Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of the Chicks on the Right podcast. Today,
we're very excited to have with us Gino Young, who
is a twenty nine year old black conservative author, an
education whistleblower who spent a year teaching inside the public
school system the classrooms of the Chicago Land area. And
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Speaker 2: But we know you've.
Speaker 1: Seen some just unbelievable failures firsthand because you were compelled
to write a book about that. So tell us some
of the most egregious things you saw and that you
talk about in your new book.
Speaker 3: Absolutely well, just for starters, when I first started working
in the public school system, I was working in the
South suburbs of Chicago. So on our first day there,
we saw that children were told that no one is
capable of failure. They said that we don't give f's
at the school. We get that nice, because no one
at the school is capable of being a failure. And
just from the jump street, that's just giving the children
such a false impression on life. Because I don't care
who you are, where you are on life' journey, you're
gonna fail. And failure is good because it gives you
time to reset the chest pieces and recalibrate. But they're
given a very very false impression on life from the
first day that they enter.
Speaker 4: They're told that they can't fail.
Speaker 3: And I just noticed this overall sense of apathy amongst
many of the teachers and the administrators, and the teachers,
many of them were frightened to even speak out. Like
whenever they would tell me anything or any anytime I
mentioned a story in my book, they would always speak
in like a whisper or a whispy tone, And it's
like they were afraid. The teachers were more afraid of
the deans and the administrators than the students. Where the
students will be out in the hallway high five and
the deans playing with them and whatnot, and the teachers
were afraid to speak out because they knew that there
were repercussions if they did.
Speaker 2: So that was probably is that because like if you say,
nobody is like we can't fail anybody, is that because
they get funding from the federal government. Is that why,
like they don't want to sail is that why?
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, So I'll just get into that. In
the book, I break down the numbers. To send a
child to school in the state of Illinois. It costs
approximately twenty one thousand dollars just a standard child without
any special education IEPs or anything like that. But if
they reclassify the children as special education, that becomes forty
one thousand dollars. So the district has found ways to
game the system, and they understand that if they throw
out too many children, they're going to be losing funding.
Speaker 4: So they don't want to throw anyone out. They don't
want to fail.
Speaker 3: Anyone, and they will even go in there and change
their grades if they're failing. If they have too many
f's in that class, they will change their grades to
make sure that they that they keep their ratings high.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, this.
Speaker 4: Is absolutely okay.
Speaker 1: So talk about some of the more ridiculous things that
you actually saw that you were like, I can't even
believe my eyes.
Speaker 2: And also like what grade you were teaching and stuff
like that, like give us a bit of specific.
Speaker 4: So this was all high school.
Speaker 3: So I taught a school called at Hillcrest High School
in Country Club Hills, Illinois. So just so that you
all know, Hillcrest High School is part of a broader district,
the Bremen two to a public school district which includes
Brimen High School, Oak Forest High School, which is their
flagship high school, their highest highest function in high school,
Tinley Park High School, and then Hillcrest, which is at
the bottom of the barrel. Now, Hillcrest was about, I
want to say, ninety eight percent black. So there was
like maybe one lonely white kid running around and then
maybe a few a few Hispanic children, but it was
ninety eight percent black, and it was just, unfortunately, the
lowest functioning school in the district. So I saw high
school and I saw many things, but probably the most
disturbing thing that I saw in the entire time that
I worked there, I was sitting in the class one
day and it was only a few kids there.
Speaker 4: Most of the children were on a field trip.
Speaker 3: So I was sitting in the class and I noticed
that a boy and a girl were sitting a little
bit too close, like uncomfortably too close, and I was
wondering what was going on.
Speaker 4: So then I started to see motion and.
Speaker 3: I said, I said to myself, Okay, I know that's
not what I think it is. So I get up
from my desk and I go and pretend like I'm
throwing something away.
Speaker 4: So then they stop.
Speaker 3: I don't see any more movement, so I sit down
and then I look onto their desktop and I see
these little faces on the screen like bratty bunch squares,
like they were live streaming something on the internet.
Speaker 4: And I look again.
Speaker 3: The boy gets up from the girl's left, goes to
her right, and I could clearly see the motion of
her hand and not to get to graphic, but the
girl was giving the boy a hand job in the
middle of the classroom, no.
Speaker 4: More event in front of you, in front of.
Speaker 3: Me, no more than twenty feet away from me, and
they were live streaming it over the internet, and my
face was in the background.
Speaker 4: So yes, I got up.
Speaker 3: I freaked. I was living. I said, what are you doing?
What do you think you're doing? Where the heck do
you think you are? And I'll tell you what they did.
They made sure that it was at the end of
the class so the bell rang and I could even
call for security. I couldn't call the deans. I was stuck.
I mean, I froze. It was nothing I could do.
So I write up my report. I go down to
the Jean's office. I said to one of the administrators,
I said, hey, you're not You're not gonna believe what
happened in my classroom.
Speaker 4: So I tell them everything.
Speaker 3: They take my report, and I hear back from them
maybe about half hour later. They called me down and
it was two administrators in the room. Two dare I say,
white liberal administrators in the room. And they tell me,
you know, they asked me for my input. You know
what did I see? I tell them verbatim that I
saw girl give a boy a hand drop in my
classroom with seven other students there that that that were
acting like nothing was going on. And then the administration
she says, she says to me, and she has like
this Lucille ball look on our face.
Speaker 4: She goes, oh, well, we've never had anything like that
happened here before. And I.
Speaker 3: Look at her, and then I look at the other
jan He was just looking down because she was lying.
Because the year prior they had they had a group
of kids that went down in the basement and thought
that it was a good idea to shoot a sex
tape in the basement, and they tried to airdrop it
to the entire school, but the administration and caught it
before it could go out, So they tried to air
drop sex tape the year prior. So, I mean, there
was always just a myriad of sexual deviancy going on
in these schools, and it's just a moral deficit. And
I expose all of it and so much more in
my book. But yeah, I'm sorry to get so graphic,
but you all what I saw in these schools.
Speaker 2: I just and the fact that like nobody's held accountable.
That's been so crazy. It's bad enough these kids are
you know, when it comes to just academics, I'm sure
that the kids are way low. I mean, I know
across across the country, just across our country, in comparison
to other countries, we are sucking when it comes to academics.
I mean it was. And then you we hear a
story like this and I'm like, well, nobody's held accountable.
Nothing happens.
Speaker 4: Well, no, nothing happened.
Speaker 3: So their idea of I guess discipline was they decided
to release the kids about a half hour before the
school they ended, and then they ended up taking taking
over show.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that show off right.
Speaker 3: Then they took the girl out of the classroom and
put her into another class. And unfortunately that same girl
I had her in another class later on, maybe about
a month later, and I guess some incident that happened
between her and another girl because she came into the
room and she just starts screaming at the girl, are
you trying to f my man?
Speaker 4: And the girl she just are you trying to f
my man?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: This is the same girl that was giving the boy
at the hand job a month prior. She comes in
the room starting this rock is first through the door.
I said, young lady, you got you have to take
that out of here. I said, you can't, You can't
do that in my classroom. She ignores me, acts like
I'm not even talking. The other girl is so upset,
and I guess embarrassed, she gets the flies out of
the room. The girl goes down to the hallway starts
beating her up in front of a group of kids.
Kids start flying out of my room. Now they leave
in my room, I'm trying to take attendance. They leave
my room to go out and watch the fight in
the hallway. I get up, slammed the door and the
kids left the room. I say, don't you dare touch
that door. I don't care who knocks on it. So
then the girl's out there beating up the girl. They're
live streaming her beating up the girl. And then she
lifts up her shirt and flashes the entire hallway full
of kids as if to say, yeah, this is mine
and this is what you're trying to take from my man.
So I now the storagets worse. I continue. I'm sorry,
the storage is worse. I continue to take attendance. The
next thing I know, I hear baman on the door,
bam bam, bam, bam bam. I said, don't any of
you students touch that door. Don't even think about touching
that door. And then the next thing I know, I
hear the door beat. It goes beat, beat, beat, because
we had like these key fobs on the door, and
I said, okay, how are they getting in this room.
The next thing I know, all these kids come pouring
into the room, dancing, and you know, happy that they
were being allowed into the room. And I'm sitting there
for the rest of the period, perplexed, wondering how they
got into this room, and I said to myself, well,
I already took attendance. I'm not going to change their attendants.
They're all absent for the day. Long story short, at
the end of the day, I ended up speaking to
my supervisor and I learned that one of the deans
let them into my classroom. He didn't say one word
to me, didn't mark any of them absent, he just
let The man was like, you take care of it,
You deal with it, not my problem.
Speaker 2: So this is this why you ended up leaving.
Speaker 3: This is one of the one of the many reasons
I ended up believing, but I ended up actually getting
threatened by a student. Just a little background in the school.
Two people have been killed at the school, like on
the grounds on the grounds in the last three years.
Both cases remain unsolved. They were both shootings. One was
after a football game, one was right after a basketball game.
So two people have been murdered. One was a student,
one was a parent. And I was threatened by a girl.
She said that she was going to get her grandfather
come up to the school and f me up. And
I went and I followed a police report and the
district didn't like that, so they ended up they ended
up telling me that they didn't want me to come back.
So I was like, you know, fine, I'm not I
don't need that anyway, and I just moved on.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, So what are you doing now?
Speaker 3: Gaw, I'm a private the private percussion teacher, so I
still teach music, but for ourselves, toute teaching.
Speaker 4: I'm not doing that anymore. I don't want anything to
do with that.
Speaker 3: And you know, just academically speaking, this school was like
the lowest one in the Tone and Pole only four
percent math literacy, like maybe five or six percent English
or reading proficiency.
Speaker 4: So there already were they already were.
Speaker 3: A bottom feeding school, but you know, they just make
it so much worse.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad to hear that you're still teaching, because
it makes me sad because you're a good teacher. And like,
this is what's happening, is we're running out good teachers
because these schools are out of freaking control. So what
what happened?
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, I mean obviously the administrators are utter
losers at the school, But like when you were pointing
out these completely egregious things that were happening, did you
ever get support and if it I mean, if these
administrators were scared about funding or whatever was their union involvement,
Like do they still has there still been no accountability?
Speaker 2: Can there be conparents? Like?
Speaker 1: Are parents concerned?
Speaker 2: Can they sue? Like? What is going on?
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 3: From the brief interactions that I've had with teachers that
talk about the sort of parent parental dynamic in that school,
many of the parents are completely just I guess they
want their hands off. They're like, eight hours a day,
this is my time. You know, don't call me. They
get mad. Now, back in the day, if you call
it a parent, you know, they come up to the
school and deal with the child. Now it's like, how
dare you call me during the day. This is my time,
This is my babysitter. Essentially, you're my babysitter. Don't call
me during the day. So many of the parents have
this this apathy and they just don't care. And then
as far as accountability is concerned with the teachers or
the administrators, rather they don't. They haven't done anything. They
don't care. We unfortunately, as substitutes, we were we were
on the front lines, but we didn't even have a union,
so we had nothing even like supporting us. They would
much rather get rid of me as a substitute for
reprimanding a student in my class than to get rid
of that student or put any any repercussions onto that student.
So it's the entire education ecosystem is turned on its head.
And actually, I'm going to break some news on your show.
I received a report from a teacher that I'm still
friendly with that works in a district, one of the
districts that I've worked with, And I call this the
declaration of idiocy. The declaration of idiocy. And it's just
given many policies that are going to be coming the
school year, and I'll just go through some of them briefly.
They want to reduce credits required to earn a diploma,
reducing the required Yeah, reducing the required number of credits
from twenty academic credits to sixteen credits, starting for the
class of twenty twenty eight. So they're lowering the standards
for the students. The elimination of the speech course requirement.
Now they go on to say that speech is a
valuable course that helps develop students communication and confidence, but
they may remove it. So they say it's a valuable
course and then the same sentence say they should they
might remove it because it's making the kids uncomfortable. Now,
you know, we all had to learn public speaking. I
mean when I was twenty five. I don't know if
you guys know this, but when I was twenty five,
I ran for Congress, So you know I had to
know public speaking here in Illinois. But they're taking that
away from the children, which is a crucial skill. Then
for the teachers, they're redefining permanent incapacity. The change would
reduce the protection from ninety days after sick leave is
exhausted to thirty days, threatening teacher job security. So they're
putting stricter standards on the teachers for them to show up.
But the kids miss ten days in a row, they're
chronically absent, they don't do anything about it. And the
final point is a reduced oversight on large purchases. Get this,
the superintendent would no longer need Bard approval for purchases
over five thousand dollars as long as they're within the budget.
So now the superintendent they have unlimited spending with zero
accountability to any boards. So overall, Lauren standards gutting oversight
for administrators and tightening the grip on teachers. So parents
at home watching, this is the deafinition. This is the
death of education in America. This is plain and simple,
the death of education in America.
Speaker 4: In my hand.
Speaker 2: And meanwhile, these kids can't read, they can't write, they
can't do math. We're failing, like on the world scale.
It's just it's And then you know, you got like unions,
like Mock was talking about, unions are like, we need
more money. And it's like, listen, and I don't want
you to call out fellow teachers, but do you feel
like a lot of the teachers that worked if you
felt the same as you, or did you get resistance
from it, like don't hey, you need to keep quiet,
like don't talk about this out loud. Did you get
a lot of resistance from people?
Speaker 4: I did get summer resistance.
Speaker 3: But most of the teachers that worked there honestly knew
that there was a problem, but they were afraid to
speak up, right, They were just they were just terrified
to speak up. And the teachers unions in Chicago specifically
don't make it easier on anyone. I mean, only eighteenth,
only eighteen cents of every dollar earned by the Teachers Union.
They made like forty one million dollars last year. Only
eighteen cents of every dollar goes to the students and
the rest of it goes to pet projects and politics. Right,
and the CTU president on Stacy Davis Gates. I don't
know if you all heard this, but last year she
made probably one of the most insidious statements that a
person can make.
Speaker 4: She said that that the students, the.
Speaker 3: Kids rather of Chicago, belong to all of us, not
the parents.
Speaker 4: They belong to all of us.
Speaker 3: That she was quoting in James Baldwin, who's like this
crazy militant socialist.
Speaker 4: She said that the students belong to all of us.
They're all our children. Yes, we see to you believe that.
Speaker 3: And just from a spiritual perspective as a as a Christian,
we know that that there is a parental hierarchy that
comes from God, that your children are accountable to the parents,
not the state, not the government. But there's a divine
familiar hierarchy that your kids belong to you as a parent,
not the government. So she's usurfing that completely, and it's
saying that the government now is gonna step in and
that we're in charge of your children. You all sit down,
shut up, and don't say anything. And there was just
such a demonic tendency to what she said. And we
know that the Bible says that that we are not
that we wrestled out with flesh and blood, but against
principalities and rules of darkness and spiritual wilkerness in high places.
Speaker 4: So you know that sort of parlays into that.
Speaker 3: And when you look at it, whether it's whether it's
it's the students, their morality, their sexuality, or anything else,
they're all they're also a tether to the social experiment
that's going on the sea to you, and it's spreading nationally.
Speaker 2: And it's so self destructive.
Speaker 1: That's what's incredible is that you know, it's obviously this
whole system is doing a disservice to the kids, but
it's doing a disservice to all of us because the
kids are our future. Not you used in, but like
this is, these are the future leaders, the future, whatever
their profession, if they are if they actually get into
something professional. I mean, these are the people that we're
going to rely on to keep America this grand experiment going.
And if we're not giving them the tools that they need.
We're screwing ourselves. Yea, what is just so crazy to
me that this kind of stuff is happening?
Speaker 2: It really is. So where do you see education going
from here? Like, I know you've written, we've written this book,
you're buying the whistle on all this stuff, I think,
and it's fantastic. We love what you're doing. Do you
know it's great? Because you know, we try to talk
about education as much as we can, but we don't
talk about it nearly enough, and so people like you
are just so crucial to this. You know, I have
a child that's still in public high school, and she's
in a pretty good school, but she still comes from
and she'll say stuff like, hey, you know, there are
people that are in my class that will get a
failing grade and they get to make it up. And
I'm like, why why do they get to do that?
Like when I was in school, I didn't get to
do that, Like if you failed, you failed. So there
are still, even in good schools you see like this this.
It is, like you say, it's very like incitious stuff
happening where we're dumbing everything down. Even if it's a
good school, they're dumbing stuff down. They're doing things that
are in fact sabotaging these kids. They're sabotaging all of us.
They're sabotaging America. So what do you see as like
the next steps in education? What would you like to see?
Speaker 3: Honestly, and this was one of the hardest things I
tell but when I was wrapping up the book, you know,
where do we go from here? Honestly, and I know
everyone can do this, but if you can, I would
just say, at this point, the education system is broken,
and it's irreparably broken. If you can pull your children
out of the school and homeschool, like, if you have
that mechanism or that time on your hands, I would
just say do it. Because this isn't a Chicago thing.
This isn't a black thing, a white thing. This is everywhere.
It is ubiquitous, it's in every district. I don't care
how you know how good your school is, all your
school is, but maybe one administration change, one principle change
away from destruction. And I think that's something that a
lot of parents have to grapple with and understand that
that's the bleak reality. So my thing is one thing
I advocate for is homeschooling if you can. But if
you can't, watch every single thing that your children are doing,
go up there. There's I believe it's called the PPR,
the Pupil Protection Rights Amendment, that says that the schools cannot,
withhelp would hold curriculum from you. So if if you
go up there, maybe going in groups. I'm understanding people
can be intimidated. They don't want to go alone. Go
in a group, Go get you some strong men to
go with you. Demand to see the curriculum. They cannot
withhold it from you. And I would say, ask your
children every day when they come home, what did you
see at school?
Speaker 4: What were you told? Are they discussing politics?
Speaker 3: How are they you know, the teachers discussing these social
or even sexual agendas? Are they pushing them on you?
Do you feel uncomfortable? Are you seeing boys in your
locker room? These are you know? So parents have to
be proactive because unfortunately, no one's going to ride in
on a white horse to save any of your children.
Speaker 4: You have to be You are your child's last Beshold.
Speaker 2: Amen, amen.
Speaker 1: So I know you've got a lot of information packed
into this book of your into this book of yours.
Where can people look it up? Find more information about you?
Speaker 4: Follow you? Yes, absolutely so. You can find this book
on Amazon.
Speaker 3: It's called Sex, Drugs and a Literacy The Death of
Education and America Bigeno Young. You can find on Amazon,
book Baby, Barnes, Andannoble dot com really wherever books are
so old. Also, you can find me on Facebook at
Geno for Chicago.
Speaker 4: That's g e n O the number four Chicago.
Speaker 3: You can find me on Instagram at official Geno Young
or on x at Geno g e n O the
number four America.
Speaker 2: Okay, are you gonna run? Do you think for office again?
Speaker 4: I might run for office again. I did have a
good time when I ran.
Speaker 3: I met a lot of good people messing you know,
not so not so great people as well.
Speaker 2: By hello polite.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so I mess some good people. I was young,
twenty five. I was actually the youngest federal candidate in
the state of Illinois, won the youngest candidates on the
ballot nationwide. I got almost twenty percent of the Republican
primary vote first time around, completely self funded, unfunded, really
grassroots to the teeth, but I did it, and I
was you know, I'm really proud of the work that
I did.
Speaker 2: I guess you would love to see you. Yeah, we
really would because we need good people and it would
be really wonderful if you did it again. So don't
give up on that. Oh yeah, thank you for being
with us. We appreciate it. Yeah, great to meet.
Speaker 3: Thank you also much and God bless and thank you
for the work that you all do as well against
all the negative influences that are destroying the conservative movement.
Speaker 4: I thank you all for being a voice in the wilderness.
Speaker 2: So thank you, thank you, thank you. Appreciate that