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🗓️ 17 November 2021
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0:00.0 | From New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro. This is the Daily. In Bucks County, |
0:07.0 | Pennsylvania, we would like school reopened on time with as few safety measures |
0:11.8 | as possible. What started as a group of frustrated parents organizing to push the |
0:17.0 | district to reopen schools, devolved over the course of a year and a half into |
0:22.2 | partisan fighting over the country's most divisive cultural issues. The |
0:26.5 | treatment of our children during this pandemic has been in eye opening to do |
0:31.0 | deception and lies perpetrated by the people in this room. Yesterday on the |
0:35.3 | Daily, COVID has broken you people and it's disgusting. My colleague Campbell |
0:40.6 | Robertson traced the history of that battle in Bucks County. I watch how you |
0:45.1 | treat each other in here. It's disgusting. Cominating with the resignation of the |
0:50.0 | school board's only swing vote. Common decency. You'll need to find a real |
0:56.1 | fast. Today in part two as the school board elections near what is actually |
1:02.9 | happening inside the schools in Bucks and where is all of this headed. |
1:13.2 | It's Wednesday November 17th. |
1:19.9 | Okay, Campbell. Welcome back. Good to be back. When we left off last, John |
1:25.7 | Gable, the school board's most moderate figure had just resigned at a |
1:30.2 | frustration with how ugly things had gotten in Bucks County and he used this |
1:34.5 | metaphor with you to describe what the school board and parents were focused on |
1:40.1 | when it came to problems facing the district. He said it's like arguing over |
1:45.7 | putting new tires on a car, but forgetting to put any gas in it. And what he |
1:50.7 | seemed to mean was you all are fighting about all this stuff, but you're |
1:56.6 | ignoring the essentials. Yeah, and it's I don't know if you want to say funny. |
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