Kota [No Name Given] and Diana [No Name Given]

Dakota [No Name Given] shares her lack of faith in the public school system and why she chooses to homeschool. Diana [No Name Given] shares similar frustrations and elaborates on her decision to work and enroll her kids in public school.

Dakota shares her current faith crisis in that she does not see her values reflected in Catholicism. Her politics are affecting her faith. Dakota shares her move from the judgment of the Catholic Church to Paganism. After a miscarriage, she lost faith in a higher power.

Diana and Dakota discuss school shootings, gun control and access (or lack thereof) to healthcare.

Dakota shares her commitment to home-schooling is in part because her whole family is autistic; she can read her children in a way that might get lost in the public school.

Dakota shares that her husband has been her greatest influence; she was liberal and he was conservative and now they're both centrists. Diana credits her father as her greatest influence with his work ethic and emphasis on education.

Diana shares that while she doesn't understand gender identities of her students, she wants what's best for the kids. She wishes she could talk to her conservative neighbors. Dakota talks about the political extremes on both sides.

Dakota recalls growing up in Vermont seeing the conservative opinion as the most extreme; Kansas is different.

Diana and Dakota discuss their shared belief in the importance of maintaining marriages.

Dakota recalls growing up in Connecticut when it was a conservative area. Diana reflects that she grew up in a liberal area and is now a conservative while Dakota grew up in a conservative area and is now a liberal.

Dakota and Diana discuss Roe v Wade being overturned and the tragic affect on women's health. Dakota believes Roe upheld many more rights than just abortion and that Dobbs threatens gay-rights and home-schooling rights. They discuss kids being taken from parents in Florida due to gender-identity. Dakota compares DeSantis to Hitler.

Dakota and Diana discus patriotism and their frustration with the education and healthcare systems of the United States. Diana doesn't know why we protect the super wealthy. She discusses her Republican representative, and how he is fighting for a law that will help her family.

Dakota and Diana both take away that they have much in common, and maintain their beliefs in the educational system.