, and I'm sure she'll say kind things about me. I was more middle school, but I knew who she was. She made, and I got all my yearbooks from Vineyard up there, she made me talk to my siblings, my kids. I don't remember if she was a kid or a friend.
Speaker 4 00:15:03
She doesn't teach anymore.
Speaker 10 00:15:05
She left when I was still there, and I left in 2012.
Speaker 4 00:15:08
Yeah, so it's been a minute. She's starting to substitute, teach now, and things like that.
Speaker 10 00:15:15
Tell her we pay $200 a day, more than most schools anywhere, including public.
Speaker 4 00:15:20
I'll let her know. She lives in Whittier, though.
Speaker 10 00:15:22
Oh, that would be a drive-by. But, you know, for $200 a day. Some are $125, $140, and we're at $200. Anyways, let her know that I'm the administrator at the school you're considering.
Speaker 4 00:15:34
Oh, absolutely. Yeah. So, yeah, so here we are, you know, we're thinking that there's a few different vectors, one being that we know that any place that we put Matthew in, there's going to be some struggle. I'm kind of questioning at this point, it's difficult to understand where he is as far as education is concerned.
Speaker 10 00:16:02
When you say struggle, define that.
Speaker 4 00:16:05
Like, in a typical classroom, if you're going to give him a, like, what we grew up with would be like a hundred multiplication questions and go, okay, it's timed, get through them, you know, and if you get through them all within, you know, a minute, then, you know, you...
Speaker 10 00:16:21
Okay, so he needs extra time, which is...
Speaker 4 00:16:22
He's going to, like...
Speaker 10 00:16:23
Typical on a 504 plan or an IEP or whatever.
Speaker 6 00:16:27
It might not even be...
Speaker 4 00:16:29
That, um, you know, I'm not saying I don't mind you disagree. I'm not disagreeing with you. You don't know. Yeah. He's welcome to talk. That's the hardest part is that I know you're not. And he's more than I've been kind of kind of coaxing out of it. But when we were even driving from the doctor's appointment to here, it's like Matthew at his school, it's like no harm, no, no, you know. Yeah. So all right.
Speaker 4 00:17:01
Like you didn't do your homework. Nobody just turn tomorrow, you know. Oh, OK. Like you're not understanding this. Like they're going to continue to go over the material. Eventually they'll move on. But there's a lot of leniency in that. Right. And so their whole goal, which I love because that was a struggle that I have with coming out of public. was that I felt like I was giving him all the time in comparison to the rest of my classmates. For him, they make sure to really, really value not putting an emphasis on who's winning who,
Speaker 4 00:17:31
who's beating who. Just where he's at as an individual. But he has no concept as to, there's not a lot of accountability to that either. Only now in fourth grade, when we've asked his teacher, we're like, hey, we need you to start really, you know, coming, like, if you can't...
Speaker 10 00:17:51
Hold him accountable. How many are in his fifth grade class, or is it...
Speaker 4 00:17:57
Is it like grouped together and there's two or three classes. They're about I want to say 15 to 12 Kids in class, but they do a ton of rotations and then they divide them all up into smaller subset groups for the different, Categories that they're learning based off of where they're at and then they have individual teachers for those So it's really I mean if your kid is struggling, you know with reading and it's all language-based studies.
Speaker 4 00:18:27
So even they're like history. Everything's going to be language-based first, They take out all of the other food for stuff and everything is like structured around that and then, Everything is put into subset groups where your child is with other kids who are of the same, Attitude is in and then they can continue to progress, And then they have individual teachers for that. There's a reason why we pay almost $39,000 a year for a math teacher.
Speaker 10 00:18:55
Is that the one on Chapman. 
Speaker 4 00:18:57
It's off of, no, it's...
Speaker 6 00:19:00
You get off on Chapman on the fifth side. But it's not in Fort Smith. It's in Tustin.
Speaker 10 00:19:06
It's off of Fairhaven. Tustin, that's right. No, you're right. Yeah, that's where that family was from. You're right.
Speaker 4 00:19:12
I remember now it's Tustin. Like, I would say that he's generally...
Speaker 10 00:19:15
It's a bit of a drive, but they really liked the move that they made here.
Speaker 4 00:19:18
So, you know, I think that we've talked to other... I've talked to other parents where they've moved their kids out of it. And something that we're kind of coming to terms with is that no matter what environment he goes to, we're going to likely get a tutor for him to help him outside, you know, outside of the classroom, to help him either maintain or catch up. He'll probably have to do some summer work, which he isn't usually doing. We, I grew up, I was so stressed out as a kid, like, that, like, my parents really valued giving me that time, and so I wanted to give him that time, but he has had apprentices just like this, like, you're doing great, buddy, like, and I'm grateful for that, I'm really grateful because he really knows and understands that he has some really cool superhero skills that have come along.
Speaker 10 00:20:08
For sure, you know what, that, I'm glad you know that, because with your giftings is really what they are, you're going to be able to do, you'll see, when you get, I didn't get caught up, I was just like your mom, I was feeling like I was failing, and why is everybody ahead of me, why is this, but when I did silent reading, my comprehension was spot on, I was actually way ahead when I was silent reading, but, so I didn't have dyslexia, but I had other challenges. One of them was, you probably can't.
Speaker 10 00:20:39
Catch it, I stuttered like crazy as a kid, I mean, I'd be talking to you, I'd be like, M-M-M-M-M-Matthew. you know and all the kids would of course have a field day with that and make fun of me so i mean i had a rough little childhood when i was your age but god allowed me to bloom as a college student that's when i began to get caught up with my studies and i asked my, classmates everybody who's always wanted to be in my group when we did small group studies in college because they knew i would do my homework they was on top of my game they knew.
Speaker 10 00:21:09
so dude you got some skills hang in there you're going to do really well in life so.
Speaker 4 00:21:15
he's doing pretty good good and we're not like looking to bring that down but right for sure we need a little bit more structure and you know we have small class sizes so they're not i mean in.
Speaker 10 00:21:27
So he's going to go into the fifth grade. Fifth grade. Going into fifth. Yeah. Right. So you're not considering this year at all? No, not this year, no. So fourth grade.
Speaker 4 00:21:36
I mean, my husband might be, but I don't, I think that that is right now with Matthew just finding out. Yeah. It's safe to say that right now.
Speaker 10 00:21:43
Well, and it's, I mean, we can guess what it'll be next year, but we have kids that always add to our.
Speaker 4 00:21:48
And that way it allows time to get an IEP done by the school so we can really kind of see where he measures and whatever school he attends. There can be something a little bit more concrete to be able to go off of. And, and yeah, so, so that's that. I think that's, that's where we are. We know that he's going to really need some help and we're, we're okay with doing that. We don't expect for any school that Matthew goes to, to be like Prentice in that way.
Speaker 4 00:22:22
But we do need some flexibility with him. a matter of giving him more time. He tends to rush things, he tends to...
Speaker 6 00:22:32
That's what I was going to say earlier. I think it's not necessarily that he might need time, but I think if we go back to that quiz that she was talking about, you can monitor problems and whatnot.
Speaker 4 00:22:46
He could get through them all, they might all just be wrong.
Speaker 6 00:22:49
Exactly. He might just want to go, here's our math, and especially stuff like math where you skip one little step in your process, right? And he'll just run through all of it. And often when I'm correcting his homework or looking at his homework, I go, hey man, what's up with this? And he'll go, oh, yes.
Speaker 4 00:23:07
Yes, we go back and we're like, hey. 
Speaker 6 00:23:09
And so I don't think, I mean, I'm biased on his dad, he's wicked smart. But because of the environment that he's in, everything's like, yeah, it's okay here. It's okay here. And I think that there's going to be a little bit of a transition for him as he steps into a different environment where he has to be a little bit more present as he attacks the problems.
Speaker 10 00:23:37
So there's going to be something like that. What you just said was really spot on. I mean, the transition will come at some point, and why not do it the earlier the better? Kids are very resilient, especially at his age. The adaptations that he'll be able to make to a new environment are a lot easier when they're his age, than if he was eighth grade going into, I don't even know what Prentice is up to. Do they go all the way through 12th? Eighth grade. Okay, eighth grade, I thought so. To high school, it would be real tough. So it's smart that you guys are doing it now, trying to find a school that's a good fit for him,
Speaker 10 00:24:10
trying to find a school that is a smaller class setting. instead of the 32-35 that he's going to probably run into if you guys go public. If you stick with Fairmont, then it'll probably be that.
Speaker 4 00:24:21
Yeah, like Fairmont's just, I don't think it's an option for us at this point. Just knowing that they teach ahead by a year, you know.
Speaker 10 00:24:28
How do your other two kids do there. 
Speaker 4 00:24:30
Excellent. So, yeah, they've done, they, it's a, like, it's a unique setting. When we were, yeah. I'm very familiar. Yes. Brayden and I, when we were looking at schools, we originally started as a public, in the public school system, but it was just in TK, but with our oldest son, we knew that he had a capability to do so much more than what he was already doing, but they were kind of just, like, letting him just roll around and do whatever.
Speaker 4 00:25:01
And a large part of that had to do with his ADHD that was undiagnosed at the time, and they just allowed it because he was a boy, and there was 40, 50 kids in this, like, group setting environment. And it was insane. Yeah. So then we went to go to her private schools. We did, we looked at, we didn't know Kevin and Christian was here. We looked at Friends Christian, and then we looked at Fairmont, and we also looked at Heritage Oaks.
Speaker 9 00:25:24
And ultimately- That's where I live, right in that area.
Speaker 4 00:25:26
Yeah, so very close to us. We ultimately ended up going with Fairmont because we liked the values that they had. And we didn't feel like Friends was going to equip our kids, I'm not knowing where Matthew was at, to be prepared academically, for what we hoped for them. Yeah. I guess, if that makes any sense. So we switched Eric over to Fairmont Private.
Speaker 4 00:25:56
and then kindergarten. Within three months, they had him reading at a third grade reading level as a kindergartner. And I think it has to do with small class sizes.
Speaker 6 00:26:06
We've got a good formula, I think, for most kids, and our kids are pretty great.
Speaker 4 00:26:14
We always wanted for our kids to, we didn't mind the separation of school and church in the sense that we believed in raising our children, indoctrinating them, we're both Biola grads, we both attend our, we avidly attend church, not that that has anything to do with our relationship with the Lord, but we knew that we can educate our children, and we are the reason as to what our children are going to know about, you know, they're going to have their first spiritual, you know, experience in what they know about God and how great He is through us. So, sending them to a non...
Speaker 4 00:26:59
It wasn't a big deal for us. And to be honest, the more we can expose our kids to other children, we're okay with that because we want them to understand that God loves everybody and how to be able to combat that and whatnot.
Speaker 10 00:27:11
I'm a firm believer in that. When I was at a public school as an educator and my sister called me a friend and she had her kids at Vineyard and they were going to start a middle school and she's like, you'd be so perfect for that, blah, blah. I'm like, I do not want to send my kids to teach at a Lily White, you know, Starbucks driven, Mercedes driving, you know, your Belinda. Not to say, I just described you guys. But I mean, yeah, no, I said no at first. And the school said, we'll fly you down.
Speaker 10 00:27:41
We heard a lot about you. You're a youth pastor. I'm ordained. You know, you're cool. We hear the kids, you know, your high school kids really like you. I was the coach. One of them, you know, it was a public school, so it was huge. But yeah, and so I flew down. And I'm like, darn it, Lord. And I found that, by the way, not to be the case. That wasn't what I thought a Christian school was like.
Speaker 4 00:28:07
And we are happy, and here we are only looking at Christian schools right now for Matthew. And so I'm just looking for, I think, where we sit on this now versus when we were looking at schools originally, you know, when we were just at the start of this, and he was just born at the time, is that we're just going to do the right thing for our kids and whatever their needs are at. One thing we feel pretty confident about is not sending our kids to a public school at this point, just with all the nonsense going on.
Speaker 10 00:28:33
I wouldn't either if I had to do it again. We did it. My kids followed me. I did not have kids when I accepted the position. And then, of course, I got married, had kids, and they followed me into Vineyard. And then in eighth grade, we decided, because Orange Lutheran, she was a tremendous athlete. She's an RN now. Both my kids are very bright. They must get it from their mom. So, yeah. Orange Lutheran chased my daughter. She was a flyer on the cheer team. Vineyard, if you knew anything about them, we were 450 kids.
Speaker 10 00:29:06
We'd be friends consistently in sports. We were a little bit smaller than them. They were 700. I was the athletic director and the coach. I was very competitive. I wanted my school to be the best. That's why I think you will like our school. I feel our school is the best. It's five years in a row the best faith-based school in Orange County voted on readers of Parenting Monthly magazine. I say that because we're not voting. Parents are voting the communities voting and so it's really cool to know and humbling to know that our school achieved that because we are Going up against friends when that vote is out.
Speaker 10 00:29:37
So we feel pretty good about our athletics are strong we have you know our, Programs that can draw the giftings out of him art music of course. We have a foreign language Spanish this year We've had we've had ASL, That is taught not this trimester, but when he gets in the middle school It'll probably be back because we rotate that in, Gosh, what else do we do right? We're not perfect. No school is but 41 years doing this So, you know, I know I look a lot younger but you know.
Speaker 10 00:30:09
41 years probably older your parents been doing this way, you know. Yeah, I run all the camps behind you. So we go to Sacramento. I'm sure.
Speaker 4 00:30:21
Yeah, so I mean.
Speaker 10 00:30:26
I'm a kinesthetic learner. So and I know gosh today so I should fat food and everything kids are eating They just don't sit still. Well, so I want to get him out of the classroom. I'm a field trip encourager Okay, great all the way up to eighth grade. They do field trips throughout the year, we go away and we go away to places like Yosemite and Grand Canyon and, You know, Sacramento San Francisco, Next week is Joshua Tree for the third graders So we really do try and get them out of the classroom and everything lines up with the California State Standards for science or history.
Speaker 10 00:30:59
They line up also with what's being taught in the classroom at the time we go So it just really works well to get these kids out and get them to you know Throw a rock and get off their phones and have some fun and you know learn about the wildlife, you know, The ecosystems and, you know, glorifying.
Speaker 4 00:31:19
How have you guys done then with having the kids that do have special needs have had. 
Speaker 10 00:31:25
You want to pull out that flyer on the one I just sent home yesterday? Our academic coaching program for school. It's five days a week, and it helps students. So what it is is we build a team. We build a team between the homeroom, so it's fifth grade teacher, you, and the academic coach, who are credentialed teachers. They work with the students after school for, and it's all listed there, from three to six, and it works out.
Speaker 10 00:31:57
Actually, that should be Friday. See if we get, that might be over, because it's now Monday through Friday. But anyway, you pick an hour. You can do one student. You can do two or three. And I'll walk you by the room that takes place, and it's a cool classroom, probably about this size. Hey, you don't even have to get in. I said he's hired. That's what I told him. So, yeah, so that's how we handle it. We will take the 504 plan or the IEP and work with what accommodations are necessary for him to succeed.
Speaker 10 00:32:34
The homeroom gets it as well. Of course, the academic coach gets it as well. And then you guys get it, of course, because you're the one providing it to us. And then we build a kind of a program around what his needs are. You can go five days a week.
Speaker 4 00:32:50
Yeah, I was going to say, is that one day a week? That's just kind of what we do.
Speaker 10 00:32:54
The availability, I can tell you it's very popular here. So you would definitely want to sign up as soon as you get involved. With our school, this is unique for a small, you know, faith-based school. A lot of schools do not have this type of support for a child. This will be in your packet. So it's a cool thing. When I got here, our vineyard didn't have anything like that, so when I had, you know, much larger than our school here, I was like, wow, that's really impressive. It's been going on since day one here.
Speaker 10 00:33:24
We are not a Presbyterian school. We are an evangelical school, so that's good to know. We need Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. That's what we teach. Chapels are on Friday. You guys are more than welcome to attend. They're pretty much student-led, the first part, and then I'll bring in a missionary or a pastor or somebody like that to be able to speak to the kids. You catch me stuttering? See, I hear myself stuttering, and I get like, oh, I just stuttered. But I'm kind of past that, and whatever challenges you have,
Speaker 10 00:33:54
you'll learn to be like, that's just me. That's how God made me, you know. And he allows me to sit in that desk. That's what's crazy. He's like, Bill, that was my first name. It is my first name. He's like, hang in there. We'll get you scored away. That's what I'm doing today. So you'll see when we walk around the school, the students are not afraid of me. Do you want to walk around. 
Speaker 4 00:34:20
He's saying Lila.
Speaker 10 00:34:21
Oh, yeah. I mean, if I go into her classroom, you'll see her. Typically, I don't take a fourth grader into what grade? She in first. 
Speaker 4 00:34:31
She's in second.
Speaker 10 00:34:32
Yeah, I wouldn't take her. Yeah, she is in second. Yeah, I probably would. I mean, I might be able to pop by, but I don't know.
Speaker 4 00:34:38
She might be outside. They've grown up together. We've grown up together. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we COVIDed together. They see each other all the time.
Speaker 10 00:34:49
Any questions based on what I've said or what we've said? I don't think so.
Speaker 4 00:34:54
No, I don't think so. I mean, I think.
Speaker 6 00:34:57
The nice thing that we have here is that Candace, you know, kind of gets through here eventually.
Speaker 4 00:35:06
She said, hey, you know what, if she had something to say, she would say it. You know everything that's going on, you know, everything. That's true. But, you know, I honestly thought she was, like, I know she's, like, dealing with, like, something sports-related or whatever right now. And I'm like, all right, and I hadn't told her that we were going to be doing a tour. In fact, I didn't tell her. So she texted me.
Speaker 3 00:35:29
I told her. I said, thanks for telling. I said, thanks for sending your friends here, like, for last night or yesterday. She's like, which friend? Yeah, that's exactly what she said. She's like, as soon as I said your name, she would . And I was like, oh, no, I hope I didn't get her in trouble for not saying anything.
Speaker 4 00:35:44
No, we already told him. You didn't. Oh, good. Look, she is one of my closest friends. And so, we hadn't said anything to him, and so I didn't want to, it's been a busy month for us, I didn't want Lila saying anything, and Candace would have had a billion questions for me, and I don't, there's a lot of feelings that are going on for me personally, too, like, in regarding, like, the transition. We're dealing with two really hard choices right now, between schooling for him, and also for our 8th grader, who really wants to go to Olu, and we're really leaning into Servite.
Speaker 4 00:36:16
Are you really? So, yeah.
Speaker 6 00:36:17
I'm leaning Servite, she's leaning Olu, unless I'm, hopefully I'm not speaking for her.
Speaker 4 00:36:22
I don't know, right, I don't, honestly, I'm just kind of, I'm kind of caught up on the...
Speaker 10 00:36:27
Well, we went public, my two kids, because we wanted them to... Kind of what you guys are finding in Fairmont is we wanted, we felt they had a good family. I mean, I'm a youth pastor. I have all that, you know, I, you know, I baptize them at the bottom of the Great Canyon. You know, both my kids. So I feel like they have a very strong foundation and they do. They still do. I mean, my son attends church. I'm too tired today. I preached on Friday. I've been here at a Christian school all week. You know, my son will be like, he's 24. My son will be like, Dad, I'm going.
Speaker 10 00:37:03
both kids and my son-in-law who married my daughter is a boy is a is on the.
Speaker 3 00:37:08
board here the church board yeah so they're all very public high school that did yeah we want to give my son even private yeah your eighth and then with a public high school and he jumped right in I mean I was like so impressed I was very scared yeah I was like very well yeah I felt safe here or you know in a smaller setting and then you turn them loose to this big campus yeah and he just yeah like so I'm proud and what was a modern day.
Speaker 10 00:37:42
All of my freshman year, and about two-thirds of my sophomore year, that's all I got.
Speaker 11 00:37:47
Oh, okay.
Speaker 10 00:37:47
I was a class clown. Yes. I think I hid a lot of my insecurities with humor, and I still do to this day. I can get the staff laughing and the kids laughing and the whole bit all the time, because that's kind of how I hid some of the things that I didn't feel like comfortable with. Sophomore year, they were like, Fury is my last name. My basketball, I was a good athlete. We all were good athletes.
Speaker 10 00:38:18
My brother, my older brother, was one of the stars of the team. The brother behind me was the quarterback of the team, high school. So I was a good athlete, and he was the only one that was in that room when my mom walked me out crying, because I'm one of eight in a good Catholic family. I was the first one to go to public school yeah but it's okay we just when.
Speaker 4 00:38:45
we started the kids in private we did we did more academic focus the time he was doing huge push for certified we had pretty boys good school and and so we that was kind of the school that all the boys were meant to go to but. like.
Speaker 10 00:39:09
Fairmont, they must be, because there's no doubt that is a great idea.
Speaker 4 00:39:12
Well, Fairmont, they don't play for Fairmont. They all play for private club teams and whatnot. But my oldest, his coach is over at OU as well for soccer. So it's like he feels the... It might be a natural flow. He feels the natural flow. But that's what he wants, and Jamison is there. And actually, he's gotten to know quite a few. I've gotten to know quite a few of your students because of Jamison.
Speaker 10 00:39:35
I feel we produce good kids. And we're not just looking for good students. We're looking for good people. You know, we want to...
Speaker 4 00:39:42
Families, too. He's hilarious. He's so funny. Oh, yeah. But, yeah, I've gotten to... You know, I know Ann well now as a result. So I've gotten to know a lot of your families. So we're very comfortable being here. The question is that it really comes down to... Is it going to be too much of an adjustment for you guys and also for him, you know, where we can...
Speaker 10 00:40:10
Well, we have students with ABAs, so I'm not... What is ABAs? That's an academic, a student who needs somebody with them throughout the entire day, one-on-one. So it's a one-on-one.
Speaker 4 00:40:22
Okay. So we have those. Well, that's good to know. I mean, not that we...
Speaker 10 00:40:25
So I'm not sure what... No. You know, that's why I say...
Speaker 4 00:40:27
I appreciate you being open to it because when we did a tour at Friends, they were talking to us like... Like, Matthew was like a vegetable.
Speaker 6 00:40:35
Well, I think that there's this... I'm going to sound like the dad that just goes, oh, he's fine, right? And that's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 00:40:44
Right.
Speaker 6 00:40:45
I think that... there's this unknown because he's he's at he's at a school that caters however however he needs whatever he needs they cater to that and probably over cater right which is what our culture which is what our concern is and so it could be that i mean he's very smart he's very aware he wants to excel he he's the captain of his soccer team and he's getting advanced to the next soccer team and he's already told the coach that his goal is to be the captain of that i mean so he likes to.
Speaker 6 00:41:15
push and by the way we didn't we didn't tell him to say that he said coach i'm going to be the captain of that team right um and so you know we just don't know you know there's there's no accountability here and then he's going to go into an environment that that is going to be accountable and you know does he does is he able to to hang without any help, I think it's possible. Do I think it's likely? Not right away, you know, how much help, how much help, you know, how much, I don't know. I guess that's my, what I'm saying.
Speaker 10 00:41:50
Well, I believe he'll get the help that he needs. If he doesn't get the help that he needs in terms of we're not able, it'll be communicated. Meaning, it's not like, oh, you're out. It'll be like, hey, we need to make some adjustments. Here's what we're suggesting, a little bit more help on the outside or have him be involved in. We need people, we need a school that's willing to partner with us until we can kind of get. Is that the word we use all the time or right? Yes, absolutely. We want what you're doing at home to line up with what we're doing here. school, those are the families that make the best fit, you know, I'm telling you, your age on you,
Speaker 10 00:42:32
you know, so, you know, let's go for a walk, let's check out the school, we'll look at your fourth grade classmates that you would have in fifth grade, then we'll go into fifth grade, remember those kids are going to be in sixth grade, but you'll see your classroom, you'll meet Miss Hill, you'll, you'll see what's going on in our school, those fifth graders are going to go to Yosemite, you'll, you'll be with the fourth graders who go to Yosemite next year, fourth grade class right now, they're getting ready to go to Sacramento, San Francisco, and the gold country, we pan for.
Speaker 10 00:43:02
gold, I have a rock throwing contest in the creek, we can do a lot of fun things that when I was your age, I wanted to do, and I couldn't do them in school, because we didn't do those kind of field trips, but I was like, we're doing those kind of field trips, sounds like a lot of fun, yeah, it is a lot of fun, you know, it's still work, it's still school, so I got to get grades. You gotta, you know, know what you're doing. You still gotta learn your ABCs. Because we want you to be used by God in a way that will make a difference in your generation. You know. 
Speaker 4 00:43:28
We were just talking about today. He wants to be an Air Force pilot. Whoa! Cool! We gotta get the reading down. And if we can get the reading down, we can make it happen.
Speaker 10 00:43:39
You know, I was really hoping that you met me and be like, I want to be in school.
Speaker 4 00:43:42
That's really cool. I love it. I love his vision. You know what? He actually told our last friend, you did want to miss Devin. And you said you wanted a job like hers a couple of years ago. She made her melt. And now you...
Speaker 9 00:43:52
You really don't want to know.
Speaker 4 00:43:53
Yeah. I like your other career. There you go.
Speaker 3 00:43:57
You really don't want to know. All right. You guys are going to go on a tour. We're going on a tour. Do you have your walkie? I will. All right. Maybe my phone and my walkie.
Speaker 9 00:44:08
Somebody keeps trying to reach me.
Speaker 2 00:44:11
Maybe you guys are going to go up this right here.
Speaker 3 00:44:22
You okay? You alright? You okay? You like sports. 
Speaker 9 00:44:30
You think I like sports? Did you watch the game. 
Speaker 4 00:44:37
The ref got us.
Speaker 10 00:44:38
I don't know if you heard, but he was not allowed on the team, uh, playing on the way home. I did not hear that, really. I was gonna say. Being a former coach for many years, even at the high school level, I played all the way through high school, um, I would have been very, very frustrated with that player. Alright, this is our enrichment center. This is where Spanish foreign, language takes place. Sometimes it's, honestly, we've had, Japanese taught, we've had, uh,
Speaker 10 00:45:09
French taught, this year it's Spanish. Probably be Spanish for the next year or two. I'm really narrowing down what electives we have. So in middle school, he gets to choose his elective. We have coding and robotics. We have yearbook. We have photography. I mean, we have a lot of classes that you can take. Yep. We have PE, of course, five days a week. In middle school, you'd have to dress out. At the age you're at, you get it twice a week. You get it in the gym. You get it with a coach.
Speaker 10 00:45:39
It's not your homeroom. So you'd be saying bye to her. Every class, we call them an enrichment. Kindergarten through fifth grade, and you'd be in fifth grade. So we want to enrich your day with art, music, Spanish, et cetera. Let's pop in, because I can hear him in here. Spanish, I mean, art is going on right now. So this is art. What's up, people? How you doing. 
Speaker 12 00:46:04
Hi. This is sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. This is in an- Hi. Oh, hey. You know her? So, Eric is a friend of Jameson's and then Michael has been in that group and they've been to the parks and stuff together. So there you go. And what grade is he in fourth? He's in fourth grade right now and he'll be going into fifth grade.
Speaker 12 00:46:35
Going into fifth. Okay, cool. So my fifth graders right now are making towels. They'll use Mold Men. So we're using Mold Magic. So we usually do one sculpted project within a year and then we do all kinds of other stuff. But they have to make a Pop-Tart and turn it into a person or an animal. He loves Pop-Tarts. Well then we're going to have a Pop-Tart party. So after that they make the Pop-Tart, they're going to write a little story about it and then we'll bring the Pop-Tarts in and have fun with it.
Speaker 12 00:47:11
Okay, and then these guys are doing a color theory project called Fastenage Proofs. So it's just the prints that are super cool. So they just get that, and they're just different tables. Yes, as always. How do you do that? You're cool, you're good.
Speaker 10 00:47:34
This is 6th, 7th, and 8th grade, so this is an elective what I'm sharing outside. When you get to 6th, 7th, and 8th grade, you get to choose this class.
Speaker 12 00:47:42
So he'll have art once a week, and he'll use it once a week, Spanish once a week.
Speaker 10 00:47:45
K-5.
Speaker 12 00:47:46
K-3-5, yeah.
Speaker 10 00:47:47
Yeah, Spanish is actually twice a week.
Speaker 12 00:47:48
Twice a week, on the track? Yeah, twice a week.
Speaker 2 00:47:51
Okay. Alrighty, cool. Oh, it's still good. Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 10 00:48:01
Alright, let's move on. Hey, how's it going? Mr. Sanchez. He does a ton of stuff for us. His wife is our Spanish teacher. So I'm also the academic coach for interventions. So if he ever needs help, like additional help in class, that would be with me. So he's during the day. So we pull a child out of the classroom, non-course subject. So it would be after the lesson is taught, then he or she may be pulled out. He works with them during the day. We have two after school. So you even get that type of special attention academically during the day. And this is the man that will do it. It's amazing. We have Chapman students too that come down and help us every day. So they also work with the students and they are in the program to become an educator. So they're on their way. And you know Chapman, I mean you've got him right there. Get in there! Alright, nice to meet you. Alright guys, take care.
Speaker 10 00:48:59
I went to Sac State, that's where I got my credentials, Sacramento State for basketball, they were interested in me to play basketball, I got there and everybody was six foot five and could do everything that I did, so I was like, I better look for a career, so I did, but once I was in there, I came back down here, after the high school, because my sister called me, heard a little bit about that, and I went to Vanguard, and that's where I went through seminary, at 28, I went back to school, and then went to Azusa to get a masters, so I'm a school nut, once I learned,
Speaker 10 00:49:30
I'm a good student, so this is middle school PE, so this would be their class for PE, the rest of the students in the 6th and 8th grade are in classes that we've talked about, Spanish, art, music, etc., and he's the voice coach for, what do you got on your head. 
Speaker 5 00:50:01
It's posted and there's an extra piece of tape. Okay.
Speaker 4 00:50:05
That was a good place to put it. All right.
Speaker 10 00:50:07
You coming in? No, I have PE 7. Okay. Right on. So there's an example of PE after this in 7th period. So right now she's in leadership class. Yeah. So in the 6th, 7th, 8th grade, you can apply for a leadership class. You get interviewed. You have to fill out an application. And then he's actually our leadership teacher, Mr. Sanchez. So that's also an elective. Okay. Yeah. So his PE, he'd get it with him twice a week.
Speaker 10 00:50:37
In the middle school, they dress out. In K-5, you can wear just what you're wearing now. Okay. Does that make sense? Yeah. And you can see a little bit about our athletics. We are very competitive, as you can see the banners. Some of them, you know, we've already earned two this year for sports that we've already played and finished. But, yeah, we play all the big schools, Mariners, Friends. bunch. They're all up there. I believe you. Yep. All right gang, let's keep moving.
Speaker 9 00:51:06
Moving. We're going to head upstairs. This is the art room that you just saw. This is.
Speaker 10 00:51:13
kindergarten. You see that one. Our preschool wing or my two grades. All right. So my daughter has, two kids. She's third one in May. So this, you get a locker with you in the sixth grade. So you're really not even that far away. So instead, they don't.
Speaker 10 00:51:46
Use them the way we want them to. You can put all your books in there. If you play sports for us, you can put your bag in there for sports, etc. Mr. Mazzone, I want you to meet this amazing family. He is one of the academic coaches after school. This is Matthew. He is a friend of Candice Reese. Okay. Jay was in. You laughed. You saw me sucking it up. Yeah. Don't worry. He's got all those kids that you just talked about. Mike, Michael, her son, Bolton, the one that just made it hard.
Speaker 10 00:52:19
I know it's kind of weird to be so unfeeling. It's actually, yeah, so. Jameson, tell us a little bit about math and academic coaching. He's our coach after school, one of the two. Okay.
Speaker 13 00:52:29
So math, I mean, the kids are kind of scattered everywhere. I just kind of meet the kids where they're at, and we build from there. Typically, with middle school, a lot of the foundational skills are not there. So I have to do a lot of re-teach. It probably wouldn't be as easy. But a lot of it, what they should know and what I should be teaching, I've got to go backwards to bring them up. Because if I just go forward, it's going to be a messy year. So I'd rather them have mastery of some skills to where they have a baseline and they can go upwards.
Speaker 13 00:53:02
versus, you know, we're just going to keep getting behind because I have to teach here.
Speaker 10 00:53:07
And what's nice is he gets a sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. So he gets to see the progression. He can take a student just what he was saying, where he's at. By the time he's ready to go to Orange High School, he knows what's going on with that child.
Speaker 13 00:53:22
Yeah, that's just the biggest thing in math. Especially, you know, depending on if you're coming from, like, public or another private's private, it's like, I've got to see what you know before I can just, you know, go ahead with curriculum. Because sometimes, you know, it's an outlier. Like, you know, they can be teaching, I don't know, algebra, and I expect them to know multiplication division. And I find out they're still working on the chart. I'm like, that's not gonna work.
Speaker 10 00:53:45
So I was trying to make it realistic. No, I appreciate that. And then after school, he's able to take him, communicate with you and his homeroom, which you're gonna meet right here. And they work. They come and tailor it. Yep, they tailor it just to him.
Speaker 4 00:53:58
Great.
Speaker 10 00:53:59
So it works out really well.
Speaker 4 00:54:00
Is that all done in a, like, formalized way, where we're communicated with? Oh yeah, absolutely. Like, you're telling us and we're telling them we're trying to get it all together. Well, he, let's say. How does that all come together? You guys meet. You guys talk.
Speaker 10 00:54:13
It could be even.
Speaker 13 00:54:13
It could be formal. Yeah. It could be a meet, sometimes. I go in on a parent conference like you've done, that I've pretty good rapport with the teachers. And so they'll tell me, like, hey, can you go in and watch the summer term? And so this is my prep period, like I normally go in the prep period and kind of watch, because I like to know what I'm getting, especially when they're coming from fourth to fifth, which I think are the big years. Because by the time you get to middle school, if they're still struggling with multiplication and division in life, you've got to have some conversation. And, you know, sometimes it takes two hours after school and you've just got to give a session just to get them up for it. Because at the end of the day, you want to see growth, but also success. A lot of the kids get frustrated with that because they're not having enough success, well, it's because you don't have the foundation.
Speaker 13 00:54:60
I just try to keep it realistic. I'll talk with the parents about options. During the day, I'll pull them out, like Mr. Ferris said, and I'll have small groups. But if you want more specialized, it'll be academic coaching at that school. That's awesome. That's going to be the route that we'll be going. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. Nice to meet you. What grade are we in? He's in fourth grade right now. Ooh, that's the big grade. So, we'll do fifth grade next year. That's the big grade. All right, nice to meet you, Matthew. You play any sports? He does. Baseball?
Speaker 13 00:55:30
Soccer? Captain of the state. Men? Forward? Defense? What? Defense. What's the answer? It's in the back. Yeah. Oh, so you know how to win the ball, huh? Yeah. OK. I like that. So that means you know where your nose is, where the ball goes. That means you can play football, too. I'm always going for athletes here. Yeah? Always. Let's go. We're athletes. Let's go. All right. Here we go. How are you guys doing? This is what I was talking about. Hi. All right. Thank you. What's up? Hey, what's up, buddy?
Speaker 13 00:56:00
This is Matthew. Matthew. We have the same name. That's awesome. My name's Matthew, too. There we go. Nice to meet you, bud.
Speaker 4 00:56:07
Besides, you got, like, money at home.
Speaker 9 00:56:09
I know, he's like, man, that's cool. See, up, up, just as tall. There we go. But we are good friends. Hey, hey. Oh, sorry, sorry. I had, like, a little, like...
Speaker 10 00:56:19
You look really short. I had a crick in my, like, vignette for a second. I hope you guys are enjoying your tour. All right. Liddell. This is Miss Hill. Hi. Kate Gray. This is Matthew for Fringless Parents. Hi.
Speaker 9 00:56:34
Nice to meet you. Come on in. How are you? This is Miss Gray. Hi.
Speaker 9 00:57:05
Let's go this way. Thank you, Ms. Hill. We're going to go see the academic. Where again, you get the classroom during the day and then after school you can go one on one.
Speaker 9 00:57:35
There's one more, Ms. O'Toole.
Speaker 10 00:57:44
So this is where the one on one would take place. If it's more than one, it would be on that. But no more than six. And that's during the day. After school, it's no more than three. And again, if you want a one on one, that's up to you. Yep. So you can have that. Thank you.
Speaker 2 00:58:01
Yeah, you are motivated by candy.
Speaker 10 00:58:03
Well good, I have a bunch more office. We'll hit that up. So there's this. And then, kind of a cool room up.
Speaker 4 00:58:11
You know? Look, it's great that you have so many, tools and resources here. Sure, sure. What. 
Speaker 10 00:58:21
Yeah, especially candy. Hey man, right on. You'll see how much I like it. I have a bunch of office. Yep. Because I have to get with that girl. She was in the fifth grade classroom. I don't know if you recognize her. Something's going on. Oh, we haven't gone to fourth grade. Come on back. Let's go there first. I was going to show you guys.
Speaker 10 00:58:52
the church. Because that's where all of our events take place. We have kind of a fireside chat from me, telling you guys what's happening, and then I dismiss this.
Speaker 2 00:59:18
This is the biggest classroom.
Speaker 9 00:59:21
She and her son oiled because they have the biggest classroom.
Speaker 10 00:59:33
Check this one out. Isn't this cool? Fourth grade next year. Fifth grade next year. I'm sorry. But what I told him is that these would be his classroom. What do you guys think? What do you guys think of a new student? They love new students, actually. She's new. She's with us. I'm sorry. Who else is new this year. 
Speaker 4 00:59:59
Has it been a good year? Been a good year with being new, yeah? Good. It's been hard. Change is always hard. Okay, change is hard. But it's okay. Okay, sorry. But they won't stay in this classroom, right?
Speaker 4 01:00:29
No, they need to rotate.
Speaker 10 01:00:30
Yeah, that would be right around the corner. Fifth grade, yeah. Alright.
Speaker 4 01:00:34
Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 01:00:37
Sure.
Speaker 2 01:00:43
I mean... I don't think I need to see it. We're okay.
Speaker 10 01:00:48
So that's where a lot of our community events again start. So that's where back to school and all of that happens. And then chapel every Friday is in there. If you're shopping schools, my recommendation would be a school that is open to return institutions.
Speaker 6 01:01:12
So if I drop something, I don't know.
Speaker 4 01:01:28
It was almost like we're very full. So after everybody re-enrolls, we'll tell you. Even if that's the case. And then, like, I'll present it to my director, and they get to choose. And so it's just kind of like, it's fair, but I'd much rather have them just be like,
Speaker 4 01:02:06
apply, and, you know, like, and we'll see how, we'll see where it takes us. You know, rather than feeling like, like, I don't know, like, how lucky of us. And we're all lucky, you know, so it's like, there you go.
Speaker 10 01:02:23
They chased me to be their VP many years ago, and I went through the interview process, and she was, what's it, me.
Speaker 4 01:02:31
It was just odd, because we kept on running into people that we knew from our church, you know, and so it was like, it already feels very much like here, like, we already have people that we know, like, foundationally, that, like, knew us as a family, but it was like... There was just definitely a gap where it felt a little bit more uncomfortable, feeling a little bit more, like, uneasy.
Speaker 6 01:02:53
Yeah, it didn't feel welcoming, I think, is the way that we...
Speaker 4 01:02:57
Yeah. But the... You want to do one of those.
Speaker 10 01:03:02
You know that. How is it to make it about a year in the growth that we were experiencing? I just wasn't comfortable. In fact, they offered me a condition. After a minute, Monday morning, I called.
Speaker 4 01:03:23
I mean, it's a little... I found it to be sterile. I'm not going to lie. I thought that would make it a little bit bigger. They have more resources. More resources. I didn't know that you didn't have the resources and, like, the program to sell it. And I knew that Candice was pretty honest with me about how... You know, and so I'm like, well, James is struggling, and he's at the, you know, and I think at the end of the day, it just comes down to things that you have set up, and the communication, you know, between us, like.
Speaker 10 01:03:56
He also, though, in defense of us, in that way, and you'll hear the transparency, he waits for us, so he wasn't available to do the academic coaching. Lazon, who you just met, recommended him to be an academic coach, but he was super busy in athletics, and we're grateful because he loved playing, I mean, we need athletes for a small school.
Speaker 4 01:04:21
We, I mean, Matthew will be a part of the school. It doesn't have to be five days a week. We've always kept it separate, so, like, it's just worked out better. Not that I don't want, I think I did here, although, but there's not really grounding for that.
Speaker 6 01:04:36
At the end of the day, he's great at soccer, soccer's very important to us, but he's not going to be a soccer player, so if he needs academic support, then we've got to do whatever's necessary. For sure.
Speaker 4 01:04:51
Do you have a pressure by him? Right. Okay. Right. Chris is something where, like, we're trying to get tutoring, and he's tutoring, and we'll do that due, but whatever the need is, that's what we'll do with him. Okay. They have, like, different programs where the kids can open up in the class sizes of the tree, and so it would be, if there's space in those different programs, because it has to do with how they assess the kids, and...
Speaker 10 01:05:18
I'm smiling because that's so friends.
Speaker 4 01:05:20
It's so, and then after that, then we would still have to do it with...
Speaker 10 01:05:23
And there's more to it.
Speaker 4 01:05:24
Oh. Sure. What's the underground. 
Speaker 10 01:05:28
That's the basement. But it's, yeah, so it's like a college. If you went to a college, a lot of times your classrooms are underground. So we have four down there. We have first grade, second grade, and third grade.
Speaker 12 01:05:40
Here. 
Speaker 10 01:05:40
Here. Yeah.
Speaker 12 01:05:43
It's really cool.
Speaker 10 01:05:44
It is actually really cool. When I was interviewing, when they reached out to me, I was like, yep, I see. What does that look like? Totally. It's cool.
Speaker 4 01:05:52
Well, if you go here, we'll check it out. He wants to see that. All right.
Speaker 8 01:05:57
Let's go over my... All right. Let's go. No, I'm going to take care of it. Okay. She had to take her lunch. Okay.
Speaker 9 01:06:07
Any questions for me. 
Speaker 6 01:06:10
Do you have any last questions. 
Speaker 9 01:06:12
Well, what did I say is in my office? Candy. Yeah, you should remember that.
Speaker 10 01:06:16
I mean, come on.
Speaker 4 01:06:16
Do you want to ask her about the candy. 
Speaker 10 01:06:18
I'd like to pray with you guys, can't I? Okay. I don't recall because then I think I looked. Your last name? McLeish. The McLeish's. I'm McFury, you know. I am Irish. Okay, you tell. All right, Father God, we lift up the McLeish's and we pray, Lord, that your hand will be upon them as they are entering a new seed season for Matthew. Father, I pray that you would direct them to the school where they would, one, have a peace about it, two, drive away each morning knowing that he's safe, that he's loved, that he's protected.
Speaker 10 01:06:49
that he is going to be equipped with whatever it is, Lord, that you have instilled in him gift-wise, that we want to draw them out of him. Father, we pray, Lord, that where he ends up, Father, will be of you, that it would be a place that you've directed him to. Be it here, Lord, we would bless that, thank that, thankful for that, and treat him as if he is one of our own. Father, we thank you for the time that we have spent together, and just, again, direct them, give them a peace to the place that you would want them. We ask this in your Son's name. Amen.
Speaker 9 01:07:21
All right, gang, nice to meet you.
Speaker 10 01:07:23
Very nice to meet you. Very nice to meet you.
Speaker 9 01:07:26
Follow me. Let's go.
Speaker 8 01:07:28
Hi, I'm Alyssa. I'm the office manager. Nice to meet you. So this is just some reading material for you. Over here is just the admission process checklist. So if you do decide to enroll, you would do that through a grade link, that will take you to our school website. I'm sorry. which will take you to Great Lake. And then there is a registration fee. If you decide to enroll for next year before February 28th, it's $100 off, so it'll be $325 instead of $425.
Speaker 8 01:08:01
Then you can still enroll after that. Of course, it'll just go back up to the $425. Do you require all families enroll in FACS, the Tuition Management Company? Are you familiar with that? Perfect, great. So in the summer, our business office will send you all the information to get going. And if you're already in there, then there's something they can do to roll you over. We will need a copy of the score certificate and immunizations. What's the minimum? Yeah, exactly. So if you want to play any sports,
Speaker 8 01:08:32
what grade are you going into? Fifth grade. So we do have sports. I'm sure Mr. King talked about that. Yeah, perfect. So it's $125 per sport per season. That's the athletic fee that helps cover costs of employer, fees and other things like that. that will come out from our athletic director each season. This is just the tuition and fees information so we have three options you can pay monthly you can pay in two payments or one annual payment both of these have a little bit.
Speaker 8 01:09:04
of a discount 125 off and 250 off and then there are a few different discount options listed here that you can read about if any of those apply and let us know and we can take care of that. Same kind of information just a little bit more details. Facts and this is a confidential student recommendation form it's completely optional but if you wanted to provide it to his current teacher they could fill it out and they will just mail it back to us but again.
Speaker 8 01:09:36
completely optional we know that switching schools is a little annoying sometimes and if that's not what you want to do then they're on board.
Speaker 4 01:09:43
They're not on board with it but they want to see the kids succeed in either way.
Speaker 8 01:09:49
So in that case it might be beneficial, you know, to have a teacher fill it out just so that way his new teacher will be familiar with where he's at and what he might, you know, struggle with or, you know, what he has to look out for. Working on a new flyer, so I'm a little bit messy. But we do offer academic coaching. Again, I'm sure Mr. Green will talk on this. So we'll have an updated flyer coming soon, but I'm pretty sure the pricing is the same. Yeah, perfect. Great.
Speaker 8 01:10:19
This is just a pretty flyer. Our uniform policy, so basically it's red, white, or navy polo and navy or khaki bottoms. We do not require our logo, but it's optional. But not required. So if you just wanted to buy Target, Amazon, all good. Yep. And then Fridays they can wear our spirit shirt, which is a t-shirt with our logo on it. You can buy those here for $18. And you can wear that Friday with jeans. and then otherwise um uniform every other day and um when he gets to middle school we do have.
Speaker 8 01:10:53
pe uniforms but for fifth grade and this is our school supply list it's from this year so just to give you an idea of what kinds of things and you don't need to purchase everything if you already have it good to go send it in why is that you buy it all and then you send it in.
Speaker 4 01:11:10
you buy it all and then he comes with it yeah he could bring it and again this will come out.
Speaker 8 01:11:15
like we'll update it and send a new one we'll send all of all of this updated versions um over the summers to prepare you for the first day of school so this is just kind of sample so you can kind of get a feel for what what we do but new information will come to you um this is an enrichment schedule again for this year but it will show recess lunch times and enrichment times so fifth grade will have pe twice a week music once a week so that's actually you don't have to do science lab anymore this is old art and spanish.
Speaker 8 01:11:45
But they'll have all those electives and are taught by subject matter teachers, so they have an art teacher for art, a PE teacher for PE. This is our current school year calendar. Our next year's school calendar has not been finalized yet, but basically it's the same. So like days off are going to follow the same. So we will always have spring break, Easter break the week after Easter. We'll have Good Friday off and then the following week, no matter when it falls. And then Christmas we do two weeks, Thanksgiving one week. That will all do the same.
Speaker 8 01:12:16
Oh, and then President's weekend we do a Friday-Monday instead of two Mondays. That will stay the same. We do have a process for attendance. If he's not going to be here, we just ask that you call or email us so that way we're aware not to expect him. This year we do have a hot lunch program. I imagine it will continue next year. It's through a company called School Eatery and I shouldn't put it in here probably because... Not necessarily the same for next year. Nicholas, have a seat and we'll be here shortly.
Speaker 8 01:12:46
But it's a program where you can, it's a third party, so you have a QR code that you can scan and order. And it will be delivered here. We keep it warm and then hand it out. And then we do pizzas on Fridays. You order it after. I love pizzas on Fridays. Daycare information. So school starts at eight o'clock, but 740 to 745 would be daycare time. So if you bring him prior to 745, he would have to go to daycare, so that he's supervised. And then you would be charged for whatever portion you use.
Speaker 8 01:13:19
So if it's 10 minutes, you'll get charged for 10 minutes. And then it'll get billed at the end of the month.
Speaker 4 01:13:24
Correct.
Speaker 8 01:13:25
And you don't have to tell us ahead of time. You don't have to plan for it. It's not like it's gonna fill up. It's just always there, always available. Yeah. That's crazy. I love this about us. And then same with after school. So pretty much at 3 o'clock, then we close car lines. Any kids that are left, go to daycare. And then when you get here, you sign them out.
Speaker 4 01:13:51
I picked her up at 3 p.m. during daycare. My mom's going to get charged. I didn't know. We're not charging for picking up. So there you go. Gas money.
Speaker 8 01:14:08
Where's the car line? It'll be in the parking lot, but not yet. And then shots for school information, which I assume he's all caught up because he's currently enrolled at a school. All right. And then Kathy's card and Mr. Fury's card. Any questions? Call or email us anytime. Thank you so much. You're very welcome. It was great to meet you both. All three of you, actually.
Speaker 4 01:14:33
Have a great day. Bye, guys. Thank you. I'm going to go back to just that one or catch up with him. You want to go this way? Maddie, this way. Oh, nice stomach ulcer. She's probably thinking too. Oh, gosh.
Speaker 4 01:15:06
Hey, Maddie, you're back. Good job, lady. All right, honey. Me too.
Speaker 6 01:15:24
I get mine going all day. Huh? You'll probably get there first. I'm like, you know, something on my shin has been hurting.
Speaker 6 01:16:01
It's kind of a big surprise, huh? Yes. So we were going to tell you yesterday, but you were kind of off a little bit yesterday. And we didn't want to... Well, I wanted you to be in a position to have more of an open mind. And yesterday, it was kind of hard to get you in a happy mood.
Speaker 6 01:16:43
Yeah, tell me, but I want to hear your thoughts first.
Speaker 2 01:16:46
I think it's good, but all my thoughts are on right now is peeing.
Speaker 6 01:16:51
You mean the computer? Tell me, in your words, why we're thinking about switching to Squillip for you.
Speaker 5 01:17:05
Because you guys want me to be more responsible.
Speaker 6 01:17:14
I don't think responsible is the word.
Speaker 2 01:17:18
You only told me a little.
Speaker 6 01:17:20
So, um, the, um, you're kind of, our fear is that you, let's not open that, okay? Um, if you stay at Prentice, that you're going to end up being lectured a little bit, you know, our, we didn't want, when we sent you to Prentice, we didn't want you to be in a situation where you were behind, right, um, and we wanted you to learn kind of the basics, um, and we all, when we, we, we always said that you would be, in fact, Prentice said that you would only need to go there for like two to four years.
Speaker 6 01:18:24
Where they could teach you, they could give you like the tools that you need in order to be successful, okay, and... So, we always planned to send you somewhere else. And now, we kind of feel like they're not teaching you as fast as other kids your age.
Speaker 6 01:18:60
Eventually, you're going to be behind other kids your age at the other school. So, does that make sense? And, you know, they're kind of easy on you, right? Like, if you don't turn in your homework, what happens? Nothing, right? Just do it. And that's not really helping you, is it? Right? You've got to learn to be responsible. Like, if your brothers don't do their homework, what happens?
Speaker 6 01:19:34
Yeah, they get hit on their grades. but not right so we want to we so now we're starting to look at it going is maddie is maddie still benefiting right and normally with stuff like this your mom and i aren't so quick to be.
Speaker 6 01:20:13
on the same page like that's like certified no loop right like but we but the good thing is is that we both fight each other for what's best what we think is best for you guys right and so we're not fighting against each other we're fighting for what's best for you um and in this case, When we started asking those questions with each other, there was no fight with me. We both think that you're not getting, you know, we both feel like it's time to move you on.
Speaker 6 01:20:53
And, you should know, we pay almost as much for you to go to Prentice as we do both of your brothers to go to Prentice.
Speaker 2 01:21:03
What are you saying? I don't go to Prentice. I get more Robux.
Speaker 6 01:21:09
I'm saying that one of the biggest reasons why we don't go to Mammoth every year is because you go to Prentice. How's that. 
Speaker 2 01:21:16
If I leave this school, Prentice, I get to have a lot of credit to everybody who gets to go to Prentice.
Speaker 6 01:21:32
I won't promise Mammoth. I will promise uh play dates with her. I won't I won't promise frequency because like look you can do this this week because you've got state cup you have three games this week huh right but if you guys win you keep on going and by the way it's in Oceanside down in San Diego so I do but.
Speaker 6 01:22:16
later um they don't get out for like another hour either way I'm going home to poop if you know what I mean um so you have any questions now that we're. this is this is i know you want to watch youtube but this is really important that we talk about okay um if we got rowan what yeah i don't you know i don't see that happening either way.
Speaker 6 01:22:59
but i think it's a reasonable perfectly reasonable conversation so.
Speaker 9 01:23:52
These boots are made from a single piece of premium American leather tanned in Pennsylvania. They're built to last. The leather is pretty special. Small scratches basically heal themselves.
Speaker 14 01:24:06
And with a Gore-Tex water... It's March the 10th, 1967. Four F-4 Phantom IIs from the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, 433rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, are taking off from an airbase in Thailand. The weather's good, and the four planes take a heading for Hanoi in North Vietnam. The element leader is Captain Bob Pardo. In the rear seat is his weapons systems officer, Lieutenant Steve Wayne. Their mission is to take out steel mills nearby the city.
Speaker 14 01:24:39
The Vietnamese are very much prepared. The area surrounding Hanoi has some of the best air defences in aviation history. Approaching Hanoi, still under clear skies, the F4s are at 13,000 feet. They can see the path to the target as it's like a pathway of anti-aircraft. Plane number four has Captain Earl Amon in the front and Lieutenant Bob Houghton behind. Amon's plane is hit. Fortunately, it's not a critical hit this time and Amon manages to keep his place in the formation.
Speaker 14 01:25:13
Going into a steep dive, the F4s release their bombs. But under the heavy fire, disaster strikes as Amon's plane is hit again by anti-aircraft fire. Then Pardo's plane is hit too. Both planes are now streaming fuel and they need to decide what to do next. They turn for Laos where they can rendezvous with a KC-135 tanker before pushing on to Thailand. With the two planes now ascending to 20,000 feet, Eamon radios to Pardo.
Speaker 14 01:25:44
There's bad news. The F4 is now leaking so much fuel that he's not going to make it. The tanks are almost empty. Pardo checks his fuel. Even though they have lost a lot, Pardo can just make it to Laos for the rendezvous with the tanker. Eamon and Pardo talk on the radio, and Eamon relays his plan. His best bet is to fly as long as he can, and then he and Houghton will eject over North Vietnam. All the men know it's a dire situation. Ejecting over North Vietnam meant almost certain capture.
Speaker 14 01:26:17
and a long stay in a Vietnamese POW camp, if they were lucky. Pardo had the fuel to make it to the tanker, but just couldn't bring himself to do it. Radioing back, he told Eamon he was going to stay with him as long as he could. Maybe he could come up with an idea. To make it worse, Eamon's engines were spluttering and losing power. Pardo didn't have much time to think. A flash of inspiration hit him. He maneuvered behind Houghton's plane and carefully approached from the rear,
Speaker 14 01:26:48
lining up the nose of his F4 with the rear of the other. He tried to give it a push. He was going to use his high-tech $2.4 million plane to give a boost to the other Phantom. With Eamon's spluttering engines running, the turbulence was causing issues. Pardo told Eamon to eject his drag chute from the back of the plane. That left open a small hatch, which for a while gave Pardo's F4 a bit more purchase. The turbulence wasn't helping the plan, so he told Eamon to shut down his engines,
Speaker 14 01:27:20
just in case he needed those final drops of fuel. Despite Pardo's skill as a pilot, the Phantom's nose comb that was ideal for slipping through the air also made it ineffective as a ram to push another plane. Trying again and again and failing, he had another flash of inspiration. Originally, the F4 was designed as a fighter-bomber for the Navy. As such, it had a rear hook that allowed it to land on aircraft carriers. Getting on the radio once more, Bob Pardo told Earl Eamon to lower his tail hook.
Speaker 14 01:27:53
Lining up again and coming in close, Bob maneuvered to get the tail hook smack in the middle of his windscreen. The strength of the glass in front of his face took the full weight of the injured F4 and pushed it through the heavens. It worked. That is until turbulence shook the two planes, causing the tail hook to slide off. Getting the hook back on the glass, the glass started to crack under the pressure, forming a spiderweb immediately in front of Bob's face. If the glass gave way, it would mean certain death.
Speaker 14 01:28:27
Again and again, Bob kept on like this, with every 15 seconds or so, the tail hook slipping off the windscreen. Incredibly, it slowed the descent of the stricken F-4 to just 1,500 feet per minute. Alarms went off inside Pardo's plane. The left engine was on fire. He immediately shut it down. Needing two engines for the push, he went through the start-up procedure. The fire started up again. Pardo's left engine was critically damaged. Carrying on with just one engine, keeping the two F-4s in the air, he realized that his fuel had finally been spent.
Speaker 14 01:29:04
The two planes had traveled 88 miles under the power of one crippled F-4. They had just made it across the border to Laos. Pardo watched as Eamon and Houghton ejected from their bird. Immediately after, Wayne and Pardo followed suit, shooting up into the heavens before descending into the jungle below. Laos was also a war zone at the time, and the natives conducted a search for the downed pilots. Hearing shouting and shooting in the jungle, the four men managed to avoid the locals.
Speaker 14 01:29:34
After just 45 minutes on the ground, all the men were whisked away by a rescue helicopter. Incredibly, despite his heroic act, there was talk of charges against Pardo for not getting his expensive plane home. But thankfully, reason prevailed, and the charges were dropped. Twenty years later, the events of that day were revisited, and finally, Major John R. Pardo and his man in back, First Lieutenant Steve Wayne, received the Silver Star for their actions on that day.
Speaker 14 01:30:07
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Speaker 6 01:30:28
Yeah. I didn't know you wanted to be a fighter pilot. You know, you know who his son is, right? His son is in the airport, you know that, right? No. Yeah, his son flies the C-130s. C-130s is in the OEFU? It's an equipment, they're the ones that fly like the tanks and stuff like that. The tankers? They, no, they transport equipment.
Speaker 6 01:31:04
Oh yeah, the C-130s. Right, yep.
Speaker 1 01:39:49
Shhh. Thank you.
Speaker 1 01:42:48
All right, so you're going to have practice paint.
Speaker 1 01:44:27
Bye. How are you? Doing well. Don't complain.
Speaker 6 01:44:57
No, sorry. I was... We're switching Maddie's school for next year, so we're doing a tour of it. I'm probably going to send him to this school called Covenant Christian that Candace's kids went to. Or I guess Lila's still going there. But our thought on Prentice is that they are... He's ready to go out into the real world, and they're kind of not holding him accountable.
Speaker 6 01:45:30
yet. So it's time. We've always got to do two to four years. in the you know i don't think and i definitely don't think that we're getting i don't think it's worth the money you know at this point either so um you know not that they're not doing i mean they're doing what they set up and i just easy for them so um yeah so what's that um it's uh.
Speaker 6 01:46:24
not too far from it's in orange it's not too far from where he's currently going to school, 15 minutes from here so. Um, I don't think there's anything, I think that they've got a nice little set up, I don't think there's anything incredibly special about it. And from uh, gotcha. So, yeah, that's where we're at.
Speaker 6 01:47:08
It costs $7,000 a year instead of, right, instead of $40,000. Huh? I don't know, I think it's $7,000 a year. Um, I just saw, I mean, maybe I just didn't see the whole thing, but I mean it, like even friends only cost $12,000, so.
Speaker 6 01:47:41
Um, I mean don't quote me on that number, I'll double check it and, you know, I'm gonna look over all that paperwork tonight, but honestly I'm half tempted, if I thought Ashley Ann would go for it, I'd be half tempted to say let's send him there next month, so, um, no, I took him home, she went back to run an errand, and I had to poop real bad, so I took care of that, and I called you, priorities I think.
Speaker 1 01:48:54
I don't know, I mean, she'll definitely have some thoughts, so, you know, but I'll, you know.
Speaker 6 01:49:54
I'll, uh, I'll check on, uh, I'll check on it. But yeah, I mean, yeah, you're, I mean, you're definitely welcome to call her yourself. Um, in fact, that might be a good idea. Um, just because she'll have a whole bunch of questions for you. So, she's, uh, she, she wants to give you what you want.
Speaker 6 01:50:37
So, um, I'm assuming Dad wants to call me about payroll, so I should get back to, or he's calling me about payroll. But, um, when's the, I've gone to look at the John thing a couple times. When am I supposed to start reading? We're done. Oh, so hop to it is what you're saying.
Speaker 1 01:52:08
Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 6 01:52:25
I'll have to... No. Yeah. That's how I heard it. So. Cool. I'll check it out. And yeah, I'm sure I'll have more questions later. But cool.
Speaker 1 01:52:49
That's right.
Speaker 6 01:52:53
Yeah. Because I just opened up my last one. Okay. That will work. So I won't try to get a burrito with you this... I might, you know, there is a day where I would definitely make that happen, but, um, you know, it's just, I'm not sure it's actually worth it if you're not there.
Speaker 6 01:53:30
There you go. Cool, man. All right, you got it. We'll see ya. Bye.
Speaker 1 01:53:54
Hey, how you doing. 
Speaker 6 01:54:06
Oh, yeah, where you almost gave it away? i'm assuming it starts with a j and ends with an i or similar okay okay because spence at jet ski and you're like oh well i'm like oh so.
Speaker 1 01:55:44
Right. I learned my lesson.
Speaker 6 01:56:10
So...
Speaker 2 01:56:18
Well, I think...
Speaker 6 01:56:21
Well, that's... Right. Hold on one second. Can you watch on your iPad? You haven't done your chores yet. Right, but I got out early. You did. Which means you have extra time to do your chores. Fine, but when I'm finished, I'm out of my mind. Huh? When I'm finished, I'm not out of my mind. just go do your chores and we'll talk about it um i think you know my mind goes to it's like well.
Speaker 6 01:56:53
how can you tell if something goes wrong right um and so you know i think you know what what is there i start going it's like okay you know to hit something or something you know is there here is there something out there that's you know i don't even know i have to search it up a little.
Speaker 1 01:57:16
bit you know um you know right well i'm sure you you know.
Speaker 6 01:57:41
Even as a fisherman, I mean, it's time for you just like, oh, I ended up in the water because I was fighting that, you know, or whatever. Oh, really? Yes. Yeah, I mean, I think I'd want to wrap my head around, you know, a little bit more on that whole, like, and I know that's what you're, you know, but how do we know something, you know?
Speaker 6 01:58:28
Yeah, yeah. No, I'm sure, I mean, the boys went to go get in the truck the other day, load up, do something. I don't remember what it was. ben's opening the putting in the code for the to open up the truck while maddie's jumping into the back and you know and then goes huh so on my on my truck if you hit the last button of the code twice, it'll pop the tailgate too you know so maddie climbing over the tailgate and ben goes pop.
Speaker 6 01:59:04
it and i mean ben and maddie came in just blistering you know like so no it's it's uh. well well so i mean i i was like.
Speaker 6 01:59:37
and he was he had a nice little scratch it wasn't you know it broke it it broke skin didn't but no blood right and uh cigar did all you know i was like and ben has just been you know he's again ben and so i was gonna light him up pretty good like tell me that and what happened he's like well i just i'm pretty funny you know and so he's climbing over i knew i just had to hit the button.
Speaker 6 02:00:14
and uh and uh you know and i'm like and he's and so i opened up the door and you know you know like his finger was somewhere he felt that crunch or something like that you think about that he's like no like and then he just, you know it was a pretty big fall don't you think and he's like well he didn't fall he just kind of like you know rode it down and it's like and then and then when he got down to right well and this.
Speaker 6 02:00:48
is it and he's like well that's kind of the this is the point where i i start you know as dad i start going from protective to to uh i'm envisioning this and i'm starting to giggle inside and so i was like we just kind of like wrote it down and you know and then he had a little fall after that and so it was like you know dude you know you you are not in a.
Speaker 6 02:01:24
you guys have to stop thinking about whether or not you can do stuff because it's a joke, You know, we've got to start thinking about how the other guy's going to receive it. Because if he ain't laughing, dude, you know, then we shouldn't be doing it. He's like, all right, you know. But to your point, right. 
Speaker 1 02:02:06
Quick. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 6 02:02:37
and you're gonna come home with that thing and grandma's gonna be like but you couldn't do my bathroom huh.
Speaker 6 02:03:30
right well i think the thing is too. there's a lot of the the training i think that my kids need most it's kind of the second order consequences kind of thing if you know we did this thing but then it caused that or you know maybe a.
Speaker 6 02:04:04
better way to say it is also just asking the question that's what i'm trying to train my crew right now it's not is it good enough it's what can go wrong here you know and we need to be thinking through it that way like i'm envisioning you know whatever hey let me let me talk to this rope before you in you know it while the while the uh propeller's going and not so much, the person right it's like well we never keep the propeller on there.
Speaker 6 02:04:34
you know well there's a person or whatever but, but the rope you know um got tangled and then we got caught you know and then we got stuck or whatever i'm just so boston whaler um mike was driving it yeah i mean i got to take out the dinghy.
Speaker 6 02:05:06
and everything um but yeah you'd have to teach him how to fish though you'd have to teach my fish. remember bump the bottom bring it up a foot you know but that would actually you know think about.
Speaker 6 02:05:46
it you know hey guys let's go let's go find some fish right they can enjoy just going to find fish. so no right right yeah but i i think this is the right play in the sense of uh you know there's plenty of time to think about it you know um and uh so it's not no decisions need to be made right.
Speaker 1 02:06:22
now yeah okay.
Speaker 6 02:06:37
Right. Okay. All right. Then I will, uh, let her know. Um, oh, by the way, um, I'm switching over to work. Alex, um, went to the dump for us. Like, nobody heard him. Um, Alex went to the dump for us, um, three times. And so he's uploaded, I haven't checked it myself, but I uploaded one of them and he uploaded, there might be a duplicate in there. So I'll look for that, but I need to reimburse him for it. Um, so.
Speaker 6 02:07:25
Would that be done on his easiest to do it on his paycheck? Or is it? Okay. Have you gotten payroll already? Okay, I didn't get to it. I know you're fine. I'm just yeah.
Speaker 6 02:08:10
Okay, well keep that in the back your head I'll go look at it and I'll try to get that done today. Yeah, yeah, and when I do it just so you know, I mean if you want something different Let me know when I when I put the stuff up there for them and I told him to do it, too I started it off with reimburse Alex and then I put what it was, you know, um that way it was like a flag for you but right no i i get that i i kind of just do it that way.
Speaker 6 02:08:52
because it's a uh if he gets if he sees it before i tell him you know before we talk then it's a flag you know so anyway okay well i uh oh you can be praying for us too uh um i we we just went to a school called covenant christian that we're probably gonna send maddie to um at least next, year um and then uh it's it's for james and went to school it's called covenant christian.
Speaker 6 02:09:28
we just toured them toured there and i i walked in there thinking it wasn't, probably wasn't going to be great and walked out of there going both of us looking at each other like this could be a good place for you know um we toured friends and you know felt like we weren't welcome you know so which which is fine because i she she was so she was so she's like why aren't.
Speaker 6 02:10:03
you why aren't you more mad on what i thought again it's that typical leave your free you know let's see if you're good enough to join our club you know um and oh your kid has a learning disability so we're not sure you're you're you know we're not sure we want to take that on, was was essentially.
Speaker 6 02:10:34
it wasn't those words but you know she read the same exact thing so um you know and actually ashland doesn't look like them too because i'm sitting there though like even this one i'm like hey listen i know i'm gonna sound like the dad that says oh my kid's fine he doesn't need help i'm not saying that but we're we're intentionally taking them out of an atmosphere that we believe is coddling and too much and we're putting them into an atmosphere that's normal he could he could.
Speaker 6 02:11:06
thrive he could need a lot of help he will definitely it'll definitely be a transition, that is normal you know um i think i think fairmont will be too much we haven't tried, um between me and these four walls here you know i'm i'm tempted to swing ben that way too.
Speaker 6 02:11:43
next year just uh you know save a bit especially if nothing changes in my scenario so um so. um yeah so we'll see because it's at least i think it's a third of what princess is i want.
Speaker 6 02:12:16
to say it was seven grand but i'm questioning like the number that i saw maybe i saw it on a, on a half payment or something but if it was seven grand you know we paid darn near 40 for, All right. Right. Mm-hmm. I know. You know, three grand a month for Princess, and four grand a month for Fairmont, for both of them. For both of them.
Speaker 6 02:12:47
So, servitex is less. You know? So, I know, that's what I feel bad about, the cash, but, you know, I'm going to be kind of calling her out a little bit. Not calling her out, but, yeah. You've heard my song six months ago. So, I mean, we've got to repray even.
Speaker 1 02:13:23
Mm-hmm. Right.
Speaker 6 02:13:54
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 02:13:54
But I, but I, you know, I think, you know, they have AP classes, um, a loose actually.
Speaker 6 02:14:40
better for stuff like that than Zervite is because Olu will actually let you take all the time.
Speaker 1 02:14:46
So it's direct, you know, um, but again, right, let's go.
Speaker 6 02:15:17
Um, yeah. So I'm going to go get your brothers. Huh? Finish your chores. Okay. Actually you can, yeah, you can watch the way I get back. How's that? You can watch till I get back. You got practice. You gotta get ready for that too. Um, the uh right right and we've always gone to fairmont not not so much for them you know, academics you know and that's what started us there but we kept them there for the value system.
Speaker 6 02:15:53
um you know we kind of always saw it as a i get that buffer and you know um because at the time i remember touring friends at the time we didn't know about this covenant christian place and the lady's like yeah my kid went into high school and they held him back he couldn't pass the exams. i can't have that you know so um yeah so yeah yeah we'll be praying about that for you guys.
Speaker 6 02:16:36
I'm going to go get the boys now, and then we're going to go to Servite's, we're going to do a family interview. Including the brothers? Your son. Yeah. Well, good luck. So, cool. I appreciate it. Good. And so. Okay. All right. Well, I love you, kid. Love you, too.
Speaker 2 02:17:04
And talk to you soon. All right. See you. Bye.
Speaker 6 02:17:58
Okay Kama, let's plan to be there tomorrow and when you are finished with the cleaning we can move on to the pipe penetrations.
Speaker 1 02:21:13
Can you...
Speaker 6 02:24:25
Hey, can I get Eric in eighth grade, McLeish, and then sixth grade, Ben? All right, thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 6 02:25:26
Also, would you mind taking a few more pics. 
Speaker 2 02:27:35
I know a lot of people with 3D printers.
Speaker 6 02:27:43
Hey, we can get it going. We can get it going. You're asking your buddy about 3D printers? Come on, get in. Hey, I've got a tile sample on the floor. Can you get in without, stepping on it?
Speaker 6 02:28:33
Sorry, I didn't expect to get your feet up. You've got two kids. I, well, we've been, so we went on a school tour from Maddie next year to Jameson's.
Speaker 6 02:29:06
There's your boy Preston.
Speaker 1 02:29:13
Kyle, get on it.
Speaker 11 02:29:25
Kyle was in last year's class. I see you. Because he and Kyle are still friends.
Speaker 2 02:29:45
Yo, did you see that? No, he left, but he, wheelied from here to that parking lot.
Speaker 1 02:30:43
What is that? Did you eat lunch? Yeah.
Speaker 1 02:31:33
That was cool.
Speaker 11 02:32:08
I got to like a fight with his little brother with him and his little brother like fine now but his little brother's still really annoying like his little brother and her hang out a lot and she told him that we're gonna get a girlfriend and I told her that we could go and be with her or she could get out of my face and she told me that we were drunk that.
Speaker 11 02:32:48
And I said, no, it was like this. And then, like, I don't know, I was talking to Mr. Matt, I was talking to, like, somebody else, and she was, like, crying, and she asked Mr. Matt, like, if she could, like, go to the bathroom or something, and she ran out of the room.
Speaker 6 02:33:11
Was it you. 
Speaker 11 02:33:12
Yeah. But she's, like, super, like, like, call her stupid, and she'll be fine, and then call her stupid again, and then she'll run out of the room. Why do you think she's crying? That she won't.
Speaker 6 02:33:38
Somehow, you hit on something that she's insecure about. Thursday.
Speaker 11 02:33:55
And then she said, like, how do you know who Mr. Bechtel is. 
Speaker 1 02:34:11
Have you talked to Mr. Bechtel. 
Speaker 11 02:34:20
It was like...
Speaker 6 02:34:25
Regardless of Mr. Bechtel, what are you saying? She's always, like, saying stuff to me. You don't have to, and I won't make you. But how many people have you ever won over by meeting me?
Speaker 6 02:34:59
we allow people to see here's what it really we have something we see who got it and we want because of what who he is because of what he's done for us all that good fun stuff and i know in many cases like i know you think you understand all this right now and you.
Speaker 6 02:35:29
many ways you do in many ways but that's just why we're having this conversation and i won't make it long so you don't feel like you can't tell me we have something you don't need you know we don't know what type of family she has whether her dad beats her when she gets home we don't know any of that right um. I mean...
Speaker 6 02:36:00
All I'm saying is, you have a family, uplifts you, loves you, you know, has instilled value and worth in you, right? You don't need her appreciation, which is why you don't care if she likes you or not. She seems to some, for some reason or not, need your appreciation. She doesn't have your appreciation. It's, it's hurtful.
Speaker 6 02:36:34
Even though, and girls tend to, this isn't you while I'm talking, but girls tend to be, tend to attack you when they like you. So, if that's the case, which she would never admit to, very possible you guys do both fit a profile, right? Um, but a lot of those girls are just trying to get attention, and they'll, and they'll like whoever will give them attention, and even if it's bad attention, they'll give it. But here's the point. The thing that makes us different as Christians is that we're willing to accept the suffering. The suffering being, you know, she doesn't deserve. She started this. She hit first. I'm going to forgive her for that. I'm going to let it go. I'm going to pay the cost in my own self, right? By not holding her accountable, and I'm going to return with love.
Speaker 6 02:37:41
And you returning with love is saying, you know, I'm sorry if I hurt you. Is that what you're doing to us? right i'm not asking you to take her out on a date i'm not asking you to beg for her forgiveness just a quick little she's gonna go well that was unexpected he's not such a bad guy do you have to.
Speaker 6 02:38:24
no that is what we do we go we're from the lord and we stand out we do the things we do the loving thing because it's because it honors him not because we care so much about you it's because we believe it or not of angels people that we don't ever see that are watching.
Speaker 6 02:39:01
Thank you. you know so even when nobody's watching it still gets more beings are watching i just started to make a speech do you think there's who did you make cry today ben no one do you think there's more than nine people that nine billion people dead in like all of eternity yeah there's 330.
Speaker 6 02:39:38
million no 300 there's 8 billion people in the world probably close to them it was like 8.5

[AI_SUMMARY]
A family is exploring Covenant Christian School as a potential new educational environment for their son, Matthew, who has ADHD and dyslexia. They express concerns about the lack of academic rigor and accountability at his current school, Prentice, which they feel is not challenging him enough. The school administrator highlights Covenant Christian's supportive structure, including academic coaching and a focus on developing well-rounded individuals. The family tours the campus, meets faculty, and discusses the enrollment process, ultimately considering the transition to better prepare Matthew for future academic demands.