1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpeteclendarshow dot com. Make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:33,719 your support. Last hour I finished up by talking about 10 00:00:33,719 --> 00:00:39,439 the impact of illegal immigration on education. So let's transition, 11 00:00:39,679 --> 00:00:45,719 shall we to education? We're up in Raleigh. A new 12 00:00:45,759 --> 00:00:50,039 bill has been filed, House Bill one n two the 13 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:55,439 Raise Teacher pay and dollar a lot I guess allotment study. 14 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:00,640 So a bill filed in the House look to raise 15 00:01:00,679 --> 00:01:08,120 teacher pay and bring back master's degree pay and establish 16 00:01:08,159 --> 00:01:12,840 a study of school funding. All right? This is according 17 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,519 to ap Dylan's piece at the North State Journal Online 18 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:21,040 n SJ online dot com. The primary sponsor is Representative 19 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:25,439 Aaron Pare from Wait County. She's a Republican, along with 20 00:01:25,519 --> 00:01:31,079 three other Republicans, Donnie Lambeth from Forsyth County, Mike sheets 21 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:35,640 Out from Wait County and Trisha Cotham from here in Mecklenburg. 22 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:42,680 The legislation would implement a new monthly salary schedule for 23 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,719 the twenty twenty five twenty twenty six fiscal year. So 24 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,239 it would so fiscal year would start in July, So 25 00:01:52,159 --> 00:01:54,640 I think this would apply to the next school year, 26 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:03,599 and it would start at teacher pay five grand per 27 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:08,360 month for ten months worth of work, so fifty thousand 28 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,599 dollars a year. It would raise teacher pay for beginning 29 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:19,879 teachers no experience, fifty thousand dollars a year for working 30 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:26,400 ten months. The current starting teacher salary right now, again 31 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:31,919 no experience, ten month work here forty one thousand dollars 32 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:36,800 per year, which is a pretty good salary for somebody 33 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:40,159 entering the workforce with no experience. I know people don't 34 00:02:40,159 --> 00:02:43,759 want to hear that, but that's true. Forty one thousand 35 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:48,280 dollars a year to enter the workforce starting pay forty 36 00:02:48,319 --> 00:02:51,840 one k. That's a pretty good deal. Plus you don't 37 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,000 work twelve months out of the year, right, you get 38 00:02:55,039 --> 00:03:01,199 your summers off. You also get health insurance, like it's 39 00:03:01,199 --> 00:03:04,919 a it's a pretty good deal. Right. They closed schools 40 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:07,919 down and stuff like yesterday they closed all the schools 41 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,520 because it was raining really hard and they were high winds. 42 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,840 You know, I I I came into work. Now, granted 43 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:22,639 I am essential personnel. Uh but and I'm not saying 44 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:28,080 this in order to denigrate or to attack teachers. I 45 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,840 have many family members who were teachers. I had a 46 00:03:30,879 --> 00:03:34,319 lot of very good teachers that helped me greatly in 47 00:03:34,599 --> 00:03:38,439 my uh in in my life. It's not it's not 48 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,960 about that. It's simply adding context, a little bit of 49 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:48,360 perspective that once again, you're asking people to fund, you know, 50 00:03:48,479 --> 00:03:51,919 this profession at a certain level. And I think it's 51 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:55,199 important to keep in mind that there are people that 52 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:00,560 have different jobs that pay maybe a little bit less. 53 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,680 They don't get those kinds of perks, right, And so 54 00:04:03,759 --> 00:04:07,560 you're trying to convince some of these people to agree 55 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:13,039 to pay you more with more perks, right. So you 56 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,560 just like try to keep that in mind. And also, 57 00:04:17,879 --> 00:04:21,040 there aren't any kind of lobbying outfits that are out there, 58 00:04:21,199 --> 00:04:26,240 you know, trying to get taxpayer dollars for like radio hosts. 59 00:04:26,759 --> 00:04:28,759 I don't have a lobbying from I don't have any 60 00:04:28,879 --> 00:04:33,199 kind of union that would help lobby lawmakers to increase 61 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:35,959 my pay or anything like that, right, and all I 62 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,519 say this the only reason I say this again, it's 63 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,600 not an attack. I'm simply, you know, pointing out that 64 00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:49,120 all jobs have pros and cons. They all do. There 65 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:53,120 are things about any job that you have, and a 66 00:04:53,199 --> 00:04:56,079 job at a particular place, like you could have a 67 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,920 great I could have a great job doing this radio 68 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,160 gig here at WBT, and if I were to work 69 00:05:02,199 --> 00:05:04,800 at some other station, I might have a terrible experience 70 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:08,639 there because the downside the cons at that place were. 71 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,879 You know, We're different and way more. Every single job 72 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:19,360 has pros and cons. Right. So, current starting teacher salary 73 00:05:19,399 --> 00:05:22,839 forty one thousand dollars, and remember there is a there 74 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:28,519 are automatic pay increases every single year for the first 75 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:32,000 fifteen years. I don't know if it's still a thousand. 76 00:05:32,199 --> 00:05:34,079 Used to be a minimum of one thousand dollars, and 77 00:05:34,079 --> 00:05:36,480 so it would. That was back when they first redid 78 00:05:36,519 --> 00:05:41,040 the teacher's salary schedule. The Republicans did, and they boosted 79 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,120 the starting teacher pay to thirty five k, and then 80 00:05:44,319 --> 00:05:47,560 it was one thousand dollars every year, minimum increase every 81 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,879 year for fifteen years. Now we get you to fifty 82 00:05:49,959 --> 00:05:54,600 thousand dollars in fifteen years, and that did not include 83 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,160 any kind of like cost of living adjustments or supplemental 84 00:05:57,199 --> 00:06:00,160 funding or at the county level, nothing like that. That's justus. 85 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,720 That was just state minimum. Okay, Now this bill would 86 00:06:04,759 --> 00:06:06,720 take it to fifty thousand dollars. So again, if you're 87 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,720 in Charlotte Mecklenberg, you get the local supplement. On top 88 00:06:10,759 --> 00:06:17,680 of this, the bill would also reinstate something that the 89 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:22,040 Republicans got rid of years ago, which was the extra 90 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:27,160 pay if you got National Board certification, if you had 91 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:32,120 a master's degree, right doctoral degree. And the argument was 92 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:36,240 always that, well, if you get all of these extra credentials, 93 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:41,720 you're a better teacher. That was the argument, and then 94 00:06:41,759 --> 00:06:44,879 there were studies that found out no, actually, there there 95 00:06:44,959 --> 00:06:48,959 is no difference when you look at student performance, like 96 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:52,720 you having a master's, a doctorate, and a certific a 97 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:56,319 National Board certification, like your kids are not actually learning 98 00:06:56,439 --> 00:06:59,519 any more than your colleague that doesn't have any of those. 99 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,519 So they strip that stuff away, and this has been 100 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:07,199 an ongoing fight for the last I don't know what 101 00:07:07,319 --> 00:07:09,879 ten years. I want to say they did this. So 102 00:07:09,959 --> 00:07:13,959 now this would reinstate these supplements, which, by the way, 103 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,639 once you reinstate this stuff, they don't ever probably go away. 104 00:07:18,079 --> 00:07:20,800 In fact, they will probably just grow. If Democrats, for example, 105 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,240 ever get in control, they will keep raising the percentages. 106 00:07:23,279 --> 00:07:27,319 So right now this bill is pegging National Board certification. 107 00:07:28,319 --> 00:07:31,560 You would get a twelve percent supplemental pay increase, so 108 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:35,800 that incentivizes teachers to go out and get the certifications, 109 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:43,800 which then you also have an incentive for local governments 110 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:49,000 to pay teachers to go get the certifications because once 111 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,040 you if you pay to send a teacher to get 112 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,800 the certification, they then get the state pay bump and 113 00:07:54,839 --> 00:07:57,199 then you don't have to give them as much supplemental 114 00:07:57,240 --> 00:07:59,800 local funding anymore. So it's a one time cost upfront. 115 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,600 But and you're done and the state has to pay more, 116 00:08:03,199 --> 00:08:05,639 right so you're shifting some of the pay structure back 117 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:08,079 up to Raleigh. So this is an attractive thing for 118 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:13,560 local governments to do. There would be a pay bump 119 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:19,680 supplemental so ten percent if you have a master's degree, 120 00:08:19,839 --> 00:08:24,439 and additional amounts for those with six year or doctoral degrees. 121 00:08:26,279 --> 00:08:29,959 House Bill one ninety two appropriates one point six billion 122 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:36,799 dollars in recurring funds to increase the teacher's salaries, and 123 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:43,480 eight million to reinstate the supplements, so for the certifications 124 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:47,039 and the advanced degrees and stuff, that's only eight million. 125 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,519 Taking everybody from forty one thousand up to fifty thousand 126 00:08:51,519 --> 00:08:56,200 costs one point six billion dollars. Additionally, every single year. 127 00:08:56,759 --> 00:08:59,679 The legislature's twenty twenty three budget deal included a seven 128 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:04,039 percent pay raise for state employees. Teachers non certified staff 129 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:08,159 had an average raise of seven percent. Starting teacher pay 130 00:09:08,279 --> 00:09:11,639 was then boosted to forty one k, which was an 131 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,600 eleven percent increase. According to Senate Republicans at that time, 132 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,639 the average teacher pay was supposed to increase up to 133 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:22,120 almost sixty one thousand dollars, which they said is on 134 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:29,320 par with the state median household income. So they want 135 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:33,559 they want the average teacher pay to be what the 136 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:39,799 median household income is. But you know what would really 137 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:45,240 help more DEI say, the teachers. 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All right, I have an email here from 159 00:10:51,159 --> 00:10:55,519 Tim to Pete at the peteclendarshow dot com North Carolina 160 00:10:55,519 --> 00:10:59,200 teacher pay increase. I think the teachers slash union are 161 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,080 one of the whiniest groups of people anywhere. If they 162 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,440 don't like it, go get a real job somewhere in 163 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:06,879 the private sector. But ninety nine point nine percent one 164 00:11:06,879 --> 00:11:11,639 all right, So hang on, tim, I do recognize that 165 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:19,120 like the loudest voices in the education industry is the unions, 166 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:24,120 and I agree they are very, very whiny. However, being 167 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:28,039 a teacher is a real job, so I would disagree 168 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:29,519 with your framing of it. You know, go get a 169 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,919 real job somewhere. A teacher is a real job. Those 170 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,399 are real jobs. They are difficult jobs. I've always said 171 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:42,039 that teachers good ones. It's more of an art. It 172 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,360 is because you have to be able to communicate to 173 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:49,600 a bunch of kids with you know, brains that haven't 174 00:11:49,639 --> 00:11:55,720 fully formed right, and you've got to try to teach 175 00:11:55,799 --> 00:12:00,879 them stuff in an environment that may not actually be 176 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,759 suitable for those kids. Like we're still using in a 177 00:12:03,799 --> 00:12:07,840 lot of these settings the same pedagogy or the model 178 00:12:07,879 --> 00:12:11,200 of teaching, the method of teaching, this pedagogy of you know, 179 00:12:11,519 --> 00:12:13,279 I stand in the front of a class and you 180 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,799 sit there with a bunch of twenty twenty five thirty 181 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,039 other students, and I just, you know, talk to you, 182 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,279 and then you write stuff down and then I test 183 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:24,000 you whatever, and you sit there for half an hour, 184 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,960 forty five minutes, whatever the case may be. Like that, 185 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,159 that model doesn't really work for a lot of kids. 186 00:12:31,159 --> 00:12:32,840 It did not work for me. I can tell you 187 00:12:32,879 --> 00:12:35,120 that That's why I was disruptive. I was so bored 188 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:39,120 in school and and I like, I look back now on, 189 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:41,600 I'm like, yeah, I was a pain because I would 190 00:12:41,639 --> 00:12:45,679 ask questions of the of the teacher about the material. 191 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:49,480 I would derailer not I mean, not purposefully, but I 192 00:12:49,519 --> 00:12:52,399 didn't understand, like, okay, well you're saying this, and why 193 00:12:52,799 --> 00:12:54,480 I'm a why guy? I was a white kid. I 194 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:56,919 wanted to know why I was also a wise guy. 195 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:01,720 But whatever, So I said before the break there that 196 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,159 what might help solve all of the or what might 197 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:10,320 help I should say with the teachers more DEI like, Pete, 198 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:13,720 what are you talking about? That's crazy? Well, look this 199 00:13:13,799 --> 00:13:17,440 is what the teachers say. At least according to this 200 00:13:17,519 --> 00:13:22,759 piece at the Charlotte Observer, morale among North Carolina's teachers. 201 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:27,720 So this is morale, right, is above the national average? 202 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:32,480 Wait what wait? How does that happen? I thought this 203 00:13:32,519 --> 00:13:36,360 state hated teachers. I thought that the General Assembly wanted 204 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:38,679 to fire all the teachers, wanted to run them all out. 205 00:13:38,759 --> 00:13:40,960 How do they have how do we have an above 206 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,279 average morale score? And it's in the positive. It's in 207 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:50,639 the positive, which means, like most of the teachers pretty 208 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:52,960 good morale, they're happy with their jobs. You would not 209 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:58,360 know this, right. Once again, media doesn't report on like 210 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:00,399 the teachers that oh, I had a really good day today. 211 00:14:01,279 --> 00:14:04,639 I usually have good days, and even the thrust of 212 00:14:04,639 --> 00:14:08,480 this story doesn't doesn't tell that story. Right. We are 213 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:13,039 plus eighteen sorry, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. We are plus 214 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,759 twenty two. So on a scale of negative one hundred, 215 00:14:16,799 --> 00:14:19,360 which means like, I guess you really hate your job, 216 00:14:19,399 --> 00:14:22,960 you have zero morale, like you call it sick all 217 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:25,879 the time. That negative one hundred to positive one hundred, 218 00:14:26,679 --> 00:14:29,519 and we are on the positive side of that. We're 219 00:14:29,559 --> 00:14:32,080 at twenty two plus twenty two from the zero point, 220 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,919 and the national average is eighteen plus eighteen, so we're 221 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:42,080 above the national average on morale. So why wouldn't you 222 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,120 go around and talk to teachers and ask them why 223 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,039 they have such high morale? Right? Because I know you 224 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,759 would do that story if we came out with low morale, 225 00:14:51,879 --> 00:14:55,399 if we were negative twenty two. I have no doubt 226 00:14:55,399 --> 00:14:58,600 in my mind that the stories would be told of 227 00:14:58,679 --> 00:15:02,559 the teachers who hate jobs because fill in the blank, right, 228 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:07,879 wouldn't that be the thrust of the story. As I've said, 229 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:11,639 in the old days, the kids standing on the street 230 00:15:11,639 --> 00:15:15,159 corner waving the newspapers around would not sell any papers 231 00:15:15,159 --> 00:15:18,919 by screaming absolutely nothing happened today, read all about it. 232 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,279 So there is there is a bias in media towards 233 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,480 telling this kind of a story, which is sort of 234 00:15:26,559 --> 00:15:31,039 a who's to blame? Things are terrible? Beware of the catastrophe, right, 235 00:15:31,639 --> 00:15:37,320 fear mongering, fear motivates. Media knows this, They've known it 236 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:41,120 for centuries, and when they made the printing press, they 237 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:46,960 were like, beware of the printing press. Education Week released 238 00:15:47,799 --> 00:15:51,639 its first state by state look at teacher morale. It 239 00:15:51,679 --> 00:15:54,159 gave North Carolina a rating of twenty two, compared to 240 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,480 the national average of plus eighteen. The new survey found 241 00:15:57,519 --> 00:16:00,399 North Carolina was among the states where the major of 242 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:07,039 teachers said embracing diversity would help improve their morale. That 243 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:11,399 is not true. I don't know how this story made 244 00:16:11,399 --> 00:16:17,759 it through editing, because that is not true. It's not 245 00:16:17,879 --> 00:16:23,399 a majority. In fact, a majority of the teachers said 246 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:33,120 increasing DEI would have no impact or would lower their morale. 247 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,799 The no impact number was almost as high as the 248 00:16:38,919 --> 00:16:43,080 number of those who said they wanted to see more DEI. 249 00:16:45,159 --> 00:16:50,639 Here are the numbers nationally. Forty three percent of respondents 250 00:16:50,919 --> 00:16:57,120 said embracing DEI would improve morale, forty one percent said 251 00:16:57,159 --> 00:17:02,000 it would have no impact, and sixteen percent said it 252 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:06,680 would decrease their morale. So it's a losing proposition because 253 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:10,640 that's fifty seven percent. Fifty seven percent said it would 254 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:13,640 have no impact or it would make things worse. That's 255 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:17,559 that's not a majority or the fifty seven percent of majority. Right, 256 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,960 we need more DEI. I know. Donald Trump said that 257 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,960 woke is dead during his don't call it a State 258 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,200 of the Union address the other night. It is not, folks, 259 00:17:29,759 --> 00:17:32,240 This crap is not. 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Republicans have been raising pay for teachers for well, 288 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:17,319 they took over in twenty eleven, so this would be 289 00:19:17,319 --> 00:19:19,119 fourteen years, and if they do this one, it'll be 290 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:23,039 fifteen years. They've been giving teacher pay raises. But the 291 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:27,000 standard operating procedure for the governor, Roy Cooper and now 292 00:19:27,039 --> 00:19:31,000 probably Josh Stein will be to demand more teacher pay raises, 293 00:19:31,039 --> 00:19:35,160 a higher raise, and then use that as an excuse 294 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:39,720 to veto the budget. Like Roy Cooper vetoed every single 295 00:19:39,759 --> 00:19:43,920 pay raise in every budget until the final one, so 296 00:19:45,839 --> 00:19:49,200 he was never attacked for that from the left right. 297 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:53,079 Everybody understood why he was doing it, because he wanted 298 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:58,400 a bigger pay raise. So you get nothing, right. It's 299 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:00,799 one of those double standards that that uh, you know, 300 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:08,839 Democrat privilege provides you. This is a tweet from Moral Compass. 301 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:11,480 Looking at the state teacher payscale, a teacher with the 302 00:20:11,519 --> 00:20:15,440 same twenty six years of experience as me earns more 303 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,039 than I do. I wonder how many others would be 304 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:23,960 surprised to find themselves in the same situation, right, Like, yeah, 305 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:28,759 and I get it. I mean, this is people are 306 00:20:28,799 --> 00:20:34,440 going to compare their own jobs to a you know, 307 00:20:34,839 --> 00:20:38,240 a government job, whether it's teachers or administrative or whatever. 308 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,160 It doesn't matter. When you know, the public pay scales 309 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,960 are known, and people are going to compare, and they're 310 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:47,559 going to say, well, wait a minute, I'm working, I 311 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,759 do all of this work and I get paid less. 312 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:53,720 And they're gonna say, you know, my job's harder, I 313 00:20:53,799 --> 00:20:55,680 work twelve months out of the year whatever like, and 314 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,160 they're going to do these comparisons. It's only natural to do. 315 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,960 So this is why I try to advise people in 316 00:21:01,039 --> 00:21:05,599 the education field that when you're, you know, advocating for 317 00:21:05,759 --> 00:21:09,079 more compensation, you have to keep in mind your audience. 318 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:14,920 It's not just those lawmakers, it's the taxpayers, right, and 319 00:21:16,519 --> 00:21:20,279 you know, maybe adjust your messaging to be a little less. 320 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:27,519 I don't know union so and honestly, when you see 321 00:21:27,519 --> 00:21:29,480 this sort of a story about how teachers are like 322 00:21:29,519 --> 00:21:32,960 we should have more DEI in classrooms like that doesn't 323 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,880 make me want to give you more money. It tells 324 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,359 me that you haven't learned anything. Tells me that you 325 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:42,160 want to keep making our kids hate each other and 326 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:48,720 their country. Now, the Senate leader Phil Berger, along with 327 00:21:48,839 --> 00:21:52,480 Senators Michael Lee out of New Hanover and brad Overcash 328 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,200 from Gaston have filed Senate Bill two two seven eliminating 329 00:21:56,279 --> 00:22:01,160 DEI in Public Education to prohibit promoting discs rminatory policies 330 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:08,319 and practices in public schools. I will give you the 331 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:15,000 the quick definition of DEI as at as is promoted 332 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:21,799 by James Lindsay from New Discourses. The DEI industry is 333 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:30,200 easy to understand. Equity is a rebranding of socialism. That's it. 334 00:22:31,039 --> 00:22:34,400 That's what that means. It's a rebrand on socialism. It's 335 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:39,680 an administered economy that makes outcomes equal. Diversity and inclusion 336 00:22:40,279 --> 00:22:44,839 are tools used to install political officers and to censor 337 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:51,759 and remove dissidents. Okay. In other words, DEI is a 338 00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:56,960 racket designed to install commissars for its ideology. Oh, come on, Pete, 339 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:01,079 that's crazy talk. It actually is not. He is exactly correct, right, 340 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:04,759 because the decisions about who gets what and how much, 341 00:23:05,279 --> 00:23:09,000 which is at the core of the DEI right, those 342 00:23:09,039 --> 00:23:13,480 would be administered by essentially the party. The party is 343 00:23:13,519 --> 00:23:17,319 the one that controls and in K twelve government education, 344 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:21,759 right is that the teachers' union, administrative state democrats. It's 345 00:23:21,799 --> 00:23:27,839 the left right. It's how you get leftists calling conservative 346 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:32,720 and Republican blacks or gays, they call them sellouts, or 347 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,640 they call them not authentic, right, because it's the ideology 348 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,839 that makes them an authentic member of their demographic group. 349 00:23:40,599 --> 00:23:45,240 That's what it's all about. Okay. Now, in this bill 350 00:23:45,319 --> 00:23:50,200 that seeks to remove divisive concepts and discriminatory practices from 351 00:23:50,279 --> 00:23:55,920 public education, including prohibiting instruction on these topics that I 352 00:23:56,039 --> 00:23:59,960 just mentioned devisive concepts discriminatory practice. Also, it prohibits compel 353 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:04,279 students or staff to profess a belief in divisive topics, 354 00:24:04,759 --> 00:24:10,680 and it attempts to ensure that professional development trainings and 355 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:15,839 stuff for the educators does not include these topics. Berger said, 356 00:24:16,079 --> 00:24:19,720 we cannot teach our nation's history without acknowledging our past, 357 00:24:20,319 --> 00:24:24,000 but we can teach history without forcing educators and students 358 00:24:24,079 --> 00:24:31,720 to embrace and adopt ideologies inconsistent with equality. Equality. It 359 00:24:31,759 --> 00:24:37,359 prohibits schools from having a DEI office or any other 360 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,519 similar unit. And you got to say that because the 361 00:24:41,599 --> 00:24:48,319 DEI folks have been rebranding. They've been renaming their offices 362 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:52,319 and their officers and their positions and such to strip 363 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,279 away the d the E and the I out of 364 00:24:55,319 --> 00:24:58,839 their titles and out of the department names in order 365 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:05,839 to mask the continuation of this ideology. And they get 366 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,759 very specific in this law. They get specific, which is 367 00:25:09,799 --> 00:25:15,240 important to do. They list a series of divisive concepts 368 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,240 that are prohibited. Here's a great idea. How about making 369 00:25:18,279 --> 00:25:21,319 an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in 370 00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:24,079 western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain 371 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,519 and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. 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Right Here's a tweet 391 00:26:31,279 --> 00:26:36,279 from Logic and common Sense on Popular Opinion. We have 392 00:26:36,319 --> 00:26:39,359 paid over seventy thousand dollars in Charlotte real estate taxes 393 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,240 since moving here in nineteen ninety eight. We homeschooled all 394 00:26:42,279 --> 00:26:45,839 four kids from birth through twelfth grade, received zero benefit 395 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:51,640 from CMS government schools, including my athletes not allowed to 396 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:57,799 participate in their sports, and they want more money. Yeah, yeah, nuts, 397 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,079 That's why I'm a voucher proponent for those exact types 398 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:06,920 of situations. Yeah. Just seems to me like if people 399 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,240 want to not partake in the in the K twelve 400 00:27:11,279 --> 00:27:13,519 government school model, they should be allowed to not partake 401 00:27:13,519 --> 00:27:17,759 in it, that's all. Anyway, that's my compromise position, by 402 00:27:17,799 --> 00:27:20,519 the way, because I recognize that most people would not 403 00:27:20,559 --> 00:27:23,160 want to go along with what I would recommend. So anyway, 404 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:28,519 from the legislation filed in the Senate, and again this 405 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,680 is yeah, Senate Bill two two seven eliminating DEI in 406 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:39,200 public education. They identify discriminatory practices as treating an individual differently, 407 00:27:39,279 --> 00:27:43,000 solely to advantage or disadvantage that individual as compared to 408 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:47,160 other individuals and groups. Okay, you cannot discriminate against people 409 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:53,279 based on their skin color, their sex, their ethnicity, whatever, 410 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,160 and that has occurred. This was actually the key component 411 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,279 of IBRAM x. Kendy that CMS brought in to teach 412 00:28:02,519 --> 00:28:07,960 teachers and administrators how to be anti racist. And Kendy's 413 00:28:08,039 --> 00:28:12,839 premise was that the way to address past discrimination is 414 00:28:13,279 --> 00:28:19,279 current discrimination. And so here's the state legislator saying, no, 415 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,400 it's not, and you can't do that. You cannot discriminate. 416 00:28:23,759 --> 00:28:29,000 You cannot exclude an individual from employment, exclude an individual 417 00:28:29,079 --> 00:28:33,079 from participation in an educational program or activity either. And 418 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:38,039 here are the divisive concepts okay that they outline as prohibited. 419 00:28:38,559 --> 00:28:42,160 These should not be controversial, but we live in very 420 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:47,720 stupid times, So they are divisive concept. One race or 421 00:28:47,839 --> 00:28:52,880 sex is inherently superior to another. Yeah, can't teach that, 422 00:28:54,119 --> 00:28:58,400 can't teach it. An individual solely by virtue of his 423 00:28:58,519 --> 00:29:02,039 or her race or sex is inherently racist or sexist 424 00:29:02,359 --> 00:29:07,640 or oppressive. An individual should be discriminated against or receive 425 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,880 adverse treatment solely or partly because of his or her 426 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:16,839 race or sex. Also prohibited under a divisive concept definition 427 00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:22,319 that an individual's moral character is necessarily determined by his 428 00:29:22,519 --> 00:29:25,519 or her race or sex. Right, you being a certain 429 00:29:25,559 --> 00:29:28,200 race doesn't make you good or bad. Right, your moral 430 00:29:28,279 --> 00:29:31,119 character is not defined by your race or sex. Again, 431 00:29:31,279 --> 00:29:33,279 this should be obvious. I thought we had learned this 432 00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:38,720 stuff decades ago, But apparently not. An individual solely by 433 00:29:38,799 --> 00:29:42,440 virtue of his or her race or sex bears responsibility 434 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,200 for actions committed in the past by other members of 435 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,680 that same race or sex. Kin' that's a divisive concept. 436 00:29:49,359 --> 00:29:52,039 It's also not true. You are not guilty of the 437 00:29:52,039 --> 00:29:56,599 sins of some generation that came before you. Any individual 438 00:29:56,759 --> 00:29:58,759 solely by virtue of his or her race or sex 439 00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:01,839 should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of 440 00:30:01,839 --> 00:30:08,759 psychological distress. Right. You can't put people under psychological distress 441 00:30:08,799 --> 00:30:14,279 solely based on their race or sex. Divisive concept A 442 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:19,240 meritocracy is inherently racist or sexist because it's not. It's 443 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:23,160 also false the United States was created by members of 444 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,880 a particular race or sex for the purpose of oppressing 445 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,960 members of another race or sex. That's not the purpose 446 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:36,240 of why America was founded. Particular character, traits, values, moral 447 00:30:36,319 --> 00:30:40,079 or ethical codes, and privileges or beliefs should be ascribed 448 00:30:40,119 --> 00:30:43,000 to a race or sex or to an individual because 449 00:30:43,279 --> 00:30:47,359 of their race or sex. Right, you can't ascribe things 450 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,000 to people and assume things about people. You can't teach 451 00:30:51,079 --> 00:30:54,559 these concepts that, oh, you know, that's how white people do. 452 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:59,799 Like No, because not all white people hashtag not all 453 00:30:59,799 --> 00:31:04,680 white people. The rule of law does not exist, but 454 00:31:04,759 --> 00:31:08,519 instead is a series of power relationships and struggles among 455 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:13,400 racial or other groups. That's Marxism, by the way, right there, right, 456 00:31:13,519 --> 00:31:18,400 power dynamics. All Americans are not created equal and are 457 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:22,319 not endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty, 458 00:31:22,319 --> 00:31:26,799 and the pursuit of happiness. And finally, the final divisive concept, 459 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:31,839 prohibited governments should deny to any person within the government's jurisdiction, 460 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:37,880 the equal protection of the law. Right, these are foundational concepts. 461 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:41,160 I have said this for years. These are the concepts. 462 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:46,720 These are the ideas that have held our society together. 463 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:52,880 We are not a nation founded on blood and soil. Right. 464 00:31:54,559 --> 00:32:02,880 What makes America America is the unifying concepts, these ideas. 465 00:32:03,559 --> 00:32:07,039 And when you strip those ideas away, then there isn't 466 00:32:07,079 --> 00:32:10,480 any longer any reason for us all to be bonded 467 00:32:10,519 --> 00:32:17,440 together in this endeavor. That's what makes us unique, that's 468 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:21,720 what makes us different. The law also says public school 469 00:32:21,799 --> 00:32:26,000 units shall not do any of the following, shall not 470 00:32:26,599 --> 00:32:34,720 engage in or advocate for discriminatory practices, shall not compel students, teachers, administrators, 471 00:32:34,799 --> 00:32:39,359 or other school employees to affirm or profess belief in 472 00:32:39,599 --> 00:32:45,160 divisive concepts. And it shall not provide instruction to students 473 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:50,480 on divisive concepts. Shall not be And then they say 474 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,440 that this law should not be construed to limit free speech. 475 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:59,480 You can access material on an individual basis, right, instruction 476 00:32:59,599 --> 00:33:03,799 on device of concepts like you can do that. Right. 477 00:33:05,119 --> 00:33:08,119 That make clear the public school unit does not sponsor approve, 478 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,400 or endorse any of them. So this is how you like, Hey, 479 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,720 let's teach about the history of the like the civil 480 00:33:13,799 --> 00:33:18,799 rights movement. You can talk about segregation, right, a divisive concept, 481 00:33:19,519 --> 00:33:21,839 as long as you're not saying, like, let's keep segregating, 482 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,960 like you can't promote it. You can teach about these 483 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,799 things that happened in our history. You can teach about 484 00:33:27,799 --> 00:33:30,039 the history of an ethnic group. You can have an 485 00:33:30,079 --> 00:33:34,240 impartial discussion of controversial aspects of history. You can have 486 00:33:34,279 --> 00:33:38,279 an impartial discussion of the historical oppression of a particular group. 487 00:33:38,319 --> 00:33:40,200 You can do all of that. You can talk about 488 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:45,960 historical documents, right. But you can't make people profess belief 489 00:33:46,039 --> 00:33:50,720 in certain things. Right. You cannot instruct them right. They're trying, 490 00:33:50,839 --> 00:33:52,839 Like I never thought we'd have to get to this 491 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,400 point where you would have to tell teachers precisely what 492 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:58,839 to say and not what and what not to say 493 00:33:58,839 --> 00:34:00,880 and what you know, don't do this to your kids. 494 00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:05,240 Don't make them do privileged walks, right. Don't teach kids 495 00:34:05,279 --> 00:34:10,880 that they are inherently guilty of some transgression that somebody 496 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,199 that they weren't even related to but happened to share 497 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:18,679 the same skin pigmentation as they did. You know, it 498 00:34:18,679 --> 00:34:23,440 doesn't matter. Like I've got like my family genealogy encompasses 499 00:34:23,519 --> 00:34:25,280 like all sorts of different groups of people. As far 500 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,519 as I know, no slave olders never had that one. 501 00:34:27,599 --> 00:34:32,880 So but had people fought for the union side, right people? 502 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,000 I think there were some residents down in the South 503 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,719 at some point there was a story about somebody being 504 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,119 pat on the head by sherman and they spared her farm. 505 00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:46,480 I don't know these are the stories. So yeah, Like, 506 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,480 I bear no responsibility for anything that any of those 507 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,440 people did, and the fact I have to say that 508 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:57,760 nowadays it's pretty sad. All right. That'll do it for 509 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:00,480 this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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