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Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of the Chicks on the Right podcast. Today,

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we're very excited to have with us Gino Young, who

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is a twenty nine year old black conservative author, an

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education whistleblower who spent a year teaching inside the public

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school system the classrooms of the Chicago Land area. And

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you saw a whole big bunch of drama that we

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want to get into. Plus you're a Prince fan, so

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you're like automatically BFFs with usward total.

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Speaker 2: But we know you've.

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Speaker 1: Seen some just unbelievable failures firsthand because you were compelled

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to write a book about that. So tell us some

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of the most egregious things you saw and that you

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talk about in your new book.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely well, just for starters, when I first started working

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in the public school system, I was working in the

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South suburbs of Chicago. So on our first day there,

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we saw that children were told that no one is

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capable of failure. They said that we don't give f's

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at the school. We get that nice, because no one

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at the school is capable of being a failure. And

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just from the jump street, that's just giving the children

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such a false impression on life. Because I don't care

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who you are, where you are on life' journey, you're

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gonna fail. And failure is good because it gives you

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time to reset the chest pieces and recalibrate. But they're

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given a very very false impression on life from the

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first day that they enter.

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Speaker 4: They're told that they can't fail.

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Speaker 3: And I just noticed this overall sense of apathy amongst

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many of the teachers and the administrators, and the teachers,

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many of them were frightened to even speak out. Like

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whenever they would tell me anything or any anytime I

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mentioned a story in my book, they would always speak

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in like a whisper or a whispy tone, And it's

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like they were afraid. The teachers were more afraid of

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the deans and the administrators than the students. Where the

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students will be out in the hallway high five and

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the deans playing with them and whatnot, and the teachers

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were afraid to speak out because they knew that there

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were repercussions if they did.

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Speaker 2: So that was probably is that because like if you say,

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nobody is like we can't fail anybody, is that because

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they get funding from the federal government. Is that why,

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like they don't want to sail is that why?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, So I'll just get into that. In

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the book, I break down the numbers. To send a

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child to school in the state of Illinois. It costs

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approximately twenty one thousand dollars just a standard child without

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any special education IEPs or anything like that. But if

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they reclassify the children as special education, that becomes forty

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one thousand dollars. So the district has found ways to

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game the system, and they understand that if they throw

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out too many children, they're going to be losing funding.

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Speaker 4: So they don't want to throw anyone out. They don't

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want to fail.

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Speaker 3: Anyone, and they will even go in there and change

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their grades if they're failing. If they have too many

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f's in that class, they will change their grades to

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make sure that they that they keep their ratings high.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, this.

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Speaker 4: Is absolutely okay.

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Speaker 1: So talk about some of the more ridiculous things that

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you actually saw that you were like, I can't even

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believe my eyes.

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Speaker 2: And also like what grade you were teaching and stuff

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like that, like give us a bit of specific.

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Speaker 4: So this was all high school.

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Speaker 3: So I taught a school called at Hillcrest High School

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in Country Club Hills, Illinois. So just so that you

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all know, Hillcrest High School is part of a broader district,

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the Bremen two to a public school district which includes

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Brimen High School, Oak Forest High School, which is their

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flagship high school, their highest highest function in high school,

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Tinley Park High School, and then Hillcrest, which is at

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the bottom of the barrel. Now, Hillcrest was about, I

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want to say, ninety eight percent black. So there was

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like maybe one lonely white kid running around and then

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maybe a few a few Hispanic children, but it was

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ninety eight percent black, and it was just, unfortunately, the

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lowest functioning school in the district. So I saw high

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school and I saw many things, but probably the most

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disturbing thing that I saw in the entire time that

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I worked there, I was sitting in the class one

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day and it was only a few kids there.

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Speaker 4: Most of the children were on a field trip.

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Speaker 3: So I was sitting in the class and I noticed

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that a boy and a girl were sitting a little

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bit too close, like uncomfortably too close, and I was

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wondering what was going on.

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Speaker 4: So then I started to see motion and.

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Speaker 3: I said, I said to myself, Okay, I know that's

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not what I think it is. So I get up

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from my desk and I go and pretend like I'm

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throwing something away.

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Speaker 4: So then they stop.

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Speaker 3: I don't see any more movement, so I sit down

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and then I look onto their desktop and I see

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these little faces on the screen like bratty bunch squares,

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like they were live streaming something on the internet.

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Speaker 4: And I look again.

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Speaker 3: The boy gets up from the girl's left, goes to

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her right, and I could clearly see the motion of

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her hand and not to get to graphic, but the

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girl was giving the boy a hand job in the

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middle of the classroom, no.

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Speaker 4: More event in front of you, in front of.

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Speaker 3: Me, no more than twenty feet away from me, and

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they were live streaming it over the internet, and my

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face was in the background.

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Speaker 4: So yes, I got up.

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Speaker 3: I freaked. I was living. I said, what are you doing?

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What do you think you're doing? Where the heck do

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you think you are? And I'll tell you what they did.

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They made sure that it was at the end of

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the class so the bell rang and I could even

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call for security. I couldn't call the deans. I was stuck.

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I mean, I froze. It was nothing I could do.

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So I write up my report. I go down to

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the Jean's office. I said to one of the administrators,

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I said, hey, you're not You're not gonna believe what

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happened in my classroom.

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Speaker 4: So I tell them everything.

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Speaker 3: They take my report, and I hear back from them

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maybe about half hour later. They called me down and

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it was two administrators in the room. Two dare I say,

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white liberal administrators in the room. And they tell me,

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you know, they asked me for my input. You know

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what did I see? I tell them verbatim that I

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saw girl give a boy a hand drop in my

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classroom with seven other students there that that that were

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acting like nothing was going on. And then the administration

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she says, she says to me, and she has like

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this Lucille ball look on our face.

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Speaker 4: She goes, oh, well, we've never had anything like that

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happened here before. And I.

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Speaker 3: Look at her, and then I look at the other

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jan He was just looking down because she was lying.

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Because the year prior they had they had a group

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of kids that went down in the basement and thought

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that it was a good idea to shoot a sex

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tape in the basement, and they tried to airdrop it

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to the entire school, but the administration and caught it

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before it could go out, So they tried to air

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drop sex tape the year prior. So, I mean, there

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was always just a myriad of sexual deviancy going on

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in these schools, and it's just a moral deficit. And

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I expose all of it and so much more in

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my book. But yeah, I'm sorry to get so graphic,

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but you all what I saw in these schools.

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Speaker 2: I just and the fact that like nobody's held accountable.

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That's been so crazy. It's bad enough these kids are

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you know, when it comes to just academics, I'm sure

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that the kids are way low. I mean, I know

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across across the country, just across our country, in comparison

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to other countries, we are sucking when it comes to academics.

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I mean it was. And then you we hear a

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story like this and I'm like, well, nobody's held accountable.

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Speaker 4: Well, no, nothing happened.

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Speaker 3: So their idea of I guess discipline was they decided

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to release the kids about a half hour before the

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school they ended, and then they ended up taking taking

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over show.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that show off right.

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Speaker 3: Then they took the girl out of the classroom and

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put her into another class. And unfortunately that same girl

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I had her in another class later on, maybe about

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a month later, and I guess some incident that happened

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between her and another girl because she came into the

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room and she just starts screaming at the girl, are

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you trying to f my man?

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Speaker 4: And the girl she just are you trying to f

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my man?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 3: This is the same girl that was giving the boy

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at the hand job a month prior. She comes in

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the room starting this rock is first through the door.

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I said, young lady, you got you have to take

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that out of here. I said, you can't, You can't

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do that in my classroom. She ignores me, acts like

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I'm not even talking. The other girl is so upset,

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and I guess embarrassed, she gets the flies out of

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the room. The girl goes down to the hallway starts

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beating her up in front of a group of kids.

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Kids start flying out of my room. Now they leave

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in my room, I'm trying to take attendance. They leave

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my room to go out and watch the fight in

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the hallway. I get up, slammed the door and the

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kids left the room. I say, don't you dare touch

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that door. I don't care who knocks on it. So

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then the girl's out there beating up the girl. They're

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live streaming her beating up the girl. And then she

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lifts up her shirt and flashes the entire hallway full

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of kids as if to say, yeah, this is mine

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and this is what you're trying to take from my man.

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So I now the storagets worse. I continue. I'm sorry,

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the storage is worse. I continue to take attendance. The

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next thing I know, I hear baman on the door,

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bam bam, bam, bam bam. I said, don't any of

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you students touch that door. Don't even think about touching

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that door. And then the next thing I know, I

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hear the door beat. It goes beat, beat, beat, because

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we had like these key fobs on the door, and

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I said, okay, how are they getting in this room.

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The next thing I know, all these kids come pouring

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into the room, dancing, and you know, happy that they

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were being allowed into the room. And I'm sitting there

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for the rest of the period, perplexed, wondering how they

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got into this room, and I said to myself, well,

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I already took attendance. I'm not going to change their attendants.

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They're all absent for the day. Long story short, at

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the end of the day, I ended up speaking to

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my supervisor and I learned that one of the deans

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let them into my classroom. He didn't say one word

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to me, didn't mark any of them absent, he just

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let The man was like, you take care of it,

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You deal with it, not my problem.

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Speaker 2: So this is this why you ended up leaving.

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Speaker 3: This is one of the one of the many reasons

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I ended up believing, but I ended up actually getting

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threatened by a student. Just a little background in the school.

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Two people have been killed at the school, like on

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the grounds on the grounds in the last three years.

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Both cases remain unsolved. They were both shootings. One was

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after a football game, one was right after a basketball game.

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So two people have been murdered. One was a student,

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one was a parent. And I was threatened by a girl.

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She said that she was going to get her grandfather

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come up to the school and f me up. And

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I went and I followed a police report and the

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district didn't like that, so they ended up they ended

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up telling me that they didn't want me to come back.

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So I was like, you know, fine, I'm not I

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don't need that anyway, and I just moved on.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, So what are you doing now?

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Speaker 3: Gaw, I'm a private the private percussion teacher, so I

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still teach music, but for ourselves, toute teaching.

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Speaker 4: I'm not doing that anymore. I don't want anything to

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Speaker 3: And you know, just academically speaking, this school was like

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percent math literacy, like maybe five or six percent English

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or reading proficiency.

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Speaker 3: A bottom feeding school, but you know, they just make

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it so much worse.

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it makes me sad because you're a good teacher. And like,

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this is what's happening, is we're running out good teachers

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because these schools are out of freaking control. So what

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Speaker 1: I mean, okay, I mean obviously the administrators are utter

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losers at the school, But like when you were pointing

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out these completely egregious things that were happening, did you

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ever get support and if it I mean, if these

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administrators were scared about funding or whatever was their union involvement,

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Speaker 2: Can there be conparents? Like?

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Speaker 1: Are parents concerned?

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Speaker 2: Can they sue? Like? What is going on?

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talk about the sort of parent parental dynamic in that school,

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many of the parents are completely just I guess they

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want their hands off. They're like, eight hours a day,

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this is my time. You know, don't call me. They

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get mad. Now, back in the day, if you call

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it a parent, you know, they come up to the

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school and deal with the child. Now it's like, how

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dare you call me during the day. This is my time,

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me during the day. So many of the parents have

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this this apathy and they just don't care. And then

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as far as accountability is concerned with the teachers or

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the administrators, rather they don't. They haven't done anything. They

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don't care. We unfortunately, as substitutes, we were we were

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on the front lines, but we didn't even have a union,

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so we had nothing even like supporting us. They would

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much rather get rid of me as a substitute for

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reprimanding a student in my class than to get rid

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of that student or put any any repercussions onto that student.

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I received a report from a teacher that I'm still

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friendly with that works in a district, one of the

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districts that I've worked with, And I call this the

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declaration of idiocy. The declaration of idiocy. And it's just

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given many policies that are going to be coming the

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school year, and I'll just go through some of them briefly.

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They want to reduce credits required to earn a diploma,

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reducing the required Yeah, reducing the required number of credits

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from twenty academic credits to sixteen credits, starting for the

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class of twenty twenty eight. So they're lowering the standards

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for the students. The elimination of the speech course requirement.

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valuable course that helps develop students communication and confidence, but

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they may remove it. So they say it's a valuable

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course and then the same sentence say they should they

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might remove it because it's making the kids uncomfortable. Now,

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you know, we all had to learn public speaking. I

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mean when I was twenty five. I don't know if

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you guys know this, but when I was twenty five,

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I ran for Congress, So you know I had to

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know public speaking here in Illinois. But they're taking that

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away from the children, which is a crucial skill. Then

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for the teachers, they're redefining permanent incapacity. The change would

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reduce the protection from ninety days after sick leave is

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exhausted to thirty days, threatening teacher job security. So they're

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putting stricter standards on the teachers for them to show up.

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But the kids miss ten days in a row, they're

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chronically absent, they don't do anything about it. And the

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final point is a reduced oversight on large purchases. Get this,

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the superintendent would no longer need Bard approval for purchases

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over five thousand dollars as long as they're within the budget.

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So now the superintendent they have unlimited spending with zero

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accountability to any boards. So overall, Lauren standards gutting oversight

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for administrators and tightening the grip on teachers. So parents

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at home watching, this is the deafinition. This is the

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death of education in America. This is plain and simple,

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the death of education in America.

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Speaker 4: In my hand.

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Speaker 2: And meanwhile, these kids can't read, they can't write, they

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can't do math. We're failing, like on the world scale.

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It's just it's And then you know, you got like unions,

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like Mock was talking about, unions are like, we need

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more money. And it's like, listen, and I don't want

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you to call out fellow teachers, but do you feel

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like a lot of the teachers that worked if you

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felt the same as you, or did you get resistance

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from it, like don't hey, you need to keep quiet,

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like don't talk about this out loud. Did you get

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a lot of resistance from people?

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Speaker 4: I did get summer resistance.

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Speaker 3: But most of the teachers that worked there honestly knew

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that there was a problem, but they were afraid to

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speak up, right, They were just they were just terrified

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to speak up. And the teachers unions in Chicago specifically

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don't make it easier on anyone. I mean, only eighteenth,

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only eighteen cents of every dollar earned by the Teachers Union.

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They made like forty one million dollars last year. Only

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eighteen cents of every dollar goes to the students and

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the rest of it goes to pet projects and politics. Right,

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and the CTU president on Stacy Davis Gates. I don't

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know if you all heard this, but last year she

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made probably one of the most insidious statements that a

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person can make.

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Speaker 4: She said that that the students, the.

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Speaker 3: Kids rather of Chicago, belong to all of us, not

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the parents.

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Speaker 4: They belong to all of us.

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Speaker 3: That she was quoting in James Baldwin, who's like this

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crazy militant socialist.

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Speaker 4: She said that the students belong to all of us.

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They're all our children. Yes, we see to you believe that.

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Speaker 3: And just from a spiritual perspective as a as a Christian,

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we know that that there is a parental hierarchy that

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comes from God, that your children are accountable to the parents,

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not the state, not the government. But there's a divine

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familiar hierarchy that your kids belong to you as a parent,

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not the government. So she's usurfing that completely, and it's

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saying that the government now is gonna step in and

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that we're in charge of your children. You all sit down,

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shut up, and don't say anything. And there was just

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such a demonic tendency to what she said. And we

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know that the Bible says that that we are not

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that we wrestled out with flesh and blood, but against

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principalities and rules of darkness and spiritual wilkerness in high places.

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Speaker 4: So you know that sort of parlays into that.

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Speaker 3: And when you look at it, whether it's whether it's

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it's the students, their morality, their sexuality, or anything else,

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they're all they're also a tether to the social experiment

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that's going on the sea to you, and it's spreading nationally.

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Speaker 2: And it's so self destructive.

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Speaker 1: That's what's incredible is that you know, it's obviously this

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whole system is doing a disservice to the kids, but

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it's doing a disservice to all of us because the

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kids are our future. Not you used in, but like

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this is, these are the future leaders, the future, whatever

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their profession, if they are if they actually get into

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something professional. I mean, these are the people that we're

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going to rely on to keep America this grand experiment going.

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And if we're not giving them the tools that they need.

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We're screwing ourselves. Yea, what is just so crazy to

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me that this kind of stuff is happening?

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Speaker 2: It really is. So where do you see education going

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from here? Like, I know you've written, we've written this book,

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you're buying the whistle on all this stuff, I think,

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and it's fantastic. We love what you're doing. Do you

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know it's great? Because you know, we try to talk

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about education as much as we can, but we don't

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talk about it nearly enough, and so people like you

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are just so crucial to this. You know, I have

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a child that's still in public high school, and she's

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in a pretty good school, but she still comes from

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and she'll say stuff like, hey, you know, there are

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people that are in my class that will get a

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failing grade and they get to make it up. And

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I'm like, why why do they get to do that?

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Like when I was in school, I didn't get to

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do that, Like if you failed, you failed. So there

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are still, even in good schools you see like this this.

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It is, like you say, it's very like incitious stuff

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happening where we're dumbing everything down. Even if it's a

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good school, they're dumbing stuff down. They're doing things that

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are in fact sabotaging these kids. They're sabotaging all of us.

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They're sabotaging America. So what do you see as like

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the next steps in education? What would you like to see?

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Speaker 3: Honestly, and this was one of the hardest things I

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tell but when I was wrapping up the book, you know,

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where do we go from here? Honestly, and I know

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everyone can do this, but if you can, I would

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just say, at this point, the education system is broken,

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and it's irreparably broken. If you can pull your children

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out of the school and homeschool, like, if you have

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that mechanism or that time on your hands, I would

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just say do it. Because this isn't a Chicago thing.

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This isn't a black thing, a white thing. This is everywhere.

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It is ubiquitous, it's in every district. I don't care

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how you know how good your school is, all your

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school is, but maybe one administration change, one principle change

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away from destruction. And I think that's something that a

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lot of parents have to grapple with and understand that

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that's the bleak reality. So my thing is one thing

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I advocate for is homeschooling if you can. But if

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you can't, watch every single thing that your children are doing,

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go up there. There's I believe it's called the PPR,

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the Pupil Protection Rights Amendment, that says that the schools cannot,

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withhelp would hold curriculum from you. So if if you

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go up there, maybe going in groups. I'm understanding people

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can be intimidated. They don't want to go alone. Go

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in a group, Go get you some strong men to

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go with you. Demand to see the curriculum. They cannot

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withhold it from you. And I would say, ask your

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children every day when they come home, what did you

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see at school?

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Speaker 4: What were you told? Are they discussing politics?

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Speaker 3: How are they you know, the teachers discussing these social

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or even sexual agendas? Are they pushing them on you?

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Do you feel uncomfortable? Are you seeing boys in your

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locker room? These are you know? So parents have to

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be proactive because unfortunately, no one's going to ride in

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on a white horse to save any of your children.

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Speaker 4: You have to be You are your child's last Beshold.

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Speaker 2: Amen, amen.

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Speaker 1: So I know you've got a lot of information packed

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into this book of your into this book of yours.

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Where can people look it up? Find more information about you?

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Speaker 4: Follow you? Yes, absolutely so. You can find this book

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on Amazon.

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Speaker 3: It's called Sex, Drugs and a Literacy The Death of

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Education and America Bigeno Young. You can find on Amazon,

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book Baby, Barnes, Andannoble dot com really wherever books are

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so old. Also, you can find me on Facebook at

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Geno for Chicago.

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Speaker 4: That's g e n O the number four Chicago.

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Speaker 3: You can find me on Instagram at official Geno Young

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or on x at Geno g e n O the

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number four America.

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Speaker 2: Okay, are you gonna run? Do you think for office again?

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Speaker 4: I might run for office again. I did have a

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good time when I ran.

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Speaker 3: I met a lot of good people messing you know,

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not so not so great people as well.

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Speaker 2: By hello polite.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so I mess some good people. I was young,

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twenty five. I was actually the youngest federal candidate in

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the state of Illinois, won the youngest candidates on the

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ballot nationwide. I got almost twenty percent of the Republican

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primary vote first time around, completely self funded, unfunded, really

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grassroots to the teeth, but I did it, and I

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was you know, I'm really proud of the work that

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I did.

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Speaker 2: I guess you would love to see you. Yeah, we

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really would because we need good people and it would

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be really wonderful if you did it again. So don't

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give up on that. Oh yeah, thank you for being

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with us. We appreciate it. Yeah, great to meet.

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Speaker 3: Thank you also much and God bless and thank you

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for the work that you all do as well against

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all the negative influences that are destroying the conservative movement.

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Speaker 4: I thank you all for being a voice in the wilderness.

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Speaker 2: So thank you, thank you, thank you. Appreciate that