WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:03.759 It's interesting how the psychology of the left is that 2 00:00:03.799 --> 00:00:09.800 they're still the ones who are rebelling against older conservative parents. 3 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:13.039 They're still the ones who are in the position of rebellion. 4 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:18.480 There's still the ones who are the put upon little guy, 5 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:26.000 and they continue to carry this attitude into times when 6 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:30.239 they are in fact the ones in charge, when they 7 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:34.880 are the ones culturally dominant, and then when someone criticizes them. 8 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:37.439 When they get into the position of cultural dominance, they 9 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:42.119 don't see their own youthful rebellions in the people who 10 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:47.719 oppose them. They want to crush any resistance with as 11 00:00:47.799 --> 00:00:52.439 much authoritarianism as their parents tried to crush their authoritarianism. 12 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:58.359 A lot of liberalism can be explained as continual continuing 13 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:02.719 the rebellion against your conservatives parents. There's this piece in 14 00:01:02.799 --> 00:01:09.319 GV wire that is somewhat infuriating in that light. The 15 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:14.000 problem is not stuff anyone in public schools is doing. 16 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:20.319 It's the fact that you noticed conflict over race LGBTQ 17 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:24.719 issues cost schools more than three billion dollars last year. 18 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:30.840 Conflicts between parents, teachers, and school leaders over parental rights 19 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:39.000 policies focusing on LGBTQ plus students. I notice the identity. 20 00:01:39.400 --> 00:01:41.799 This is a this is a big thing. Hey, for 21 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:50.079 all you young parents out there, little childhood psychology tip, stop 22 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:56.719 assigning static labels to the human beings who, more than 23 00:01:56.760 --> 00:01:59.079 any other group of human beings, are in a state 24 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:06.159 of wild change, development and fluctuation aka children whose brains 25 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:09.439 are exploding at a rate far surpassing anything that you're 26 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:15.080 going to achieve when you're an adult LGBTQ plus students, 27 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:19.520 we're talking about twelve year olds. You don't think some 28 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:22.639 stuff might shift around in there so that that label 29 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:26.719 might not necessarily be helpful to give a child a 30 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:29.960 static identity that this is no, this is the kind of. 31 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:30.520 Person you are. 32 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:33.360 By the way, you can you can apply this to 33 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:39.120 far less critical questions, things that are far more innocuous, 34 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:42.159 like you're when you're eleven year old says to you, 35 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:44.960 I'm just not good at math. I'm just not someone 36 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:49.520 who's good at math. Don't know, don't put that identity 37 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:53.240 on yourself. You're having a hard time with math right now. 38 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:58.280 Let's fix it. Let's work on it. You're not bad 39 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:02.520 at math. You're struggling a little bit right now. Let's 40 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:06.639 work on it. Get those times tables out, let's go 41 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:14.520 work the problem anyway. Conflicts between parents, teachers, and school 42 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:18.520 leaders over parental rights policies focusing on LGBTQ plus students, 43 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:20.879 limitations on teaching about race and racism. 44 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:23.680 They're what limitations. 45 00:03:23.599 --> 00:03:25.560 And book bans. 46 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:27.199 Book bands. 47 00:03:28.919 --> 00:03:32.840 When liberals say book bans, what they mean are parents 48 00:03:32.919 --> 00:03:39.159 complaining about books that are obviously inappropriate for children, asking 49 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:43.360 that they be banned, asking that they not be shelved 50 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:47.919 in a public schools library. That's what we're talking about, 51 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:53.560 or utilized as part of the public school curriculum, have 52 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:57.280 come with a cost, both socially and financially. So this 53 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:01.199 is written by this woman, Diana Lambert, for some publication 54 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:06.759 called ed Source, which is obviously the whole tone of 55 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:10.319 it is obviously showing her. The whole framing of this 56 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:12.639 issue is obviously showing a huge bias. This is a 57 00:04:12.719 --> 00:04:16.160 huge bias in favor of lgbt stuff, in favor of 58 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:17.879 the party line among. 59 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:22.439 The NIA teachers' unions, et. 60 00:04:22.399 --> 00:04:28.319 Cetera, that we want to teach super left wing ideology 61 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:30.680 when it comes to race, We want to teach super 62 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.240 left wing ideology when it comes to sex and sexuality. 63 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:41.680 We want to be able to keep from parents a 64 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:44.199 child's gender transition if they don't want the parent to 65 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:47.959 know about it, and we want you not to complain 66 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:50.439 about it. That's the real tone, that's the real message 67 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:50.920 of this piece. 68 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:51.639 Let's keep going. 69 00:04:52.439 --> 00:04:55.839 The conflicts i e. Parents getting mad about this stuff 70 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:59.560 are disrupting school districts, negatively impacting schools and classrooms, and 71 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:02.800 costing district's money that could be used to better pay 72 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:09.839 off teachers, i mean better serve students. According to quote 73 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:13.519 the Costs of Conflict, the fiscal impact of culturally divisive 74 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:16.920 conflicts on public schools in the United States are report 75 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:21.639 released last month put together by researchers from UCLA, University 76 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:26.879 of Texas at Austin American University, and UC Riverside. These 77 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:29.600 universities conducted a national survey of k through twelve public 78 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:33.040 school superintendents from forty six states, four hundred and sixty 79 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:36.000 seven superintendents in all, and found that these conflicts are 80 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:38.600 prevalent since the twenty twenty twenty twenty one school year. 81 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:46.120 Uncivil discourse parents being upset and getting a little over 82 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:50.560 the top of a school board meeting, and hostile political 83 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:57.000 rhetoric OOH at school board meetings and on school campuses 84 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:02.480 has been an ongoing problem. Hostile political rhetoric at school 85 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:06.600 board meetings. Forgive me, how are most school board members 86 00:06:07.800 --> 00:06:09.079 picked in this country? 87 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:16.759 Oh, they're elected, so ergo. 88 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:22.120 The power they wield is a kind of political power. 89 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:24.399 Oh okay, Yeah. 90 00:06:24.199 --> 00:06:27.839 So when people are talking to them at a school 91 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:30.720 board meeting, they are talking to a politician. 92 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:32.920 So the kind of. 93 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:39.160 Rhetoric they use could very well be political rhetoric. 94 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:41.240 Hmm. 95 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:45.399 Two thirds of the school superintendent surveyed for the studies 96 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:49.480 said they have experienced moderate to high levels of culturally 97 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:52.560 divisive conflict in their district. Well, once it goes from 98 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:54.759 moderate to high, they. 99 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:57.360 How are we measuring this? 100 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:03.279 Superintendent surveyed for the studies said they have experienced moderate 101 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:08.160 to high levels of culturally divisive conflict in their districts, 102 00:07:08.199 --> 00:07:13.360 including misinformation campaigns. Who is defining this as a misinformation campaign? 103 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:16.560 Does this mean a campaign that is accurate but that 104 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.199 you don't like, Because that's very often what liberals mean 105 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:22.519 when they say misinformation. They mean information that may very 106 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:33.879 well be true. Misinformation campaigns, violent rhetoric, okay, and threats. 107 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:38.360 Cultural conflicts cost us school districts. About three point two 108 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:43.600 billion dollars last school year, according to the study. Now 109 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:46.319 you may be thinking, wait a minute, Okay, I can 110 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:50.519 understand superintendents having, you know, a burr in their butt 111 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:54.600 about parents complaining about stuff. Okay, I get that. I 112 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:59.600 understand that they'll be upset. How is it costing school 113 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:09.879 district money? Also, three point two billion dollars spread over 114 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:18.439 how many school districts are there in America? Okay, there's Gazille, 115 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:21.279 all right. How many school districts are there all over America? 116 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:26.720 And for context, let's remember Fresnoe Unified just this year 117 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:31.600 is getting a five hundred million dollar bond. Okay that 118 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:34.279 we just voted on Measure H to get Fresne Unified 119 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:36.639 a five hundred million dollar bond just for Fresno Unified 120 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:43.240 School district located in Fresno, California. So forgive me for 121 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:48.679 noticing that three point two billion dollars spread across every 122 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:51.679 school district in the United States of America is kind 123 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:55.720 of a drop in the bucket relatively speaking, But it 124 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:57.759 sounds like, obviously it's more money than I'm ever going 125 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:01.600 to see. People are supposed to read this and think 126 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:08.080 that's impressive. But how are they even calculating that parents 127 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:13.960 being angry over LGBT stuff, or parents being angry over 128 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:18.559 critical race theory stuff. How are we calculating that that 129 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:19.559 has a cost? 130 00:09:19.720 --> 00:09:22.240 You may ask, let us continue. 131 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:28.080 Researchers estimate that districts with high levels of conflict spent 132 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:34.159 about eighty dollars per student. Okay, well, they're already spending 133 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:37.120 like twenty thousand dollars per student in California, so I 134 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:40.679 can't say that I'm crying over eighty dollars per student. 135 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:45.200 Districts with modern moderate levels of conflict spend fifty dollars 136 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:48.159 per student, with districts with low conflict spend twenty five 137 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:51.399 dollars per student. Which, again, how we're coming up with 138 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:55.519 these numbers. We'll see this is first we just take 139 00:09:55.559 --> 00:09:58.440 that as a given. This is costing US general fund 140 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:01.720 dollars set a superintendent from a mid size school district 141 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:03.879 in a western state in the twenty twenty three twenty 142 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:06.399 twenty four school year, the district spent an additional one 143 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:09.960 hundred thousand dollars on security, hiring armed playing clothes off 144 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:13.600 duty officers because people coming to the board meetings are unpredictable. 145 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:20.200 And sometimes violent, such a grotti. 146 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.000 Assari tour gratti snigatu or moment. 147 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:26.960 Okay, gratis assi to a grotti snigata is this fun 148 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:31.320 little Latin phrase. If you're just asserting something freely with 149 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:34.559 no evidence, I can deny it freely with no evidence. 150 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:42.519 What school district was having, like police arrestable violent threats 151 00:10:42.559 --> 00:10:49.440 being made, we probably would have heard of it. That 152 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:53.559 just wasn't happening, that police were arresting people who were 153 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:58.519 making threats in school board meetings. Look, I remember at 154 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:03.559 the Bakersfield City Counts there was a protester who made 155 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:11.320 an actual threat. She didn't realize just how serious her 156 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:13.639 conduct was. She made an actual threat. She was arrested 157 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:19.679 right there. If that was actually happening in school board meetings, 158 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:22.519 I don't know. Okay, so you need more security at 159 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:24.480 school board meetings because you have a ton of parents 160 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:29.200 who are all really upset. Okay, I'm very sorry that 161 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:33.759 you had to spend a little more on that. Maybe 162 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:41.399 parents should be more polite. But allow me to retort. 163 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:48.120 If someone on a street corner showed my kid a 164 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:50.600 picture from one of the books that these public schools 165 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:55.000 liked to use for like to stock in their libraries 166 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:57.519 for sex related stuff, sex ed related stuff, et cetera. 167 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:01.279 Some of these books that are by that, you know what, 168 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:03.080 we dealt with this issue here in Fresno, with the 169 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:07.360 whole Presne County Libraries controversy. Steve Brandau's I think heroic 170 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:11.679 efforts to do something about it. Some of the books 171 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:13.720 that are in the Presne County libraries that are clearly 172 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:18.919 designed to be for public school districts. If some random 173 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:21.000 guy on a street corners tried to show a picture 174 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:22.919 of that to my kid, I would knock that guy's 175 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:27.840 lights out, Like, yeah, you need to physically restrain me. 176 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:34.399 Maybe it's because what public educators think is good is 177 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:38.000 so radically out of step with people, and so radically 178 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:40.799 out of step in leading their children whom they love 179 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:47.480 astray that it makes people pretty darn angry. So yeah, 180 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:50.320 maybe if you need that much security, maybe it's a 181 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:57.240 reflection of you on what you are teaching and doing, 182 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:05.840 rather than some rising of parents being awful. So they're 183 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:13.559 saying it's because of security, but what they really say 184 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:18.240 it's because of superintendent turnover. That's really what it. Finally, 185 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:22.360 when you boil it down, what they're saying is superintendents 186 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:28.399 are quitting and other school personnel are quitting because parents 187 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:30.279 are so upset all the time, and it's stressing these 188 00:13:30.279 --> 00:13:32.960 people out and they say, I want another job. That's 189 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:41.720 actually what's happening here. Which if that's the case, good good. 190 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:50.399 I hope people feel uncomfortable when they propose, like pornographic 191 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:54.480 material to be shown to twelve year olds in a 192 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:59.120 seventh grade health sex ed class. I want people to 193 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:02.840 feel uncomfortable if they allow that, I want them to quit. 194 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:08.759 I want them to be afraid of not physical violence, 195 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:16.480 but be afraid stressed out about parents being really freaking furious. 196 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:21.000 They should be that way, because it's horrible. It's evil. 197 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:24.279 It is diabolical. And I'm using that not in the 198 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:30.879 I mean it is involving the diaboloose, involving the devil 199 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:35.200 that I literally mean. It is diabolical to show kids 200 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:41.799 this kind of stuff. I think it is diabolical for 201 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:47.080 a kid confused about his gender to keep that issue 202 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:51.799 from parents, to play this elaborate shell game in which 203 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:56.120 three thousand people at Clovis High School are going to 204 00:14:56.159 --> 00:15:01.720 call this biological boy. She call Michelle instead of Michael. 205 00:15:04.279 --> 00:15:07.200 This student will come out to three thousand people at 206 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:09.720 clubs high school, but we don't tell the parents about it. 207 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:19.320 I want superintendents to feel really stressed out about that. 208 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:23.519 I want them to be subject to extreme anger from 209 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:26.639 parents at school board meetings. I'm not saying anyone should 210 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:28.720 burn anyone's house down. I'm not saying anyone should beat 211 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:35.080 anyone up, but this woe is me act from school 212 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:41.679 officials like you're especially from school board members. You're elected 213 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:46.679 by the people. Deal with it like that. It comes 214 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:51.919 with the territory. People are gonna disagree with you really strongly. 215 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:54.679 If that's too much heat for you, get out of 216 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:57.759 the kitchen. We'll talk about this more after the break. 217 00:15:57.799 --> 00:15:59.759 This is the John Girardi Show here on Power Talk. 218 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:06.120 Reading this piece in GV Wire, originally published by It's 219 00:16:06.120 --> 00:16:10.200 called ed Source kind of an education based publication written 220 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:18.600 by Diana Lambert about the costs of culturally divisive issues 221 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:22.440 within public school districts LGBT stuff, racial stuff, et cetera. 222 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:29.399 That the idea, the whole tone of it being pretty straightforward. 223 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:36.720 It's bad that parents are angry and objecting to the 224 00:16:36.799 --> 00:16:43.879 extreme liberal ideology that public schools are promoting. It's the 225 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:50.840 parent's fault for being upset. Parents should shut up and 226 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:56.679 let school districts teach what they want to teach. That's it. 227 00:16:59.159 --> 00:16:59.240 Like. 228 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:02.799 And the study they put together to show this is 229 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:08.240 the biggest shambolic nonsense ever saying, oh, culturally divisive issues 230 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:12.559 are costing three point two billion dollars to public universities. Okay, 231 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:15.119 three point two billion dollars spread over every k through 232 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:18.440 twelve school district in America. It's not a lot of money, 233 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:20.279 all right, in the grand scheme of things, It's really 234 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:26.519 not a lot of money. Secondly, the biggest costs they 235 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:34.559 identify is turnover. That superintendents are upset and that there's turnover, 236 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:38.279 and the costs associated with people quitting, which good. I 237 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:41.519 hope people quit. I hope people feel uncomfortable when they 238 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:44.440 try to show pornography to twelve year olds and call 239 00:17:44.480 --> 00:17:47.799 it sex. I hope they feel uncomfortable. I hope they 240 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:50.160 want to quit because parents are so flipp and outraged. 241 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:59.240 And this piece starts bellyaching and whining about the mental 242 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:04.160 health status of school superintendents. The relentless demands of leading 243 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:08.160 a school district can easily overshadow their own well being, which, 244 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:11.160 if neglected, not only affects their personal health, but also 245 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:14.079 the health and stability of students, educators, and the families 246 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:17.240 they served, said Rachel S. White of the University of 247 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:19.960 Texas at Austin in a statement. Reducing the extent to 248 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:25.079 which superintendents experience warranted divisiveness is an important step to 249 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:28.640 change the trajectory of increasing superintendent sure by the way, 250 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:32.200 the increase over the last four years, which, by the way, 251 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:34.440 do you think there was something other than culturally divisive 252 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:37.039 issues that may be caused more stress for superintendents over 253 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:43.960 the last four years? Obviously COVID the increase was two 254 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:48.279 point nine percent fourteen point two percent turnover to seventeen 255 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:51.240 point one percent turnover for K through twelve public school 256 00:18:51.240 --> 00:18:56.200 district superintendents. That's not that big of an increase. The 257 00:18:56.759 --> 00:19:00.400 probably margin of error there is such that it's not 258 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:04.480 even I don't know, the turnover doesn't seem that much higher. 259 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:10.160 And also, let me, you're the superintendent of a school district. 260 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:13.720 You're getting paid a lot of money, you have a 261 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:17.359 big job. Yeah, you're gonna be stressed out. Put your 262 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:19.920 big point, put your big boy pants on, put your 263 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:23.519 big girl pants on and do the freaking job. Don't 264 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:25.880 belly ach to me about oh my mental health state. 265 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:31.200 Then quit, Then quit, get a different job. Sorry. When 266 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:37.039 you're managing an entity with a budget of at least 267 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:39.720 tens of millions of dollars, I guess I'm not sure. 268 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:43.839 I'm not sure what the what framework I'm looking at 269 00:19:43.920 --> 00:19:47.680 here for a mid size school districts annual budget, I'd 270 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:50.039 have to look up, like what's Resident Unified's budget? I 271 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:52.319 know they got five hundred million dollars in one shot 272 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:58.119 from a school bond measure. You're managing hundreds of millions 273 00:19:58.119 --> 00:20:03.039 of dollars. You're managing dreds and hundreds and hundreds of personnel. 274 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:05.440 You're you're managing multiple schools. Yeah, you're going to be 275 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:11.039 stressed out. That's what the money is for. Okay, you 276 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:18.440 get paid a lot to be overseeing all this stuff. Sorry, 277 00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:23.720 you're appointed by politically accountable, a politically accountable board of 278 00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:27.200 directors whom they need to hear it from voters. So, yeah, 279 00:20:27.240 --> 00:20:31.559 you're going to be stressed out. Superintendents who were surveyed 280 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:36.480 expressed concern that the time they spend managing cultural conflict 281 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:40.200 include and this is all this is a great line 282 00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:46.480 including responding to Freedom of Information Act requests and unsubstantiated 283 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:53.039 rumors and misinformation is keeping them from focusing on improving instruction. Oh, 284 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:59.319 those damn pesky freedom of information requests. So what this 285 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:04.200 is for those who are maybe scratching their heads here? 286 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:10.279 Foyer the Freedom of Information Act was this piece of 287 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:13.400 federal legislation that basically says, hey, government should be transparent 288 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:17.079 if something isn't like classified or sensitive material, the public 289 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:19.920 has a right to know. Public has the right to 290 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:22.720 know about communications between federal employees. 291 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:23.279 It has a right to know. 292 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:26.799 About blah blah blah blah. And so people can file 293 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:31.400 a Freedom of Information Act request, a Foyer request for 294 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:35.759 information about Hey, we're personnel within the Department of Transportation 295 00:21:35.960 --> 00:21:38.440 discussing blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. So if 296 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:40.759 you're a federal employee, you need to, you know, send 297 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:42.839 your emails carefully because they could be the subject of 298 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:48.240 a Foyer request. Similarly, state governments have mandated similar things 299 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:53.119 for state institutions, patterned off of the federal FOYA law. 300 00:21:54.119 --> 00:21:57.920 So school districts are subject to this. I've done this 301 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:02.160 with President Unified globes unified, and I've said, hey, can 302 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:05.400 you show me I'd like to submit a public records 303 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:08.559 request for I want to see what information you have 304 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:10.960 about bump up Bah bah bah. 305 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:11.720 They give it to me. 306 00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:14.680 I've done this with the City of Fresno. I said, hey, 307 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:17.359 I'd like information about this grant, this pass through grant 308 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:20.400 that the city is giving to Planned parenthood, got information 309 00:22:20.440 --> 00:22:24.640 about it, talked about it on the radio, so that 310 00:22:24.759 --> 00:22:26.440 they're bellyaching about the fact that they have to be 311 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:30.680 transparent to the public. You're a public official, and this 312 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:31.200 is the. 313 00:22:31.519 --> 00:22:32.640 This is the longest short of it. 314 00:22:34.240 --> 00:22:38.400 Your whole job is spending the public's money, and you 315 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:43.960 complain about the public. Your whole job is receiving the 316 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:49.000 public's money, and you complain about being accountable to the public. 317 00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:56.160 Just this culture. 318 00:22:56.079 --> 00:23:00.039 Attitude among educators. 319 00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:04.480 That they are that they should just be immune to 320 00:23:04.519 --> 00:23:09.319 criticism from parents who don't like them, that they are experts, 321 00:23:10.039 --> 00:23:15.279 and therefore, how dare you criticize their curriculum decisions, their 322 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:21.200 pedagogy decisions. How dare you criticize what they think about race, 323 00:23:21.319 --> 00:23:27.000 what they think the highly disputed philosophical ideas they have 324 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:31.279 about human nature, as if because they got to teaching 325 00:23:31.319 --> 00:23:34.160 credential that they're somehow an expert on whether a boy 326 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:36.119 can become a girl or a girl can become a boy. 327 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:39.400 You need to shut up. And the fact that you 328 00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:44.079 make me stressed out about it. It's actually you're You're 329 00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:46.960 the one at fault here, not me, for trying to 330 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:52.599 show your kid pornography and calling it sex head. That's 331 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:55.000 the attitude of so much of the education establishment in 332 00:23:55.039 --> 00:24:01.640 this country. And at the very least the federal government 333 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:08.079 needs to cut off money. State at least red state 334 00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:11.559 governments need to cut off money. They got to resort 335 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:16.440 the whole thing. And God help us in California when 336 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:18.880 we return the news about jay Z and how me 337 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:22.680 too missed some obvious targets. Next on The John Gardy Show, 338 00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:28.799 I remember when the story about p Diddy came out. 339 00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:33.559 For those who don't by the way, for I want 340 00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:36.839 any of you boomers listening to this to hang in 341 00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:39.200 there with me, all right, Just hang in there with me. 342 00:24:39.359 --> 00:24:43.680 I'm gonna be mentioning a story involving rappers whom you 343 00:24:43.720 --> 00:24:46.839 probably don't care about. Those of you who don't care 344 00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:50.440 about rap also will probably not care about these people. 345 00:24:50.839 --> 00:24:56.079 They have stupid stage names. I'm going to talk about them, 346 00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:58.880 but it's gonna be interesting, Okay, So hang in there 347 00:24:58.920 --> 00:25:02.480 with me. I'll bring it around, Okay, I gotta explain 348 00:25:02.519 --> 00:25:07.240 it first, all right. A couple of months ago, Sean Combs, 349 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:13.680 who has gone by various rap stage names over the years, 350 00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:24.039 Puff Daddy p Diddy, was arrested in connection to sex trafficking, 351 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:29.960 being charged of sex trafficking. Word came out about these 352 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:36.440 notorious parties that Shawn Combs would host at his home 353 00:25:37.559 --> 00:25:42.279 in I think it was in New York, which were 354 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:49.079 just basically orgies. I think that's a fair characterization of them. 355 00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:53.599 Of what these parties were. They were orgies, and that 356 00:25:55.960 --> 00:26:01.440 basically there were the women were being trafficked for these parties. 357 00:26:01.559 --> 00:26:03.799 Also that he was engaged in all kinds of same. 358 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:08.359 Sex sexual activity. He turns out he was an enormous deviant. 359 00:26:09.240 --> 00:26:12.759 When the Feds went into his home to arrest him, 360 00:26:13.039 --> 00:26:18.200 they found like thousands of bottles of baby oil. Not 361 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:21.720 sure what all that's about. Sounds pretty gross whatever it is. 362 00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:28.160 Now for context, Sean Combs is like a gazillionaire and 363 00:26:28.599 --> 00:26:33.119 was a titan of the hip hop music industry. Especially 364 00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:37.160 sort of the New York based sort of region of 365 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:42.519 hip hop, if you will, has been for decades, for 366 00:26:42.759 --> 00:26:48.720 about thirty years. I'd say he was a big time producer. 367 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:52.640 He did a bunch of songs himself. He dated Jennifer Lopez, 368 00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:57.119 he was hosting these huge parties at all these celebrities 369 00:26:57.160 --> 00:27:03.720 would go to. Another person in the New York hip 370 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:10.440 hop scene is Sean Carter, who goes by the stage 371 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:13.839 name jay Z. You may have heard of jay Z 372 00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:19.160 because of his coziness with the Obamas. Jay Z is 373 00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:27.200 married to Beyonce Knowles, who's a very popular R and 374 00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:33.759 B singer, pop singer, and jay Z was himself a 375 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:43.319 very popular rapper. There's now been accusations that jay Z 376 00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:54.440 and p Diddy, that Sean Carter and Sean Combs raped 377 00:27:54.759 --> 00:27:57.640 a thirteen year old girl in the year two thousand. 378 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:06.000 Now Jay Z has released a public statement about this. 379 00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:16.400 It looks as though he was denying this charge. I 380 00:28:16.440 --> 00:28:19.839 want to talk about this though in light of. 381 00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:22.519 The Me too movement. 382 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:29.079 Now, the idea behind the Me Too movement was that 383 00:28:29.119 --> 00:28:31.599 there are a lot more women who have suffered some 384 00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:35.599 form of sexual harassment or sexual assault than we would 385 00:28:35.640 --> 00:28:37.799 imagine and the idea of being me too. 386 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:39.160 I also was a. 387 00:28:39.160 --> 00:28:43.200 Victim of an act of sexual assault, and whether that's 388 00:28:43.680 --> 00:28:51.240 an actual act of rape to some slightly lesser form 389 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:54.279 of sexual assault to just sexual harassment. I think one 390 00:28:54.279 --> 00:29:00.799 of the criticisms people have made about the me too 391 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:03.839 movement is sort of this conflating of you know, what 392 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:06.079 Harvey Weinstein was doing on the one hand, which was 393 00:29:06.119 --> 00:29:07.599 like actually. 394 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:08.519 Raping people. 395 00:29:09.799 --> 00:29:13.160 All the way to on the other end of the spectrum, 396 00:29:13.799 --> 00:29:18.720 you know, making a you know, slightly over the line 397 00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:23.680 comment to someone. Obviously, making an over the line sexually 398 00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:27.839 laced comment to someone is inappropriate and bad. I'm not 399 00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:31.480 defending it, but it's you know, ten miles different from 400 00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:37.119 raping someone. And the thing that I was always so 401 00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:42.920