 You centered your life around education education who would never talk about education This could be really interesting, okay, you know, I've been down to Frankfurt a few times Would you mind if I recorded okay cool cool cool. I'm Ty by the way hi Ty. I'm Carol Carol C-A-R-O-L I'm only I don't think a lot of people spoke was okay, but I always like to take I know because everybody spells everything different I know right anyway, so yeah, it's just through no one. This is just a personal hobby You just decided to do this. Yeah, so I have time off from work and Normally what I like to do is just try to fill up my time with something productive And I thought man, I saw these people on YouTube having news conversations with people Yeah, just randomly just like hey you want to sit down talk for five minutes, and then people would be like yeah You want to talk about TV? I'm like sure let's talk about TV or like I Saw this thing that happened in the news. I want to talk about it. Just bounce the idea Because you know NPR was here downtown really a few years ago And I remember what that program was called and that's what they used to do okay So like a story core it was that's exactly who it was very similar to that and I'm thought that sounds so cool What do I need to do to try that out? Many people stop yeah, so I've been doing this since November. I got a nice little channel set up Yeah, I got backlog videos until like April. No wait wait not April What's it? What's month after May June so like June? Yeah, so like I just I found it a really rewarding way to just have a Meaningful conversation with people about whatever they want and I also learned how to like Not get anyone you know defensive or anything like that my goal is just to have like a really positive conversations I'm California originally. I've moved around a lot of military actually Military brat my mom. I've never been in the military, but my mom that's my husband's a military brat What brand thing his dad was in the army, okay? Yeah, and I ended up living all over the place Yeah, I went to like three high schools all that stuff So you learn how to make friends really quickly and that's why I think stuff like this is important You have a topic you want to talk about I'm not really anything that really matters See anything that motivates you something that you strongly believe to be true. Maybe something Centured your life around education education who would never talk about education This could be really interesting, okay, you know, I've been down to Frankfurt a few times recently That's the capital of Kentucky. Oh, you know, I'm learning things. Okay, look check that out So Frankfurt are they known for their education or is that? No, but you see we've had a governor here that We don't see eye-to-eye with him. Okay, so we've gone to protest, you know old-fashioned like in the 60s and 70s Could you walk me through the issue? I'm not I'm not up to date the Well, it was simply that our governor wanted to change Some of our retirement benefits and all like that for education and I don't feel that he's really supported public education and So a lot of school districts shut down and went to Frankfurt and Fayette County was one of them, okay So just so I can catch up sure there were schools that were here But the retirement plans for teachers got pulled or like defunded by the governor and changed around Okay made more inconvenient right right and because of that a lot of school systems of good ones moved to Frankfurt just to get Well, no, no the people their teachers and staff faculties went to protest. Okay, you know with signs to pick it Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What was the result or is that so long ago? It's still ongoing Bevan didn't seem to care what any of us thought and so now our Andy the sheer which is our state's attorney is gonna fight him in court. Okay, and what side are you on I? Think that I should get the retirement. I was promised for 26 years. So you're a teacher. I'm a para educator Okay, okay So and I don't have a problem with them changing the program, but I don't think they should change my program I see I think if the new people coming in you want to change theirs. I'm okay with that I get it. So the plan that you already agreed to right being retroactively Modified yeah by this policy and you think I didn't sign up for this deal. That's right I put in all these years for this deal. Why are you changing the rules and I do believe in public education? Okay, and I do believe contrary to what has been said that the majority of us really do care about our kids and we care that they get a good education and I think the majority of teachers at my school do the best they can okay and put in a hundred and ten percent all the Time I had public education. What would you say is the advantage? You probably have a different perspective than I do. Well, actually, I don't know. I think the advantages are Diversity okay Because I believe I grew up in the 60s and 70s and I went to an all-white Predominantly Christian Catholic public school same thing in middle school and I personally think that our world has changed considerably for the good and I think young people Should go to school with people of color with people of different religions Okay, of people of different ethnic backgrounds, and I think it makes our young people better Why do you think that makes people better to be around because I think it makes them see? Everything differently, and I think it starts with our young people my father Was pretty set in his ways, you know, he felt a certain way about Muslims and Different things like that, and I know I couldn't change it. There was no way to change him Okay, he was thinking close-minded you can change our young people And if you put them in a setting where they're all together and they look at a person as being You know Susie instead of Muslim, right? It changes things for the better. Absolutely. It's like a social education Along with everything else and like an hour here in Lexington I mean we have Lexington Christian Academy, which is obviously very Christian school and we have Lexington Catholic But I see the problem with those schools is that They're predominantly Christian obviously and so those kids never get to be around people that are Hindu that are Buddhist that are Muslim that are Jewish. Why do you think the schools who are predominantly Christian? Prefer not to have, you know, other religions in their school system because that's not their belief And they don't they wouldn't want their kids to maybe listen or pay attention to some other views And maybe not stay in the Christian faith. Do you think it's important for someone to question what they believe to be true? Even at a young age. Oh, yeah, okay. I think it's important to question just about everything. I think so too And I think and it's also by asking people about themselves That that's where you learn more Because if you only see things your side and never listen to another side, yes You then stay in that same little narrow mind and it doesn't mean that you'll always change your mind But I like having friends that are different. Okay, because it just gives you the opportunity to like Bounce your ideas on different sides. Absolutely. Can I ask one weird question? Sure. Go ahead Assume one of your friends was right and I don't and they have a different belief than what you have, right? Would you be more inclined to change your beliefs to whatever they have if they can present you with a reasonable argument for? Probably so probably although I'm pretty set in my views I can be made to see another side Okay, and I think that that's more so of young people. I think so because I don't think there is set in their ways as the rest of us are They're not and you know, I think it's good for our young people to hear other and I'm glad we had that I think so too. I think school could be a real and what was it? I had a few years ago We do a big board of the world Okay, and then we put pens on it Where some of our students are from because we're lucky to have kids from all over the world You're absolutely year. I messed up was I didn't go find our little girl from Siberia Okay, when I was growing up we always told that they sent the bad people to Siberia And I wanted to see you know one of those bad people from Siberia. Okay, I doubt she'd see the humor in it But you know all right one last final weird question that sure what's the good way to learn true things? Is it I know you can be around different people with different ideas, right? Is that always a reliable way to come to a true conclusion and not always? What is a good way to come? There's one way? What's the best way? Ask around You know now we have a wonderful thing called computers. We do got computers and you can do a lot of really cool And you know enter just investigating different topics. Yeah computers fine. Have you ever seen quantum leap? I love that show. Yes. I have That's yes, that's an old show. I had to tell you that's like that's my age rainbow quantum leap and experience a stargate or something like that original Star Trek, right, but uh There would be a guy named or there would be a computer called Ziggy That the guy would foam right knows like this thing back then they didn't understand what they were alluding to because they were just like Some it's some future science. Yeah worry. It has the news has newspapers has music on it Right that thing will never exist. Just pretend what it is But now we have that like these are what those are in a sense smartphones absolutely So we all have access to that so well, there's even there was an old cartoon called the Jetsons. I remember the Jetsons a Lot of what they had is true today. It did I mean a little vacuum sweepers that go around your house Yeah, yeah, yeah, the cell phone. I mean there's so much stuff now Dinner Those were like Mind-blowing and the jelly bellies that like oh, I'm eating toast right so isn't it But I don't know if they're better or not, I don't know if the phone has made anybody better or not I'm sorry the cell phone. Do you know cell phones are made better because a lot of my students they don't Develop real relationships where they have friends. It's all done. I think it's different But it doesn't take away the opportunity to still make friends Which is also its own thing, but this is just another avenue to have right keep in touch with people and I think Nothing set substituting each other. They're just supplementing each other and in that sense. I'm totally fine with it I still think you have to do it through the effort like make friends one-on-one So I grew up the old way where you had friends you played outside. Yeah, they long I'm not with your friends in here, you know the phone was my parents thing You know we didn't get to use I didn't get to use the phone Okay, even then it was just to make plans and get out. I used to have Video games that we're not connected to the Internet. Oh, if I wanted people to play with me I have a lot of friends with neighbors and write them to my house Right, my mom had to know who they were and we just sit and play But we'd have we'd be sitting right next to each other and now that made a difference Now I can play with thousands and my son does that and while it's convenient