1 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:13,920 Speaker 1: Why kids. Have you ever wondered that when it comes 2 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: to these leftists, communists, democrats, coronavirus panic people. Why kids? 3 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,120 Speaker 1: Why all this focus on kids? Have you sat back 4 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 1: and thought about it? Because this is what I see 5 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: a lot right now from the right. I see frustration, anger. 6 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: I see people saying, well, I don't understand why why 7 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: they're they're going after the kids. Why why are they 8 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: always going after kids. They're just shoving the LGBDQ stuff, 9 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 1: the coronavirus stuff, critical race theory. Why not just leave 10 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: kids alone? Here's why you're confused. This is human nature. 11 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: We as human beings, we assume the people around us 12 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: think like us. It's just natural. I didn't did you 13 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: think people have the same values you have. It's human nature. 14 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: We all do it. You you would never attempt to 15 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: influence children who aren't yours. It's not in a serious way, 16 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: right They might say, hey, I hope you root for 17 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 1: my attainment instead of dads. It's something as a joke, 18 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: But you would never seriously go after the values of 19 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,759 Speaker 1: a child. Hey, I know your parents. I know your 20 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: parents taught you not to steal. I think stealing is 21 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: the best You should steal everything. It wouldn't ever occur 22 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,640 Speaker 1: to you, wouldn't even occur to you. But here's what 23 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 1: you have to understand about the communists who run our 24 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: education system, and oftentimes the communists who are actually teaching 25 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 1: your kids in school, and I'm not just talking about 26 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 1: at the universities. You have to understand it would never 27 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: occur to them not to go after your kids. Of course, 28 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: they would go after your kids. Why do you think 29 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: I tell you these people are communists all the time. 30 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: One of the base tenets of communism is it has 31 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: to be universal, it has to be an endless revolution, 32 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: and it must be worldwide. It must be for everyone, 33 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: which is why they've been so successful in this country, 34 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: gobbling up every single thing humanly possible and still moving forward. 35 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: I've tried to explain this before. Do you think things 36 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: are bad right now in the United States of America 37 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 1: with all this cultural Marxist filth. I know you don't 38 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:21,399 Speaker 1: want to hear this, and I know it's hard to hear. 39 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:27,519 Speaker 1: They're just getting started. They're not even close to dam 40 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 1: This thing hasn't even come close to reaching its final form. 41 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: They never stop. It is revolution without end. They will 42 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: gobble up everything They look at your kids and think, oh, 43 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: I need them. How do we get that kid away 44 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,520 Speaker 1: from mom and dad so we can get rid of 45 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: those values mom and dad taught and teach him our 46 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: values because that child, you know, it's not a unique 47 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: God made soul. To them, they look at your child 48 00:02:56,040 --> 00:03:01,359 Speaker 1: as a future servant to Communism, to the communist god, 49 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 1: to the communist religion. That's the only way they look 50 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: at your child. He is either useful to the religion 51 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: of Communism or he should be discarded. They intend to 52 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: take him away from you, her away from you, and 53 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 1: make that child useful. I mean, these kids, they're going 54 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: back to school now, they're finally starting to go back 55 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:22,679 Speaker 1: to school. Many of them masks and all that's idiocy 56 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: will go into that, but they're going back to school. 57 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: The teachers are very, very happy to have your children 58 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: back in school, some of them for not the best 59 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: reasons in the world. This is a preschool teacher. Remember 60 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: when I told you it wasn't just the university professors. 61 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 1: This is a preschool teacher. Story time. This has been 62 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 1: my first year in preschool with a class of my own, 63 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: teaching alongside another queer nerd Di virgion educator, and we 64 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 1: have been rocking our twos class. We've been talking about 65 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 1: gender and skin color and consent and empathy and our 66 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: bodies an autonomy. It's been fabulous. But our teaching team 67 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: is shifting and a new person is being onboarded, someone 68 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: with many years of experience. So today at the lunch table, 69 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 1: when the topic of gender and genitals came up, one 70 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: of our students plainly looked up and said, well, I'm 71 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 1: a girl today, but I know that teacher co isn't No, 72 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: they're envy. And the look on the incoming teacher's base 73 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: was priceless. She was shocked in a good way. And 74 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: she just looked around at the two of us and said, 75 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: this class is incredible and I am so impressed. That's 76 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: sick freak teaches preschool kids. Parents dropped their kids off 77 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 1: at that preschool, head off to work, and that's sick 78 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: freak has those kids for hours at a time, destroying 79 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: your values. That's the reality of it. And look, it 80 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: goes beyond just the gender weirdo non sense, this critical 81 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 1: race theory. Don't think this has gone away, and don't 82 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: think just because parents are awake. And finally, fighting back 83 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: that these people are in any way backing off, and 84 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 1: they're not taking a moment. Remember communists never do this. 85 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 1: They're not taking a moment where they're looking in the 86 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: mirror and saying to themselves, were we wrong? I feel 87 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: like maybe we're the bad guys. Maybe it wasn't right 88 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: to teach white people to hate themselves and teach black 89 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 1: people that they're horribly oppressed. Maybe that was wrong. They 90 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: don't think in these terms, just because parents are awake 91 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: and they're yelling at school board meetings and they're fighting 92 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: back and they're getting involved in their homeschooling and their kids, 93 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 1: don't think these teachers are backing off. I'm getting ready 94 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 1: to go back to school in the fall, and my 95 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:49,280 Speaker 1: governor has put into place so ridiculous legislation that many 96 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 1: governors across the country put into place, such as I 97 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: can't teach anything divisive, I can't teach critical race theory, 98 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: and I can't teach about racial equity is at all 99 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 1: public schools, colleges, and universities. So teachers in the past, 100 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: we've been activists. After this last year, we really need 101 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: to stand up and do it right for our kids 102 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 1: right now. So This is a call to action. Teachers. 103 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:24,200 Speaker 1: We got to stand up and fight for our kids 104 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 1: because this is we can't lie to them our kids. 105 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: Do you hear that our kids? They're not your kids. 106 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:42,160 Speaker 1: Our kids belong to them. Do you know who teaches 107 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 1: your kids in that school? Public and private? I rail 108 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,239 Speaker 1: against government schools all the time. There are private schools 109 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: out there that are absolutely sick. Have you asked your 110 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: child what they're learning in school? I just had to 111 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: do this the other day. I've been negligent because my 112 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: kids have gone back to school. Have you picked up 113 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: your child's history book? You know, they're real human beings 114 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 1: write these textbooks. Have you flipped through your child's history 115 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 1: book yet? If you haven't, you should ask your children 116 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: what they're learning in schools. Because that hag right there, 117 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: she's teaching kids. As we speak. There is a classroom 118 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: full of kids looking up at that lady. What do 119 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: you think they're learning for seven eight hours a day 120 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: while you're at work trying to make ends meet? Think 121 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: about it, and look, they know the public is now 122 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: aware of critical race theory, So they're gonna move on. 123 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: They're gonna rebrand it and like the head of the 124 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: Teachers Union does here. They're simply gonna lie. Critical race 125 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: theory is not taught in elementary schools, or middle schools 126 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: or high schools. It's a method of examination taught in 127 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: law school and in college that helps analyze whether systemic 128 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: racism exists, and in particular, whether it has an effect 129 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: on law and public policy. But cultural warriors are labeling 130 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 1: any discussion of race, racism or discrimination SCRT to try 131 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: to make it toxic. They are bullying teachers and trying 132 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:35,319 Speaker 1: to stop us from teaching students accurate history. It is toxic, 133 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: and I want to go ahead and encourage you tonight on. 134 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,800 Speaker 1: I'm right to bully every single teacher you find who 135 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: tries to teach this stuff to your children. Shame them, 136 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,079 Speaker 1: mock them to their faces, do everything you can to 137 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: run that teacher out of the profession. I don't care 138 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: if that sounds harsh. The time for being really, really 139 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 1: nice is over. These people are destroying the United States 140 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 1: of America. Four million, four million. That's how many college 141 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 1: kids graduate on average every single year, four million new 142 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: communists out in the economy and out in society, and 143 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:13,119 Speaker 1: out every single year. Either we take control of America's 144 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: education system back, or we will never ever ever be 145 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: able to solve the problems in this country. And don't 146 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:22,840 Speaker 1: think it's just critical race theory either. They want your 147 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 1: kids in masks. Why it's about control. And I want 148 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 1: you to ask any teacher how they feel this here, 149 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 1: and I'm sure that they will tell you that they 150 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 1: have never experienced anxiety like this, because it is like 151 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 1: we are trying to protect our students from a mass 152 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: shooting that we know is coming but cannot do anything about. 153 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: Except we can do something about it. It's just that 154 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: not everyone agrees that wearing a mask will stop the 155 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: onspot of students and staff who are likely to become sick. 156 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,959 Speaker 1: And that makes me sick. I don't care about your fee. 157 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: I really don't care about your anxiety. I care about 158 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,400 Speaker 1: my kids. If you can't pull your mental health together, 159 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 1: if you're too scared of coronavirus, go home, hide in 160 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:13,520 Speaker 1: the closet somewhere. All that may have made you uncomfortable, 161 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 1: but I'm right. We got Kira Davis coming up next. 162 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: She's on fire. Hang on joining me now, Editor at 163 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: large from Red State, Kira Davis. Kira school year has begun, 164 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,200 Speaker 1: or almost as ready to begin, depending on where exactly 165 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: you are in the country. My kids are back in school. 166 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: Some parents across the country are horrified by the conditions 167 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 1: of their kids school. Others are not. Is this going 168 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 1: to contribute to us separating as a country, I mean 169 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: pulling further apart, is what I'm talking about. Yeah, I know, Jesse, 170 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 1: I know what you mean. Here's how I look at it. 171 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: My kids are back in school. Well, I have a 172 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: side who's off to college in a couple of weeks, 173 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,680 Speaker 1: finally after having that even be delayed for a year 174 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: for him after a failure of a twenty twenty graduation year. 175 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: My daughter started high school here in California this past week. 176 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 1: They're back with masks. It's a hundred degrees. It's awful. 177 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: And now we're looking at vaccine mandates for students here. 178 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: Haven't come yet, but it's on the way. So yeah, 179 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,160 Speaker 1: I do believe it's going to contribute to the division 180 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: and opinion. However, I think there's a silver lining here, 181 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 1: and I think that as we can see that from 182 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: what's happening in states like Florida, where the governor is saying, okay, fine, 183 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: that's fair. If you think your kids should be in 184 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:48,719 Speaker 1: masks all day, and that's what you want in a 185 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,199 Speaker 1: back mandate. Great, let's let the funding follow the student, 186 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: and that way, students who feel and parents who feel 187 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: safer in a school that is mandating vaccines and masks, 188 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 1: they can't go there. And parents who want their kids 189 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 1: to breathe freely and learn freely, they can take that 190 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:11,920 Speaker 1: money and go to schools where they're the ones at risk, 191 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: and they're not putting those saintly masked people at risk 192 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: at risk every school day. I think there's a great 193 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:23,679 Speaker 1: argument shaping up to be made for this now here 194 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: in California. Of course, no one in the blue state, 195 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: this blue state is really going to go for that 196 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:33,240 Speaker 1: as far as the political class is concerned. But then 197 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 1: that's a great opportunity to highlight the fact that they 198 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: don't really want to solve this problem at all. So 199 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: I like to find silver linings here and I like 200 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 1: to think this is one. But I am really ticked 201 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 1: off about this mask mandate here. Not gonna lie all right. 202 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,320 Speaker 1: I know we're talking about schools and things like that, 203 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 1: but I can't have Kira, one of those dirty Californians 204 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: on the show without asking her about Gavin Newsom specifically 205 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: because of this school issue. I understand California's blue. I 206 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: get that this man is currently in the middle of 207 00:13:05,160 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: a recall. So blue or not our parents Democrats, you know, 208 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: because I know sadly you know some are they mad 209 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 1: at news Are they mad about the school thing? Or 210 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:17,559 Speaker 1: are they still putting gloves in hand sanitizer and little 211 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: Billy all day long? No, it's bout I mean, those 212 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,280 Speaker 1: the true blue people are always going to be there, right, 213 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 1: Like there's the true believers, and they'll just believe whatever 214 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: comes out of their favorite politicians mouth. I mean, we've 215 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:29,839 Speaker 1: got them on the right, they're on the left tooth. 216 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 1: So those people are always going to be there. The 217 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: people that worship knew some no matter what. But I 218 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,840 Speaker 1: can't express to you how ticked off many parents across 219 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,360 Speaker 1: the political spectrum are. They don't want to be put 220 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: upon like this. They don't want They are getting their vaccines, 221 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,520 Speaker 1: but they don't necessarily want their kids to have the vaccines. 222 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: They don't think their kids need the vaccines. We certainly 223 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 1: don't want to be mandating masks in school during hot 224 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: weather when a lot of our kids are not at 225 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:57,199 Speaker 1: risk at all. I have seen and spoken to many 226 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: Democrats who are not on board with this type of 227 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:04,200 Speaker 1: worst mandating, and they don't agree with the way that 228 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 1: California is handling the COVID. They like, we're actually handling 229 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 1: it quite well. Our numbers are not that bad compared 230 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,679 Speaker 1: to other states. Personally. I think that's because COVID's been 231 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: here for a while, longer than maybe other states. But yeah, 232 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 1: there are a number of Democrats. Listen, We've got this 233 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: recall going on Jesse with Gavin Newsom. That's not a 234 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: Republican recall. It started as a Democrat recall. These Democrats 235 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: are upset with Newsome. And it's not just about the school. 236 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,880 Speaker 1: The school is, but it's about everything combined. So yeah, 237 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,360 Speaker 1: don't think that there aren't Democrats here that are that 238 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: aren't ticked and they're all just loving this. No, a 239 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: lot of us are just desperate after a year of 240 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: watching our kids dip into lethargy. We're just desperate to 241 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:52,400 Speaker 1: get them back to some sense of normalcy. There's a 242 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 1: lot of Democrats that are just as ticked off as 243 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: I am. Good, Kira, I have to play a video 244 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: for you on life. It's real. It's not a parody. 245 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: This is a South Carolina preschool preschool teacher. Okay, guys, 246 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: I can't this is too funny. So I'm at work 247 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 1: and those of you who don't know me, I use 248 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 1: the them pronouns and I'm a preschool teacher, so instead 249 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: of using mister or miss we use mix. So the 250 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 1: kids have been really awesome doing that. I've worked with 251 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: three and four year olds. One of my kiddos came 252 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 1: up to me and he goes, are you mixed up? 253 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 1: Are you mixed up? It was like, no, Swedium, not 254 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: mixed up. I just use I just use mix instead 255 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 1: of mystery of missus. And he's like, Okay, I was worried. No, kid, 256 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: you should be worried, Kira. What's wrong with these people? 257 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 1: Are they just honestly, this is just a theory of mine. Yeah, 258 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: I'm sure there are some people out there with enough 259 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 1: mental illness that they really feel like this. I think 260 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: a lot of these people are just bored in one attention, right, 261 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: it's the This is the twenty twenty one version of 262 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 1: the high school girl who used to wake up in 263 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: the morning and shave all her hair off because she 264 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: wanted to try something new and her mean girlfriends promised 265 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: her that it would make her that guy she likes 266 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: more attracted to her. I actually think that's a really 267 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:26,160 Speaker 1: great point, Jesse. I think you're right, and we're laughing 268 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 1: at it. But the unfortunate thing is is that it's 269 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: not that funny because their boredom is now affecting our children. 270 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 1: This is ridiculous. Yeah, she is mixed up, and even 271 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: the three year old four year old could tell that. Right. 272 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 1: That was biting commentary from her three year old student. 273 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: And these are not concepts or things that we should 274 00:16:45,520 --> 00:16:50,120 Speaker 1: be foisting upon three and four year old. They acquiesced 275 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: to it because she's their authority. That person is the 276 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: authority in the classroom and kids. We teach kids from 277 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,239 Speaker 1: the moment they step into the classroom that they should 278 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 1: obey and listen to authority. But under no circumstances if 279 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 1: you leave those kids alone, are they going to think 280 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 1: that that's a normal thing. So, I mean, if I was, 281 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: if I was a parent of a student in her classroom, 282 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 1: might be pulling my kid out. Teach my kid to read, 283 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 1: teach my kid to write. I do not want you 284 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: to be spending any extra brainpower on trying to teach 285 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: my kid how to twist the concept of biological reality 286 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: in order to fit your narrative or in order to 287 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: complete the social experiment that you think you need to 288 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 1: be bringing into your job. Teach my kid to read, 289 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: teach my kid to write, teach my kid. Now, that's it, back, 290 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 1: go away. So we can make fun of this, and 291 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 1: it is funny. But on the flip side of it 292 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,160 Speaker 1: is actually that it's very sad and it's very scary. 293 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: And if your kids are in a classroom with a 294 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: teacher like that, give them out. Speaking of sad and scary, 295 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 1: this is from an article actually you wrote. Quote New 296 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 1: Loudon County policy says teachers don't have to inform parents 297 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 1: of student gender dysphoria. Teacher quits on the spot. Okay, 298 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:08,159 Speaker 1: so just so I understand this because I don't speak 299 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: half these words here. I don't know what sis means, 300 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:12,880 Speaker 1: and they're always using words I don't understand, which makes 301 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,120 Speaker 1: me feel really old. But gender dysphoria is when some 302 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: kid wants to whack himself off, right, I mean, like 303 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: cutoff is you know, is equipment. Gender dysphoria is the 304 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:26,639 Speaker 1: medical term. Is the real term for what transgenderism is. 305 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 1: You know, transgenderism is the water downward that we But 306 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: gender dysphoria is the medical diagnosis for someone who looks 307 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 1: in the mirror and doesn't see what and see something 308 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: different than what is reality. Gender dysphoria is the same 309 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: thing as body dysmorphia, which is what anorexia is. Right, 310 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: the anorectic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person, 311 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:55,120 Speaker 1: even if she's one hundred and twelve pounds. So this 312 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: is a mental disorder. We're gonna get banned. But hey, 313 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 1: it's a mental disorder. But furthermore, forget all that. Even 314 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: if you don't agree, if it's a mental disorder, this 315 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: is something that any parent would be concerned about. Any 316 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: parent won't want to know about their kids. Right, my 317 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:12,919 Speaker 1: little Johnny is going to school and telling, insisting to 318 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:15,280 Speaker 1: his teacher that he is really a girl and he 319 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,439 Speaker 1: wants to be treated like a girl, and he doesn't 320 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:19,880 Speaker 1: like being a boy. He doesn't feel like he's a boy. 321 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: That's something I need to know as a parent, the 322 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: same way I would need to know if Johnny goes 323 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 1: to school and says, I don't want to eat, I'm 324 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,479 Speaker 1: too fat. And he's not eating all day or drinking 325 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 1: liquids all day because he's worrying about his weight. These 326 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: are causes for concern. Teachers are supposed to be our 327 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 1: partners in educating our kids, but unfortunately the state of 328 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,360 Speaker 1: public school now as led by the unions, are now 329 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: make parents the enemy and now effectively make themselves the parents, 330 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:48,919 Speaker 1: so they get to be the judge of what we 331 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:53,239 Speaker 1: do and don't get to know in the classroom. So 332 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,640 Speaker 1: it should be chilling to everybody. The Loudon County school 333 00:19:56,680 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: Board has been, as you've been covering on the show, 334 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: has been under great fresh or from parents, and the 335 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 1: overwhelming majority of parents are not pleased with what's been 336 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: going on with that school board, and they treat those 337 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 1: parents as if they're morons and unworthy of having a 338 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 1: say in their child's education, which is a big red 339 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 1: flag for why those parents should keep fighting and keep 340 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 1: being loud and don't give up, because these people, they 341 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,320 Speaker 1: do want to replace you as a parent. They think 342 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 1: that you don't love your kids the way that they do. 343 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 1: They think that you don't care about your kids the 344 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: way that they do. They think that you are not 345 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 1: smart enough to teach your kids the way that they can. 346 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: And by the way, don't ever let a teacher say 347 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: that just because they're educated in quote the field of education, 348 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:44,360 Speaker 1: but they know more about educating your child. They don't. 349 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,120 Speaker 1: They might know more about the techniques to teach math. 350 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,520 Speaker 1: You taught your child how to wipe their butt. You 351 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: taught your child how to tie their shoe. You taught 352 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 1: your child how to go to the fridge and get 353 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 1: a cup of milks, how to open the door, how 354 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,680 Speaker 1: to say please and say thank you. With these very 355 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: important skills that you need as an adult moving forward, 356 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,160 Speaker 1: You've done that for your child. So don't ever think 357 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,160 Speaker 1: that you don't have the skills to teach your child 358 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,920 Speaker 1: what's right and wrong. And don't let these these school 359 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,280 Speaker 1: boards like Loudon County tell you that you can't teach 360 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: your child what's right and wrong. Your child belongs to 361 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: the system, not to the parent. Boy, I think I've 362 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,800 Speaker 1: read that in some ideology before. I'll have to look 363 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: that up and exactly what that is. Kia Davis, thank 364 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: you so much. Thanks Jhee. We're not done yet. We'll 365 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: be back. Remember how I've been telling you to keep 366 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 1: your kids away from America's universities. I need to make 367 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,880 Speaker 1: sure I clarify that's not universal, by the universal, by 368 00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 1: the grace of God, there are still some great ones 369 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: out there, like Hillsdale College. So I'm thrilled to welcome 370 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 1: in Kathleen O'Toole. She is the assistant provost of K 371 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,960 Speaker 1: through twelve Education at Hillsdale College. She's also a former 372 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:14,160 Speaker 1: K through twelve headmaster. Kathleen one, thank god for Hillsdale College. 373 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 1: How hard is it being a random light in the 374 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 1: darkness out there of America's university system. Well, we're just 375 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 1: grateful that we have academic freedom, and we're grateful for 376 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 1: the opportunity to really teach students. It's a wonderful place. 377 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 1: It is a wonderful place. How much heat do you 378 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: catch teaching the way you teach and what you teach 379 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 1: at Hillsdale? Oh, it depends when you're talking to I mean, 380 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: I think most Americans, including parents and students, can tell 381 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: that can tell that what we do here is real education, 382 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 1: the opportunity to read things and think about things and 383 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 1: learn from professors who know things. How did the rest 384 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 1: of the university system go so far sideways? You're the educator. 385 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm an idiot at what happened there. Well, 386 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,159 Speaker 1: I think a couple of generations ago, in both K 387 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: twelve education and higher education, we got the idea that 388 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,800 Speaker 1: the university should be the engine of change in the country, 389 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 1: not a place where ideas are investigated and discussed with 390 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: young people who are learning, but instead a way of 391 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: making particular things happen, making history move forward. Here at Hillsdale, 392 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 1: That's not our view. Our view is that we are university. 393 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:33,800 Speaker 1: Our job is to educate the young undergraduates and graduate 394 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,639 Speaker 1: students here on campus and in Washington, DC, and K 395 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:40,679 Speaker 1: through twelve students in our affiliated charter and private schools 396 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: across the country. I think people are going to be 397 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,639 Speaker 1: actually thrilled. I think a lot of people don't realize 398 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: there are charter in private schools affiliated with you across 399 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,119 Speaker 1: the country. How many states are we talking about here? 400 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 1: Because my email inbox is full every day of parents desperate. 401 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, we're moving across the country. We are 402 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 1: going to be in twenty states soon if you include 403 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: our new schools that we're working on. And like you, 404 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 1: we hear from local citizens across the country who want 405 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: to bring classical education to their community. Through the Barney 406 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,440 Speaker 1: Charter School Initiative and our other work in CAG twelve education, 407 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,679 Speaker 1: we teach those people how to start a classical charter school. 408 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,400 Speaker 1: We provide them with a curriculum which is authored by 409 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 1: master teachers in our network and Hillsdale College professors. It's 410 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 1: something that's been taught for decades upon decades, and we 411 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 1: give them training and how to teach too, because after all, 412 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 1: what you're reading in the classroom is only one ingredient. 413 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: You also have to have a talented teacher ready to 414 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 1: bring that curriculum to life. What's a seventeen seventy six 415 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 1: commission The seventeen seventy six curriculum, Hillsdale seventeen seventy six 416 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:58,639 Speaker 1: curriculum is the American History portion of our program guide. 417 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:03,400 Speaker 1: That's our curriculum for K through twelve schools. And seeing 418 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 1: the crisis that we're having in our nation right now, 419 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,159 Speaker 1: are the confusion that we're having about how to teach 420 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:15,760 Speaker 1: how to handle questions of justice, especially racial justice in 421 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 1: our history, we thought, let's give people the evidence, the 422 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:24,880 Speaker 1: primary source documents that they need in order to investigate 423 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: those questions, and then let's give them some tips about 424 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,560 Speaker 1: how to involve students in those discussions from a responsible 425 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 1: and honest way. So this is the curriculum we've been 426 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,360 Speaker 1: using at the College for one hundred and seventy five 427 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: plus years. It's the curriculum used in our affiliated schools, 428 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 1: and it's happening in real classrooms all the time. It's 429 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,679 Speaker 1: not a curriculum written by activists or journalists. This is 430 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 1: a curriculum that's being used by real teachers to teach 431 00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 1: real students, real American history and civics. How did the 432 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:02,360 Speaker 1: sixteen nineteen project even come about? I think a lot 433 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 1: of people are aware of that disgusting field. How did 434 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 1: that come about and how did it catch on? I 435 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: can see some nutball New York Times journalists coming up 436 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,159 Speaker 1: with it, but that it caught on and spread so 437 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,800 Speaker 1: rapidly really took me back. Yeah, I don't know really. 438 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: I think that the sixteen nineteen project comes from a 439 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,159 Speaker 1: similar idea that we have in universities today, which is 440 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: that the job of educated people is to cause change, 441 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 1: to move our history forward. And here at the College 442 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: and our affiliated schools, our job is to teach the facts, 443 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 1: teach the content, go back to the evidence, and we 444 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,080 Speaker 1: think that students and teachers can be trusted with the 445 00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 1: whole story of American history. They don't need to have 446 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 1: one particular view of it cherry picked and then handed 447 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,919 Speaker 1: to them. Instead, we can just read the documents with 448 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,879 Speaker 1: students and they can ask questions about the justice of 449 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: our American found or what were the causes of the 450 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 1: Civil War? Not based on some journalists take on those things, 451 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,199 Speaker 1: but on what the people who were living at the 452 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: time actually wrote about it. I think a lot of 453 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 1: parents are still under the impression in this country that 454 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:19,080 Speaker 1: the real, real radical, nutball lefty stuff just takes place 455 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: at the university. I'm sure a little Aiden, Braden and 456 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: Jaden will be fine in second grade. Well, you were 457 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: a former case through twelve, Headmaster, what did you see? Well, 458 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,880 Speaker 1: I taught at a classical charter school, and the way 459 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,879 Speaker 1: that we handled things there was the same way we 460 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,639 Speaker 1: handle things at the college. I think that in a 461 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 1: lot of American public schools today, we still believe in education. 462 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 1: I think most people who go into teaching believe in 463 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,159 Speaker 1: believe in teaching the kids. The problem is that the 464 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 1: tools they're given aren't the best tools. They're not given 465 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 1: balanced textbooks, they're not given standards that allow them to 466 00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:00,879 Speaker 1: spend time really digging into the evidence. And sometimes these 467 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,080 Speaker 1: these ideas that we see taking over American universities do 468 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,120 Speaker 1: creep their way into K through twelve. So our job 469 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 1: in Hillsdale's Cage twelve work when it comes to American 470 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 1: history and Civics is to combat that trend and bring 471 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:18,160 Speaker 1: back intellectual freedom and the real story of the ability 472 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,200 Speaker 1: to learn the real story by studying the facts to 473 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 1: every teacher in every classroom. Why aren't they given the 474 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:33,200 Speaker 1: right tools. Who's doing the giving and who's writing the textbooks? Well, 475 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: textbooks take their bearings from state standards, and in public education, 476 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: both charter and public and traditional public, the educators have 477 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: to meet the meet the standards adopted by that individual state. 478 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 1: So some of the work happens at the legislative level 479 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,440 Speaker 1: or the you know, the highest education agency in the state, 480 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:01,280 Speaker 1: depending on how the state works, and textbook publishers will 481 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: follow suit. We see a lot of states right now 482 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 1: that are working at the state standard level to make 483 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 1: sure that from the very top, students are being pointed 484 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 1: in the right direction, teachers are being pointed in the 485 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 1: right direction, and textbooks like Wilfred mcclay's Land of Hope 486 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 1: and another another Western history Western civilization textbook that's coming 487 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:31,560 Speaker 1: out soon. They are bucking the trend and giving students 488 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:36,200 Speaker 1: a full narrative history of these things rather than a 489 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: textbook that merely covers the facts that the standards want 490 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 1: you to cover. All Right, a parent out there right now, 491 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,440 Speaker 1: let's say they can't get to Hillsdale College, Cantafordy can't 492 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: do whatever the case, what should a parent be looking 493 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: at at a university before they send their child off 494 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 1: to a parent There's so much information out there. What 495 00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: would you be looking at if you're a parent your 496 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,600 Speaker 1: child couldn't go heals the well. I think whether you're 497 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: the parent of a K. Twelve student or a college student, 498 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,480 Speaker 1: you should get to know your child's teachers, and you 499 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 1: should ask those teachers what are you going to teach 500 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,960 Speaker 1: my child this year? And what materials are you going 501 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,640 Speaker 1: to use to teach my child? And every teacher who's 502 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 1: worth his or her weight should be able to answer 503 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 1: that question and should love to have to answer that question, 504 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 1: because that's the bread and butter. If they're real teachers, 505 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: they love talking about their content and they love parents 506 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,640 Speaker 1: who want to talk about the details with them. If 507 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 1: the school or the teacher isn't welcoming of that kind 508 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,240 Speaker 1: of question, or if the answer to that question doesn't 509 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,600 Speaker 1: sound like it's a scholarly answer but instead more of 510 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 1: a trendy journalist type answer, then maybe that's a red 511 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:52,600 Speaker 1: flag for parents across the country. We would recommend that 512 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: parents look into those resources themselves, and a lot of 513 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,640 Speaker 1: a lot of great work can be done at home, 514 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,920 Speaker 1: as we're discovered with pods and with the rise of 515 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 1: homeschooling in the last year and a half. Kathleen, thank 516 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: you so much. I appreciate it. Yeah, great to talk 517 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:13,840 Speaker 1: to you. Thank you so much. All right. Chris Koelback 518 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: joins us next. Well, we love people who are out 519 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:31,080 Speaker 1: there fighting the good fight against all this school's CRT madness. 520 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 1: Joining me now, Chris Colback, former Kansas Secretary of State 521 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,320 Speaker 1: and he's currently the General council for the Alliance for 522 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: Free Citizens. Chris CRT. I feel like they're just going 523 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 1: to try to repackage it now, But I think it's 524 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 1: wonderful we're out there exposing how poisonous and widespread this 525 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 1: is throughout American schools. Yeah, you know, the schools want 526 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 1: us to talk about the COVID infection infecting children, but 527 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: what they don't want us to talk about is the 528 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:05,440 Speaker 1: infection of CRT which they're which is an insidious virus 529 00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,440 Speaker 1: that they are promoting and teaching, and we have to 530 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 1: protect our kids. And as many of your listeners and 531 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 1: viewers know, there are there are some brave school boards 532 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,720 Speaker 1: out there that are trying to stop it within their districts, 533 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 1: but the vast majority of school boards are either controlled 534 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,440 Speaker 1: by people on the left or they just don't have 535 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 1: the backbone to do anything. And so that's why I 536 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,840 Speaker 1: think if people want to fight back, the best way 537 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: to do it is through the state legislatures. Three quarters 538 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: of the state legislatures are not in session right now. 539 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 1: They start in January, then they end depending on the state, 540 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 1: between March and July. But come January, it's really important 541 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,840 Speaker 1: to get the state legislatures geared up to stop this 542 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 1: insidious teaching in our schools. And we have a bill 543 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 1: at the Alliance for Free Citizens and you can go 544 00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 1: to it at www. Dot Alliance for Free Citizens dot org. 545 00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,680 Speaker 1: All spelled out and you'll see it. There's scroll down 546 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 1: to the bottom of the front pacer. There's a bit 547 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: a model legislation that you can email to your legislators, 548 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 1: send to your legislator and they can put it in 549 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: the hopper and get started. And then you got you 550 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 1: gotta call them and you gotta say, is this bill passing? 551 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,920 Speaker 1: Wins the committee hearing? But the bill is pretty simple. 552 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: It says that no, uh, no state entity, so that 553 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 1: would educational entity, whether it be a public school or 554 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 1: a university, shall teach that one race is inherently superior 555 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 1: to another. See that's that's uh, that's pretty radical, isn't it. Uh? 556 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 1: And and no school shall teach that one person because 557 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:40,560 Speaker 1: of his skin color is uh, is is an oppressor 558 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,920 Speaker 1: or is oppressed. It's very basic stuff. It's not like it's, 559 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 1: you know, dramatically restricting what teachers can say. It's just saying, 560 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,200 Speaker 1: don't tell kids that because of their skin color they 561 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: should be judged, uh, contrary to you know, it's basically 562 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 1: Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech about not 563 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,440 Speaker 1: judging people according to their skin color. And it's astonishing 564 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,840 Speaker 1: that we have to even say this to to compel 565 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:10,360 Speaker 1: teachers not to teach the opposite. Well, Chris that sounds 566 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,840 Speaker 1: like the most benign thing in the world. Why is 567 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 1: there so much pushback on it? Well, that's that's exactly 568 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,720 Speaker 1: the question to ask, and that's the question that is begged. 569 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,239 Speaker 1: If if this, if it's not happening, why are the 570 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,879 Speaker 1: teachers unions pushing back? Why are the left leaning school 571 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,440 Speaker 1: boards pushing back? Why are so many politicians pushing back? 572 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,000 Speaker 1: If it's not happening, then then there should be no 573 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: objection whatsoever to a bill like this simply stating that 574 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:41,120 Speaker 1: we're not going to teach our kids racist concepts. So 575 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,560 Speaker 1: it's it's pretty straightforward. It forces the other side to 576 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 1: either acknowledge that yes, this is happening and they like it, 577 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,320 Speaker 1: or if they if they really think it's not happening, 578 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 1: then they should have no objection to this bill. Chris, 579 00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:01,400 Speaker 1: Our parents starting to wake up to how insidious it 580 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,279 Speaker 1: really is. I have this video. I'll play this video 581 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,920 Speaker 1: of a dad in Colorado and he seems fired up. 582 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 1: Are enough parents fired up here? As this video? Putting 583 00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,839 Speaker 1: critical race theory into our classrooms is taking our nation 584 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 1: in the wrong direction. Racism in America would buy and 585 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,320 Speaker 1: large beat dead today if it were not for certain 586 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:26,719 Speaker 1: people and institutions keeping it on life support, and sadly, sadly, 587 00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 1: very sadly, one of those institutions is the American education system. 588 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:37,520 Speaker 1: I can think of nothing more damaging to a society 589 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:41,439 Speaker 1: than to tell a baby born today that she has 590 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:45,960 Speaker 1: grievances against another baby born today simply because of what 591 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:49,879 Speaker 1: their ancestors may have done two centuries ago. Putting creo 592 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:54,800 Speaker 1: theory into our classrooms is not combating racism, is fanning 593 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 1: the flames of what little embers are left. I encourage 594 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:03,719 Speaker 1: you to support this resolution. Let racism die the death 595 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:09,839 Speaker 1: it deserves. Chris, Yeah, why did they love it so much? 596 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 1: Explain why they love it so much? Because I've never 597 00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:17,040 Speaker 1: been able to work through this. Why to schools, specifically 598 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,759 Speaker 1: teachers unions who you brought up earlier, Why would they 599 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,640 Speaker 1: love it? And I've never been a teachers union fan. 600 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,879 Speaker 1: I think they're discussing money grabbers. They've ruined education everything bad. 601 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:26,960 Speaker 1: You can talk about teachers unions I would agree with, 602 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:31,160 Speaker 1: but specifically critical race theory. What a weird thing for 603 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:35,279 Speaker 1: them to love? And that's I'm missing something. Well, you know, 604 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:39,359 Speaker 1: there are lots of theories, as those of us who 605 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,279 Speaker 1: have common sense and believe that history, you know, the 606 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,040 Speaker 1: objective truth of history, should be taught what happened, when 607 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,040 Speaker 1: it happened, and let people argue about why it happened. 608 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,840 Speaker 1: We don't teach the why to children, and teach it 609 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,080 Speaker 1: in a way that is so skewed and clearly false 610 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:58,720 Speaker 1: that everything about America is racist and therefore you, the student, 611 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:01,920 Speaker 1: are a racist if you don't acknowledge that you are 612 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,000 Speaker 1: an impressor. I mean, it's just insane. So so my 613 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,839 Speaker 1: my view is that this is part of it's just 614 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:12,439 Speaker 1: one of several parts of how the educational establishment wants 615 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,960 Speaker 1: to teach that America is a bad place. We are 616 00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:20,840 Speaker 1: not a nation that is that that is singularly blessed 617 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,239 Speaker 1: and is something special in the world. On the contrary, 618 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,600 Speaker 1: it's it's about, you know, teaching children to hate the 619 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,840 Speaker 1: United States. That undermines the institutions in the United States. 620 00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,520 Speaker 1: It you know, it causes all kinds of things. It 621 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,600 Speaker 1: makes it easier for ideas like Marxism and socialism to 622 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 1: take cold and scrapping the Constitution with its pesky First 623 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:45,280 Speaker 1: Amendment and pesky Second Amendment. You know, it undermines our 624 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:48,319 Speaker 1: belief in our American system. That the founding fathers gave us. 625 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,640 Speaker 1: So I think there are a lot of educators who 626 00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:55,040 Speaker 1: you know, that's their ultimate aim. Whose others uh, you know, 627 00:37:55,080 --> 00:38:00,560 Speaker 1: they may like the racist tone of because there's clearly 628 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:06,320 Speaker 1: many racists on the left who like CRT because it 629 00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:11,959 Speaker 1: it confirms and teaches their form of racism. Why white people, though, 630 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,359 Speaker 1: I would look okay, in some twisted way, I could 631 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,520 Speaker 1: maybe see how a black person could could one. I mean, 632 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,040 Speaker 1: who doesn't want to feel superior to someone else? Half 633 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,040 Speaker 1: the time? More than half the time nine percent at 634 00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,399 Speaker 1: the time, it's some lily white person teaching this stuff. 635 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,640 Speaker 1: What do they get out of that? What's wrong with them? 636 00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:33,000 Speaker 1: Virtue signaling? I suppose you know, I can't get into 637 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,040 Speaker 1: their head and explain why they why they think this 638 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:40,400 Speaker 1: is so important to force on our children. But it's regardless, 639 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,040 Speaker 1: we as parents have to say no. And the most 640 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,080 Speaker 1: effective way to do that is at the state level. 641 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,440 Speaker 1: If you can pass a statewide bill, then you you 642 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:51,759 Speaker 1: prohibit every school district in your state from doing this. 643 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,400 Speaker 1: So it's important the bill also looks at ways they 644 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,280 Speaker 1: might try to get around it. Instead of the teacher 645 00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,480 Speaker 1: doing it, the school might hire some person to come 646 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,880 Speaker 1: in and teach a special class one day. So prohibits 647 00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:06,279 Speaker 1: any expenditure of money, any use of contractors, and it 648 00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:10,279 Speaker 1: also prohibits other public entities in the state from pushing this. 649 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:14,280 Speaker 1: So public employers, can't you force all of the police 650 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:19,960 Speaker 1: officers to undergo critical race theory sessions and things like that. 651 00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:25,560 Speaker 1: Is this the most awake you've ever seen parents in America? Yeah, 652 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,879 Speaker 1: it is because they're getting hit. Their kids are getting 653 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,520 Speaker 1: hit with two different things. They're getting hit with various 654 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,680 Speaker 1: forms of mandates attached to COVID, and they're getting hit 655 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,799 Speaker 1: with critical races theory. It's extraordinary. And I think the 656 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,520 Speaker 1: other thing the reason why parents are awake is during 657 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:44,120 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, many many schools did go to virtual learning, 658 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,200 Speaker 1: and many parents suddenly were in the same room with 659 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,960 Speaker 1: their kids when they were, you know, being lectured to 660 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:53,520 Speaker 1: by a teacher over the computer screen. And I think 661 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:55,839 Speaker 1: it gave parents a window into what their kids are 662 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:59,880 Speaker 1: actually learning. Chris, thank you so much. I appreciate you. 663 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:08,440 Speaker 1: Thank you. Good. Step one is getting everybody woken up. Good. 664 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:28,840 Speaker 1: All right, We're not done. Look, nothing else matters, Nothing 665 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,919 Speaker 1: else matters but education. That's what we have to get 666 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,520 Speaker 1: through our heads. As long as we're filtering every single 667 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:39,200 Speaker 1: Americans through an education system where they're finding out just 668 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,600 Speaker 1: how much their country sucks, or they're being taught I 669 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,120 Speaker 1: should say just how much their country sucks. Then all 670 00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,800 Speaker 1: the rest of this, everything else we talk about, whatever 671 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,880 Speaker 1: it is, border, foreign policy, taxes, it's all just rearranging 672 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:53,120 Speaker 1: the deck chairs on the Titanic as it eases into 673 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,719 Speaker 1: the water. We either dig in and change our education 674 00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,840 Speaker 1: system now and start producing people who love this country 675 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:06,040 Speaker 1: at an early age, or we're already done. That's where 676 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:09,520 Speaker 1: the battle is. That's where the only battle is. We 677 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:13,360 Speaker 1: must you and I dig in take back our education system. 678 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:14,839 Speaker 1: All right, We'll do it again.