Lincoln Public Schools

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Lincoln Public Schools.

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Lincoln Public Schools.

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Thank you, Doug.

Okay.

Okay.

30 states, so that's a nice, uh, program.

Um, Lincoln Public Schools, the Board of Education, uh, met yesterday.

They approved a contract with, uh, a technology company that's gonna track, uh, software usage, internet filtering, and, and give the teachers some, um, new tools to work with.

LightSpeed Systems is the name of this-

Right now, there are what, 11 high schools in Lincoln? And I think that's how I would answer the question, Robbie.

I think that the open enrollment across Lincoln Public Schools, there are also four parochial schools that offer football.

Lincoln Lutheran, Lincoln Christian, Lincoln Pius X, and Parkey Christian, that some of the talent and some of the players that are interested in football, they maybe don't want to go play for one of the LPS schools, and they decide to go somewhere else.

And I think that there are talented players in the capital city.

It wasn't coach's idea.

She was watching a documentary about mentoring on television one night, and she, she brought the idea to Coach and said, "We're gonna do this." And so the next day, uh, Coach went into the locker room after a team meeting or during a team meeting and asked how many of those football players would like to give the gift of their time and mentor seventh and eighth grade students in the Lincoln Public Schools.

That day, 22 hands went up.

Hmm.

The governor of Nebraska at the time called the job position woke garbage, and conservative leaders said it was an example of how the school system was focused more on ideological groupthink than teaching kids the basics of reading, writing, and math.

Lincoln Public Schools, for its part, said the position was important for supporting student success from minority groups.

The position was part of a larger youth development team funded by the federal government.

In March, the Lincoln Public Schools hired Alma Serreta, a lesbian and former operations manager for the LGBTQ plus group out Nebraska to its advocacy team.

The district appears not to have advertised the hire publicly following the splashy news cycle the job listing elicited.

Coretta has a long history of left-wing advocacy.

You know, it used to just be the rainbow flag, co-opting God's symbol to never destroy the planet, and now they've added all the pastel colors and the black and brown colors to be as inclusive as possible.

All means all, the Lincoln Public School system sign says.