1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: There is a new assault happening on your children in 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: this country. And it's not just critical race theory. It's 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:10,480 Speaker 1: not just calling parents that school board meetings domestic terrorists. 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: It's not just like the California school board president that 5 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: was caught on a hot mic telling a parent to 6 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: fu because they were concerned their kids weren't getting a 7 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:22,799 Speaker 1: good education. There is a new assault on your kids 8 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:25,280 Speaker 1: future and it deals with the grades that they are 9 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:29,760 Speaker 1: receiving in schools. Now, you know what schools are doing. 10 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 1: They're trying to indoctrinate your children. Just last night on MSNBC, 11 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: a perfect example of this was this new warning that 12 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 1: many school districts are sending messages that in essence are racist. 13 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: This is how they started their report as there is 14 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: another major issue against your kids that's happening with their future. 15 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: It's refusing to fail your kids, refusing to give your 16 00:00:55,440 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 1: kids d's and as even if they deserve them. It's 17 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 1: called social promotion. We are now seeing in this country, 18 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: especially because of what happened last year with a pandemic, 19 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: that there are a significant number of school districts around 20 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: the country. I'm talking about hundreds who are refusing to 21 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: fail kids hold them back or not graduate them. They're 22 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: socially promoting them. They're moving them through this system regardless 23 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: of if they taught your kid anything or not. Now, 24 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: some of this could be the problem of the parents 25 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: and the children, no doubt about it. Okay, I want 26 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: to make that clear. Okay, some of this is that 27 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: there are parents and kids that aren't paying attention, that 28 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 1: are lazy, that don't care. But the majority of what 29 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: we're seeing right now is teachers public school systems that 30 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: are trying to indoctrinate your kids instead of actually educate 31 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 1: your kids. And now with COVID nineteen, the lockdowns and 32 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: some of the terrible decisions that they've made, kids have 33 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: fallen behind even more than they were before. So, instead 34 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: of being honest about how much of a disaster this 35 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: distance learning has actually been in this country, decided to 36 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: move in a different direction. That different direction is will 37 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: promote and socially promote your child to the next grade 38 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: or graduate them, because why not, right, why wouldn't we 39 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: It's easier for us to move your kid on even 40 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 1: if they can't read, write, or do arithmetic while we 41 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 1: indoctrinate them. Because that's what this is really all about. 42 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: This is about indoctrination. We're not here to educate your kid. 43 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 1: We're here to indoctrinate your kid. Now. I want you 44 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: to listen to part of this intro from MSNBC last night. 45 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: This is about what they referred to as cultural rewards, 46 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: and they say that it's the school's job now to 47 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: teach your kid about race, that includes critical race theory. 48 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: And if you don't teach your kid about it, then 49 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: you're a racist and your kids will grow up to 50 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 1: be racist because we're no longer teaching your kids how 51 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: to read right into arithmetic. That's not the job of 52 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 1: public education. It's to indoctrinate your kids to hate America, 53 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 1: hate their own skin color if they're white, and reparation 54 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 1: and everything else they want to do. Guest warns against 55 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 1: the influential followers of a new sort of religion. In 56 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: his newest book, Woke Racism, John mcquarter writes, quote third 57 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: wave anti racism, in its laser focus on an oversimplified 58 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:20,399 Speaker 1: sense of what racism is and what one does about it, 59 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: is content to harm black people in the name of 60 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,919 Speaker 1: what we can only term dogma. It's a lot back 61 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: with us again tonight easily our favorite linguist around here. 62 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: The aforementioned John mcwarter, armed with a PhD in linguists 63 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: from linguistics from Stanford. He as a professor at Columbia 64 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: University in New York, a contributor at The Atlantic. His 65 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: latest book is Woke Racism, How a New Religion has 66 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: Betrayed Black America, now in the top ten list of 67 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: the New York Times Bestsellers. It's a pleasure to have you. 68 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 1: And I'm so curious, having written this, having just released this, 69 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 1: you're watching last night's returns, how much of the theme 70 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 1: echoed back to you? And do you have a kind 71 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: of realization that we may be approaching a realization on 72 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: the part of the Democrats that the language of wokeism 73 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:16,719 Speaker 1: just might be political suicide. Well, yeah, I think that 74 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: what we're seeing is definitely a pushback against the excesses 75 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: that we've seen since roughly June of twenty twenty. And 76 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:29,359 Speaker 1: excess doesn't mean that, for example, you teach about racism 77 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: and slavery in schools. What's going on is that in 78 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: many school districts, in both private and public schools, there 79 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:40,919 Speaker 1: is a general message being taught to be white is 80 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: to be culpable that the whole American experiment can be 81 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: argued to have been polluted from the very beginning by 82 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: the stain of racism, and that the essence of being 83 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: black is being oppressed. A great many people are under 84 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: the impression that that really is a suitable default education, 85 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 1: that teaching kids that particular perspective on things is what 86 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 1: an education is supposed to be. And the problem is 87 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: that's not something that all reasonable people will agree with, 88 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 1: and instead, what we have is this word game where 89 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: somebody calls what I just said critical race theory, and 90 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: then somebody else says, well, that's not what's in papers 91 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,920 Speaker 1: that some legal scholars wrote thirty and forty years ago. 92 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: That isn't being taught to eight year olds, as if 93 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,800 Speaker 1: that's what anybody meant. And so the terms of all 94 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: of this are extremely frustrating because they are certain people, brilliant, 95 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 1: wise people who are insisting that anyone who doesn't like 96 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: the direction that so many schools are taking in terms 97 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 1: of what they think of as instruction is some kind 98 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:45,599 Speaker 1: of bigot, that what this is racism rearing its ugly head, 99 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: when really it's just that people will differ on how 100 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,040 Speaker 1: slavery and racism are taught in schools, and when they're 101 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: told that they're fools for questioning it, they have a 102 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: right to be offended. And this sort of thing could 103 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: start affecting elections, and we're going to see more of 104 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: these old, we're simplified analyzes that all it is is 105 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,720 Speaker 1: racism and backlash and ignorance, when really it's something much 106 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: more complex. It's by the way, I got to jump 107 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: in here, but I wanted you to hear the core 108 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: of this argument. So their argument now on the left 109 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: is Okay, maybe we need to do a better job 110 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 1: of explaining critical race theory. Maybe we need to do 111 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 1: a better job of not calling it critical race here. 112 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:24,039 Speaker 1: Maybe we need to package it differently. We want to 113 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: teach the same thing, right, we want to. We want 114 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: to teach the same thing, but we would just need 115 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: to package it better, to make it more woke. Package 116 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 1: it better to not be so blatant to tell white 117 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: kids it should be ashamed of being white. Now, critical 118 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: race theory is being taught. Critical race theory is real. 119 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,159 Speaker 1: Critical race theory curriculum is also real, and your tax 120 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: stars are paying for it. But while all of this 121 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: is going on you may want to know what's actually 122 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: happening in your kids' schools. I started by saying that 123 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: this public school system that we have created this country, 124 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 1: which is about inducting your kids in ideology, not about reading, writing, arithmetic, 125 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: has now got a huge problem. Los Angeles Times is 126 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: now reporting that many school districts across the country, our 127 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 1: face was soaring at number of d's and f's. So 128 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: schools have decided, instead of doing a better job of 129 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: teaching a kid, they're just going to change the way 130 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: they grade your kids. You're paying for this, whether your 131 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: kids in a public and private school, whether you have 132 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: kids or not, you're paying for it. If you pay taxes, 133 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: you're paying for this pandemic for school closures. Revealed how 134 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: grade point systems hurt quote unquote disadvantaged children, prompting educators 135 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: to look for ways to bring equity to gradings. So 136 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: now we're going to give kids different grades based on 137 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 1: their economic and social conditions they live in and the 138 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 1: color of their skin. To fix the fact that liberals 139 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: shut down schools when they shouldn't have. Private schools kept 140 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: them open, and instead of actually going back and teaching 141 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: your kids where they didn't teach your kid last year. 142 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 1: They want to change the way they grade your kid 143 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: so that they can then move your kid to the 144 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: next grade, losing an entire year basically of education, and 145 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: they still got paid for this. A few years ago, 146 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 1: high school teacher Joshua Marino got fed up with his 147 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: grading system, which had become a points game. Some students 148 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: accummended so many points early on that by the end 149 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: of the term they knew they didn't need to do 150 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: more work and could still get an a. Others, often 151 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 1: those who had to work or care for family members 152 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: after school, would fail to turn in their homework and 153 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: fall so far behind that they would just stop trying. 154 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: It was literally inequitable. He said. As a teacher, you 155 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:45,079 Speaker 1: get frustrated because what you signed up for was for 156 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:47,520 Speaker 1: students to learn, and it just ended up being a 157 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: conversation about points all the time. These days, his high 158 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: school and as an English teacher, has done away with 159 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: points entirely. He no longer gives students homework and gives 160 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: them multiple opportunities to improve essays and class work. The 161 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: goal is to base grades on what the students are 162 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: learning and remove behavior deadlines and how much work they 163 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: do from the equation. All right, so let's translate that 164 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: into real world. So think about what we're teaching our 165 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,319 Speaker 1: kids now. We are teaching our kids that you don't 166 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: have to actually behave in the classroom. Right. We're taking 167 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: we're removing behavior, We're removing deadlines, which is what you're 168 00:09:30,880 --> 00:09:32,400 Speaker 1: going to have in the real world. And the real world, 169 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: the only way you're going to keep a job is 170 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: if you get crap done on time. And if you 171 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 1: don't get crap done on time, or you don't do 172 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: things during each day when you were at work, here 173 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: is what happens. You and I both know the answer. 174 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: You and I both know exactly what happens. What happens. 175 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:52,679 Speaker 1: What happens, You get fired, you get laid off. So 176 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: we're gonna now coddle kids all the way through high school, 177 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:59,199 Speaker 1: and we're going to coddle them to the point when 178 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: they immediately go and they get their first job. We 179 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: what do we do? We shut them down indefinitely in 180 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: the real world. We shut them down because they've never 181 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 1: even been taught that they have to do anything on time, 182 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:19,320 Speaker 1: which is also insanity. It gets better the changes this 183 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,680 Speaker 1: English teacher Marino embraced are part of a growing trend 184 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:27,319 Speaker 1: nationwide in which educators are moving away from traditional point 185 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: driven grading system aiming to close large academic gaps among racial, ethnic, 186 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: and economic groups. So, in other words, we're going woke 187 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: in our grading system, where if you're a white kid, 188 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,320 Speaker 1: it will be harder for you to get A. If 189 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: you're a rich kid, it'll be harder for you to 190 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,680 Speaker 1: get an A than if you are poor or a minority. 191 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 1: It may be harder to get an A in some 192 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 1: schools than the other school across town, because we're gonna 193 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: judge you at a different level because of your economic 194 00:10:54,760 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 1: and social conditions. We will punish kids whose parents were successful, 195 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 1: and we will embrace kids whose parents might be unsuccessful. 196 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: That's literally what they're now saying in this grading system. 197 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: You're welcome. This is happening nationwide all because of one 198 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: year of law schooling, And in that one year of 199 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,079 Speaker 1: law schooling, we decided, instead of actually going back in 200 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:25,679 Speaker 1: teaching the kids because grown adults screwed up what they 201 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: should be taught, we've decided to skip over the entire 202 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: year in trade and change the way we're grading so 203 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: that we don't have to actually admit we got it 204 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: wrong in society. The changes that this English teacher Marino embrace, 205 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,719 Speaker 1: they say, are part of a growing trend in which 206 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 1: educators are moving away from a grading system they say 207 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: is racist, they say, accelerated by the pandemic and school 208 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: closures that cause troubling increases in these and fs across 209 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: the country, and by calls to examine the role of 210 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: institutionalized races m in schools, and the aftermath of the 211 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: murder of George Floyd by a police officer. Okay, let's 212 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: just take that last sentence for a second and think 213 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: about what we're doing nationwide now. We are changing the 214 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,319 Speaker 1: way that we grade kids because the arrest of George 215 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: Floyd and the murder of George Floyd, which has nothing 216 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: to do with education. If you can't add, and you 217 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 1: can't do two plus two equals four, that has nothing 218 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: to do with the aftermath the murder of George Floyd, 219 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: which we condemned in this country. That has nothing to 220 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: do with that one police officer who committed that crime. 221 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 1: There is nothing that reading, writing, arithmetic has to do 222 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: with George Floyd and his arrest and his murder by 223 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: a police officer. But we're going to fundamentally change the 224 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: entire way that we grade children because of George Floyd. 225 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: It makes no sense to connect that dot. Yet they are, 226 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:57,480 Speaker 1: and this is happening nationwide. Los Angeles and San Diego 227 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 1: Unified school Districts, the state's too large school districts in California, 228 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: with some six hundred and sixty thousand students combined, have 229 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: recently directed teachers to quote base their academic grades on 230 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:14,559 Speaker 1: whether students have learned what was expected them during a course, 231 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:20,319 Speaker 1: and not penalize them for behavior, work habits, and missdeadlines. 232 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: So we're teaching kids to totally be irresponsible and going 233 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 1: to indoctrinate them that there is no penalty in life 234 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 1: for your behavior. Right, There's no penalty in life for 235 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: your work habits, and there's no penalty in life for 236 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: missdeadlines and not doing work on time. I cannot tell 237 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: you how many sleepless nights I had in high school 238 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: and in college because I procrastinated to the last minute 239 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: and then had to cram to get work done. And 240 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 1: what it teaches you about life is that you might 241 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: need to actually in life not wait till the last 242 00:13:55,559 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: minute and not cram. Okay, that's what it teaches you 243 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: in life. Understand that that's what it teaches you. And 244 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: everybody needs to understand that that is what it teaches you. 245 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,959 Speaker 1: This is what it teaches you, and we're going to 246 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: get rid of that. So if a kid decides to 247 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: do his coursework on schedule and he turns it in, 248 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: there is no penalty for the other kid who decided 249 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: not to do his course work. No penalty if the 250 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:31,720 Speaker 1: kid does it tomorrow or the next day, or the 251 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 1: next week or the next month. In other words, just 252 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: do it whenever you want to do it, and you 253 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: won't be penalized if you don't. How does that prepare 254 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: our children for the real world. This is what your 255 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: tax stars going to again, this is part of what 256 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:46,280 Speaker 1: we need to do in an America days. Understand you 257 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 1: are enabling, enabling this destruction of America if you are 258 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: not involved and you don't get involved because you pay taxes. 259 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: For far too long, we've had lack of accountability for 260 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 1: our money. And I'm talking about lack of personal accountability. 261 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the government. The government figured it out. 262 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: They figured out that we're really stupid that will pay 263 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: our taxes, and they have an unlimited amount of firepower 264 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: financially to do whatever the hell they want to do. Financially, 265 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 1: they can indoctrinate your children, change this country, raise people 266 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: to hate America, and apparently there's nothing that we will 267 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: do to stop it. That is a problem, and that's 268 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 1: what we are doing. And that's exactly now what they're 269 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: teaching your kids. You don't have to worry about your behavior. 270 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 1: You can tell a teacher to blink off and you'll 271 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:39,400 Speaker 1: still get an agg We're not going to judge you 272 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: for that. We're not going to penalize you for your 273 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:43,800 Speaker 1: work habits. We're not going to penalize you for not studying. 274 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: We're not going to penalize you for missdeadlines. So imagine 275 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 1: the shell's shock when you go out into society and 276 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 1: you get your first job and you don't do your job, 277 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 1: or you don't show up on time and you get fired. 278 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:57,360 Speaker 1: We raised you to say that you can basically make 279 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,720 Speaker 1: your own rules, that everybody can do their own rules. 280 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 1: And if you out and and by the way, if 281 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: a boss tells you do something you don't want to 282 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: do it, you can tell them go to hell. And 283 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: if they fire you, you're gonna be angry because you 284 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: were taught that that's acceptable behavior in society, and we 285 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: graduated you with great grades because of it. It's teaching 286 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: students that failure is a part of learning. We fall, 287 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: we get back up, we learn from the feedback that 288 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: we get. That's what Alison Yoshimoto, a LA Unified Chief 289 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: Academic Officers said about the new guidelines. Traditional grading has 290 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 1: often been used to justify and to provide unequal educational 291 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: opportunities based on a student's race or class. So if 292 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: you're failing, you can just say, well, you're I'm failing 293 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: because I'm black, I'm Asian, I'm African American, I'm Indian, 294 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 1: I'm Mexican, I'm Hispanic, whatever whatever you identify as. I'm transgender. 295 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: We're now telling kids that if you are failing, it's 296 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 1: because someone is judging you based on race or class. 297 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,120 Speaker 1: I'm poor. You can't expect me to turn in my work. 298 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: Senior Executive Director of the Division of Instruction to Principles 299 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 1: last month actually said justify Churchill grading has often been 300 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: used to justify it in to provide unequal educational opportunities 301 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: based on a student's race or class. That's what they 302 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 1: said in writing quote, by continue to use century old 303 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:26,120 Speaker 1: grading practices, we inadvertently perpetuate achievement and opportunity gaps, rewarding 304 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 1: our most privileged students. So if you make AI's, it's 305 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 1: only because you're privileged. If you've turned your work in 306 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,400 Speaker 1: on time, it's only because you're privileged. If you don't 307 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 1: have behavioral issues in the classroom, it's only because you're privileged. 308 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 1: We inadvertently perpetuate achievement and opportunity gaps, rewarding our most 309 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 1: privileged students and punish those who are not the letter 310 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 1: set quoting the educational grading consultant Joe Feldman, whoever the 311 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:55,040 Speaker 1: hell that is? Quote. The ears of need to change 312 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,920 Speaker 1: became painfully apparent during the pandemic, when schools were forced 313 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:02,640 Speaker 1: to close as educators grappled with how to fairly grade 314 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,840 Speaker 1: students living through an unpresent disruption to their education. Some 315 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: of the challenges that student face are unique to the pandemic. 316 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 1: Others had long been present and were more visible. Suddenly, 317 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: teachers had an inside view of the crowded home conditions 318 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: of some low income students. They saw how some teenagers 319 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 1: were caring for younger siblings while trying to do their 320 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: work and witness the impact of the digital divide as 321 00:18:27,560 --> 00:18:31,120 Speaker 1: students with spotty internet access struggled to log on to class. 322 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 1: The COVID pandemic just highlighted across the nation a trend 323 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 1: of looking at the inequalities in learning circumstances for students. 324 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,880 Speaker 1: The director of ADG Intervention and Support for the LA 325 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,240 Speaker 1: Unified School District said, saying, quote, but those different circumstances 326 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 1: of learning have always been present. Fieldman a former teacher 327 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 1: and administrator who wrote the book Grading for Equity, Grading 328 00:18:58,040 --> 00:18:59,760 Speaker 1: for Equity. It's a real book. People are reading this, 329 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,399 Speaker 1: ying this crap. Have been working for several years of 330 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: school districts across the country as they reconsidered gritting policies. 331 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: In October November of twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two 332 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:12,240 Speaker 1: academic school year, he suddenly found himself fielding a tidal 333 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: wave of calls from districts as teachers issued progress reports 334 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 1: and realize that ds and ss were skyrocketing. So instead 335 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: of actually admitting that, hey, we can't teach kids from 336 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 1: far away, we need to actually get our kids back 337 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: in the classroom. Instead of just admitting that maybe we 338 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: need to repeat a grade for many of these kids 339 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: that we just failed. We decided to go back and 340 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 1: claim and blame racism for the reason that we failed. 341 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 1: We claim that we need to change the entire way 342 00:19:43,359 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 1: we do education because of our screw up adults who 343 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,240 Speaker 1: screwed up big time, and we are going to claim 344 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: that it's really an equity problem, it's a racism problem. 345 00:19:55,440 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: Their words, not mine. Now you look at this and 346 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: you listen to this, and what you clearly realize is 347 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,160 Speaker 1: that what they've decided to do is to socially promote 348 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: and socially approve failure so that they are not held 349 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:18,960 Speaker 1: accountable for their actions. You know, there are things that 350 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 1: happen in life that suck. I had friends that got 351 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: very sick. Some of them had issues with childhood cancer, 352 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: some of them had issues with major health conditions outside 353 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: of that, and they missed so much school they had 354 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:37,399 Speaker 1: to repeat a grade, apply these new rules, and you 355 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 1: just say, socially promote them, and then when they're behind 356 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,679 Speaker 1: the next year, instead of actually fixing that problem, they 357 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:44,440 Speaker 1: would say, well, it's not the kid's fault. They had 358 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,199 Speaker 1: cancer when they were in second grade. Will socially promote 359 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,640 Speaker 1: them all the way through, and there's no reason not 360 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,719 Speaker 1: to because we're just helping the kid out. You're not. 361 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 1: I go back to the story I mentioned the other 362 00:20:55,440 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 1: day about a kid that graduated value Victorias class, got 363 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,160 Speaker 1: a job out of high school, didn't go to college, 364 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:08,159 Speaker 1: and he was an incredibly bright kid. Unfortunately he was 365 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 1: failed by the school district. The employer realized that he 366 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: had a hard time doing basic reading. They got their employee, 367 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 1: who they were supporting, tested. You want to know what 368 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,120 Speaker 1: they found out the kid at a fourth grade reading level. 369 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,919 Speaker 1: Fourth grade. They didn't fire the kid, They got him 370 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,800 Speaker 1: a tutor, They mentored the kid, and they did what 371 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 1: the state didn't do for a decade. For a decade, 372 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: We're about to have that story every day of the 373 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 1: week because we've now decided the teachers unions have decided 374 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,760 Speaker 1: that will blame everything on race, will blame everything on income, 375 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: and instead of actually going back and re teaching what 376 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: we didn't teach kids last year, we're going to just 377 00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,600 Speaker 1: give them a different way of grading so we socially 378 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: promote them and move them down the road, and then 379 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: we claim this is good for society. This is corruption, fraud, 380 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: and a Ponzi scheme. I would argue that it's time 381 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: for students and parents to sue because they're defrauding your 382 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:12,040 Speaker 1: children of a education. This is fraud. If you invested 383 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: in a company and they did this, people would go 384 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 1: to jail. Instead, we're celebrating it nationwide with our children's future. 385 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 1: You are defrauding a kid, every kid that's under these 386 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:30,159 Speaker 1: new rules of a quality, not just quality, a basic education. 387 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:33,520 Speaker 1: You know, you look at the media right now and 388 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:38,040 Speaker 1: as these grades are being changed by these teachers because 389 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: they don't want to admit failure of distance learning, they 390 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: don't want to actually teach kids what they missed last year. 391 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,200 Speaker 1: So we're just going to totally funningly change public education 392 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:52,680 Speaker 1: in this country and blame it on racism and socioeconomic conditions. 393 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,239 Speaker 1: The media is doing something else. They're telling you that 394 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: what you're hearing and what you're seeing is not even true. 395 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:01,919 Speaker 1: It's not even real. You know, they've been saying critical 396 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,239 Speaker 1: race theory isn't even being taught in schools, that this 397 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 1: is the big fake boogeyman that's been created by conservatives. 398 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 1: Even though we know there's curriculum, we know there's receipts. 399 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 1: We know people are being paid to teach critical race theory. 400 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:14,199 Speaker 1: We know we're in doctrine and kids. I played for 401 00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 1: you earlier MSNBC talking about, well, maybe we need to 402 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: call it something different, right, let's not call it critical 403 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,880 Speaker 1: race SERI, but we need to teach it. Well, CNN's 404 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: gone with a different approach. They're just telling you that 405 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: it's not being taught. It's delusional. They're actually claiming that 406 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,479 Speaker 1: no one is being no one is being taught critical 407 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: race SERI in Virginia. And then the reason why Democrats 408 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 1: lost the elections because of a big lie by Republicans. 409 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 1: They doubled down on that when they had on a 410 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:44,960 Speaker 1: guest from the NRSC, the chairman a Republican, Rick Scott, 411 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 1: on whether Junken ignored Trump. Ignoring Trump is the blueprint 412 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: for how to get Republicans elected. That's so they claimed 413 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,200 Speaker 1: they were having him on New Day for this morning. 414 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:58,919 Speaker 1: That's what they claimed, right, We're gonna have you on 415 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 1: to talk about did Yun can run away from Trump? 416 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: And maybe that's why I got elected? He ignored Trump, 417 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: which isn't what happened at all. But that's the new line, right, 418 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,399 Speaker 1: don't be a Trump person. Run away from Trump and 419 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 1: you might get elected. And the real reason why I 420 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 1: got elected because he lied to the people about critical 421 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: race theory. Take a listen to this exchange. They're trying 422 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 1: to make you believe that critical race theory is not 423 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: being taught when we know it is. For fact, I 424 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,879 Speaker 1: think I think what I think when Democrats going to 425 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,719 Speaker 1: continue to do is talk about Donald Trump. I think 426 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,399 Speaker 1: Republican is going to continue to talk about issues. Glenn 427 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: Yunkan won his race because he talked about issues, and 428 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 1: I think that's what's going to happen. What we're gonna 429 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,160 Speaker 1: see is just like just like in Virginia, Terry mccaulloff 430 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,640 Speaker 1: wanted to say, oh, there was nothing about critical race theory. 431 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: We know that, we know it's true. Parents know it's 432 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: been Their kids are being indoctorated with critical race theory 433 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: in Virginia and the Democrats going to deny it, and 434 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,280 Speaker 1: so we showed up because they don't like to. I mean, 435 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 1: just just to be clear, it's not it's not in 436 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:58,360 Speaker 1: the curriculum um in Virginia. Just just to be which 437 00:24:58,440 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: gonna be here. Let me just read your few th 438 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,840 Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen, Well, Terry mccaugh was governor the Virginia 439 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 1: Department of Education promoting incorporating and critical race theory lends 440 00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: in education. You can still find it on the Department 441 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:14,800 Speaker 1: of Education's website, still there in fairy tent nineteen Superintent 442 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,679 Speaker 1: memo for the Virginia Department of Education promoting crystal race 443 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:21,640 Speaker 1: theory in the idea of white fragility. It's not i'd 444 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 1: yesterday ask you I love this. Do you hear Brianna 445 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: Keiler like, Oh crap, I'm I'm I'm a propaganist. I'm 446 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,119 Speaker 1: not a not a journalist. I just lie to the country. 447 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 1: I keep telling them over again, over and over again, 448 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:38,040 Speaker 1: it's not being taught in Virginia, and therefore people will 449 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 1: believe me because I'm in the media and I'm holier 450 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 1: than now. Senator Rick Scott Chamber of the nash Republican 451 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: Central Committee is reading for her on the website of 452 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: the Virginia government dot gov website, where critical race theory 453 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: has actually not only been taught, but the curriculum is 454 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,120 Speaker 1: actually being paid for by taxpayer dollars. And she's saying 455 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,159 Speaker 1: it's not being taught. Yes, it is, no it's not. Yes, 456 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,200 Speaker 1: it is. This is how the they're no longer journalists 457 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:06,400 Speaker 1: in society today. There are propagandists for the Biden administration 458 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,399 Speaker 1: and for the liberal Democrats, and Brianna Killer is a 459 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 1: perfect example that she lied, just to be clear about 460 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:19,359 Speaker 1: lets they were trying to indoctrinate kids. Terry mcculloff denied it. 461 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:23,640 Speaker 1: It's still on the website. It is. This is happening, 462 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,639 Speaker 1: and I hope Democrats continue to say it's not happening 463 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 1: because parents are dumb. They can see it. Your parents 464 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,879 Speaker 1: are dumb, you said, aren't dumb. No, they're not. I 465 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 1: think parents are smart. My parents didn't have much of 466 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: a formal education, but they cared about what I learned this. 467 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,680 Speaker 1: I just I just want to be clear. The station 468 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 1: promoted critical race theory and and Terry mcculloff said they didn't. 469 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: I hope, Okay, listens keep doing that all the country. Fine, 470 00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: it's not part of the curriculum. I would like to 471 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: move on with you. I want to talk specifically, and 472 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 1: I just want to be clear about something, just about 473 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,479 Speaker 1: where you personally are. I love this. She just says, well, 474 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,360 Speaker 1: it's not part of the curriculum. He just read from 475 00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 1: the website where it's a part of the curriculum, and 476 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 1: now she says, I'd like to move on. This is 477 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 1: how CNN host claims Kurric Racer he isn't being taught 478 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: virgin the schools and gets wrecked because of the actual 479 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: receipts where where this was actually being approved, funded and bought. 480 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 1: And then when she gets busted, she has what's it's 481 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: not being taught. It's not it's not officially being taught. 482 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: I'd like to move on with you, senator. I bet 483 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,280 Speaker 1: you you would. I bet you you would love to 484 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: move on from this, because this is the last thing 485 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 1: you want to be talked about, that you guys lie 486 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: and that you guys are wrong. Glenn Yunkin he said, 487 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 1: you know what, we are going to launch an aggressive, 488 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:53,160 Speaker 1: aggressive charter school program because he realizes that public education 489 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 1: is actually broken in his state where he just got reelected. 490 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 1: And this is the reason why Democrats are having to 491 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:05,720 Speaker 1: figure out a way to change grades for kids. Imagine 492 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 1: how bad this makes the public school system look that 493 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: you are changing grades, but they say, hey, it's better 494 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 1: than failing kids. Flat out. What is manipulating and change 495 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,920 Speaker 1: the system? You fail. No, you didn't. We'll socially promote you, 496 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,240 Speaker 1: and we'll claim the reason why it is because you're black, 497 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: or you're brown, or you're a minority, or you're poor. 498 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 1: We're not going to fail you because you didn't do 499 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: your work. We're not gonna fail you for your behavioral issues. 500 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: We're not going to fail you because you missed a deadline. 501 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: We're gonna look at your socioeconomic conditions, and we're gonna 502 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 1: look at the color of your skin, and then we 503 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,200 Speaker 1: are going to use that as a reason to actually 504 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 1: move you forward. Right, We're gonna we're gonna actually do 505 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: this in a way to move you forward in our society. 506 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 1: And then one day you're going to be screwed. Right, 507 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 1: one day you're gonna be screwed. But you'll won't be 508 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 1: our problem then, because we gave you eighteen years of propaganda, 509 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: well years, I say a propaganda. We made you feel 510 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 1: good about yourself. Now, when you get your first job 511 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 1: and you don't do your work, you're gonna get fired. 512 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 1: When you do get your first job, you don't show 513 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: up on time, you're gonna get fired. When you do 514 00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: your first job, get your first job and you mouth 515 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 1: off to your supervisor and they fire you for insubordination. 516 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 1: That's not on us. You'll just be a part of 517 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 1: the government system now and we'll give you money and 518 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: you'll stay home and you'll be poor. It's modern day slavery. 519 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 1: That's what they're creating. This isn't success. This is a 520 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: guaranteed path for failure. Glenn Yunkin and what he said 521 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 1: about we're gonna grow aggressive with charge school programs means 522 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: he's admitting the public schools are so broken you cannot 523 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,239 Speaker 1: fix them. And then we started working yesterday on our 524 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 1: transition and there's a lot to do and I'm really 525 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: looking forward to get into work. And what a campaign 526 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: it has been. You really zeroed in on what Virginians 527 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 1: wanted to see and what was important to them a 528 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:55,800 Speaker 1: governor elect. Tell us a little about that agenda. The 529 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: other day I heard you say we are going to 530 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 1: make sure to engage with parents. We are going to 531 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,520 Speaker 1: make sure to give kids the tools to have them 532 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 1: running strong, running fast. What are those tools? How will 533 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:14,560 Speaker 1: you change the education framework in Virginia. Well, we're going 534 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,640 Speaker 1: to raise expectations in our schools. They've been watered down 535 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:21,040 Speaker 1: over time and children should be held to high standards, 536 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 1: not low standards. Of course, we have to help those 537 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,480 Speaker 1: that might need help. We're going to fund in the 538 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: largest education budget in the history of Virginia. We need 539 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,640 Speaker 1: to raise teacher salaries. We've got to fund into facilities. 540 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 1: We're going to fund into our special education programs. You know, 541 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,160 Speaker 1: Virginia's kids with disabilities have really suffered during this pandemic. 542 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: But we're going to launch an aggressive charter school program 543 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 1: as well. He's fighting back. Let's go back to the 544 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 1: woke liberal left right. Last year, West contract Coast to 545 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 1: Unified school district, which is majority of Latino, issued a 546 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: memo mandating I'm sorry there weren't encouraging secondary teachers to 547 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 1: give students a minimum five day grace period to earning 548 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 1: work and eliminate zeros in the grading books. Place or 549 00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:06,600 Speaker 1: Union high school district, where a majority of the students 550 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,480 Speaker 1: are white, has directed teachers to base grades on quote, 551 00:31:10,640 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: valid evidence of a student's content, knowledge, and not on 552 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,480 Speaker 1: evidence that it likely that is likely to be influenced 553 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:23,760 Speaker 1: by teachers implicit bias, racism, nor reflect on students circumstances, 554 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 1: so punish the white kids. In Los Angeles, the district 555 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 1: has begun to train teachers on practices, including basing grades 556 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: on whether students are meeting academic standards, But when faced 557 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 1: with a flood of deason after during a school closure, 558 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 1: officials quickly moved to change policy, given students additional time 559 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 1: to make up work even into the summer, giving them incompletes. 560 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,960 Speaker 1: A recent LA Times analysis of the LA Unified Assessment 561 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: and grade data showed how grades fell significantly, which are 562 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 1: just going to happen during school closures for students in 563 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,959 Speaker 1: Los Angeles. They're now claiming that's because of the colored 564 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 1: people's skin. They said, the gap and grades that existed 565 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 1: before the pandemic between black and Latino students and white 566 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,520 Speaker 1: and aging counterparts widened to as much as twenty one 567 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,720 Speaker 1: percentage points. Therefore, we must fix the system, meaning we 568 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 1: must change grades. During the twenty eighteen nineteen school year, 569 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: about fifty nine percent of students met the requirements for 570 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: certain courses, with a seer better. For the class of 571 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, only forty six percent of students are on 572 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,360 Speaker 1: track to meet the requirements. Anybody's going to be held back. 573 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 1: Note where you're going to change the way we give 574 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 1: grades and make it look like they're still being successful 575 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,600 Speaker 1: when we're not. This is a Ponzi scheme and this 576 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:39,200 Speaker 1: is happening at every public school in America today where 577 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 1: they're pushing this critical race theory crap. CNN will tell 578 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,640 Speaker 1: you it's not being taught when it is. We have 579 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:46,440 Speaker 1: the receipts to prove it, and they still say, nope, 580 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 1: you're lying. The media refuses to tell you the truth, 581 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,600 Speaker 1: saying everything's a problem because a race. And so when 582 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,760 Speaker 1: your kid graduates, even if their value Victorian were on 583 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: a fourth grade reading level, just know you were a 584 00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 1: part of the Ponzi scheme. You help fund it, you 585 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 1: help pay for it. This is why it's time to 586 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 1: actually fight back. I hope every one of you will 587 00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 1: share this with your family and friends this podcast. We 588 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,680 Speaker 1: need to get this info out there. It's important we 589 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,080 Speaker 1: get it out there, and it's important that people understand 590 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 1: that we're giving out fake grades. This is a Ponzi scheme, 591 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 1: a Ponzi scheme that those that did Ponzi schemes would 592 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:25,560 Speaker 1: be proud of. Bernie Madoffs would love this scheme. It's 593 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,480 Speaker 1: in the billions of dollars a year that we spend 594 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,600 Speaker 1: on public education, and now we are basically saying we're 595 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,800 Speaker 1: not gonna graduate or we're not going to educate your kids. 596 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,600 Speaker 1: We're just gonna graduate them, and when they fail out 597 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 1: in the real world, it's fine because then they'll be 598 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,240 Speaker 1: on the government dime for the rest of their lives 599 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: and will own them like modern day slavery.