Ep. 1853 - Shocking Body Cam Footage Reveals How Bad Public Schools Are Now

Around 2 p.m. on January 6th, 2023, a rich Nick elementary school in Newport, news, Virginia, a black six-year-old boy pulled a nine-millimeter Taurus handgun from his backpack and shot his first great teacher, Abby's Werner, in the middle of class. There was no provocation. The bullet entered Werner's hand and lodged in her chest, nearly killing her. When police arrived, another school employee, a reading specialist, quote unquote, was holding the child, almost as if she was trying to protect him from the police, even though he clearly posed a danger to her and everyone else in the room. And then the boy started talking. Now, this is bodycam footage that took more than three years to release to the public, supposedly because of routine bureaucratic hold-ups. As you watch this, you can come to your own conclusions about the actual reason that they withheld it for so long. Watch! This is the first week without his mother coming to school with her. 1346 myself and 2347. And the sheriff's deputy are inside room 11 with a suspect. Gun is secret. And I caught 911 when I heard that I'm the specialist. I came down the hall, but. We got some small handbooks. There we go. How many of you are going in around? No, Werner. Where is he? Just over here. We got four. When you shot the gun, did anything hurt you? No, we were seeing him. Let me see him. Where is the weapon? It's on the floor. So, but it won't stop. That's not happening. That's not how we're still there. Bitch. He's uh. I mean, he doesn't have the gun residue. Okay. It's just not touch his hands or anything. Okay. You know what, I'm just touching all these things. My mom, Matthew. Yes, I stole that from my mom. Okay, bud. What's your name? If you want it, if you want a piece of meat, come get it. This mom is to supposedly. Okay, we call it back up. I don't care about your joke, bitch. We know you know that language and you know that's not appropriate. Mrs. Kovacs, I'm not happy with that. What he said was, "FU, shut the FUPO. I stole that gun from my mom. I don't care if I go to jail. If you want a piece of me, come get it." Among other things. That's a six-year-old child talking to police officers and a reading specialist. And how does the specialist handle all this? What she tells police? He's on a modified schedule. Then she tries to inform the child that, well, that's not how we speak to each other. She politely checks his hands to make sure he didn't injure himself while he was trying to murder his teacher. In fact, I think I heard her say, "Did you hurt yourself when you shot the gun?" I believe was what she said. If you didn't know the context and you take out the reference to the gun and if the police weren't there, just based on how the woman is dealing with the boy, you would assume that he got in trouble for like throwing a paper airplane in class or maybe shoving a kid in the hallway or something. In fact, based on her demeanor and how she's treating him, you might think that the boy isn't in trouble at all. You might think that the teacher is comforting him because of something that happened to him. Maybe he got bullied on the playground. And now he's sad as a tummy ache. It's a microcosm of America, post-civil rights era. On the one hand, you have a barbaric, dangerous criminal. Then you have the clueless, coddling white woman who's acting as if she's talking to a normal, functioning, well-adjusted human being. There's a 100% chance that this woman and every other woman in the public school system thinks that she can save this child. She can make everything better. She can sit him down on the carpet and maybe read him the very hungry caterpillar. And then he'll be off to Harvard. And Fortune 500 companies will line up to give him jobs that he's not qualified for. And we get all pretend that he's actually successful. That's the liberal fantasy playing out in this footage and in this woman's head. Meanwhile, everybody with a pulse understands exactly what's going on here. This child almost certainly cannot be reformed. Barring some kind of miraculous intervention of some kind, he will just become even more dangerous and volatile as he gets older. He'll murder someone before long if he's allowed to roam free. I mean, he's already tried it. That's six. It's guaranteed to have. Already at six years old, he is a menace to society. Now, is that his fault? Not really. I mean, he's six years old. He's just a few years past being a toddler. You don't become a cold-blooded killer at six except by being conditioned that way in an absolutely horrific, hellish environment. This child has been raised to the extent that we can say he's been raised at all by barbarians. And now he is one himself. So if any bleeding hearts out there want to say that, well, this poor little boy is a victim of his circumstances and it's not his fault. He turned out that way. I agree for the most part. If you were if you were born to his mother and you were raised in that home and you had his brain and his rock bottom IQ, you would have ended up exactly like him and you would have done exactly what he did because you would be him. So we don't even need to get into the nature versus nurture debate. The fact is that obviously both nature and nurture factor into the kind of person you become and he didn't choose either of them. He didn't choose his nature and he didn't choose how he was nurtured. He's a victim in a very real sense. That's true. And that's extremely sad. It's a tragedy. I mean, it's a very real tragedy. It's a terrible thing. But we live in reality and we have to deal with reality. So questions of fault and blame and victimhood are academic because in real practical terms, the fact is that we are left with a child who is wildly dysfunctional, dangerous, destructive and unstable. He is not going to wake up tomorrow or the next day or next year or a decade from now and have magically transformed into a civilized, well-behaved young gentleman. You can feel sorry for him all you want, but while you're feeling sorry, you have to decide what to actually do with kids like this. And there's really only two choices. Either keep him in the system and allow him to continue disrupting the education of every other kid in the school and stand by and just kind of wait until he decides to harm or kill someone else, offering innocent kids and adults up at sacrifices for the sake of giving this kid unlimited chances, or you can remove him. You can take this kid and every kid like him and remove them from the system, remove them from civilized society, consign them to an institution somewhere. If they commit violent crimes, you can put them in jail or juvenile detention. The benefit of this second strategy is that it protects innocent, civilized, well-behaved people and allows society to function and allows our systems to operate as they're supposed to. And that vastly outweighs the downside, which is simply that the dysfunctional dangerous kids suffer the emotional distress of being expelled from civilized society, which is unfortunate, but either they suffer the emotional distress of being expelled from civilized society or everyone else suffers the distress of watching civilized society be destroyed by these people. And that's really not a hard choice at all. Besides, this kind of kid is better off in an institution anyway. I mean, it can't possibly be any more nightmarish than his home life. The boy's father is a career criminal, big surprise, who was not living with him, big surprise at the time of the shooting. Actually, in 2023, his father was a fugitive with an act of arrest warrant, having skipped multiple court hearings on an assault charge. He also had multiple convictions, including one for breaking and entering, and one for violating a protective order after he allegedly hit the boy's mother in the jaw. The school was apparently unaware of all this and allowed him to attend classes with his son on occasion. Now, that's not to say the mother, a woman named Dacia Taylor, was much better. Just a month before the shooting at the school, Taylor used the same handgun to shoot at the boy's father. This is from the Washington Post. Quote prosecutor cited a series of text messages between Taylor and the boy's father, which appeared to show that Taylor opened fire on him with the same weapon about a month before the shooting at Richneck Elementary. The shooting followed a dispute over whether the father was cheating on Taylor with another woman. The father was not hurt in the incident. Additionally, Taylor's son had twice taken her car keys from her purse and gotten into her car. On one occasion, he crashed the vehicle, and on the other, he refused to leave. Police had to break a window to get him out, following the school investigation, or rather the school shooter, shooting investigator found copious amounts of marijuana in Taylor's residences and vehicle during searches. So she shoots a firearm at the father of her child in a public setting of some kind, and nothing happens to her. And before that, her child stole her car and wrecked it. And evidently, despite this very alarming series of events, no one did anything. No one didn't did anything to her. No one did anything with the kid. That was it. And this is nothing new. I mean, if you go back to 2008, there was a viral story about a black kid who stole his grandmother's car. And he damaged a much property, nearly killed people. The local news and the police treated the whole episode like, you know, some kind of joke. Kids will be kids. Nobody was prosecuted. Watch. Literian Milton is not your typical seven-year-old. Few as age have ever driven an SUV up and down several busy streets. It all started at his mother's townhouse. Literian says he took the car keys and hopped into his grandmother's Dodge Durango. When I came through the back door, I looked on the counter. My keys were gone. I took my gun and cut because I got mad at my mom. And then I saw him and had my friend come in and he smoked to a cigarette. He started the vehicle and put it into gear. I yanked. I yanked. I yanked. I yanked. I'm thin. And off they went. Two seven-year-olds alone on the road. Literian drove several miles through Lake Park in Palm Beach Gardens. We got the one call that they told you about of a driver in the vehicle who looked too short to be able to see it with a steering wheel. Along the way, he ran over two mailboxes, hit two parked cars in a Costco parking lot and struck two moving cars near Wal-Mart. I want to do because it's fun. It's fun to do bad things to drive into a car. So did you know that you could perhaps kill somebody? Yes, but I wanted to do her rest stuff for my friend. It all ended on investment lane and consumer drive. That's where Literian hit the curb inside swiped the sign. The SUV took most of the beating, snapping off one of his axles and wheels. A grandmother's rage. I want to whip his behind. That's what I want to do right now. If I thought they wouldn't take me to jail, I'd whip his behind right now. You don't think he should be punished for all of this? There's a little bit no video games for whole weekend. And one unusual story for police. Are you sorry? You understand that now your grandma's going to have to pay to have those cars fixed because you hit those cars. Can my mom help her? Well, you never believe this, but that kid, Literian Milton, went on to commit more serious crimes, both as a child and an adult. In 2017, he was arrested with his friends for armed carjacking after the group held a lift driver at gunpoint. Watch. This is Milton entering a West Palm Beach courtroom Monday to face charges stemming from an arm robbery and carjacking. Palm Beach County Sheriff's Deputy say a lift driver picked up four young males in a female early Sunday morning and drove them to a window or away in West Palm Beach. That's where the female exited the vehicle. Investigators say the suspects told the driver to take them to another location when the driver refused. Authorities say one of the suspects pulled out a handgun and hit the driver in the back of the head. The driver says he got out of the car and was robbed of his wallet and jacket. He later told deputies that Milton, who was in the front passenger seat, got out and hopped into the driver's seat and sped away with the other suspects. According to investigators, the driver gave detectives a phone number which led to the identification of Milton. Deputies arrested Milton Sunday afternoon. So Milton was the getaway driver and he was a real criminal mastermind ripping off a lift that he called with a cell phone. And for this particular crime, he was released after a few years because no one actually serves a significant prison sentence anymore, especially for minor crimes like carjacking. I've seen reports that he's committed more crimes after this and I'm sure he has. We all know he's going to continue committing crimes until the day he dies. That was evident for a long time. That was evident back when he was a child. All of this could have been avoided if Milton had been thrown in prison for life. If he had gotten any kind of serious punishment at the moment that he stole a car and when he publicly stated that it's fun to do bad things if there had been any kind of real consequence, this is not the behavior of a normal child. This is psychopath and no amount of DEI hiring or counseling service or affirmative action is going to change that. But everyone pretended otherwise. The police pretended that they could talk some sense into this kid. They didn't imprison his parents and now every time Latteria and Milton is allowed to appear in public, he's a danger to everybody around him. The same inevitable pattern is playing out again in Newport News with Deja Taylor and her six-year-old kid who's shooting up his elementary school, clearly unfit to be apparent, just like the father. But nobody did anything about it because this is part of the course in overwhelmingly black areas of the country. After this shooting due to all the attention she was convicted, surprisingly, of child neglect and firearms charges, which generally doesn't happen in these kinds of cases, especially when the kid is black, but she's already out of prison. Otherwise, she wouldn't have punished it all if not for the national attention to the story. This is how millions of black children are raised. Deja Taylor is probably a top 10% mother in Newport News, if we're being honest. An enormous number of black kids in school behave just like this particular six-year-old, even if most of them don't shoot their teachers. The body cam footage reminds, if you went to public school at any point of the last, I don't know, 60 years, it's going to remind you of scenes that you witness countless times in public school. It's extremely common in public schools to this day, as even the most left-wing people on the planet will admit. Just a couple of weeks ago that we talked about Nicole Hannah Jones, the New York Times writer, who deliberately sent her daughter to a mostly black intercity school as a way to fight white supremacy, or whatever she was trying to do. She eventually pulled her daughter out of that school because the black students were violently attacking each other in the cafeteria every day. She spent one day at the school and she was horrified by what she saw. This is a woman who is so ideologically committed to leftism that she actually sent her child to the worst school she could find and she bragged about it, and then after having to be around the kids in that school for one day, a daunt in her that she had made a horrible mistake. The administrator didn't even attempt to control the children, and even if they had tried, they probably wouldn't have accomplished anything. The administrators at elementary school, at the elementary school in Newport News, where the kid shot his teacher, were equally as useless. In fact, Abby's Werner, who required multiple surgeries just to regain the use of her hand, filed a lawsuit against the school and she ultimately won $10 million because of how outrageously negligent the administrators were. This is from NBC. So listen to this. Quote, "The Virginia teacher who was shot by her six-year-old student texted a loved one before she was wounded, that the boy was armed and that school officials were failing to act." Abigail's Werner sent the text about an hour before she was shot on January 6, saying that the student said he had a gun in his backpack and that administrators at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News weren't helping. Around 11-15 in the morning, Werner told the administrator administration that the student had threatened to beat up a classmate. Then at 12-30, a different teacher told a school administrator that he had searched the boy's backpack because he thought he might have a weapon and finally just before 1pm, a third teacher told an administrator that the boy had showed another student a gun at recess and threatened to shoot him if he told anyone. At that point, another school employee requested another search of the boy's backpack, which was denied. Quote, "The administrator told the employee to wait the situation out because the school day was almost over." This is according to the teacher's attorney. So this is the way public schools handle the news that a six-year-old has a gun on campus and is threatening to kill other children with it. They just wait for the school day to end so they don't have to deal with it, which actually is, I have a very low opinion of the public school system, as you know, this is way worse than I thought. I mean, I thought that I knew that they were negligent and all of that, but I would have figured, naively, I would have thought that even in the most negligent public school, like the one thing that will get everyone's attention and will get a quick response is if a kid in school says he has a gun. Silly me, I thought that was still, like, still, even now with these kids can get away with anything. I thought the one thing they can't get away with is going to school and saying, "Hey, I have a gun." You know, I thought that was still, like, you know, standing up on an airplane and saying, "You have a bomb." I mean, it's like, it's like, there's going to, that's one of those things that's just going to get a major response from every authority figure around. Apparently not. Apparently, these kids can go to school and actually tell people they have a gun and show it to people and the administrators are going to say, "Well, you know, today's almost over. It'll probably be fine." That, you know, it is, "Hey, what is it?" That's saying. It's only, we have 45 minutes left. I'm sure we're fine. The assistant principal of the school, his name is Ebony Parker. Apparently, didn't care, you know, about any of this. This is on top of the fact that before the shooting, the six-year-old had numerous other documented behavior problems, which one? Chaku, where he attacks students and teachers. The week of the shooting he threw Zwerner's phone and destroyed it. He has a six year old destroyed his teacher's phone before shooting her a week later. Whatever the opposite of a bright future is, this kid has a coming. But our system isn't set up to protect innocent people from barbarians like this, so we're not even allowed to know his name. I mean, in a functioning system, the moment he threw the phone, the moment you grab a teacher's piece of property and smash it, you're gone from the school forever, you're expelled. That's it, you're done. 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Despite the overwhelming evidence that these schools are full of hopeless, violent and dangerous children who can not be rehabilitated and despite the obvious fact that the administrators at these schools are completely incompetent, left just like Nicole Hannah Jones insists that inner-city schools are only bad because they're underfunded. It's one of the great myths on the left, one of many myths. And of course, because it's a myth as a factual matter, it's not true. The mythical underfunded city, inner-city school is not really true. These schools receive some of the highest per student funding, not just in America, but in the world. It not just right now, but in history. So it's like a closer look at Newport News public schools and how much money they receive and spend every year. This is taken directly from the district's website. So this is the fifth school year, 2026 budget. As you can see, under the estimated average per pupil cost for public education, they list total financial support per pupil at 18,659 per school year. So that includes state and federal funding. That's your tax dollars at work every single year. The government takes about $18,000 from the pockets of the taxpayers so that this six-year-old can get an education. And that's just for one, you know, one child. And that's not unique to Newport News, by the way. $18,000 per student is roughly in line with national averages. So you have to ask, where is this money going exactly? How much money are the teachers and administrators making to oversteve violence and carnage and dysfunction like this? How much money is going to the unions? Well, maybe here's the best question. What was the per pupil cost to educate a student in 1960? You know, back when students could like read and write. If we adjust for inflation, right, what's the number? Well, it turns out that Heritage Foundation has run the numbers on this and they found that in real dollars, meaning inflation adjusted, per pupil spending in American public schools was just $2,763 in 1960. That was four years before LBJ launched his disastrous great society education programs, which would supposedly end poverty and lead to racial army. The spending continued to increase from there. And in 1980, per pupil spending was 7,359. And today, the number is more than twice as high as that. So we're spending more than twice as much to educate each student compared with 1980. And more than six times, what we were spending in 1960. And what are we getting for that money? I mean, what's our return on this massive investment? Evidently, we're paying for six-year-old black kids to shoot their teachers with no oversight whatsoever. You know, apparently all this money can't even get enough, can't even get enough oversight in the schools to, you know, intercept a child before he shoots a teacher, even when he's advertised to everybody all day that he has a gun. All this money is going into a bottomless pit to enrich unions and administrators while schools pretend to educate students who obviously can't control their own impulses, much less learn anything. There hasn't been any improvement in test scores or student aptitude, aptitude. Everything's gone in the wrong direction with one exception that we'll talk about in a moment. The Stanford economist, Eric Hanuchek, put it this way a decade ago, quote, "This productivity decline is remarkable, "particularly would compare with dynamic improvements "in productivity elsewhere in the U.S. economy. "Schooling outcomes are the same in 2015 "as they were four decades before, "even though school funding is now several times as high." So pretty stark and frankly disturbing window into how much the civil rights era has transformed this country and drained our treasury at the same time. Well, that's not all. Despite receiving this massive amount of money, the Newport News school district has the audacity to demand even more handouts, directly from local residents. This is a real video of the school district produced and uploaded last year, watch. And while you're shopping, don't forget to use your reward cards in a smart way. Your food lion MVP card, Harris Teter's Vick card, the Kroger Plus card and other reward programs can be linked directly to the school of your choice. So when you buy everyday products, you're supporting your child's school. To link your reward card, visit the store's customer service desk for more information. Another way to support education is through donorschoose.org, which continues to be a wonderful online resource to directly equip classroom instruction. Just like the name implies, generous donors get to choose specifically which projects to fund. Simply visit donorschoose.org and type in Newport News public schools or a specific school in the search bar to find a project that needs financial support. Donors can fund an entire project or part of a project and can clearly see where every dime is spent. - So you get to see exactly where all your donations are going, but as for your tax money, well, it's apparently been vaporized. It's totally gone, just like your social security contributions. You don't get to see the money. But if you donate to the school on top of your tax as well, sure you can track that money, no problem. It's an incredible video. First, they demand that you hand over the cash back rewards you get from your grocery store. They claim that's a smart thing to do. Just hand your money over to them every time you go to the store and then they direct you to a donation page where you can send them even larger amounts of money to fund various projects the teachers have set up. The projects, as you just saw on the screen, include a rug for quiet time. They need $227 for that. I feel like you could find a cheaper rug, maybe a second hand, go to a good whale or something. Why is that $200? Another project was seeking $208 to pay for some puppets to help ESL students, meaning foreign students who can't speak English. Again, I don't know what kind of puppet store they're going to, where the puppets are $200. Whatever happened, when I was a kid, we made puppets out of like a, You know, a brown paper bag, put some googly eyes on it. There's your puppet. And then there was the final project disinfecting wipes for Miss Harris' classroom, which came at a relatively modest $44. Still seems like a lot for disinfecting wipes. So you're getting $18,000 to educate every student more than the average school district at any other point in the history of this country, adjusted for inflation. And it's still not enough. Somehow $18,000 per student doesn't cover a rug or disinfecting wipes. It's a scam and they're not even hiding it. And multiply this one school district by about $14,000. And you get a sense of how big the problem is. We've let teachers and unions and administrators run a mock for far too long occupy a kind of privileged status where no one's allowed to criticize them. But the fact is, overall, they're doing a horrible job. They're getting more money than ever and they're producing worse results. In any other industry, that means they would lose their jobs. And that's exactly what needs to happen here. The only state that's moving substantially in a positive direction is Mississippi, which we've talked about before. It used to be one of the worst performing states in the entire country in terms of student achievement. Their fourth grade reading scores ranked 49th in the nation in 2013 by 2024. They were up to ninth place. Math proficiency increased by more than 12%. I don't want to overstate the progress students in Mississippi are still underperforming by eighth grade, but they made a drastic improvement for elementary school students in a relatively short period of time. And it's clear how they did it. First, they refused to allow students to progress a grade if they couldn't read. They recognized that in a functioning school, some students simply do not deserve to take a space in the classroom. They also taught students how letters correspond to different sounds, which sounds pretty basic. But before that, they were basically telling students to guess how to pronounce words based on context clues. These are pretty obvious common sense reforms, but in most states, school administrators didn't even bother with any kind of reforms. They're happy to continue making more and more money every year while their students shoot at them, you know, in some cases. The public school system is irreparably broken and useless now, primarily because in general, it refuses to admit that many of their students, like the one who shot this teacher, simply cannot be reformed, and normal civilized children should not be forced to share a class with them. If they could simply admit this, then they wouldn't need $18,000 per student. They'd go back to spending $2,000 a student, or less. If they refuse to, quote, educate the students who cannot be educated and refuse to be educated, this is the approach we need to adopt because the prevailing educational model, the one we've tried over the past 60 to 70 years is dead. Now, there might be scattered pockets in the country with public school system is still relatively functional, but that will change. Diversity had already put it on its deathbed, thanks to kids like the one in that video. And new changes like AI have destroyed whatever hope that there might have still been for the system. I mean, at the scale of mass government run education, there's really no way to stop students from using AI for every assignment, and that's obviously exactly what every kid in public school is already doing. At a certain level, you can't even really blame them. I mean, when your teachers are illiterates, chat GPT may seem like a better option. And I'm not even exaggerating here. Some of these teachers are actually illiterate. So in 2017, New York eliminated the academic literacy skills test as a requirement for teacher certification because the non-white teachers were failing it at a extremely high rate. So it was a diversity problem. And white teachers were passing at a rate of 64% on the first try, which is still way too low, by the way, while black candidates had passed around 40%, which meant that the test had to be racist. So here's a sample question to give you an idea of how easy it was or how racist it was. I mean, you'd be the judge. This is for my practice test on study.com, that gives you kind of an idea. Question says question, which of the following should someone do as they read an informational text, your choices, choices? A, read the text quickly all at once. B, avoid rereading if possible. C, take notes. D, wait until after they read to write down summaries, further questions, and their reactions. So the answer, as you might have guessed, is take notes. This is not. Some of these questions might be ironically difficult in that you assume that there's an answer that's really obvious, but you kind of assume that the question can't be this dumb, like, is this a trick? Is there some other answer that I'm supposed. Is this a trick question? No, it's not a trick question. It's just that take notes, yeah. So the answer is not to rush through the text and never look at it again, who could have guessed. And apparently this kind of question was truly vexing for the overwhelming number of non-white teachers who took the test. So here's another question. Which of the following is not a feature of narrative texts? Is it a plot, b point of view, c headings, d conflict? This could be a tough one if you've never seen a TV show or a movie or read a book or talk to another human being at any point in your life. So it's obviously c or headings, which is not an element of narrative. So these are basic questions for a child, but New York teachers couldn't get the questions right. A lot of them can barely speak English, apparently. 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Additionally, this year, they got rid of the A-A-T-A-S test, which was a test for teaching assistants. They replaced it with a more modern test, which presumably means that too many people were failing the old one. Let's try a couple of those questions from the old test. Here's one from study.com. Question, if 12 inches is equal to one foot, how many feet are there in 72 inches? So it's multiple choices. They answer seven feet, eight feet, five feet, or six feet. So I actually tell you that there are 12 inches in a foot, just in case you're from Uganda and have no idea how anything works in this country. And they ask you to do some very basic multiplication in your head. 72 inches is what you get when you multiply 12 inches by six. When you multiply one foot by six, you get six feet, and therefore the answer is six feet. This is a question to expect teaching assistants in public schools to answer, but that's no longer necessary. Here's question two, and again, I'm not making this up. So as question, you're about to check the first drafts of your class. What would be the best way to assess the student's performance? Do you, A, take notes to determine who among the students is the best in grammar, B, set fixed criteria on how to grade each of the students or works, C, take notes to determine who among the students is the most creative, D, just give them all the same grade to avoid disappointing students. Now you can tell just reading these responses that the people who wrote this test spent about five minutes writing the questions and answers. A and C are extremely similar responses and neither of them makes sense. D is very explicitly a nonsense answer. It's a joke really. Obviously, if you're gonna give, if you're gonna grade students, you need criteria, meaning, you know, basis for giving them grades. And now teaching assistants in New York apparently don't need to figure this out. So for now, if you have a five-year-old child and you're deciding how to educate them in the modern world, and you basically have only two viable options. If you're thinking about, okay, my kid's gonna spend the next 12, 13 years in some kind of educational environment, starting now, what are your options? Going to public school is really not an option on the table. So what other options do you have? Well, you could spend a lot of money on one of the relatively few truly elite private schools or if you aren't a millionaire, or even if you are, homeschool. You know, which includes highly localized and small-scale homeschool co-ops and homeschool academies as well. There's all that there are ways to do it, homeschooling so that it's not just you with your kids. I mean, there's ways that you can still have a community and have support. As I said, you might be able to find scattered pockets here and there where the public school system is still moderately functional. But those places are extremely expensive and they're basically the same as paying for a private school when you factor in the cost of living in those districts. Unfortunately, there's very little hope that the school system will improve in any widespread, measurable, lasting way. Especially because now the institution exists to protect itself. Teachers unions remain some of the biggest funders of Democrats and public school systems and Democrat controlled states. They can't be fired even if they're drinking on the job or openly wishing death on their students. Those are not exaggerations, by the way. These are real cases. In 2010, a tenured fifth grade New York school teacher named Christine Rubino posted the following statement to her Facebook account after a student drowned while on a class field trip to the beach. She wrote, quote, "After today, I'm thinking the beach sounds like a wonderful idea for my fifth graders. I hate their guts. They are the devil's spawn." One of Rubino's friends responded, "Oh, you would let little Kwame float away." And Rubino replied, "Yes, I would not throw a life jacket in for a million." Rubino was fired, seems like a pretty logical consequence, but she appealed her termination and was reinstated, because according to the courts, quote, "While her reference to a child's death is repulsive, there's no evidence that her postings are part of a pattern of conduct." Then there was the case of Nicholas Cilento, a special education teacher at the Colonia High School, who was fired by the Woodbridge School District after he's found consuming alcohol on school grounds. He was actually caught drinking on two separate days, but he had tenure, which is an absurd concept for anyone, much less a special education teacher. So they had to hold a hearing, and at this hearing, Cilento claimed to be an alcoholic, so it really wasn't his fault, and a state arbitrator bought it, and overturned the firing. He eventually got his license suspended for just two years, because he has a, quote, "disease." Alcoholism is a disease, it's like having cancer, it's not his fault. And on and on, you know, these people are untouchable because they look out for one another, they unionize, they lobby, and it's working, it's been working, of course, for many decades. Even though birth rates are low, and student enrollments is declining, their budgets, and the number of administrators, keeps rising. It's been a steady, massive increase from 1960, every single decade. And then you get to COVID, COVID was probably one of the final nails in the coffin. Teachers and unions fought to close the schools for as long as they could. They showed their cards, revealing that they don't think the schools are all that important or necessary, or else they do think the schools are important and necessary, but they were willing to deprive the kids of the important necessary thing in order to protect themselves from the flu. Either way, there's no coming back from that. No matter how much body cam footage they hide, no matter how many literacy tests they shut down, everyone is now well aware that the public school system is not only useless, but actively counterproductive. It endangers students while protecting its own by design. Whatever alternative you're thinking about for your own children, whether it's homeschooling, private school, or something else, you should rest assured that it can't possibly be any worse than what these vultures have been selling ever since LBJ promised to end poverty. It turns out, no matter how much money you throw at these people, it's not going to help. They only demand more to the point that they're begging for your credit card reward at the grocery store. Well, if that six-year-old school shooter accomplishes anything in his life, it'll be helping millions of Americans realize that it's time to stop giving it to them. I'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you on Monday. Have a great weekend. Godspeed. Every significant movement in history started with protesting. No, a party. Uncle Tom? This is our generation civil rights. I have no idea what the protest is about. Bingo. Given the current climate, should a figure as polarizing as placed sounders even be allowed on campus? Ah, can you hear me? Okay. Sounders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Freeman. This is the decision I cannot find. Islam will conquer the West. Some more than you can. Are we paying attention? They've taken over the building. They're downstairs, and they've blocked the doors. 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