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All right, So, talking a little bit about education, 10 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:36,119 came across a tweet from Brian Balfour, he is with 11 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:40,799 the John Locke Foundation, talking about North Carolina education funding 12 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:48,039 this morning, and he pointed out that in the last decade, 13 00:00:48,719 --> 00:00:54,799 total spending on North Carolina public schools increased by forty 14 00:00:54,960 --> 00:01:00,759 eight percent over ten years. Forty eight percent increase in 15 00:01:01,119 --> 00:01:07,959 public education funding, total enrollment growth. Oh, actually that's not true. 16 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,159 It wasn't. It wasn't growth. It's down four and a 17 00:01:12,239 --> 00:01:17,239 half percent in the last decade. So while the number 18 00:01:17,239 --> 00:01:21,159 of students has declined, the number of or the amount 19 00:01:21,159 --> 00:01:24,799 of money has increased. Forty eight percent increase in funding 20 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:28,920 and a four and a half percent decline in student enrollment. 21 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:38,359 So It's not the money, folks, It's not the money, unless, 22 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:39,920 of course, you want to make the argument that the 23 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,680 school districts are spending the money on the wrong things, which, 24 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:45,920 as I mentioned at the end of the last hour. 25 00:01:47,079 --> 00:01:50,599 You know, parents in Carlsbad, California did not like their 26 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:55,359 money being used to bring in a science of BDSM 27 00:01:55,480 --> 00:02:00,799 expert named Mita Beach. I don't know if that's a 28 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:05,480 plan on words, I really don't a self described BDSM expert. 29 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:16,680 The parents requested that this event be canceled. The school 30 00:02:16,759 --> 00:02:21,120 denied their request to even sit in on the event 31 00:02:21,599 --> 00:02:24,479 or any other presentation, or even allow them to pull 32 00:02:24,479 --> 00:02:28,400 their kids out of this important educational event that would 33 00:02:28,439 --> 00:02:32,960 include god knows what about sexuality, sexually deviant behavior, or 34 00:02:33,039 --> 00:02:37,199 how best to get gender affirming care. Quote unquote, David 35 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:39,400 Strom at hot air dot com says, after all, the 36 00:02:39,479 --> 00:02:42,159 kids might kill themselves if they missed out on Mita's 37 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:48,840 body modification lesson. Yeah, because what Mita Beach quote teaches 38 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:56,439 in the workshops kink one oh one? Examining self injurious behavior? 39 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:04,080 What does that mean? Examine self mutilation, cutting yourself, hurting 40 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:10,759 yourself right, Examining self injurious behavior, erotic play, and body modification, 41 00:03:12,159 --> 00:03:16,000 and so the parents were like, hey, can we can 42 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,039 we attend this thing if you're not going to cancel it. So, 43 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,439 in response to the parental complaints, the school reportedly doubled 44 00:03:22,479 --> 00:03:24,800 down on their position, claiming they will not provide any 45 00:03:24,879 --> 00:03:27,280 kind of an opt out for students and will not 46 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,360 inform parents about speakers or let them on campus to 47 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:33,520 hear the speakers. After the parents plan to attend the 48 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:39,360 event anyway, the school notified them that the event was canceled. So, parents, 49 00:03:39,919 --> 00:03:42,840 that might be the way to do it right. That 50 00:03:42,919 --> 00:03:46,560 might be a tactic in the toolkit that you could 51 00:03:46,639 --> 00:03:50,120 use if you're being denied access to some program that 52 00:03:50,159 --> 00:03:55,199 you find objectionable like this. Within twenty four hours of 53 00:03:55,199 --> 00:03:59,759 the social media post and the news that the parents 54 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:07,960 were to attend this event, Beach's appearance was canceled, but 55 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:10,800 it still moved forward with at least two other speakers 56 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:15,240 from other organizations that helped facilitate gender transitions and surgeries. 57 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:18,920 David Strom says over the past couple of decades, we 58 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:22,439 have seen a substantial increase in schools delving deeper and 59 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,920 deeper into sexuality and gender identity issues, and all of 60 00:04:25,959 --> 00:04:29,000 this is part of a movement called Social and Emotional 61 00:04:29,079 --> 00:04:33,600 learning or SEL. It really took off over the last 62 00:04:33,639 --> 00:04:36,199 fifteen years or so. I was actually talking to a 63 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:41,000 family member, my niece who's in college, and we were 64 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,879 talking about some of this stuff while I was on 65 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:48,959 vacation up in New York, and I tried to convey 66 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,519 to her that you know, you don't You're the I 67 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:54,319 told her, I said, you're the fish that doesn't know 68 00:04:54,399 --> 00:04:57,680 it's wet, because this is the only thing you've known. 69 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:02,360 You grew up in all of this. But your dad 70 00:05:02,399 --> 00:05:07,680 and me, we remember fifteen years and before, before all 71 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:11,879 of this stuff started just rolling out into the K 72 00:05:11,959 --> 00:05:17,680 twelve education scene. The claim is that SEL exists to 73 00:05:17,759 --> 00:05:20,279 support the mental health of children. But a funny thing 74 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,639 happens when you look into the statistics. Suicide and suicidal 75 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:30,560 ideation among students have skyrocketed along with the spread of SEL. 76 00:05:33,079 --> 00:05:35,839 He says, you cannot argue that SEL has done anything 77 00:05:35,879 --> 00:05:38,800 to improve mental health among kids, which has seen a 78 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:43,879 sharp decline, especially in the past few years. I did 79 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,480 have a message here from Russ. Oh two messages actually 80 00:05:47,519 --> 00:05:52,040 hang on a second. Russ says, you mentioned the mental 81 00:05:52,079 --> 00:05:54,360 health grants that are being frozen. I don't know if 82 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:56,399 it's the same ones, but I had read that many 83 00:05:56,399 --> 00:05:59,639 states were taking grants from that awful Biden gun bill 84 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,800 earmarked to address the mental health issues that lead to 85 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:06,519 school shootings and the rise in depression and anxiety, and 86 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,600 they were diverting the money to promote LGBTQ and especially 87 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:16,199 the trans ideology. That would not surprise me. And also, 88 00:06:16,399 --> 00:06:19,319 Russ says in the other message regarding the school money, 89 00:06:19,319 --> 00:06:24,439 based on most recent reading proficiency, English learners really could 90 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,720 be everybody, not just e SL students. That's no, that's 91 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:35,680 fair terrible grades. Among Trump's first executive orders was one 92 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:40,000 that barred the grooming of kids into destructive ideologies, and 93 00:06:40,079 --> 00:06:43,319 the schools and blue state politicians are now fighting back hard. 94 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,639 Strom says, I suppose they want to protect their unblemished 95 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,839 record in improving child mental health and stuff. Okay, so 96 00:06:51,959 --> 00:06:54,680 much so that they don't even they don't want even 97 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,160 pesky parents to know what they are doing or to 98 00:06:57,199 --> 00:06:59,560 have a say in whether their kids are subjected. I mean, 99 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:07,399 education hated with the brainwashing BDSM training for the kids. 100 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,319 Russ mentioned the grades. A couple of months ago, Helen 101 00:07:13,399 --> 00:07:17,079 Raleigh at the Federalist dot Com took a look at 102 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:21,839 the National Assessment of Educational Progress test results. This is 103 00:07:21,879 --> 00:07:27,920 the NAPE scores and AEP known as the nation's report card. Okay. 104 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,800 It assesses the reading and math skills of America's fourth 105 00:07:31,879 --> 00:07:36,680 graders and eighth graders. The reading and math scores of 106 00:07:36,839 --> 00:07:44,680 students in Mississippi and Louisiana have surpassed those in California 107 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:48,560 and New York. When I grew up the New York 108 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:54,079 high school diploma system, they had tracks. We had tracks. 109 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:59,360 There was first track AP basically second track that was 110 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,439 the middle of the curve. Most of the kids were there. 111 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:05,360 But you could get a region's diploma, and that region's 112 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,639 diploma meant something because it meant that you were taking 113 00:08:09,519 --> 00:08:14,839 solid coursework, challenging stuff, minimum requirements and all that. And 114 00:08:14,879 --> 00:08:17,079 then there was the local diploma. If you did not 115 00:08:17,199 --> 00:08:20,160 get the regents or you didn't go for the AP, 116 00:08:21,959 --> 00:08:23,480 then you would be in. You would just get a 117 00:08:23,519 --> 00:08:27,600 local diploma, not a region's diploma. Well, apparently that system's 118 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:34,120 now trash to heavily Republican states and among the poorest 119 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:39,879 in the nation. Mississippi and Louisiana have surpassed California and 120 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:42,639 New York. New York I think spends somewhere close to 121 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:49,759 forty thousand dollars per pupil per year. The secret of 122 00:08:49,799 --> 00:08:53,840 Mississippi and Louisiana's educational success is not actually a secret. 123 00:08:54,399 --> 00:08:57,039 You may be shocked to learn this. It's about returning 124 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:01,519 to the fundamentals and following the evidence. Mississippi's Republican led 125 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:06,679 legislature has implemented effective education reforms starting back in twenty twelve. 126 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:14,480 They prioritized phonics, which teaches kids to read by sounding 127 00:09:14,519 --> 00:09:21,000 out the word, and they have a policy for retaining 128 00:09:21,279 --> 00:09:26,600 or holding back third graders who do not meet essential 129 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,519 reading benchmarks. By the way, this is something that the 130 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:34,799 left has talked about for a long time. Education progressives 131 00:09:34,799 --> 00:09:38,559 in the education industry they talk about the school to 132 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:44,000 prison pipeline. This is one of those data points. Kids 133 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,840 who do not achieve at grade level in reading at 134 00:09:47,879 --> 00:09:51,000 grade three are way more likely to be in prison 135 00:09:51,399 --> 00:09:55,679 when they're adults or before, but not in Mecklenburg obviously 136 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,799 way more likely. So if you can make the kid 137 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:07,000 at grade level grade three, they got better prospects for 138 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:09,799 the rest of their education, career, and the rest of 139 00:10:09,799 --> 00:10:13,080 their life. Why wouldn't you do that? All right? 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Alrighty, So this story at the 161 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:24,240 Federalist dot com about the Mississippi Miracle and the Louisiana Miracle. 162 00:11:24,279 --> 00:11:26,519 But I guess I don't know. Louisiana is I guess 163 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:28,679 a little bit behind Mississippi on this, but they both 164 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:34,320 now have higher reading scores and math scores than California 165 00:11:34,399 --> 00:11:37,960 and New York and they are like among the poorest, 166 00:11:38,519 --> 00:11:43,360 if not the poorest, in the country. And what they 167 00:11:43,399 --> 00:11:48,720 did was in twenty twelve, they prioritized phonics, teaching kids 168 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,480 to sound out words because it works, it always did work, 169 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,879 worked for the vast majority of students, rather than adopting 170 00:11:55,919 --> 00:12:00,480 the whole language model that then broke everybody's brains. And 171 00:12:00,519 --> 00:12:03,840 then we find out later years later. I covered this 172 00:12:03,879 --> 00:12:05,759 when the story came out, the interview with the woman 173 00:12:05,759 --> 00:12:07,559 who created it, and she was like, oh, yeah, I 174 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:10,759 don't even know if it works, Like, oh okay. But 175 00:12:11,759 --> 00:12:13,960 the reason why this happens is that every like ten 176 00:12:14,039 --> 00:12:17,480 or fifteen years, you get this overhaul in K twelve 177 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:22,360 education circles and the cottage industry that surrounds this industry, 178 00:12:23,039 --> 00:12:27,639 and they sell their crap to the K twelve edocrats, Oh, 179 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:29,919 we got to get new books, We have to do 180 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,799 new teacher trainings, right, because they make money off of 181 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,200 all of that stuff. So if you have a program, 182 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:37,919 you have a model that works, it's not in their 183 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:41,960 interest to continue that model because once you get the 184 00:12:43,279 --> 00:12:46,360 software or you get the books, you get the training, 185 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,159 you don't need it anymore. And now you don't need 186 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:56,639 them anymore. Also, they implemented and enforced a retention policy 187 00:12:56,679 --> 00:13:01,279 for third graders who do not meet essential reading benchmarks. Also, 188 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:05,840 the state invests fifteen million dollars each year, which is 189 00:13:05,879 --> 00:13:09,480 about thirty two dollars a student, into training teachers on 190 00:13:09,519 --> 00:13:14,799 literacy and providing dedicated reading coaches in schools. That's it. 191 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,679 Thirty two bucks a kid and you two can have 192 00:13:18,759 --> 00:13:23,080 these kinds of results. Now will large districts like cms 193 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,600 will they look to the Mississippi miracle and say, hey, 194 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:29,399 maybe we should do that. I doubt it. Mississippi's fourth 195 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:34,039 grader's reading scores went from forty ninth in the nation 196 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,159 back in twenty thirteen. They are now at the top. 197 00:13:40,639 --> 00:13:44,159 So in eleven years they went from second to last 198 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:51,720 to number one reading scores. Governor Tate Reeves said, the 199 00:13:51,759 --> 00:13:55,720 state's black fourth graders have improved from forty fifth in 200 00:13:55,799 --> 00:14:03,279 the nation to third place, a learning gain equivalent to 201 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:08,519 a full year of schooling and an extra year of schooling. Moreover, 202 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:12,440 the state's graduation rate has seen a significant rise, going 203 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,279 from seventy two percent back in twenty thirteen. It's now 204 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,559 at eighty nine point nine percent, or ninety percent last year. 205 00:14:20,919 --> 00:14:24,480 The Mississippi miracle. Governor Reeves declared in an interview that 206 00:14:24,559 --> 00:14:27,320 the education out comes in his state is really not 207 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,600 a miracle at all. It's really a result of conservative 208 00:14:30,639 --> 00:14:36,240 reforms implemented in public education. He said. So Louisiana, because 209 00:14:36,279 --> 00:14:38,720 it's so close to Mississippi, they could see it just 210 00:14:38,759 --> 00:14:40,879 by standing on their tiptoes, and they were like, hey, 211 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,320 why don't we do that. That looks like it's working 212 00:14:43,399 --> 00:14:48,320 right there. So they implemented similar education reforms they did theirs. 213 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:53,320 In twenty nineteen, the state focused on phonics instruction and 214 00:14:53,399 --> 00:15:00,200 providing content rich literacy curriculums. Additionally, Louisiana has invested in 215 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:04,919 training programs for principles teachers and reading coaches on teaching 216 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:11,000 kids how to learn to read. It was the only 217 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:16,879 state Louisiana was the only state where fourth grade reading 218 00:15:16,919 --> 00:15:21,759 scores were higher last year than they were five years ago. 219 00:15:23,919 --> 00:15:26,879 What does that mean? Every other state saw a decline 220 00:15:26,919 --> 00:15:29,879 in reading scores over the last five years, which makes 221 00:15:29,879 --> 00:15:31,799 sense because there was COVID and we had to lock 222 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:35,120 all the kids in their homes and such. The California 223 00:15:35,279 --> 00:15:39,320 reading scores for fourth and eighth graders have plummeted yet again. 224 00:15:39,399 --> 00:15:44,279 Last year. They remained lower than those in twenty seventeen, 225 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:50,039 lower last year than five years prior. While there was 226 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:53,600 a slight improvement in fourth grade math scores, they still 227 00:15:53,679 --> 00:15:58,799 lag behind the scores from five years ago. California's experiments 228 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:03,080 with alternatives to teaching phonics, despite extensive research that phonics 229 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:08,360 works best, have obviously failed. Obviously, less than half of 230 00:16:08,399 --> 00:16:13,720 all public school students in California met state grade level 231 00:16:13,919 --> 00:16:17,320 standards for English Language Arts, which is what they call 232 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:25,159 it now reading ELA. Forty seven percent can can meet 233 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,360 the grade level standard for reading. The reading scores of 234 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:31,399 Black and Spanic students are even worse. Thirty percent of 235 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:34,639 Black students and thirty six percent of Hispanic students are 236 00:16:34,679 --> 00:16:38,440 at grade level. So tell me who actually cares about 237 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:42,759 the kids who actually cares particularly right about minority kids 238 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:47,399 who's closing the achievement gap? How are they doing it right? 239 00:16:47,559 --> 00:16:52,000 If if you can't identify the answers in this piece 240 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,320 that I have just given you, I would submit you 241 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,960 should be nowhere near K twelve education. 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Comparing Mississippi and Louisiana to 264 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:18,079 California and New York when it comes to education outcomes, 265 00:18:18,599 --> 00:18:23,200 Mississippi and Louisiana now doing better than California and New 266 00:18:23,279 --> 00:18:27,880 York despite the two Democrat controlled states spending way more 267 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:33,960 money but doing really stupid things and the Mississippi Miracle 268 00:18:34,039 --> 00:18:36,960 it's been dubbed, which isn't really even a miracle at all. 269 00:18:37,599 --> 00:18:42,640 It's just using the models that have worked in the past. 270 00:18:43,039 --> 00:18:48,119 Legislation requiring schools to implement more phonics based reading curricula 271 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:55,279 failed to pass in California's legislature last year. Why good question, 272 00:18:55,519 --> 00:18:58,119 Want to take a guess I'll give you three guesses. 273 00:18:58,319 --> 00:19:01,599 First two don't count. That's right. It's the unions, right, 274 00:19:02,319 --> 00:19:07,680 the unions didn't think about that. Why Why on earth 275 00:19:08,079 --> 00:19:14,720 would you be opposed to using phonics. This was primarily 276 00:19:14,799 --> 00:19:18,200 due to opposition from Democrat party leadership, teachers, unions, and 277 00:19:18,519 --> 00:19:26,680 advocacy groups, so leftists. The San Francisco Chronicle editorial board lamented, quote, 278 00:19:26,839 --> 00:19:31,119 the California childhood literacy rates have fallen significantly beneath those 279 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:35,799 of the poorest states in the nation should be considered 280 00:19:35,839 --> 00:19:39,960 a stain on progressive values. This state claims to stand 281 00:19:40,039 --> 00:19:44,319 for no, no, no, no, no. That's the These are 282 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:48,920 the progressive values because the performance, the merit doesn't matter. 283 00:19:49,319 --> 00:19:51,519 And you know what if that means kids don't know 284 00:19:51,559 --> 00:19:53,400 how to read and do math and you damn them 285 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:58,279 to a life of either prison or poverty, well, you 286 00:19:58,279 --> 00:20:00,880 know you got to break some eggs to make the omelet, 287 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:07,400 the utopian omelet, the perfect omelet. Editorial board said, insuring 288 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:12,640 Californian kids receive the most effective reading lessons didn't even 289 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:16,960 merit a discussion among Democrats in the face of union opposition. 290 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,920 And then there's this from Nicole Russell. This was at 291 00:20:23,039 --> 00:20:29,440 USA today. Yesterday, k twelve students in America lag peers 292 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:35,799 in other industrialized countries in math and reading skills, and 293 00:20:35,839 --> 00:20:38,839 they've hit a new low. And while students struggle in 294 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:42,279 core subjects, many parents say their children have been indoctrinated 295 00:20:42,279 --> 00:20:46,000 with a liberal political bias. If you doubt that last point, 296 00:20:46,079 --> 00:20:50,039 she says, listen to the NEAs. That's the Teachers' Union 297 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:54,480 National Education Association's Teacher of the Year. I watched this 298 00:20:54,559 --> 00:21:02,200 woman's speech. It was her name is Ashley or cross 299 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:06,519 On or Croissant, and anyway, she delivered her speech that 300 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:12,079 hailed education as a political endeavor. That was her speech. 301 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:18,200 She's an English teacher at Mifflin County High School in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, 302 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,200 and said what teachers want is the same as what 303 00:21:21,319 --> 00:21:30,359 students want. No, No, I know, I don't think that's accurate. 304 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,200 I think that if you were to draw a Kamala 305 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,319 Harris approved ven diagram, there would be some overlapping of 306 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:42,200 the circles. But it's not all the same obviously. I mean, 307 00:21:42,599 --> 00:21:45,839 a kindergartener doesn't care about whether or not she's going 308 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:49,400 to get a pension, you know, the teacher does stuff 309 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:53,559 like that. But anyway, crossing or Croissant told her fellow 310 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,279 union members, quote, what's good for educators is what's good 311 00:21:57,319 --> 00:22:01,160 for students. The best way to advocate or our students, 312 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:06,400 truly is to advocate for ourselves. Oh my gosh, you 313 00:22:06,559 --> 00:22:12,680 narcissistic sociopath. No, you are not the same as the 314 00:22:12,759 --> 00:22:15,759 kids your interests, and the way to advocate for kids 315 00:22:15,799 --> 00:22:20,079 is not to advocate for yourself. Okay, you are a 316 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:24,400 different person. Stop trying to live vicariously through these kids, 317 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,279 or to try to use them as props to get 318 00:22:27,279 --> 00:22:31,880 what you want. It's understandable that the NEA's Teacher of 319 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:36,119 the Year is pro union, obviously, but the idea that 320 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:38,559 the same things that are good for teachers and their 321 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,480 unions are also good for students that is utter nonsense. 322 00:22:43,559 --> 00:22:47,880 Exhibit a my previous story from The Federalist about the 323 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:55,119 Mississippi miracle. Unions actually shield their members from the consequences 324 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:58,680 of poor performance and even bad behavior. How does that 325 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:04,119 help students. Croissant also said teaching is a political endeavor, 326 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:08,519 and it always has been so. Now that the NEA's 327 00:23:08,599 --> 00:23:12,480 Teacher of the Year admits this, maybe lefties, you can 328 00:23:12,519 --> 00:23:15,200 stop attacking me when I say that because I've been 329 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:21,640 saying that for years. Obviously, obviously K twelve education is 330 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:26,960 being used to promote political ideology. Has been my schooling. 331 00:23:27,599 --> 00:23:31,440 When I was in school, I remember it. I would 332 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,359 have arguments with teachers about it. I know that's hard 333 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,680 to believe, but it's true. I would have arguments with 334 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:41,559 teachers about them injecting politics. Had a had a this 335 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,440 was in college, I will say this. I had a 336 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:47,440 professor who made us read a book and I forget 337 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,440 the name of the book now, but it was a 338 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:54,599 book by or about the Vietnam War. And the final exam, 339 00:23:54,720 --> 00:24:01,759 she gives us a multiple choice essay question why why 340 00:24:02,039 --> 00:24:06,319 was America destined to lose the Vietnam War? And then 341 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,680 she gave you know, was it? This? Was it? This? 342 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:12,960 Was it? This? And the correct answer was none of 343 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:17,359 the above. She did a trick question on us on 344 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,079 the final exam, and the reason why is because none 345 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:24,119 of the above the right answer, according to her, because 346 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:27,359 she was a leftist who was like hungover after Bill 347 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,880 Clinton one election came to class, though, I will say, 348 00:24:31,319 --> 00:24:33,319 but it was a short class. She cut it short 349 00:24:33,319 --> 00:24:38,079 because she was hungover. Anyway, she she made the answer 350 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,880 it was an unwinnable war because it was a people's war. 351 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:46,119 That was the right answer, according to her, but she 352 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,000 didn't offer that as one of the options to write about. 353 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:55,319 Education should not be political and certainly not partisan. But 354 00:24:55,519 --> 00:24:58,759 according to the Pew Research Center, about sixty percent of 355 00:24:58,799 --> 00:25:02,680 teachers identify with or leaned toward the Democrat Party. The 356 00:25:02,839 --> 00:25:06,839 NEA's partisanship has grown so extreme that even the union 357 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,400 admitted that it has to do a better job of 358 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:13,799 representing its Republican members. Randy Weingarten, remember this, a couple 359 00:25:13,839 --> 00:25:17,440 of weeks ago, president of the American Federation of Teachers Union. 360 00:25:18,279 --> 00:25:21,599 She served as a member of the Democrat National Committee 361 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:28,160 for more than two decades, and she resigned in June. 362 00:25:28,759 --> 00:25:31,680 And don't tell me that what's good for students is 363 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,400 good for teachers and vice versa. So we're all the same. 364 00:25:35,319 --> 00:25:37,720 And to advocate for kids, truly, you got to advocate 365 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,839 for teachers because the teachers' unions, I'm old enough to remember, 366 00:25:42,759 --> 00:25:46,319 pushed to keep the schools closed, which was not in 367 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:50,119 the student's best interests, which we knew, and some of 368 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,599 us like myself were saying at that time during the pandemic. 369 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,640 You know, stories are powerful They help us make sense 370 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:00,119 of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the 371 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,240 people of our past while transcending generations. They help us 372 00:26:03,279 --> 00:26:06,359 process the meaning of life and our stories are told 373 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,519 through images and videos. 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I don't know which 392 00:27:15,039 --> 00:27:19,720 one sounds funnier, but they're both funny in their own way. 393 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:24,480 So it's kumn. And she says anecdotally, the parents and 394 00:27:24,519 --> 00:27:27,839 grandparents bringing their kids there are predominantly non white. These 395 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,839 kids will be head and shoulders above their fellow students 396 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,240 and successful. My kid just turns seven and is doing 397 00:27:34,319 --> 00:27:38,240 multiplication and now reading three grade levels above her level. 398 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:43,960 Phonics and math memorization, that's the key. Yeah, I tend 399 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:49,160 to agree. Oh, and then there was this Teresa Opeka 400 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:54,240 at the Carolina Journal. This is hilarious over if you 401 00:27:54,279 --> 00:27:58,680 go to the website of the North Carolina Governor Josh 402 00:27:58,799 --> 00:28:03,240 Stein and look at the very top of his web 403 00:28:03,279 --> 00:28:08,160 page again, it's back, everybody. At the very top of 404 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:14,000 the website page, there's a red bar across the whole top, 405 00:28:14,759 --> 00:28:17,480 and there's a little exclamation point in a triangle, and 406 00:28:17,559 --> 00:28:23,079 it says a state of emergency for public education. Governor 407 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,480 Cooper has declared that wait, what that's right? It says 408 00:28:27,519 --> 00:28:31,680 Governor Cooper has declared that public education in North Carolina 409 00:28:31,759 --> 00:28:34,200 is facing a state of emergency and de urges North 410 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:38,640 Carolinians to contact legislators read more about how to protect 411 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,759 public schools, and then there's a link. It's literally the 412 00:28:42,799 --> 00:28:48,759 banner from my good friend Ray Cooper's his his stunt 413 00:28:48,759 --> 00:28:51,079 of emergency is what I called it, because it wasn't 414 00:28:51,119 --> 00:28:54,839 an actual state of emergency. But he declared quote unquote 415 00:28:55,079 --> 00:28:58,200 a state of emergency for public education because he wanted 416 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,920 more money to go to K twelve spending than what 417 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,720 the Republican legislature had allocated. And so he has a 418 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,640 big press conference and declares a stunt of emergency or 419 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,720 state of emergency. It was a stunt. There wasn't an 420 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,640 actual state of emergency. He literally So now you got 421 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,759 Josh Stein up there, who literally does the exact same thing, 422 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,119 to the point where they just copied and pasted Cooper's thing. 423 00:29:22,319 --> 00:29:26,519 And when you go there, yeah, here it is. Teresa 424 00:29:26,519 --> 00:29:29,480 Opika follows up. Governor Cooper had the banner on his 425 00:29:29,519 --> 00:29:32,640 web page when the state legislators pushed for and got 426 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,079 opportunity scholarships for parents to send their children to schools 427 00:29:36,079 --> 00:29:38,759 of their choice. And if you click on the banner, 428 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,279 it has all of the old information about the general 429 00:29:42,319 --> 00:29:46,880 Assembly wanting to make the quote unquote cuts. Yeah, there 430 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:51,960 you go, that's our governor, Josh Stein. Good lord, what 431 00:29:52,079 --> 00:29:57,440 a joke. Then you've got Oh, this was interesting. I 432 00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,200 did not know. I guess the NAACP. I guess they 433 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,920 paid for a whole bunch of sponsorships over at the 434 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:08,000 Charlotte Observer because man, like you go over onto that website, 435 00:30:08,039 --> 00:30:12,200 the Charlotte Observer website, and it's just like they became 436 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,759 the press shop for the NAACP, which is in town. 437 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:20,640 So I understand why you've got a bunch of stories there, 438 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,720 but I mean, this is a little bit over the top. 439 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,160 You know, you're just you're quoting everybody in their panel 440 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,960 discussions and you're not doing any kind of pushback or anything. 441 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,519 It's you're just acting as stenographers for this event. So 442 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,599 one of the stories, one of the many stories that 443 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,920 they churned out of this event. NAACP events call for 444 00:30:39,079 --> 00:30:43,599 pro union voting in the North Carolina midterm elections. Labor 445 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,960 unions speaking on Monday, called for attendees to vote for 446 00:30:47,039 --> 00:30:49,640 candidates who are in favor of labor unions in the 447 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:55,359 upcoming North Carolina midterm elections. In other words, Democrats right, 448 00:30:55,799 --> 00:31:01,160 they're out there politicking for Democrats. By the way, they 449 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:05,039 did not invite Donald Trump to attend, which in years past, 450 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,799 I think they've always invited the presidents to attend, and 451 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:15,240 they did not invite Trump. The afl CIOs nationwide bus 452 00:31:15,319 --> 00:31:20,039 Tour began here in Charlotte. The name of the tour 453 00:31:20,279 --> 00:31:25,720 is quote, it's a better union. Sorry, it's better in 454 00:31:25,759 --> 00:31:30,720 a union fighting for freedom, fairness and security. Bus Tour. Okay, 455 00:31:30,759 --> 00:31:32,960 that's the name of it. Guys might want to work 456 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:38,400 on that. It's it's not very memorable anyway. It began 457 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:42,359 on July ninth, first off at the annual convention here 458 00:31:42,359 --> 00:31:46,200 in Charlotte. Altogether, the bus tour will visit twenty six 459 00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:52,119 states over the next two months, using three buses. That's 460 00:31:52,119 --> 00:31:57,559 what your dues are being used for. Charles Clark, Southern 461 00:31:57,599 --> 00:32:01,039 Regional director for the National afl CIO, said the tourist 462 00:32:01,119 --> 00:32:04,240 mission is to bring awareness to how labor workers are 463 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,480 being affected by the Trump administration. He said the executive 464 00:32:07,599 --> 00:32:12,119 orders firing federal workers and ending the Collective Bargaining Agreement, 465 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,319 along with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are some 466 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,519 of the changes that most affect them. Did you see, 467 00:32:19,519 --> 00:32:21,880 by the way, the layoffs at the State Department. You 468 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:25,240 see those videos, these people walking out like they're being 469 00:32:25,319 --> 00:32:29,640 celebrated and applauded, and they're weeping in the streets and 470 00:32:29,759 --> 00:32:33,240 look full disclosure. As a radio industry veteran now for 471 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:37,519 almost thirty years, I have seen a lot of mass firings. 472 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:42,079 I have been part of mass firings. Nobody gets this 473 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:46,319 kind of Nobody gets this kind of riff party. On 474 00:32:46,359 --> 00:32:48,920 the way out the door, You're lucky if you get 475 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,079 a box to put your stuff in. All right, that'll 476 00:32:52,119 --> 00:32:54,759 do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 477 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,000 I could not do the show without your support and 478 00:32:57,079 --> 00:32:59,759 the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, 479 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,200 so if you'd like, please support them too and tell 480 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:03,960 them you heard it here. You can also become a 481 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,640 patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, 482 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,400 thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything 483 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:12,839 while I'm gone.