WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.839 I despise public schools. I don't despise necessarily the teachers 2 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:07.519 who teach, they're all not all of the teachers who 3 00:00:07.559 --> 00:00:11.560 teach there. I don't despise the parents who maybe just 4 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:13.720 don't think they have much of a choice other than 5 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:19.519 public schools. But I despise California's public school system. I 6 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:23.879 despise the whole setup. I despise the goals towards which 7 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:31.320 the whole thing is oriented. The philosophical idea that American 8 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:33.799 public education should be focused on one hundred percent of 9 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:41.000 everybody going to college is both idealistic, foolish, foolishly idealistic, unrealistic, 10 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:44.079 and ultimately winds up being harmful. We have some of 11 00:00:44.119 --> 00:00:46.960 the worst prepared for the job market eighteen year olds 12 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:51.600 in the world. We could imitate countries like Germany and 13 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:59.799 have real serious emphasis on vocations and training and all 14 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:04.200 kinds of give kids different kinds of career tracks that 15 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:08.480 they can follow throughout high school, apprenticeships, things like that. 16 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:16.159 But instead we vaguely prepare everybody to get a major 17 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:21.200 in some mickey mouse arts and letters degree from college 18 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:23.920 after accruing a bunch of debt that they can't use 19 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:26.920 to do anything, you know, a bachelor's degree that is 20 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:31.439 useless for anything other than flipping burgers. That is the 21 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:38.359 focus of American of California public high schools, and by 22 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:43.439 objective measurements, a lot of our largest public high schools 23 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:51.079 are wild abject failures, with huge percentages of kids not 24 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:54.200 being able to be up to grade level in math 25 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:57.959 or reading. And then, of course, the powers that be 26 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:04.439 within California public education look at homeschoolers with really concerning 27 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:08.199 that these homeschoolers are you know, being educated without you know, 28 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:12.759 oversight from educational experts. And meanwhile, the homeschoolers, by like 29 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:16.080 every objective measure, are doing far better than kids in 30 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:25.240 public schools. Now, given my disdain for California public schools, 31 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:27.879 and on top of all of that, California public schools 32 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:33.280 are suffused top to bottom with left wing ideology that 33 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:38.879 is injected and infected throughout the curricula of our various 34 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:44.599 public schools and various grades. Whether that's the god awful 35 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:48.439 sex education that I think any Christian should pull their 36 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:52.159 kids out of, given how many things it is teaching 37 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:56.479 that are totally contrary to our beliefs, to stuff that 38 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:59.479 beyond just the sex education that you're getting seventh grade onward, 39 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:04.439 the ways in which all kinds of morality contrary to 40 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:07.080 what we believe, is infected throughout the curriculum. An even 41 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:12.879 bigger picture, things about history and American culture. These all 42 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:17.639 these sort of sixteen nineteen project ideas of America being 43 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:23.280 built on systemic racism, that the whole American project is 44 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:28.240 grounded in racism and fundamentally infected by this original sin, 45 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:30.680 that the country is fundamentally racist. All these kinds of 46 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:35.599 stuff gets incorporated into what we teach, and various kinds 47 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:45.400 of DEEI measures are infected throughout California public education. Diversity, equity, 48 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:49.479 and inclusion, which I heard some liberal the other day say. 49 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:53.120 Conservatives should be forced to say, what do they disagree with? 50 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:56.960 Do they actually dislike diversity? Are they going to admit 51 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:59.800 that they hate diversity, that they hate equity, that they 52 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:05.039 hate inclusion, to which I would say one, DEI is 53 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:09.560 a term of art that refers to a certain set 54 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:17.920 of policies, practices, principles that involve giving a giving racially 55 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:25.120 preferential treatment to certain groups over others. So that term 56 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:27.920 of art DEI, yes, I object to. But if you 57 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:30.319 want me to drill down further. I object to equity. 58 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:32.720 Equity is the thing I object to. I don't mind 59 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:37.439 having diversity. If that's the byproduct of giving equal opportunities 60 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:40.759 to everybody, that's great. I want I would love there 61 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:44.519 to be diversity. I don't want a system that says no, 62 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:48.480 Black people can't participate. That's that's wrong, that's evil, that's immoral. 63 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:54.800 I want it open to everybody. I'm an inclusive guy. 64 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:59.319 Everyone come in. Equity is what I object to. The 65 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:08.519 modern definition of equity means equality of outcomes, not equality 66 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:11.839 of inputs or equality of opportunity for everybody, but equality 67 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:15.759 of outcomes. If the makeup and this is happening within 68 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:20.000 California public schools, they got rid of certain kinds of 69 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:28.959 gifted tracks, advanced track math programs because they looked at 70 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:33.360 the racial breakdown of who was participating in it and 71 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:38.240 saw it was predominantly Asians and white, predominantly Asian kids, 72 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:44.319 white kids, not enough Latinos and black kids given their 73 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:49.639 relative shares of the California school age population. So the 74 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:52.120 DEI based solution is to get rid of the gifted 75 00:05:52.199 --> 00:05:58.040 kid program, get rid of these higher track math programs, 76 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:01.720 because too many Asian kids were doing too well, and 77 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:05.519 the Latino and black kids weren't doing as well because 78 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:13.680 the outcomes weren't equal to what you would expect if 79 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:18.199 it was perfectly proportional to the population. The DEI approach 80 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:22.079 assumes that any difference in outcomes that doesn't reflect the 81 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:28.439 population's racial breakdown is rooted somehow in racism. 82 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:34.800 That's the assumption. So I objected that. So it brings 83 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:39.040 me no small delight to learn that the Trump administration 84 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:44.040 is cracking down on DEI efforts in school districts around 85 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:48.680 the country and particularly in California. Here is this whining 86 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:53.800 article about it, published by ed's source run in GV wire. 87 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:58.240 A letter to US schools from Craig Trainer, acting Assistant 88 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:00.560 Secretary for Civil Rights at the Federal Department of Education 89 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:01.480 in Washington. 90 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:01.480 D C. 91 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:04.720 Has schools nationwide trying to figure out what to do 92 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:08.800 about their diversity programs. Tough decisions lie ahead for schools 93 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:12.240 across California as the federal government cracks down on diversity, 94 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:16.560 equity and inclusion efforts. The latest measure came in the 95 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:18.920 form of a letter issued Friday by the US Department 96 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:21.800 of Education giving K through twelve schools across the country 97 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:25.720 to options to eliminate programs focused on DEI within two 98 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:32.439 weeks or face unspecified cuts in federal funding. I fully 99 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:35.439 anticipate that it will have a chilling effect on school districts, 100 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:38.720 but also colleges and universities, said Royal Johnson, who leads 101 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:41.720 the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center's National 102 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:47.199 Assessment of collegiate campus climates. The Department of Education's letter 103 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:50.519 isn't law, nor is it legal. Johnson, Oh, it's not legal, 104 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:55.399 Johnson said, I'm pretty sure it's not illegal. Pretty sure 105 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:59.240 the Department of Education can put strings on funding. It's 106 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:03.920 just a question of what the operative statute says. Anyway. 107 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:08.720 Oh oh well, actually, by the way, let me point 108 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:13.079 this out. I'd bet the Department of Education's letter is 109 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:22.920 super legal, given that pretty much all grants of federal 110 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:29.680 funding for education come with certain kinds of non discrimination requirements. 111 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.320 And the non discrimination requirements it's based on language that 112 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:38.120 was adopted in American law based on the heritage of 113 00:08:38.159 --> 00:08:41.639 the Civil Rights Acts, okay, and the Civil Rights Acts. Basically, 114 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:44.679 the big breakthrough of the Civil Rights Acts was basically 115 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:51.200 saying that the federal government will not allow discrimination treating 116 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:57.759 people differently on the basis of and then it would 117 00:08:57.799 --> 00:09:04.159 provide a list of categories in certain circumstances, sex, national origin, 118 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:08.159 et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. The big breakthrough of 119 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:11.200 the Civil Rights Acts was applying this in all this 120 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:14.840 sort of standard no differential treatment on the basis of 121 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:19.200 these various categories, applying that in all kinds of contexts. 122 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:24.919 In the operation of private businesses. Okay, your grocery store 123 00:09:25.200 --> 00:09:27.399 can no longer say that, well, we're not going to 124 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:29.639 serve black people. No, you can't do that. You cannot 125 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:33.200 discriminate on the basis of race in operating your grocery store, 126 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:37.759 in hiring our law firm does not hire black people 127 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:40.840 or does not select African Americans to be partners in 128 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:42.799 our law firm. Now, you can't do that. You can't 129 00:09:43.039 --> 00:09:44.720 say that you're just not You're only going to have 130 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:52.399 white partners. Can't do that. And with lots and lots 131 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:57.879 and lots of federal funding that goes, especially to educational institutions, 132 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:03.399 it all has non discrimination requirements, like you can't I'm 133 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:05.720 not going to give this to a school district that's 134 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:08.840 refusing to admit, you know, that that's going to have 135 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:15.440 segregated public schools. So I would bet actually that in 136 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:19.320 spite of what this article from ed source says, written 137 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:24.360 by presumably left wing hacks, I don't know that for 138 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:28.360 a fact that the authors are Malika Sheshadri and Lasherica 139 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:34.039 Thornton look like to millennial teachers. Actually, I would guess 140 00:10:34.399 --> 00:10:39.720 that this letter from the Department of Education is fairly 141 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:44.840 solidly grounded educationally, because the whole idea, the whole idea 142 00:10:44.919 --> 00:10:49.000 of DEI, I think, has always been intention with American law, 143 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:52.480 with American non discrimination law. The whole idea of DEI 144 00:10:52.759 --> 00:11:03.399 is to affirmatively discriminate in favor of certain racial groups 145 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:09.039 at the expense of other racial groups, and not just 146 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:17.120 white people. Often Asian kids. Often Asians are one of 147 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:24.159 the loser. Asians a historically a racial minority group that 148 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:30.159 hasn't always been treated very well in American society. Certainly, 149 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:34.720 I mean, let's compare. You know, obviously, no one had 150 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:38.279 it worse than African slaves in the South. Historically, I 151 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:40.200 think it'd be hard to argue someone had it worse 152 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:44.080 than people of African descented. But certainly I don't think 153 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:46.879 you can say that Asian Americans had an easier time 154 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:53.080 than Latinos. So DEI says, we have to treat Latinos. 155 00:11:53.159 --> 00:11:56.519 We have to give affirmative deferential treatment to Latinos and 156 00:11:56.639 --> 00:12:00.519 affirmative worse treatment to Asians. That's one of the things 157 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.919 with DEI is that it really does exist in serious 158 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:09.480 tension with American non discrimination law, and including with like 159 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:15.480 recent Supreme Court cases that you know, destroyed the idea 160 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:19.559 of affirmative action within college admissions. That's what affirmative action is. 161 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:23.919 Affirmative action is basically the DEI concept as applied to 162 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:31.120 college admissions. So I would say probably the Department of 163 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:33.679 Education is on really solid ground to tell the State 164 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:36.399 of California, hey, you got to stop doing these DEI programs. 165 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:38.879 We're going to cut off your funding because probably that 166 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:43.360 federal funding has some kind of non discrimination thing tied 167 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:46.679 into it, and the whole point of DEI is discrimination. 168 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:55.679 Dei's is this new paradigm that really is divorced from 169 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:01.919 the classic Civil Rights Act, civil rights era paradigm of 170 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.360 how we treat people on the basis of race, which 171 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:09.039 is really attempting to be a color blind approach to 172 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:12.519 how you operate businesses, how you educate kids, how you 173 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:21.879 whatever hiring employment, all that the ideal as presented in 174 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:25.039 the Civil Rights Act is genuinely a color blind approach, 175 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:34.919 and that's firmly embedded in American law. So this contention 176 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.600 by this piece, oh the Department of Education's letter, isn't law, 177 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:47.919 nor is it legal. Johnson said. However, many advocates, when 178 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:52.399 a liberal journalist wants to make an argument for something 179 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:56.600 that they just agree with, they say that. Advocates say, 180 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:02.559 because it sounds better than you know, lobbyists for such 181 00:14:02.600 --> 00:14:07.000 and such industry or or act active activists for such 182 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:11.039 and such advocates and community members say, what's a community 183 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:16.080 I'm a community member. Community members say they are concerned 184 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:18.600 that more and more districts will cut their diversity, equity 185 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:23.720 and inclusion initiatives out of fear. Yeah, they should, and 186 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:27.399 deprive students from marginalized backgrounds of the support they need 187 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:30.600 to succeed in the classroom and beyond. We often think 188 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:34.039 about California as being protected from this larger right wing movement, 189 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:36.960 Johnson said, But as we saw with changing patterns and 190 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:39.720 demographic votes in the presidential election. I think there are 191 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:42.720 many people in California who are wrestling with this conservative 192 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:44.759 movement and who are afraid of it, and who are 193 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:50.399 proactively and preemptively making decisions. What do you This isn't 194 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:55.879 some vague, amorphous like for No, it's a very concrete 195 00:14:57.240 --> 00:14:59.440 we will cut off your funding if you keep doing 196 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:03.480 DEI stuff. This isn't like, This isn't someone bowing and 197 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:06.039 scraping to Donald Trump. This is a very rational reaction 198 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:11.679 to a genuine funding concern. The Department of Education's letter 199 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:17.200 opens with the words dear colleague, but the ensuing message 200 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:20.840 takes on a different tone. Well, yeah, that's just how 201 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:27.679 these things work. Dear Colleague letters are a classic way 202 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:31.639 in which specifically the Department of Education interacts with school 203 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:34.399 districts around the country who are recipients of federal funding. 204 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:38.879 The dear colleague letter, this is like a standard form thing. 205 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:43.600 It's not like, it's not like they're Oh, they pretend 206 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:45.919 like they're being so nice and then they're being chillen. No, 207 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:48.440 the Obama administration had all kinds of mandates for public 208 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:51.039 schools on the basis of using a Dear Colleague letter 209 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:54.919 like this is not some The fact that the tone 210 00:15:55.720 --> 00:16:00.679 is mean, whereas the dear colleague at the beginning is nice, 211 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:04.480 is not a remarkable feature. Rather than engaging in that 212 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:10.919 work of acknowledging and affirming educators, what the Trump administration 213 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:14.440 has done thus far is to express hostility and disdain, 214 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:17.879 said John Rogers, a professor at UCLA's School of Education 215 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.320 and Information Studies and an Associate Dean for Research and 216 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:27.240 Public Scholarship. Instead of acknowledging and affirming educators, the point 217 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:29.480 of the Department of Education is not to affirm you. 218 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:35.240 It's to give federal money. It's to give federal grant 219 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:41.159 money for school districts. They're not your friend, they're not 220 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:44.600 your therapist. They're not there to affirm you and encourage you. 221 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:49.840 These are sources of federal grants. If you want these 222 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:53.799 federal grants, this is what you have to do. By 223 00:16:53.799 --> 00:16:55.559 the way, this source of federal grants given to you 224 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:58.600 by the federal government that is accountable to whom the 225 00:16:58.679 --> 00:17:02.799 American electorate who is paying the bill, and the American 226 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:05.920 electorate who is paying the bill, just voted for a 227 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:09.640 guy who ran on, among other things, the whole idea 228 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:16.799 that DEI is nonsense and should not be. I want 229 00:17:16.839 --> 00:17:19.400 to dig into this more after the break. Just the 230 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:24.279 unreality in which California public educators apparently live. That is 231 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:29.119 next on the John Girardi Show. Reading through this piece 232 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:35.880 written by ED Source GV wire, local Fresno outlet. They 233 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:39.920 love publishing pieces by this entity called Ed's Source, which 234 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:45.440 is this entity that publishes various kinds of op eds 235 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:51.960 and news stories, etc. About matters impacting education, and it's 236 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:56.400 just reliably like, it seems very reliably like this is 237 00:17:56.519 --> 00:18:01.200 what public school labor unions think, liberal public school liber 238 00:18:01.279 --> 00:18:03.759 unions think. And they have this whole piece freaking out 239 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:06.160 about the Trump administration saying they're going to cut off 240 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:11.400 federal funding for California public schools if they don't cut 241 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:17.480 out their DEI initiatives. And they live in this alternate 242 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:21.200 reality where they just don't understand. They're not smart enough 243 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:25.240 to understand the legal battles, the legal controversies that are 244 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:29.319 at play here. So they're talking about this dear colleague 245 00:18:29.400 --> 00:18:33.279 letter that came from the Civil Rights Division at the 246 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:37.079 Department of Education, and it says, hey, stop engaging in 247 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:41.440 DEI measures. The whole idea of DEI is that you 248 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:45.759 are basically affirmatively discriminating in favor of certain racial groups 249 00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:49.359 against other racial groups in order to achieve some kind 250 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:53.880 of outcome equity. The idea that, well, if you have 251 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:59.559 Asian kids all doing much better in math and science 252 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.920 and Latino and black kids not doing as well, that 253 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:05.279 there must be some racism inherent in the system, so 254 00:19:05.359 --> 00:19:10.200 you need to do things affirmatively helping to discriminate in 255 00:19:10.359 --> 00:19:13.319 favor of the black and Latino kids. That's the whole 256 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:17.400 premise of DEI is. It is affirmative. It is not 257 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:23.839 a color blind approach to providing educational opportunities or whatever. 258 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:28.599 It's affirmatively saying we need to discriminate in favor of 259 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:35.000 certain historically oppressed groups, and we do that by discriminating 260 00:19:35.319 --> 00:19:41.480 against certain historically oppressed groups like Asians. There's no reason 261 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:43.799 to think that Asian Americans had an easier time in 262 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:52.279 American history than Latinos have or had. Now here's this 263 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:57.359 piece from ed source DA DA DA this complaint from 264 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:01.079 a professor at UCLA that it stead of acknowledging and 265 00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:06.240 affirming educators, the Department of Education is expressing hostility and disdain. 266 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:12.359 Oh that's terrible. The letter specifically claims the authors incredulously 267 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:16.640 right that white and Asian American students, including those from 268 00:20:16.680 --> 00:20:21.000 lower income backgrounds, have been discriminated against, and that education 269 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:26.279 in educational institutions have toxically indoctrinated students with false premises 270 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:33.599 that the United States has built upon systemic and structural racism. Yeah, 271 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:38.000 that's true. Okay. The California like restructured all kinds of 272 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:42.200 things within its math programs, specifically because the Asian kids 273 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:44.440 were doing too well. Asian white kids were doing too well. 274 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:46.559 It was too big of a percentage of the student 275 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:50.759 body within these sort of higher track math programs where 276 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:53.759 Asian white kids relative to their shares of the school population, 277 00:20:54.000 --> 00:21:00.799 So they got rid of it. They continue to write, 278 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:03.759 increasing school's scores on the national report card has been 279 00:21:03.799 --> 00:21:07.240 a justification for some of the administration's changes, according to 280 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:12.839 John Rogers from UCLA, But instead of boosting student performance, 281 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:16.880 Roger maintains that this directive getting rid of DEI programs 282 00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:22.640 could quote throw K through twelve schools into further tumult ah, 283 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:27.839 but it'll it'll cause confusion due to the high fiscal 284 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:36.160 costs of culture wars, Okay, this is hilarious. So if 285 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:41.839 you get rid of DEI stuff, it'll result in costs 286 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:47.240 because of culture wars. Just last year, conflicts surrounding race 287 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:52.319 and LGBTQ plus issues costs schools more than three billion 288 00:21:52.400 --> 00:21:57.119 dollars nationwide. I discussed this story on the show This 289 00:21:57.599 --> 00:22:01.880 is the Biggest Hunk of BS. This was another piece 290 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:04.240 from ed Source, written by a woman named Diana Lambert 291 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:08.119 that talked about some study that was done to try 292 00:22:08.200 --> 00:22:15.400 to show that basically parents being angry over sex ed 293 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:21.039 smut pornography, basically within sex heded programs inappropriate content, parents 294 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:24.599 being angry about it led to all these costs, with 295 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:28.079 the underlying thought being that parents should just shut up 296 00:22:28.119 --> 00:22:30.880 because them being upset about what public schools don't do 297 00:22:31.559 --> 00:22:34.759 costs money, and it's costing money in the forms of 298 00:22:35.400 --> 00:22:40.359 public schools had to hire more security for school board 299 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:46.119 meetings and apparently had to hire more security for superintendents 300 00:22:46.200 --> 00:22:50.880 and things like that, and they use this three billion 301 00:22:51.079 --> 00:22:54.319 dollar number, which is spread across the entire country, which 302 00:22:55.079 --> 00:22:59.920 you know is again when you think that Clovid president, 303 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:04.839 so unified by itself, is getting five hundred million dollars 304 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:09.400 just from one ballot measure, like three billion dollars spread 305 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:11.880 across every school district in America is actually not that 306 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:16.039 much money, relatively speaking, but any anyway, I don't even 307 00:23:16.119 --> 00:23:20.160 know how they're calculating such a thing, but this idea that, okay, 308 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:23.359 if we get rid of DEI, it's going to distract 309 00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:26.880 from the work of public schools more costs because culture 310 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:29.839 wars cost so much money. This is the laziest freaking 311 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:34.720 thinking I've ever heard in my life. No, it's not. 312 00:23:35.640 --> 00:23:40.200 These DEI programs are total waste of time and money, 313 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:44.079 frittering away public school money on a bunch of administrators 314 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:46.240 who are not doing anything to ensure that these kids 315 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:48.799 are actually learning to read, or write or do math. 316 00:23:50.160 --> 00:23:53.400 It's bogus good for the Trump administration cut off this 317 00:23:53.559 --> 00:23:56.160 DEI funding. When we return, I'm going to talk about 318 00:23:56.359 --> 00:24:01.440 President Trump's order on IVF next on the John Girardi Show. 319 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:09.279 President Trump issued an executive order the other day about 320 00:24:09.480 --> 00:24:12.880 IVF in vitro fertilization, and I kind of need to 321 00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:16.240 talk about it as mister Right to Life being director 322 00:24:16.279 --> 00:24:18.400 at Right to Life Es Central California. It's within kind 323 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:22.240 of my purview because of some of the ethical issues 324 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:25.000 considerations that are involved with the IVF. So let me 325 00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:29.359 get started by acknowledging I hold a very minority position 326 00:24:29.640 --> 00:24:33.039 on IVF. I realize that probably a lot of you 327 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:36.759 listening to it don't think IVF is a problem. Maybe 328 00:24:36.799 --> 00:24:39.720 some of you listening to it have a grandchild who 329 00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:42.160 is conceived brought into the world via IVF. Maybe some 330 00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:45.759 of you have gone through IVF, have a child via IVF. 331 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:51.559 I want to just preface this by saying, I'm not 332 00:24:51.799 --> 00:24:55.920 condemning your motives, your desires, and I think a lot 333 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:59.240 of people go into IVF without really understanding some of 334 00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:03.759 the ethical issues that are involved. So I am not 335 00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:08.880 here to condemn people, just as I am in the 336 00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:11.960 abortion debate. I'm not actually here to condemn people who 337 00:25:12.079 --> 00:25:17.400 have abortions. I think abortion is wrong. I love people, 338 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:26.119 I hate sin, I hate things that are wrong. The 339 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:27.960 idea of judge not lest you be judge, is that 340 00:25:28.039 --> 00:25:32.480 I'm not judging people's subjective consciences and motivations. I am 341 00:25:32.759 --> 00:25:40.400 judging actions. And I think IVF has really serious moral 342 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:47.519 ethical problems. Namely, one of the most significant moral problems 343 00:25:47.559 --> 00:25:50.720 with IVF is the fact that as it is practiced 344 00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:53.279 in the United States. Most of the time, it involves 345 00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:58.359 the creation of far more embryos than will ever be implanted. 346 00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:04.400 There are about ninety seven thousand children born. There are 347 00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:08.839 about ninety seven thousand children born per year via IVF, 348 00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:16.640 and the number of embryos who are destroyed or left 349 00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:24.039 indefinitely frozen is far greater. It's an enormous number. It 350 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:29.200 could be in the million. You know, there are million, 351 00:26:29.400 --> 00:26:33.599 over a million right now in storage, and we could 352 00:26:33.880 --> 00:26:38.119 it could be like over a million children created and 353 00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:42.480 destroyed via IVF, destroyed or frozen every single year. And 354 00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:47.720 often embryos are held frozen until the family decides to 355 00:26:47.799 --> 00:26:52.720 stop paying for the storage fees, and eventually those children 356 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:56.119 just die. Those embryos just die. And before you say, well, 357 00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:59.440 is that a human being? Guys, it is an early 358 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:03.079 stage human being every bit as much as an embryo 359 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:05.920 growing inside of the womb of a woman who's considering abortion. 360 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:06.400 It is. 361 00:27:06.599 --> 00:27:11.359 There is no ethical biological difference. This is a new 362 00:27:11.920 --> 00:27:19.880 human organism, that's it. President Trump and Vice President Vance 363 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:22.240 have made a lot of noise about wanting to have 364 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:26.359 pro family policies to make it easier for families to 365 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:29.279 have children, and I find it kind of bizarre that 366 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:39.240 they lead off with IVF, not with making the process 367 00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:44.200 of adoption easier, simpler, better promoted. I think there's a 368 00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:46.640 huge problem right now that's not talked about enough that 369 00:27:46.799 --> 00:27:53.000 gen z and millennial moms don't who are in difficult situations, 370 00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:56.319 would rather have an abortion than place their child with 371 00:27:56.359 --> 00:28:01.039 an adoptive family. That basically you have whole adoption agencies 372 00:28:01.079 --> 00:28:03.119 in the San lu Quin Valley that went out of 373 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:08.079 business for lack of babies. Okay, Infant of Prague adoption agency, 374 00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:11.039 which was founded by a large group of Catholics, a 375 00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:12.519 lot of whom were sort of tied in with us 376 00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:15.920 at Right to Life, went out of business a few 377 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:24.319 years ago because they had no babies. So the first 378 00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:28.839 move that the Trump administration does for helping promote families 379 00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:33.279 and allowing people to have more children is not through adoption, 380 00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:38.680 not through managing the costs of childbirth, the newborn care. 381 00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:42.000 You know, I mean we a Right to Life. We 382 00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:45.960 helped start, I helped found our Obria Clinic, which I 383 00:28:46.039 --> 00:28:48.400 talked about a lot on the show. It's our nonprofit 384 00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:51.359 pro life Obgyn clinic that we founded in Fresno. Why, Well, 385 00:28:51.359 --> 00:28:54.799 it was because of this basic problem. There are a 386 00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:58.000 ton of women in South Fresno who are on medical 387 00:28:59.079 --> 00:29:01.240 and there are fewer and fewer doctors who want to 388 00:29:01.279 --> 00:29:07.240 take care of them because medical loses money. So rather 389 00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:10.960 than fixing some of those economic incentives and reimbursement rate, 390 00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:13.720 maybe we have a program with more reimbursement rates for 391 00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:20.000 doctors who take medical Medicaid patients in order for it 392 00:29:20.160 --> 00:29:22.839 to be profitable for doctors so that more of them 393 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:27.640 can take more medical patients, to allow women to more 394 00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:31.440 readily have access to doctors. No, we're going to IVF, 395 00:29:36.119 --> 00:29:39.119 and let's remember that IVF is an industry. This is 396 00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:46.799 a usually cash industry, doctors making a ton of money. 397 00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:54.400 And it's also arguably not even really healthcare. Why do 398 00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:58.440 I say that? Okay, this isn't necessarily a moral judgment 399 00:29:58.480 --> 00:30:01.680 on it, but it's a of a technical thing. Healthcare 400 00:30:01.880 --> 00:30:06.200 means fixing something that is wrong with the human body. 401 00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:10.680