william mattox, director of the stanley martial center for -- the james madison institute. he works with policymakers, educators, parents to promote reforms to make it possible for all k-12 students to obtain a high quality education. i love that idea! charlotte mcguire, vice president for the ohio state board of education. she and her husband arthur launched the program that helps parents there -- and attendance. if that is not doing the lords work, i don't know what it is! and darryle owens, graduate from growth city, worked for 15 years and health care industry. he and his wife are parents too -- based in minneapolis. welcome all to this table! i have a few questions here coming in. let me just throw it open to darryle owens first, but anyone can open this question. for darryle owens, what brought you to the point? this is a question i always like to ask people who get involved in great causes like this. what brought you to the point that you decided to speak with the heads of the school where your children attend? and what was the response then from those officials? wha

online you the full biographies available director of the chase daily marshall center from the james madison institute for policymakers educators to promote reforms to make it possible for all k-12 students to obtain a high quality education. i love that idea. vice president of ohio state board of education she and her husband launched the excel afterschool program and engages parents to help elementary students improve school achievement and attendance that's not the lords work i don't know but it is. nine, and a 13 based out of minneapolis welcome to this table. that anybody can answer this as well. so what brought you to the point that you decided to speak with a heads your children attend? what drag you into this discussion? >> we moved our kids from one school to two catholic schools so that would've been august of 2020. grateful that they are in school all day every day. even with masks. we move them because we started to be concerned what was being taught at the carter institution. and i think we're pretty successful. and with critical race theory. it started to creep into the everyday discussi

james madison's. and monitor yellow has been attacked in the press calling them woke cultural institutions because we are interpreting the black experience that these historic sites equally to other traditional narratives. my concern is that as we move towards the midterm elections, that you will see more this race baiting and and literally using historic sites as a way to rally conservative base. this takes me back to my earlier point about collective power. how can we organize ourselves following the blueprint of the black civil rights movement to ensure we have a shared message. we are organized in social and media and other ways so that we can have the most strategic avoca, ac and response for these because our work and commitment to telling the full and sites of enslavement will not end. we are just getting started and and these these folks will not will not stop this movement. absolutely. you can class to that and. i think what i walked away with from the mount pilger incident was the power of our friends groups and support community. when things got chaotic, the mount pilliod community stood u

tamper with the peculiar institution and threatened secession in exactly the same kind of language that was used in the 1861. even members of congress doubted that -- james madisonnd, this is one of the most telling remarks madison perhaps ever made in the purpose of a latter memorably, we were in the wilderness without a single footstep to guide us. in a sense, the embodiment of the guiding spirit that congress had. madison feared that no one would show up. if you read his letters and, i want to mention parenthetical because some of you may already be aware of this, there was a marvelous, the first marvel congress project which was founded as long as 50 years ago and just recently completed the 23rd volume of the collective papers of all congress. not online, unfortunately. it makes fabulous reading for anybody who really wants to know what the founders were talking about when they were trying to do the work. madison feared that nobody would show up. that they wouldn't be quorum and his letters from that period are, he was in the house to begin with and he is on the brink of collapse. that is all going to be a fizzle at the start. one by one day trickle in from

the peculiar institution and threatened procession the kind of language used in 1960 and 1961 even many members of congress doubted the government would even survive its birth. james madison -- and this is the one of the most telling remarks madison perhaps ever made, and he wrote this in a letter memorably. we're in a wilderness without a single footstep to guide us. james madison who was in a sense the closest to a embodiment of a guiding spirit that the first congress had. i'll speak of him again in a minute. madison feared that no one would show up. if you read his letters, and i want to mention parenthetically because some of you may already be aware of this, there was a marvelous project, the first federal congress project, which was founded as long as 50 years ago and just recently completed the 23rd volume of the collected papers of the first congress, not online, unfortunately, but makes fabulous reading for anybody who really wants to know what the founders were talking about when they were trying to do the work. anyway, madison feared that nobody would show up, there wouldn't even be a quorum, and his letters from that period arh to begin with and you read his