WEBVTT - Rush Limbaugh June 9th, 2017

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<v Speaker 1>Well, The New York Times published an article the other

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<v Speaker 1>day that must have made every liberal reader orgasmic. Silicon

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<v Speaker 1>Valley billionaires are remaking American schools. Some of them are

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<v Speaker 1>offering grants to encourage innovation. Others, like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook,

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<v Speaker 1>are taking a more profitable approach. He's got software in

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<v Speaker 1>a hundred schools which supposedly puts kids in charge of

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<v Speaker 1>their own learning and turns teachers into facilitators and mentors. Obviously,

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<v Speaker 1>if his software takes off, it's a huge market and

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<v Speaker 1>paid for by taxpayers, not Zuckerberg. Now, while these rich

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<v Speaker 1>and influential titans of technology are focused on education, millions

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<v Speaker 1>of students are serving as the facto beta testers for

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<v Speaker 1>their ideas. As The Times puts it. Anyway, that's sure

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<v Speaker 1>to bring a smile to every liberal. I mean, this

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<v Speaker 1>has all the elements, rich, successful progressive tech gurus on

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<v Speaker 1>federal subsidies giving back to the community beta testing their kids.

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<v Speaker 1>But in reality, this is a damning indictment of the

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<v Speaker 1>state of public education when all the money American taxpayers

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<v Speaker 1>have poured into it for decades, we ought to have

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<v Speaker 1>the best education system in the world now, not years.

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<v Speaker 1>In the future, and we should need these tech titans

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<v Speaker 1>to do it. Instead, we have massive institutional failure, an

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<v Speaker 1>education system that has been run into the ground biliberals

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<v Speaker 1>and their unions in the first place, and unless that's acknowledged,

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<v Speaker 1>new technology, no matter how great, will not turn it around.

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