1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:04,439 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. I had an interesting 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: radio interview this morning where we were talking about this 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 1: recent poll that came out, and the story now is 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:14,240 Speaker 1: that people are starting to forget the pandemic, starting to 5 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 1: get past that and not really think about that when 6 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: they look back at Donald Trump's presidency. But I'm thinking 7 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: that that maybe only applies to his presidency and not 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 1: what happened in our schools, because we as parents learned 9 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: a heck of a lot through COVID. And I always 10 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: say that when we look back at that time, even 11 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: though there was a lot of tragedy and loss and 12 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:38,559 Speaker 1: it was a very challenging time as Christians, we have 13 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: to look back at that time and say, well, what 14 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: did we get from that, What did we learn from that? 15 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: What were the takeaways? And I think in the education 16 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,200 Speaker 1: system there were major takeaways from COVID, and I look 17 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: at that and say, well, that was a blessing that 18 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: God gave us through this that we would never have known. 19 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: I think parents sitting by their computer, their child's computer, 20 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: and seeing what they were learning or what they weren't learning, 21 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: and also just having that whole insight into how parents 22 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: weren't very welcomed into the classroom in a way we 23 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: didn't recognize was the case until COVID hit. And so 24 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: I'm excited about my guest today because he has been 25 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 1: a warrior and a champion for parents in this subject. 26 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: He's also recently written a book. His name is Corey DeAngelis. 27 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 1: I'm sure you've all heard of him. He's a senior 28 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: Fellow at the American Federation for Children and a visiting 29 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,639 Speaker 1: fellow at the Hoover Institution, and he is the author 30 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: of the new book The Parent Revolution, Rescuing Your Kids 31 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: from the Radicals Ruining our Schools. And you guys know, 32 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,680 Speaker 1: we've talked about this a lot. It's definitely an issue. 33 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,839 Speaker 1: It's still going on. There's a lot to talk about. 34 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: But first, before we get into that, I just want 35 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: to talk to you quickly again about what your opportunity 36 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: is with the Fellowship, the International Fellowship of Christians in Jews. 37 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 1: We've been talking about this for a few weeks now, 38 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: still want to give you that opportunity to help out. 39 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: We know the attacks we're severe on October seventh, we 40 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: know that Iran is still attacking, and the International Fellowship 41 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 1: of Christians and Jews is on the ground now addressing 42 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: all of the urgent needs. 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Again. 60 00:03:15,880 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 1: That's one word support IFCJ dot org to give your 61 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: gift today. Thank you so much for your continued support 62 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: of our brothers and sisters over in Israel. Now let's 63 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: bring it back to the United States and talk about 64 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: what is going on in our schools. Corey, welcome back 65 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: to the podcast. 66 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 2: Hey tutor, thank you so much for having me. 67 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: Absolutely so you've got this new book out. But you 68 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: heard what I was saying about COVID, and I really 69 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: feel that way. I mean, for me, it was significant 70 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: because I was watching what was happening and I said, 71 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: I don't know if my kids are going to go 72 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: back to school. I don't know when they're going to 73 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: go back to school. And now I know that they 74 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: probably wouldn't have gone back to school for at least 75 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 1: another year. So we pulled them from the public school 76 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: system and sent them to private school in twenty twenty. 77 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: Well end up to our early twenty twenty twenty twenty one, 78 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: that cycle of school and their education has just been 79 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: night and day. And we come from a very good 80 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: public school system. However, when you start to break out 81 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 1: down what's happening in these school systems, it's not necessarily 82 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: always friendly to our kids, is it right? 83 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 2: And COVID didn't break the government school system in a 84 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,600 Speaker 2: lot of ways. It was already broken, and the school 85 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 2: closures the teachers unions overplaying their hand, just revealed their 86 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 2: true colors and woke up families. It sparked a parent 87 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 2: revolution so much that I dedicated the book to Randy 88 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 2: Winegarden and the teachers unions for overplaying their hand and 89 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 2: awakening a sleeping giant, which happens to be parents who 90 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 2: want more of a say in their kids' education. First, 91 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 2: the parents saw that the schools didn't care all that 92 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 2: much about them. They were closed while the private schools 93 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 2: were open. Families were scraping by trying to figure out 94 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 2: how they had were going to be able to pay 95 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,600 Speaker 2: twice once for the closed government school and then again 96 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 2: out of pocket for private school tuition and fees. Other 97 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 2: families were trying to figure out homeschooling and micro schools 98 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 2: what some people were calling pandemic pods. But the other 99 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 2: thing that happened was that families got to see what 100 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 2: was happening in the classroom through remote learning, which, look, 101 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 2: we really should have just called it remotely learning. There 102 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 2: wasn't a lot of learning going on, but it wasn't 103 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 2: even just that. It wasn't just that they were horrible 104 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,719 Speaker 2: at teaching academics. Families who thought that their kids were 105 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 2: in good schools based on their test scores started to 106 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 2: see something else was going on. They were focusing more 107 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 2: on indoctrination, gender ideology, critical race theory, other divisive concepts, 108 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 2: and confusing children that were indoctrinating, not educating, And that 109 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 2: sparked a parent revolution. And now we have eleven Red 110 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 2: states already with universal school choice, allowing families to choose 111 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 2: the school that works best for them, public, private, charter, homeschool, 112 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 2: and to have the money follow the child. Education funding 113 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 2: is supposed to be meant for educating children, not for 114 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 2: protecting a building or a particular institution. It should follow 115 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 2: the kid if we should fund students, not systems. And 116 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 2: I detail how, in very significant detail, specific things the 117 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 2: unions did. And oh, if you want to look at 118 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:23,279 Speaker 2: the book, you can take Senator Ted Cruz's advice on 119 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 2: the back. He says, ruin Randy Winingarten's day by reading 120 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 2: this book. But they can't rewrite history. I mean, all 121 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 2: the receipts are there. They lobbied the CDC to close 122 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 2: the schools, They held children's education hostage. They got one 123 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 2: hundred and ninety billion dollars in extortion payments and ransom 124 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 2: payments from the taxpayer, and they were fear mongering every 125 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 2: step of the way. I was living in DC at 126 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 2: the time, and they were putting fake body bags outside 127 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:53,279 Speaker 2: the public school offices. They were using caskets and tombstones, 128 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 2: fake ones. Obviously in other places like Arizona, they were 129 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 2: telling that their members to send letters to the governor, 130 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 2: and they were telling them how to create fake obituaries 131 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 2: and fake epitaphs. I mean, they can't teach anything else, 132 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 2: but they figured out how to teach their members how 133 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 2: to fearmonger every step of the way, and it just 134 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 2: made them look like fringe lunatics and control freaks. 135 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 1: Well, and for people who are listening who don't know 136 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: Randy Weiningarten, she is the president of one of the 137 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: largest teachers unions in the United States, and she has 138 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: been the champion for She was the champion for shutting 139 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: down schools. She's been a champion for a lot of 140 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: this radical ideology that has come in boys and girls sports, 141 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: all of this kind of stuff that's happened tampon's in 142 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: the boys bathroom, all of these things had they been 143 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 1: championed by this woman. But then at the end of 144 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 1: COVID she came out and she was like, I was 145 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 1: the one championing opening the schools, which I mean, this 146 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: is gaslighting at its best. This is how the Democrat 147 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: party works in and I want to point out that 148 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: she is a very strong Democrat. So for people who 149 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: are sending their kids to school, if you're questioning whether 150 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 1: or not political ideology is going into the schools, this 151 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: is not just someone who has come out and publicly 152 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: said she's a Democrat. She goes around to campaigns with people. 153 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 1: She makes sure that she's funding their campaigns, and that 154 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: blows my mind. These teachers put massive amounts of money 155 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: into these unions. The unions are only using a small 156 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: portion of it. They're giving most of it back to 157 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 1: their Democrat friends to make sure they get elected, to 158 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: make sure policies go into place where they can just 159 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 1: continue to squander American funds and taxpayer dollars. And I 160 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: say that because if you start to break down some 161 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 1: of these schools, you've got the Chicago teachers out on 162 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,199 Speaker 1: a vacation. But they do this across the country. They 163 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: take these massive vacations, and I'm saying that because they say, oh, 164 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: this is a training and quotes, I'm saying this is 165 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: this is a school training and they end up in 166 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: Cancun for a week and they spend a million dollars. 167 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: And if you are pulling them, which I think we 168 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:03,440 Speaker 1: should be on a regular basis, pulling their spending in saying, 169 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: how is it that they can tell us teachers aren't 170 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:08,600 Speaker 1: getting paid enough? And how do teachers stand for it 171 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: if they pull a Foyer request and find out that 172 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: the money is being spent on people's boob jobs and 173 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: vacations over in Cancuon. 174 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, And you can even look on the Open Secrets website. 175 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 2: Anybody listening, you can look up the American Federation of Teachers, 176 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 2: Randy Winegardon's union. Ninety nine point nine seven percent of 177 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 2: her campaign contributions in twenty twenty two went to Democrats, 178 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 2: non independents, not Republicans. And it's been like that for decades. 179 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 2: I'm finally, parents are finally figuring out this complex money 180 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 2: laundering scheme between this incestuous relationship between the Democrat Party 181 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 2: and the teachers' unions. In a way, the Democrats are 182 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:51,079 Speaker 2: basically a wholly owned subsidiary of the teachers' union, and 183 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 2: that's why they fought to keep schools closed for so long. 184 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 2: During when Congress was debating reopening schools, you had the 185 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:01,800 Speaker 2: teachers union spike their donations towards the Democrat Party to 186 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 2: fight to keep the schools closed as long as possible. 187 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 2: And you had Chicago teacher Genie Yes, they were vacationing 188 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,559 Speaker 2: in Puerto Rico and other places while railing against going 189 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 2: back to work. They were deleting. They deleted a tweet 190 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 2: actually in twenty twenty one, I believe that they said 191 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 2: that the push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism, 192 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 2: and misogyny. They threw every lefty buzzword at the wall 193 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 2: to see what would stick. Just to not go back 194 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 2: to work. They were even striking in twenty twenty two, 195 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 2: I mean, two weeks to slow the spread in Chicago 196 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 2: turned into two years to flatten a generation of kids. 197 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 2: But the good news is although they hurt kids academically, mentally, physically, 198 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 2: socially with these school closures to extract resources from taxpayers, 199 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,560 Speaker 2: they showed families. What was happening and now, I mean, 200 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 2: look at what happened with Terry mccalliff. Randy W. Weingarten 201 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 2: does stump for candidates, and she did in Virginia with 202 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 2: Terry mccalliffe, the former governor of Virginia. He was a 203 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 2: blue state that went ten points to Biden. The year before, 204 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 2: Glenn Youngkin won on the issue of education with education 205 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,800 Speaker 2: voters by six points and that was the number two 206 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:21,480 Speaker 2: issue in the election. So Republicans can win on the 207 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 2: issue of education freedom as long as they have the 208 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 2: funding to balance out the funding from the unions, and 209 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 2: if they have the right message with parental rights and 210 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 2: parents being in the driver's seat. Because Terry mccaulliff messed 211 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 2: up on the campaign trail he said I don't think 212 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 2: parents should be telling schools what they should teach, and 213 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 2: then had the school closer Randy Weingarten as his campaign closer. 214 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 2: The night before the election, she was stumping for him. 215 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 2: So I think the GOP can pick up the mantle 216 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 2: and become the parents' party if they continue this to 217 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 2: lean into parnal rights as a political winner and just 218 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 2: the right thing to do well. 219 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: And I think she's also been pretty clear about being 220 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,559 Speaker 1: a globalist and wanting to have a global society. I mean, 221 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: this is the woman who came out with the Ukraine flag. 222 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: I'llbeit upside down. She tweeted a picture of herself holding 223 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: the Ukraine flag, but then she also went to Ukraine, 224 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:21,679 Speaker 1: and I'm like, why are you? Why are you? And 225 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: who is paying for this? Are our teachers paying for 226 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 1: her to have this lavish trip over to Ukraine and 227 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: then go out and tell everybody that she did this 228 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: To me, It's just very frustrating to see all of this, 229 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: and that's what I think woke people up, parents up, 230 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:36,720 Speaker 1: and they said, well, wait a minute, we are not 231 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: going to allow this to happen in these schools anymore. 232 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on 233 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: the Tutor Dixon podcast. When you bring up Virginia, we 234 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:52,679 Speaker 1: had the parent who was hauled out of the school 235 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: board meeting because he was talking about his daughter being 236 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,920 Speaker 1: raped because of the policies there, and they were like, 237 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:02,079 Speaker 1: get out of here, you have no say here now. 238 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: Ultimately they came back and they were like, oh, maybe 239 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: we screwed that up, But that is the sense that 240 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:11,199 Speaker 1: as parents we got. That's how they see us. They 241 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: don't see us as having value, They don't see us 242 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 1: as in any input into our child's education. And I 243 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: think that's kind of the blessing that came out of COVID, 244 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:24,520 Speaker 1: that parents got really way more involved in education, right. 245 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 2: And that the National school Boards Association actually sent a 246 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:32,440 Speaker 2: letter to President Biden implying that some parents should be 247 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 2: investigated for quote unquote domestic. 248 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 1: Terrorism right under. 249 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,240 Speaker 2: The Patriot Act. And they cited that parent in Virginia 250 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 2: that was upset about his daughter being raped in the school. 251 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 2: They cited him as an example as to why they 252 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 2: needed the FBI mobilized, using the strong arm of the 253 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 2: federal government to bully and silence parents into submission at 254 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 2: school board meetings. Well, guess what their plan backfired because 255 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:59,839 Speaker 2: twenty six states have left the National school Boards Association, 256 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 2: And since they sent that ridiculous letter that only served 257 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 2: to do the opposite, It actually embolded families to push 258 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:12,200 Speaker 2: back even harder, to lock arms to influence change, to 259 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 2: pressure politicians and school boards to pull their funding from 260 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 2: the National school Boards Association. We should call them the 261 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 2: Regional school Boards Association at this point, because they let 262 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 2: the mask slip, and people have held them accountable, but 263 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 2: you still have today to this day, some school boards 264 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 2: they'll cut off the mics of families because families are 265 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:36,000 Speaker 2: reading books that apparently are okay for the classroom for 266 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 2: young children, but they're not okay for public meetings with adults, 267 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:41,600 Speaker 2: which just goes to show you that the school boards 268 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 2: have it all wrong. And they also still try to 269 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 2: label families as evil people. Why because they see them 270 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,960 Speaker 2: as a nuisance. They don't see the families as a 271 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 2: partner or even a customer in the relationship. When you 272 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 2: have school choice, when families can take that money to 273 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 2: the school board meeting and say, hey, if you don't 274 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,240 Speaker 2: listen to me, if you cut off my MIC, I'm 275 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 2: going somewhere else with my child's education dollars, the school 276 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 2: boards will start to listen a little more because they'll 277 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 2: have an incentive to do so. Because that's how competition 278 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 2: works in every other sector. It works in education too, 279 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 2: So it almost counterintuitively, having school choice makes it less 280 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 2: likely that you'll have to exercise that choice because if 281 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 2: you have more agency, if you have more power in 282 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 2: that relationship and that discussion with the school board or 283 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 2: other leaders. If they listen to you, you might stay. 284 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 2: But if not, and if they can't fix things, because 285 00:15:33,920 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 2: it's a one size fits all disaster and it's a monopoly, still, 286 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 2: families should be able to take that money somewhere else. 287 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:42,880 Speaker 2: We spend about twenty thousand dollars per kid in the 288 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 2: government schools. That amount has increased by about one hundred 289 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 2: and seventy percent inflation adjusted since nineteen seventy. Money doesn't 290 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 2: go to the classroom. It goes towards Randy Weingart and 291 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 2: it makes over five hundred thousand dollars a year. It 292 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 2: goes towards administrators. Between two thousand and twenty twenty, the 293 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 2: number of teachers and students in the system increased by 294 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 2: about the same amount, by about seven or eight percent, 295 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 2: but the number of administrators in the system increased by 296 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 2: about ninety percent. It's a jobs program for adults. 297 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: And remember, this is government for. 298 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 2: Kids, and this is how government doesn't work. 299 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: That's right. And I think people forget your school is 300 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 1: government because that is funded by the government. It is 301 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: run by the government. And so as you get more 302 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: and more people who are pro big government. And I'm 303 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: to be honest, I've seen it on both sides, but 304 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: in this case, I say, this is more toward the 305 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: Democrat side. In our schools where we're getting increased administrations. 306 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: It's big government in our children's schools. But you mentioned something, 307 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 1: and I want to get to that, because you talked 308 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: about the whole domestic terrorism and I think that that 309 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: was when and something we've seen lately is that the 310 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: Democrats have overplayed their hand and so they started to 311 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: come out and say these these parents are domestic terrorists 312 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: and they've been listed as this on this like terror 313 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 1: watch list, and so you saw the leftist media come 314 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,640 Speaker 1: out and say this, and I feel like it didn't 315 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,199 Speaker 1: last that long because I think they sort of realized 316 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,880 Speaker 1: it was kind of like Hillary Clinton's Deplorables moment. If 317 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,159 Speaker 1: you go after the parents and you start to say 318 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: they're bad, they will stop going to that school. They 319 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: will make the choice I'm going to invest in my 320 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 1: child in a different way, and i will pull them. 321 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:23,679 Speaker 1: And we started seeing that. I mean, I remember on 322 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 1: the East side of Michigan they said, gosh, some of 323 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: our schools they've had so much, so many students leave 324 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: that they've had to fire teachers and instead of being 325 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: honest about what that meant. They started to complain, We've 326 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:37,919 Speaker 1: had to fire teachers. We're having to let teachers go 327 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,200 Speaker 1: because the school system isn't well funded. It wasn't well 328 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: funded at quote unquote because students' parents were making the 329 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 1: choice to say we don't want our kids here, and 330 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: they didn't get the pupil funding because the heads weren't there, 331 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: the count wasn't there because parents said we are fed 332 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:55,479 Speaker 1: up with this. I just want to compare that quickly 333 00:17:55,520 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: to today, for them to come out and say parents 334 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 1: were terror threats, and yet watching what is happening on 335 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 1: our college campuses, and no one is saying, where's the 336 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: FBI to investigate these forty year olds who are camping 337 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:13,719 Speaker 1: on our college campuses, who are not students, who are 338 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:18,920 Speaker 1: leading this rebellion against the United States, who are not students, 339 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,159 Speaker 1: they're not parents of students. They are radicals that have 340 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: come in and the education system is saying it's okay, 341 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: they're looking the other way. Where are the news stations 342 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: now to say these are actual terrorists. 343 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 2: I believe one of the universities, I believe it was UCLA, 344 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 2: actually weaponized the FBI against the pro Israel side on 345 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 2: the campuses. So it just goes to show you they 346 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 2: put the thumb on the scale on one side, and 347 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 2: then they act like they're being unbiased. They have a side, 348 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,679 Speaker 2: they're picking a dog in the fight. And look the 349 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,560 Speaker 2: teachers unions over the past few years, they've played stupid games. 350 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 2: They're winning stupid prizes. There has been a mass exodus 351 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 2: from the government school system. About a million kids have 352 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,880 Speaker 2: left government school since pre pandemic times, and homeschooling has 353 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 2: basically doubled since pre pandemic levels. And I like that 354 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:12,439 Speaker 2: you pointed out what's going on the college campus is 355 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 2: because all this rot starts in the K through twelve system. 356 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 2: The kids don't just they they're not just like this 357 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:22,920 Speaker 2: when they enter the colleges. There is in doctrination at 358 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 2: these elite institutions. We shouldn't even call them elite anymore. 359 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:30,679 Speaker 2: But these Ivy League institutions and other institutions of higher 360 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 2: indoctrination I like to call them, but I think it 361 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 2: starts for thirteen years with impressionable minds children going from 362 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 2: five to the age of eighteen, for seven hours a day. 363 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:46,320 Speaker 2: Conservatives can't fight back against that leftward drift just by 364 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,120 Speaker 2: having more kids. In a way, the left doesn't even 365 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,360 Speaker 2: have to have kids anymore. They can use and weaponize 366 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 2: the school system to mold the minds of other people's 367 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 2: children in their leftist worldview. So even if you don't 368 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 2: have kids the school system today, if you care about 369 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 2: the future of our country, you can't just let this go. 370 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 2: You can't ignore what's happening in our public school system 371 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,120 Speaker 2: because look at what's happening in the universities. Those people 372 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 2: are going out into corporations, they're going out to the 373 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 2: rest of society. We don't want our Americans to society 374 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 2: to drift more towards socialism. And guess what's going to 375 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 2: happen if you have socialists running our K through twelve schools. 376 00:20:26,359 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 2: Even if there's a lot of families that can access 377 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 2: homeschooling or ten percent going to private schools, well, guess what. 378 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:36,040 Speaker 2: Ninety percent of kids about still attend the government run schools. 379 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,399 Speaker 2: And you need to be able to fight back. Conservatives 380 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,800 Speaker 2: have two ways most importantly to fight back. One take 381 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:46,200 Speaker 2: back your school boards, and then two, have the power 382 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,199 Speaker 2: to vote with your feet and exit so that the 383 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 2: school boards focus more on the basics as opposed to indoctrination, 384 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,399 Speaker 2: and so that at the end of the day, if 385 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 2: a parent says, you know what, this is beyond repair 386 00:20:57,240 --> 00:20:59,439 Speaker 2: and I'm not gonna this is not a school that's 387 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,040 Speaker 2: aligned with my values in my faith, I should be 388 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 2: able to take that money. Even if it's not the 389 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,240 Speaker 2: full twenty thousand that we spend in the government schools. 390 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 2: You should at least be able to get ten thousand. 391 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,240 Speaker 2: And some states are doing that, letting families take half 392 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 2: of the money to go to a private school. Arizona 393 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 2: does this, Florida does this, Utah does this, Arkansas. A 394 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 2: lot of red states Iowa have passed universal school choice. 395 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 2: Every state should do it, but especially if you're a 396 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 2: red state led by Republicans. It's a party platform issue 397 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 2: to support school choice. So I'm looking at you home 398 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 2: state of Texas, where we just took out a lot 399 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 2: of the anti school choice incumbents. We targeted thirteen of 400 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 2: the guys in the House who voted against school choice 401 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:47,399 Speaker 2: their own party platform, and we took out or forced 402 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 2: into runoffs ten of those out of the thirteen, translating 403 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:54,640 Speaker 2: to a seventy seven percent win rate against incumbents, which 404 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 2: basically never happens. Incumbents win ninety five percent of the time, 405 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 2: usually the republic In primary voters in particular, even if 406 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 2: the politicians don't want the Republican Party to be the parents' party, 407 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 2: the voters are holding them to that moniker by taking 408 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 2: that priority to the ballot box with them. 409 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:18,199 Speaker 1: Well, I've said quite a bit on this program. The 410 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 1: listeners will know that I've said my experience has been 411 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 1: so life changing for my kids that I would put 412 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: investing in your child's education at the top of your list. 413 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 1: Because you focus so much on what they're going to eat, 414 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,520 Speaker 1: what sports they're going to play, how they're exercising, all 415 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: the things that are making them healthy. Well, this is 416 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,639 Speaker 1: their minds, and it is just as important as every 417 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 1: other part of their development, and in some cases more so, 418 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: because it's going to impact how they live as adults, 419 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,439 Speaker 1: what they eat, what they do, because in these schools 420 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: they're told that you don't health. This in mindset, you know, 421 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 1: you don't actually have to be concerned about your body. 422 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,640 Speaker 1: You can do whatever you want. But I would say 423 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: inch again, it's interesting because you talk about all of 424 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,120 Speaker 1: these states that have now school choice, and it is 425 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:09,520 Speaker 1: to me amazing because I've been watching the school choice 426 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 1: movement for so many years and it seemed like it 427 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 1: was such an uphill battle. And then, like you said, 428 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:18,160 Speaker 1: COVID opened the minds of parents and legislators and elected 429 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,360 Speaker 1: officials I believe, and they went, wow, wait a minute, 430 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 1: there has to be some competition here, and parents have 431 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: to be able to choose. And in the state of Michigan, 432 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,360 Speaker 1: where we are in the bottom ten for education, and 433 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: you're looking at these students that are trapped in these 434 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,919 Speaker 1: I mean it is I had one guy say to me, 435 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,159 Speaker 1: you know, this is just like segregation, but instead of 436 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: throwing the doors open to education, now we have white 437 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:47,040 Speaker 1: administration administrators standing in the doorway holding the doors closed, 438 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 1: forcing these kids to be in these failing institutions. And 439 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: I was like, man, that is exactly what's happening in 440 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 1: the state of Michigan. These schools are failing so hard. 441 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: In Kalamazoo, we have the Kalamazoo Promise. You have to 442 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,919 Speaker 1: go to public school and then you get free community college. 443 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,440 Speaker 1: And what we've found is these kids that get to 444 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: the community college immediately fell out because they haven't had 445 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: an education. And once you've robbed a child of an education. 446 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: There's no going back. You can't recreate that twelve years 447 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: that they should have been in school. But in Michigan 448 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,400 Speaker 1: it goes even further. It's not only that we don't 449 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: have the choice that you can go to any school. Now, 450 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: Governor Whitmer has come out and said, well, because we 451 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,199 Speaker 1: have this new report that shows that we will have 452 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:33,440 Speaker 1: no population growth through twenty fifteen, in fact, will lose 453 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,160 Speaker 1: seven hundred thousand people. The way we're going to get 454 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: new people and this, to me is a total lie. 455 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,400 Speaker 1: This is just a way to get more money into 456 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: her friends at the unions. She is going to have 457 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:50,159 Speaker 1: free preschool and free community college and mandatory kindergarten. So 458 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:53,399 Speaker 1: now our students have to go into school younger, so 459 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,640 Speaker 1: we're talking about at three years old. Now they're going 460 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 1: to and they're saying this is so great, But the 461 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 1: reality is more teachers are being employed, more people paying 462 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:07,000 Speaker 1: into the union, more unions formed, a community college as well, 463 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,000 Speaker 1: free community college. Now another different union formed, going to 464 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: be spending money on the Democrats. And you cannot tell 465 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,879 Speaker 1: me that there is a single person in this country 466 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: that says, man, I really want to move but preschool's 467 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,880 Speaker 1: precluding me from doing it. But Michigan has free preschool, 468 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,800 Speaker 1: so I'm going to move there. Give me a break. 469 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: This is all baloney. 470 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,119 Speaker 2: They just want more power, and it's cradle to grave 471 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 2: Democrat control. Adding another tacking on another year to a 472 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 2: failing system is not going to do anything to fix 473 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,760 Speaker 2: that broken system. And Democrats are total hypocrites on this issue. 474 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 2: Joe Biden went to private school. He sent his kids 475 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,879 Speaker 2: to private school. You see this over and over and 476 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 2: over again all across the country. School choice for me, 477 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:53,680 Speaker 2: but not for thee. It's elitist Democrat hypocrisy where they 478 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 2: want taxpayers to pay for everything else. But when it 479 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 2: comes to Kate the twelve education only they, the elite, 480 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 2: can choose the best schools for their kids. Everybody else 481 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,520 Speaker 2: has to be assigned to their failing government run institutions, 482 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,760 Speaker 2: even though this would save tax payer money. It's a scholarship, 483 00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 2: but it spends less than what we spend in the 484 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 2: government run schools. But Democrats tend to support pell grant 485 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 2: scholarships for college. You can take that wherever you want 486 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:18,880 Speaker 2: to go. You talked about pre K and a lot 487 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 2: of the pre K programs you can choose private pre 488 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 2: ks like with the federal head Start program, Medicaid vouchers. 489 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 2: You can choose religious hospitals if you want. But when 490 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,120 Speaker 2: it comes to K through twelve education, no, we can't 491 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,600 Speaker 2: have vouchers there, And you hit the nail on the head. 492 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,160 Speaker 2: It's all about powers because they want to get more 493 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,919 Speaker 2: money to their special interests that control them. You only 494 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 2: have that power dynamic when it comes to K through 495 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 2: twelve education, where you have a monopoly that feels threatened 496 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 2: the teachers' unions, and they want to keep your kids 497 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,159 Speaker 2: trapped there. They want to keep the minds in their institutions, 498 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 2: but they want to keep the money in their institutions too, 499 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 2: And you don't have that when you have choice with 500 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 2: anything else in society that doesn't really threaten a monopoly 501 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,679 Speaker 2: like it does with the government school system them. So 502 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,159 Speaker 2: you have this weird logical inconsistency when it comes to 503 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 2: the Democrats because they listen more to power when it 504 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 2: comes to politics than they do to logic or morality. 505 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,959 Speaker 2: And that is a big problem with the Democrat Party today. 506 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 2: And I think if Trump leans into school choice, he's 507 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:20,119 Speaker 2: a big school choice supporter, he can really take away 508 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 2: some votes from Joe Biden. I mean Republican Democrats, Republicans 509 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 2: and independent supports school choice in super majority numbers all 510 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 2: across the country, according to the latest Real Clear Opinion 511 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,440 Speaker 2: Research polling on the issue. And in twenty eighteen, when 512 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:39,920 Speaker 2: DeSantis barely won his first governor's race against Andrew Gillum, 513 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 2: the headline in the Wall Street Journal the next day 514 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 2: was that school choice moms tip the governor's race for 515 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,920 Speaker 2: DeSantis because, according to CNN exit polling, black moms came 516 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 2: out in support for DeSantis because his opponent, the Democrat, 517 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,800 Speaker 2: was going to get rid of their scholarships for their 518 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 2: kids to get a better education at a private school. 519 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 2: So choice get you can make inroads with additional voters too. 520 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 2: I don't think that should be your main reason for 521 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 2: supporting it, but that is a side benefit to the 522 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 2: already strong arguments for morality for having families be able 523 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,720 Speaker 2: to direct their own taxpayer dollars to the school that 524 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 2: works the best. That could be a public school. If 525 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 2: you like your public school, you can keep your public school, 526 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,119 Speaker 2: unlike with your doctor, but if not, you should be 527 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 2: able to take that to a private school. And something 528 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 2: I wanted to hit on real quick was that the 529 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,639 Speaker 2: reason we've had so much change has been encapsulated by 530 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 2: a quote by Vodie Bacham who said it best. He said, 531 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 2: we cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for 532 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 2: their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans. Well, look, 533 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 2: the good news is, and what I lay out in 534 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 2: the book is that parents aren't surprised anymore. They're not 535 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 2: going to unsee what they saw in twenty twenty, that 536 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 2: kind of level of brainwashing that's happening in the government schools, 537 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 2: the things that we're seeing going viral on social media, 538 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,000 Speaker 2: and that those are the cameras in the classroom. Now, 539 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 2: social media is a sun is sunlight, which is the 540 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 2: best disinfectant that can expose the rot in the system. 541 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,960 Speaker 2: But we need to empower parents with tools. The Parent 542 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 2: Revolution gives you a blueprint for expanding school choice to 543 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 2: your state, but also how to reform the public school 544 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 2: system as well. There are different things that you can 545 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 2: do even if you don't think school choice is attainable, Like, hey, 546 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 2: why not have the public schools be transparent? Tell me 547 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,800 Speaker 2: what your curriculum is, report where your spending is going. 548 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 2: I want to know if it's not going into the 549 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 2: classroom world, is it being used for dei purposes? We should, 550 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 2: it's our money, we should. We should be able to 551 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 2: see where that money is going. And then also, hey, 552 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 2: another another good reform would be to make the school 553 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 2: board elections, which are usually at random times with low turnout, 554 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 2: make them aligned with the general election so that parents 555 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 2: have more of an influence on the outcome. Because right now, 556 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 2: the teachers' unions want as little turnout as possible because 557 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 2: they know that they will have an outsized influence on 558 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,719 Speaker 2: the outcome of that election. If no one's showing up, 559 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 2: they will be the ones that have the strongest incentive 560 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 2: to show up. So they usually are able to hand 561 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 2: pick their socialist radicals to put on school boards. And 562 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 2: so it's funny the same party that says that the 563 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 2: Conservatives are suppressing votes and they're a threat to democracy, well, 564 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 2: when it comes to education, they're the threat to democracy. 565 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 2: They are the ones participating in voter suppression because if 566 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 2: you pose this anywhere, they will fight tooth and nail 567 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 2: against aligning the school elections and the bonds with the 568 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 2: general election because they know how the math works. 569 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,520 Speaker 1: Let's take a quick commercial break. Will continue next on 570 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 1: the Tutor Dixon Podcast. I really feel that taxpayer dollars 571 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: cannot be You can't have this money laundering with taxpayer 572 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: dollars into Democrat campaigns. And that's exactly what it is, 573 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: because even in areas where teachers can opt out of 574 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,720 Speaker 1: the teachers' union, the pressure is so extreme that they can't. 575 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 1: They almost can't. It's almost impossible for them to opt out, 576 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,160 Speaker 1: and so they are forced to then take part of 577 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,840 Speaker 1: their salary which is paid for by us, the taxpayer, 578 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 1: and that goes directly into the Democrat Party. And so 579 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 1: if you have your child in a government school, you 580 00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 1: are essentially helping to fund the Democrat Party. And I 581 00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:31,560 Speaker 1: don't want that to be the case. And I think 582 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,080 Speaker 1: that we should have legislation that comes out and says 583 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 1: these teachers unions, a public union like this cannot fund governor, 584 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: cannot fund elected camp or candidates campaigns, it can't fund Democrats, 585 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: it can't fund Republicans. I mean not going to hurt 586 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 1: Republicans because they're not gotting any money from it anyway, 587 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 1: but public unions should not be funding campaigns. I think 588 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,560 Speaker 1: it's asinine. It is directly taking from the taxpayer and 589 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: giving to the most radical candidates. I mean, if we 590 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 1: are being honest, this is not going to moderate democrats. 591 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,239 Speaker 1: These are going to radical democrats who are going to 592 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:11,880 Speaker 1: push these agendas on our kids, like transgender kids in girls' 593 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 1: sports and what men in the girls' bathroom and all 594 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,200 Speaker 1: of these books that that was another campaign the left 595 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,320 Speaker 1: tried to say, oh, they're banning books, and then parents 596 00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,920 Speaker 1: started reading them. They're like, no, don't read the books 597 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,960 Speaker 1: that you don't want your kids to read, because we 598 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,880 Speaker 1: know it's born. I mean, it's all crazy, but it's 599 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 1: all in the book. So tell us how we can 600 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 1: find the book. It is the parent revolution, rescuing your 601 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: kids from the radicals ruining our schools, and those are 602 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:40,920 Speaker 1: the people we're giving money to through the school anyway 603 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:42,120 Speaker 1: promo the book for us. 604 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 2: I'm glad you mentioned the book banning aspect because a 605 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:49,520 Speaker 2: Wisconsin Teachers' Union executive board member actually went on Twitter 606 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 2: calling to burn it. Obviously she hasn't read it yet. 607 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 2: And the same yahoos that are calling us the book banners, 608 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,960 Speaker 2: they want to actually burn books that they disagree with 609 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,880 Speaker 2: that they have even read yet, that are for adults, 610 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,080 Speaker 2: not even children. They're just total hypocrites on the issue. 611 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 2: But you can get it anywhere. It's available on Amazon, 612 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 2: any retailer. Really, if you just google the Parent Revolution, 613 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,520 Speaker 2: you find it. And again, if you want to take 614 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 2: Ted Cruse's advice, he says on the back, ruin Randy 615 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:22,400 Speaker 2: Winingarten's day, who I dedicated the book to. By reading 616 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 2: this book, Look, the teacher juniors have overplayed their hand. 617 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 2: It's time for parents to engage in this revolution. It's 618 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 2: one that we are winning, and it's one that we 619 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 2: can win for several years to come. 620 00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Corey DeAngelis, You've been fighting for 621 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,640 Speaker 1: us for so long. I appreciate you coming on the podcast. 622 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:42,480 Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you so much, Tutor absolutely and thank 623 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 1: you all of course for listening to us today, and 624 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,000 Speaker 1: head over to Tutor dixonpodcast dot com. 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