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Chris Weir joins us today to talk about classical education and a particular initiative taking place in California.

Now, instead of giving his bio, I've known him for quite a few years now, I actually want him to make his experience part of the discussion.

So welcome, Chris, and let me ask first, what brought you to

classical education? What were you doing before that? Sure, yeah. So I'm, I'll go way back. I'm,

you know, I'm a cradle Catholic. I went to Catholic schools all my life from kindergarten through,

you know, a master's degree. And I always loved my Catholic education.

But at one point in my career, I kind of fell into a career in Catholic education.

And we were essentially trying to be more deliberately Catholic and everything we were doing.

And it sort of led me into a rabbit hole where I was reading church documents on Catholic

education for the first time and sort of the history and philosophy of Catholic education.

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