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Public Schools Are GARBAGE and We Have PROOF!! | Louder with Crowder
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I'm sorry.
Okay.
Are we good to go?
All right.
Look, before we start the show, I just wanted you to know something.
Sometimes people think that what we discuss here, what I'm about to say, is hyperbolic.
It's not at all.
I stand by it 100%, and I would like to see other so-called conservatives and Republicans do it.
We'll get into what's happening in Minneapolis with teachers.
We'll get into what's happening nationally with the teachers' unions, what's happening in Florida.
We absolutely need to defund the Federal Department of Education.
Not saying that as a clickbait.
Not saying that to reel you in.
It is absolutely not only what I believe, but what I'm pretty sure you will at least understand when you watch this show.
We don't need it.
Republicans know we don't need it.
Those in the federal government know we don't need it.
And teachers unions certainly know that we don't need it.
That's the bulk of today's show.
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Really?
Because I did the cold open.
By the way, you guys can, you know, let's hit this right now.
Comment below if you want us to do more of these cold opens.
Because we do a lot of these intros and sometimes we have people saying, I don't like the intros, and then we have people saying, I want more intros.
You know what?
We can't please everybody.
They can't all be diamonds!
Like Liz Cheney.
You know, some people take the pressure and they're turned into a diamond, and some people take- and they're still just left with coal.
It's like, you start with clay, and you're setting out to make a beautiful vase.
Some people say vase, I say vase.
And then sometimes, you know, you demean more ghost, this whole thing, and you just end up with a pot.
That's Liz Cheney.
37 points.
And she lost.
We'll be talking about that.
We'll be talking about the teachers unions.
First off, the racist stuff that's going on in one particular state.
Then the solutions from one particular state, Florida.
And then the solution nationally.
Why public schools suck in general.
And why we need to defund the Department of Education.
And why people are concerned that Donald Trump has alluded to the fact that he would at least start the process.
So you can let me know what you think before you watch this show.
You think we really need the Department of Education?
I'll show you why we don't.
And, uh, Gerald A., how are you?
I am doing very well, and I'm glad we're talking about this.
See, I threw you a curveball there where I said, and then I went to you.
I was ready.
Yeah, okay.
I was happy for it.
How are you?
I'm fine.
Yeah.
I just hate schools.
How's the boot?
I don't have the boot on right now.
They said I can take it off every now and then.
I find the boot makes my foot hurt more.
It's like a stress fracture.
It does.
It's kind of like braces.
A little bird bones in your feet.
All right.
And then you know him.
You love him.
Quickest man on his feet.
We are on tour.
Go to ladderwithcrowder.com slash tour because there are other dates.
Some of them are sold out.
A lot of them aren't because we've expanded the theaters.
Phoenix, September 16th.
Ahoy!
Houston, September 17th.
Ahoy!
Dave Landau, how are you?
Ahoy!
I'm good.
Good.
Oh, jeez!
The mustache!
Yeah, I shaved it.
You know, you can really start smelling the day.
You know, you wake up like, today I woke up this morning, I could still smell five guys and what I had for dinner.
Well, ZZ Top found a missing child.
Did they?
It's funny because there's a project we have a new giant projector out there as we've done these sort of developments and I was watching on it feels like it's 50 feet it's giant and I swear to you I saw his mustache we were watching a clip and then I had a nightmare of it chasing me my mustache On a big jumbotron?
It's terrifying!
It's funny, I woke up, it's just not there, chasing you.
I'm like, where'd it go?
That's what happened, he's like, I have to say I shaved it.
Yeah, we're doing a little sketch today, so I had to, I wanted to be authentic.
Doesn't that suck, we have to shave our beards and mustaches all because, we do this for you.
Yeah.
Mud Club.
It's a big set.
I grew that all July and I gotta get rid of it for you.
He's... July.
He's been growing that since last September.
Okay.
It was July of last year.
Right now, after the raid on President Trump, we had to double check.
Turns out this guy is real.
Because I know you'll think that we're faking something.
It's real.
This is a real liberal.
And if I'm wrong, you guys can admonish me.
I've done all of my due diligence.
It seems this is a real person.
The left is, of course, counting their crazy chickens.
The crazy chickens before they hatch.
Oh boy, the FBI is scanning fingerprints on every classified document that they recovered from Donald Trump's safe in Mar-a-Lago.
This means they're going to find out who touched each document so that they can prosecute them all.
This also means that the documents were so highly classified that they are worried that who got a hold of them could pose as a national security threat.
I'm wondering where his question mark suit is.
Wow get ready cuz justice is coming. I'm as ugly as a bat.
Blind as a bat.
Can you get money from the government?
Call 1-800- Oh, they're at my house.
Yeah.
Oh, jeez.
They're here.
Got milk?
You call 1-800, it just goes to his residential line.
Remember that peanut butter commercial where the guy- or the milk commercial where the guy's got peanut butter in his mouth, the radio show calls in, it's the ugliest guy?
No.
They're like, do you know the answer to?
And he's like... It looks like this guy?
Identical.
Oh, wow.
Well, you know, so he has some options.
Yeah, he could do other crazies.
Yeah, exactly.
Identical.
Look, I don't want to make fun of someone just because they're heinously unattractive.
True.
So Liz Cheney lost her primary last night.
And unrelated news.
Man, and she had all that money her dad got from funding 9-11.
We're kidding.
Allegedly.
Unless you look into it.
Tuesday is when it happened.
We're Wednesday today.
Here's the thing.
She lost to a Trump-backed candidate Well, I should lose by 37 points when we're done with this.
By 37 points.
Think about that for a second.
37 points.
We have that from the New York Times here, Kevin.
That's crazy.
37 points.
I don't remember her losing by 37 points.
37 points.
You lose!
But, well, she got about 44,000 votes in the state, I believe was roughly the number.
And I'm betting around 10,000 were Dems that crossed the line in the primary, because you can do that in Wyoming.
Actually, no.
43,999 were Joe Lewis.
Ah.
Yeah, if you write in, you actually lose by 37 points.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's true.
And she did, though, however, credit where it's due, give one hell of a concession speech.
She's great at those.
The great and original champion of our party, Abraham Lincoln, was defeated in elections for the Senate and the House before he won the most important election of all.
Lincoln ultimately prevailed, he saved our union, and he defined our obligation as Americans for all of history.
Speaking at Gettysburg, of the great task remaining before us, Lincoln said, She does have her dad's good looks.
that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new
birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people
shall not perish from this earth.
As we meet here tonight, that remains our greatest and most important task.
Most of world history is a story of violent conflict, of servitude and suffering.
I didn't even see a head.
No.
No.
You're just the afterbirth, Miss Janie.
Yes.
She recorded that a week ago, knowing she was going to be killed off.
Let me get my picnic tape.
Let me read this, because of course it's a little bit childish, but hysterical.
I love it.
It's why we love it, and we're also going, maybe hold back a little bit, but don't really hold back.
Please don't.
President Donald Trump didn't hold back, posting to his Truth Social Look, here's what I will say.
Hers was grandiose.
She started talking about Abraham Lincoln and the birth of a nation and whatever.
So he responded in a way that was just as grandiose, only taking a big dump on her.
This is a wonderful result for America and a complete rebuke of the unselect committee Capitalized it?
Un.
Like it's an actual official organization?
Right, yeah.
A complete rebuke of the unselect committee of political hacks and thugs.
Now she, Cheney, in case you forgot who I was talking about, Cheney, folks.
I didn't want to put this in parentheses, they won't know who you're talking about.
It's okay, I'll put it in parentheses.
It's Cheney.
Now she, Cheney, can finally disappear into the depths of the political oblivion.
Where I am sure she will be much happier than she is right now.
Thank you, Wyoming!
I love it.
I absolutely love it.
She can return to the River Styx, folks, where she will be no doubt more content, a lot more content with the Hades played by James Woods.
That she is right now.
Thank you, America!
By the way, Abraham Lincoln, not a fan of you, Liz.
Not a fan of what you do.
I've talked to him.
No, I mean, everybody hated this person because she joined a sham committee for January 6th and made it seem like you had to go after Donald Trump for trying to overthrow the government when he didn't do that.
We've called out Trump when he was wrong.
Of course, we've criticized Trump plenty of times.
And by the way, people act as though you have to be a complete lackey for Donald Trump, otherwise you're removed.
It's just not true.
You can comment below.
I want to bet that most of you Probably have some issues with Donald Trump, think that he has some shortcomings, and then also appreciate him for what he is.
That's what we are.
The problem is that she sided with the enemy, always, and like you said, has taken part being complicit in a sham trial claiming it was the most violent day in our history.
Yeah, while draping the American flag over her shoulders and saying, I'm trying to save democracy.
No, you're actually not.
This is not what you're making it out to be.
And by the way, guess who agrees?
Almost everyone in Wyoming who voted.
I was going to say, you're running in Wyoming.
Where did you think you were running?
It's Wyoming.
Who did you think your constituents were?
There's a rumor she might run for president.
She's hinting at it right now.
Please do.
I hear it's easier to get votes that way.
In Wyoming alone, Matthew Shepard will vote 48,000 tickets.
I hope that Donald Trump decides to run just to take a giant steaming dump on Liz and then drops out of the race.
I guarantee you he will if she runs.
If that is his only reason for doing it, it would be hilarious.
Oh my gosh, unreal.
Imagine them on a debate stage.
Oh yeah.
Lesbian, oh no!
Oh no!
Does that word mean anything?
What does lesbian mean to you?
Dick, dick, that's my dad.
Well, you know, on January 6th, I'm gonna be like, Lesbian! Oh no!
Yeah.
Oh no! Does that word mean anything?
I don't know what else I'm supposed to say.
I'm just saying the word doesn't mean anything to me.
It means something to women.
What does lesbian mean to you?
Or dick, dick. That's my dad. I know.
Yeah.
So, uh, look, we also have the over-under.
You can comment on how soon she'll be working for The View as their newest Republican panelist.
But right now, of course, look, worthy political adversary, we'd like to offer a proper send-off to Liz Cheney, which brings us to Liz Cheney's time to close.
Today we face a threat America has never seen before.
Donald Trump.
President Trump.
Endings and beginnings are ending and beginning now.
President Trump.
Former President Trump.
Donald Trump.
Trump's legal team.
Donald Trump.
President Trump.
The threat posed by Donald Trump.
And Donald Trump.
Donald Trump.
Because Republicans cannot both be loyal to Donald Trump and loyal to the Constitution.
Donald Trump cannot escape responsibility.
I will do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office.
Liz, you're fired.
Get out of here.
Get out of here.
I know that it's time for things to close, things to close.
It almost makes me miss her.
Nope.
No.
Not really.
She was also wearing the same stuff in the last video.
Yeah, she also tried to boil the Trump kids pet rabbit.
Yes.
I just think she recorded the video many times.
This is the problem, it's the problem is when you're obsessed.
This is the problem is these people they say, I'm willing to stand up against, but then
that's their only their raison d'être.
Donald Trump, Donald Trump, she was obsessed and that didn't work.
If she would have said, you know what, I think Donald Trump was wrong about this, this is where I agree with him on foreign policy, it's a good thing we didn't start any new wars, this is where I disagree, then let the cards fall where they may.
Not every single Trump-backed candidate has won, just to be clear, and not every single person who's been critical of Donald Trump has lost.
But when you toss your lot in with January 6th and you are the ambassador, the representative, with this sham trial on television.
You shouldn't be mad when Republicans don't elect you.
You deserve what you get.
And I think she's probably going to be.
Isn't that really one of the biggest problems, too, with politics?
It's just, I don't like this person, and that's your entire campaign?
Right.
That it's just comical?
Exactly.
Well, Adam Kinzinger took the coward's way out and retired.
I wish you would have run, Adam.
I wanted to see that.
Yeah, screw that guy.
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Okay.
Let's get to the Department of Education.
All right.
I think we need to completely defund the federal Department of Education.
Yes.
Not saying, it's just, you know, we're going with the theme because defund the FBI, defund the DOJ, I think you could defund most branches of the government.
But most of you, and I know I can hear especially a lot of mothers, like, ah, what am I gonna do?
I don't know, you see what homeschool people, God, you might have to be a parent.
Now, We don't need it.
We all think we need it, but let me be clear, if you do away with the Federal Department of Education, it would affect public schools in your state likely zero.
Let me set the stage here.
Your parents right now, if you're in my generation or younger, okay, so millennials, Gen Z, your
parents all went to school before there was a Department of Education, at least started
school before a federal Department of Education.
It's 1979 when it was signed into law.
Public schools existed well before 1979.
By the way, test scores, reading, math scores, they've either stagnated or fallen.
What does this mean?
This is something you need to understand.
How does that happen?
Schooling is largely funded by the states.
Before the federal Department of Education, it was almost entirely funded by the states
and the bulk of it is still coming from the states.
We do not need a federal Department of Education for you to have decent schools and it comes
with a lot of strings attached and a lot of union baggage that you cannot shed within
your state as effectively as you could if we did not have the federal Department of
We don't need the federal department of education.
It is unbelievably expensive and it's made schools worse.
Marley was dead to begin with.
Anything there?
You guys good?
Okay.
100% agree.
I gotcha.
Since 2000.
No child left behind.
Okay, everyone blamed Bush for that.
Didn't really work.
Common Core.
None of this is working.
No.
At a certain point, you have to take inventory and say, it's not working, so what do we need to do?
One side says, spend more money, more money, more money, more money, please.
I'm saying, no money.
Not more money, none!
And the states just get to keep that money instead of sending it to the federal government to fund the Department of Education, who then turns around and doles it out to whoever they want.
Exactly.
Yeah, so we'll just do that.
We'll keep it.
So let's start, we're going to go through something that happened in Minneapolis, then we're going to go through the National Teachers Union, what's happened in Florida, and then close with some information sort of on a national level regarding public schools.
So this is a theme today because I know that there are a lot of parents out there concerned, especially in the post-COVID world.
Yeah.
You know, because what are we going to do with the true heroes?
Those are nurses.
Yes, that's right.
They dance, not the good ones.
They tick-tock, nurses.
It's a verb.
They don't dance, they tick-tock.
Oh, tick-tock.
Make that body rock.
Exotic tick-tocking.
With dead people.
It's pronounced erotic.
Now, March 25th, this is the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers ratified a collective bargaining agreement with the Minneapolis public school system.
What could go wrong in Minneapolis?
Here's part of the deal.
If accessing a teacher who is a member of, let me just tell you before I explain it, read the technical jargon, they're gonna fire white teachers first.
Yes.
Okay?
Racist.
Yeah, because we've talked about it, people say this is racist, that's racist.
I think if you fire someone because of their race, call me old-fashioned, I think that's racist.
Yeah, I don't see the connection.
No, no, no, no, no.
Stephen, you're wrong.
That's not how it works.
Well, you know what?
I agree to disagree.
I believe it's not racist.
Okay.
Now I understand where you line up.
Thanks for the air support.
Glad to see you, Matt.
Cavalry coming over the hill.
Friendly fire much?
Okay, so they're gonna fire white people first.
This is how they describe it.
If accessing a teacher who is a member of a population underrepresented among licensed teachers in the site, the district shall access, meaning get rid of, fire!
Why do they say fire?
The next least senior teacher who is not a member of an underrepresented population.
Okay, that means white, white, white, white, white, white, white.
Yes.
Yeah, if a teacher's going to be fired, it's going to be a white guy.
Go ahead.
Every single person.
And if they're going to be rehired, it is also going to go to a population that's underrepresented, according to them, which is black people primarily, but it also, if you went to a historically black college, a tribal or historically Hispanic college as well.
You will get rehired first for no reason.
Most of them go by seniority, which I think is stupid.
I don't know.
Maybe we should go by merit.
Maybe we should fire bad teachers when you have a budget cut and be like, hey, you suck.
Get out.
I don't care if you've been here a year or a decade.
You're a better teacher.
You get to stay.
Let me give you a little bit of a personal.
The best teacher I ever had, I don't know if she's still alive.
And I hope that she is if you're watching.
Mrs. Naidoo, fourth grade.
I've talked about this, I had to go to French school because I was in Quebec and my mom is French-Canadian, and so I had to go to French school where at least half of my day was in French, all the way through the fourth grade.
And I started falling behind, where they thought, maybe this kid's retarded.
That still may be.
But what it really turned out is I couldn't do math and I couldn't do geography and history in French.
I can speak French, I can read and write French, but learning everything in French put me behind a little bit.
So they switched me midway through my fourth grade year.
And at this point they'd already done long division and I couldn't learn it because it was being taught in French.
And Mrs. Naidoo was an Indian teacher, Indian-Canadian teacher.
Heavy accent.
Stern.
People were afraid of her.
She was very strict.
She stayed after class until I learned long division and aced my test.
Nice.
A teacher's goal should be every student gets an A at the end of the year.
Yeah.
That should be the standard.
Standardize a test.
Every student gets... The more of your students who get A's, If they start at 70%, they start with a C, they end with an A or 100%, congratulations, you're a good teacher.
So, she was a minority, she was the best teacher!
Never even crossed my mind at that point, but that's when we grew up in a post-racial America in Canada, you know, where Fresh Prince and Family Matters were the top shows before we segregated everything with BET and fragmented all of culture and media and demanded segregated school spaces.
This is when we didn't really think about it.
We kind of grew up in a wonderful golden era where, of course, you had individual races, but it was largely a thing of the past systemically.
And now it's come back!
We're more racist than ever!
Well, how did that happen?
And, of course, who's going to save the day?
The Minneapolis Teachers Union.
Minneapolis public schools have defended this agreement publicly, saying that it will, quote, remedy the continuing effects of past discrimination.
Ah!
This is like, you know, Ibram Kendi has talked about this.
He's the director of the Center for Anti-Racist Research.
It's, to undo previous racism, you need to do really racist shit moving forward.
Yes, I've seen his book in every airport.
Yes, yeah.
It's next to the Newsweek with Trump in prison.
Yes!
On the same week that, you know, Muhammad Ali died and he was on the cover of everything and Gordie Howe, far more accomplished in his sport.
Nothing.
Oh yeah.
Just a footnote.
Well, and it said Gordie Who?
Yeah, exactly.
Like the pig from the city?
No, played with three generations, Gordie Howe.
Look him up.
He played old.
Yeah, well I remember seeing the magazines, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali.
They won't tell you that he endorsed Ronald Reagan, campaigned for Orrin Hatch, and rejected All of his segregationist views later in life.
Once he died, they wanted to venerate him as the guy who dodged the draft.
There was a lot more to Muhammad Ali than that.
Anyway.
I met him and Ted Lindsey, not Muhammad Ali, but Gordie Howe.
Gordie Howe?
A Jets pizza.
Unbelievable guy.
My dad spent some time with him.
Super nice.
Super nice.
Down to earth.
Stayed in the community.
All right.
As opposed to Muhammad Ali, who left.
And I said, why did you leave for the suburbs?
He said, to get away from black people.
That's a quote.
You can go read it.
Yeah, once he really started getting that CTE, he let a lot of stuff out of his mouth.
Before that, he said, I was wrong about that.
I was wrong about, you know, calling everyone a house n-word, or trashing Joe Louis, trashing Joe Frazier.
He said, I was wrong about talking, you know, he was against race mixing, just to be clear.
He said, I was wrong about a lot of that, and door, store, and hatch.
Okay.
And Malcolm X said that too, and that ended well.
Yeah, exactly.
Something with our intelligence agencies, right?
I can't remember what that was.
They did something once he decided peace was the answer.
So, Kendi wrote this, how to be an anti-racist.
The only remedy to racist discrimination is anti-racist discrimination.
The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.
The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.
So, basically, the only way to fix bad stuff that's happened is doing more bad stuff.
The only way to fix racism and evil is more evil.
I kind of always thought that we were raised with this as kids, where, you know, you were supposed to be above it.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
But if you read that again he actually says to fix past you need present racism and to fix present you need future.
So essentially we'll have racism forever.
Exactly.
Is his thing.
It's not like racism enough to where it's like okay now the ledger is clear and we're even.
Let's start again.
It's like inception of racism.
If you plan on having future racism then what's the point of even discussing it because therefore there's no problem to fix.
There is no problem that's just the norm.
By the way.
Right?
What?
Oh, come on.
Boo!
Oh, boo!
Oh, Landler, you can keep watching this snoozefest.
I've had it.
I'm going to take the easy way out.
No, not before you drew me in first, Kordorf.
Murder-suicide it is!
Damn.
What?
I knew I should have gotten the Walther.
What kind of gun is that?
Well, it's a .22, and it's brand Gerald A. Oh, those only shoot blanks.
Okay, come on now.
That's not fair.
He has two kids.
That doesn't even make sense.
He has two kids.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure they're really his and not the pool boys.
I don't even have a pool.
I don't have a pool.
He doesn't have a pool.
Why's his van always in your driveway?
Ha ha ha!
Bang!
Walther Works every time.
I never liked him!
There you go.
Alright.
I don't know why we installed that balcony.
I mean, you really spent a lot.
Yeah.
It's baseline budgeting.
If I don't spend it, then I don't get it for myself next year.
I know.
Well, it's... It's a puppet, too.
I don't think he's dead.
By the way, while we're talking about this, teachers are the real heroes because they have to bring... Have you heard?
They have to bring some of their work home with them.
Oh, do they?
Yeah.
What?
And they have to buy pencils occasionally.
I know.
I don't know about you as a business owner, Gerald.
My work stops when I walk out of this office.
Oh yeah, never think about it again.
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Show them that there, Gerald.
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Bing.
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I have no idea.
Ask Jeeves.
You won't find a bad review.
It's one of the best-kept secrets, because they don't have giant military contracts like some of the other big boys.
Well, and you can also aim left-handed and hit the target every time.
It's true.
Samba dexterous with Muppets.
We've had several friends buy them because of this show, no complaints.
Yeah, we've had a lot.
When we do head up to live shows, and I mention them all, the audience goes like, ah!
I'm like, oh yeah, put them away.
No, it's not like a lighter.
You don't need to be Yosemite Sam in here.
I always feel pretty protected.
Yeah.
Well, we have to.
Some of these, by the way, at some of the live shows, sometimes you cannot carry firearms to the live shows because it's either venue policy or someone threatened to kill me.
So we're like, nah, not tonight.
Now!
Let's move on down with education.
It's a themed episode, like you get on some of those shows where it's like flashbacks, only we're covering this from stem to stern.
Ron DeSantis, the pimp, decided to also take some new initiatives for education.
And it is a problem.
We're not getting as many people going into teaching.
The left will tell you that we need to fix that with more money.
I don't know if you know this, and it's not going to fix anything.
So, Rhonda Santus, and I think he's really good at reverse engineering problems and trying to come
up with solutions. There are issues. I have my apprehensions about him in some ways,
but he is pretty good at saying, okay, how can we try and actually solve this issue?
And I think that is something that is sorely needed.
Solutions coming from the right as opposed to just saying, no, I don't like you.
So some new initiatives aimed at attracting new teachers in Florida.
And he's gone with an angle that makes a lot of sense.
Again, if you understand historically, you didn't always need a degree in teaching, you know.
No.
You have a degree in English.
My ex-girlfriend's mother was a teacher when I was in college and she had an English degree.
I said, you want to be a teacher?
She said, sure.
She was a fantastic teacher.
So his plan is actually involving recruiting veterans.
So like two birds with one stone.
No, it's not.
What is wrong today?
In addition to recruiting retired military veterans, we also want to include first responders,
law enforcement, EMTs, paramedics, firefighters who have their bachelor's degree to become
teachers and bring their leadership and wisdom into the classroom.
And what we will do, just like we do for veterans, we will do for the other first responders.
We will waive the exam fees for the state teacher certification exam.
And if you do sign up under this program, those teachers will be eligible for a $4,000 bonus to be able to serve and If they teach courses that have really acute shortages in those subject matters, they'll get another $1,000.
And so that'll be a $5,000 bonus for first responders who go in to those.
So replace the real heroes, public teachers, with non-heroes, veterans, and first responders?
You mean people that run towards danger?
And you can comment below, I'll get into the details of this, what you think about that.
Because the left is saying, you can't just do this to spring in veterans!
They're going to have PTSD!
They're going to mustard gas the whole classroom!
Here's what'll actually happen.
Okay, so let me read you some details from the program.
Military veterans who pass this teaching exam eligible for a temporary certificate as long as they have, they meet these qualifications, four years or more of active duty, honorable service, 60 college credit hours.
Yeah, that's an associate's degree, by the way.
That's two years.
And they get a teacher apprenticeship program, you know, a scholarship to help current high school teachers earn their masters.
So there's a lot going on here, by the way.
And this is also something we need to rethink how we approach teaching.
This is a very new concept that you have to have a degree in teaching so you can, you know, show a bunch of kids how to be lesbians.
It's not really the qualification that you need.
You just need to be someone who can impart wisdom.
So you have to pass the test.
So he said in a subject matter test to be able to teach a subject you have to have your associate's degree but you also have to serve as an apprentice with another teacher who has been there I think it was at least seven years and highly rated teacher.
They give that person a mentor bonus so it's not like they're just turning them loose on a class.
They're giving you on-the-job training for I believe it's two years before you're let go on, go do your thing now as a teacher, but you also still have to finish your bachelor's degree.
Right.
Why would anybody in the world be against this?
There is no reason.
But I can see... Go ahead.
I was gonna say, one thing that he does better than most Well, I think the only people who might oppose it are maybe some sort of new conservatives or libertarians who don't understand federalism and say, I oppose increased spending.
so that if they go against it, it is just completely obvious.
Well, I think the only people who might oppose it are maybe some sort of new
conservatives or libertarians who don't understand federalism and say,
I oppose increased spending. Well, this is the thing.
States should be able to increase spending on education if they want to, but I understand we now have
the problem of if Ron DeSantis is increasing spending on education, which he is to a very
large degree, combined with the bloated federal budget, it's a problem.
That's why we need to eliminate the Federal Department of Education.
I don't have a problem with states allocating funds.
They have the right to do that.
So of course his opponent... But can they come in with a crippling headache and press play on a DVD?
If they're a woman.
Okay.
His likely, speaking of which, his 2022 opponent, Nicky Freed, known by the common nomenclature.
Certain loser.
There's no way she stands a chance.
I wouldn't think so.
So she's the Liz Cheney.
She's the Liz Cheney of Liz Cheney's.
Of Liz Cheney's, right.
Basically.
I guess that's true.
Oh my god.
Said, uh, let me be clear.
We should not be lowering the bar for teachers in Florida.
There's a, there's a swipe at veterans.
Instead of paying teachers what they're worth and agreeing to stop politicizing their jobs.
It's not rocket science.
They always say this when they're about to say something that's really dumb.
It's not rocket science.
Hold on a second.
Are you about to say something that's really stupid?
Maybe it needs to be rocket science.
Yeah.
By the way, how are you teaching rocket scientists?
Teaching them about racial inequities?
Oh, thank God you guys are building our planes.
It's not rocket science.
We have a teacher shortage crisis because DeSantis has turned classrooms into battlegrounds to fight his culture wars and divide our states.
Lie!
Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie.
It's not true at all.
It's the opposite.
It's not true at all.
DeSantis increased teacher pay funding, in March, by the way, $250 million.
All references today, and I think this will be very useful for you going forward, or if you want to refute it, $250 million, right, in March.
All references are available at lotteriescrowder.com.
The pay for teachers in Florida increased from $40,000 to $47,000.
That makes Florida, that's the starting pay, to be clear.
Making Florida the ninth highest in the nation.
Starting pay.
You start your job at $47,000.
By the way, you don't have to work three months out of the year, and you get a lot of benefits.
Well, that's not a bad gig.
It's not a money thing.
People don't go into teaching for a lot of different reasons.
It's not just because of money.
Some of them do.
That's why they're complaining about the money.
That's the only reason some of them got in.
No, it's because this system is a bloated, failed system.
Why would you go work for a company that's going down?
Yeah.
Why would I throw my lot in with something that is failing?
Well, if people thought that way, we wouldn't have any federal employees.
Well, that's true.
Just a first day with a teacher.
I'm gonna be rich, I tell you.
Rich!
I'll just go do something else where I can have a chance to actually succeed.
Basically, it's an indoctrination factory.
And this is not a conspiracy theory.
Schools spend... Think about it as a parent.
You spend, what, 30 minutes with your kids in the morning before you send them off to school?
An hour?
You get them back in the afternoon if you work.
Maybe you get them back at 5 o'clock.
You spend a couple of hours before it's bedtime.
The school is spending two to three, maybe four times more time with your kids than you are as a parent.
Including bedtime if they're public school teachers.
Exactly.
They're not teaching them the things that they need to know.
You're not a fan of Drag Queen Story Hour 101?
Nope.
I'm not a fan of teaching them that everybody's a purple penguin and you can't say any of the other things that I can't say on YouTube right now so I don't get in trouble.
But you can't throw PTSD at these people, that's completely bull.
Especially when you're teaching a generation of people, they claim they have PTSD because somebody misgendered an owl.
Or the purple penguin.
And by the way, here's something else too.
I'm sorry, we're going to go a little bit because I want to get to why we don't need the Federal Department of Education, specifically the Teachers Union, but that's a good point.
The PTSD thing.
The left claims that they want mental health in this country.
The issue is you constantly politicize it.
Right?
There are plenty of people with PTSD who are entirely functioning individuals, and by the way, they shouldn't forfeit their right to a firearm.
There are plenty of people in this country who maybe have depression or bipolar disorder, and it should not disqualify them from their fundamental human rights.
The left will say, we need better mental health care in this country.
By the way, veterans, this could be a problem with them teaching kids.
By the way, oh, you took some Zoloft at one point?
You shouldn't be able to own a firearm.
Well, why do you think that men don't want to get help?
Because of this.
Because of these kinds of attacks that are taking place right now.
And you're absolutely right.
This is a problem.
Shame and anger.
Nothing helps the mentally ill better than that.
Let's toss on top of that divorce laws where you forfeit your rights and everything becomes public record like Johnny Depp, right?
Does any guy look at that and say, I won't have to go through that?
And nobody wants a turd in their bed?
Well, if you knew the endgame was them finding out your wife did that, I mean, maybe you'd go through.
But other than that, no.
Well, here's the two birds with one stone thing, too.
Vets, former police officers, firefighters, arm them.
Get them in schools so that they can protect kids if they want to and undergo special training to make sure that they're ready to answer the call.
Solved a lot of problems today.
That's absurd.
What we should do is not arm them.
Then once there's an active shooter scenario, send in the people who are armed.
To stand there and wait?
Retroactively.
With shields?
Well, not stand there and wait.
It's to push away the parents that are trying to get in.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
That's true.
Tackle them.
They watch Mystic River as a training manual.
So, alright.
Two people are going to understand that.
Well, I appreciated the reference.
It's pretty dark.
It's dark.
It's dark, but it's pretty accurate.
Yeah.
This is also something, by the way, like you mentioned, oh, they don't go in thinking they're going to be rich.
That's true.
But there are a lot of people who think that teaching is an easy path.
I think it's an easy path because they can go and make good money where they're comfortable, at some point get tenure maybe, at some point they end up with all of these benefits, they get put in a rubber room if they're completely incompetent as opposed to being fired.
There are a lot of people who don't seek to become incredibly wealthy, but they want to make significantly more than the national average, even if they're not very qualified.
They say, okay, what job doesn't require intense qualifications or performance reviews?
I know, teaching!
And I get three months off.
So, let's get to this now.
The Teachers Union.
Which is a problem.
Look at their political donations.
We've done a whole segment on that.
Randy Weingarten is the president of the American Federation of Teachers.
AFT for short.
I'm just saying it because I don't want to have to say this every time.
And by the way, you're about to see a clip.
It is exactly what you expect the president of the American Federation of Teachers to look like.
Picture the broad in your mind right now.
Okay.
Yes.
So, appeared on Yahoo Finance.
Just grimace.
To right now bemoan the current teacher shortage in America, here's the clip.
What you have is, you have a higher number of retirements this year.
It's like age Paul McCartney circle wings years.
It's Will Ferrell playing Janet Reno.
You have fewer people going into the profession.
You have a hot labor market where teachers can get 20% more for the skills and knowledge they have teaching in non-teaching jobs.
You have all of the pandemic stress and strain, particularly that kids are coming in with greater needs because of two years of disruption.
And, you know, not only have the conditions not really changed, but, you know, school districts and the federal government and others just, you know, pretend as if there was no pandemic.
And then you have all of the politics, the culture wars, the shaming and blaming, the banning of books, the censoring of curriculum.
So, you know, teachers are, you know, they wonder, and I'll give you an example.
So many teachers said to me, if a kid asked them a question after the Buffalo mass shooting, if they were in Florida or Texas, they didn't know whether they could answer the question that the shooter was a white supremacist.
Ah, there you go.
By the way, she's going to be pardoned at Thanksgiving.
Here's the thing that teachers do.
They act as though they're the only ones.
Okay?
They go, you know, no, we haven't, you know, the pandemic, which of course hasn't... You think you're the only ones who lived through that?
No, no, no.
The only difference is you're the only ones who got two years teaching from home.
Right?
Two years!
Let's take the short end of it.
A year and a half at most places.
So I've had three semesters, okay?
No, everyone else had to go to work.
We never got to stop work.
Comment below right now if you're- I want to hear from teachers below, public school teachers, private school teachers, and those who work in the private sector.
And does anyone actually buy this for a second, that this administration was- who didn't really acknowledge the pandemic?
Are you out of your trees-y?
By the way, when you claim that kids are coming back and they've had two years of disruption, who was protesting to make sure that they stayed home during this time?
The white supremacists who, by the way, don't want her teaching that the Buffalo shooter was white.
Hey, didn't something happen in Milwaukee?
What about Waukesha?
Can we teach the race of those people?
What about the vast majority of terrorist attacks?
All throughout the globe.
Can we use that?
By the way, I call BS on that.
I really do.
This is like one of those things I would have voted for if you had a penis, right, that we covered the other day.
This didn't happen, right?
It was obvious this was a white supremacist shooter.
There was no doubt that this guy was racist.
Right.
Right off the bat.
No teacher would have a problem, unless they're an idiot, answering that question for their kids.
Well, she wouldn't have a problem answering a question.
It's the time.
Well, I just think the two-year break was great for mental health and teaching our young to socialize.
Yeah, I think you're absolutely right because, look, we can't expect the true heroes to go back after two years when there's a slight cough remaining.
Hey, I'm wondering, I'm not going to quote it, but what was the death rate from zero to 19 from COVID to date?
I don't even want to say it, because YouTube could label it misinformation.
And by the way, of course, YouTube doesn't work in cahoots with the federal government in any capacity, who, by the way, do not have an undue beholdence, if that's a word, I know it's not, to teachers unions.
So let's go through the claims that are made.
Just in that video, it's a wave of just, I'm just awash with bullshit.
First claim.
That she makes.
Okay, and we'll play some other clips so you see it echoed.
This is what's being taught everywhere, and these people get all of your money, your taxpayer dollars, regardless of whether you agree with them or not.
It really is a beautiful sham.
One of the claims that teachers are not allowed, they're not free right now, to teach these controversial issues, meaning their bias, in the classroom.
This is the new cause du jour.
Here's another one talking It's very troubling time to be a teacher.
We are faced with Being asked to violate our own ethical position in that fact should be taught in our classrooms.
Tell me about your ethical position, Daria.
It's a face swap app, right?
And on the other side, we're being required to teach things that are factually inaccurate by omission.
So they're looking for us to avoid teaching things like the fact that the United States or the state of New Hampshire has had Systemic racism in its laws, in its culture, things that were enforced both legally and socially, and they have banned our ability to speak to those things with our students.
And the penalty for that is losing our teaching license.
Ah, okay, yes, because many people are losing their teaching licenses for being too liberal.
New Hampshire?
What, just watch Jaws?
They're like, I haven't seen a black mayor, Amity.
That's her claim.
Here's the truth.
Keep the school open.
Here's the truth.
Republican governors and conservatives across this country have, there's been backlash, and they've enacted laws precisely because teachers across the country have been pushing divisive, factually incorrect, far-left curriculum like critical race theory.
Let me give you a few examples.
We've done entire segments on this.
I'm sure you can hit a link in the description along with all the references.
In Oregon, schools pushed, I just forgot, I remember this term, it always makes me laugh before I go into a blind rage, ethnomathematics.
What, what, oh, oh, mathematics.
Ethno-mathematics.
Ethno-mathematics to undo white supremacy in math.
Yes, no, they're being fired.
They're being fired for 99.9% of their donations going to Democrats.
You're not being fired for being a blue dog moderate Democrat.
You're teaching ethno-mathematics.
It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of in my life.
Shouldn't it be a beautiful thing that math is completely blind?
Yeah.
Largely because it's on a paper.
It has no eyes.
Can we just use calculators, please?
What?
I don't want to bring anything to a screeching halt.
Uh, what?
Yeah.
What is ethnomathematics?
It's about mathematics and something something something racism.
Yes, white supremacy.
So like white supremacy plus two equals doubly bad?
Equals give me more money.
Well Dave, paper is white and you do math on paper.
Well, that's why I use white pencil.
I don't know if I buy it though because you're technically dominating a white paper with a black sharpie.
So the point is it evens out.
I feel that way too.
In Decatur, Georgia, the district's equity plan encourages teachers to quote, normalize racial equity.
The list goes on and on and on and on.
If you have references that you can come, you can go and read or come to LettersCredit.com and read them.
We make them all publicly available.
So the lady on that clip, I just want to make this very clear.
The problem that they have with you is that you're teaching that systemic racism existed.
The problem isn't that you point out specific instances of racism and say... Well, hold on a second.
I need to correct you.
You said, of course, systemic racism existed.
What you mean is existing now in New Hampshire.
Yeah, exactly.
Right?
So just pointing that out and saying like, oh, it's no, it's still now.
All the laws that we have are racist and that's what's holding you back.
Not pointing out systems that maybe had some racist tendencies to begin with and now have been corrected.
Well I have to correct something because I did a change my mind.
I said there is no systemic racism.
Changed my mind.
I was wrong.
There are systemically racist laws.
Like what you just saw in Minneapolis.
Exactly.
Where they're going to fire white teachers.
I would say that's systemically racist.
Accessing them.
Yes.
But I thought we were supposed to pull down statues and pretend racism didn't happen.
I didn't know excess was a verb.
It didn't happen but we'll make it happen now.
Is that a verb?
Then is now.
Oh, now it makes no sense.
So, and by the way, let's not forget the attempts to sexualize young children, which I'm sure you're well aware of, but you know, hey, look.
Sorry, not the laughing at that part.
Just take a look, it's on a cock, I'm reading Rainbow.
I can touch anything.
It's a magic school bus, just me and you.
I knew I should have stayed home today!
Look it, I'm making myself disappear in you.
There's a disproportionate number of teachers, for as much as people go after the Catholic Church, and by the way, they should go after the clergy when these gross abuses happen, and they're covered up.
Happens far more often in public schools, sexual abuse of children.
Happens a lot.
Alright, here's another truth for you.
Okay, she talks about the shortage.
And we've discussed this before.
The shortage here, the teacher shortage, largely, and this is in the original article on Yahoo.
It's in liberal and West Coast states.
Now let me explain to you why that matters.
This is from that Yahoo article where you saw that original video of Randy Weingarten.
Bon Jovi.
Yes.
The states struggling to find teachers the most are mainly near the West Coast with the top five being California, Nevada, Washington, Arizona, and Hawaii.
So think about this for a second.
If we're talking, let's all, can we all acknowledge, of course, that public teachers lean left as a demographic, okay?
And I'm not just talking about the union that gives all of their money to Democrats.
No, it's fair, yeah.
But the vast majority of public school teachers Or liberal white bitches, okay.
Now, where would a liberal white woman, which is the typical or liberal white man or liberal black woman, a public school teacher, where do you think they would be more happy in general?
In a place like California?
In a school district in, let's say, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Bakersfield, take your pick?
Or ultra-right Christian rural Oklahoma?
Yet, Yet, yet, these teachers are leaving in higher numbers from liberal states, where the kinds of laws that they're complaining about are not being enacted at all.
As a matter of fact, their curriculum is being encouraged to be more progressive.
And by that I mean racist.
So, this is the question.
We have a teacher shortage.
It shouldn't be happening in California.
It shouldn't be happening in Washington.
It shouldn't be happening in Hawaii.
Now, what's the solution here?
Let's find some common ground.
Do you remember the Fairness Doctrine?
I do.
OK.
So the Fairness Doctrine, it was something that was a while back, and I think what was happening, it was abolished in 87, I believe.
But they tried to bring it back with, you remember Air America, it was this failed left-wing AM radio.
This is what happened, the modern iteration of Fairness Doctrine.
It's been going on for a long time.
But because the left wasn't happy having ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and all of FM radio, they saw someone like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Fox News, they saw it as a threat.
Oh my god, you can't do that because you're kicking our asses!
So we need to enact a law where you have to provide exactly equal time on the news.
If you provide a conservative point of view, you have to provide a liberal point of view.
Now, of course, what was wrong with this is they thought that people like Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Brian Williams were my god journalists, so they wouldn't have to balance themselves out.
But someone like Rush Limbaugh will then have to provide just as much time with a liberal point of view, even though he's basically a radio op-edsman.
So that was the Fairness Doctrine.
It was absurd, of course, as it relates to broadcasting.
The federal government should have no say in what you broadcast, okay?
That should be left up to the individual broadcasting companies.
However, as it relates to teaching here, If you're complaining that you cannot teach children that the Buffalo Shooter was a white supremacist, how about we have some kind of a fairness doctrine in schools?
You want to teach ethno-mathematics?
Okay.
You also have to teach that the evil white Western European nations ended slavery and created the electricity and modern educational system that you enjoy.
That sounds fair.
Just give some equal time!
Yeah.
You want to teach that we have slavery here in this country?
Of course you can.
Of course you should.
It's a black dot.
You have to teach who sold those slaves.
And that they still are selling slaves.
How about that?
Are you saying teach facts?
I'm saying teach, even if you want to give opinion, give both sides of it.
So how about, is that something we could do?
A fairness doctrine for education?
Why should it apply to Sean Hannity's AM radio show and not to the people who spend eight hours a day with your kids?
Comment below.
Does that seem like something we can all be on board with?
I am.
I'd vote for you.
If you're going to teach Buffalo, teach Waukesha.
Also, while we're at it, teach the empirical.
Crime statistics.
Break them up by race.
Yeah.
Okay.
So here's another claim that they make, and this is, again, why we need to defund the Federal Department of Education.
And this is going to be rough, so I warn you guys, just don't let your rage get the better of you.
The teachers, and you heard it before, and I'll play another clip so you know it's not just one lone shitwolf, teachers felt unsafe because of COVID.
After 16 years, Tracy Riggs is saying goodbye to the classroom.
This letter is what she turned in after school and a decision she said she had to make.
No circumstance should it be okay that our kids are getting sick.
In no circumstance should this be okay.
Did you get sick at your meth house?
You're a piece of... Please do!
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shouldn't have to be scar in this day and age.
I shouldn't be afraid because no one's supporting me right now.
This is the problem right here.
I shouldn't have to be scared?
Guess what?
We can't control your irrational fears.
Did you listen to that story?
Did you listen to that story?
The problem was, one of the students, I believe, I can't remember if it was a student or a teacher, one of the students tested and then came into school before realizing that the test was positive.
Which means that this is such a deadly pandemic for children, the kid didn't even know he had it!
And you're huddling under the bed, like it's where the wild things are.
For Chri- It's not my responsibility to make sure that you're not afraid.
You're an adult!
And here's the truth, objectively.
That's just opinion.
Objectively, public school teachers, you all know this, I don't even feel like I need to provide a reference, had far more absurd precautions, time, coddling away from school, Zoom calls, and they didn't want to come back because they could do their job without pants, which they often do in classrooms anyway, so long as there are no cameras running.
Yeah, Gerald.
I love it.
So she's saying that she's immunocompromised, and that's a real thing.
I understand that.
But you're working in a school being immunocompromised.
It doesn't take COVID-19 for you to have a problem.
Yeah, it's like working in the preemie ward and you find babies gross.
Yeah, it's like, ah, I need to probably remove myself from the situation.
But by the way, unless we jumped into the DeLorean and went to the future, that video was actually shot last September.
If I remember correctly, we had a vaccine and several booster shots available by that time that she could have taken and availed herself of if she wanted to keep said teaching job.
Yeah, you can four-boost yourself into testing positive like Jill Biden.
Or what she could do, this is the best thing, you can come into the real world where we didn't get the opportunity to close down because of COVID because by God we can't take two years off and stay in business like public schools and still be under threat of getting COVID, being immunocompromised.
There is no safe space.
I'm sorry, that's not how the world works.
Hey, by the way, you could just get COVID like everyone did.
Hey, guys, careful how you talk to the real heroes.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, I shouldn't have said that.
I hope you don't get COVID.
No.
Because chances are there's no kid at school that did the exact same thing.
Right.
Yeah, exactly.
Just go somewhere else.
No one handed you an apple that the entire classroom had licked.
Licked it.
Yes.
Look, if you want to argue if white privilege is real or not, you just saw it.
Yeah.
No, I think you're absolutely right.
Not in the way you expect it, right, but still, that is at least a first world privilege.
Well, it's white female privilege for sure.
I shouldn't have to go to work scared.
Oh, oh, oh, sorry, yeah, unlike the non-hero, you're a real hero, you don't want to go to work scared, unlike the non-heroes who are, you know, in trenches.
Who could die when they go to work.
Oh, I'm the real hero, I don't want to go, I shouldn't, look, I shouldn't ever have to be scared.
I want tenure.
So here's my solution.
You're getting shot at.
You're like, I think I feel a chill.
Yeah, exactly.
They're not coughing because of a virus.
They're coughing because they're inhaling gunpowder and the sweet smell of mustard gas.
We need to find Private Ryan.
He's got a cold.
Yes.
Patient zero.
Just walk up to the porch to deliver the news.
Here's his nasal afrin.
My God.
Don't send him here.
Don't send him back.
I have chores to do!
Is he wearing a mask?
Tom Hanks at the end, instead of shooting his colt for it, shooting his .45 at a tank, he's just putting on a mask.
He needs his mask!
Burn this!
Okay.
You know what, he was a teacher.
Yeah, he was.
He was a real hero when he was at home.
When he went to, you know, he was just a pussy.
I shouldn't have to be scared, guys!
They're shooting!
They're shooting at us, guys!
Back home, I'm a hero!
Out here, I'm just a pansy, guys!
Okay.
Here's a solution.
This one's easy.
Fire teachers who won't fall in line with reasonable precautions, similar to what every other industry has had to take.
Why do we allow this bubble to exist of public school teachers?
Where there's a different standard that applies to them and we act as though they're the real heroes and, oh my gosh, I can't believe, we can't expect them to work, you know, two months out of the summer or Christmas.
Oh my gosh, we can't expect them to take work home.
Everybody else does all of those things!
It's like, guys, are you making less than the national average?
No, we're making more.
Oh, is your job performance better than the national average for people?
No, it's really bad.
People talk about it.
They throw money at us constantly and we still do a worse job.
You are snippy today, Gerald.
I like it.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves.
The public education system and teachers that go out there and do crappy jobs.
There's some good teachers, that's fine.
The system that you're in absolutely sucks and needs to be dismantled down to the studs.
Completely gone.
I'm tired of teachers complaining and then doing stuff like this.
And by the way, Excess the hell out of them.
I'll use your term just to make sure that you guys understand.
The reason that we don't fire them is because of teachers unions and tenure.
Tenure is a crappy policy that should be ended.
Sorry.
Yep.
No, I think you're absolutely right.
Which brings us to... That's good.
You're foreshadowing.
Oh, there we go.
Good.
Good for you, Mr. Steinbeck.
Sorry about that.
It's another claim that they're making.
That teachers need higher wages and they'll make a verifiably false claim because your instinct is to, oh, teachers aren't paid enough.
You're wrong.
They say that pay has not gone up enough and they actually lie about it.
Here's another person.
That's a weird way to phrase it.
Your fears are not real.
That's a weird way to phrase it.
Their salaries have fallen compared to workers with similar levels of education and experience.
Your fears are not real.
It's a phenomenon researchers call the teacher pay gap.
And it's grown from about 3% in the mid-90s to a record high of almost 19% in 2017.
What we saw was a lot of teachers being laid off during the recession across the country.
And in many places, those funds have never been reinstituted or upped.
So when you have tight labor markets like we do now, and you start to see wages grow in the broad private sector, we'll see teacher pay getting worse.
Well thanks for the expert advice, Skinny Drew Carey.
I love how they say, their fears are grounded in reality.
Like you know someone had a talk with them beforehand.
Someone's like, come on now, this isn't reality.
It's grounded in reality!
I'm not going to do a voiceover that says just that!
These are grounded in reality.
Just say like, their fears about pay.
This is someone who obviously knows what the counter-argument is about to be.
And by the way, put on your mouth guards so this tin can I'm about to kick doesn't hit you in the teeth because here comes the truth!
When prorated to an annual salary taking into account all the benefits, teachers make very decent pay.
And by the way, if you're watching right now and you make about average pay here in the United States, teachers make more than you.
Significantly more than you.
Not saying they're rich.
They're not Scrooge McDuck.
They make good money.
So, let's look at what their actual salary is.
The average salary for a teacher right now.
Average salary.
Okay, we just gave you starting pay in Florida.
Starting pay plus benefits $47,000.
Average salary for a teacher right now in the United States is $65,000.
$6590 is what I have here.
Let's compare that to United States non-teacher national average.
$58,200.
Okay, now that's just salary to salary.
That's an actual teacher salary.
We haven't paraded anything yet.
Nothing.
Average United States teacher works 180 days a year.
Compared to non-teachers, remember how I talked about that?
There's the rest of the country, and then public teachers, 180 days a year?
To everyone else, 240 days a year.
It's not even close.
They're making more money for far less work.
But some of them have to buy pencil cases!
I don't give a shit!
Take some of the extra $7,000 that you're making for the, what, 80 less days per, 60 less days per year.
I'm sure you can find something somewhere for your felt caterpillar on your desk.
Isn't it a write-off?
Yes!
Yes, it is.
By the way, in your summer job, you can probably make, I don't know, the $75 you spend.
Ah!
I would have to work two jobs!
No, no, no, no, no.
No, we're not suggesting that you work two jobs.
We're suggesting that when your job stops for two months, you work a job.
You're still only working one job.
Or don't.
And don't complain.
And just take your $65,000 a year and shut up!
I'd rather you say thank you.
I just wouldn't.
Maybe you just steal some pencils on break.
Maybe a couple of sharpeners?
Go to a bunch of hotels?
Just take pens off desks?
Well, today you'd take iPads, so it'd be a nice little side hustle.
You can comment if you, like, do you actually believe this?
Have you actually believed that teachers are not being paid?
So if you prorate their salary, take it from 180 days a year and just have them working the average amount of days, 240, which by the way seems low to me, where we work here in this show, in this business, it would be $94,000 a year.
Wow.
$94,000 a year.
If you were to prorate it, if they were to work all year and be paid for the months that they don't work, $94,000 a year.
And by the way, in Texas, and I think in Dallas, but certainly in Texas, there have been billboards popping up all over the place showing teacher salaries up to $102,000 per year.
Dang!
No one goes into teaching for the money.
Hey, let me ask you this.
If you were in a career path where you were making the average salary of most Americans at $58,000 per year, do you think that $102,000 might cause you to reconsider it just because of money?
Because that's an issue that we run into with people going into teaching.
Not all, some do go in for the money.
And some do go in for the benefits.
And for, not just that, but most importantly, the lack of pressure.
Yeah, stability too.
Yes.
I mean, it's a very stable job, and like they were doing in Florida, a lot of states have programs where you can get your master's degree and have it fully paid for by the schools.
Like, this is a pretty good deal.
Yes.
For a lot of people.
And by the way, in that Texas thing, 102 was the top, 60 was the bottom.
60,000 was the entry point in that article that they were talking about, which is above what the median wage is in the United States, or the average.
The average wage, yeah.
Significantly above.
Crazy.
Oh, only 60,000, and I get, what do I get?
I get July, and I get August, and December, okay.
You voted for the inflation.
Yeah, well, that's another that little chart that they showed that is based on reality Here's the truth.
Okay truth number two.
No, it's not so spending on education in the last decade Well decades, but certainly the last decade Let's use the last two decades as an example because you can go back forever and just see I mean, that's all of government, right?
They don't really slash anything once it's in it's in you're golden your aces and then it only increases so the spending with education is increased dramatically Wow Where's the money going, Miss Union President, who you know has teacher fat?
You know what I mean, when they go on the chalkboard and it's this thing?
Oh no.
Oh yeah, and it just erases everything?
Yes, exactly.
She's writing the equation on the wall and it's gone by the time she puts the chalk down.
So since 2000, the Department of Education, their spending has increased by, by, take a guess, take a guess, take a guess, pause this right now if you're watching.
If you're watching live, you can't.
It's bad.
Hit the like button, by the way, because this number is going to surprise you.
So hit the like button now.
Take a pause.
Double it.
Since 2000, they said, which is based in reality, teacher pay has gone...
Since 2000, spending has increased by 678%.
Well, that looks like a line that goes up.
Where is the money going?
Well, that's a good question.
Let's check into the unions.
By the way, states like California, in I believe that same period of time, they've also increased spending by $128 billion.
New York, $65 billion.
So, lots and lots of money federally, and then of course from the state.
Teacher pay is going down, budget's going down.
No, that's not really true.
Now, it's not all going to the teachers.
Because it often goes to the union, just like the UAE, when you look at why you spend so much for an American car that is often a pile of crap, while you're paying for three workers, three retirees, for every worker who's not actively working because of the union benefits.
Go ahead, you were about to say something there, Gerald?
No?
Okay.
No, no, I'm sorry.
I thought you were!
No, no, I was looking at the money and I was just floored by how much money we're spending on it because we've thrown trillions of dollars over the last decades.
I've heard numbers that are pretty high, I don't know exactly how many trillions of dollars, and the line that went up just a minute ago on how much we're spending, Yeah, the test score line does the exact opposite.
It goes down.
So we're spending more money and getting less for our money.
When you give people a bunch of money with no performance incentives or no metrics they have to meet to keep their job, because that would be cruel to the true heroes, they tend to do a shitty job.
I will give no credence to the argument that teachers are the real heroes and they're underpaid.
Now, if you're a good teacher and there are some fantastic teachers, I think you deserve to be paid much more.
Exactly.
I think you should be able to make six figures if you're an amazing teacher.
Well, there already are.
At least in Texas.
Well, you absolutely should be able to.
No, I think it would be great.
How about we have just performance-based systems across the board where you can truly make tons of money because you're that good at teaching.
Right.
You don't want to get into your class.
So let me go through.
What do we have here?
The claims it's teachers felt unsafe because of COVID.
Okay, well, that's complete bullcrap.
We know that.
They said that they're not allowed to teach their social agenda.
Of course, they actually are allowed to teach their social agenda.
They say that teachers' wages aren't going up enough.
That's complete bullcrap, and they're saying that the amount of spending on education isn't enough.
Okay, we know that's not true.
Let's get to another one, because this is a very common one that you hear, and I believed for a long time, until I did some slight reading.
The claim that they make is that smaller class sizes are needed, needed, because it impacts, that's one of the most important metrics as it relates to student performance.
Now, I'm not saying it doesn't matter at all, But what this really means is take the class, divide it by two, more money please, more money please, here's their claim.
I have 25 students.
Around 30.
34 children.
Over 30 kids.
33.
34.
38.
Was that a kid?
Must be an apprentice.
Schools have roughly 15 to 30 percent more students than the rest of the state.
Large classes lead to chaotic learning environments and overstressed students and teachers.
By the way, did they just say it was 20-something students?
Yeah, one of them was like... For crying out loud, that was not large for my class where I went and I was in public schools in Canada.
Not long ago, it was well into the 30s.
I was surprised.
They were like, oh, we have to teach.
We have 22 kids in it.
That's like a little house in the prairie schoolhouse.
That's not really that severe.
No, and the girl leaning against the locker, where was that filmed?
The Beverly Hills High?
Yes, exactly.
No one has ever sat like that in a high school.
You get trampled.
That's just negative attention all around.
And they're like, I have these many students.
Yeah, but you were scared because a student had a positive COVID test, so... I mean, but is that the reason that you're doing a poor job teaching?
Good, that's the important... Now we're asking the right question, because here's the truth.
And John Stossel actually did a segment on this a while back.
Okay, it's false.
Okay, the truth is they're wrong.
It's not the most important metric.
It's not even that important of a metric, because we look at it in a bubble where we look at public schools and we go, oh
the smaller classes in public schools do better than the larger classes in public schools, but they
still suck because it's all public schools. So you have to compare it to non-public schools
and there was a study done specifically, I believe it was in New York, we
It's from the Heritage Foundation.
Catholic schools especially outperformed public schools.
And they had much larger class sizes.
They outperformed them by a significant amount of metrics that they met.
Particularly like math.
And by the way, black students in Catholic schools did better in math than black students in smaller class sizes in public schools.
So this is actually a quote from that study.
Catholic schooling in Washington, D.C.
had a greater effect on students than decreasing class size.
They did it with 10 more kids on average in the classroom.
And by the way, 52% of the kids in those schools were not even Catholic.
So I know what you're hearing.
You're going like, Catholic school?
I'm not Catholic.
But if I were in New York City, I would consider putting my kid in a Catholic school.
The Catholic schools did something right.
They were far more effective for inner-city children.
You want to help?
Instead of teaching black kids that all white people are racist and today they have to deal with white supremacy, how about you go send them to learn under some white nuns for a bit and they'll learn that you're full of crap.
Right.
So this is Washington, D.C.
is where they got that from.
And by the way, guess who spends just about the most in the country?
I think it's in the top five per pupil?
Yeah.
On public schools?
Washington, D.C.
I don't know.
Technically, they're not a state.
Well, I don't think there's anything crazy about a statistic what they're going for.
If you teach any kid individually, which is why people have tutors and after class they pay for, there's no surprise there because you're finding what that kid learns.
I mean, you and I have talked about this.
I didn't learn in the same way that other kids did.
Right.
So when I learned about audio video and I had a teacher that actually took time to like show me everything with editing, A+.
Right.
But it was something that I had interest in and that wasn't the other teacher's fault, but it was something, oh, I like this.
It was the system's fault.
Right.
Yeah.
And once they find that thing in you that makes you want to do something and they they figure that out and some teachers are able to do that with an entire class, which is incredible.
Yeah.
It's I do feel it's kind of few and far between at this point.
You're absolutely right.
That's right, and here's a big reason why.
You didn't not learn correctly.
You learned, and this is the big problem that nobody wants to talk about, you learned as a boy learns.
And we just saw it with how many people did we just see saying, my classroom is too big, I shouldn't be expected to go to school and be scared.
The public education system, I didn't go through public education, I did, but that's not why I lisped.
It was just, my mouth got dry.
I thought you needed to speak.
The public educational system is largely designed by women and certainly today there's undue influence from women and they try to teach everyone to learn in the way that little girls learn.
Study after study after study shows that little boys don't learn sitting in a classroom listening to a teacher.
It's why, look, this is one thing that people used to say when you were kids, that girls are smarter.
No, boys are smarter.
The truth, here's the truth, okay?
Girls do better in school, absolutely.
They do better in school, particularly grade school, high school.
Boys, young men, blow them away on the SATs.
Why is that?
Because now they have an individual tutor, they can study at their own pace, they can learn in the appropriate way that they learn.
Public education is designed for young girls, and even then it's not very good.
Particularly if you look at private schools, you look at even options like Montessori schools, Christian schools, this is where since they are not beholden to a social engineering curriculum, they can actually spend time with students, regardless of class size, and develop more effective ways of teaching students.
And you see that gap close?
Particularly with young boys and men because we all know that boys don't learn by sitting with their hands folded.
That's why boys like gym and they like shop.
And I liked media studies where we got to cut together videos.
That was my favorite class.
I didn't want to sit there and listen to some guy teach history.
Have you tried to learn Canadian history?
No, nobody would like it.
It's the worst!
Snow.
It is so boring.
You know how here in the States you had a Revolutionary War?
Yeah.
Remember, that's kind of a big deal.
You know what they did to you in Canada?
We said, alright.
And we put the Queen on our money!
You could have joined forces with us.
Well, I had that, automotive, and art.
And I loved all three of them.
Those were the ones that were very, you know, hands-on.
I'm showing you how this works.
Everything is not for every kid.
I'm not saying that they shouldn't necessarily learn the basics.
They should.
But it goes beyond that to where it's like, look, I'm not going to comprehend algebra.
I never will.
Stop trying to make me.
Once you throw in letters, I'm like, this is not math.
I'm not dyslexic.
I just don't like learning this from an angry lesbian.
No, you're yelling at me.
Yes.
You know what the Catholic school also did?
They set expectations and they spent the entire time telling them that they could do it.
That you are not a victim unless you're an altar boy.
You were not a victim.
You were absolutely able to go forward and solve these problems.
And if they don't, they hit you with a ruler.
They give them incentive there too.
Yeah, they were still a little abusive when I was there, but it was still more verbal.
You deserved it.
No, he's talking about private Catholic schools like Washington DC.
No, when I was like real young I went, but not when I was in high school.
Well, I went to public school in Quebec, which was Catholic school.
You guys do the math, because it was a state religion there, so that's also a problem, First Amendment.
Okay, let me give you a solution here, and this one's really, really simple.
I've never heard an effective counter-argument against it.
If you have one, comment below.
I talked with Kerry Lake, future governor of Arizona, most likely, about this.
So it's a very simple solution. And this is really the most important solution,
student vouchers. You fund the student, not the school.
Right now, you've seen the increase in spending 670-something percent since 2000. You've seen the
increase in teacher pay. It's not working.
You've seen the test results go down. So we have a system that says you live in this district,
you go to this school, and the teacher gets this amount of money no matter what.
That system, it can't work. It couldn't work anywhere else in business. Let's just change
that. Let's average out how much money we spend right now on public education. Particularly,
let's do it on a state-by-state basis because we need to defund the Department of Education,
the Federal Department of Education. You say, let me round it, $15,000 per student. Okay,
let's say that's what it is. Instead of saying, we put $15,000 into this municipal school and
you have no choice, hey, you've got a $15,000 credit that you can take to any school you want.
I can't understand why we wouldn't do that with the exception of one reason, the unbelievable influence of the Teachers Union Lobby.
What's going on right now?
CNN is covering this right now.
The teachers.
Let's see what they... Teachers and bus driver shortages.
Well, you know what, that's the DUIs.
wise. Let's see what they say.
Teachers talk about low pay. You've heard them talk about going out in stress.
I love doing this show live.
The bus drivers across the country. Connecticut starting 1,000 bus drivers down. Georgia starting
200 bus drivers down. In St. Louis, they're giving money to families for...
Right!
gas, they're giving money to older students for MetroCards.
In places like Alaska, they're only serving a third of the students for now.
So really scrambling here.
That's Alaska.
Everyone is scrambling and coming up with their own kind of, yeah, their own ways of
trying to fix it in the short term.
It's good to see you, Ali.
It's been in chaos for years now.
Yeah, I just add it to the list.
Thank you.
Well, let's talk about this.
That was the most I don't like you other woman.
Right.
Yes.
Just go.
Hey, silly glasses!
Let's hear his expertise.
Jack Ruby?
Let's see what he goes through.
Let's see if he uses the things that we just addressed.
said to CNN that you had 1,300 vacancies for teachers. What does that number
translate to? Let's see what he goes to. Let's see if he uses the things that we just
addressed. Low teacher pay. Classroom size. Okay, thank you for having me and thank you
for doing this story.
This is critical for our children.
The impact here, with 92% of our classrooms filled with teachers, is that in our most underserved communities, where we have our neediest children, is where we may not have a certified licensed educator.
As I continue to say, we need to address this crisis of inequities and inequalities And in Vegas that just means everything that's off the strip.
Ron DeSantis came up with a solution, what's yours?
I hear you bitching, what's the solution?
came up with a solution. What's yours. What's the solution.
Teachers selling their prep adding an extra workload. So it's just really forcing us to find ways to provide a support
system for our our students.
We just had a law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis that... What do you got?
to hell in our office.
It's really the pipeline and how do we continue to get more students out of the higher ed
institutions to go into the classroom, to go into education because we...
What is...
I have not heard a single solution yet.
We just had a law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis that...
What do you got?
What do you got, Jesus?
And what he said is we're at the doorstep of a crisis.
And I was wondering, in your perspective, would you say you're at the doorstep of a crisis, or are you already there?
Is there flaming poop?
I believe we're there.
You know, here in Nevada, in Southern Nevada, we need 2,000 teachers just to keep up with attrition.
And our higher ed institutions here in Nevada, I've produced 900.
This is why I fell asleep in class all the time.
A fully staffed classroom since 1994.
Wow.
That's the thing I think I want to get to.
What about private schools?
What about charter schools?
What about those schools in your area?
Are they able to staff the schools?
Is it teacher pay?
Let's see.
I think it's a combination.
I think our teachers did an amazing job.
But not showing up for two years.
Bullshit!
You closed!
They were in Vegas?
went through COVID, you know, business is closed. Our educators flipped.
Bullshit! You closed!
Construction to really provide all my You're from Vegas?
We were not trained for. So in a matter of a weekend, our educators did amazing work. Not perfect, but did the best
they could and spent two years
They had two years!
rhetoric, I think is the conversation we need to have about this profession.
When we really look at the working conditions, we are addressing some things that have a great relationship and partnership with our teachers union.
Okay, so he just did COVID.
We've already gone through it.
COVID.
That's complete bullcrap.
There's a disparity from what you had to do, what we had to do, versus what teachers did.
They had it easier than absolutely anybody.
Let's see if he gets to teach or pay.
There you go.
Oh, bonuses!
raise it at the end also as well for retention.
And use some of the federal dollars to give some retention bonuses.
Very, very innovative and strategic thinking here.
But we have to be able to raise more.
Well, here's the thing.
He says retention bonuses because he can't fire the bad teachers.
Let's just give retention bonuses on top.
So they need more money.
So they can still pay the bad teachers more than you make on average in the United States.
But then we need more money for the good teachers.
How about you get rid of the bad teachers, period.
Then you don't need so many teachers.
And now we need to address class size.
We need to address... CLASS SIZE!
Oh my god!
We just went through this!
This is how predictable the left's playbook is.
Please, right now, if you... Share the show, if you can.
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We make them publicly available.
I will go through right now the exact claims that we went through.
Let me just rattle them off.
We had teachers aren't allowed to teach their values in the classroom, right?
They're being strangled.
Okay.
We had teacher pay hasn't gone up enough.
We had classroom sizes are too large.
And we had that teachers are afraid because of COVID that they weren't treated fairly.
This guy just used all of them.
Every single one has been rebutted.
Now, you may want to rebut a rebuttal, but he's just starting at the first branch.
He's not even two steps in.
This is how lazy the left is.
This is how dumb they think you are.
No one's going to sit there and ask him, oh, what do you mean?
No, teacher pay has gone up a lot.
Public education has gone up by 678%.
Somebody in the edit bay right now, guys, look up, I want to see what is the average teacher salary in Nevada.
If you can drill down to Clark County, I don't know if that stat's available.
I want to know what they're getting paid.
By the way, we have some history with Clark County.
By the way, Clark County, guess what?
That's where all the casinos are.
If you're telling me you can't make enough money off of taxes on casinos to fund your schools, I don't want to hear it.
Yeah, they didn't close their casinos.
Just close the tribal casinos.
Yeah, there's blow-your-brains-out-at-the-table money there.
Right, there really is.
It's the one place where nothing... I knew some people who got COVID and quarantined, hand to God, at the Bellagio.
So they can go play craps at night.
Also, I was once at the Orleans, and this is true, me and my friend Derek, and a guy was eating a chili dog and it fell off onto the slot machine and he kept going like this and then still eating it.
Yeah.
Yeah, you don't worry about COVID in Vegas.
No, you don't.
And that was one of the cleanest things happening in that casino.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, that's the thing with Vegas.
I mean, it's supposed to be what happens in Vegas.
That's not true either.
Not like they need to extradite you.
Dave, by the way, you were at the Orleans.
Yeah, well, public education show.
I mean, still, though.
Yeah, let's, before we leave, get the Clark County or get the Nevada average pay.
Or we can do it behind the paywall if we need to.
I would like for people to see this live right now, because as much as I know that can seem boring, look, we just went through this.
We spent an hour going through this piece by piece, point by point, and then CNN Does a five, whatever, ten minute segment.
There's no one there, there's no one sitting there who's going to say, hold on a second, teacher pay has gone up.
There's no one who's going to say, well, hold on a second, it's not really class size, because let's be honest, a lot of these private schools and Catholic schools, for example, there have been studies that show the class size is not the primary driver.
No one's going to sit there and say, well, hold on a second, you said that businesses shut down, but you didn't.
That's actually not really true.
Businesses were shut down for a far shorter amount of time.
And by the way, they were not being entirely subsidized by the federal government doing everything through Zoom for two years.
No one's going to say that.
They're going to say, oh yeah, we absolutely need more money.
Oh, because you're the true heroes.
They're not going to address the fact that Governor DeSantis just, he said there's a shortage.
Governor DeSantis just created a new pipeline.
You may not like it because you don't want veterans to find work, but guess what?
At least it's something.
It's a start and it's killing two birds with one stone.
They will never address the reality.
These are such tired talking points.
Yeah.
That anyone who uses them at this point either is completely lazy and uninformed and assumes you are the same or is lying to you.
I don't know that guy, so I won't assume he's lying, but I know that he's wrong.
Do we have the teacher pay?
Yeah, this is from Glassdoor.
This is 1,100 salaries.
Jeez!
68,000.
68,000.
That's 69,000.
In Clark County?
Yeah, Clark County.
That's the median salary.
69,000!
Based on 1,100 salaries that people input.
So that's not even the average.
That's the median.
From what I'm seeing.
I can't see the chart there, but that would typically be... It ranges from $50,000 to $101,000.
Oh.
So, the lowest, meaning when you start teaching, $50,000, that's your start pay.
That's your start pay in Clark County.
Start paying!
There's a lot of good places to squat there, too.
Yes.
Oh my gosh.
Really, if you just get a place at Circus Circus, you can live for free.
Yes, exactly.
Just make sure you're ready for the metal detectors, but they're easy to beat.
Start is $45,000.
That's in the possible range, but I just saw that Jesus Yara guy that we just saw, he just Um, he just made some changes that changed it from $45,000 to $50,000.
$50,000 to start.
You know what you have to have?
You have to have a four-year degree.
You can get that online right now, right?
So this is not like you have to be a rocket scientist.
I hate to use that again, but this is not what we're saying.
You have to have a four-year degree.
You can get it online without even taking classes.
That's true as well.
I'm an ordained minister.
Me too.
I've done three weddings.
Then you have to pass a subject-specific exam.
That's all we're talking about, and you get $50,000 a year to do that.
It's the self-important bull— Look, does anyone here believe that the most qualified people to teach are people who studied teaching in college?
Is that what you actually believe, or do you know people?
Have you known people throughout your lives who are good teachers?
I had a tutor— I never cracked open a math book my senior year.
It was a senior year exam in Quebec, around Montreal, where we grew up, the South Shore School Board.
And, uh, our district.
And everyone failed.
It was something like 70-something percent failed this government exam.
And I passed!
I was, like, the top five in my class!
And I only had, like, a 75 percent.
I didn't do that well.
I never opened a math textbook because I had an awful teacher.
Nice guy.
Guy named Mr. Lovell.
Was a nice man.
A very, very nice man.
I liked his company very much.
But I had him my senior year.
I had him my junior year.
My brother had him his senior year.
My brother had him his junior year.
And guess what?
So did Johnny Boy.
He had him before my brother.
This guy taught all of the math classes for your last two years of high school, and no one passed.
He was the worst teacher that I've ever seen in my life.
Everyone failed, and when it came time to the government exam at the end of the year, a good year.
A good year!
would be 60-something percent of his graduating class actually passed the standardized test.
So my senior year, after having him for an entire year, I said, you know what?
I'm not even going to open my math textbook because I'm not going to learn anything.
He sits around.
He would literally sit around doing a dance.
He would give you homework.
He'd come and he'd correct the homework, and he was usually wrong.
And so I said, I'm going to go to a tutor.
This guy named Mr. Peters.
He was from Trinidad and Tobago.
He used to talk about cricket.
Most boring sport I can possibly imagine.
But he wasn't a teacher.
I did eight sessions with him.
Eight one-hour sessions, and I passed my math exam.
Wow.
An entire year!
Really?
Two years.
with Mr. Lovell. Nice man, I want to be clear. I don't want people to think that he was just not
a good teacher. Nice man. Two years, eight one-hour sessions, and I guarantee you that's
not atypical. I guarantee you plenty of you right now spent time with a tutor and you actually
learned something. You don't need a degree in teaching. You just need to be passionate about
actually imparting wisdom into children. And guess what? A lot of these teachers aren't. A lot of
these teachers are not. We want to assume that they are, but they are not. They see your children
as an opportunity to indoctrinate. Many of them, not all of them, are miserable pricks.
And they have no business being around your kids.
Personally and professionally, they suck at their job.
So let's just do this.
Fund the student, not the schools.
We've been doing this the same way for a very long time.
It hasn't worked.
Nothing's improved.
They're saying, more money, please, more money, please, more money, please.
I've just given you four different potential solutions, all of which have been proposed by either a governor or some type of a senator.
So these are not things that are completely off the reservations.
These are proposals that have been made for a very long time.
Let's try it differently.
How about that?
Just try it differently instead of being a fool or a synonym for that is a public school teacher.
We're going to go to Mug Club here and talk about the games diss track of Eminem.
Ooh, that's going to be fun.
Can't talk about that here.
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