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Julia Kirt

Julia Kirt

Minority Leader of the Oklahoma Senate

Oct 9, 2026

ToddHOST
9:19
Even if this is a kid whose parent agrees that he should stay in from recess to focus on schoolwork, is this an unintended consequence? We can't use taking away recess as a punishment any longer? Who wants to take that first? Julia?
9:36
Yeah.
9:38
I think when we do, I think there are challenges when we mandate very specific things on the schools.
9:44
I think that we take away their discretion and the knowledge and experience of those educators to figure out what they need to have happen.
9:54
I mean, I think it's a concern.
9:56
We've had issues in the past of, you know, my kid's ADHD, autistic, and the dude does so much better if he got some recess, and so I think that's what they're trying to avoid okay, you misbehave, you sit in the classroom for recess.
10:11
Well, that's very different from saying you can never do it, right? And so I think that's the challenge of when we do a one-size-fits-all mandate across the state.
ToddHOST
14:11
But but Senator Kurt, doesn't it seem like we're so quick sometimes to legislate, pass a law and there's not a lot of thinking and then we have to go back a couple of years later and change it i mean that's happened with education a lot hasn't it
6:08
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6:10
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6:10
So it came through as a bill the year before it went through the House.
6:14
And this is an ongoing attack on our Judicial Nominating Committee.
6:17
I mean, four years.
6:19
Mostly conservative folks, but also the state chamber and others have disliked our judiciary, feel like they're not keeping up with how conservative our state is.

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