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Lynn Jackson

Lynn Jackson

Co-founder of Connected Families, a parenting ministry, and former pediatric occupational therapist.

Aug 12, 2026

7:48
Has there been a response from the city school district to this? And also, you know, reading some of your background material, you make the point that Governor Hochul has recently given several hundred million dollars to help beautify, upgrade the city of Albany, and this might be one of the projects that gets part of that funding.
8:08
Well, we hope to go to the Albany School District soon and ask them to the building.
8:15
We only recently discovered that it was the school district that owned it because it was in Lincoln Park and we assumed it was the city.
8:23
And I think one of the really important things about this building is that the city of Albany has spent a lot of money on Lincoln Park recently, which is absolutely wonderful.
8:34
They built this gorgeous new pool.
8:37
They built this beautiful, beautiful learning garden that talks about the geology of Lincoln Park.
8:43
And we would like to – and then there's a rock garden, and then there's the James Hall building.
12:21
And Albany is working to forget it.
Mark Dunlea
Mark DunleaCORRESPONDENT
3:39
Has there been a response from the city school district to this? And also, you know, reading some of your background material, you make the point that Governor Hochul has recently given several hundred million dollars to help beautify, upgrade the city of Albany, and this might be one of the projects that gets part of that funding.
3:59
Well, we do.
4:00
We hope to go to the Albany School District soon and ask them to the building.
4:06
We only recently discovered that it was the school district that owned it because it was in Lincoln Park and we assumed it was the city.
4:14
And I think one of the really important things about this building, is that the city of Albany has spent a lot of money on Lincoln Park recently, which is absolutely wonderful.
4:25
They built this gorgeous new pool.
4:28
They built this beautiful, beautiful learning garden that talks about the geology of Lincoln Park.
8:12
And Albany is working to forget it.
7:12
Can you talk about that and how that change happened?
7:15
Yeah.
7:15
I mean, I entered with my classic judgments about my son and daughter.
7:20
So my son was older, intense, impulsive, ADHD kiddo.
7:24
Younger daughter, sensory sensitive, easily victimized, easily would scream when she got whacked.
7:31
And I would go rushing in like the younger sister that I had been, somewhat tormented by older brothers.
7:37
[laughs] Like, "This is not okay," and, "He is at it again," and, "This needs to stop." And I just would enter with my anger, and I realized I am making things so much worse.

21 MINS LATER

28:51
Okay, what else?

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