Yeah, I mean, look, at the end of the day, talking about this Odessa series, you know, we've only listened to part one of four, right? And, um, it's, it's clear, you know, the superintendent, I've heard this from other superintendents, uh, that I know here locally as well, uh, in the Fort Worth area, that, you know, online learning really is not beneficial for a large segment of the population. I, I have been told by some superintendents that there is a small population, maybe 2 to 3%, uh, of their population that does actually do decently well in online learning and, and maybe we should have like this fundamental shift within our education system to allow for that. I've, I've heard that. But most of the time the comment has been the kids don't learn at the level they do while they're in class. They don't turn in work. Um, you know, they're really just there because if you're in person, you get, you know, credit for classes is the way that a lot of these systems are structured. I, I would say that it's crazy to me. We took some steps in Texas and I, and I, I believe that people that are in the classroom, and let me be clear, my wife is, is one of them, she's a high school principal, they are heroes in the state of Texas. They have, they have done something, and I don't think we will ever truly know what the impact of that is. But we, we do know that our kids weren't learning at home, that they had major mental health issues, that we were seeing, you know, basically fissures in our society because we didn't have this normality with our kids. And teachers that have stepped up and gone to school and taught our children in the classroom ha- have, have just done an enormous service to the state of Texas. They are not babysitters. Uh, they are nurturing and feeding the young minds of tomorrow, and we, and I personally appreciate that, that my kids are there. It's the things that we fight on the edges in education that get me. We don't understand how important education is until we don't have it. Uh, and then when we do have it, we fight about things on what we have to do in order for them to have it successfully. And, and I'm, I'm kind of blabbering on, but I'm coming back to the fact of as Americans, the least we can do, or as Texans, the least we can do, is be supportive of the things that allow our teachers to be safe in the classroom. If that means my eight-year-old son, who does not care about wearing a mask, in fact, when I, when he, when I pick him up from school at the end of the day, he has his mask on. The, the kid doesn't even know he's wearing his mask. If that keeps his teacher safe and she's stepping up to do that for, for our state, then hey, it is what it is. Um, and, and I'm willing to do that as a parent. So... Hold on, please.
