WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.879 I'm always interested in stories about Presne Unified. I'm not 2 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:07.480 sure why I don't have kids in Fresno Unified. 3 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:08.880 I don't know if kids in clothes unified. 4 00:00:08.919 --> 00:00:14.240 Frankly, I think though it's an interesting kind of Petri 5 00:00:14.359 --> 00:00:21.160 Dish case study example whatever of a lot of bigger 6 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:27.000 trends that are going on in California public education. I 7 00:00:27.039 --> 00:00:30.960 think it's problems, its struggles are emblematic of the problems 8 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:34.880 that the state faces at large. It struggles with the union, 9 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:43.640 it's liberalism, it's just problems with student instruction seem to 10 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:46.960 me to reflect the broader problems that the state faces. 11 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:50.719 And something kind of caught my eye the other day 12 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:53.640 and I did a little research on it. So Misty Hrr, 13 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:58.679 who is the interim superintendent, and clearly I think is 14 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:03.640 kind of trying to push for to get rid of 15 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:07.879 that interim title. It seems like the school board is 16 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:14.400 going to sort of they're going through like a board 17 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:17.599 retreat process and they're refocusing and they're rethinking about what 18 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:20.280 they want for their school superintendent. They're gonna have a 19 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:24.040 nationwide search and blah blah blah blah blah. Well, it 20 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:27.319 seems as though Misty Hurr wants this job. I think 21 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:31.079 the initial push was for her to be hired, and 22 00:01:31.159 --> 00:01:34.319 somehow that got steymied when people said, why are we 23 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:37.359 only looking within the school district for a replacement for 24 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:45.000 Bob Nelson. So while she's interim Misty her is doing 25 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.519 and saying a lot of things that don't sound very interimy. 26 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:51.159 She's doing and saying a lot of things that sound 27 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:55.560 like she's wanting to launch initiatives and programs and goals 28 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:59.599 that sound very I want this job for the long haul, 29 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:06.879 including a lot of stuff about wanting to improve student 30 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:12.319 test scores by ten percent in math and reading comprehension, 31 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:18.159 which right now President UNIFIEDES results are terrible, overwhelming majority 32 00:02:18.199 --> 00:02:22.840 of kids are not reading or doing math at grade level. 33 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:28.840 And one of the things she said, so the school 34 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:31.360 year I think just started yesterday, and she has sort 35 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:33.599 of this opening beginning of the school year press conference 36 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:36.879 where she keeps emphasizing your kids need to be there. 37 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:43.000 Every day counts, every minute counts. Now there's a part 38 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:45.319 of me that's thinking, well, this is a little selfish 39 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:47.719 on the school's part. She basically every day that a 40 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:50.199 student's there is more money for the school, so they 41 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:55.960 get paid based on attendance. But it made me think 42 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:01.199 about the question of chronic absince teaism, and I remembered 43 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:03.280 reading some stories about it, and so I did a 44 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:10.919 little digging. I went to the California Data Quest. This 45 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:14.680 is produced by the California Department of Education, and it's 46 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:18.919 this tool you can use from the California Department of 47 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:21.960 Education to look at different kinds of statistics. 48 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:25.919 Statewide for all kinds of different issues. 49 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:29.560 So you can look at and one of the things 50 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:36.080 that's been really tracking is chronic absenteeism. Okay, So chronic 51 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:48.479 absenteeism basically it considers whether or not a student has 52 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:52.719 missed ten percent or more of the days they were 53 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:57.560 expected to attend. Okay, So that's a pretty good barometer 54 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:02.120 of a kid who's missing way more school than is normal, right, 55 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:06.360 ten percent or more of the days they are supposed 56 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:17.680 to attend. So if you've got a kid who's chronically absent, 57 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:22.600 guess what, his odds of learning are pretty low. It 58 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:27.759 leads to worse outcomes in general. And one of the 59 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:31.519 things that's happened since the pandemic has been an enormous 60 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:38.160 spike in student absenteeism and an enormous spike in student 61 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:44.160 absenteeism in Fresno Unified. All right, so let me give 62 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:48.399 you something to compare. Let's go to twenty eighteen twenty nineteen. 63 00:04:48.920 --> 00:04:53.680 So this is the last school year before COVID. The 64 00:04:53.720 --> 00:04:56.000 COVID school year was twenty nineteen to twenty twenty, so 65 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.639 the stats get all weird. This is the last pre 66 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:02.639 COVID full school year that we have sort of a 67 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:07.920 basis of comparison with. All right, So these are the 68 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:15.279 chronic absentee rates among school children within Fresno Unified. And 69 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:17.319 by the way, you can use this statewide tool, but 70 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:19.240 it can break it down for you buy school district. 71 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:22.680 So I'm looking at Fresno Unified chronic absenteeism twenty eighteen 72 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:26.439 and twenty nineteen, and they break it down by racial demographics. 73 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:28.560 I'm not sure why. 74 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:32.360 I feel like maybe socioeconomic demographics would be more helpful, 75 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:38.600 but let's leave that where it is, all right, So, uh, 76 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:47.360 chronic absenteeism in Fresno Unified. I'll go buy the largest 77 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:52.519 racial demographics through the smallest racial demographics within Fresne Unified. 78 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:54.519 Based on the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen numbers. 79 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:55.279 All right, So. 80 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:58.600 Hispanic and Latino kids seventeen point five percent of them 81 00:05:58.680 --> 00:06:02.319 were chronically absent in the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen school 82 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:08.639 year seventeen let's say Asian kids seven point four percent. 83 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:12.360 Only seven point four percent of Asian kids were absent 84 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:17.000 during the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen school year. Seventeen point 85 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:21.720 seven percent of white kids were absent Chronically absent during 86 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:27.839 the school year African American kids twenty six percent of 87 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:28.879 African American kids. 88 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:31.199 So, of the four major. 89 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:35.600 Ethnic demographics within President Unified, Hispanic Latinos by far the 90 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:43.240 largest then Asian than White then African American. African Americans 91 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:45.959 had the highest rate of chronic absenteeism at twenty six percent. 92 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:53.399 Asians had the lowest, at seven point four percent, and 93 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:57.680 Hispanics and whites were pretty much at the same level, 94 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:00.560 about seventeen and a half percent seventeen point five percent 95 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:04.199 for Hispanics Latinos seventeen point seven percent among white kids. So, actually, 96 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:08.360 white kids were slightly more often absent than Black kids, 97 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:15.800 excuse me, than Latino kids. Let's now compare, shall we 98 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:23.800 what is the state wide average right now. Okay, so 99 00:07:23.800 --> 00:07:25.839 those are the numbers in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. This 100 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:30.399 is the state wide average right now. Though for chronic absenteeism, 101 00:07:31.160 --> 00:07:36.920 thirty six percent of African American kids chronically absent. Asians 102 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:43.680 didn't change that much ten percent, Filipinos thirteen point four percent, Hispanics, 103 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:48.040 Latinos twenty eight point nine percent. That's the state wide average. Now, 104 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:55.319 white kids nineteen percent didn't jump that much. Okay, so 105 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:58.519 that's the state wide average today. I already gave you 106 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:02.800 the fres No average presdent unified average twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. 107 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:12.720 Here is the Fresno unified average right now. African American students. Remember, 108 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:16.040 in Fresney unified, African American students had before COVID at 109 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:19.120 twenty six percent chronic APPS and T rate. The statewide 110 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:22.759 average is thirty six percent. In presdent unified, it's forty 111 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:26.399 five percent. Forty five percent of African American students in 112 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:28.319 fresnent unified are chronically absent. 113 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:32.879 Asian children. 114 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:36.799 Remember, in Fresne unified Asian children were chronically absent, only 115 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:39.559 about seven percent of them were chronically absent before COVID. 116 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:44.039 Now twenty one percent of them. It's a huge jump 117 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:52.399 Hispanic and Latino kids. This is the most significant jump 118 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:57.039 I think within Fresne Unified because basically they're almost ten 119 00:08:57.120 --> 00:08:59.960 times more Hispanic Latino kids than any other. 120 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:01.279 In vidual racial demographic. 121 00:09:02.279 --> 00:09:05.600 Maybe more like okay, maybe more like seven times more. 122 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:09.519 There's about fifty thousand Hispanic kids in Present Unified. The 123 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:15.279 next biggest racial group are Asians, with seven five hundred kids. 124 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:23.679 Hispanic chronic absenteeism thirty six point six percent. Before COVID 125 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:28.399 it was seventeen point five percent, thirty six point six 126 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:33.039 percent White kids. It used to be about seventeen and 127 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:36.840 a half percent before COVID, now thirty three percent in 128 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:46.240 Present Unified. These are massive jumps across all racial demographics. 129 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:53.840 Asian kids, huge increase in the percentage of chronic absenteeism, 130 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:59.720 African Americans, large increase in the percentage of absentee kids 131 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:01.320 about a twenty percent increase. 132 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:05.000 And Hispanic kids. 133 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:07.919 That's probably the most significant for President Unified because again, 134 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:11.519 far more Hispanic kids within President Unified than any other 135 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:16.960 racial demographic that has jumped from It's basically doubled the 136 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:19.600 chronic APPS and T rate has more than doubled. 137 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:25.320 What has happened. 138 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:31.320 I really think we need to examine the I think 139 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:38.960 we still don't really have a solid grasp on the 140 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:48.919 full weight of COVID's impact on the culture, especially when 141 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:52.799 it comes to something as simple as going to school. 142 00:10:55.399 --> 00:10:57.519 I think so many families got used. 143 00:10:57.360 --> 00:11:02.720 To just not having kids go to school or keeping 144 00:11:02.799 --> 00:11:07.799 kids home for the flimsiest of reasons, that it's basically 145 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:11.320 resulted in this huge change. Oh and by the way, 146 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:17.039 let's compare while we're at it, Fresno Unified versus Clovis Unified. 147 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:26.440 Clovis Unified has somewhat gotten back to sort of the 148 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:32.600 pre COVID level according to the most up to date stats. 149 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:37.799 So again, largest racial demographic in Clothes Unified are Hispanic kids. 150 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:42.159 Twenty one percent of Hispanic kids in Clovis Unified are 151 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:49.240 chronically absent, thirty four percent within FRESNOE Unified. Sixteen percent 152 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:54.440 of white kids are chronically absent in Clovis Unified. Much 153 00:11:54.519 --> 00:12:03.919 higher again with Fresne Unified. Well, actually it's not which 154 00:12:03.919 --> 00:12:07.320 one was this. It's not that much higher. It's about 155 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:11.879 nineteen percent within Fresno Unified. But the real difference is 156 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:16.720 Close Unified's Latino population versus Fresno unified Its Latino population, 157 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:19.879 both of which are the largest racial demographics within their 158 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:27.600 Within their district, there's much better attendance among Hispanic and 159 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:32.919 Latino students within Clovis Unified than within Fresno Unified. So 160 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:35.519 I don't know what has happened. I don't know if 161 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:37.720 it is a cultural thing. I don't know if it's 162 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:41.759 just a socioeconomic thing that or what it is that 163 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:45.679 people have just sort of decided. I suspect it's a 164 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:50.360 socioeconomic thing. Fresnent Unified tends to be sort of at 165 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:54.120 a not as high socioeconomic status as far as the 166 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:59.200 average student who goes there than Clovis Unified. I guess 167 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:02.360 I just don't understand and that this culture that's come 168 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:07.120 about because of COVID that makes it just so common 169 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:14.159 for kids to be chronically absent, And it just seems 170 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:16.720 like one of these things again where it should be 171 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:23.159 a ten alarm fire and every teachers, you know, teacher 172 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:26.600 union whatever, should be all running around like with their 173 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:31.120 hair on fire, trying to get kids to actually go 174 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:34.559 to school. But again, I think so much of what 175 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:40.159 we hear from in education news is about adults jobs 176 00:13:40.799 --> 00:13:44.480 because so much of it is driven by union priorities, 177 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:52.159 union needs, union contracts, negotiating the district, negotiating with the union. 178 00:13:55.919 --> 00:14:01.399 That's something this simple just seems like it's it almost 179 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:04.679 seems like an afterthought. But this is such a fundamental thing. 180 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:09.000 You obviously cannot instruct students if they're not there. And 181 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:14.720 since COVID, I don't know that we've yet arrived at 182 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:23.240 a point where our post COVID numbers are, we still 183 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:27.759 haven't arrived back at our pre COVID numbers when we return. 184 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:31.639 My PSA for conservative parents, don't let your kids do 185 00:14:31.759 --> 00:14:35.080 sex ed in public schools. Next on the John Girardi Show, 186 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:40.360 I want to periodically do this little PSA for you all, 187 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:47.440 just to remind you that all of you folks sending 188 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:50.679 your kids to public schools up and down the. 189 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:52.000 Great San Joaquin Valley. 190 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:54.679 Here, many of you probably sending your kids to close 191 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:59.559 unified public school and you might be thinking, you close 192 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:02.120 unified parents. I know you kind of know how you think. 193 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:05.200 Maybe you sang or unified parents. Maybe you think something 194 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:08.440 along these lines too, or maybe some of you folks 195 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:12.000 in more rural school districts up and down the San 196 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:15.639 Joaquin Valley. You think, yeah, I know, I read these 197 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:19.080 stories about crazy left wing things that California does through 198 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:23.720 public schools, and yeah, I know the state legislature's crazy, and. 199 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:26.679 Yeah, you know, I know I get it. But but 200 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:29.720 not our public school. 201 00:15:30.080 --> 00:15:37.559 My Clovis Unified school district, guided by the wise spirit 202 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:42.039 of Doc sat Doc Buchanan watching over us, the agis 203 00:15:42.039 --> 00:15:44.919 of his protection, overshadowing us. 204 00:15:47.440 --> 00:15:57.120 May he rain all over a sunbevc Torrius, God save 205 00:15:57.559 --> 00:15:58.600 the Doc. 206 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:03.399 Okay, sorry, uh so not in my school district. Though 207 00:16:04.519 --> 00:16:09.159 our school district is more conservative. Our teachers are more 208 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:13.039 conservative our school district. You know, I know mister Johnson, 209 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:16.240 the science teacher, teaches biology, and he's a Christian, he's 210 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:18.519 a republic He voted for George W. 211 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:20.399 Bush when I was in high school. 212 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:25.159 And by gum by golly, he's not gonna what are 213 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:27.000 they gonna teach my kids? 214 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:29.039 That's so bad. 215 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:36.200 And I just want to remind you all that a 216 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:44.960 lot of the bad super liberal cultural stuff. That's especially 217 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:47.360 the stuff that's part of the sex aid curriculum, the 218 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:51.120 stuff where we are educ they are mandated by state 219 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:54.000 law to educate your kids about abortion as a method 220 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:57.440 of birth control, where kids can go for local resources 221 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:00.720 for abortion, what their rights are with regard to getting abortion, 222 00:17:00.840 --> 00:17:03.279 i e. Getting an abortion without you knowing about it? 223 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:08.319 Do I need to remind you? Within Fresdent Unified and 224 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:11.440 Clothes Unified, they have agreements with the Fresno Economic Opportunities 225 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:16.799 Commission which can take kids during the school day drive 226 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:20.200 them off of your nice, safe, pristine little Clothes Unified 227 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:24.039 campus to a family planning clinic in downtown Fresno where 228 00:17:24.079 --> 00:17:26.519 they can give your kid an IUD without you knowing, 229 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:30.480 Where they can give your kid the morning after pill 230 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:35.759 without you knowing, where they can give your kid birth control, 231 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:39.720 all kinds of stuff without you knowing, and even refer 232 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:42.279 your kid for an abortion without you knowing. 233 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:45.079 And a driver. Will it be a stranger you don't know. 234 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:50.480 Who's probably that didn't fingerprinted by Fresne Economic Opportunities Commission, 235 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:52.880 so maybe it's not totally dangerous, but still someone you 236 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.160 don't know, someone you didn't say yes, please drive my 237 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:59.240 daughter around. Please drive my fourteen year old around today 238 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:01.839 rather than have her or you know, go to class 239 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:05.480 at Clark Intermediate School or freshman year at close high 240 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:10.519 or whatever. Please drive my daughter around to get reproductive 241 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:14.519 health care without me knowing about it. Oh, she has 242 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:16.640 an STD and the school's just not gonna tell me 243 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:23.240 that is happening. Okay, that legally happens. And the sexad 244 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:25.720 stuff where we're telling your kids about their rights to 245 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:29.160 get abortions without your knowing. The sex ad stuff where 246 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:31.680 we're talking to kids about abortion as a method of 247 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:37.319 birth control, positively talking about it. In some school districts, 248 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:40.359 we're bringing planned parenthood in to teach. 249 00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:41.000 Your kids about this. 250 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:49.200 A lot of that is mandated by state law. State 251 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:58.640 law that applies Doc Buchanan's ghost or no. So here's 252 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:03.599 my one bit of practice advice. I understand the twenty 253 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:05.799 years ago, if your parents had pulled you out of 254 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:09.319 sex said, you would have been embarrassed. I understand that 255 00:19:09.440 --> 00:19:10.759 maybe twenty years ago you'd. 256 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:13.160 Be, oh, well, you know, the sex said. 257 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:16.880 Sex said is embarrassing, but it is not that bad, 258 00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:19.359 and you know, kids need to learn their biology. And 259 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:27.640 you look, No, the sex said today is much different 260 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:30.880 and much worse than the sex said when you were 261 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:32.400 in high school twenty years ago. 262 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:33.960 Thirty years ago. 263 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:39.920 It's much worse. It's much different. It is much more 264 00:19:40.079 --> 00:19:44.039 ideologically focused on making sure your kids can get abortions 265 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:47.400 without you knowing about it, get abortions without you knowing 266 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:50.359 about it, get contraception without you knowing about it, Try 267 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:52.599 to deal with an STD without you knowing about it. 268 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:59.759 California law wants to facilitate this. Why because California law 269 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:05.599 basically things that if your minor child is pregnant and 270 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:07.559 you don't want them to get an abortion, that you 271 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:13.200 are a monster, and that therefore they should almost step 272 00:20:13.240 --> 00:20:15.759 in to allow your kid to do this without you. 273 00:20:16.160 --> 00:20:17.799 They should step in to allow your kid to do 274 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:21.920 this without you, without your knowledge, without your consent, and 275 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:24.240 of course though with you having to pick up the 276 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:31.079 pieces after your kid makes that decision. So my advice 277 00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:38.279 to you parents is precisely this, just don't We've always 278 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:43.599 just sort of accepted this incredibly controversial notion that public 279 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:50.480 school teachers who are strangers to us, not someone you know, 280 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:53.559 not someone from your church, not someone who's whom you've 281 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:56.240 sort of vetted to see, do they really align with 282 00:20:56.279 --> 00:21:00.559 what I believe about marriage and sexuality, and that we 283 00:21:00.680 --> 00:21:06.240 outsource teaching our children about the core aspects of some 284 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:08.599 of the most important relationships they will ever have in 285 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:09.160 their lives. 286 00:21:09.559 --> 00:21:10.359 Sexuality. 287 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:16.839 We outsource that to strangers whose ethics we maybe just 288 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:20.839 don't share, and we never stop to think, why are 289 00:21:20.839 --> 00:21:27.400 we outsourcing this? Shouldn't parents control this completely. I've never 290 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:30.880 understood the wide societal acceptance of the idea, Oh. 291 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:34.480 Yeah, well, we let teachers teach our kids about marriage, 292 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:37.599 sex and intimacy. Now, some parents have their head screwed on, right, 293 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:40.759 and they say, well, no, I'm gonna I will form 294 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:44.839 my kids also, maybe they'll learn this in school, or 295 00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:48.559 we take the idea of well, Jimmy will be made 296 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:51.519 fun of if he's not in the sex ed class, 297 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:53.559 so I'll allow him to be in the sex head class. No, 298 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:58.079 you guys, you parents need to grow a spine and 299 00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:01.599 just say we're going to completely control what our kid 300 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:07.920 learns about sex, as far as what they are learning, 301 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:11.200 the context in which they aren't learning it, and the 302 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:19.799 ethics involved that surround this incredibly profoundly important aspect of relationship. 303 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:24.400 We are going to control this, not the school, not 304 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:27.720 some teacher whom we didn't vet for what they believe. 305 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:34.559 I genuinely just think it is One, unnecessary for you 306 00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:35.599 to have the school teach your. 307 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:36.119 Kids about this. 308 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:39.079 It's not like this is you know, It's not like 309 00:22:39.279 --> 00:22:42.160 the teachers have some access to numinus knowledge that you 310 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:45.279 could never possibly find. 311 00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:50.559 And two, they probably don't believe all. 312 00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:53.519 The same things you believe, and the state mandates them 313 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:55.880 to teach things that are obviously you know, if you 314 00:22:56.039 --> 00:22:58.319 like this show, the state is mandating that they teach 315 00:22:58.359 --> 00:23:02.200 things you don't believe. Also, you got to remember, you 316 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:05.359 gotta affirmatively opt your kid out. If you don't do anything, 317 00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:09.039 your kid is automatically opted in. You gotta affirmatively opt out. 318 00:23:09.079 --> 00:23:12.000 You might have to do something, send an email, make 319 00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:16.720 a phone call, do something to opt your kid out. 320 00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:23.799 And I really think you should. When we return the 321 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:27.799 bizarre biblical nature of the DNC next on The John 322 00:23:27.839 --> 00:23:32.559 Gardy Show, I've been kind of keeping half an eye 323 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:35.000 on the DNC. I mean, frankly, I'm watching about as 324 00:23:35.039 --> 00:23:37.599 much of it as I watched the RNC, which is 325 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:41.279 to say, not very much at all. I hate political 326 00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:45.640 speeches and political conventions. I hate speeches that get interrupted 327 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:49.839 by applause every two minutes, which make things really long. 328 00:23:50.519 --> 00:23:53.960 It was funny hearing after the fact that yesterday, I 329 00:23:53.960 --> 00:23:57.359 guess Joe Biden just got bumped and bumped and bumped 330 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:01.799 by prior speakers going long so much that he basically 331 00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:05.039 was talking like at you know, I think he started 332 00:24:06.200 --> 00:24:08.200 his address around eleven thirty at night. 333 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:11.319 In fact, my. 334 00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:14.440 Wife and I, my wife and I were sitting around 335 00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:18.480 watching TV and we we wanted to turn on anti 336 00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:21.839 This is what old what an old man I am, 337 00:24:21.920 --> 00:24:24.319 and what an old couple me and Holly are in 338 00:24:24.359 --> 00:24:27.640 spite of just being in our thirties. I was like, 339 00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:31.400 I'm just bored, let's just watch Antiques road Show. And 340 00:24:31.640 --> 00:24:34.039 so we turned on tried to. So we tried to 341 00:24:34.039 --> 00:24:37.119 turn on you know, PBS and into Antiques Roadshow. And 342 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:40.880 in our comcast thing it has, you know, the description 343 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:43.799 underneath like the channel guide thing, it says Antiques Roadshow. 344 00:24:43.960 --> 00:24:46.440 We turn it on and it was still broadcasting the DNC. 345 00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:49.680 So it says on the bottom of the screen Antiques 346 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:52.880 road Show. And look who's speaking at the DNC. None 347 00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:55.359 other than Joe Biden. So I've got this great picture 348 00:24:55.400 --> 00:24:58.440 on my TV that we took of the TV. It's saying, 349 00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:00.960 you know, Antiques road Show. All along the bottom, and 350 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:06.160 here's Joe Biden speaking a more perfect encapsulation of poor 351 00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:10.880 Joe's predicament you couldn't find. And basically, poor Joe was pushed. 352 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:14.000 They bumped the President of the United States at his 353 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:19.559 own parties, at his own party's convention. What was supposed 354 00:25:19.559 --> 00:25:21.640 to be this big love fest for Joe Biden, and 355 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:25.119 instead he's you know, pushed until after you know, most 356 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:29.720 of the East Coast has already gone to bed, probably 357 00:25:29.799 --> 00:25:30.640 much of Central Time. 358 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:36.920 Now I'm going to talk a little bit about. 359 00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:39.400 The DNC though, stuff that's around it, and maybe I'm 360 00:25:39.440 --> 00:25:44.799 just reading too much Old Testament history and I'm relating everything. 361 00:25:44.599 --> 00:25:50.000 I see to this. So the last several. 362 00:25:51.559 --> 00:25:57.880 Months, really since June, my kind of daily prayer routine 363 00:25:58.160 --> 00:26:03.279 is I use this book. It's basically like a Catholic 364 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:08.920 version of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Okay, so 365 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:10.880 the Book of Common Prayer is sort of the normative 366 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:18.200 sort of prayer and liturgical text for Episcopalians and Anglicans, 367 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:21.720 and there was this big group of Anglicans and Episcopalians 368 00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:25.160 who wanted to convert sort of wholesale into the Catholic Church, 369 00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:28.759 and so PO Benedict the sixteenth. Around two thousand and 370 00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:35.000 nine or twenty ten, I believe set up a structure 371 00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:40.480 for former Anglicans and other members of the Anglican Communion 372 00:26:40.519 --> 00:26:44.440 like Episcopalians, a structure for them to convert to Catholicism, 373 00:26:44.519 --> 00:26:47.960 but to bring with them some of their liturgical and 374 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:51.880 prayer traditions, many of which actually have their roots in 375 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:55.960 sort of pre Reformation English Catholicism. 376 00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:57.279 That sort of. 377 00:26:58.680 --> 00:27:03.359 Thomas Cranmer tookook and made into the Book of Common 378 00:27:03.400 --> 00:27:06.960 Prayer as he was devising it a lot of older 379 00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:13.480 Latin language Catholic prayer sources that he translated into English 380 00:27:13.480 --> 00:27:15.759 and adapted and made into the Book of Common Prayer. 381 00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:18.160 So that's my kind of daily prayer routine, and it 382 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:22.279 basically centers around morning prayer and evening prayer. And at 383 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:25.519 morning prayer and evening prayer, you pray a selection of 384 00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:30.359 the psalms, and then you have reading from the Old Testament, 385 00:27:31.039 --> 00:27:35.119 some biblical canticle or verse, a reading from the New Testament, 386 00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:37.359 and another biblical canticle. 387 00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:38.799 Hymn. 388 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:43.039 So every day I'm reading a big chunk of the 389 00:27:43.079 --> 00:27:45.599 Old I'm reading two big chunks of the Old Testament, 390 00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:47.480 and two big chunks of the New Testament every day, 391 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:54.440 about about a full chapter of the Old Testament, about 392 00:27:54.440 --> 00:27:56.279 two full chapters of the Old Testament, two full chapters 393 00:27:56.279 --> 00:28:01.319 of the New Testament, more or less. The last several months, 394 00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:05.160 I've been reading through selections of and according to the 395 00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:07.799 kind of the schedule that's laid out for this prayer book, 396 00:28:09.319 --> 00:28:15.319 I've been reading through First and Second Samuel and some 397 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:20.720 stuff from first and second Kings, and it goes through basically, 398 00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:24.960 I've read through the biblical history that's given for the 399 00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:30.079 kingdoms of Judah and Israel, so starting with King David, 400 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:33.599 David taking over the kingdom from starting with King Saul 401 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:36.839