1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,400 S1: Hi friends, this is Janet Parshall. Thanks so much for 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:05,160 S1: downloading this podcast, and I hope you hear something that 3 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:07,560 S1: will really encourage and edify you. But before you start 4 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:09,400 S1: to listen, let me take a moment of your time 5 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:11,399 S1: and tell you about this month's truth tool. It's called 6 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,640 S1: secure How to Have a Healthy Attachment to God. And 7 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,360 S1: it follows that very often, whatever our relationship is like 8 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,000 S1: with authority figures, predominantly our parents, we somehow transferred to 9 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:23,040 S1: how we see God. So if we have an angry parent, 10 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,319 S1: he's an angry God. If it's a distant parent, he's 11 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,520 S1: a God who's not there. 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Welcome to In the Market with Janet partial. 45 00:02:10,260 --> 00:02:12,020 S1: A very happy Monday to you. Hope you had a 46 00:02:12,020 --> 00:02:14,339 S1: fabulous weekend. And thank you so much for joining me 47 00:02:14,340 --> 00:02:16,780 S1: this hour. On Friday, Craig and I talked about the 48 00:02:16,780 --> 00:02:20,700 S1: mounting pressure on the regime in Iran and whether or not, 49 00:02:20,700 --> 00:02:23,900 S1: given the particularly large military buildup in the Middle East, 50 00:02:24,100 --> 00:02:25,900 S1: whether or not there's going to be some kind of 51 00:02:25,940 --> 00:02:29,390 S1: a coordinated strike against Iran within the next 2 to 52 00:02:29,389 --> 00:02:31,820 S1: 3 weeks, well, we can know this. First of all, 53 00:02:31,820 --> 00:02:33,540 S1: I don't want to know. Don't tell me, because if 54 00:02:33,580 --> 00:02:35,980 S1: you told me you've told the regime. So that's just 55 00:02:35,980 --> 00:02:38,380 S1: part of security. Just I hope the people who are 56 00:02:38,380 --> 00:02:42,180 S1: responsible for making these decisions are in intense talks. I 57 00:02:42,220 --> 00:02:44,339 S1: hope that God is giving the wisdom that so many 58 00:02:44,340 --> 00:02:46,900 S1: of us have been praying for for them so they 59 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:49,180 S1: can make the right choice. But in the meantime, because 60 00:02:49,180 --> 00:02:52,060 S1: there's going to be a visit with Steve Wycoff, I 61 00:02:52,060 --> 00:02:54,540 S1: don't think it's going to happen any time soon. For 62 00:02:54,540 --> 00:02:56,579 S1: more on this, here's CBN news. 63 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,639 S6: U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are due 64 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,800 S6: to meet with Iran's foreign minister for a third round 65 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:08,320 S6: of talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday. Witkoff says President 66 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:12,360 S6: Trump is puzzled that Iran hasn't already agreed to a deal. 67 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,600 S7: I under this sort of pressure with the amount of 68 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,239 S7: US seapower, naval power that we have over there, why 69 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,560 S7: they haven't come to us and said we profess that 70 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,959 S7: we don't want a weapon. So here's what we're prepared 71 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:25,680 S7: to do. And yet it's hard to sort of get 72 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:26,760 S7: them to that place. 73 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,440 S6: With massive U.S. firepower in the region, President Trump is 74 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,680 S6: said to be considering preliminary limited military strikes to force 75 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:38,800 S6: Iran into an agreement. Israel is on its highest alert 76 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,680 S6: as it prepares for Iranian retaliation if the U.S. attacks Iran. 77 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,960 S6: In recent days, the IDF striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon 78 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,840 S6: as the Iranian proxy would likely join the fight. Iran's 79 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:55,850 S6: president says the government will not yield to external pressure, 80 00:03:55,890 --> 00:04:00,530 S6: the state news agency reports student protests at several universities 81 00:04:00,570 --> 00:04:05,210 S6: following memorials for those killed in the January protests. Visiting U.S. 82 00:04:05,250 --> 00:04:09,730 S6: Congressman Andy Ogles told CBN News in Jerusalem that regime 83 00:04:09,730 --> 00:04:11,650 S6: change needs to be organic. 84 00:04:11,770 --> 00:04:13,370 S8: What we've seen over the last few weeks is that 85 00:04:13,370 --> 00:04:16,050 S8: the Persian people, the people of Iran, want change. They 86 00:04:16,050 --> 00:04:19,210 S8: want their country back. And so I think there's the 87 00:04:19,210 --> 00:04:22,570 S8: opportunity for the United States to create that window for 88 00:04:22,570 --> 00:04:25,890 S8: the Persian people to assume their own destiny, but it 89 00:04:25,890 --> 00:04:28,370 S8: has to be from the Persian people, the people of Iran. 90 00:04:28,570 --> 00:04:30,650 S8: You know, no American boots on the ground. 91 00:04:30,890 --> 00:04:34,690 S6: Ogles says the change would revolutionize Iran, the Middle East 92 00:04:34,690 --> 00:04:36,050 S6: and even the world. 93 00:04:36,089 --> 00:04:40,010 S8: They've destabilized regions all over countries, all over the world, 94 00:04:40,010 --> 00:04:43,170 S8: and it will be a huge shift. And quite frankly, 95 00:04:43,210 --> 00:04:46,969 S8: opens up the opportunity, at least for peace globally once 96 00:04:47,010 --> 00:04:50,170 S8: Iran is no longer in the picture and, quite frankly, 97 00:04:50,170 --> 00:04:52,169 S8: their global network of terror. 98 00:04:52,529 --> 00:04:57,340 S6: On the sidelines, Arab and Muslim nations condemned U.S. Ambassador 99 00:04:57,339 --> 00:05:00,700 S6: to Israel Mike Huckabee's comment about the Middle East in 100 00:05:00,700 --> 00:05:04,740 S6: an interview with Tucker Carlson last week. Carlson quoted from 101 00:05:04,740 --> 00:05:08,620 S6: Genesis chapter 15 and asked Huckabee if Israel has a 102 00:05:08,620 --> 00:05:12,540 S6: right to all that land. In part, Huckabee responded, it 103 00:05:12,540 --> 00:05:15,180 S6: would be fine if they took it all. But the U.S. 104 00:05:15,220 --> 00:05:18,820 S6: embassy later pointed out it was taken out of context. 105 00:05:19,180 --> 00:05:20,740 S6: Huckabee continued. 106 00:05:20,940 --> 00:05:24,099 S9: They're not asking to go back to take all of that, 107 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:26,700 S9: but they are asking to at least take the land 108 00:05:27,220 --> 00:05:30,859 S9: that they now occupy. They now live in they now 109 00:05:31,180 --> 00:05:35,860 S9: own legitimately, and it is a safe haven for them. 110 00:05:35,900 --> 00:05:39,339 S6: He also said Israel isn't trying to take over Jordan, Lebanon, 111 00:05:39,339 --> 00:05:44,020 S6: Syria or Iraq. Just trying to protect itself. U.S. Congressman 112 00:05:44,020 --> 00:05:46,859 S6: Scott Perry, who is visiting Israel for the first time, 113 00:05:47,020 --> 00:05:51,180 S6: told CBN news that the situation is complicated and it's 114 00:05:51,180 --> 00:05:53,310 S6: important to see the facts on the ground. 115 00:05:53,350 --> 00:05:58,670 S10: A lot of people really don't fully understand what, um, 116 00:05:58,790 --> 00:06:02,550 S10: what the people of Israel deal with on a daily basis. 117 00:06:02,750 --> 00:06:08,150 S10: How close your adversaries are and tactically, the advantages they 118 00:06:08,150 --> 00:06:11,589 S10: have based on terrain, all those kind of things are 119 00:06:11,589 --> 00:06:15,230 S10: important for policymakers to know viscerally. 120 00:06:15,550 --> 00:06:17,989 S6: Julie Stahl, CBN news, Jerusalem. 121 00:06:18,029 --> 00:06:20,150 S1: Couldn't agree more. I've always said and Mark Twain said 122 00:06:20,150 --> 00:06:22,310 S1: it best. He said travel is the best teacher. When 123 00:06:22,310 --> 00:06:24,310 S1: you go to Israel, you see for yourself. You begin 124 00:06:24,310 --> 00:06:27,390 S1: to understand that so much of the palpable bias you 125 00:06:27,390 --> 00:06:30,309 S1: read in the mainstream media, the legacy press, is just 126 00:06:30,310 --> 00:06:33,190 S1: an outright lie. Uh, I'm going to be judicious in 127 00:06:33,190 --> 00:06:38,430 S1: my comments in that conversation between TC and Ambassador Huckabee. Um, 128 00:06:38,470 --> 00:06:42,310 S1: it was not at all a genial conversation on the 129 00:06:42,310 --> 00:06:45,909 S1: host's part. The ambassador was gracious. In fact, I posted 130 00:06:45,910 --> 00:06:48,750 S1: on X on my social platform on X that not 131 00:06:48,750 --> 00:06:51,610 S1: only was Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel. He 132 00:06:51,610 --> 00:06:54,369 S1: was an ambassador for Christ. He was quick to hear, 133 00:06:54,370 --> 00:06:56,650 S1: slow to speak, and slow to anger. He knew that 134 00:06:56,650 --> 00:06:59,330 S1: a soft answer turned away wrath, and he made sure 135 00:06:59,330 --> 00:07:01,170 S1: that he went to the core of the question even 136 00:07:01,170 --> 00:07:04,970 S1: when he was continuously being interrupted. And I think it 137 00:07:04,970 --> 00:07:07,970 S1: was Pastor Huckabee who answered the question when he was 138 00:07:07,970 --> 00:07:09,610 S1: talking about how much of the land. If you go 139 00:07:09,610 --> 00:07:12,330 S1: to Genesis, you understand that the boundaries of the deed 140 00:07:12,330 --> 00:07:15,170 S1: given in Scripture go far beyond this little piece of 141 00:07:15,170 --> 00:07:17,370 S1: real estate that's the size of new Jersey. It goes 142 00:07:17,370 --> 00:07:19,570 S1: all the way into Jordan, and it goes north into 143 00:07:19,570 --> 00:07:22,770 S1: Syria and into Lebanon. And so you begin to understand 144 00:07:22,770 --> 00:07:25,690 S1: that that's what God bequeathed them. And then after the 145 00:07:25,690 --> 00:07:29,930 S1: Balfour Declaration, the boundaries were drawn. Winston Churchill. The primary draw, 146 00:07:29,970 --> 00:07:32,730 S1: if you will, Pan Jordan becomes Jordan and Israel gets 147 00:07:32,770 --> 00:07:36,250 S1: reduced to the size of your thumb. New Jersey, a 148 00:07:36,250 --> 00:07:39,290 S1: tiny little piece of real estate. So what Ambassador Huckabee 149 00:07:39,290 --> 00:07:41,130 S1: was not trying to do was to say that Israel 150 00:07:41,130 --> 00:07:43,730 S1: plans on taking all of that back. He's basically saying, 151 00:07:43,730 --> 00:07:46,290 S1: give them the right to exist. In the meantime, we're 152 00:07:46,290 --> 00:07:49,260 S1: keeping an eye on what's going on in Iran. There Iran. 153 00:07:49,260 --> 00:07:51,140 S1: There are potential protests that are going to be taking 154 00:07:51,140 --> 00:07:54,220 S1: place there. If you've been watching over the weekend. Uh, 155 00:07:54,340 --> 00:07:57,100 S1: they're desperately trying. And in fact, let me do this. 156 00:07:57,100 --> 00:07:59,580 S1: Let me harken back to doctor, because I think he 157 00:07:59,580 --> 00:08:02,540 S1: is just a wonderful expert on this. He's a man 158 00:08:02,540 --> 00:08:05,140 S1: who left Iran, and I love the way Julie Stahl 159 00:08:05,140 --> 00:08:07,940 S1: and her reporting referred to it as the people of Persia. 160 00:08:07,980 --> 00:08:10,820 S1: You understand? This was a massive empire at one point 161 00:08:10,820 --> 00:08:14,020 S1: in time. They are not overly Muslim by any stretch 162 00:08:14,020 --> 00:08:18,620 S1: of the imagination. And to the man, Iran is markedly pro-Israel. 163 00:08:18,620 --> 00:08:22,020 S1: It is the ayatollahs, the mullahs, the religious leaders in 164 00:08:22,020 --> 00:08:25,340 S1: this theocracy that have them marked hatred toward Israel, the 165 00:08:25,340 --> 00:08:28,020 S1: little Satan and the United States, the Great Satan. And 166 00:08:28,020 --> 00:08:30,700 S1: I've said it before, and you're never going to get 167 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:33,140 S1: this in the alphabet soup media that you're listening to. 168 00:08:33,179 --> 00:08:36,860 S1: But you understand this because you have different glasses reading 169 00:08:36,860 --> 00:08:39,860 S1: the Bible one hand, the Bible the other hand the newspapers, 170 00:08:39,860 --> 00:08:42,140 S1: like walking through life through a Technicolor film as opposed 171 00:08:42,140 --> 00:08:44,460 S1: to black and white. You begin to understand that one 172 00:08:44,460 --> 00:08:46,459 S1: of the reasons why they're so desperate to keep their 173 00:08:46,460 --> 00:08:49,429 S1: nuclear power capability. And it isn't for energy. It is 174 00:08:49,429 --> 00:08:52,390 S1: for destruction, is because they believe that when they begin 175 00:08:52,390 --> 00:08:54,710 S1: to foment a war in that part of the world, 176 00:08:54,710 --> 00:08:57,590 S1: it will cause this huge conflagration that will turn it 177 00:08:57,590 --> 00:09:00,630 S1: into the Islamization of that whole part of the region 178 00:09:00,630 --> 00:09:03,550 S1: and onto the world. And at that point, their Messiah, 179 00:09:03,590 --> 00:09:08,270 S1: their Mahdi, steps forward. So according to their eschatology, according 180 00:09:08,270 --> 00:09:11,270 S1: to their theology, war is what they need and what 181 00:09:11,270 --> 00:09:13,710 S1: they want, but they can't quite say that to the 182 00:09:13,710 --> 00:09:16,550 S1: rest of the world that says, you really? You see 183 00:09:16,550 --> 00:09:18,790 S1: that ship over there? It's the USS Gerald Ford. Take 184 00:09:18,790 --> 00:09:21,390 S1: a look at that. And in the words of common parlance, 185 00:09:21,429 --> 00:09:24,189 S1: you want a piece of that? Okay, let's see what happens. 186 00:09:24,190 --> 00:09:26,550 S1: I'll tell you what I said on Friday. Again, pray 187 00:09:26,550 --> 00:09:29,589 S1: for those in leadership. This has the potential of being 188 00:09:29,590 --> 00:09:33,110 S1: a very big situation. Wisdom is needed now more than ever. 189 00:09:33,110 --> 00:09:45,750 S1: Back after this. We were created for relationships. Developing a 190 00:09:45,750 --> 00:09:49,680 S1: healthy attachment to God helps us form good relationships with others, 191 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:51,920 S1: and that's why I've chosen secure how to have a 192 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,840 S1: healthy attachment to God. As this month's truth tool, discover 193 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,520 S1: how real security is found in your relationship with God. 194 00:09:57,720 --> 00:09:59,480 S1: As for your copy of secure, when you give a 195 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,480 S1: gift of any amount to in the market, call 877 196 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:06,360 S1: Janet 58. That's 877 Janet 58 or go to in 197 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:12,160 S1: the market with Janet Parshall. Your. Family is very important 198 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:13,760 S1: to the heart of God. I've said it before. I 199 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:17,400 S1: think it bears repeating God creates three institutions and in 200 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,959 S1: this order, the family in the garden note a place 201 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,920 S1: of perfection, then government and then the church, because God 202 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:28,440 S1: places the family and tells Adam and Eve defining marriage 203 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:32,360 S1: beautifully and eternally as one man and one woman. He 204 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:35,040 S1: then told them to be fruitful and multiply. This gives 205 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,600 S1: us a hint at how precious family is to the 206 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:40,800 S1: heart of God. So thinking biblically and critically, not a 207 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,160 S1: multiple choice test, not an either or. It is a both. 208 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:45,620 S1: And you can begin to understand that if you were 209 00:10:45,620 --> 00:10:49,300 S1: the Prince of the air, you would go after the family, 210 00:10:49,300 --> 00:10:53,180 S1: because it is in that unit where Christian principles, biblical 211 00:10:53,179 --> 00:10:55,420 S1: values are passed down. In fact, we as moms and 212 00:10:55,420 --> 00:10:58,580 S1: dads are given a directive scripturally to do exactly that, 213 00:10:58,580 --> 00:11:00,699 S1: to train up a child in the way he should go. 214 00:11:00,860 --> 00:11:02,860 S1: And when he's old, he won't depart from it. Tells 215 00:11:02,860 --> 00:11:05,540 S1: us to teach them all the teachings of God's Word, 216 00:11:05,540 --> 00:11:08,020 S1: that they should be hung around their neck. That we 217 00:11:08,020 --> 00:11:10,780 S1: really and truly need to be able to understand that 218 00:11:10,780 --> 00:11:14,940 S1: teaching them appropriately and biblically is our directive. As a 219 00:11:14,940 --> 00:11:17,140 S1: mom and as a dad. It's getting harder. It never 220 00:11:17,140 --> 00:11:18,940 S1: was an easy job, by the way. And by the way, 221 00:11:18,940 --> 00:11:21,740 S1: you were not elected. You were divinely appointed to this job, 222 00:11:21,860 --> 00:11:23,540 S1: and nobody ever said it was going to be easy. 223 00:11:23,540 --> 00:11:25,340 S1: And so much of it is on the job training. 224 00:11:25,340 --> 00:11:28,300 S1: And it doesn't help when once you open the flap 225 00:11:28,300 --> 00:11:31,339 S1: of the tent of your little house and you step outside, 226 00:11:31,340 --> 00:11:34,819 S1: the winds are howling against everything you believe biblically and 227 00:11:34,820 --> 00:11:37,260 S1: everything you know to be right and true and good. 228 00:11:37,260 --> 00:11:40,939 S1: And it is. Reality check here. It's getting worse. The 229 00:11:40,940 --> 00:11:44,229 S1: classroom was never meant to be a combat zone for kids. 230 00:11:44,230 --> 00:11:47,710 S1: Schools were always designed to work in cooperation and coordination 231 00:11:47,710 --> 00:11:51,310 S1: with parents. Never, ever, ever validating the transcendent role of 232 00:11:51,309 --> 00:11:54,750 S1: mom and dad as the best department of Health, education 233 00:11:54,750 --> 00:11:57,750 S1: and welfare. But I don't know where it's coming from. 234 00:11:57,750 --> 00:12:00,950 S1: The unions or ideology, or a hallmark of the imminent 235 00:12:00,990 --> 00:12:04,230 S1: return of Jesus Christ. But now, so often, classrooms are 236 00:12:04,230 --> 00:12:07,870 S1: just that. They become battlefields. And now it is imperative, 237 00:12:07,870 --> 00:12:10,390 S1: more than ever before, that we take seriously the admonition 238 00:12:10,390 --> 00:12:13,069 S1: to look well to the ways of our household. So 239 00:12:13,070 --> 00:12:14,429 S1: one of the things I like to do is give 240 00:12:14,429 --> 00:12:16,469 S1: you some reports not to make you afraid by any 241 00:12:16,470 --> 00:12:18,550 S1: stretch of the imagination, but for you to hear the 242 00:12:18,550 --> 00:12:21,390 S1: sound of the trumpet. Nehemiah, as he is repairing the 243 00:12:21,390 --> 00:12:24,150 S1: broken walls around Jerusalem, says, when you hear the sound 244 00:12:24,150 --> 00:12:27,069 S1: of the trumpet, fight for your families. This is about 245 00:12:27,070 --> 00:12:29,790 S1: trumpet sounding, you and I to become deeply attuned to 246 00:12:29,830 --> 00:12:31,990 S1: the sound of the trumpet that says, I've got to 247 00:12:31,990 --> 00:12:35,510 S1: pay attention. Something is going on. You don't surrender your child. 248 00:12:35,710 --> 00:12:39,110 S1: You lend lease your child to the local public school 249 00:12:39,110 --> 00:12:41,790 S1: with the idea that they're not going to denigrate and 250 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:44,120 S1: tear apart the very values you're going to spend the 251 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:47,160 S1: rest of your life instilling in your child. We're going 252 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,079 S1: to put this now in flesh and blood, and put 253 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:51,559 S1: some shoe leather into it by talking to my daughter, 254 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:55,040 S1: who now I hope under her, under understood everything I 255 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:57,280 S1: just said. She heard this all her life growing up. 256 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:00,560 S1: She's the vice boring. She says. I've heard it before. 257 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,360 S1: She's the vice president legal fellow at Defending Education, former 258 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,360 S1: senior counsel to the assistant secretary for civil rights at 259 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:10,000 S1: the US Department of Ed. And right now, Sara, I 260 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,640 S1: can't keep up with you. You're doing so much. It 261 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:15,000 S1: is unbelievable. It's like a tsunami of these challenges. So 262 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:16,760 S1: let me start with I'm going to pick up actually 263 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:18,720 S1: on a conversation your dad and I had on Friday, 264 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:21,800 S1: which is we got this marvelous decision out of the 265 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,200 S1: People's Republic of Montgomery County. And if you lived in 266 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,280 S1: that neck of the woods, you'd understand why I'm saying that. 267 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,000 S1: It's a I'll never forget your dad arguing a case. 268 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,800 S1: And he was citing the law to a judge, and 269 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:33,600 S1: the judge was so far of left field, and Craig 270 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,319 S1: was citing the law to him. And the judge said, 271 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,960 S1: welcome to Montgomery County. Mr.. Partial. As if to say 272 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,250 S1: the law don't mean nothing here. I'm the judge, and 273 00:13:41,250 --> 00:13:43,329 S1: that's very much a part of what happens. There are 274 00:13:43,370 --> 00:13:46,330 S1: an autonomous state unto themselves. So a bunch of parents 275 00:13:46,370 --> 00:13:49,770 S1: got together. Muslims, Orthodox Christians and others formed this very 276 00:13:49,770 --> 00:13:52,850 S1: unique coalition representing the pluralism that is the United States 277 00:13:52,850 --> 00:13:56,170 S1: of America and said, when you start bringing in that stuff, 278 00:13:56,170 --> 00:14:00,090 S1: that LGBTQ stuff, it violates our sincerely held religious beliefs. 279 00:14:00,090 --> 00:14:02,850 S1: We want the right to opt out first, Montgomery said. Yes. Then, 280 00:14:02,850 --> 00:14:04,930 S1: without giving an explanation, they said no. And the next 281 00:14:04,929 --> 00:14:06,970 S1: thing you know that got kicked all the way to 282 00:14:06,970 --> 00:14:09,250 S1: the United States Supreme Court, where, thanks be to God, 283 00:14:09,290 --> 00:14:11,570 S1: a majority of the justices came down and said no 284 00:14:11,570 --> 00:14:14,929 S1: and once again secured parents rights, a ruling we hadn't 285 00:14:14,929 --> 00:14:18,130 S1: had for quite some time and basically said, absolutely, you 286 00:14:18,130 --> 00:14:20,250 S1: can now opt your child out. I would have thought 287 00:14:20,250 --> 00:14:21,650 S1: that would have been done. It would have been, as 288 00:14:21,650 --> 00:14:23,770 S1: we say in music, the coda, the double bar line, 289 00:14:23,770 --> 00:14:25,690 S1: the end of the song. It was not by any 290 00:14:25,690 --> 00:14:29,250 S1: stretch of the imagination. Now I'm reading about places like Lexington, 291 00:14:29,250 --> 00:14:33,810 S1: Massachusetts and Colorado where schools are trying to do workarounds 292 00:14:33,810 --> 00:14:36,450 S1: for Mahmoud. Mahmoud v Taylor was the name of the case, 293 00:14:36,450 --> 00:14:38,770 S1: and what they're doing is they're saying, we think we 294 00:14:38,870 --> 00:14:41,150 S1: found a couple of loopholes in the Supreme Court decision. 295 00:14:41,150 --> 00:14:44,310 S1: So I know we'll have let's have lunch with the 296 00:14:44,310 --> 00:14:47,310 S1: teacher meeting instead. And then they start giving them all 297 00:14:47,310 --> 00:14:49,190 S1: the gay and lesbian stuff under the guise of, let's 298 00:14:49,190 --> 00:14:51,910 S1: just go have lunch with the teacher, Sarah. I know 299 00:14:51,910 --> 00:14:56,070 S1: at Defending Editor, the organization where your VP, you actually 300 00:14:56,070 --> 00:15:00,470 S1: have these indoctrination reports and they're it's they flood your 301 00:15:00,470 --> 00:15:03,190 S1: website with stories like this coming in across the country. 302 00:15:03,510 --> 00:15:05,670 S1: This is now a pattern. It's not a one off. 303 00:15:05,710 --> 00:15:08,070 S1: What is defending it doing about this. More importantly, what 304 00:15:08,070 --> 00:15:11,190 S1: do mom and dad do about this if the schools go? Basically, 305 00:15:11,190 --> 00:15:12,950 S1: I don't care what the Supreme Court said. We're doing 306 00:15:12,950 --> 00:15:13,630 S1: our own thing. 307 00:15:14,350 --> 00:15:16,470 S11: You know, this is where we're going to see more 308 00:15:16,470 --> 00:15:18,910 S11: litigation going forward. There are a lot of us that 309 00:15:18,910 --> 00:15:21,590 S11: thought maybe we would be lucky, and this would be 310 00:15:21,590 --> 00:15:24,390 S11: the end of the line for indoctrination in public education. 311 00:15:24,390 --> 00:15:26,910 S11: But you and I know that is not the case. 312 00:15:27,110 --> 00:15:30,350 S11: We know it has been increasingly the case since the 313 00:15:30,350 --> 00:15:35,150 S11: 1960s and 70s and the advent of so-called social emotional learning. 314 00:15:35,150 --> 00:15:38,160 S11: The minute you get off the basics and you get 315 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:45,480 S11: on to manipulation of worldview, values, ideas, progressive perspectives. You 316 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,840 S11: automatically have a problem in your hands that's going to 317 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:52,080 S11: necessitate more people opting out, but more people suing to 318 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:57,120 S11: enforce their opt out rights. You rightly mention Lexington, Massachusetts. Boulder, 319 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:01,920 S11: Colorado as well. We are also seeing Seattle, Washington, the 320 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,360 S11: majority of the state of Hawaii, a number of school 321 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,360 S11: districts in Los Angeles, and they have offered up every 322 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,840 S11: perspective from it does not apply to us, because that 323 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:15,640 S11: was in the Fourth Circuit, which is Montgomery County, Maryland, 324 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:18,720 S11: on the East Coast. We've heard other administrators say we're 325 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,520 S11: not going to let you examine the curriculum because it's 326 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:25,960 S11: protected by copyright law, which is just a legally inaccurate 327 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:30,280 S11: perspective on copyright law. And then we've heard what you've described, 328 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:34,720 S11: which is, well, we will institute this in activities so 329 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:38,610 S11: they don't look like curriculum to which there is a 330 00:16:38,610 --> 00:16:42,610 S11: legal right of examination and opt out if it interferes 331 00:16:42,610 --> 00:16:45,930 S11: with a parent's ability to raise their children and the 332 00:16:45,930 --> 00:16:50,930 S11: tenets of their faith. We're not seeing less of this post, Mahmood. 333 00:16:50,970 --> 00:16:54,930 S11: We're seeing more, and we anticipate more litigation, not just 334 00:16:54,970 --> 00:16:58,370 S11: on LGBTQ themes, but on others as well. 335 00:16:58,690 --> 00:17:01,930 S1: So there's so much here because, again, moms and dads 336 00:17:01,930 --> 00:17:04,570 S1: will probably learn about this after the fact, not before, 337 00:17:04,570 --> 00:17:06,410 S1: because the schools are not in the business of giving 338 00:17:06,410 --> 00:17:09,850 S1: notification to parents. That's why they're doing these circuitous workarounds 339 00:17:09,850 --> 00:17:12,530 S1: from the Supreme Court decision. Tell me what Mom and 340 00:17:12,530 --> 00:17:15,170 S1: dad can do if the direct biblically is to look 341 00:17:15,170 --> 00:17:16,930 S1: well to the ways of your household and you want 342 00:17:16,970 --> 00:17:19,050 S1: if you want your child out of this and they're 343 00:17:19,050 --> 00:17:21,369 S1: trying to get at your child. So tell me again, 344 00:17:21,369 --> 00:17:25,130 S1: this is not indoctrination as opposed to education. There has 345 00:17:25,130 --> 00:17:26,729 S1: to be a way to protect your child. How do 346 00:17:26,730 --> 00:17:29,410 S1: we do that? Sarah Perry will answer that question and 347 00:17:29,410 --> 00:17:52,740 S1: a whole lot more when we get back. We're visiting 348 00:17:52,740 --> 00:17:55,500 S1: with Sarah Perry, my precious daughter, who is the vice 349 00:17:55,500 --> 00:17:59,260 S1: president and legal fellow at defending, editor, former senior counsel 350 00:17:59,260 --> 00:18:01,580 S1: to the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the US 351 00:18:01,580 --> 00:18:04,659 S1: Department of Ed. And we are talking about, among a 352 00:18:04,660 --> 00:18:06,780 S1: myriad of things, I guess we would put this under 353 00:18:06,780 --> 00:18:09,580 S1: the canopy of chaos in the classroom. So the Supreme 354 00:18:09,580 --> 00:18:12,740 S1: Court hands down this decision that basically says good news 355 00:18:12,740 --> 00:18:14,740 S1: for us, mom and dad, that you have the right 356 00:18:14,740 --> 00:18:17,220 S1: because of your sincerely held religious beliefs, to opt your 357 00:18:17,220 --> 00:18:21,660 S1: child out of curricula that is antithetical to your particular worldview, 358 00:18:21,660 --> 00:18:25,260 S1: underscoring then the importance, the primacy, the penumbral, a word 359 00:18:25,260 --> 00:18:28,139 S1: they used to use years ago when talking about parents rights. 360 00:18:28,140 --> 00:18:30,619 S1: The penumbra right to parent your child. But now schools 361 00:18:30,619 --> 00:18:33,760 S1: are doing some workarounds because, as Sarah pointed out, they'll 362 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:37,040 S1: just drop it in the activities category, i.e. lunch with 363 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:41,240 S1: teacher as opposed to reading or math class. So Sarah again, 364 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,240 S1: Hoodwinking the parent just proves that there's a schism there 365 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,880 S1: between the school and the home where there never should be, 366 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:48,879 S1: by the way. So what does a mom or dad do? 367 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:50,200 S1: I mean, how are they going to find out ahead 368 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,040 S1: of time where the activities are? The school's not going 369 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:55,400 S1: to be forthcoming because if they have this agenda, honesty 370 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:57,120 S1: is not going to be a hallmark of what they're doing. 371 00:18:57,119 --> 00:19:00,080 S1: They're trying to do this on the q.t. So how 372 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,080 S1: does a mom and dad take care of their kids 373 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:03,600 S1: and prevent this from happening? 374 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,000 S11: There are a couple of federal statutory laws that are 375 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,480 S11: enforced through the Department of Education that actually give parents 376 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:14,120 S11: a couple of very strong rights in the American classroom. 377 00:19:14,359 --> 00:19:17,800 S11: One of those is the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, 378 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:22,720 S11: or the PRA. The PRA is designed specifically to permit 379 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:26,640 S11: the examination of all curriculum that is passed through your 380 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:31,159 S11: child's classroom, and allow you the opportunity to opt out 381 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:36,689 S11: of surveys if they contain questions on invasive topics. That's 382 00:19:36,690 --> 00:19:43,690 S11: things like sexual orientation or gender identity, criminal behavior, illegal behavior, 383 00:19:43,890 --> 00:19:50,410 S11: family infighting, relationships that are troubled, family information on political 384 00:19:50,410 --> 00:19:55,929 S11: affiliation or socioeconomic status. This is a big, broad opt 385 00:19:55,930 --> 00:19:59,409 S11: out category, and it gives every parent the right to 386 00:19:59,410 --> 00:20:02,609 S11: go into the principal's office and say, I would like 387 00:20:02,609 --> 00:20:06,370 S11: to examine the curriculum for my child for this year. 388 00:20:06,570 --> 00:20:09,330 S11: If you are told that you are not allowed, or 389 00:20:09,330 --> 00:20:14,290 S11: that copyright prevents it, or any other reason, you have 390 00:20:14,290 --> 00:20:18,649 S11: a denial of your rights under PRA and can actually 391 00:20:18,690 --> 00:20:23,290 S11: file a complaint with the US Department of Education's Student 392 00:20:23,290 --> 00:20:28,689 S11: Privacy Policy Office. That is a type of law, the PRA, 393 00:20:29,010 --> 00:20:34,139 S11: that is actually operated in forced mechanized by federal funding. 394 00:20:34,140 --> 00:20:38,020 S11: That means if the federal Department of Education finds out 395 00:20:38,020 --> 00:20:42,340 S11: that you're being stonewalled on examination of curriculum, they can 396 00:20:42,340 --> 00:20:46,899 S11: actually withdraw the federal funding from that recipient. So that's 397 00:20:46,900 --> 00:20:51,100 S11: number one. Number two. Another law called the Every Student 398 00:20:51,260 --> 00:20:56,780 S11: Succeeds Act gives you as a parent, the right to 399 00:20:56,820 --> 00:21:01,260 S11: sit in and observe your child's class day, not just 400 00:21:01,300 --> 00:21:05,540 S11: on the sort of observation day that are always advertised 401 00:21:05,540 --> 00:21:09,060 S11: ahead of time, but any time it is feasible to 402 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:13,100 S11: do so without disrupting the class. That kind of stealth 403 00:21:13,100 --> 00:21:17,939 S11: investigation is a very powerful tool to find out exactly 404 00:21:17,940 --> 00:21:21,739 S11: what's going on during the school day and under the 405 00:21:21,740 --> 00:21:26,580 S11: protection of that federal law. So those are two, I think, underutilized, 406 00:21:26,580 --> 00:21:29,070 S11: but very necessary Resources. 407 00:21:29,109 --> 00:21:31,870 S1: Well, well. Keeping in the same theme with Mahmoud, you 408 00:21:31,869 --> 00:21:34,710 S1: just recently testified on Capitol Hill. Tell me about it. 409 00:21:34,750 --> 00:21:36,870 S1: Why were you called and what were you testifying about? 410 00:21:37,670 --> 00:21:41,750 S11: Well, the House Education and Workforce Committee recognized exactly what 411 00:21:41,750 --> 00:21:44,910 S11: we're talking about today, and that is the fact that 412 00:21:44,910 --> 00:21:49,310 S11: school districts across the country are refusing to allow parents 413 00:21:49,310 --> 00:21:53,550 S11: to opt out, despite a very clear directive from the 414 00:21:53,550 --> 00:21:56,670 S11: Supreme Court. And, in fact, it was interesting to me 415 00:21:56,710 --> 00:22:00,350 S11: because a lot of the liberal politicians who were questioning 416 00:22:00,350 --> 00:22:05,230 S11: me brought up specific characteristics about the example of Department 417 00:22:05,230 --> 00:22:08,830 S11: of Education, which is itself, of course, a federal entity. 418 00:22:08,869 --> 00:22:12,950 S11: Many conservatives have been calling for its dismantling for many years. 419 00:22:13,030 --> 00:22:15,790 S11: And so what we heard is a common refrain, which 420 00:22:15,790 --> 00:22:19,070 S11: is laughable once you get to the illogic of it, 421 00:22:19,070 --> 00:22:23,350 S11: is why did they have to go for federal recourse 422 00:22:23,350 --> 00:22:26,750 S11: to the federal courts if we want the federal government 423 00:22:26,790 --> 00:22:30,560 S11: out of education and how I responded, and I will 424 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,320 S11: demur on the name of the congressman who asked me 425 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:39,320 S11: this question. And my response was, federal courts are courts 426 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:44,800 S11: of last resort. They went through the administrative procedures they requested. 427 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,120 S11: Opt outs, opt outs were revoked. They requested them again. 428 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:52,360 S11: Opt outs were denied. After going through the regular administrative 429 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:58,200 S11: channels at the local level, sometimes, unfortunately, federal litigation is 430 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,399 S11: the only way to enforce your rights. And that is 431 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:05,879 S11: precisely what happened with this multi-faith group of parents here. 432 00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:10,080 S11: They had gotten to the point where nothing else was working, 433 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:14,200 S11: and yet these were all perspectives that were directly at 434 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:18,440 S11: odds with God's, with what Justice Alito called the normative 435 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,240 S11: curriculum that was being taught to them. Remember, these are 436 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:26,300 S11: kids who are five, six, and seven years old. And Specifically, 437 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:29,820 S11: they are being read books like Pride Puppy. They're being 438 00:23:29,820 --> 00:23:33,420 S11: read books like Uncle Bobby's Wedding. These are not the 439 00:23:33,420 --> 00:23:37,859 S11: kinds of materials that are simply inclusions of math, English, 440 00:23:37,859 --> 00:23:42,820 S11: social studies. They are normative. They are designed to change perspectives. 441 00:23:43,340 --> 00:23:45,620 S1: Now, and as you pointed out in your testimony, both 442 00:23:45,619 --> 00:23:47,699 S1: written and oral, was if you take a look at 443 00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:51,140 S1: our scores in math and in reading, they're abysmal. So 444 00:23:51,140 --> 00:23:54,139 S1: while we're talking about Uncle Bobby's wedding, we can't write 445 00:23:54,140 --> 00:23:55,660 S1: and we can't do our math facts. 446 00:23:56,580 --> 00:24:02,260 S11: That's exactly it. We've got 22% numeracy and 35% literacy. 447 00:24:02,300 --> 00:24:07,220 S11: It's absolutely inexcusable. Two thirds of our young people cannot 448 00:24:07,260 --> 00:24:09,060 S11: read or write on grade level. 449 00:24:09,420 --> 00:24:09,780 S3: Wow. 450 00:24:10,140 --> 00:24:12,300 S1: When we come back, Sarah defending and just filed a 451 00:24:12,300 --> 00:24:15,300 S1: civil rights complaint against Hawaii's Department of Ed. I want 452 00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:16,700 S1: you to tell me about that, and tell me about 453 00:24:16,700 --> 00:24:18,939 S1: some of the actions you've also got across the country 454 00:24:18,940 --> 00:24:22,340 S1: with these complaints and just bigger picture when somebody files 455 00:24:22,380 --> 00:24:25,390 S1: a complaint and it has to do with the Department 456 00:24:25,390 --> 00:24:27,429 S1: of Education. What does that mean and how does it 457 00:24:27,470 --> 00:24:30,190 S1: complaint different from a lawsuit? And is it the trigger 458 00:24:30,190 --> 00:24:33,990 S1: mechanism that might start litigation. So lots of questions really 459 00:24:33,990 --> 00:24:35,869 S1: a lot of questions here. Mom and dad this is 460 00:24:35,869 --> 00:24:37,950 S1: for your benefit. So you know what's going on in 461 00:24:37,950 --> 00:24:40,909 S1: the classroom I pray for those teachers who are followers 462 00:24:40,910 --> 00:24:43,270 S1: of Christ in a public classroom. It is a mission 463 00:24:43,270 --> 00:24:45,870 S1: field today. So you continue to pray for them as well. 464 00:24:45,869 --> 00:24:59,990 S1: Back after this. As a Christian, how do you digest 465 00:24:59,990 --> 00:25:02,230 S1: the cultural issues of our day and in the market? 466 00:25:02,230 --> 00:25:05,230 S1: We believe that understanding happens when we bring biblical truth 467 00:25:05,230 --> 00:25:07,590 S1: to expose the darkness in our world. That's what we 468 00:25:07,590 --> 00:25:09,510 S1: do every day and in the market. May I ask 469 00:25:09,510 --> 00:25:11,669 S1: you to join us? When you become a partial partner, 470 00:25:11,670 --> 00:25:15,149 S1: your monthly gift ensures this daily program continues. Become a 471 00:25:15,150 --> 00:25:18,310 S1: partial partner today by calling 877 Janet 58 or go 472 00:25:18,310 --> 00:25:24,120 S1: to in the market with Janet Parshall. Sarah Perry is 473 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:25,960 S1: with us. We're taking a look at the chaos in 474 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,680 S1: the classroom. She is vice president and legal fellow at 475 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,840 S1: Defending Editor, and she is also a former senior counsel 476 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,440 S1: to the Assistant secretary for Civil Rights at the US 477 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,800 S1: Department of Education. So, Sarah, if I can, before we 478 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,920 S1: get into this most recent action by defending editor, when 479 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,560 S1: you filed a civil rights complaint against the Hawaii Department 480 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,160 S1: of Ed, tell me about the nature of a complaint. 481 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,800 S1: You know, when we think of complaint, if you're not 482 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,400 S1: a lawyer or a law student, you think complaint is 483 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:52,600 S1: what you say when somebody burns your toast. Okay, I'm 484 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,600 S1: complaining about my toast. But legally, what is a complaint? 485 00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:00,119 S11: Yeah. So a complaint is actually something filed, um, by 486 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:05,320 S11: any individual who has knowledge of discrimination taking place in 487 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,760 S11: any publicly funded education setting. This doesn't have to be 488 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:13,520 S11: someone who was discriminated against or someone who actually had 489 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,480 S11: their rights violated. You can do this as a citizen, 490 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,480 S11: as a member of the community, as someone with knowledge 491 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:24,169 S11: about what's going on. That actually is a function designed 492 00:26:24,170 --> 00:26:28,090 S11: to keep federal funding recipients accountable to the people that 493 00:26:28,090 --> 00:26:30,490 S11: they serve. And you're able to do it not just 494 00:26:30,490 --> 00:26:33,570 S11: through the Department of Education, but also through the Department 495 00:26:33,570 --> 00:26:36,650 S11: of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services. We, 496 00:26:36,690 --> 00:26:39,850 S11: of course, focus on the Department of Education, and it 497 00:26:39,850 --> 00:26:44,369 S11: gives us an opportunity to draw the administration's attention to 498 00:26:44,410 --> 00:26:48,970 S11: areas where we know malfeasance is transpiring. It is not 499 00:26:49,010 --> 00:26:54,930 S11: actually a lawsuit. They are very, very well reasoned, legally 500 00:26:54,970 --> 00:26:59,169 S11: sound complaints. We only submit complaints that we think will 501 00:26:59,170 --> 00:27:02,970 S11: be of interest to the Department of Education, because it's 502 00:27:02,970 --> 00:27:06,330 S11: such a clear violation, and one of the ones that 503 00:27:06,330 --> 00:27:09,690 S11: we just filed, I filed this very recently was, as 504 00:27:09,690 --> 00:27:14,850 S11: you rightly mentioned, against Hawaii Department of Education. Now, why? Well, 505 00:27:14,850 --> 00:27:20,389 S11: that's because Hawaii Department of Public Education does not believe 506 00:27:20,630 --> 00:27:24,590 S11: it has to interpret and apply title nine, which is 507 00:27:24,590 --> 00:27:29,910 S11: a very short statute dating to 1972, guaranteeing sex equality 508 00:27:29,910 --> 00:27:34,030 S11: in education. It does not believe it has to follow 509 00:27:34,030 --> 00:27:38,469 S11: that it would prefer, and indeed does follow its own 510 00:27:38,510 --> 00:27:43,550 S11: contrary law to expand the definition of sex to include 511 00:27:43,550 --> 00:27:47,670 S11: gender identity or gender expression. Now you can see what 512 00:27:47,670 --> 00:27:51,470 S11: a mess that makes of Hawaii's public school, because when 513 00:27:51,470 --> 00:27:55,630 S11: you have an additional class of individuals who identify as 514 00:27:55,630 --> 00:28:00,350 S11: male even though they are biologically female, or who identify 515 00:28:00,350 --> 00:28:04,350 S11: as female even though they are biologically male, that throws 516 00:28:04,390 --> 00:28:10,669 S11: things like scholarships, bathrooms, locker rooms, sports teams, housing accommodations 517 00:28:10,670 --> 00:28:14,350 S11: into utter chaos. And what they've done is hold fast 518 00:28:14,390 --> 00:28:17,750 S11: to it, saying, well, it's our Hawaii state law that 519 00:28:17,750 --> 00:28:21,920 S11: we have to follow, not with the administration is applying 520 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,520 S11: to us, which is title nine. Even though the administration 521 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:29,640 S11: has made very clear that the word sex means male 522 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,040 S11: and female, they have decided that they're willing to take 523 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,520 S11: a gamble with the Department of Education. And so we're 524 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,200 S11: going to be very interested to see what happens next. 525 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,400 S1: So question, uh, and I've learned this, one of the 526 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:44,120 S1: first things I learned when I came to Washington, if 527 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,640 S1: you stick your hand in the cookie jar and take 528 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:48,920 S1: out a cookie, i.e. money, you're going to have to 529 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:50,720 S1: play by their rules. They get to pick the cookie 530 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,600 S1: for you, but you've taken the cookie. And so now 531 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:54,080 S1: you're going to have to listen to what the federal 532 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,320 S1: government says. So I find it interesting because basically Hawaii, 533 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,120 S1: because this is driven by ideology and politics more than 534 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,680 S1: it is anything else. But now they're going to find themselves, 535 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,280 S1: it seems to me, at a crossroad where whether or 536 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:08,920 S1: not they ascribe to ideology and politics and that supersedes 537 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,239 S1: money and money doesn't talk. It screams, especially when it 538 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,080 S1: comes from Washington. So if the complaint gets filed with 539 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,330 S1: the Department of Ed, title nine, by the way, would 540 00:29:17,330 --> 00:29:20,850 S1: apply to every single school in the United States of 541 00:29:20,850 --> 00:29:24,930 S1: America that takes one penny of federal funding. Hawaii may 542 00:29:24,970 --> 00:29:27,610 S1: be islands. They're still part of the United States, and 543 00:29:27,610 --> 00:29:29,690 S1: they would still have to be under the canopy of 544 00:29:29,690 --> 00:29:33,370 S1: constitutional law. So the thing about the complaint, and I 545 00:29:33,370 --> 00:29:35,690 S1: want my friends to understand this is basically what it's 546 00:29:35,690 --> 00:29:39,650 S1: saying is it's like the showdown at the okay corral. 547 00:29:39,850 --> 00:29:44,050 S1: You're out there. The sun glints off of your complaint 548 00:29:44,050 --> 00:29:46,770 S1: and says, if we go to court, these are the 549 00:29:46,770 --> 00:29:49,170 S1: arguments we're going to make, and you need to know 550 00:29:49,210 --> 00:29:51,570 S1: ahead of time that they're reasoned and that we think 551 00:29:51,570 --> 00:29:54,130 S1: that we're going to come down as being victorious in 552 00:29:54,130 --> 00:29:56,729 S1: this particular complaint. He handed off to the Department of Ed. 553 00:29:56,770 --> 00:29:58,810 S1: The Department of Ed decides whether or not they're going 554 00:29:58,850 --> 00:30:01,970 S1: to move forward. But without litigation, could the Department of 555 00:30:01,970 --> 00:30:04,930 S1: Ed turn off the switch for funding to, for example, 556 00:30:04,930 --> 00:30:06,970 S1: the Hawaii Department of Ed, if they decided to thumb 557 00:30:06,970 --> 00:30:08,090 S1: their nose at title nine? 558 00:30:08,810 --> 00:30:11,770 S11: Yes, absolutely they can. And in fact, they have done 559 00:30:11,770 --> 00:30:15,170 S11: that at other universities with other states. I give you 560 00:30:15,170 --> 00:30:18,500 S11: a perfect example. State of Maine, for example, is in 561 00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:21,140 S11: a knock down drag out with the Department of Justice 562 00:30:21,140 --> 00:30:24,380 S11: over this. Generally, what happens is if the Department of 563 00:30:24,380 --> 00:30:28,140 S11: Education and a state recipient cannot come to an agreement 564 00:30:28,140 --> 00:30:32,900 S11: through something called a voluntary resolution, they've negotiated back and forth. 565 00:30:32,940 --> 00:30:35,820 S11: It works like, you know, mediation, right? Two parties come 566 00:30:35,820 --> 00:30:37,700 S11: to the table. This is what you can do to 567 00:30:37,740 --> 00:30:40,900 S11: stop discriminating. We would be satisfied with this. If they 568 00:30:40,900 --> 00:30:43,340 S11: can't work it out that way. And let me tell you, 569 00:30:43,380 --> 00:30:45,540 S11: a lot of these recipients are not willing to work 570 00:30:45,540 --> 00:30:48,700 S11: it out that way with the Department of Education, then 571 00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:51,140 S11: the Department of Ed can kick it over to the 572 00:30:51,140 --> 00:30:55,340 S11: Department of Justice, the nation's law firm, and then they 573 00:30:55,340 --> 00:30:58,940 S11: can individually litigate sometimes if they don't want to send 574 00:30:58,940 --> 00:31:01,700 S11: it to the Department of Justice, they don't necessarily think 575 00:31:01,700 --> 00:31:05,620 S11: the national interest is that significant. Then they will issue 576 00:31:05,620 --> 00:31:09,940 S11: a right to sue letter. And individuals like me can 577 00:31:09,940 --> 00:31:13,940 S11: actually go ahead and bring suit against the Department of 578 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:18,280 S11: Education in Hawaii. Because the Department of Education has said 579 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:22,000 S11: you've exhausted your administrative remedies, we weren't able to come 580 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,600 S11: to a resolution. Now you can take it to court. 581 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,360 S1: And in Hawaii, are they not quite literally on the 582 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,760 S1: horns of a dilemma? One of them is the violation 583 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,560 S1: of title nine, because they're going to do their own 584 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,800 S1: thing when it comes to this transsexual ideology. So if 585 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:37,560 S1: you feel like a girl, you get to use, um, 586 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,040 S1: a girls bathroom. If you feel like a boy, you 587 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:41,720 S1: get to use a boys bathroom or locker room, I 588 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,280 S1: get it, but it goes beyond that because they're also, 589 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,960 S1: I think, having compelled speech, they're saying to the students, 590 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,479 S1: you better use the right pronouns. Now that in and 591 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,719 S1: of itself would be a standalone problem, would it not? 592 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,800 S11: Yeah, it absolutely would be a standalone problem. And here's 593 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:59,400 S11: what they're relying on is really they're forgetting the Constitution 594 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,560 S11: supremacy Clause. The Supremacy Clause makes very clear that when 595 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,760 S11: there is a clash between federal law and state law, 596 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:09,840 S11: if the purpose of the federal law would be frustrated 597 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,050 S11: by the contrary state law, well, bingo, you have your answer. 598 00:32:13,050 --> 00:32:17,970 S11: And federal law preempts. That is the entire design of 599 00:32:17,970 --> 00:32:21,290 S11: the Supremacy Clause, so that we don't have states that 600 00:32:21,290 --> 00:32:25,570 S11: are legislating in such a way as to frustrate national interests. 601 00:32:25,570 --> 00:32:28,890 S11: That's precisely what's at work here. It is a basic 602 00:32:28,890 --> 00:32:32,530 S11: principle of constitutional law. But the state of Hawaii seems 603 00:32:32,530 --> 00:32:33,850 S11: to have ignored that. 604 00:32:34,290 --> 00:32:37,690 S1: Now, so you've filed the complaint. Now what do you do? 605 00:32:38,130 --> 00:32:40,330 S1: You wait for them to return the volley or what 606 00:32:40,330 --> 00:32:41,250 S1: happens next? 607 00:32:41,730 --> 00:32:44,050 S11: We will wait. We will see whether or not, first 608 00:32:44,050 --> 00:32:46,810 S11: of all, the Department of Education wants to open a complaint. 609 00:32:46,810 --> 00:32:48,890 S11: We are hopeful that they will. Based on the fact 610 00:32:48,890 --> 00:32:52,170 S11: they have ongoing investigations with the state of Maine and 611 00:32:52,170 --> 00:32:55,010 S11: with the state of California, both of whom, again, have 612 00:32:55,010 --> 00:32:58,490 S11: decided they're going to be in a standoff with the administration. 613 00:32:58,530 --> 00:33:00,930 S11: We are hopeful that they will do the same thing here. 614 00:33:00,930 --> 00:33:04,130 S11: It could take many months, but they have a period 615 00:33:04,130 --> 00:33:07,610 S11: of 180 days where once a complaint comes in, they 616 00:33:07,610 --> 00:33:11,090 S11: have to determine if they'll open it for investigation or 617 00:33:11,180 --> 00:33:13,500 S11: if they will close it and send a letter to 618 00:33:13,540 --> 00:33:17,020 S11: that effect, then it's an opportunity for us to litigate 619 00:33:17,020 --> 00:33:19,180 S11: on our own if that's something we choose to do. 620 00:33:19,380 --> 00:33:21,940 S1: Wow. Wow. I want to move to another topic. I 621 00:33:21,940 --> 00:33:24,140 S1: want to go to Westchester County in New York and 622 00:33:24,140 --> 00:33:26,020 S1: talk about something that happened there. But let me just 623 00:33:26,020 --> 00:33:27,459 S1: pause for a minute and say, you know, when you 624 00:33:27,460 --> 00:33:30,100 S1: were talking, I was thinking, I, like so many moms 625 00:33:30,100 --> 00:33:32,260 S1: and dads, had to have an aha moment. And I'll 626 00:33:32,260 --> 00:33:34,020 S1: bet there are a lot of people listening right now 627 00:33:34,020 --> 00:33:36,860 S1: for whom they've also had that aha moment where all 628 00:33:36,860 --> 00:33:41,260 S1: those years that you spent investing into a family, and 629 00:33:41,260 --> 00:33:43,940 S1: you realize suddenly that when you send them out into 630 00:33:43,940 --> 00:33:46,340 S1: the world, the world doesn't appreciate your values. In fact, 631 00:33:46,380 --> 00:33:48,420 S1: not only do they not appreciate them, they're going to 632 00:33:48,460 --> 00:33:50,340 S1: denigrate them. They're going to redefine them. They're going to 633 00:33:50,340 --> 00:33:52,940 S1: redirect them, and they're going to just trample them underfoot. 634 00:33:52,940 --> 00:33:55,860 S1: And that has to be very, very frustrating for parents. 635 00:33:55,860 --> 00:33:58,260 S1: It was for me, and it has to be very exhausting. 636 00:33:58,260 --> 00:33:59,940 S1: So let me put some skin on what I just said. 637 00:33:59,940 --> 00:34:02,860 S1: Westchester County, New York. There was a middle school teacher 638 00:34:02,860 --> 00:34:05,100 S1: there who taught an eighth grade health class that included 639 00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:09,750 S1: pro gender transgender stuff. They talked about chest binding and 640 00:34:09,750 --> 00:34:13,870 S1: taking testosterone. And apparently there was an article called I 641 00:34:13,910 --> 00:34:17,830 S1: Am Leo. Leo Lipson, 16, shares what it's like to 642 00:34:17,870 --> 00:34:20,150 S1: grow up transgender and how you can be an ally 643 00:34:20,150 --> 00:34:23,390 S1: to trans people like him. I find this interesting because 644 00:34:23,390 --> 00:34:25,870 S1: now we're going to see an explosion of lawsuits. I 645 00:34:25,870 --> 00:34:28,669 S1: give you Fox, Vivian, and a myriad of other ones 646 00:34:28,670 --> 00:34:32,069 S1: that now are facing the issue of suing people who 647 00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:35,549 S1: rushed in and gave after a 30 minute conversation with 648 00:34:35,590 --> 00:34:37,750 S1: a PA. If they got that, they were given these 649 00:34:37,750 --> 00:34:41,390 S1: hormones and their life was changed dramatically. You've got multiple hospitals. 650 00:34:41,390 --> 00:34:43,270 S1: We're hearing about this every week now that are stepping 651 00:34:43,270 --> 00:34:45,390 S1: back from not only surgery for minors, but now they're 652 00:34:45,390 --> 00:34:48,830 S1: even stepping, in some cases back from surgery for adults. 653 00:34:48,830 --> 00:34:51,950 S1: So when schools like this in Westchester County, New York 654 00:34:51,989 --> 00:34:55,509 S1: do this, they are swimming crosscurrent to what's happening in 655 00:34:55,510 --> 00:34:57,590 S1: the culture. Our own HHS has put out a report 656 00:34:57,590 --> 00:35:00,670 S1: on this as well. So this is when you have 657 00:35:00,670 --> 00:35:02,469 S1: to say why you're like a dog and a bone. 658 00:35:02,469 --> 00:35:04,590 S1: Why are you still doing this? What is it about 659 00:35:04,590 --> 00:35:07,430 S1: this ideology that makes you want to force feed it 660 00:35:07,430 --> 00:35:09,810 S1: to students. Now, let me leave that question in the 661 00:35:09,810 --> 00:35:11,569 S1: transcendent for a minute. And let me just ask you 662 00:35:11,570 --> 00:35:14,810 S1: to explain more about this. I am Leo first person narrative. 663 00:35:14,850 --> 00:35:16,810 S1: Talk to me about what happened in Westchester County. 664 00:35:17,410 --> 00:35:21,170 S11: Well, specifically, these are exactly the types of books and 665 00:35:21,170 --> 00:35:24,049 S11: exactly the type of instruction that was an issue in 666 00:35:24,050 --> 00:35:28,410 S11: the Mahmood decision. This is designed to change perspectives. It 667 00:35:28,410 --> 00:35:32,650 S11: is quintessentially normative. And these children were not given notice. 668 00:35:32,650 --> 00:35:35,009 S11: They were not given. Their parents were not given notice. 669 00:35:35,010 --> 00:35:37,330 S11: They were not given an opportunity to opt out. And 670 00:35:37,330 --> 00:35:41,130 S11: once again, this was shoehorned into an English class. Right? 671 00:35:41,170 --> 00:35:44,770 S11: So it doesn't automatically raise the red flag of this 672 00:35:44,770 --> 00:35:48,090 S11: should be addressed in sex ed or we're we're discussing 673 00:35:48,090 --> 00:35:52,450 S11: something controversial. Once again, it was used ostensibly as a 674 00:35:52,489 --> 00:35:56,649 S11: literacy tool. Now that's interesting. Not To Kill a mockingbird, 675 00:35:56,650 --> 00:36:00,050 S11: not gone with the wind, but Leo's story. And so 676 00:36:00,050 --> 00:36:04,370 S11: this is an individual situation where, again, we are seeing 677 00:36:04,370 --> 00:36:08,900 S11: Recalcitrants coast to coast on what the Supreme Court said 678 00:36:08,940 --> 00:36:11,980 S11: about the primacy of the parental right and about the 679 00:36:11,980 --> 00:36:14,660 S11: ability to opt your kids out if it conflicts with 680 00:36:14,660 --> 00:36:16,140 S11: your religious beliefs. 681 00:36:16,660 --> 00:36:20,300 S1: Wow. Amazing. It's everywhere. And again, this isn't about getting 682 00:36:20,300 --> 00:36:23,380 S1: you discouraged. It's about you learning to hear the sound 683 00:36:23,380 --> 00:36:25,700 S1: of the trumpet. If you're looking well to the ways 684 00:36:25,700 --> 00:36:28,219 S1: of your household, how do you protect the heart and 685 00:36:28,219 --> 00:36:30,660 S1: mind of your child? They're going to go out in 686 00:36:30,700 --> 00:36:33,540 S1: that world eventually, but it will be age appropriate. How, 687 00:36:33,540 --> 00:36:35,779 S1: in the meantime, do you protect the values that you 688 00:36:35,780 --> 00:36:38,779 S1: want written on the tablets of their heart? More with 689 00:36:38,780 --> 00:37:00,260 S1: Sarah Perry right after this. We're visiting with Sarah Perry, 690 00:37:00,300 --> 00:37:04,020 S1: who is vice president and legal fellow at Defending Education. 691 00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:06,989 S1: She's a former senior counsel to the assistant secretary for 692 00:37:06,989 --> 00:37:09,190 S1: civil Rights at the US Department of Education, and we 693 00:37:09,230 --> 00:37:10,910 S1: are taking a look at some of the chaos in 694 00:37:10,910 --> 00:37:13,870 S1: the classroom. Sarah, we were talking before about complaints that 695 00:37:13,870 --> 00:37:16,910 S1: you filed. We talked about the Hawaii Department of Education, 696 00:37:16,910 --> 00:37:19,750 S1: but let me go completely across the country to the 697 00:37:19,750 --> 00:37:23,070 S1: other side and Yale University. What's the complaint there? 698 00:37:23,590 --> 00:37:27,310 S11: Mm. Same thing that we've seen before, which is bathrooms 699 00:37:27,310 --> 00:37:30,109 S11: that are gender neutral. They are open to anyone who 700 00:37:30,110 --> 00:37:34,550 S11: identifies as any sex, regardless of what their underlying biological 701 00:37:34,550 --> 00:37:40,150 S11: sex is. And ironically, if women complain at Yale, female students, 702 00:37:40,150 --> 00:37:45,310 S11: female professors, administrators, they are instructed to find one of 703 00:37:45,350 --> 00:37:49,950 S11: two single stall bathrooms on Yale's giant campus. Now, if 704 00:37:49,950 --> 00:37:53,229 S11: that doesn't sound like the sex discrimination of old, I 705 00:37:53,230 --> 00:37:56,830 S11: don't know what does. So they actually have to remove 706 00:37:56,830 --> 00:38:01,350 S11: themselves from areas that would have been specifically designed for them, 707 00:38:01,550 --> 00:38:06,120 S11: and find these two single stall bathrooms on campus so 708 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:10,320 S11: that if they feel uncomfortable, they've got to moderate their behavior. 709 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,560 S11: Now that, to me, is turning the notion of sex 710 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:17,640 S11: equality on its head. This remember, title nine was sort 711 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:22,160 S11: of the crowning achievement of the women's liberation movement. And 712 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,640 S11: it is unfortunate that what we're seeing now is complete 713 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:30,280 S11: silence from the first and second wave feminists about this, 714 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:34,360 S11: who do not believe that this is something about which 715 00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:40,080 S11: they should be incensed, even after 55 years of educational equality. 716 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,560 S1: Unless you're J.K. Rowling, and then people threaten that they're 717 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:44,879 S1: not going to buy any of the books that she 718 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,200 S1: writes anymore. It is a paradox, isn't it? And especially 719 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,120 S1: when you have women who say they can't define what 720 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,319 S1: a woman is. That's the antithesis of everything that was 721 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,840 S1: going on when you were a little girl in our household. 722 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,000 S1: When I looked out the front door and it was 723 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,520 S1: Death Valley days, and no woman was working at home 724 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,500 S1: in my neighborhood because, well, a woman needs a man 725 00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:05,700 S1: like a fish needs a bicycle, is what the early 726 00:39:05,700 --> 00:39:08,220 S1: feminists told us on a regular basis. And that marriage 727 00:39:08,219 --> 00:39:11,500 S1: hood was a, quote, illegitimate profession. And so I was 728 00:39:11,500 --> 00:39:14,500 S1: being countercultural by staying home and raising my babies, as 729 00:39:14,500 --> 00:39:16,819 S1: opposed to going out because I was told there was 730 00:39:16,820 --> 00:39:19,020 S1: no value in what I was doing at home. Now 731 00:39:19,020 --> 00:39:21,580 S1: we have this iteration and I don't know what it 732 00:39:21,580 --> 00:39:24,420 S1: is anymore. If we can't even define what a woman is. 733 00:39:24,620 --> 00:39:26,940 S1: There can't be a woman's movement, it seems to me. 734 00:39:26,940 --> 00:39:29,020 S1: So this is going to be very interesting to see 735 00:39:29,020 --> 00:39:32,540 S1: what's happening in that same vein. Also, Portland Public Schools 736 00:39:32,540 --> 00:39:34,340 S1: is in the crosshairs. This is an organ. Talk to 737 00:39:34,340 --> 00:39:35,060 S1: me about this. 738 00:39:35,700 --> 00:39:39,460 S11: Yeah, Portland has been engaging in something called the Black 739 00:39:39,460 --> 00:39:43,460 S11: Student Success Plan. Now we want students of all races, 740 00:39:43,580 --> 00:39:46,620 S11: all races, to succeed. We want them to succeed kindergarten 741 00:39:46,620 --> 00:39:49,779 S11: through high school through 12th grade, when we can send 742 00:39:49,780 --> 00:39:52,100 S11: them off into the world and they can spread their wings. 743 00:39:52,260 --> 00:39:55,940 S11: Here's the problem Portland is already running at a $50 744 00:39:55,940 --> 00:40:00,459 S11: million deficit in their school district budget right now, but 745 00:40:00,460 --> 00:40:06,950 S11: they've pledged a $1.2 billion bond, and they have already 746 00:40:06,950 --> 00:40:12,230 S11: expended $16 million specifically for the development of a center 747 00:40:12,230 --> 00:40:16,230 S11: for black student excellence. Now you say, okay, what if 748 00:40:16,230 --> 00:40:18,950 S11: it's going to be all students? All student excellence is 749 00:40:18,950 --> 00:40:23,070 S11: perfectly fine. But when you take federal funding and title 750 00:40:23,110 --> 00:40:28,870 S11: six specifically says you cannot discriminate on the basis of race, 751 00:40:28,870 --> 00:40:34,230 S11: ethnicity or national origin in federally funded programs when they 752 00:40:34,230 --> 00:40:38,470 S11: play politics with race like that and they say, no Hispanics, 753 00:40:38,469 --> 00:40:45,470 S11: no Asian Pacific Islanders, no whites, no Latinos, only black students, 754 00:40:45,590 --> 00:40:51,069 S11: those students are actually being disadvantaged from the standpoint that 755 00:40:51,070 --> 00:40:54,870 S11: they are being separated not only from peers with whom 756 00:40:54,870 --> 00:41:00,120 S11: they should have a regular, good working, collaborative Relationship, but 757 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,959 S11: it is a violation of federal civil rights law and 758 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:07,880 S11: just bad fiscal management. We were very gratified to learn 759 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,920 S11: about a week ago that the Department of Education has 760 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:15,040 S11: taken our complaint and has opened it up for further investigation. 761 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,440 S1: Wow. Wow. And again, you want every student to succeed. 762 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:20,279 S1: But when you circle one group of students and we 763 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:21,839 S1: say we're going to make sure you succeed, but we're 764 00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,440 S1: going to ignore you. That seems to be prejudicial on 765 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:25,399 S1: its face doesn't it. 766 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:29,320 S11: Yeah, it certainly does. And again, this is, I think, 767 00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:34,080 S11: the detritus, what's left over from the previous administration for 768 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:38,800 S11: whom equality was treated like equity. Well, equality and equity 769 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,080 S11: are not the same thing. And in fact, equity gives 770 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:44,080 S11: one person a leg up, even though they both start 771 00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:49,200 S11: at the same place. It's designed to ensure the same outcomes, 772 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:53,600 S11: but does not treat individuals equally. That's not something our 773 00:41:53,600 --> 00:42:00,170 S11: Constitution tolerates. We have decades of. we've got decades of precedent. 774 00:42:00,170 --> 00:42:04,330 S11: We've got the promises of the 14th amendment in the Constitution. 775 00:42:04,330 --> 00:42:08,450 S11: And we recently had the very famous Supreme Court decision 776 00:42:08,450 --> 00:42:12,930 S11: and students for Fair Admission versus Harvard, when in 2023, 777 00:42:12,969 --> 00:42:16,730 S11: the justices told us that you have to stop discriminating 778 00:42:16,730 --> 00:42:20,410 S11: on race in order to stop discriminating on the basis 779 00:42:20,410 --> 00:42:24,770 S11: of race. Listen, Harvard U-n-c Chapel Hill. Both of the 780 00:42:24,770 --> 00:42:29,250 S11: respondents in those cases were playing hide the ball with admissions, 781 00:42:29,250 --> 00:42:34,650 S11: and they weighted certain factors for students while de-emphasizing factors 782 00:42:34,650 --> 00:42:38,009 S11: for others. And sure enough, what they got was exactly 783 00:42:38,010 --> 00:42:41,650 S11: the kind of, quote, racial balancing that the Supreme Court 784 00:42:41,690 --> 00:42:46,009 S11: has told us time and time again is illegal. But 785 00:42:46,010 --> 00:42:48,730 S11: a lot of school administrators are not getting the message. 786 00:42:48,730 --> 00:42:52,130 S11: The fastest way to avoid something like this is simply 787 00:42:52,130 --> 00:42:54,610 S11: to make sure you treat all students the same. 788 00:42:55,090 --> 00:42:57,910 S1: Well, tell me about an amicus that you filed in 789 00:42:57,910 --> 00:42:59,230 S1: a case in California. 790 00:43:01,110 --> 00:43:04,029 S11: We have got a case coming out of California specifically 791 00:43:04,030 --> 00:43:08,710 S11: related to social transitions of minors. We've seen these in 792 00:43:08,710 --> 00:43:12,190 S11: frightening measure. Our organization has been tracking these for the 793 00:43:12,190 --> 00:43:16,790 S11: past five years. More than 12.5 million students in America 794 00:43:16,830 --> 00:43:22,390 S11: go to schools with express policies hiding gender identity information 795 00:43:22,390 --> 00:43:27,070 S11: from that student's mom or dad. That's not just unconstitutional. 796 00:43:27,150 --> 00:43:30,350 S11: It leads these young people down the path to later 797 00:43:30,350 --> 00:43:35,870 S11: gender affirming medical interventions. And that's something we want desperately 798 00:43:35,870 --> 00:43:38,310 S11: to stop. So we've asked the Supreme Court on an 799 00:43:38,310 --> 00:43:41,989 S11: emergency basis to weigh in, to weigh in quickly and 800 00:43:41,989 --> 00:43:44,790 S11: to reinstate the victory for parents in California. 801 00:43:45,270 --> 00:43:47,710 S1: Wow. So all of this legal stuff, there are some 802 00:43:47,710 --> 00:43:49,950 S1: moms and dads whose eyes have glazed over. All they 803 00:43:49,950 --> 00:43:51,710 S1: know is they do want to be obedient to the 804 00:43:51,710 --> 00:43:53,790 S1: scriptures and look well to the ways of their household. 805 00:43:53,790 --> 00:43:57,240 S1: So not just mother to daughter, but mom to mom. 806 00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,600 S1: Give me a couple of pragmatics we can do to 807 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,640 S1: not be afraid, but to still protect our children. And 808 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,479 S1: yet at the same time, prepare them for the world 809 00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:05,960 S1: that God is calling them into. 810 00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:12,239 S11: Be diligent. Be vigilant. Ask questions. Communicate with your administrators. 811 00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:17,719 S11: Examine the curriculum, and request access to your child's educational file. 812 00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:21,759 S11: They are only teachers administrators in that position for a 813 00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:25,200 S11: very temporary period of time. You, as the parent, have 814 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:27,640 S11: the God given right to know what's going on in 815 00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:28,759 S11: your child's life. 816 00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,319 S1: Well, Sarah, thank you so much for that. By the way, 817 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,200 S1: if you go to our information page at In the 818 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:37,160 S1: Market with Janet Parshall, under the summation of each hour, 819 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:40,280 S1: I've got a red box. It says program details and audio. 820 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:43,280 S1: Click that on. That'll always take you to the information page. 821 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,480 S1: You will find there a link to Defending Education's indoctrination 822 00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:48,600 S1: map so you can read what's happening. And you can 823 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:51,080 S1: also notify, depending on what's happening in your neck of 824 00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:52,960 S1: the woods. Thanks, friends. We'll see you next time.