Doc Carter explores how the state legislature's mini-muffin approach to budget work has teachers living in 2010 in 2019; gives shout-outs to the NYT's _1619 Project_ and to the recent "Adam Ruins Doing Good" episode of _Adam Ruins Everything_ (which critiques Teach for America); and discusses an instance in which a Wake Forest teacher tried to live in a futurist, progressive America via a lesson plan asking students to complete a "Diversity Inventoy" but found herself in North Carolina -- and possibly in hot water -- instead.