1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,720 S1: Hi friend, thank you so much for downloading this podcast 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:04,960 S1: and I hope what you hear today will encourage and 3 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:06,760 S1: edify you so that you'll get out there in the 4 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:09,360 S1: marketplace of ideas and live for him by being an 5 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:12,040 S1: ambassador for Christ. But before you listen and before you 6 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:14,239 S1: go to that marketplace of ideas, I'd love to tell 7 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:16,520 S1: you about this month's Truth Tool. It's written by Anne 8 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,239 S1: Graham Lotz, and it's called The Vision of His Glory. 9 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,080 S1: It's an study of the Book of Revelation, and it's 10 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:24,840 S1: one of the best I've ever read. 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Today's 39 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:50,280 S1: program is pre-recorded so our phone lines are not open, 40 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:52,400 S1: but I do hope you'll enjoy today's edition of the 41 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,720 S1: Best of In the Market with Janet. Partial. 42 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:56,760 S2: Here are some of the news headlines we're watching. 43 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,350 S3: The time the conference was over. The president won a pledge. 44 00:01:59,510 --> 00:02:01,550 S4: Americans worshipping government over God. 45 00:02:01,830 --> 00:02:04,309 S1: Extremely rare safety move by a major. 46 00:02:04,350 --> 00:02:07,310 S4: 17 years. The Palestinians and Israelis negotiated. 47 00:02:07,670 --> 00:02:09,870 S5: This is not over. 48 00:02:22,430 --> 00:02:25,310 S1: Hi, friends. Welcome to in the market with Janet partial. 49 00:02:25,310 --> 00:02:27,590 S1: So glad we're going to spend the hour together. Happy 50 00:02:27,590 --> 00:02:30,550 S1: Tuesday to you. Well, last night I had the privilege 51 00:02:30,550 --> 00:02:34,990 S1: of watching my daughter appear on national television, and she 52 00:02:34,990 --> 00:02:37,350 S1: was asked to come in and talk about a new 53 00:02:37,350 --> 00:02:40,830 S1: report that talks about the impact of Covid. Now, you 54 00:02:40,830 --> 00:02:42,790 S1: might think, wait a minute, I thought your daughter worked 55 00:02:42,790 --> 00:02:46,190 S1: in an organization called Defending Education. Excuse me? What in 56 00:02:46,190 --> 00:02:47,750 S1: the world does that have to do with Covid? Well, 57 00:02:47,750 --> 00:02:50,870 S1: you're about to learn because as is always the case 58 00:02:50,870 --> 00:02:53,589 S1: in television, particularly when you've got about 55 minutes, not 59 00:02:53,590 --> 00:02:56,589 S1: counting the commercial breaks, which means you've got about 45 60 00:02:56,590 --> 00:03:00,070 S1: minutes worth of content you can provide, which means you're 61 00:03:00,070 --> 00:03:01,990 S1: lucky if you get either a four minute or, if 62 00:03:01,990 --> 00:03:04,310 S1: you're really lucky, an eight minute package, which means you 63 00:03:04,310 --> 00:03:07,109 S1: really can't do a deep dive into anything. And this 64 00:03:07,110 --> 00:03:09,230 S1: is a conversation, quite frankly, because I care for you, 65 00:03:09,230 --> 00:03:12,150 S1: that requires a deeper dive. So let me just start 66 00:03:12,150 --> 00:03:15,110 S1: first by giving you Sarah's credentials. She is my expert witness. 67 00:03:15,110 --> 00:03:17,470 S1: In this case, you are the jury. She is the 68 00:03:17,470 --> 00:03:21,190 S1: vice president and legal fellow at Defending Education. She is 69 00:03:21,190 --> 00:03:24,350 S1: a former senior counsel to the Assistant Secretary for Civil 70 00:03:24,350 --> 00:03:28,430 S1: Rights at the Department of Education, and she's very active 71 00:03:28,430 --> 00:03:32,150 S1: in the legal field. And interestingly enough, what pulls her 72 00:03:32,150 --> 00:03:34,750 S1: to do all of this is not her training, and 73 00:03:34,750 --> 00:03:37,070 S1: I'm so very proud of her. She is a graduate 74 00:03:37,070 --> 00:03:40,150 S1: of the University University of Virginia Law School. We thank you, 75 00:03:40,150 --> 00:03:44,030 S1: Thomas Jefferson, but it's about much more than that. She 76 00:03:44,030 --> 00:03:45,950 S1: is a person who wants to let her light so 77 00:03:45,950 --> 00:03:49,550 S1: shine before men. She wants to influence and occupy until 78 00:03:49,550 --> 00:03:52,390 S1: he comes. She wants to seek the welfare of the city. 79 00:03:52,390 --> 00:03:55,860 S1: She wants to uphold a standard of righteousness, because that 80 00:03:55,860 --> 00:03:58,740 S1: standard of righteousness, whether you voted for it or not, 81 00:03:58,780 --> 00:04:03,020 S1: is always protected because God cares about us, right? And 82 00:04:03,020 --> 00:04:05,020 S1: so this is important for you and I to understand 83 00:04:05,020 --> 00:04:06,980 S1: what's going on. A lot of you don't eat and 84 00:04:06,980 --> 00:04:09,260 S1: breathe and sleep this stuff, I get it. But you know, 85 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:11,540 S1: the sad part and also the compelling part for me 86 00:04:11,540 --> 00:04:14,220 S1: to talk about this is whether you're paying attention or 87 00:04:14,540 --> 00:04:17,020 S1: they're paying attention to you. So you need to know 88 00:04:17,020 --> 00:04:18,940 S1: some of the things that are going on. So Sarah, 89 00:04:18,940 --> 00:04:20,500 S1: where I want to start and we've got a long 90 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:23,020 S1: list of things that, if time affords, we're going to 91 00:04:23,020 --> 00:04:26,380 S1: talk about I want to talk about a new database 92 00:04:26,380 --> 00:04:29,419 S1: that just got rolled out that takes a look at 93 00:04:29,420 --> 00:04:34,140 S1: K-12 schools and how this intersects with Covid, and why 94 00:04:34,180 --> 00:04:38,099 S1: Covid and the controversy. Ladies and gentlemen, has not ended. 95 00:04:38,100 --> 00:04:41,339 S1: I listened to the remarks of the former CDC director 96 00:04:41,540 --> 00:04:43,580 S1: just a few days ago, who said it should never 97 00:04:43,580 --> 00:04:46,100 S1: have been called the vaccine. It should have been called 98 00:04:46,100 --> 00:04:49,900 S1: medicine instead. We know that it was untested. There was 99 00:04:49,900 --> 00:04:52,660 S1: a waiver of liability. So if the vaccine made you sick, 100 00:04:52,660 --> 00:04:55,100 S1: nobody could get sued. All of the protections that needed 101 00:04:55,100 --> 00:04:59,780 S1: to be there weren't there? Conversations about natural immunity were 102 00:05:00,140 --> 00:05:04,220 S1: subscribed to people who were flat earthers. Uh, people who said, no, 103 00:05:04,260 --> 00:05:06,020 S1: I don't think I'm going to take it. I'm not 104 00:05:06,020 --> 00:05:07,860 S1: in a high risk group. Oh, well, you're not loving 105 00:05:07,860 --> 00:05:09,419 S1: your neighbor if you don't get the shot. And the 106 00:05:09,420 --> 00:05:11,820 S1: list goes on and on and on. And post Covid, 107 00:05:11,820 --> 00:05:14,420 S1: we've got a litany of lawsuits. Military people have now 108 00:05:14,420 --> 00:05:16,900 S1: been reinstated because they refused to take the jab. As 109 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:19,900 S1: the saying goes, churches who sued the government said, I 110 00:05:19,940 --> 00:05:23,060 S1: don't think so. My First Amendment rights don't disappear because 111 00:05:23,060 --> 00:05:25,700 S1: you want me to take an injection. Sorry, that's not 112 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:27,860 S1: the way it works in America. And the list goes 113 00:05:27,860 --> 00:05:29,620 S1: on and on and on. In the midst of all 114 00:05:29,660 --> 00:05:35,100 S1: that tsunami of cultural experimentation, if you will, was the 115 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:39,100 S1: child sitting in the classroom, remember? Then along comes the unions, 116 00:05:39,100 --> 00:05:41,660 S1: and we'll talk about the unions more this hour who 117 00:05:41,700 --> 00:05:44,140 S1: are not serving and haven't, in my opinion, for quite 118 00:05:44,140 --> 00:05:46,980 S1: some time, are not serving the best interests of the child, 119 00:05:46,980 --> 00:05:49,539 S1: demanded that children not come to school, that they do 120 00:05:49,740 --> 00:05:53,620 S1: distance learning, that they do home learning. Well, I'm just wondering, 121 00:05:53,620 --> 00:05:56,340 S1: as a former educator myself and the mother of many, 122 00:05:56,339 --> 00:05:58,340 S1: including the woman sitting on the opposite side of my 123 00:05:58,339 --> 00:06:02,380 S1: desk here, whether or not we were hurting kids academically 124 00:06:02,380 --> 00:06:05,540 S1: during all of this as well, because it's a moment lost. 125 00:06:05,580 --> 00:06:08,940 S1: You know, K-12 is just that. It's K-12. And after that, 126 00:06:09,060 --> 00:06:11,620 S1: you lose those days. You don't get it back again. 127 00:06:11,620 --> 00:06:14,820 S1: So if it's taken away, how does Johnny or Susie 128 00:06:15,020 --> 00:06:19,060 S1: learn to spell, read, write, think cogent thoughts, think critically. 129 00:06:19,580 --> 00:06:21,900 S1: In fact, what happens if that's gone? Does it ever 130 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:23,700 S1: get back again? So, Sarah, this is where I turn 131 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:27,260 S1: to you because your group, Defending Education has released a 132 00:06:27,260 --> 00:06:30,420 S1: nationwide database. This is why I say a short package 133 00:06:30,420 --> 00:06:32,700 S1: on national television is good. It's a seed starter. It 134 00:06:32,700 --> 00:06:35,380 S1: gets people thinking, but. Oh, boy, oh, boy, there are 135 00:06:35,380 --> 00:06:37,779 S1: 14 layers to this house and we need to dig 136 00:06:37,779 --> 00:06:40,460 S1: into all of them. So tell me first about the database. 137 00:06:40,460 --> 00:06:42,220 S1: What was the catalyst to do it and what does 138 00:06:42,220 --> 00:06:44,420 S1: one find in your database. 139 00:06:44,420 --> 00:06:46,739 S6: Well, part of what we wanted to do, and this 140 00:06:46,740 --> 00:06:49,849 S6: is something about which I'm very passionate. And you set 141 00:06:49,850 --> 00:06:53,250 S6: that up really understanding that as a mom, that was 142 00:06:53,250 --> 00:06:56,810 S6: the most motivating thing. I think that got me interested 143 00:06:56,810 --> 00:06:59,250 S6: in education. Now, of course, I come by that honestly, 144 00:06:59,250 --> 00:07:03,170 S6: considering that many years ago you and dad founded your 145 00:07:03,170 --> 00:07:07,770 S6: own nonprofit called people for Basic Education. PB I now 146 00:07:07,810 --> 00:07:11,250 S6: work for D defending education. So you know, the parallels 147 00:07:11,250 --> 00:07:13,570 S6: here are, I don't think, lost on anyone who's listening 148 00:07:13,610 --> 00:07:17,370 S6: to this, but we've discovered that after six years, the 149 00:07:17,370 --> 00:07:20,810 S6: generation of first year college students who were what we 150 00:07:20,810 --> 00:07:25,010 S6: call in the Covid cohort, these are the students who 151 00:07:25,290 --> 00:07:30,690 S6: in eighth grade were experiencing the first sort of impacts 152 00:07:30,690 --> 00:07:36,810 S6: of going home and online for much of their educational experience. 153 00:07:36,850 --> 00:07:41,970 S6: We're realizing now that since the year 2000, those fundamental 154 00:07:41,970 --> 00:07:47,130 S6: gaps in learning have now followed people on to college campuses, 155 00:07:47,130 --> 00:07:51,490 S6: and this was prompted by a University of San Diego 156 00:07:51,610 --> 00:07:56,050 S6: Senate administration working group on admissions. Okay, that's a that's 157 00:07:56,050 --> 00:07:59,410 S6: a mouthful. But for people who are in higher education 158 00:07:59,410 --> 00:08:03,730 S6: or who follow it, universities have their own committees for 159 00:08:03,730 --> 00:08:06,690 S6: things like academic standards. I actually sit on the board 160 00:08:06,690 --> 00:08:10,090 S6: of a university, Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, 161 00:08:10,370 --> 00:08:14,010 S6: and I sit on the Academic Affairs Committee, one of 162 00:08:14,010 --> 00:08:17,650 S6: these committees at the University of California, San Diego, just 163 00:08:17,650 --> 00:08:23,130 S6: published a report saying that between the years 2020 and 2025, 164 00:08:23,610 --> 00:08:28,290 S6: the number of students whose math skills fell below high 165 00:08:28,290 --> 00:08:35,890 S6: school level increased get this nearly 30 fold, the students 166 00:08:36,170 --> 00:08:42,490 S6: falling below middle school levels. 70% of those applicants for 167 00:08:42,490 --> 00:08:46,760 S6: the UC San Diego system, 70% of the people who 168 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:50,920 S6: applied to the UC San Diego system were below middle 169 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,920 S6: school levels. That indicated to us that there was a 170 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:59,160 S6: massive problem with learning loss. And sure enough, what we 171 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:03,200 S6: just saw released a few months ago is something called 172 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:09,560 S6: the National Report Card or the National Education Assessment Progress Card. 173 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:14,000 S6: It is something, I think, who scores yielded the most 174 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,160 S6: indictment in a generation on public education. 175 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:19,720 S1: Well, let's find out exactly what that report card says 176 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,240 S1: when we get back. Sarah Perry is with me. She 177 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,200 S1: is vice president of education and their legal counsel as well. 178 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,360 S1: This report is important because whether or not you're interested 179 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,559 S1: in databases and black ink and white paper and stats, 180 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,480 S1: this is about your granddaughter, your grandson, your child, your daughter. 181 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:39,880 S1: You need to know what's happening because you don't get 182 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:51,240 S1: a redo here back after this. Do you get overwhelmed 183 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,600 S1: when reading the book of revelation? Are you confused and 184 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,319 S1: sometimes frightened? That's why I've chosen the vision of his 185 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,120 S1: glory as this month's truth tool. Remember that Jesus is 186 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,200 S1: absolutely supreme as Lord and absolutely sufficient as the Lamb 187 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,320 S1: of God. As for your copy of the Vision of 188 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,000 S1: His glory, when you give a gift of any amount 189 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:11,280 S1: to in the market, call (877) 588-7758 or go online to 190 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:17,880 S1: in the market with Janet. We're spending the hour with 191 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,959 S1: my daughter, Sarah Perry, vice president and legal fellow at 192 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:24,840 S1: Defending Education, former senior counsel to the Assistant secretary for 193 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,040 S1: civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. And so 194 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:31,400 S1: we're talking about a database that her organization released. It's 195 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,760 S1: pretty big. It spans more than 700 school districts across 196 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:40,160 S1: 33 states, 33 states, and includes Washington, D.C., as well. Again, 197 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:43,400 S1: So you're talking on a San Diego right now, correct? 198 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:45,640 S1: Focus on this. And there's a tell me why we're 199 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,520 S1: using that as the prototype. Because you looked at 700 districts. 200 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:49,240 S1: Why start there? 201 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:53,600 S6: Well, the 700 districts were directly in relation to what 202 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:58,120 S6: we're seeing right now on student walkouts and student activism 203 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,200 S6: related to the anti ice protests. But let me put 204 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:01,960 S6: a capstone. 205 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,640 S1: Well, let me just pause there so people hear what 206 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:05,959 S1: you're saying before we get into this data. Well, you're 207 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:07,600 S1: going to do is take us to a point where 208 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:12,840 S1: you're going to actually see a corollary between funding and protesting. Oh, yes. Okay, 209 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:14,560 S1: so hold that thought for a minute. We're going to 210 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:14,880 S1: come back. 211 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,840 S6: Yes. Because I want to talk about exactly how bad 212 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:22,319 S6: the nation's report card scores are for American kids, because 213 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:26,040 S6: this started, you realize back in the year 2000 Naep scores, 214 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:29,920 S6: National Assessment for education progress is it's been administered every 215 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,760 S6: year since 1969 by a division of the U.S. Department 216 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:37,839 S6: of Education. It is a broad brush representation of how 217 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:41,590 S6: students are doing in key areas science, math and English. 218 00:11:41,630 --> 00:11:45,150 S6: The basics the basics. Eighth graders are tested every year. 219 00:11:45,470 --> 00:11:52,270 S6: 12th graders. Their scores come in every four years. Last 2024, actually, 220 00:11:52,270 --> 00:11:54,750 S6: and it was released in 2025. We got the first 221 00:11:54,750 --> 00:12:00,910 S6: set of cohort numbers for graduating high school seniors. 27% 222 00:12:00,910 --> 00:12:06,510 S6: of them were at basic proficiency or above. In math, 35% 223 00:12:06,510 --> 00:12:11,110 S6: of them were at or slightly above basic proficiency in English. 224 00:12:11,230 --> 00:12:15,189 S6: We sent two thirds of American high school students out 225 00:12:15,190 --> 00:12:18,550 S6: into the workforce, or out into community college, or out 226 00:12:18,550 --> 00:12:24,510 S6: into four year universities with below basic fundamental skills in 227 00:12:24,510 --> 00:12:28,670 S6: math and English. This is why universities like Harvard now 228 00:12:28,670 --> 00:12:32,309 S6: offer remedial math classes. This is why University of San 229 00:12:32,350 --> 00:12:36,510 S6: Diego did a longitudinal study of exactly how bad their 230 00:12:36,750 --> 00:12:40,270 S6: applicants were. And this is why, in a recent report 231 00:12:40,270 --> 00:12:42,710 S6: that came out just a few months ago from the 232 00:12:42,710 --> 00:12:49,110 S6: International Journal of Educational Development, the assessment from 57 learning 233 00:12:49,110 --> 00:12:53,510 S6: loss studies across the country, 57 studies indicated that for 234 00:12:53,510 --> 00:12:59,030 S6: every year that a school remained closed, 1.1 years of 235 00:12:59,030 --> 00:13:03,790 S6: education advancement was lost. They may as well have been 236 00:13:03,790 --> 00:13:07,589 S6: home playing Roblox or Minecraft, as opposed to going to 237 00:13:07,630 --> 00:13:09,430 S6: online school, because it did no good. 238 00:13:09,470 --> 00:13:12,350 S1: Now, and I want moms and dads here to ruminate 239 00:13:12,350 --> 00:13:13,870 S1: on the numbers that you're giving us, because there's a 240 00:13:13,870 --> 00:13:15,950 S1: lot of data here. So what you're saying is, well, 241 00:13:16,110 --> 00:13:18,790 S1: the NEA was forcing us to go home, and HHS 242 00:13:18,870 --> 00:13:21,550 S1: and that administration, all of them together, singing off the 243 00:13:21,550 --> 00:13:24,030 S1: same song sheet, go home, go home, go home. And 244 00:13:24,030 --> 00:13:27,070 S1: kids were supposed to be learning online. Not only did 245 00:13:27,070 --> 00:13:30,870 S1: they not advance academically in that one year, but they 246 00:13:30,870 --> 00:13:36,110 S1: actually stepped backwards more than one year of education. Hence, 247 00:13:36,110 --> 00:13:37,630 S1: what you were saying is you could have been playing 248 00:13:37,630 --> 00:13:39,390 S1: video games and gotten as much education. 249 00:13:39,390 --> 00:13:41,870 S6: That's exactly it. And in fact, as you know, with 250 00:13:41,870 --> 00:13:46,069 S6: my youngest, he actually had two years of learning loss. 251 00:13:46,070 --> 00:13:49,030 S6: Now he has a 504 plan which is just special 252 00:13:49,030 --> 00:13:52,830 S6: education lingo speak for. He needs special services because he 253 00:13:52,830 --> 00:13:55,750 S6: has a developmental disability. And that was part of what 254 00:13:55,750 --> 00:13:59,390 S6: I needed in public education. They're legally required to meet 255 00:13:59,429 --> 00:14:03,550 S6: the plans for kids with developmental disabilities. They did not. 256 00:14:03,590 --> 00:14:06,270 S6: I ended up pulling him out of the public school system. 257 00:14:06,270 --> 00:14:08,830 S6: He did an online charter school for a year and 258 00:14:08,830 --> 00:14:11,550 S6: then re enrolling him in a private school just to 259 00:14:11,550 --> 00:14:14,590 S6: get him caught up. That's how bad the learning loss was. 260 00:14:14,590 --> 00:14:17,069 S6: But what we're discovering now is that these learning losses 261 00:14:17,070 --> 00:14:20,910 S6: are actually following kids onto college campuses. And it's not 262 00:14:20,910 --> 00:14:24,750 S6: just learning loss. These kids are less confident. They are 263 00:14:24,750 --> 00:14:28,550 S6: less likely to socialize. They have greater anxiety. They report 264 00:14:28,550 --> 00:14:32,190 S6: greater levels of depression. They do not like to interact 265 00:14:32,190 --> 00:14:35,860 S6: with adults because they have been in isolation for the 266 00:14:35,900 --> 00:14:39,140 S6: better part of four years during their middle school and 267 00:14:39,140 --> 00:14:41,580 S6: high school developmental years. Now, I don't know about you, 268 00:14:41,580 --> 00:14:44,020 S6: but puberty was not a great period of time for me. 269 00:14:44,060 --> 00:14:47,180 S6: I was there. Okay, so let me tell you that 270 00:14:47,180 --> 00:14:51,100 S6: socialization is part of the benefit of education, not in 271 00:14:51,100 --> 00:14:54,260 S6: addition to just reading, writing and arithmetic, but getting along, 272 00:14:54,300 --> 00:14:59,420 S6: taking turns, being confident, getting along together on group projects. 273 00:14:59,460 --> 00:15:02,100 S6: None of these are possible when you are schooling through 274 00:15:02,100 --> 00:15:04,300 S6: a computer screen on your kitchen table. 275 00:15:04,340 --> 00:15:06,580 S1: So to the naysayer who's saying, well, what would you 276 00:15:06,580 --> 00:15:09,700 S1: like us to have done? I mean, now again, we're 277 00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:12,660 S1: looking at data. And, you know, hindsight is always 2020. 278 00:15:12,700 --> 00:15:15,180 S1: Now we look back and we go generally that population 279 00:15:15,180 --> 00:15:16,820 S1: was not high risk. Now if you had a child 280 00:15:16,820 --> 00:15:18,860 S1: at a particular health need, maybe there would have been 281 00:15:18,860 --> 00:15:21,260 S1: a difference there and that child might have been needed, 282 00:15:21,300 --> 00:15:23,740 S1: might have needed to be pulled out from the general population. 283 00:15:23,740 --> 00:15:28,220 S1: But overwhelmingly, this was not a high risk category of 284 00:15:28,220 --> 00:15:29,700 S1: kids in the K-12 area. 285 00:15:29,740 --> 00:15:32,940 S6: No. And we learned that after the fact, which is unfortunate, 286 00:15:32,940 --> 00:15:34,700 S6: but I will tell you that even for the parents 287 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:38,100 S6: who started speaking up at school board meetings, we filed 288 00:15:38,100 --> 00:15:42,340 S6: a Freedom of Information Act request, and it actually revealed 289 00:15:42,340 --> 00:15:45,660 S6: that the Department of Justice, under Merrick Garland, was working 290 00:15:45,660 --> 00:15:49,300 S6: with the Department of Education under Miguel Cardona. This is 291 00:15:49,300 --> 00:15:53,500 S6: during the Biden administration, and they worked together to paint 292 00:15:53,620 --> 00:15:56,100 S6: parents who stood up at school board meetings and said, 293 00:15:56,100 --> 00:16:00,100 S6: reopen the schools as domestic terrorists. If you remember that 294 00:16:00,100 --> 00:16:03,220 S6: guidance that came out as a result of a document 295 00:16:03,220 --> 00:16:06,780 S6: that we filed for an information request because we realized 296 00:16:06,780 --> 00:16:09,540 S6: the teachers union said we're tired of dealing with the parents. 297 00:16:09,540 --> 00:16:11,420 S6: We don't want them speaking up at school boards. They're 298 00:16:11,420 --> 00:16:14,180 S6: being disruptive. Well, of course they're being disruptive. They want 299 00:16:14,180 --> 00:16:17,700 S6: their kids back in school. The kids are depressed. They're anxious. 300 00:16:17,700 --> 00:16:22,540 S6: They're not socializing. They're being isolated. They're not learning. Parents 301 00:16:22,540 --> 00:16:25,740 S6: spoke up. They were targeted as domestic terrorists. And it 302 00:16:25,740 --> 00:16:29,410 S6: took a six month PR campaign to finally get the 303 00:16:29,410 --> 00:16:33,530 S6: Department of Justice to withdraw its memo to educators across 304 00:16:33,530 --> 00:16:34,170 S6: the country. 305 00:16:34,170 --> 00:16:36,090 S1: And wasn't a lot of this done at the behest 306 00:16:36,090 --> 00:16:38,730 S1: of the teachers union, which, let's be honest, it's a 307 00:16:38,730 --> 00:16:41,250 S1: political organization now. It's not doing the best thing for 308 00:16:41,290 --> 00:16:45,170 S1: the students. It's about being politically activist as a union. Right? 309 00:16:45,250 --> 00:16:48,930 S6: There are two large teachers unions in the country, the 310 00:16:48,970 --> 00:16:51,490 S6: AFT and the NEA and its Korean. 311 00:16:51,490 --> 00:16:54,090 S1: Federation of Teachers and National Education Association. 312 00:16:54,130 --> 00:16:58,410 S6: Right. And Becky Pringle runs the AFT. And Randi Weingarten 313 00:16:58,410 --> 00:17:01,290 S6: runs the NEA. And these are two individuals who work 314 00:17:01,290 --> 00:17:04,730 S6: directly with the Department of Education to pressure them to 315 00:17:04,770 --> 00:17:08,610 S6: keep schools closed. They didn't care about learning. They voted 316 00:17:08,609 --> 00:17:13,970 S6: down resolutions to increase learning. These are political activators masquerading 317 00:17:14,010 --> 00:17:14,890 S6: as educators. 318 00:17:15,450 --> 00:17:17,530 S1: So when we come back, there's more to this. And again, 319 00:17:17,530 --> 00:17:21,890 S1: this is a nationwide study that says that our kids 320 00:17:22,010 --> 00:17:25,689 S1: were hurt educationally during some of the decisions made about 321 00:17:25,690 --> 00:17:28,530 S1: Covid and education And now how do we do a 322 00:17:28,570 --> 00:17:31,129 S1: do over? How do we do a makeup remedial math 323 00:17:31,130 --> 00:17:45,010 S1: classes at Harvard? Really? Back after this? Sarah Perry is 324 00:17:45,010 --> 00:17:48,570 S1: the vice president and legal fellow at Defending Education. Defending 325 00:17:48,570 --> 00:17:53,169 S1: education did a survey of more than 700 school districts. 326 00:17:53,170 --> 00:17:56,570 S1: It is a massive study, and basically it was about 327 00:17:56,570 --> 00:18:01,690 S1: studying the performance of students during Covid. And the results 328 00:18:01,690 --> 00:18:05,170 S1: are in and if there's such a great as f minus, minus, minus, minus, 329 00:18:05,170 --> 00:18:07,369 S1: that's what would be handed out. As Sarah noted, if 330 00:18:07,369 --> 00:18:09,369 S1: you haven't understood anything up to this point, here's your 331 00:18:09,369 --> 00:18:13,250 S1: takeaway Johnny not only didn't advance a grade while he was, quote, 332 00:18:13,290 --> 00:18:16,490 S1: at home learning online, Johnny could have skipped the grade 333 00:18:16,490 --> 00:18:19,169 S1: completely because what they discovered is that it was the 334 00:18:19,170 --> 00:18:22,850 S1: equivalent of losing not a full year, but 1.1 year. 335 00:18:23,050 --> 00:18:27,130 S1: So the equivalent 13 months instead 14 months of education 336 00:18:27,130 --> 00:18:31,290 S1: was lost. So that's a serious problem. Sarah, I'm one 337 00:18:31,290 --> 00:18:34,690 S1: of those firstborn causal wife actors. Okay. We figured out 338 00:18:34,690 --> 00:18:37,889 S1: a lot of the why issues of Covid. There wasn't teaching. 339 00:18:37,890 --> 00:18:40,290 S1: The union wasn't interested in teaching. The union didn't want 340 00:18:40,290 --> 00:18:42,090 S1: to be bothered by the parents. We knew that the 341 00:18:42,090 --> 00:18:45,690 S1: administration was working in cohorts with the two teachers unions. 342 00:18:45,690 --> 00:18:47,609 S1: Thank you. By the way, for you teachers out there, 343 00:18:47,609 --> 00:18:49,649 S1: you can thank the United States Supreme Court for handing 344 00:18:49,650 --> 00:18:52,410 S1: down a couple of decisions that says that if you 345 00:18:52,410 --> 00:18:54,970 S1: have to join your union as part of your school district, 346 00:18:54,970 --> 00:18:58,570 S1: you can buy constitutional protection. Now, ruling of the Supreme Court, 347 00:18:58,570 --> 00:19:00,930 S1: withhold that part of your dues that goes to fund 348 00:19:00,930 --> 00:19:04,090 S1: a political candidate. So if you say, well, I don't 349 00:19:04,090 --> 00:19:06,129 S1: support that candidate, I want the rights of conscience. I 350 00:19:06,130 --> 00:19:07,930 S1: want to be able to vote for who I want 351 00:19:07,930 --> 00:19:10,490 S1: to and not make my union tell me, because I'm 352 00:19:10,490 --> 00:19:12,930 S1: a teacher, you've got protection to be able to do that. 353 00:19:12,930 --> 00:19:15,050 S1: So you can call organizations like Defending Ed to get 354 00:19:15,050 --> 00:19:17,010 S1: answers to those questions if you need to know more. 355 00:19:17,250 --> 00:19:20,410 S1: But Sarah, the here's the big transcendent question for most 356 00:19:20,410 --> 00:19:23,010 S1: moms and dads and caring grandparents, which is how do 357 00:19:23,010 --> 00:19:25,639 S1: we get Johnny to make up the 1.1% year that 358 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:26,280 S1: they lost? 359 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:28,680 S6: That's a great question. So a couple of things need 360 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,480 S6: to happen. First of all, students have to stop being 361 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:35,040 S6: coddled by teachers and administrators under a couple of different reasons. 362 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:39,000 S6: Number one, there is something, a phenomenon. And you mentioned 363 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,600 S6: it during the break. It's got a different name for 364 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,199 S6: your generation than for mine. But equitable grading is now 365 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,959 S6: given to students to simply pass them out onto the 366 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:50,760 S6: next grade, because teachers, for whatever reason, don't want to 367 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:51,919 S6: have to repeat certain skills. 368 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:53,320 S1: Whether they've earned that grade or not. 369 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:55,880 S6: Whether they've earned it or not. And the equitable grading 370 00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:58,480 S6: means that everybody is given a passing grade, and they 371 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:00,959 S6: are all leveled up in the interest of trying to 372 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,240 S6: get everybody through and onto the right track. Here's the 373 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:07,680 S6: problem with that. Skills build on one another. So you 374 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,720 S6: take algebra so that you can take geometry. You take geometry. 375 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,200 S6: So you can take calculus, you take calculus, you can 376 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,719 S6: go on to college. And when you take college algebra, 377 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:17,920 S6: you don't have a heart attack because you realize you 378 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,200 S6: actually know how to perform those functions. But now that 379 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:25,560 S6: Harvard is offering remedial math classes and you've got 70% 380 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,720 S6: of the students coming in at middle school level in 381 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:32,800 S6: the University of California system, you are now reaping, unfortunately, 382 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,800 S6: the sort of hanger on that you've had from the 383 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:43,280 S6: entire Covid era of bad grading policies, passing students, closing schools, 384 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,520 S6: and now in universities. In fact, an article just came 385 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:51,080 S6: out today in the New York Post says that colleges 386 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:54,520 S6: that are coddling Gen Z with easier courses and it's 387 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:58,000 S6: going to backfire. So now they're coming in unprepared. They 388 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,080 S6: haven't been prepared. They've had their grades inflated. They've been 389 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,879 S6: kept out of classrooms. They're going into college with middle 390 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:08,000 S6: school levels. And now even in college, they're being given 391 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,560 S6: easier classes. And now some classes are bragging about the 392 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,600 S6: fact that some students will not read an entire book 393 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,840 S6: all semester, or will only read one book all semester. 394 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,230 S6: In fact, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 395 00:21:21,670 --> 00:21:25,070 S6: has a three credit course that satisfies an English requirement 396 00:21:25,430 --> 00:21:28,550 S6: called One Big Book worth Reading. 397 00:21:29,190 --> 00:21:30,990 S1: Is it large print with lots of pictures? 398 00:21:30,990 --> 00:21:35,750 S6: Probably. Um, so this is you know, this is a very, 399 00:21:35,750 --> 00:21:40,430 S6: very problematic trend. Columbia University is doing the same thing. 400 00:21:40,710 --> 00:21:44,790 S6: Their core curriculum used to demand 150 pages per class 401 00:21:44,790 --> 00:21:49,070 S6: per week, but now they're down to two classes for 402 00:21:49,070 --> 00:21:53,550 S6: some of their basic English proficiency core curriculum. This is 403 00:21:53,550 --> 00:21:57,390 S6: going to absolutely. It's not only going to be detrimental 404 00:21:57,390 --> 00:21:59,470 S6: for the students, it's going to be detrimental for the country. 405 00:21:59,470 --> 00:22:01,910 S6: And I'm going to tell you why. Because educational scores 406 00:22:02,070 --> 00:22:06,990 S6: are measured against other nations. How are our students doing 407 00:22:06,990 --> 00:22:10,429 S6: in relation to the students of other nations? Right. Big 408 00:22:10,430 --> 00:22:17,550 S6: national competitors like Qatar, like China, like England, like France, Spain, Norway, those. 409 00:22:17,630 --> 00:22:18,350 S1: Particular. 410 00:22:18,350 --> 00:22:22,310 S6: Countries are all outpacing us. And for the first time, 411 00:22:22,310 --> 00:22:26,109 S6: for the first time since the data has been collected 412 00:22:26,109 --> 00:22:29,910 S6: by the Institute for Educational Sciences or the AIS, which 413 00:22:29,910 --> 00:22:32,670 S6: is a part of the Department of Ed that tracks 414 00:22:32,670 --> 00:22:36,950 S6: international scores and where the US comes down. Of the 415 00:22:36,950 --> 00:22:40,510 S6: top 20 universities in the world, only two are in 416 00:22:40,510 --> 00:22:43,150 S6: the United States. One of them is Harvard, the other 417 00:22:43,150 --> 00:22:46,550 S6: is the University of Michigan. The others are from China. 418 00:22:46,990 --> 00:22:50,950 S6: So we are being outpaced internationally. It's bad for the economy. 419 00:22:50,950 --> 00:22:52,870 S6: It's bad for the ability of students to go out 420 00:22:52,869 --> 00:22:55,750 S6: and actually hold down jobs that will help them buy 421 00:22:55,750 --> 00:22:59,470 S6: a house, start a family, put money away for retirement, 422 00:22:59,510 --> 00:23:04,190 S6: pay college for their children. These are massive, massive impacts 423 00:23:04,190 --> 00:23:06,230 S6: that are going to cast a shadow not only over 424 00:23:06,230 --> 00:23:10,910 S6: the students today, but over their future abilities as American 425 00:23:10,910 --> 00:23:12,150 S6: citizens tomorrow. 426 00:23:12,190 --> 00:23:14,870 S1: It sort of violates the primary mission of education, is 427 00:23:14,869 --> 00:23:17,109 S1: it not? The whole goal was to give students the 428 00:23:17,109 --> 00:23:19,950 S1: rudimentary skills to go out and be able to turn 429 00:23:19,950 --> 00:23:22,189 S1: those skills into a way to put bread on the table? 430 00:23:22,230 --> 00:23:25,389 S1: Seems pretty commonsensical, but that doesn't seem to be what's 431 00:23:25,390 --> 00:23:27,270 S1: happening right now and in my age. You talked about 432 00:23:27,270 --> 00:23:28,830 S1: a difference in an era. We used to call it 433 00:23:28,830 --> 00:23:31,629 S1: social passing. Whether or not Johnny could read, we passed 434 00:23:31,630 --> 00:23:33,710 S1: him on to the next grade. You know, I said 435 00:23:33,710 --> 00:23:35,949 S1: to you during the break and you gave me, once again, 436 00:23:35,990 --> 00:23:39,949 S1: a fastidiously thorough legal response, but I said. 437 00:23:39,990 --> 00:23:41,070 S6: Which I can simplify. 438 00:23:42,310 --> 00:23:46,710 S1: But won't. You can sue a doctor for medical malpractice. 439 00:23:46,910 --> 00:23:49,909 S1: How come you can't sue a school district for educational malpractice? 440 00:23:49,910 --> 00:23:52,149 S1: So Johnny goes out the door. He can't read. He 441 00:23:52,150 --> 00:23:55,150 S1: can't write. He can't think critically. He can't balance his checkbook. 442 00:23:55,150 --> 00:23:58,270 S1: He can't do the basic skills to be able to 443 00:23:58,310 --> 00:24:00,630 S1: look well to the ways of his household. It's stunning. 444 00:24:00,670 --> 00:24:02,590 S6: Now, there's a student who's now done that in the 445 00:24:02,590 --> 00:24:05,270 S6: state of Rhode Island, and she has actually sued after 446 00:24:05,270 --> 00:24:07,830 S6: being admitted to an Ivy League but not able to 447 00:24:07,869 --> 00:24:10,670 S6: pass her first year classes, has sued her high school 448 00:24:10,670 --> 00:24:12,710 S6: in Rhode Island. We're following that case very closely. 449 00:24:12,750 --> 00:24:15,300 S1: Oh, got to keep me updated on that one. All right, 450 00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:18,460 S1: so you said something before that was intriguing, and you 451 00:24:18,460 --> 00:24:24,780 S1: talked about the linkage between Covid and dumbing down and activism. Yes. Okay. 452 00:24:24,820 --> 00:24:27,620 S1: This is a Jerry Maguire show me the money moment. 453 00:24:27,619 --> 00:24:29,500 S1: So when we come back. Show me the money. Yeah. 454 00:24:29,540 --> 00:24:43,980 S1: Back after this. With so many stations, channels, websites and 455 00:24:43,980 --> 00:24:46,379 S1: newspapers to choose from, sometimes it's hard to uncover the 456 00:24:46,380 --> 00:24:49,340 S1: truth in today's world. So many voices clamoring for our 457 00:24:49,340 --> 00:24:52,300 S1: attention on in the market. We bring biblical truth into 458 00:24:52,300 --> 00:24:55,179 S1: the marketplace of ideas, equipping you to become a bold 459 00:24:55,180 --> 00:24:58,139 S1: voice of truth in this confused and chaotic culture. Become 460 00:24:58,140 --> 00:25:03,020 S1: a partial partner today. Call 877858 or go online to 461 00:25:03,060 --> 00:25:10,700 S1: in the market with Janet Parshall. Sarah partial is my daughter. Yes, 462 00:25:10,700 --> 00:25:13,140 S1: but she's also the vice president and legal fellow at 463 00:25:13,140 --> 00:25:16,540 S1: Defending Education. She is a former senior counsel to the 464 00:25:16,540 --> 00:25:20,260 S1: Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the US Department of Education, 465 00:25:20,460 --> 00:25:24,899 S1: and her organization, defending. Ed, has just released a very 466 00:25:24,940 --> 00:25:28,859 S1: seismic report that studied over 700 school districts across the country, 467 00:25:28,859 --> 00:25:33,340 S1: public schools, including Washington, D.C.. And if I can give 468 00:25:33,340 --> 00:25:37,220 S1: you a distillation of what the report says. It says 469 00:25:37,220 --> 00:25:40,660 S1: that our kids suffered from Covid, not from the virus, 470 00:25:40,660 --> 00:25:44,980 S1: not from the vaccination, but from educational malpractice that not 471 00:25:44,980 --> 00:25:48,500 S1: only did kids not move forward, they actually moved backwards. 472 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:50,860 S1: And now you've got and I'm so glad that you 473 00:25:50,859 --> 00:25:52,699 S1: touched on this just before the break. You actually have 474 00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:54,940 S1: a student in Rhode Island who's suing her school district 475 00:25:54,940 --> 00:25:57,220 S1: because she was not prepared, made it into an Ivy 476 00:25:57,220 --> 00:25:59,980 S1: League school, but she's still suing the school nonetheless. And 477 00:25:59,980 --> 00:26:03,140 S1: as you noted earlier, this gazillion dollar a semester school 478 00:26:03,140 --> 00:26:07,300 S1: known as Harvard now has remedial math classes, which means basically, 479 00:26:07,300 --> 00:26:09,780 S1: these are kids having to be tutored to get up 480 00:26:09,780 --> 00:26:12,690 S1: to where they need to be. Now, you said something before, 481 00:26:12,730 --> 00:26:15,210 S1: and that is I. And I want to distill this 482 00:26:15,210 --> 00:26:17,889 S1: so Mom and Dad understand where all of this is going. 483 00:26:17,890 --> 00:26:22,810 S1: So classrooms are supposed to be reading, writing, arithmetic, the basics, 484 00:26:22,810 --> 00:26:25,530 S1: the rudimentary skills that you need to be able to 485 00:26:25,570 --> 00:26:28,330 S1: perform as a grown up. If you study the history 486 00:26:28,330 --> 00:26:31,530 S1: of education in this country. Um, and I have I 487 00:26:31,570 --> 00:26:34,649 S1: worked for an organization when I first came to Washington, DC, 488 00:26:34,650 --> 00:26:38,090 S1: where my job, like Sarah's today, is overseeing educational policy. 489 00:26:38,450 --> 00:26:40,450 S1: And you look back and their number one textbook was 490 00:26:40,450 --> 00:26:43,570 S1: the Bible, because character building was all part of learning 491 00:26:43,570 --> 00:26:46,010 S1: how to know your alphabet. Your alphabet was predicated on 492 00:26:46,050 --> 00:26:49,930 S1: A is for Abraham, B is for, you know, Bethany, 493 00:26:49,970 --> 00:26:52,609 S1: put the list and the list goes on. We're a 494 00:26:52,609 --> 00:26:54,810 S1: long way from that, I will grant you. But now 495 00:26:55,010 --> 00:27:00,290 S1: it isn't just not only not teaching rudimentary, it is proselytizing. 496 00:27:00,530 --> 00:27:04,730 S1: It is propagandizing. It is not educating, it is indoctrinating. 497 00:27:05,050 --> 00:27:07,810 S1: And this, I think, is the most pernicious part of 498 00:27:07,810 --> 00:27:10,409 S1: the study and the story. So explain. 499 00:27:10,970 --> 00:27:13,330 S6: So we talked a little bit about teachers unions. I 500 00:27:13,330 --> 00:27:16,050 S6: want to talk about the influence of unions, and exactly 501 00:27:16,050 --> 00:27:19,810 S6: the fact that they are not designed to enhance or 502 00:27:19,810 --> 00:27:26,290 S6: support or strengthen American learning for students. These are political operatives. 503 00:27:26,330 --> 00:27:29,770 S6: They are designed to ultimately provide a mouthpiece for far 504 00:27:29,770 --> 00:27:31,969 S6: left political causes. How do I know that? Because we 505 00:27:31,970 --> 00:27:37,250 S6: published a report in September of 2025 tracking that since 2015, 506 00:27:37,290 --> 00:27:40,010 S6: the two biggest unions in the country, the AFT and 507 00:27:40,010 --> 00:27:43,929 S6: the NEA, which we both mentioned, have given drum roll, please, 508 00:27:44,210 --> 00:27:53,210 S6: $228 million to far left political causes. These include MoveOn.org, 509 00:27:53,450 --> 00:27:58,170 S6: Pen America, the state victory Fund to elect Democrats and 510 00:27:58,170 --> 00:28:02,330 S6: progressives in state houses, the Trevor Project, uh, a handful 511 00:28:02,330 --> 00:28:06,370 S6: of state and federal political action committees, the Our Future 512 00:28:06,570 --> 00:28:11,450 S6: Action Fund and Kamala Harris's Political Action campaign. So let 513 00:28:11,450 --> 00:28:14,810 S6: me tell you that these are individuals who are not 514 00:28:14,810 --> 00:28:17,890 S6: thinking about the learning of students, and they've got massive 515 00:28:17,890 --> 00:28:21,369 S6: influence in American classrooms. So we know there that the 516 00:28:21,369 --> 00:28:24,050 S6: money is a problem because they are spending the by 517 00:28:24,050 --> 00:28:27,970 S6: the way, the dues of their teacher members are being 518 00:28:28,010 --> 00:28:30,890 S6: funneled to far left progressive causes. So there's money hook 519 00:28:30,890 --> 00:28:33,290 S6: number one, that's very, very problematic. 520 00:28:33,330 --> 00:28:36,370 S1: Which again, as I say, parents, teachers in particular get encouraged. 521 00:28:36,369 --> 00:28:38,770 S1: You can opt out of that Supreme Court decision gives 522 00:28:38,770 --> 00:28:40,250 S1: you permission to do it. Now it's going to be 523 00:28:40,250 --> 00:28:42,850 S1: a little homework on your part, but you can say, uh, 524 00:28:43,010 --> 00:28:44,050 S1: not with my dues. 525 00:28:44,090 --> 00:28:45,810 S6: One of the other things we've been tracking is the 526 00:28:45,810 --> 00:28:49,290 S6: influence of foreign funding in education. And now we've discovered 527 00:28:49,290 --> 00:28:52,490 S6: that the nation of Qatar or Qatar, as it's now 528 00:28:52,490 --> 00:28:56,050 S6: being called in some circles, is outspending Qatari. 529 00:28:56,050 --> 00:28:56,970 S1: And so I say Qatar. 530 00:28:57,010 --> 00:29:01,770 S6: Qatar is now outspending China for influence, not just in 531 00:29:01,770 --> 00:29:06,960 S6: higher education but in K through 12 education, with, among 532 00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:12,720 S6: other things, anti-Israel ethnic studies curriculum that is helping to 533 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:17,080 S6: send kids through the matrix of victim and victor, oppressor 534 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,760 S6: and oppressed, telling people that they are inherently racist because 535 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:24,200 S6: of their skin color, that some people are inherently privileged, 536 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,960 S6: others are not, requiring that the students sign an affinity pledge, 537 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,720 S6: and these kids who just want to go to learn 538 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,040 S6: are being told that they're a problem because of their 539 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:34,720 S6: skin color. 540 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:35,800 S1: So this is critical theory. 541 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,440 S6: It is critical theory. So here's the problem. We've seen Covid. 542 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:41,719 S6: We've seen massive learning losses. But it wasn't just the 543 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,520 S6: Covid pandemic itself. It was the money that was going 544 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,400 S6: in from foreign nations, simultaneous with the money being spent 545 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:53,280 S6: by teachers unions and the curriculum that was being taught 546 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,480 S6: at the time. They didn't use this as an opportunity 547 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,320 S6: to push rigor during Covid. They used it as an 548 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:04,400 S6: opportunity to push anti-Israel bias. Ethnic studies curriculum, critical race theory, 549 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:10,160 S6: critical gender theory. Everything that we knew about Covid was 550 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,080 S6: not just bad because it was bad for learning. It 551 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,360 S6: was bad because it platformed an opportunity to use those 552 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:20,400 S6: computer screens and those zoom classroom times as an opportunity 553 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:24,520 S6: to proselytize on left wing causes. That is as much 554 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:28,040 S6: of a scandal as the Covid pandemic and closed schools itself. 555 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:28,840 S6: It's huge. 556 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,480 S1: Wow. Okay, so again, I want to distill because there's 557 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,760 S1: a lot of information here. So the children, when they 558 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,200 S1: go to school are being indoctrinated by ideologies, most of 559 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,040 S1: which mom and dad don't even have a clue is 560 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,440 S1: happening now. You know, you can go on X and 561 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:45,480 S1: you can see teachers who are activists and ideologues, and 562 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,920 S1: they've got flags of all sorts of things hanging in 563 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,720 S1: their classroom. You've got stories of people who have lost 564 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,760 S1: their jobs because they've made some pretty threatening statements. All 565 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:56,200 S1: of that stuff is there. And you think, well, that's 566 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,800 S1: a one off. That's just one teacher who didn't practice 567 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,830 S1: self control and for a moment lost their way and 568 00:31:00,830 --> 00:31:04,430 S1: didn't realize that their job was to educate, not indoctrinate. 569 00:31:04,750 --> 00:31:08,070 S1: But what you're saying is that there's actually a follow 570 00:31:08,110 --> 00:31:13,790 S1: the money plan here, where outside money is influencing classroom content. Yes. 571 00:31:13,830 --> 00:31:17,150 S1: So Qatar says hate Israel. China says hate America. 572 00:31:17,190 --> 00:31:17,830 S6: That's exactly. 573 00:31:17,830 --> 00:31:20,630 S1: It. And that's all very much there. And it's substantiated. 574 00:31:20,670 --> 00:31:23,590 S1: This isn't hearsay. There's, you know, follow the money. We're 575 00:31:23,590 --> 00:31:25,230 S1: in Washington. It's one of the first things you learn 576 00:31:25,230 --> 00:31:28,030 S1: when you come here is follow the money. So ideas 577 00:31:28,030 --> 00:31:31,510 S1: have consequences. Good ideas have good consequences. Bad ideas have 578 00:31:31,510 --> 00:31:34,910 S1: fill in the blank. So these kids get these teachers 579 00:31:34,910 --> 00:31:37,750 S1: who are getting money from the outside. The district has 580 00:31:37,750 --> 00:31:39,430 S1: to know full well the money is coming in at 581 00:31:39,470 --> 00:31:41,030 S1: least at a minimum. The school board has to know 582 00:31:41,030 --> 00:31:44,070 S1: this money's coming in. So it comes in and it 583 00:31:44,070 --> 00:31:46,350 S1: begins to create many activists. 584 00:31:46,390 --> 00:31:49,830 S6: Yes, it's teaching for activism. That's the entire paradigm. 585 00:31:49,870 --> 00:31:52,070 S1: So how does that manifest itself? Give me some examples. 586 00:31:52,110 --> 00:31:54,070 S6: I will give you a perfect example. So we talked 587 00:31:54,070 --> 00:31:56,190 S6: a little bit and I teased kind of what's happening 588 00:31:56,190 --> 00:31:59,470 S6: in Minnesota right now with the Anti-ice protests. We're seeing 589 00:31:59,470 --> 00:32:03,470 S6: student walkouts. We're seeing students participating in the protests with 590 00:32:03,470 --> 00:32:06,390 S6: organized criminals through antifa activity. But one of the things 591 00:32:06,390 --> 00:32:09,390 S6: we just recently reported on, again, we filed another Freedom 592 00:32:09,390 --> 00:32:12,070 S6: of Information Act request. These are great, by the way, 593 00:32:12,110 --> 00:32:16,350 S6: public tools available to any John Q public, because you 594 00:32:16,350 --> 00:32:19,150 S6: are a taxpayer, you have a right, both under federal 595 00:32:19,150 --> 00:32:23,430 S6: law and your state's own law, to request information from 596 00:32:23,430 --> 00:32:26,430 S6: state and federal agencies. One of the things we just 597 00:32:26,430 --> 00:32:31,990 S6: discovered that is that the Twin Cities Students Ice Response group, 598 00:32:32,150 --> 00:32:36,510 S6: comprised entirely of K through 12 kids, is getting trained 599 00:32:36,510 --> 00:32:41,190 S6: by an organization called the Sunrise Movement. The Sunrise Movement 600 00:32:41,550 --> 00:32:45,710 S6: sponsors K through 12 school clubs, and has received significant 601 00:32:45,710 --> 00:32:49,510 S6: funding to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars 602 00:32:49,870 --> 00:32:55,070 S6: from donor organizations such as the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, 603 00:32:55,350 --> 00:32:58,390 S6: and the Windward Fund, all of which are part of 604 00:32:58,390 --> 00:33:03,550 S6: the George Soros Open Society's network. So the Soros globalist 605 00:33:03,590 --> 00:33:08,110 S6: hates America. Globalists who hates America is funneling money into 606 00:33:08,150 --> 00:33:12,830 S6: a student group, the Sunrise Movement, to train train young people. 607 00:33:12,870 --> 00:33:15,590 S6: I want you to think about this. These are six 608 00:33:15,630 --> 00:33:19,030 S6: year olds to 18 year olds on how to walk 609 00:33:19,030 --> 00:33:22,070 S6: out on class time, how to protest in school, how 610 00:33:22,070 --> 00:33:25,870 S6: to protest in public, how to boycott. They're not being 611 00:33:25,910 --> 00:33:28,510 S6: taught reading, writing and arithmetic, which you would think are 612 00:33:28,590 --> 00:33:32,310 S6: nation's report card scores, which I just told you 27% 613 00:33:32,310 --> 00:33:36,710 S6: at math, 35% at English would indicate is required. We've 614 00:33:36,750 --> 00:33:39,630 S6: got we've got ground we need to make up. We 615 00:33:39,670 --> 00:33:44,310 S6: can't be affording to spend the limited classroom resources we 616 00:33:44,310 --> 00:33:47,790 S6: have in indoctrinating kids. And yet that's exactly what happens. 617 00:33:47,790 --> 00:33:50,390 S1: So I can understand where you could say, okay, there's 618 00:33:50,390 --> 00:33:53,630 S1: some bad actors in education, but I would venture to 619 00:33:53,670 --> 00:33:56,940 S1: say the overwhelming numbers of moms and dads don't have 620 00:33:56,940 --> 00:34:00,260 S1: a thimbleful of knowledge of what you just said. They 621 00:34:00,260 --> 00:34:02,740 S1: send their child off to school while they go to work, 622 00:34:02,780 --> 00:34:04,540 S1: try to get enough money to help pay the rent, 623 00:34:04,540 --> 00:34:06,380 S1: put bread on the table hoping their kids are getting 624 00:34:06,380 --> 00:34:07,780 S1: the skills that are going to help them do the 625 00:34:07,780 --> 00:34:10,500 S1: same thing. Future tense. And in the meantime, they're being 626 00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:15,419 S1: encouraged to practice socialism. They're activists. Okay, so how do 627 00:34:15,420 --> 00:34:17,500 S1: a mom, how does a mom and a dad find 628 00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:19,339 S1: out this is never going to be they're never going 629 00:34:19,380 --> 00:34:21,340 S1: to be sunshine. They're never going to show this to 630 00:34:21,380 --> 00:34:23,339 S1: the parents and say, hey, here's where we get our 631 00:34:23,340 --> 00:34:25,219 S1: money from George Soros, and here's how we're teaching your 632 00:34:25,219 --> 00:34:29,620 S1: child to be an activist. It's all buried and it's encrypted, 633 00:34:29,620 --> 00:34:33,140 S1: and it's all being taught with great subtlety, but with 634 00:34:33,140 --> 00:34:36,020 S1: singleness of purpose. How does the average mom and dad look? 635 00:34:36,020 --> 00:34:37,940 S1: Well to the ways of their household when they're fighting 636 00:34:37,940 --> 00:34:38,980 S1: that kind of a giant? 637 00:34:39,020 --> 00:34:41,420 S6: Well, I have some tools for you, so let me 638 00:34:41,420 --> 00:34:43,500 S6: just lay some of those out. One of my favorite 639 00:34:43,540 --> 00:34:50,260 S6: offerings from our education organization is something called the Indoctrination Map. Okay. 640 00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:56,819 S6: Go to defending. Or slash map. We have thousands of 641 00:34:56,820 --> 00:34:59,580 S6: school districts across the country, and you can actually search 642 00:34:59,580 --> 00:35:02,899 S6: by issue to find out what is transpiring in your 643 00:35:02,900 --> 00:35:06,180 S6: state and in your school district. You can search by issue, 644 00:35:06,219 --> 00:35:14,819 S6: whether that's anti-Semitism, critical race theory, Di ethnic studies, anti-Semitism, indoctrination, 645 00:35:14,820 --> 00:35:21,500 S6: gender identity, unions. You can search by incident with topic area. 646 00:35:21,500 --> 00:35:24,100 S6: That is one of my favorite tools I refer. It's 647 00:35:24,100 --> 00:35:28,580 S6: updated every single day. These new incident reports go live 648 00:35:28,580 --> 00:35:31,180 S6: on the website. We just published two of them today. 649 00:35:31,620 --> 00:35:35,460 S6: They have multiple opportunities for you to filter results. And 650 00:35:35,460 --> 00:35:37,580 S6: then one of the other things that we just posted 651 00:35:37,580 --> 00:35:40,259 S6: on our website is that there are now and this 652 00:35:40,260 --> 00:35:44,020 S6: is the database you referenced. We tracked 701 school districts, 653 00:35:44,020 --> 00:35:46,900 S6: and this is going to be updated regularly. That encompasses 654 00:35:46,900 --> 00:35:52,219 S6: 33 states and DC specifically with sanctuary, school and closed 655 00:35:52,219 --> 00:35:55,660 S6: border resolution policies. Why does that matter? Because where we 656 00:35:55,660 --> 00:36:00,100 S6: see these policies, the school has made an express determination 657 00:36:00,100 --> 00:36:06,460 S6: to impede federal law enforcement and teach anti-Israel ethnic studies 658 00:36:06,460 --> 00:36:10,060 S6: related curriculum that is, at its core, anti American. 659 00:36:10,340 --> 00:36:12,460 S1: So we're going to put this link on our website. 660 00:36:12,460 --> 00:36:19,820 S1: It's defending editor.org. And you can as a parent weigh 661 00:36:19,820 --> 00:36:22,060 S1: in and you can report. And in so doing you're 662 00:36:22,060 --> 00:36:24,299 S1: educating other moms and dads all across the country. So 663 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:26,900 S1: we'll have that link on our information page back after this. 664 00:36:38,260 --> 00:36:40,180 S1: My daughter Sarah is with us. She's the VP and 665 00:36:40,180 --> 00:36:42,700 S1: legal fellow at Defending Education. They're doing a lot of 666 00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:45,140 S1: great work for parents out there. And it really all 667 00:36:45,180 --> 00:36:46,940 S1: of this comes from the fact that these are people 668 00:36:46,940 --> 00:36:48,540 S1: trying to look well to the way the ways of 669 00:36:48,580 --> 00:36:51,890 S1: their household. So just to tell you that Sarah's not 670 00:36:51,890 --> 00:36:57,250 S1: bearing false witness about this connection between activism, indoctrination, funding 671 00:36:57,250 --> 00:37:00,930 S1: and turning kids into little social activists. Sarah was just 672 00:37:00,930 --> 00:37:04,370 S1: talking to major teachers unions, right? The American Federation of 673 00:37:04,370 --> 00:37:07,810 S1: Teachers and the National Education Association. So Becky Pringle is 674 00:37:07,810 --> 00:37:11,250 S1: the president of the NEA, the national education association that 675 00:37:11,250 --> 00:37:16,210 S1: is the largest teachers union in the country. And Sunrise Movement, 676 00:37:16,210 --> 00:37:19,210 S1: something Sarah referenced in the last segment, has helped to 677 00:37:19,250 --> 00:37:23,570 S1: mobilize students in Minnesota for school walkouts. They're now hosting 678 00:37:23,570 --> 00:37:29,529 S1: this sunrise movement is hosting something called Roadmap to Political Revolution. 679 00:37:29,650 --> 00:37:32,129 S1: It's a virtual event, so let that sink in. This 680 00:37:32,130 --> 00:37:34,209 S1: is the head of the teachers. The largest teachers union 681 00:37:34,210 --> 00:37:36,250 S1: in the country is now going to be part of 682 00:37:36,250 --> 00:37:39,290 S1: an event called Roadmap to Political Revolution, not roadmap to 683 00:37:39,330 --> 00:37:43,290 S1: better reading skills, roadmap to better writing skills, roadmap to 684 00:37:43,330 --> 00:37:46,930 S1: better math skills. This is the roadmap to political revolution. 685 00:37:47,250 --> 00:37:49,649 S1: It's a virtual event. It's going to have multiple sites. 686 00:37:49,650 --> 00:37:51,770 S1: It's going to happen in several places all across the 687 00:37:51,770 --> 00:37:53,570 S1: country and. 688 00:37:53,610 --> 00:37:55,009 S6: With a goal of disruption, by. 689 00:37:55,010 --> 00:37:55,650 S1: The way, yes. 690 00:37:55,969 --> 00:38:01,850 S6: Mass disruption to quote, stop authoritarian consolidation, end quote. That's 691 00:38:01,850 --> 00:38:06,210 S6: a direct quote from the description of this particular program. 692 00:38:06,250 --> 00:38:08,410 S1: Exactly. Let me talk about some of the other people 693 00:38:08,410 --> 00:38:09,650 S1: who's going to be there. So they're going to have 694 00:38:09,650 --> 00:38:13,089 S1: the executive director of the Sunrise Movement. They're going to 695 00:38:13,090 --> 00:38:18,450 S1: have the campaign manager and political advisor for Zane Mirchandani, 696 00:38:18,770 --> 00:38:23,010 S1: new socialist slash communist mayor of New York, a candidate 697 00:38:23,010 --> 00:38:25,810 S1: for Congress coming out of a district in the state 698 00:38:25,810 --> 00:38:30,009 S1: of Illinois and a U.S. representative from California. And you 699 00:38:30,010 --> 00:38:32,810 S1: can guess which party that individual belongs to. So the 700 00:38:32,810 --> 00:38:36,930 S1: event description reads, it's time we dream and organize at 701 00:38:36,930 --> 00:38:40,970 S1: the scale that Trump and billionaires are creating nightmares. 2026 702 00:38:41,010 --> 00:38:44,810 S1: is the year we break it all open up and 703 00:38:44,930 --> 00:38:48,400 S1: they're going to rebel against the billionaire run two party system, 704 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,480 S1: and for a real democracy that delivers for working people. 705 00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:55,719 S1: That reads like something that Marxist, Leninist Stalinists would have 706 00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,560 S1: said some time ago. Now, let me just stop the 707 00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,279 S1: people who think that I'm being political. I'm not. It's 708 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,799 S1: like calling the plays between the bears and the Packers okay. 709 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,440 S1: I'm not playing football. I'm watching how they're playing football. 710 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,480 S1: My reporting, it doesn't make me political. And if you 711 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,600 S1: love your family and you want to look well to 712 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,360 S1: your household, you need to know that the teachers now 713 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:17,239 S1: have abdicated, as evidenced by hard, objective data. They have 714 00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,799 S1: abdicated in far too many cases, teaching our children for 715 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:25,160 S1: political activism. And they are in turn creating junior activists 716 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,960 S1: in kids, as evidenced now by the president of the 717 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,440 S1: largest teachers union in the country that wants to organize 718 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:35,240 S1: a political revolution and abolish a two party system. Now, 719 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,319 S1: because some of us escaped this before the dumbing down 720 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,480 S1: of America, using the thinking cap that God gave us. 721 00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,080 S1: If you want to abolish a two party system, the 722 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:48,759 S1: logical question is. And replace it with what? Well, you 723 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,720 S1: start looking at who the players are at this event, 724 00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:53,000 S1: and you realize that these are people who are so 725 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,560 S1: far to the left. We've now come up with a 726 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,239 S1: new word. We call them progressive. It's actually regressive because 727 00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,560 S1: you're going back into the dark ages. You're not going 728 00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,920 S1: forward into something better. You're going backwards into something worse. 729 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:08,480 S1: And the basis of all of this is Marxist-Leninist ideology. Now, 730 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:11,480 S1: if that's what the heads of the teachers union think, 731 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,200 S1: and those are the events they're having across the country, 732 00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:18,560 S1: the fallout hits where around your kitchen table, those babies 733 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:22,160 S1: that are sitting around your kitchen table are they're being 734 00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:26,600 S1: taught by somebody who wants to, quote, disrupt and stop 735 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:31,880 S1: authoritarian consolidation, which the people taking the remedial math class 736 00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,920 S1: at Harvard couldn't even tell you what that meant, but 737 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,360 S1: I digress. So the point is, again, this isn't being political. 738 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,480 S1: This is being Nehemiah. This is standing as a watchman 739 00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:42,440 S1: on the wall where he said, when you hear the 740 00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:45,359 S1: sound of the trumpet, fight for your families. Now I 741 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,160 S1: can't tell you where to send your children. Sarah's experience 742 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:49,920 S1: as a mom with her kids has been like mine. 743 00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,000 S1: My kids are in private school. Sometimes they were in 744 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,600 S1: public school. Sometimes you moved, you flowed. You played life 745 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,560 S1: on the balls of your feet, and you had to 746 00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:00,200 S1: move and react and respond accordingly. That's between you and 747 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,280 S1: the Lord. He made you the parent to your child. 748 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,239 S1: You are not elected. You are duly appointed, and you 749 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,680 S1: cannot abdicate that job. You cannot parent in absentia. You 750 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,000 S1: are and always will be the best Department of Health, 751 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,680 S1: education and welfare. So we're simply letting you know these 752 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,760 S1: things are out there. You then go to your prayer 753 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,960 S1: closet and you say, Lord, you gave me this humbling 754 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,319 S1: but profoundly important position as parent. What then would you 755 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,720 S1: have me to do when I know that these ideologies, 756 00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:31,200 S1: it's not a one off. It's not just a mistaken moment. 757 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,799 S1: This is the head of the largest teachers union in 758 00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:38,480 S1: America trying to move us to political revolution. And your 759 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:42,110 S1: children are being used as a pawn in that revolution. 760 00:41:42,110 --> 00:41:43,109 S1: That's a wake up call, you know? 761 00:41:43,150 --> 00:41:45,189 S6: It absolutely is. You know, we've talked about a lot 762 00:41:45,190 --> 00:41:47,630 S6: of the resources that we have at defending one of 763 00:41:47,630 --> 00:41:49,670 S6: the other resources we have. And this is something that 764 00:41:49,670 --> 00:41:51,589 S6: I've talked about before on your show, but it's a 765 00:41:51,590 --> 00:41:54,910 S6: pressing issue of national importance. The reason that I know 766 00:41:54,910 --> 00:41:57,350 S6: it is, is because we're tracking these policies. And Supreme 767 00:41:57,350 --> 00:42:01,990 S6: Court Justice Samuel Alito actually called this a pressing national 768 00:42:01,989 --> 00:42:06,870 S6: issue of incredible importance are these so-called gender secrecy policies 769 00:42:06,870 --> 00:42:11,989 S6: that are hiding gender identity information from their parents in violation, 770 00:42:11,989 --> 00:42:15,670 S6: by the way, of two federal privacy laws, the the 771 00:42:15,950 --> 00:42:19,710 S6: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the Protection of 772 00:42:19,710 --> 00:42:25,750 S6: Pupil Privacy Amendment. Both of those laws guarantee parents the 773 00:42:25,750 --> 00:42:30,629 S6: right to be informed of, to access, to examine, to 774 00:42:30,670 --> 00:42:34,469 S6: be a part of their child's education all the records, 775 00:42:34,590 --> 00:42:37,350 S6: all the curriculum, all the class time. And yet a 776 00:42:37,390 --> 00:42:42,950 S6: lot of parents don't recognize how critically those actual safeties, 777 00:42:42,950 --> 00:42:47,230 S6: those rights need to be investigated and enforced. We actually 778 00:42:47,230 --> 00:42:50,790 S6: just signed on to an amicus brief at the Supreme Court. 779 00:42:51,070 --> 00:42:55,470 S6: They have been asked specifically to halt the Ninth Circuit 780 00:42:55,510 --> 00:43:00,670 S6: ruling that struck down a victory for parents in California 781 00:43:00,670 --> 00:43:04,430 S6: in challenging gender secrecy policies on the West Coast. There 782 00:43:04,430 --> 00:43:08,509 S6: are now more than 1200 school districts across the country. 783 00:43:08,510 --> 00:43:14,029 S6: That represents nearly 12.5 million kids who go to school 784 00:43:14,030 --> 00:43:19,070 S6: with express gender secrecy policies, where teachers and administrators are 785 00:43:19,070 --> 00:43:22,870 S6: forced to lie to parents. That is part of what 786 00:43:22,870 --> 00:43:25,509 S6: we're seeing on a broad scale. So we talked about 787 00:43:25,510 --> 00:43:29,990 S6: Covid learning losses. We talked about indoctrination. We talked about activism. 788 00:43:30,030 --> 00:43:33,310 S6: It is top bottom, front to back. This is not 789 00:43:33,310 --> 00:43:37,100 S6: an era for sideline parenting, Ting, especially when it comes 790 00:43:37,100 --> 00:43:40,219 S6: to education. And even if your kids are at private school, 791 00:43:40,219 --> 00:43:42,700 S6: even if your kids are at a charter school, make 792 00:43:42,780 --> 00:43:47,180 S6: sure to examine everything. Ask the questions, dialogue with the 793 00:43:47,180 --> 00:43:51,340 S6: administrators and find out what policies are on the books. 794 00:43:51,380 --> 00:43:55,220 S6: Use our maps. Use our tools. Submit an incident through 795 00:43:55,219 --> 00:43:58,180 S6: our tip line online. But you've got to do your homework. 796 00:43:58,219 --> 00:44:00,380 S6: There's only one shot at this with our kids. 797 00:44:00,580 --> 00:44:02,779 S1: Amen and amen. I can't say I couldn't have said 798 00:44:02,780 --> 00:44:04,339 S1: it better. Sara. Thank you for that. We now have 799 00:44:04,380 --> 00:44:06,779 S1: up on our website. Thank you teen, this link to 800 00:44:06,820 --> 00:44:09,500 S1: Defending Ed's Indoctrination map. It's a chance for you to 801 00:44:09,540 --> 00:44:11,779 S1: read what might be happening in your state. It's also 802 00:44:11,780 --> 00:44:13,460 S1: a chance for you to be able to report an 803 00:44:13,460 --> 00:44:15,580 S1: incident so other moms and dads in your state and 804 00:44:15,580 --> 00:44:20,020 S1: across the country can understand. This isn't just a sidebar story, 805 00:44:20,020 --> 00:44:23,460 S1: this is an agenda. So now you have to really 806 00:44:23,460 --> 00:44:25,500 S1: look well to the ways of your household. Something to 807 00:44:25,540 --> 00:44:27,859 S1: think about, but greater is he that is in you 808 00:44:27,860 --> 00:44:29,860 S1: than he that is in the world. Don't ever forget that. 809 00:44:29,860 --> 00:44:31,979 S1: Thank you Sarah. Thank you friends. We'll see you next 810 00:44:31,980 --> 00:44:33,980 S1: time on In the Market with Janet Parshall.