WEBVTT - SFUSD Teachers may go on strike 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.400 And we continue at two five in the afternoon on 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:08.200 the John Phillips Show, mister Randy Weggs in Culver City, John, let. 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:12.040 Me find you another one of these great calls that 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.040 took place when you were on vacation last week and 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:18.840 we had Steve Hilton on the show. Spent the rest 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.560 of the hour talking about who are you supporting for governor. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:25.520 We had a whole lot of people call in, and 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:27.800 I saved two of these calls because they're like, you 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:30.600 know what, Johnny's probably going to hear these when he 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.159 gets back. Here's the other one. Let's go to Lisa 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:38.000 in Long Beach. Lisa, Hello, Hi. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:44.240 Randy, Hi, Steve Hilton all the way, and I'm making 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:48.479 my first donation today. And because I'm vegan, of course 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:49.479 it's never porker. 0:00:55.440 --> 0:01:00.680 Oh my, didn't see that one coming. It sounds like 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:07.840 last week was lively eight hundred two two two five 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.679 two two two. Easy telephone number one eight hundred two 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:16.040 two five two two two. Just when you think you've 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:21.640 seen it all, after COVID nineteen, when the teachers' unions 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:26.880 shut down on campus instruction for over a year, and 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.039 in the case of LAUSD, a lot longer than that. 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.360 Now we're getting the post mortems. Now all of the 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:38.000 experts are weighing in on our practices during COVID to 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.160 find out what worked and what didn't work. And it 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.360 almost doesn't matter which post mortem you look at, they 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:48.360 all say the same thing, which is shutting down the 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:53.320 schools was a really bad idea. It was bad for 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.720 the kids psychologically, it was bad for the kids in 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.560 terms of their education, didn't do much in terms of 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:06.120 spreading or slowing the spread of the virus, but it's 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.800 what the teachers' unions wanted, so that's what they got. 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.560 During COVID, we were told it didn't matter if the 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:14.960 kids were on campus or not. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.160 Learning from home in front of the computer was just 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.400 as good as being on campus, So stop asking so 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:27.200 many questions. We also now know that enrollment in many 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.560 K through twelve school districts in the state of California, 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:35.080 including some of the biggest ones like San Francisco, Oakland, 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.920 Los Angeles, it's in free fall. We know that the 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:42.320 state is broke, we're upside down, we have a budget deficit, 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.320 and we're waiting for the may revise to figure out 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:47.400 how it is that we're going to pay for it. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:52.520 Given all of these things that exist, it's really hard 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:57.080 to fathom a world where the teachers' unions then go 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:01.000 to the school district and say give us more money, 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.360 or we're going to go on strike. Yet, Randy in 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.240 San Francisco, at least, that's exactly what they're doing. 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:12.720 San Francisco's teachers' union has announced that they are authorizing 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:17.480 a possible strike. In Southern California, UTLA is thinking of 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:19.160 doing the exact same thing. 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.040 Why we demand higher pay. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.240 All of this, by the way, is going on at 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.640 the same time that the community college system, cal State, 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:33.200 and UC are all complaining that they're having to spend 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.560 extra money on remedial math and English classes because the 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:39.200 K through twelve system isn't doing their job. 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:44.080 For more on the potential strike in San Francisco Unified, 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.280 here's a report from KPIX in the Bay. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:51.040 San Francisco teachers have voted to authorize a strike, with 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.760 nearly ninety eight percent voting in favor of the work stoppage. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.520 Weather Harry spoke with a parent and a teacher about 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:58.840 what could happen next. 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.720 An overwhelming number of San Francisco Public school teachers have 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.840 voted in favor of a potential strike, which. 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:10.880 You know, with how expensive it is to raise a 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.360 kid there, I wonder what the teacher to student ratio 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.280 is right now? Is it like one to one? 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.000 I'll tell you. If you want to talk about a 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.560 group of people who are overplaying their hand, it's these people. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.840 I just read an article about people, I think it 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.960 was in the Bay Area where they're sending their kids 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.440 to some kind of AI school where the AI school. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.640 In fact, it was Elon Musk who was tweeting about it. 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.719 The AI school teaches the kids everything that they learn 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.880 in a full day at a public school in two hours. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:46.400 Oh I did that? Rap I think I did that 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.200 one of the times you were gone, yeah it. Now, 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.640 this school isn't cheap, but believe you me, this technology 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.360 is only going to get cheaper. But the kids learn 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:59.160 everything they could possibly need to know from the AI bod. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:01.200 These jobs are numbered. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.400 That's the way technology always is. Go back to when 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.120 VCRs first came out. They were like two three thousand 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.600 dollars per VCR, and at the end they were practically 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.200 giving them away, and then the technology just became out 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.040 of date and antiquated, and people moved on to DVDs 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:23.120 and streaming and other things in public education. If you 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.800 want to find an industry that is right to be 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.600 taken over by AI, it's that one. And if they 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.000 keep behaving this way right at the same time that 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.560 AI is beginning to explode, they're going to be They're 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.360 gonna have a huge target on their backs. 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:44.000 An overwhelming number of San Francisco public school teachers have 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:47.679 voted in favor of a potential strike, which could result 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.839 in kids losing time in the classroom. 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.960 For children and the families that they are going to 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:57.000 be the biggest victims of this strike if it happens. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.040 Marii Rahimi has a kindredgard. 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:00.680 Yeah, but these are the same people that kept the 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:03.320 schools closed for in San Francisco a year and a half, 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.920 in LA two years, keeping it closed for another few weeks, 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:07.720 that's fine. 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.280 You know. And I'll tell you this, you talk about 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:14.440 the AI. I took four years of Spanish in high school. 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.679 I can't get by when I go to Latin America. 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.760 I really don't even come close to speaking anything. I 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:24.719 can't pronounce the words correctly. It was useless. But you 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.600 talk to these people who use Rosetta Stone or some 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:32.840 of these different techniques to learn a foreign language, and 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.479 they understand that foreign language in no time. 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:42.120 I'm already learning, so I can go back to Spain. Y'all, 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.160 quiero vermout poor favor. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.799 Mari Rahimi has a kindergartener in the San Francisco Unified 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.240 School District. Now he's trying to prepare for the unknown. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.640 It obviously comes with a lot of uncertainty and anxiety 0:06:58.720 --> 0:06:59.080 about this. 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:03.080 It's a really interesting world. The people that can afford 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.320 to live and raise a family in San Francisco but 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.680 are still too cheap for private school. 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.680 Yeah, that is a strange, strange type of person. 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.280 It obviously comes with a lot of uncertainty and anxiety 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:18.480 about disruption to the school year. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.520 He says, if a strike happens, parents will have to 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.480 come up with child care plans, and he worries about 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:26.560 the disruption to the kids learning. 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.600 Yeah, okay, where was he during COVID, especially. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.320 If it's a long strike. Although he does believe the 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.480 teachers need a fair contract, the kids love. 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.600 Wait, are we getting siren in the middle of this 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:44.400 rap about schools? Why not we get sirens in every 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.000 other rap we do on this show. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:50.080 Although he does believe the teachers need a fair contract. 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:50.280 The kids love that. 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.679 What I don't understand is you look at this most 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:58.200 recent budget where revenues were higher than expected, so the 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:02.760 budget goes up because of a prop ninety eight. Automatically, 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.120 if more money comes in, more money goes to the schools. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:07.840 Where is that money going? 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.760 You know what this is? This is the same mentality 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:17.040 that the politicians, the Democratic majority in Sacramento has. They 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:20.120 believe they're never going to lose an election. And if 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.720 you believe that your bulletproof and you're never going to 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.920 lose an election, then you can behave however it is 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:29.360 you want to behave. You can drive drunk, you can 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.679 do favors for your friends, you can show up, you 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.560 cannot show up, whatever, it doesn't matter. You're not going 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.120 to lose. And the teachers' unions are of the belief 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.719 that it doesn't matter how they behave, those jobs are 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.040 going to exist in perpetuity. No one ever has to 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:50.440 worry about losing their job. So just go for the gold, 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.560 go balls to the wall, ask for the moon, and 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.040 then if they don't give it to you, demand the 0:08:56.080 --> 0:09:01.559 solar system, and it works until it doesn't. And if 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:05.640 you overplay your hand to cards right when technology is 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:10.280 going to render you useless, you're really doing a disservice 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.640 to your membership because the membership is just paying attention 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.360 to what the union leadership is saying, and the union 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.079 leadership is saying, yes, vote to authorize a strike. Well, 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:24.160 they're leading them off cliff and I don't even think 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:25.600 the membership is aware of it. 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:30.600 The kids love them, They are fantastic teachers. So it 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:34.839 is that it does come to this and we're at 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:36.439 this place and are at an impasse. 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:40.040 More than five thousand teachers voted to authorize a strike. 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:44.079 Nearly ninety eight percent voted in favor of it, including 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:48.480 Roosevelt Middle School pe teacher Vanessa Hutchinson Zachi, we are 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.400 really hoping not to strike. 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.680 The we're helping the threat of it will be enough 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.920 so they'll give us everything we want and more. And 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:00.680 usually that's the case. That's what happened. If you wonder 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:07.480 where this drop is from, it's when the LAUSD Union 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.960 UTLA went on a solidarity strike with the SEIU to 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.840 get them a raise. And then Cicely, who was asking 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.439 for a twenty percent raise, ended up getting a twenty 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.400 two percent raise. Way to bring them to their knees, 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.640 their ace, my colleagues. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:23.880 The community. We don't want to strike. We want to 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:26.679 stay in our classrooms with our students. 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:27.040 She says. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:31.240 The United Educator is asking for what they believe is 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.960 needed to help stabilize their schools, a nine percent salary 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:39.800 increase over two years and health. Under state law, they 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:44.559 cannot strike until the completion of an independent fact finding process. 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.160 The fact finding report is due by the latest February. 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.040 Fourth, so that's coming up. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.120 Think about this for a second. As I mentioned before, 0:10:55.360 --> 0:11:00.280 enrollment is declining. Can you imagine any other scenario where 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:04.360 there are fewer customers, a lot fewer customers, and you 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.880 just go in there and demand more because you can. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.720 So when that, you know, after that a strike could 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.960 be called potentially, So we are in school on Monday 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:18.240 with joy in our hearts. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:19.800 I don't know about that. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:24.240 Boy. She really sounds like she's filled with joy, doesn't she. 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:30.880 SFUSD Superintendent doctor Maria Sue sent out a notice to parents. 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:31.280 What is she? 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:32.040 A doctor of. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:34.800 Probably education? 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.400 Kim and I are working hard to reach a fair agreement. 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.040 That is centered on what is best for the students, 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:45.679 while also preparing responsibly in the event of any disruption. 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:50.199 I recognize that the uncertainty is stressful. Will provide as 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.200 much notice as possible in the event of a strike, 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.640 But for Raheemis, a strike can be avoided. 0:11:56.800 --> 0:12:00.280 I would really hope adults to, you know, step up, 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.560 figure out how they can be adults together. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.480 And you know the kids, Oh, they don't do that. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:08.600 Usually it's these contract negotiations where things get real ugly, 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:10.040 real fast. 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:14.600 Oh yeah, they have the picketing going on outside the schools. 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:18.200 And I want you to be all the way, and 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:23.320 someone always brings the war drums. Oh yes, kids aren't there. 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.600 They can't have a say in this. You're doing it 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.559 for them. You're all public servants, both on the administration 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.800 and the strict side, and the teachers. We love y'all, 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.680 just like sit together and figure it out. 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.880 Earlier tonight I spoke with doctor John Logan, who is 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:40.840 the Chair of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.559 State University. He added some perspective on the significance of 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.679 the union potentially striking for the first time in nearly 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:48.720 fifty years. 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.400 They think that there's a lack of transparency around. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:59.600 The Wait, this guy's a scott What are you alleging 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:04.479 he's Scottish? That's all okay, you're not questioning his sobriety, 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.679 are you? No, not a not one bit. I'm just 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.480 getting thanks to Love Island, I'm getting really good at 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.160 picking out UK dialects. 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.679 Do they think that there's a lack of transparency around 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:20.320 the budget of the school district? Now, the school district 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.439 does have a deficit, it does have declining enrollments, as 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:24.080 you say. 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.440 So where's the money coming from? That's a very good question. 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:31.040 But at the same time, it has a very significant 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:35.160 reserves what it calls its rainy day fund, that can 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.760 be pussed in emergency situations. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.160 And this is usually the fight that you hear at 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.679 every single teacher strike, whether it's o USD, it's UTLA 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.320 at San Francisco, it's usually, yes, the school's broke, but 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.040 they have all this emergency money and we need it now. 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.120 Okay, but emergency money is supposed to go for emergencies. 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.520 Let's just say there's a weather event that destroys the 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:01.199 property of the school. You need new playgrounds, you need 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:05.800 new gyms, you need new whatever. That's what the emergency 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.880 money is for. If you use the emergency money to 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:13.239 give out raises to your existing employees, that's not an emergency. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:15.319 That's luxury. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.959 Well to the union, everything's in emergency. 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:23.280 And the Union is saying clearly, this is an emergency situation. 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:29.320 We have an enormous problem with teacher recruitment and retention 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.760 in San Francisco. You need to use this new one 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.920 hundred and eleven million dollars that you have in reserves 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.000 in terms of a rainy day fund. It needs to 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:43.120 be used now to preserve the quality of education and 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.360 to make sure that you're able to hold on to 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.400 the teachers that you have in the district. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:49.920 Otherwise, the teachers are going to take their talents to 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:51.440 a town that's less expensive. 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.480 Okay, and then what happens if there's an earthquake that 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.920 destroys the property and you no longer have a fund 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:57.960 to pay to replace it. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:14:59.880 Eh, Gavin obail us out. 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.600 We'll stay up to date with any new developments in 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:07.280 this ongoing situation here on air as well as on ours. 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:12.040 There you go. So the strike authorization has happened. The 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:16.000 report that has to be done statutorially gets filed later 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.560 on in the week, and at that point they can 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.240 either see who blinks first, or there's gonna be no 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.320 educating going on in San Francisco till they get their raise. 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.760 And it's not if they get their raise, it's when 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.280 they get their raise. We know how this game works. 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:34.040 I think part of the strategy here is that no 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:39.040 one involved, and I mean no one, from the union 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:43.760 to the teachers, to the administrators to the school board, 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.280 none of them worry about going bankrupt because if they're 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:54.440 insolvent due to generous employee contracts, I think the belief 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:58.440 is that Sacramento will bail them out because don't forget 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.760 beat Antonio via Rigosa for governor back in twenty eighteen, 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:08.680 because the teachers' unions all got behind Newsom because via 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:14.800 Regosa had the charter school people. Newsom owes them. Newsom 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.480 they believe will give them whatever they want. 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.440 Well, Newsom let them keep the schools closed longer than 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:22.880 any other state in the Union. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.080 That's right, and they feel like they have the same 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:27.880 relationship with the state legislature. 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:28.080 Two. 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.800 So if you can't go bankrupt because you know that 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:37.560 you're gonna get bailed out by Sacramento. You're bowling with bumpers. 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:42.280 You don't have to worry about failing. And that's where 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:47.760 they are. So San Francisco, you may be seeing a 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:53.120 teacher strike headed your way very very soon. Eight hundred 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:56.160 two two two five two two two is the telephone 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.720 number one eight hundred two two two five two two two. 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.360 If you'd like to email the show, you can do 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.280 so at Johnny don't like show at gmail dot com. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.800 That's Johnny Don't Like Show at gmail dot com. And Randy. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:11.520 We're going to Long Beach on Friday. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.520 On Friday, we're heading back to Longbeach to Gladstone's in 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:19.439 Long Beach, and you're invited come enjoy the great food, 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.080 good vibes, and a fun afternoon by the water this 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.120 Friday from noon to three. John Sagmeister will take care 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.399 of you. We're gonna be there with special guests like 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.920 Susan Shelley from the Howard Jarvis Taxpay Association. She'll tell 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:34.040 you more about your taxpayer rights protecting Prop thirteen. As 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.400 the courts have made it easier to raise your taxes. 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.000 We need you to come by and sign the petition 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.800 to save Prop thirteen. You can bring them with you 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.960 and drop them off in person. Susan needs all these 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.160 signatures by February seventeenth, so if you haven't done so, 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.200 go to save Prop thirteen dot com. That Saveprop thirteen 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.280 dot com. Come hang out with us, grab a bite 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.560 and be part of the broadcast The John Phillips Show 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:01.480 live at Gladstone's in Long Beach Friday from noon to three. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:08.359 Let's go to Harold and Lakewood. Harold, Hello, Hi John. 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:13.400 A question and a comment. What this is a capitalistic 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:14.719 society we live in? Correct? 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:16.080 It is? 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:21.480 Competition is Competition is key to what we do? So 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:26.080 why do we have no competition with public schools? They 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.280 get to do whatever they want. Why don't we get 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:33.160 school choice? Let's see what they would do if if 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.760 there was school choice. I think the competition are the 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.760 quality of the education would go up quite a bit 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:44.439 if we didn't have these people doing things that they 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:47.600 shouldn't be doing and getting money for what the they're 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.800 not really doing. So well comment for. 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:55.320 A crowd of people obsessed with equity, as the teachers' 0:18:55.400 --> 0:19:00.119 unions are. What's interesting is there is competition, but right 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.800 now only rich people have access to the private schools 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:07.480 and the elite educations that are available. If you are 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:12.200 poor or your lower middle class and your parents don't 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:16.600 have the financial wiggle room that people who are doing 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:20.159 better than you have, then you're stuck in the crony 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.400 public school and you end up with an awful education, 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.399 whereas people from more affluent backgrounds end up with a 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:31.159 much better education. This is one of these things that 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.879 I think AI is going to be great on. I 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:37.040 think AI will make it so that people in the 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:41.280 poorest communities in the country have access to a high 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:46.160 quality education. The problem for educators is it won't involve them, 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.320 It'll involve the technology, and we'll be able to do 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.200 it much cheaper than how we're doing it right now. 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:55.200 Here with an update on the fires, mister. 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.480 Randy Wang, So, one of the things that the City 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:03.000 of Los Angeles promise when it comes to the recovery 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:07.680 in the Palisades fire was a report that was commissioned 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.840 by the City of Los Angeles that would specifically lay 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:15.240 out how we're going to rebuild when it comes to infrastructure, 0:20:15.240 --> 0:20:19.800 whether that's utilities, roads, fire evacuation routes. There's a lot 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:23.040 of residents that are waiting on that report until they 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.240 want to rebuild because they want to know what the 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:28.680 standards are going to be for all of these infrastructure problems. 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:33.199 And that report has been in bureaucratic delayed hell for 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:37.000 months and months and months and is still not out 0:20:37.080 --> 0:20:41.960 a year later. Seems on brand for more. Here's Fox 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:45.440 eleven in Los Angeles and Matthew Seedorf. 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.359 Only on Fox eleven tonight. A critical rebuilding report for 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:53.080 Pacific Palisades, promised months ago, is still not public. Some 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:56.040 residents now raising alarm, saying it's now stuck in the 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:59.119 city Attorney's office. Fox Love is Matthew Sedorf lim in 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.320 Pacific Palisa to night with this exclusive report for US. 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.399 Matt well susan. 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:07.919 This report is crucial for the rebuild and now some 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:10.320 are wondering what's taking so long. 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:11.800 Well, it's the city of La. 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:15.520 If the City of La were to come out and 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:19.600 say this is us working to the best of our 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:24.040 abilities and they're this far behind, they'd be telling you 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:24.639 the truth. 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:28.760 This is the same city where Karen Bass last year 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:33.199 promised to waive permitting fees for the Palisades rebuilds, and 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:36.200 that still hasn't made it through the city council. And 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:40.440 this is the exact same City of LA that delayed 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:44.440 the LAFD After Action report so it could be doctored 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:46.760 to make sure the city didn't look too bad. 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:49.120 Business as usual. 0:21:50.119 --> 0:21:54.640 A highly anticipated rebuilding roadmap for fire devastated Pacific Palisades 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:56.760 now considered weeks overdue. 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:00.399 Report was due back in mid November to the Mayor's office, 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:02.080 and now I don't know where it is. 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:04.320 In June, Mayor Bass announced the city at high. 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:06.840 Isn't this supposed to be like Priority one issues? 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:13.600 She doesn't care and her belief is the Palisades only 0:22:13.640 --> 0:22:17.560 represents less than one percent of the total population of 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:21.960 Los Angeles and Altadena's and unincorporated county of LA, so 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:24.280 they don't get a vote in the mayor's race, so 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:26.879 it doesn't matter how much she abuses these people. 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:30.800 In June, Mayor Bass announced the city had hired ae COM, 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:35.320 tasked with designing new infrastructure, stronger fire protection, and updated 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:36.479 evacuation routes. 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:38.000 There's been a lot of work done, but. 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:40.960 After months of public meetings like this, there's still no 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:41.840 public report. 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:44.400 We're talking probably close to twenty million dollars in consultant 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:45.800 fees that's been paid this report. 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:49.520 Oh that's what this is about. Oh, yes, everyone's making 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:50.439 a mint off of it. 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:54.720 How many consulting groups were hired in the wake of 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:58.800 all this disaster? No one knew what exactly they were doing, 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:00.600 but they all got a whole lot of money. And 0:23:00.600 --> 0:23:03.680 then what do we find out The LAFD, through their foundation, 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:06.800