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Well I'm coming face to face with my conscience
Coming to stand on myself
Can you tell me why do you take me on
Clear out all the old cobwebs
Clear out all the old cobwebs
From the share
And the summer is inspired by good manners too
Doing good for the succinct amazing ways to you
Yeah, it doesn't really matter if you're old
Jummel up inside as long as you know
The luck is ever said the world is wild
Right around the corner
From the pit of our young park where proud to love you know
Our suffer set here at the shop
Awesome work, Johnny
The pain is intoxicating if the music isn't loud enough
Those are the words of one of my favorite musicians
Miami Stephen Venn's aunt
But hey, speaking of women's suffrage
It's woman's history month
And a belated but very happy
International woman's day
Yesterday
And to honor both
I am honored to have two remarkable women
Who are candidates for our school board
Angelique Burn
And Stephanie Fiddlin
Welcome ladies
Thanks for having us
And today in addition to spending the next two hours
With these these candidates
We have local news
Local sports and local culture
Throughout the show including new polling places
More information on the upcoming election and absentee voting
The Carol minutes
And some news from our high schools
And so much more
And I wanted to start first because of the time-sensitive nature is
Today is another opportunity to participate
In the Waukesha strong community tile project
That's today March 9th
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
At the Waukesha public library
Just right around the corner here from the office of former alderman downpile brown
Everyone's invited to engrave a clay tile
That will be installed as part of the parade memorial
A greedy park
The cost of the tile is $25
With all proceeds going to the parade memorial fund
Tools and stamps are provided for you to work on your tile
We hope to see you with the library on March 9th
So anyway back to my guest candidates for school board
Stephanie Fiddlin and Angelique Bern
Originally I had Angelique Bern and Stephanie Fiddlin
But since Stephanie was here first we'll start with Stephanie
Angelique got caught in the train
So which you know everyone's welcome to Waukesha
But or at least to say if you've lived here you know what that's all about
But so we're going to start like we would in a normal job interview
Stephanie tell us about yourself
Oh wow
Well I'm Stephanie Fiddlin
I'm a nurse here in Waukesha
And I have three kids in the school district
And so I've been volunteering for a long time with PTO
And just seeing what's going on in the schools and things
And wanted to give more support
And so it was like
Well I think it's time to take this to the next level
So I'm running for a school board
Which is something that's out of my element
But I've been in learning a lot and I'm really excited
And before we start with Angelique
We're taking your calls today at 844-967-2789
Again that's 844-967-2789
Now Angelique your turn
Alright I'm Angelique Bern
I've lived here in Waukesha for over 20 years
I went to college here and that's how I ended up in Waukesha
I went to Carol
I'm an instructional coach at the Valar Phillips School
Which is located in the juvenile justice center
So I've been in education for about 20 years
And I briefly worked in Waukesha
And I decided I really wanted to run for school board
After being in some other districts
And just feeling like Waukesha needs some change in communication
And more innovative spaces and environments and curriculum here
So that's what brought me here today
Sounds great
And I was looking at both of your campaign websites
Could you, for everyone's benefit
What's your campaign website URL Stephanie?
I'm Stephanie for SDW.com
Stephanie for S as in Sam D as in David W as in Waukesha.com
And then Angelique, actually I think I have it up here
Yeah, they better look
So it's Angelique Bern for Waukesha.com
So Angel IQUE BYRNE for Waukesha.com
And Angelique, one thing I mean obviously very impressed with your educational background
And I think that you would probably bring a lot of unique insights to the board
And you mentioned something about you want to address the lack of transparency in both short and long-term district planning
Could you elaborate on that?
Yeah, so I worked in a local district just neighboring Waukesha
And now I work for the Waukesha School District
And the whole time I lived here I just felt like I never really knew what was going on in the Waukesha schools
And when I was looking for things for my kids thinking about what schools were best for them
But then the more I was here and especially when I was working here realizing there wasn't a lot of information about what they were doing about declining enrollment
When they were closing schools there was a lot of uproar in the community
And I just kept reflecting on the other places I worked
I knew exactly what was going on as both a parent and a district employee
And they gave us all the numbers, all the facts, what would happen because of the state funding
And I just don't feel like they do that here in Waukesha
Okay, so real quick with Stephanie is you have a health care background as a nurse here in Waukesha
And also a certified emergency nurse, I get that correct
Yeah, so and so kind of a two part question
Well, let's start with that is like how do you feel your health care background could serve you well as a member of the school board?
I think that our kids right now there's a lot of mental health troubles with the kids
You know, these are the kids that lived through COVID and the isolation and everything that happened
And now they're doing well getting back into the classrooms and you know getting back to face to face and all that was great
But there's still these are the kids that are also growing up with so much technology and social media
There's new and challenging issues that we didn't fortunately have to deal with
Right
And it's put this huge mental health burden on kids
And I we see in the ER every day kids coming in for you know having behavioral health crisis
Whether it's suicidal ideation or things like that
Sure
And you know just thinking about if kids coming into school with that sort of mental burden
Right
How could they possibly be focused on math or reading or things like that
Sure
You know, so just needing those resources to really address some of those things
And yes, it starts at home, but of course school is a large part of their day
And so school needs those resources as well to help them in those times of crisis
Sure
And so do you think that so basically as a fair to say the school district isn't maybe being proactive about addressing these behavioral health issues
As well as the fact that even though COVID is behind us, a lot of kids, you know, doing some very
Formative times in their development were adversely impacted by that
What's your assessment of how the school the district's been dealing with that?
I think that the schools are doing the best they can with the resources that they have
I think they need more resources, you know, I mean we have great counselors and teachers
You know and administrators that are you know school resource officers that are stepping in and doing
You know amazing things with the kids day by day, but there's there's more kids that need help and there's more help than they can do
You know what I mean so right so we just need more resources and I think just expanding some of those things
Would would you really great for the schools?
Okay, terrific
And so back to you another interesting point you made on your website is and I quote
I believe school should help students see all paths for post-secondary learning and training
I hope the district will expand strong partnerships with local businesses and educational institutions and build more accessible
Programs through internship partners WCTC info your colleges and universities could you could you expand in that?
Yeah, I worked in a school that was a
Fine Arts charter school and we did a lot with the community and it was so powerful to be able to take students
Interest and find them ways to experience
Things they might want to do after high school so they could make decisions. I had a student go over to the elementary school
And she thought she wanted to be a teacher and after a year of helping in the classroom said oh this really isn't for me
And I think that's really really important
And I know there are some of those things happening in Waukesha as all school districts but I think it could really be expanded
Excuse me to be reaching more kids and also having more pathways for parents to see here are some choices
My kids could make to get there and I would love to see more partnerships with WCTC and other community
Educational places as well. Okay, yeah, because I've you know we've been to the college fair that the school has
It looks like there's a fair amount of representation from schools and vocational programs and the military organizations
But you're saying we could be doing so much more. Yeah, I think more while they're in high school
We were preparing for kids to leave us and go do those things but if we could expose them more while they're in high school
And you have more real world application even when you're in the school building. Sure. If we're just relying on the traditional curriculums
Okay, it's more abstract. It's not that real life connection. Yeah, well said well said. So real quick, the election that Stephanie and Angelika
Running in school that takes place on Tuesday, April 2nd. So right now in the corner if you want to absentee vote by mail
Go to my vote w i dot gov that's my vote that w i dot gov you can request an absentee ballot be mailed to you
Please note that absentee ballot applications must be reviewed every calendar year if not on a permanent list due to age
In person absentee voting which I'm a big proponent of takes place at city hall on Tuesday March 19th through Friday March 22nd from 8 to 4 30
Monday March 25th through Thursday March 28th 8 to 4 30 and then on Friday March 29th Friday before election Tuesday
It goes from 8 to 5 p.m. So mark your calendars accordingly if you're if April 2nd the tough day to get there and take advantage of that
Opportunity also the city is looking for poll workers so be sure to contact Gina at the city clerk's office at the city clerk
To if you're interested and you do get compensated for that so and also want to mention there's new polling locations
For voting this year if you're polling location change you should have received a postcard in the mail but just in case polling location changes
St. Mary's will move to the lock shop public library at 321 Wisconsin Avenue where they're having the community tile project today
St. John Newman's will move to bridge church 1314 South Grand Avenue and then St. William of Montevergines will move to the north view building
Corner of Grandview and north view on 1721 north view road again if you received a postcard please take it with you on election day as signs for your entrance and voting location will match your postcard color
Your postcard also contains your word number so if you didn't receive a postcard and want to verify your polling location just contact the city
So so much more to talk about including a question for all of you what does radio mean to you and then more with my guests Stephanie and Angelie
And don't forget Carol minutes also coming up and my guest next week is in comments for re-election and vis-à-vis
And on the civic media app
This is the Shaw W-A-U-K and on this
The song you're listening to is our very own last poll with the world is waiting for the sunrise
And just as that song came out the sun has really made a big a big appearance here on the stage here great work on that Johnny
Maybe we should have less Paul come in sooner with that song but again I am joined by challengers or candidates for the
And we are talking a little bit about their experiences and their platforms and why they think they could be a great fit for our school board
Let me ask how has the campaign been going for you both?
Seems like it's been going wow got lots of good feedback and interaction with the community
We had a meet and greet event at the library on Thursday night and that was wonderful
There was a lot of people that were coming and I was just so encouraged that people are taking the time to really consider how important this role is
And who they would want to vote for and just get a chance to get to know the candidates and familiarize themselves with the issues and the roles and why it's so important
That's great so what else have you been doing to get the word out if I may ask?
Yeah we've been both getting out and knocking on doors which has been really enlightening asking people what they care about
And you know often it's even little things I live near Hadfield and was talking to people in my neighborhood and they were concerned about teachers don't have a place to park after the school's merge
So just trying to get out there we've got lots of volunteers that are helping us drop off literature on doors
Well, I'm trying to think that lots of signs out. Yes, I've got people contacting us and putting yard signs out to bring those and then we've sent some emails out
So and then Facebook advertising and getting the word out that way. That's terrific. That's good. Have you been heading over to Carol to look for any like a voter eligible juniors and seniors?
We did meet with some Carol students who are excited about making sure people know to vote for small elections and some students they're interested in getting involved as well.
Sounds great. Sounds great. And again, we're taking your calls for Angelique Burn and Stephanie Fiddling candidates for the Waxha school board eight four four nine six seven two seven eight nine and
Colors to another question where we've been posing it's actually across the civic media network is what does radio mean to you? What is it meant for your for your life and before we get to that with us.
Stephanie and Angelique real quick on the Carol minutes Carol will university women's lacrosse team is off to a very promising for no start.
Their last win was a ten four victory over Aurora University and Montgomery Illinois. Freshman sensation Elizabeth Wang led all piles with four goals. Wang comes to us all the way from will tomorrow, California. And so it's great to our university city attracts people from all over the country, even different parts of the world.
So in the down in New Orleans, all region honorees for the twenty twenty four NCAA division three indoor track and field season were announced on Tuesday by the US track and field and cross country coaches association with Carol's loan representative being senior Vanessa Utenbrook earning the distinction in the shot put the top five individuals in each event from each region on the year.
And descending order lists earned all region distinctions in addition to each member of the regions top three a native of Kakana Wisconsin Utenbrook is a three time conference champion in the shot put winning her third straight title just a couple weeks ago.
She currently ranks third in the event in all of division three with the distance of 14.9 meters, which qualified her for the NCAA division three indoor national championships.
She's a two time all American and Utenbrook has now qualified for nationals eight times with this being her third consecutive appearance that indoor nationals.
So she will compete today at two thirty excuse me one thirty PM our time at the Virginia Beach sports center of Virginia Beach of Virginia.
So you can actually watch these live events if you're interested at NCAA dot com forward slash event forward slash four four zero six.
So congratulations to miss Utenbrook and yeah real quick Stephanie and Angelique what is radio meant to you in your life we're switching gears from the campaign here.
Well, as soon as you say radio, I guess it kind of brings me back to like my childhood, you know, listening to the radio and the kitchen with my mom and then getting older waiting for your favorite song to come on to record to make that mix tape.
Yes.
Yeah, that's right.
Come into the contest.
Calling into the contest.
Yeah.
It's funny. I think like you know yours.
My routine drive to work in the morning. You hear the same DJ's whatever station.
Yeah.
Use yours and you feel like you get this relationship with them.
And then sometimes when the DJ's leave you're like, oh my gosh, my friend.
Yeah.
You know what I miss and I should be careful because I'm obviously very loyal to civic media, but Joy Cardine and MPR.
What's the name of her show was on early in the morning was like six to eight.
I think the wonderful show and she felt retired after like twenty or thirty years on radio and she was definitely a juggernaut for Wisconsin radio.
I really enjoyed.
And Mr.
I wonder what she's doing now.
You figured you need to take someone to have her back on.
Maybe so I imagine she lives in Madison too, but I always really enjoyed Joy Cardine during my morning commutes.
So for sure.
So, but speaking of commutes, you two must be really hitting the bricks.
I'm going door to door on your own connecting with with neighbors and families.
How's that been going?
Yeah, I think it's been going pretty well when you get a hold of people.
I think that's the hardest part I think today.
Just like phone calls.
A lot of people don't answer their doors.
It's been interesting.
For me, the amount of people that are like, oh, school board.
I don't have kids in school.
Right.
And maybe not realizing the importance of public schools for everybody.
Yeah.
You know, I tried to talk to people about like our kids in schools today are the ones that are going to be leading our future.
Taking care of us that we really still need to invest in those public schools.
Yeah.
And hopefully they're paying attention.
Yes.
So yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that too, because I believe the city of Waksha is still hiring.
A lot of great opportunities.
It's a great city to work for and they do a great job.
But again, we need good public schools to support the future of our city as well as the world around us.
Police fire.
You name it.
You're your accountant.
It's tax season.
I mean, all those people came from some high school and most likely a public high school.
And so that's why whether you have whether you're your children have grown and left the house or you don't have children.
It's good public schools is very important part of our life here.
Yep.
So it's terrific.
So what else is going to ask?
Oh my gosh.
I'm stumped.
What's going to be doing any campaigning today?
And this beautiful Saturday while the sun's still out.
Yeah.
Today after I leave here, I'm going to be first dropping off some yard signs working on some computer work that we need to do to kind of keep things moving.
And then dropping off some lit.
Yep.
Yard signs too.
I'm on back to back 12.
So this is the extent of my campaigning today.
Okay.
Well, we're grateful for your service and at the Waksha Memorial Hospital.
That's for sure.
So, but I'm glad you mentioned yard signs because I learned a hard lesson.
The first time I ran, I figured I'd be very grassroots and it cost me the next time I bought like 50 signs and one by a gigantic margin.
And it was like one of my former colleagues in the council, Dan Manion said that signs can't vote for you.
But he never heard of anyone that won an election without signs.
So it's good that you're doing that and getting the name out.
We have so much more to talk about here on this week in Waksha.
More local news.
Some birthday announcements and a national reading month too.
So join us with Stephanie Fiddler and Angelique Bern candidates for the school board.
And don't forget my guest next week is a school board to come in the candidate and this will be here in this week of Waksha.
I say, let me leave the ribbon and say I say, it's a real today.
It's none of them a man in here.
That's right.
The women of smarter.
That's right.
The women of smarter.
So I said, let's make a rock show on this people's Saturday morning March 9th.
And those are my friends grateful dead with the women are smarter in honor of women's history month and international women's day.
Yesterday, you know, I'd learned recently in my guest again our school board candidates, Angelique Bern and Stephanie Fiddlin.
I learned yesterday international women's day came about as a result to a lot of the oppression going on and what's known as the global south against women.
And I guess in other countries around the world.
And so it isn't just about advancing women's rights here locally and nationally, but also globally where in some countries there may be light years behind.
So it's good that we have that acknowledgement.
And it was interesting to learn about some of the different commemorations going on around the world in honor of women's day.
And we have a caller.
One of our favorite callers.
Is that right, Johnny?
Is this triple G Greg wants to know your Greg, are you there?
Hang on. Hello, Greg.
Nothing yet.
Let's see.
Oh, there he is. Hey, Greg.
Sorry, we just tuned in.
Hey, guys.
Good morning.
How are you?
Good. What's on your mind, friend?
Good. Well, I just wanted to share with you a couple of two quick things.
And our one quick thing. And then I have a comment for questions for your guests.
Antelican Stephanie, who I believe I both know Stephanie, I believe I know your family pretty well.
But March 23rd, I am emptying an event at Carroll University called Waffles for wishes.
And I would encourage people to come out. It's the benefit to make a wish foundation.
Nice.
I'm going to be from 10 until noon on that day.
And it's going to be in Carroll's campus centers.
That Dachner Ballroom.
The Stackner Ballroom.
101 North East Avenue.
And really excited. There is going to be regular and gluten free waffle options.
This is hosted in conjunction with one of the one of the sororities there.
And again, it's called Waffles for wishes.
So Stephanie, Angelique Don.
Maybe we'll see you guys there.
Thanks for the invite, Greg.
And you know, I'm a big fan of Make a Wish.
And so yeah, that's two weeks from today.
So and I can come after my show.
So save me a seat.
And some Waffles.
I don't wait.
Why do my daughters will come? She loves Waffles.
We may have some live music out there too.
And as Angelique knows, I'm a big fan of live music.
I started helping with Angelique and getting some of her KM perform musicians as she was a teacher at that.
As you were a teacher at that charter school, Angelique, for a while.
But my question for you guys is, how important is it for you guys to get?
I mean, we talked about the door to door, but these events that, you know, have been happening.
I mean, it's a library, fun set bowl.
How important is it to just get out and get out and about into the community and do these events?
Because, you know, I watch.
I'm kind of a nerd in this way ever since attending college.
My favorite channels are the school district channel and the city of Wakusham Community Channel on cable TV.
I watch all the board meetings, but.
Did you see me at City Council giving public comment Greg last Tuesday?
What?
I gave, I was at City Council giving public comment about Hill Crest Park.
Oh, really?
Yeah, you'll have to check that one out.
So, but I apologize.
I'm broken.
Continue my friend.
But how important is it for you and as the school board just being transparent and being open and honest with community?
And truly listening to the feedback that the community gives and Don, I will check out your interview.
But I'll let wonderful women talk.
Thank you.
Thanks, Triple G.
Well, Greg, it's nice to talk to you.
This is Stephanie.
My husband and Greg were in a college ministry together.
So that's how I know.
And he's just walk us just so.
Yes, yeah.
But I think it's so important.
And that's why I think the meet and greets and these events and going door to door and really just talking to people and getting in front of them face to face.
You can write anything on a website.
You can write anything, you know, on a piece of literature.
But there's nothing that beats, you know, meeting face to face.
Having people be able to ask you questions and give honest responses, you know.
And I think that's really important because people want to know who is going to be in those seats.
Who's going to be making those decisions and they want to kind of get to know a little bit of a piece of your heart.
And so I think that's really important just, you know, having that face to face and transparency in communication.
I think it's so important.
It's something that Angelique and I kind of instantly bonded on, which is we didn't know each other prior to this.
But we so agree that that's just been lacking in our district, whether it's the lack of parental surveys.
Or even there have been people who and I personally have emailed board members and gotten either no response or a very inappropriate response that I think for an elected official.
And so I just think that transparency and being open, you know, parents, they absolutely have a right to, you know, to question things or to have concerns.
And I think that being proactive in communication is something that we could really improve upon because I feel like a lot of times this board and this district is very reactive to once parents complain.
But getting ahead of it, you know, and being more proactive in our communication, I think it's so important.
But then just being open, you know, that you've been elected into this position.
So you're a public servant. So, you know, we have parents have a right to ask you questions.
And they deserve a timely and appropriate response.
Sure. Angelique.
Yeah, I agree. I think it's really, really important that we're listening to people.
I think that's part of maybe the trouble we've been in and walk a shot.
We're not truly listening to everybody and then trying to find common ground.
And even if people are like, yeah, I want to vote for Angelique, they're probably not going to agree with everything, right?
Where all different types of people and we have different experiences and opinions.
But if we can come together, I think we can make positive change.
And as far as the transparency, I think there's been a lot of lost trust by a lot of parents who have either had programming changed very last minute or their school has closed or moved last minute.
And then what you hear from people is, well, maybe I'm going to look elsewhere for my education.
And because we do have a lot of ways of doing that in our state, I think it's really important that we're thinking about attracting and retaining our students, not just teachers.
We talk about teachers, but also in open enrollment and the environment we are into,
we really need to listen to people and find out what they need here to keep them here.
It does seem paradoxical because I guess on my previous shows,
Waka Shah has this legacy of people growing up here and coming back to live here.
But my family.
Yeah, how many generations of your family have lived here?
My husband grew up here, he graduated from Waka Shah North.
And so, you know, when we got married and started our family, we were in Bayview.
But when it was time for our kids to go to school, we were kind of like, you know, we were faced with some school choices in Milwaukee.
And we needed more space, to be honest, housewise, because we had three kids in three and a half years.
And we came back to Waka Shah to raise a family here.
And, you know, if it's, if God sees so fit, we'll go to Waka Shah North, you know what I mean?
Sure.
And so that's, you know, the legacy and his brothers went there.
And so it's just like, yeah, I think that's important, you know, it's very good.
One of my potential guests on March 30th, Christine Marks, who is a Waka Shah South marching band,
mother and booster club member, she'll be promoting the badge or Wisconsin Badger marching band is coming in April 7th to South.
And I believe the other high school marching bands will also be participating in this very special event.
Christine's family, her daughter, that's a senior, the three generations of the same family.
The Pew families are made name, lived in Waka Shah.
And so, and there's so many other families, Mayor Sean Riley, who was here a few weeks back.
It's the rallies that lived in Waka Shah for more than 100 years.
And so if we have this great legacy of people choosing to come back and live here and raise their families,
you'd figure that it seems contrary that enrollments are going down at our schools.
So, you know, just go kind of leave it at that.
And I guess that's one of the reasons why you're running.
Right.
So.
I mean, families have choices.
Like Angelic said, you know, and so they can choose to send them to any school.
So I think, you know, I know, I didn't speak as a parent.
I want my kids to go to the schools where they're going to have the best opportunities.
Whether that's program choices.
I may think about the personalized learning program choice that we enrolled our daughter in.
And that's going away for other, you know, families, you know, or just academic performance.
The Waka Shah schools were the lowest performing district in all of Waka Shah County.
You want your kids to have the best opportunities.
And so, you know, if we want to bring students here and keep our students here in this district,
we've got to do more to improve what the schools are doing right now.
No doubt.
Yeah, I think we need to really think about the programming we have.
Otherwise, we'll lose students to similar programming elsewhere.
And right now, there are a lot of different options for people.
And we also have other state charters that are opening up in our area.
And then people who feel like they don't have the right choices here and then go,
oh, well, we can open a school too.
But that's just going to fracture our school systems.
So I really think we should be doing more to talk to our parents and community and ask them,
what would you like to see in our schools?
So we can build it here instead of people building schools outside of our district that are still public
and then safe and in awe.
So I think it's really, really important.
We're talking to people to find out what they want.
I'm glad you mentioned that because I had, I guess last week was John Shane Connect,
who's essentially been the foremost historian of our city.
And you're saying, yeah, that we need, there's so much to watch a history.
Like a lot of people who know who the Adora Yaman's was.
And I think she's an American hero.
And right here from Wakashah.
But John mentioned, yeah, we need more ethnic history of Wakashah.
We need more African-American history of Wakashah.
He did.
I'm Irish and it's also Irish American history month.
And he mentioned that there was an area in the north side.
He said, like the discrepancy of his bluffs that was in Irish neighborhood is known to be pretty tough.
And he mentioned President Kennedy's visits to Wakashah and the Milwaukee that the Freeman had captured.
And John also said, you know, he was a regular columnist for the Freeman showing Wakashah history.
And at least my point is a parent is like, I'd love to see more history on the Irish Famine,
which is a huge watershed in American history.
It really changed the face of American history from the mid 19th century on.
And that should be, there's a lot of lessons to be learned there, especially about understanding hunger and about just the different ethnicities.
I hate that a lot of people are just thrown into one box and just called white.
And we're from all sorts of different cultures and tribes, beautiful and just amazing ones.
And that should be shared.
We should be learning more about the Holocaust and all these things.
And yes, even kind of the unfortunate or inequities of American history that are learning opportunities.
And they're not intended to make people feel ashamed, but intended to educate people so we can make better choices moving forward.
Yeah.
And I agree that the local piece is so important if we can help our students see how it connects to them here.
It's not as foreign or abstract when they're learning about it.
Because I work at the Valar Phillips School, we just did a whole push to learn about who she was and what she did for the city of Milwaukee.
And what was really interesting is our kids really, really were interested.
And then they made way more connections to local governments and help you get involved in the community.
Because they saw one, they saw representation.
We also talked about that she was a woman.
And when she ran, she didn't put any pictures of herself out.
And then she ended up pregnant.
And then she hit it the whole time because she was afraid she wouldn't be elected.
So our students related to some of those stories in different ways.
And then they were more excited to learn.
One, then there's always other little treasures you find too, because we had this discussion with John last week
about where the black shirt nickname came from.
And after the show, he emailed me and Johnny some great articles on the origins of the black shirt name.
And in that article in his discovery, he learned that the guy who invented those individual yard markers on football fields.
That started in Waukesha.
The first football field ever to have individual yard markers, not the traditionally they had to five yard markers, was Hartel Field here.
And then University of Wisconsin and Madison was the first university or college or pro field to have it.
This guy from Waukesha ended up selling the rights and the measurements to the NFL and the college.
And so it's another great example.
Waukesha's also a city of invention.
Like I'm more impressed that Les Paul's in the inventor's hall of fame than I am that he's in the rock and roll hall of fame.
There's so many great innovations happening here at the most local levels.
And history can guide us.
History can teach us more of those things.
Yeah, for sure.
So those future inventors are in our schools right now.
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I got Johnny in the board here at my special guest.
And I also wanted to mention today is this month is national reading month in honor of Dr. Sus's birthday marches designated as national reading month.
A month to motivate Americans of all ages to read every day.
And so Stephanie and what what are you reading currently?
I have been beginning to audio books because I've been doing a lot of driving around and delivering signs and things like that.
So I love audio books and I love our Waukesha public library has a wonderful selection.
So I'm always going in there and grab it some.
So I most recently have been listening to Oprah Wemphries.
What I know for sure.
And that is I think it's just so encouraging inspiring and she's speaking of women's month.
I mean, what a powerhouse of a woman.
She's multi hyphenate done at all.
And the Milwaukee denizen.
Yes, yeah.
But yeah, that's that's been inspiring so.
Terrific Angelique.
Yeah.
I have a neighborhood book club and our book this month is the lost a pack of theory, which has been a really interesting book fiction.
So that's been my book for fun.
But during the school year, I'm always reading about, I don't know, five to 10 different books about instruction or reading to try to help our students.
I've been doing more of that lately.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a good question is how many book clubs are out there?
I'm reminded of Find Memory.
Find a bit of sweet, of course, when my mother passed away a year ago at her funeral on her eulogy.
I mean, my sister and I obviously mentioned the things that my mom was proud of stuff.
You know, first woman and her family to graduate from college.
You know, happily married to my father for well over 65 years.
I earned a master's degree.
It was an educator, a Latin teacher, a scholar raised, you know, brought 10 children into the world.
And just a remarkable life, but she was proudest of in her later years that she was, she joined her help start a book club among her closest friends in our community.
And one that lasted for many years, you know, before her death and was something that she always looked forward to and would feed book ideas to the rest of us through that.
So there's just so much more.
But what if we get some of our youth through a participant book club?
What, you know, that would be, and again, that's something that schools should be driving. Is that fair to say?
Yeah, I think that that's really powerful.
I was lucky enough because of the format of the school I worked in that was in Kettle Marine.
We did a lot of book clubs with our kids as part of the curriculum and what was amazing to watch was how they.
They talked about the topics together and even if they didn't have the same views or opinion,
they were bringing them forward and they were able to discuss through it because often the books were about people different from them or a time different from now.
And I think that discussion was more powerful than some of the other things we were doing with the books.
Sure, sure.
What are some books from your youth that you remember that inspired you in one way or another affected you that you would encourage this generation of youth to read?
That's a good question.
Is that a day morning with little coffee in my brain?
I don't know.
I mean, it's not this was.
This wasn't on my script.
So I just said, but.
Just.
I mean, from a very young age, I loved poetry.
I loved shelves overseeing like where the sidewalk ends and like that.
Sure.
Those are like, I remember fighting over those books like in the library, like to check out like his bar of school and they had like one or two copies.
So it was always like, you know, oh my gosh, I got it.
And I wrote poetry like in high school is how I dealt with my teen angst or whatever.
Yeah.
But I think I hadn't.
I don't think I would have maybe used that as an outlet, a creative outlet if I hadn't.
Like to reading those, you know, and they were silly and funny, but they were just something cute.
You know, and I think that that was just inspiring to me like.
Yeah.
Yeah, you know, it's really making me think because I was not a reader as a kid.
I was a struggling student when I was in school, which is a big reason why I became a teacher outside some experiences that were not good.
But so when I think back to my earliest enjoyment of reading, I remember those choose your own adventure books where you got to pick like you got to the end of the chapter.
I was like, you either do this or this.
And for me, that engagement, I think was huge.
And then I'm thinking back to when I was in high school.
I had a teacher senior year, give us a list of these are all the books you should read before you go to college.
And some of them were books that probably are now in our AP curriculum or maybe the back then of honors curriculum.
Where did they go?
Right.
Well, probably.
I mean, I think good teachers do stuff like that all the time.
Yeah.
But I just remember reading those books and being like, oh, why weren't they giving me these books earlier in high school?
I wasn't in the advanced class. I wasn't getting them.
Yeah.
But it was those books were more about other cultures.
Right.
Other people.
They weren't just the, I don't know, some of the books that I thought were boring that I was reading in class.
So that was huge.
And I think that it just makes me think about what do we want kids to read?
We need to be giving them the options to read many, many different things.
I remember that's what made me think about those AP lists.
Virginia Wolf, a room of one zone.
Like I remember reading that the summer before, before my senior year and thinking ahead to like college applications and like striking out on my own and, you know, independent woman and things.
So yeah, those those lists are important.
They want to clarify.
I think I gave out a number and error.
Is this correct, Johnny?
The number if people want to call on the show is 414441 2941.
Did I get that correct?
That's how Greg got through.
Okay.
414441 2941.
So apologies.
We are taking your calls for Stephanie Fiddlin and Angelique Bern candidates.
And what books are kids reading these days?
Like I remember like Harry Potter, like that whole series, like really invigorated a lot of youth.
And kids of all ages quite frankly to get back into reading.
Like libraries.
Like kids would have their birthday parties of public libraries like sleepovers with the Harry Potter theme.
And it's like.
It seemed to me like every library in America should have like a statute of JK rallies because she got inspired young people to read.
We have a caller here.
Is this Kurt?
Is that right?
Kurt, what's on your mind friend?
I'm not hearing anything.
Give us a moment.
Kurt.
Yes, you are.
Hi, Kurt.
Good morning.
What's on your mind?
Good morning.
I had a question for both Stephanie and Angelique.
I was wondering if they would have voted for the parental rights and transparency resolution that was passed by the school board last year?
Sure.
I can start.
So the first thing I want to say is a lot of the things that are in that parental rights resolution are already either rights that exist or policy that exists or are already backed up by law.
I probably would not voted for it in the formats and now because a lot of it that is not maybe targeted in those laws already focused on certain demographics of students.
And I don't know that they're all things that I would vote for.
Hey, Kurt.
Hang on the line.
If you don't mind, we're moving into the next hour here.
It's going to give Stephanie a chance to respond here on this week and watch on WAUK 540 AM 101.1 FM.
So yeah, Kurt, in all of you, don't go away.
We got another hour to go here.