Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3103 - The Scott Adams School 02⧸26⧸26

00:00:00.000 awesome i see lang good morning first again yes good morning you guys look at how beautiful you

00:00:14.160 guys look today look how cute bookish is oh you dressed up for me oh i thought that was for me

00:00:22.880 okay oh for ever maybe for cory i mean i would get dressed up for cory i'm a fan of cory's for a long

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00:00:37.280 oh you guys come on in we have a great show for you today we're gonna let everyone come in i see

00:00:44.020 people still parking and running in and um we're gonna have such a good conversation with cory

00:00:51.480 deangelis today you guys about school choice and your favorite of mine randy weingarten

00:00:57.140 and teachers unions and where's your tax money going for schools and where should it go 0.57

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00:02:00.180 cheers you guys so for those of you that might be new or joining us for the first time

00:02:07.780 my name is erica and this is uh the scott adams school and it's separate from coffee with scott adams

00:02:15.560 which still lives and exists on this channel and there's thousands of hours of amazing genius content

00:02:22.500 from our beloved scott adams and there's even more of his content and lessons and fun goodies over on his

00:02:30.700 locals channel which is scott adams dot locals dot com again my name is erica and we're joined today by

00:02:38.320 owen gregorian who's feeling a little better good morning everyone and the beautiful marcella

00:02:45.020 good morning you guys and our special guest professor today

00:02:49.980 right below we are so happy to have him is

00:02:53.660 oh i am you know what i almost just said

00:02:55.940 uh anyway okay it doesn't matter is cory deangelis okay and cory is a

00:03:02.420 newly right you got a new job at the heritage foundation you're a fellow at the heritage foundation

00:03:08.540 congratulations

00:03:09.440 and i i know that your resume is vast and impressive and cory i've been watching you for years

00:03:18.000 years you have been so consistent and steadfast fighting for children and parents their rights

00:03:26.200 their education and for our i don't have children but you're fighting for my tax dollars and you're

00:03:31.820 fighting for our future so i thought it would be so great for everybody to get to know you if they

00:03:37.280 don't already and give you a chance to just explain to us the importance of what you're doing and then

00:03:43.380 everybody's goal here is to be useful scott has taught us to be useful

00:03:47.440 so we're going to listen to you and then if you have um a homework assignment for us or you want

00:03:54.700 to tell us how we can be useful we are an army for you so cory thank you so much for joining us and

00:04:00.820 if you can just give them a background of what you're doing we would love that yeah thanks so

00:04:06.240 much for having me and uh you let me know if i'm talking too much but um we we're finally winning

00:04:12.700 on the issue of education freedom because the teachers unions really stepped on a rake

00:04:17.200 they they overplayed their hand showed their true colors especially during covid and scott

00:04:23.040 adams was steadfast at calling them out every step of the way as well he would retweet me very often

00:04:28.460 so that was a big boost to the school choice movement and he he mentioned you know a lot of the

00:04:34.420 wins that we were racking up on this show uh over time as well but you know before covid we didn't

00:04:41.160 have any states with what i would call universal school choice which was milton friedman's vision

00:04:47.260 who was a noble laureate economist for the money to follow the child for every single kid regardless

00:04:54.240 of income background or zip code in the u.s we spend about 20 000 a kid and that's taken through property

00:05:01.100 taxes and other revenue sources and you're basically stuck going to your assigned government-run

00:05:07.620 institution that we call public schools and if you if you don't like what you're getting there's

00:05:14.380 basically no recourse you have to move houses to get to a better so-called public school and even then

00:05:20.220 you're still assigned to another government-run institution that could uh go downhill over time

00:05:25.780 and it the other option is you can pay twice which who has the money to do that you pay for the

00:05:31.920 school you're not using through taxes the government-run facility and then pay out of pocket

00:05:37.000 for private school tuition and fees so that's not a viable option either for most parents and then

00:05:42.540 the unions have told us for a long time that you know the public schools are so accountable because

00:05:48.400 they have this so-called democratic accountability you can show up at the school board meeting and if you

00:05:55.020 don't like what you're getting they're going to listen to you and everything's going to be fine and

00:05:59.560 dandy and we're all going to get along that was proven to be a farce during covid what did parents

00:06:04.840 do when they didn't like critical race theory after they saw it on remote learning well they listened

00:06:09.600 and they said you know they told me to go to the the school board meeting and maybe they'll listen to me

00:06:13.980 and they had their mics cut off for trying to expose gender ideology and trying to rip out um sexually

00:06:21.260 explicit books from the school libraries they somehow it was okay for little kids to read these things

00:06:27.360 without their parents but when the parents came to the school board meetings to read the same words

00:06:31.200 in those books that were for the kids all of a sudden it was not appropriate which goes and goes to show

00:06:36.640 you how ridiculous it all was to begin with and then when parents were protesting critical race theory

00:06:41.520 in places like virginia they didn't just have their mics cut off they uh they were labeled as domestic

00:06:47.840 terrorists under the biden regime they actually had a letter from the school boards association at the time

00:06:53.360 uh to the biden administration requesting that under the patriot act of all things parents should be

00:07:00.160 investigated for quote-unquote domestic terrorism and a lot of people who even know that story don't know

00:07:06.160 the backstory of the foyer request that went through showing that earlier drafts of that same memo that went to

00:07:13.280 biden urging him to basically lay down the law on parents and to try to bully and silence them into submission

00:07:20.640 they called for the military to be deployed to school board meetings to tell parents to sit down and

00:07:26.800 shut up and not be involved in their kids education and their upbringing well it was a bold strategy

00:07:32.720 cotton it didn't work out for them it backfired since then 26 states have left the school boards

00:07:38.000 association and now we have 18 states that have passed universal school choice allowing all families

00:07:46.320 to take their taxpayer money to a school that works for them and the reason that this is such a a great

00:07:52.400 policy mechanism is that it creates competition i mean just imagine if you were assigned to a government

00:07:58.560 grocery store i know zoran mamdani is trying to do that in new york city right now but just imagine

00:08:04.240 you know for most rational people you'd understand that it's a horrible idea to try to assign people to

00:08:10.160 a government-run institution for groceries where you get government cheese and if the shelves were empty or

00:08:16.240 if they gave you food poisoning each week because the food was expired and they told you just go

00:08:20.720 complain to the grocery board and things never got any better and oh if you want a better if you actually

00:08:25.920 don't want to die and get food poisoning maybe you should move houses to be assigned to a better grocery

00:08:31.040 store that would be ridiculous they'd have no incentive to change it would be the same problem

00:08:36.800 over and over again the definition of insanity uh doing the same thing and expecting different results

00:08:42.960 and that's exactly the problem with their government school system but now in states like my home state

00:08:49.280 of texas arizona florida it's the red states that are doing this right now that aren't controlled

00:08:54.320 by the teachers union cartel they can take their money to a private school that's aligned with their

00:09:00.160 values that doesn't teach the far left propaganda that that and then you may maybe if you want to go to

00:09:05.600 a school that is uh does have critical race theory i mean you can that's up to you so it's more of a

00:09:12.720 freedom-based initiative instead of a top-down initiative where we don't we can agree to disagree

00:09:18.640 if if you're a democrat and you want to take your money to a school that i don't agree with that's fine

00:09:24.320 but i just don't want to be stuck in a one-size-fits-all system where you don't even have a majority

00:09:29.920 inflicting their will on the minority it's worse than that you have a minority special interest the

00:09:34.880 teachers union who are way far left of the democrat party trying to pull them into slow socialism if

00:09:41.920 anything well they exert their influence through the political process control the school boards

00:09:48.080 and then infiltrate the curriculum and it's actually even worse than that because

00:09:52.160 you mentioned randy weingarten earlier she was just at the world economic forum what the hell was

00:09:57.600 she doing over there but she announced at her annual convention last year i think it was in dc

00:10:04.320 but that she was partnering with the world economic forum to create a curriculum for american kids i mean

00:10:10.960 if you thought common core nationalized curriculum was a bad idea randy weingarten said hold up what

00:10:16.640 hold my beer we're going to impose a globalist curriculum on everybody else's kids and it gets even worse

00:10:23.520 than that she also announced a partnership with ai companies like open ai to um you know they want

00:10:32.720 to get their left-wing agenda programmed into the ai pro and they're trying to get ahead of the uh

00:10:39.600 ahead of the wave of ai technology and its revolution and they're trying to use that to uh install their

00:10:46.160 left-wing agenda so i mean you can even go back to their annual convention of the nea which is the

00:10:53.280 national education association last year it was in portland oregon their teacher union boss is becky

00:10:59.120 pringle she just started making the rounds again on social media i posted about this last summer 0.96

00:11:04.240 and people just now james woods and others started picking up the video clip that i shared last year

00:11:09.360 of her just jumping around on the stage and saying we need dei she's like say the words say the words

00:11:16.000 and it's just insane at their annual convention of course she was crazy but they picked one person as

00:11:21.840 their teacher of the year and you thought you'd think it would be someone who did a good job and

00:11:26.400 all of all of their students you know uh graduated and went to college or whatever you know success

00:11:33.040 looks like for those kids but it wasn't that they picked a political activist her name was ashley 1.00

00:11:38.640 croissant from pennsylvania public school teacher and she used her two minutes of fame or whatever on 1.00

00:11:44.800 the stage to say that her job as a teacher of all things was quote-unquote deeply political

00:11:52.080 and always had been and so they really let the mask slip they also passed a whole slew of resolutions

00:11:59.280 that had nothing to do with education one of them i mean they read more like a declaration of war

00:12:05.200 on the trump administration than anything else they called uh in one of them abolishing the

00:12:09.760 department of education racist which is crazy if anything that department has done nothing but

00:12:15.760 exacerbate achievement gaps it hasn't closed them it's hurt the minority kids more than anybody else

00:12:21.920 by sticking them and trapping them in failure factories that they're assigned to and relegated to

00:12:28.080 by their zip code school choice would actually allow for more equality of opportunity

00:12:33.280 so that more families could access private education who couldn't afford it before trump has even called

00:12:39.360 it the civil rights issue of our time and i will say trump did uh endorse my book it's called the parent

00:12:44.480 revolution uh pete hegseth the secretary of war also endorsed it as well and randy weingarten

00:12:51.680 came out with her own book um this this past year in 2025 mine was in 2024 i dedicated mine to her for

00:12:59.600 overplaying her hand and doing more to advance school choice and homeschooling than anyone could 0.75

00:13:04.240 have ever imagined by showing how crazy she is but her book is called why fascists fear teachers and

00:13:10.080 it's the same background as mine same color scheme same font she was pressed on a podcast about this for

00:13:17.040 copying me and she said oh no i didn't plagiarize it's just a coincidence everybody's book looks exactly

00:13:23.600 like this even though they're in the same uh arena in the same topic after he had just um

00:13:31.120 dedicated his it's obvious she uh she copied the background of my book so i don't know if anybody else

00:13:37.200 has a copy is uh severely evil and i'm not even saying that lightly and you know she's been around in

00:13:45.360 the political sphere for decades for decades and she's been the head of the teachers union for what 0.64

00:13:52.400 like 17 years now yeah decades but she also was an at-large member of the democratic national committee

00:14:00.720 and nobody knew about this i was i was i'm pretty dang involved in teachers union and their in their

00:14:07.840 politics as far as doing research on them and seeing what's going on like i know she makes over 600

00:14:14.000 thousand dollars a year and that's a big deal to a lot of teachers who don't want to continue funding

00:14:19.120 her far left agenda and i was asking people at other think tanks and stuff in dc like did you guys

00:14:25.280 know about this because the new york times reported on it last year not not too long ago that you know

00:14:30.480 and they they reported as if everybody knew this thing i mean maybe they did but they never reported

00:14:35.120 to her as the a dnc member they always reported her as the head of the teachers union so that they could

00:14:40.240 pretend that she was representing all the teachers but she was at the dnc for 26 years and she was also

00:14:49.040 um on their influential rules committee so she was a very high-ranking member and nobody knew about this

00:14:57.680 um and so like i often tell people to follow the money right and you see that her union contributes to

00:15:03.440 the democrat candidates and open secrets has this you don't have to take my word for it but 99.97

00:15:12.080 basically all of her political contributions went to democrats last election cycle and it's been like

00:15:17.520 that for decades it's a form of money laundering it's ridiculous it should it should be illegal we

00:15:23.120 shouldn't have government unions that are forced uh that force taxpayers to far to fund a far-left

00:15:29.440 agenda and her sister union the nea becky pringle's union has something called a federal charter it has

00:15:36.560 the backing of congress and they've got they got this special privilege over a hundred years ago

00:15:43.120 and this is also something that people in dc even like what the nea the union has a federal charter that

00:15:49.680 that doesn't make any sense and so the thing is you know to get rid of it you'd need a filibuster

00:15:55.280 proof majority in the senate the the republicans have a majority but they don't have sixty percent

00:16:00.480 of the seats is which is what you need to end the can we at least defund it so you know um the thing

00:16:07.600 is they they the nea has over 400 million dollars in in dues revenues each year and the thing is the

00:16:17.440 teachers think it's a it's a form of stockholm syndrome they think that they need the union because

00:16:24.480 when they go and sign their paperwork in on their first day basically they're told if you don't

00:16:29.280 have us you're going to get sued by all the students and you're going to lose your job and

00:16:33.680 you're going to go to jail you need legal representation from your union so even if a

00:16:37.760 conservative goes in and wants to just focus on the basics keep their head down and not be engaged in the

00:16:43.680 political activities they think they need to sign this paperwork and get involved with the union just

00:16:49.360 out of self-interest that they want to protect themselves but the thing is there are other

00:16:54.080 groups that are providing this liability insurance even for free one of them is called the teacher

00:16:58.480 freedom alliance and donors are covering the cost if you leave a government-run union and join them

00:17:03.840 instead and so i think this is what scares randy weingarten and becky pringle almost as much as school

00:17:10.880 choice which gives them competition this idea of teacher choice where no no teacher can be forced to

00:17:18.160 join a union um and to to pay union dues as a condition of employment anymore that that came out

00:17:23.920 from the supreme court in 2018 and then something called the janus decision and uh linda mcmahon the 0.90

00:17:31.280 secretary of education just put a video out a couple weeks ago reminding all teachers about this even if

00:17:37.200 you're in a blue state like california or new york or illinois you can't be forced to pay the union dues

00:17:43.120 anymore and so this of course the union is not going to advertise this of course the school

00:17:47.840 districts aren't going to advertise this either and so a lot of teachers who have been in the system

00:17:52.560 for a long time they think uh this is just how it's always been this is this is how it has to be

00:17:59.360 but you can opt out today you can go to optouttoday.com that's one of your homework assignments if

00:18:03.920 you're a teacher you would be crazy if you're a conservative or independent or libertarian or even a

00:18:08.960 rational democrat who just wants to focus on academics as opposed to activism you would be

00:18:14.400 crazy to continue giving your hard-earned paycheck to people like randy weingarten and becky pringle

00:18:19.440 who make over half a million dollars a year who put their thumb on the scale and make the entire

00:18:24.240 profession look bad by fighting with conservatives every day i mean randy's book labeled all conservatives

00:18:31.520 as fascist and she even went on msnbc on national news and said that she wore a paper clip because it

00:18:38.400 reminded her of the teachers in norway during nazi occupation and she went on national news basically

00:18:45.040 comparing america to nazi germany which is totally insane investing is all about the future so what do

00:18:51.280 you think is going to happen bitcoin is sort of inevitable at this point i think it would come down

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00:19:14.880 at wealth simple start now at wealth simple.com so what made you what made you choose this cause like

00:19:21.680 the what made you choose to focus on school choice i actually started as a researcher and i benefited from

00:19:27.440 school choice uh even before my academic career so and and i grew up in san antonio texas my dad was

00:19:34.880 in the air force so we moved to military city when i was like three or four years old and so i did my

00:19:39.600 entire k-12 education here and yeah i live back in san antonio now i lived in dc during covid don't

00:19:46.400 recommend it they had all these restrictions you couldn't go into restaurants the closures were

00:19:52.000 horrible but i went to government-run schools so if i make any mistakes today that's probably why

00:19:57.040 my government education but in high school i had the opportunity to go to something called a magnet

00:20:02.560 school which is still run by the district but it's a form of school choice i'd say one of the most

00:20:08.480 kind of milk toast versions of school choice but it's at least it's something they have to attract

00:20:12.880 their clientele you're not assigned to them they have specialized missions mine was called

00:20:17.440 communications arts high school i was still able to play sports at the assigned uh government-run

00:20:23.360 institution they were actually on the same physical campus and i was able to see a night and day

00:20:28.320 difference even one of my classes had to be because the school was so small the magnet at the big behemoth

00:20:35.360 factory model school in ninth grade i went and did a math class over there and i could see walking

00:20:42.000 through the halls that you look into the classrooms it was just total chaos and disruption even back

00:20:47.120 then i know it's gotten worse now there's so much of this restorative justice policies going on where

00:20:53.120 teachers don't feel like they can discipline any of the kids and you know if no if people don't

00:20:58.320 actually want to be there it's hard to kind of you know rally the troops and get everybody to focus

00:21:03.760 each day and if you're not doing a good job it's really really bad uh really hard to to get people to

00:21:08.640 focus on you and i just saw that you know there was this night and day difference there were fights

00:21:14.320 on the government-run school campus in my middle school i had a friend who tried to teach me had to

00:21:19.200 walk the right way because i didn't walk with a limp and i still talked to this guy this day we we took

00:21:25.040 different paths but i just you know it goes to show you like people tell you you can't homeschool

00:21:30.640 because of socialization well there is some bad socialization going on in the government-run

00:21:36.160 institutions people in my middle school used to go get beat up in the restroom they called it 1.00

00:21:41.120 getting rolled into the gang if you wanted to be in the bloods or the crips you wore blue or red and

00:21:47.280 the way to do that the initiation tactic was to go get beat up in the bathroom i don't know if people 0.63

00:21:51.840 still do that or if it was even a thing in other places but that's something that happened in my middle

00:21:56.160 school and it was looked it wasn't looked down upon it was it was a form of social status to get into

00:22:01.440 fights and beat other people up and to do drugs and so i didn't really fall through the cracks but

00:22:08.160 a lot of other people who could have otherwise um gotten a better education and taken a better path

00:22:14.960 they they might have turned out a lot better than they did and so i think other people should have

00:22:19.840 access to educational opportunities and it shouldn't be limited to a school that's run by

00:22:23.680 the government like a magnet school you should be able to take that money to a private school um just

00:22:29.200 like with food stamps we don't say you have to take food stamp dollars and you know we can disagree

00:22:33.840 about whether we should have food stamps at all that's not the argument i'm making but if we're

00:22:37.280 going to have it and if we're going to fund snap benefits for people and taxpayers are forced to

00:22:43.680 spend money on those things which shouldn't go to a government institution and we shouldn't corral

00:22:48.720 people and say you got to go here and line up in the bread line instead like we do with food stamps

00:22:53.920 the money should follow the person and so we should fund the student not the system has been my tagline

00:22:59.840 for years fund the individual not the institution which is really interesting because democrats support

00:23:06.080 all of these other programs where the money follows the person and not the um the building like

00:23:12.880 medicaid vouchers those you don't have to take those that funding to a government-run assigned

00:23:19.280 hospital you don't have to take pell grants which are college scholarships for low-income kids

00:23:25.200 students you don't have to take those to state-run universities or the community college and certainly

00:23:30.400 not one that you're assigned to you get to choose a private or public university it makes sense for your

00:23:37.120 children it's your health it's your diet it's your whatever so why why wouldn't you be able to choose

00:23:43.040 it's just we're in america you have children you hope for the best for them you you know like i mean i i 0.97

00:23:51.520 look at some towns that are decent towns but the school's shit and so now what like i'm just stuck 0.83

00:23:58.000 here i gotta uproot my whole life and move somewhere because i have to go to this school and i can't 0.97

00:24:03.680 afford a different private school it makes total and utter sense and all i've seen in the last

00:24:11.760 you know call it decade for sure our parents rights being stripped away and blatantly and teachers

00:24:18.400 blatantly saying like there are kids and you know this is what i do for our kids i'm like oh they are

00:24:24.480 not your kids they're students of that school and that's about it and also you know i don't want to

00:24:32.320 forget what's going on now either at these public schools are indoctrinating kids into becoming

00:24:37.840 protesters and by the way some violent protesters and you know the the parents don't even know

00:24:44.560 what's happening and i just want to touch on that too for a minute corey if you could you know let

00:24:49.600 the group know what's going on with those things too at public schools yeah it's insane this is anti-ice

00:24:54.880 protests which are not organized by the kids but the unions want you to believe that they are but kids

00:24:59.680 want to get out of class obviously they're kids you need to have some leadership in the schools the

00:25:04.160 adults are the ones who are supposed to say you know what you're supposed to be on campus

00:25:08.640 they're supposed to be keeping these kids safe that's the the low that is the bottom rung of

00:25:13.440 school quality is they're supposed to try to keep the kids there and to keep them safe i mean when i was

00:25:18.720 in high school uh in san antonio texas we couldn't leave campus for lunch unless we were seniors and we

00:25:26.240 couldn't just leave just for any reason and so they didn't have any problem enforcing that type of

00:25:31.600 mechanism but you have the same school that i was assigned to having these anti-ice protests and

00:25:36.800 kids um swarming onto the streets and you see this as a larger pro problem the florida education

00:25:44.960 association just had their uh and they had a press conference the other week and they are the state

00:25:51.600 affiliate of the nea becky pringles union and they had one of their speakers they only had like five

00:25:56.720 people speak and one of their speakers said that these anti-ice student walkout protests these

00:26:03.360 political activities were both rational and quote required that caused a big blowback and now the

00:26:11.200 union is like just backpedaling and saying no no that wasn't a union official representative yeah but

00:26:17.600 that was your official union press conference and you guys knew what he was going to talk about

00:26:21.760 i mean this guy that they invited to speak was um he he kind of got his name through organizing

00:26:29.680 student walkouts back when he was in high school and so what do you think the guy was going to talk

00:26:34.480 about in this kind of moment of having all these anti-ice protests i mentioned earlier that the nea had

00:26:40.720 crazy resolutions last year at their annual convention one of them was to they they passed a resolution

00:26:46.320 to dedicate thousands of dollars uh to call president trump a fascist and in that same resolution they

00:26:53.280 misspelled the word fascism i mean you really can't make this stuff up they had a separate one that a

00:26:58.480 lot of people forgot about but that i brought up the other day because of all this anti-ice stuff

00:27:03.280 they passed a resolution to dedicate tens and thousands of dollars of union money and resources

00:27:09.440 towards uh towards mobilizing the troops and supporting student walkout student uh protests

00:27:18.640 of ice and to protest trump's immigration policies so these these things didn't bubble up out of

00:27:25.280 nowhere you also had becky pringle in los angeles last year when they were having their anti-ice riots 1.00

00:27:30.880 and this was like several months ago this was last summer and so you know lo and behold after you

00:27:36.880 have the union doing all these things putting their thumb on the scale they also sent out all of this

00:27:40.960 propaganda to teachers telling them to wear blue on certain days to to protest ice they also encouraged

00:27:47.600 teachers to sign up for their anti-ice web training that was put on by the nea um and so on and and so 0.99

00:27:56.160 forth it's just this they also have on their website right now still anti-ice or at least pro-immigration

00:28:04.480 uh propaganda posters for people to encouraging the teachers to print them out and plaster them

00:28:11.200 on the walls in their classroom and so the nea needs to lose their federal charter i think that's 0.50

00:28:17.280 there is a bill to do that in congress right now it's by mark harris out of north carolina there are

00:28:22.560 other co-sponsors too like mary uh harris i believe her name is or mary uh miller out of illinois they're

00:28:29.120 both republicans and there's another bill that's similar that i think could have more impact which

00:28:35.280 is um i think it's called the student act and i believe the main sponsor is senator cynthia lemmis

00:28:42.880 out of wyoming another republican and the bill says okay you want to keep your federal charter fine

00:28:49.520 but if you want to keep it we're going to say you can't engage in political activity anymore

00:28:55.360 and you know the union would fight that one even harder than getting rid of their because

00:29:00.000 if you just get rid of the charter what it does is basically kind of gets rid of their false sense of

00:29:05.920 um uh kind of legitimacy that's bestowed to them by congress and it kind of gets rid of some of their

00:29:12.560 tax benefits that they get in dc but otherwise they would still be able to engage in politics they'd 0.95

00:29:18.480 still be able to do lobbying and campaigning and so the more influential bill um which is

00:29:25.840 kind of counterintuitive because people think that if you just get rid of their federal charter

00:29:30.400 that'll do more using it against them is actually the more powerful tool um and so the thing is i

00:29:37.680 tried to mention earlier is that you need 60 votes in the senate to do anything and the democrats

00:29:43.120 there it's going to be really hard for them to vote against the people who give them all these

00:29:47.040 campaign contributions the the teacher union is basically turned into an arm of the democrat

00:29:51.920 party and it's worse than that becky pringle still an at-large member the nea president of the dnc 1.00

00:29:57.440 so it's an incestuous relationship between these two groups and you know there is a bill in florida

00:30:04.240 right now moving so i think more of the magic happens at the state level and the bill in florida

00:30:09.440 is actually up it might have they might have just had a vote at a commit their final committee stop

00:30:14.000 in the house but it's house bill 995 there's a senate companion version i want to say is senate

00:30:19.920 bill 1296 but it's definitely house bill 995 and it does two simple things one is if you want to

00:30:27.600 recertify your union each year you have to have at least 50 percent of your members vote to recertify

00:30:32.400 the union okay you have to have a majority vote and the thing is a lot of the union members don't

00:30:37.840 vote to recertify the union and so that would kind of put a stake in the heart of some of the

00:30:42.720 teachers unions in florida and the second piece is that it would prohibit taxpayer funding of union

00:30:49.280 activities like campaigning going and lobbying on certain things and engaging in political activity

00:30:55.920 which why why in the world are taxpayers funding that directly anyway if you want to go do that as

00:31:01.600 a teacher voluntarily when you're you know not supposed to be teaching fine but why should taxpayers

00:31:07.360 have to support this additional kind of advocacy that goes contrary to what the parents want i mean

00:31:15.040 you're basically forced to pay the political activity of people who hate you or at least

00:31:21.200 causes that that go against uh everything that you stand for so i think the that's probably going to

00:31:28.720 pass in florida and that's why the unions are freaking out right now after that press conference because

00:31:33.040 they went viral for saying that the anti-ice protests are required marcella i know you have questions

00:31:40.240 especially being a former teacher so um hi good morning um i was a teacher in california um and i had

00:31:51.760 to pay union dues at the time where i was teaching was a long time ago in my 20s and um you you were forced

00:32:01.760 and pressured to think like them to want to be like them of course i didn't remain there because

00:32:08.640 the other thing that i would want you to speak about is the actual materials you teach the kids

00:32:14.960 um they uh they strap you like you're you're not allowed to teach really um common core math uh the way

00:32:27.600 that you would teach english the way that you would teach anything you couldn't um i don't really think

00:32:34.160 it's real education that you can give them um and so i wanted to see what your thoughts are and the

00:32:41.680 actual curriculum that's being taught and the other question that i would have is why do you think now

00:32:49.440 the and maybe it's always been this way but to me i feel like it's become more radical teachers and

00:32:56.080 the teachers unions have become more radicalized they've become further left than they were before

00:33:01.840 um maybe it's a product of the universities giving these students or these future teachers this type of

00:33:10.960 agenda or ideology yeah i think the teachers unions are doing a bad job of representing their everyday

00:33:16.800 members so you know i mentioned earlier 99 of their money goes to democrats but not 99 of teachers are

00:33:22.480 democrats i mean there's i saw a poll recently from education week that showed that

00:33:28.080 you know about a third of teachers were conservative or a quarter of them were conservative

00:33:33.520 a little more than that were democrats and then the rest were independents and you know most of

00:33:39.280 them voted for hillary clinton in that survey but you know there's much more balance than what their

00:33:45.280 contributions would make you believe. And I think most teachers just want to teach and not have to

00:33:53.140 deal with all of the mandates. And I think part of the problem is, especially today, is I did a

00:34:00.160 podcast with PragerU recently with Marissa Streit. And the other person who was on the podcast with

00:34:06.540 me was a California teacher. And her name is Jessica, I want to say Tapia. And she was pointing

00:34:14.200 out part of her story. I think she was basically forced out of the public school system because 0.99

00:34:18.060 they were trying to get her to buy into transgender insanity. And because she had her religious 1.00

00:34:23.460 beliefs, I think she ended up winning a settlement in court and got paid out by the government school

00:34:30.920 system for violating her religious rights. And I just saw, I was on Newsmax discussing this the other

00:34:38.560 day. But there was a teacher in Maryland, I want to say, where the teacher, the teacher believed in

00:34:47.640 biological reality of men and women, right? And they were trying to, yeah, it's just great. You know,

00:34:54.760 you can't have that. You can't have that in the propaganda. There's women and men. Yeah. 1.00

00:34:59.260 Yeah. So that was her religious belief. And the teacher was forced to voice the preferred pronouns

00:35:10.980 of the confused child, which I'd say that hurts the child. And it also hurts the rights of the teacher

00:35:19.280 because that's reinforcing this transgender insanity confusion of the child. And, you know, 0.76

00:35:28.420 if someone has troubles and they're confused about things, you shouldn't, you know, if someone has a

00:35:32.860 drinking problem, you shouldn't say, oh yeah, go and have another. You should, you know, try to steer

00:35:38.360 people on the right course towards reality, especially when we're dealing with children.

00:35:43.580 You know, maybe you can make an argument that maybe it's different when they're adults. I'd say

00:35:47.160 they're still confused, but especially for children, you shouldn't try to put your thumb on the scale

00:35:52.820 in the direction of having them confused for the rest of their lives as well. But my point is that,

00:35:59.560 you know, teachers are having their rights violated, not just parents and kids. And if you

00:36:04.300 look at where the money goes, yeah, a lot of it goes to the union and, you know, now teachers can keep

00:36:09.160 that money in their pocket, not give it to the union. Like, why would you not do that? Join the

00:36:13.240 Teacher Freedom Alliance, optouttoday.com. But if you look at overall spending in American public

00:36:19.080 schools, since 1970, we have data on this. Per student spending has increased by about 170%

00:36:26.100 after you adjust for inflation. So it's a huge increase in spending to about $20,000 a kid now,

00:36:32.760 which is about 30% higher than average private school tuition right now. And teacher salaries,

00:36:40.600 we have data on that as well from the National Center for Education Statistics. Over the same period,

00:36:45.640 have the teacher salaries increased by 170%? No, they haven't. They've only increased by 3%,

00:36:52.540 basically haven't changed. And so when teachers are saying, you know what, my hands are tied,

00:36:58.720 I have to deal with all the BS mandates, and you're not even compensating me well, I have to dig into my

00:37:04.900 pockets to give supplies to the kids each year. I kind of feel bad for them. The problem isn't with

00:37:10.860 their competition. It's not the private and charter schools. The problem is their employer is a

00:37:15.560 monopoly that has no incentive to spend money wisely. So it goes towards administrative bloat.

00:37:20.800 We have data on this since 2000 for the administrative bloat. Since 2000 to about 2021 is the kind of period

00:37:29.560 that I've examined. The student enrollment has been basically flat. It's actually decreased a little

00:37:35.980 because of the COVID mass exodus of kids leaving the government school system and going towards

00:37:40.660 homeschooling more than anything else. But the number of teachers in the system has increased by

00:37:46.580 about 10% over that period while they've lost students, which is an anomaly by itself, but it gets

00:37:53.540 worse than that. The number of administrators in the system has increased by about 95%. And so it's become

00:38:01.360 more of a jobs program for administrators than an education initiative for kids. And you have to ask

00:38:07.200 yourself, why would the teachers unions want this? And the reason is that, again, they're a political

00:38:13.380 entity. They benefit in two ways from having more people in the buildings. Well, one is that they have

00:38:19.280 more dues paying members. If they were to spend that money on salaries, they want to increase their total

00:38:24.620 revenues because their revenues come from how many members are paying them dues. It's not based on,

00:38:29.100 if you have a higher salary, you're going to pay a lot more in dues. It's based on, are you a teacher?

00:38:35.260 And so if they have more boots on the ground as well, they have more political muscle because they

00:38:40.660 have a larger voting block to push their socialist agenda. And so they email all the teachers all the

00:38:46.160 time. If a school choice bill is up, they'll email all the teachers, give them the form to press a

00:38:50.400 button to contact legislators. And then you have even Republicans sometimes think, oh my goodness,

00:38:56.360 this is not a popular issue. I'm getting a thousand emails that all look the same with a canned response

00:39:01.500 because either the superintendent tells them that they need to do these things or the teachers union

00:39:07.220 leadership tells them that, oh my goodness, you're going to lose your job if there's a little bit

00:39:11.840 of competition, which has never happened. School choice has never destroyed public schools. If

00:39:16.560 anything, it's made them better through competitive pressures. And I've actually seen some evidence,

00:39:21.800 and I wrote about this in a, in a piece actually all the way back in 2018, the Washington Examiner

00:39:27.180 called school choice benefits teachers too. The limited evidence on the topic shows, and I did one

00:39:33.600 of these studies myself, but there's about five of them that show that more competition from school

00:39:38.420 choice leads to higher teacher salaries in the public schools. So we already knew the test scores

00:39:44.100 improve in the public schools, but the teachers actually benefit too, because instead of money,

00:39:48.480 spending that money in ridiculous ways, having it go to superintendents who make more than the

00:39:53.460 president of the United States, they actually spend it wisely on an important educational resource,

00:39:59.180 which is the teacher. And one last thing I'll point out is that in the Washington Post, which

00:40:05.200 they've taken a good change lately. They've kind of had new leadership, I think, and they have some

00:40:10.100 more free market kind of articles coming out in the Washington Post. But at the time during COVID,

00:40:14.560 it was a kind of a broken clock strikes twice a day kind of thing, where they had an article

00:40:21.080 highlighting the story of a New Jersey public school teacher who had been in the system for decades,

00:40:26.120 and she started her own micro school, which they were calling pandemic pods at the time.

00:40:32.340 Basically 10 students get together in the household of the teacher, and they economize on the process of

00:40:38.160 homeschooling, you make it easier for parents. And the teacher was making the same amount she was

00:40:42.900 making after being in the New Jersey school system for decades, which they spent a ton of money in

00:40:47.880 Camden, they spend over 40,000, I think a kid in Camden. Wow. And so she's making the same amount,

00:40:54.680 even without a school choice program and the money following the child, parents voluntarily paying

00:40:59.500 out of pocket, just 10 kids as opposed to 3040 kids in the in the school system, having more

00:41:05.400 flexibility and freedom, not having to deal with the curriculum mandates from the state.

00:41:09.480 And, you know, they highlighted the story and said, this is so great for these teachers.

00:41:14.780 But they didn't take the next logical step, which is, well, shouldn't other teachers be able to do this

00:41:19.920 too? Shouldn't more families be able to do this too? The best way to do that is to take that 40 grand and

00:41:25.460 maybe give parents at least half, about 20,000, you know, we'll save some taxpayer money while we're at it,

00:41:31.660 and parents will still be better off. You think about that 20,000 times 10 or 12 kids, you know,

00:41:37.900 12 kids is like $240,000 in total revenue a teacher could pull in. And, you know, of course,

00:41:46.180 you have some expenses, but your job will be a lot easier. You don't have to spend all the

00:41:51.680 administrative costs because, you know, there's not much to it, right? You don't have to buy a

00:41:58.340 principal for your micro school. You don't have to buy all these other things. And so that could

00:42:04.860 benefit the teachers and the kids. I do know a lot of people that have, that are homeschooling

00:42:10.240 their kids now, and they're kids of different ages and one family. There is, I know people are

00:42:15.100 asking, you know, is it hard to do? Listen, you get together with some other friends that would want

00:42:23.020 to do the same thing. And you could even say, let's just try it for a year. You know, like Scott

00:42:27.200 would say, test small, try it for a year. But there's really good curriculum you can get on the

00:42:33.380 internet and they, they're literally how to homeschool your child. And of course you'd find

00:42:37.960 the one that's right for you. You could talk to other parents that do it. There's definitely

00:42:42.480 resources for that. And they're having so much success and they're spending like really meaningful

00:42:49.860 time with their kids. And then also what they do is they take turns. So maybe it's like, maybe like

00:42:56.000 this week I teach all the kids and maybe next week she teaches all the kids, you know? So it's not

00:43:01.680 like, or a lot of them have hired teachers and that teacher teaches the kids because you don't

00:43:07.660 have to, it's not like you need all the same age. It's really one-on-one and you're kind of moving

00:43:12.920 from each student for their level. It's not like you're in a classroom type of a thing. They also

00:43:18.100 get real life experience. They're learning things that are also practical. They're not being

00:43:23.360 indoctrinated. They're living up to what your morals and values and standards are as a family,

00:43:29.580 not the teachers or the teachers union. And I think it's something worthwhile trying. It's your

00:43:35.200 kid. And if, if it's, if it's at all possible, it might be a struggle. It might be difficult at first,

00:43:42.400 but, you know, take the first step in doing it. And, you know, if you could buddy up with someone

00:43:47.840 even better, but I mean, Mike Cernovich, his wife is, uh, they're both huge homeschool, uh, proponents

00:43:54.820 and, and they have four kids and Shauna's homeschooling four different ages, two boys,

00:44:02.420 two girls, and the bonding and the experiences they're having. I think it can be done. I think

00:44:09.080 it could, it could be a challenge at first, but you'll find a way and it's your kid and it's worth

00:44:14.220 it. So I just, I want to push that because the schools are just little mini indoctrination camps

00:44:20.260 and no shade, but most of these kids are not learning Jack about Jack. They know it's, it's,

00:44:26.760 it's a day, it's a glorified daycare program. And even then it's worse than that because

00:44:31.800 the kids aren't safe. I mean, look in Chicago, they have 55 public schools with not a single

00:44:37.060 kid proficient in math, 55 schools with 0% proficiency. It's crazy. And they spend how much

00:44:42.560 money, 30,000, a kid in Chicago. And guess what? Their teacher's union president is named

00:44:47.680 Stacey Davis Gates. She called school choice racist a couple of years ago. And we just found

00:44:52.340 out she sends her own kid to a private school. So if the chef doesn't eat the food at the restaurant, 0.96

00:44:58.520 go, don't go to that restaurant. They know better than anybody else. And so she knows like, this is,

00:45:04.340 this is not going to cut it. And Votie Bauckham said it best. We cannot continue to send our

00:45:09.500 children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans. 1.00

00:45:15.800 You know, the good news is parents aren't as surprised anymore. And kind of the genie is

00:45:20.460 never going to be put back in the bottle. We, we can't unsee what we saw through zoom school.

00:45:24.960 And now we have social media, people going viral for injecting politics into schools. And,

00:45:30.880 you know, this isn't just happening in blue States, it's in red States as well.

00:45:34.660 And parents aren't having it anymore. And I'd go even further to say that

00:45:39.020 the public school system in its current form discriminates in particular against all families,

00:45:45.520 but especially against religious families, because they say they can't be religious,

00:45:49.600 but if you're religious and you want that kind of upbringing, you almost don't have a choice.

00:45:53.660 You have to send your kid to a private Christian school or another type of religion, 0.99

00:45:57.440 and you're forced to pay twice. There's actually a, an argument to be made that the public school

00:46:02.880 system is a violation of your 14th amendment rights. And I'd take it a step further.

00:46:08.500 And so did a Phil hamburger professor in the wall street journal, the other it was a few years ago

00:46:14.000 where he even took it a step further and said, the, the first, the public school system violates

00:46:21.300 your first amendment rights because it's a form of compelled government speech. So if you want to

00:46:27.140 get a good grade in that school system, you basically have to regurgitate what the leftist teacher

00:46:31.180 tells you, your taxpayers are forced to fund it, even if they disagree with what's being taught in the

00:46:36.520 school. And so the only way out, um, if we're going to have a publicly provided education,

00:46:43.060 or at least taxpayer funded education is to allow the money to follow the child to a school that's

00:46:48.540 aligned with their values. So then you're not infringing on anybody's rights. You can make

00:46:52.940 an argument that the taxpayer still might be upset if they don't have children, but it's still a step

00:46:57.260 in the huge, a huge step in the right direction of saying, look, we'll still fund pub, we'll still

00:47:03.280 fund an education for the public. And we'll do that through taxes. And we won't change that. But

00:47:09.500 instead of forcing everybody into this one silo and getting what basically nobody wants, everybody can

00:47:16.860 get a little bit of what they do want if you have the money to following the child. And so that could be

00:47:21.780 a public school if you're crazy and want to still send your kid there. But if not, you can, you can

00:47:26.380 send them to a private school, even a religious school. And one thing, you know, we do this with

00:47:30.880 pre-K too. I mentioned other programs, but pre-K, we have the federal Head Start program, which

00:47:36.300 Democrats support, and you can use that money at a religious pre-K. It's their private providers,

00:47:43.120 the money follows the decision of the parent. And so why not do that with K through 12? Why would

00:47:48.140 you be supportive of it for pre-K? And then you'd also support the money following the student

00:47:54.260 for college. But then all of a sudden, when you hit kindergarten, when you go from three to four

00:47:59.560 years old, all of a sudden becomes a big problem. We can't have the money follow the child. It's

00:48:04.300 because of unions. That's the only reason. It's because of power dynamics. Special interests have

00:48:09.420 a monopoly only for K through 12, where they say, you know what, that threatens because if people choose

00:48:15.760 something else, that money's going to go somewhere else. Whereas you don't have that same, same

00:48:20.240 kind of status quo for college or, or pre-K. It's only in K through 12.

00:48:24.220 What is, what, what is their argument? Because they, they're basically saying, um, the school

00:48:30.320 choice, um, in, we have choice in many other realms, like you explained in grocery stores

00:48:37.120 and everything else. Why do you think, what is their argument? How is it racist? Because I,

00:48:42.760 I keep, I have so many DEI friends. I really do. And I'm arguing with them. And some of them are 0.97

00:48:49.900 teachers and they're like, Oh, you know, the white man wants to keep us down. And I'm like,

00:48:54.960 that's the current system. That's the public school system. You have these segregated schools

00:49:00.800 by zip code where minority kids are failed more than anybody else. And you want to trap them there, 0.96

00:49:07.080 which is what the government school system wants to do. And they, they see those kids as dollar

00:49:11.520 signs and doesn't want to give them an opportunity to do something else because they know if those

00:49:16.960 kids were to have an opportunity, they'd take it and get a better, a lifeline to success. You look

00:49:22.080 in DC, for example, they have a voucher program that was passed by Congress. That's the only way they

00:49:26.420 were able to do it. It's a federal district. So of course, Congress has the ability to do it there.

00:49:31.020 And I think it started in the early two thousands and 95% of the recipients of those scholarships are

00:49:39.940 black or Hispanic. The average household income last that I saw was about 30 to $40,000. And this

00:49:47.520 is in the district of Columbia, a higher cost of living area. And so, you know, you have these

00:49:54.020 programs benefiting the least advantage more than anybody else. And then you have the Democrats who

00:49:58.800 typically say that they're for helping the, the, the disadvantaged kind of standing at the school

00:50:05.660 house door saying, no, no, no, you can't come in. You can't leave. Governor Doug Ducey had a great

00:50:11.060 quote when he passed universal school choice in 2022 in Arizona. He said something along the lines of

00:50:17.440 50 plus years ago, politicians, union backed politicians stood at the school house door to keep

00:50:26.720 minorities out. Today, union backed politicians are standing at the school house door to try to keep

00:50:33.980 minority students in trapping them in their failing government schools. Exactly. So, you know, choice is 0.99

00:50:42.100 choice. And, you know, and if you like that system and it will, for whatever reason, great, but this

00:50:49.480 isn't a racial thing, right? It's, it's just, it's for everybody. And, you know, if it, there's a lot

00:50:55.860 of low income and non-white kids that, that use these programs. And I think that's one of the reasons 1.00

00:51:01.900 that DeSantis won his first governor's race in 2018, the headline in the wall street journal the next day

00:51:08.040 was that school choice moms tip the governor's race for DeSantis. And that's because there was a 1.00

00:51:14.460 hundred thousand kids using their scholarships at the time. They were disproportionately non-white and low

00:51:19.020 income kids. And the exit polling from CNN showed that black moms came out in support for DeSantis

00:51:25.680 much higher than expected. And that was after his opponent called to get rid of their scholarships.

00:51:31.040 So they might've disagreed with DeSantis and everything else, but they saw that this became,

00:51:36.000 this basically became a single issue vote for them because they wanted their kid to get a better

00:51:40.160 opportunity than they had and school choices the way to do it. I want to hit one thing that I saw in

00:51:45.740 the chat because this audience may kind of be aware of this argument and they, they might

00:51:51.360 believe it. And I don't think it's a good argument. I think it's making perfect the enemy of the good,

00:51:56.080 but the argument goes that we can't have school choice because that would mean government controlling

00:52:01.080 all, you know, private education. The, the shorthand argument is with government shekels comes

00:52:06.400 government shackles. My quick response is that you can get the shackles without the shekels 1.00

00:52:12.240 and look in States all across the country this past year that were calling to regulate

00:52:18.540 homeschooling. You had Illinois, New Jersey, California, all of these States that don't

00:52:24.500 have school choice programs. So the States that have school choice are actually the ones that have

00:52:29.460 more homeschooling freedom, not the opposite. And when you have more beneficiaries of homeschooling

00:52:35.820 through school choice, you build a bigger tent to fight back against that overreach. In fact,

00:52:40.820 the opposite happened in Illinois in 2023, they killed their school choice program. They got rid

00:52:46.440 of scholarships from 9,000 families. And then those same tyrants came after homeschool freedom

00:52:52.740 two years later. And so even after 40,000 homeschool people and others in the community signed up

00:52:59.140 against the bill, the committee passed the bill on a party line eight to four vote. It ultimately died

00:53:05.300 and didn't get to the governor's desk, thankfully, but you know, it's kind of this eternal vigilance is the

00:53:10.000 price of liberty. They're going to come after you again. And the best way to mobilize is to get more

00:53:14.060 people on your team in order to fight back against that.

00:53:16.900 And it's your money. It's your taxpayers' money.

00:53:19.700 It's your money.

00:53:20.760 And your kids.

00:53:21.460 If you're a homeschool family and you're still concerned and you say like, you know, I still

00:53:29.760 don't want to take any chances. No school choice program has ever forced anybody to take the money.

00:53:35.340 And so you can make that cost benefit decision on your own, but you shouldn't tell other families

00:53:39.660 that they can't make that choice for their homeschool situation or private school. So,

00:53:45.160 you know, the thing is, um, we can't make perfect the enemy of the good. We don't want to miss the

00:53:49.320 forest for the trees. If you're on Randy Weingarten's side and Becky Pringle's side and not, you know,

00:53:54.840 President Trump's side and Milton Friedman's side, a free market economist who first wrote about

00:53:59.960 school choice in 1955 in his essay, The Role of Government in Education. I'd say there isn't one,

00:54:05.820 but if we're going to have one, he should have renamed it The Lack of a Role of Government in

00:54:10.620 Education.

00:54:11.000 I would just echo that, like, I live in the Chicago area and I don't live in the city of Chicago,

00:54:16.840 but I've, I've seen what they're doing and it just doesn't make any sense at all. They're,

00:54:20.620 they're refusing to close schools, even though there's like enrollment students, there's all

00:54:27.600 these empty schools basically. And they just, it's like a jobs program for the teachers. It's like,

00:54:32.380 okay, we, we actually could consolidate schools like normal people do like in my area growing up,

00:54:38.700 that's what they did. Um, cause you know, enrollment goes up and enrollment goes down. And when you don't

00:54:43.120 have enough enrollment, you close the school, you move people to a different school, you consolidate,

00:54:46.980 but they don't want to do that. And it's all about the money. And, um, then with this DEI stuff,

00:54:52.400 like in my kids high school, fortunately they were out by this point, but they, um, they,

00:54:58.860 the principal resigned and went to some other district and they said, you know what, we don't

00:55:03.500 need the principal or maybe it was a superintendent. We don't need the superintendent anymore. We're going

00:55:07.580 to have this DEI director that we're going to use the salary for. So they brought in this,

00:55:12.380 this DEI director. And then a couple of years later, they said, you know what, we actually do

00:55:16.280 need the superintendent. So now we're going to add that. But of course they kept the DEI director.

00:55:19.800 So they just backdoored this in there. And then what happens next? They, they decide they want to

00:55:25.360 get rid of the gifted in town program. Why? Because not enough minorities were in it. 1.00

00:55:29.900 Cause it's racist. It's racist. It's racist to give minorities a chance at getting, you know, 0.99

00:55:36.960 gifted education. And, and it was all about just like hiding the fact that, you know,

00:55:41.860 minorities had this racial achievement gap that they always were handling around. But the net effect

00:55:47.440 was, of course, they took away that opportunity from everyone, including the minorities that were

00:55:51.440 in the program and the parents, I predicted this, but at the time, but it was like, they, they,

00:55:58.100 of course rejected it. Like they said, no, you can't do that. Cause like, you know, colleges want

00:56:03.060 to admit kids that are in that gifted and talent, like the honors program basically. And, and so they,

00:56:10.620 that program lasted exactly one year. And then the parents revolted and said, you have to put this

00:56:15.760 back. And, um, along the way, again, right after this happened, they put in a class that they claimed

00:56:23.280 was a student requested, which of course it wasn't what student requests any class.

00:56:27.540 But it was like, it was basically an activism class. It was like all about like how to use

00:56:32.580 the right language about LGBT. Yeah. Do you guys not want to do math anymore? You do some

00:56:37.080 fun stuff. Yeah. Yeah. But, and, and I, I looked at the article about this and it was like all the

00:56:42.720 stuff they were teaching the kids. It was every kind of activism you can name, including one I had

00:56:46.060 never heard of called adultism. What the hell is adultism? And they're literally were teaching the

00:56:51.220 kids not to respect teachers and adults that it's like, it's like the opposite of what you

00:56:55.860 think it would be. And you shouldn't, you know, adults shouldn't have authority over kids. That

00:56:59.640 was the whole idea behind that adult. I'm like, what the hell is pulling you away from your parents?

00:57:03.820 Don't listen to your parents. Listen to me instead. It's yeah. I saw a headline a few years ago in 0.99

00:57:09.580 Chicago. They had a school that was at 3% of their capacity and they were fighting to keep it open.

00:57:14.140 I mean, so you're right. There are, there were empty schools in Chicago. If you guys remember,

00:57:18.560 they were also the union that tweeted out that it was sexist, racist, and misogynist to open schools

00:57:24.280 in 2021. And they also had a board member that was caught vacationing in Puerto Rico

00:57:29.480 while saying it was too unsafe to open the schools. Yeah. Corey, first of all, everybody listening,

00:57:36.860 I'm sure you're really enjoying this conversation. It's important to, to everybody in this country,

00:57:42.340 whether you have children or not, the children are our future. Um, if you are enjoying the school

00:57:49.860 today with our guest, uh, professor, Corey DeAngelis, could you please hit the like button or,

00:57:56.080 you know, just, just on each platform, just make sure you give this a like so we can keep these

00:58:01.120 kinds of classes going. So Corey, we only have a few minutes left and Scott always talked about,

00:58:07.280 you know, if you have a goal, you need to have systems over goals. So what can you tell us in

00:58:14.100 these closing minutes? What, what kind of systems, what can we do? I mean, it's like one thing is we

00:58:19.720 can tell teachers to opt out of the teacher's union. Like you want to sweep the knee, right? You want to

00:58:24.540 like take the funding away from these people. So what are maybe like the top three things we can do

00:58:30.980 after school today? Yeah. Go to optouttoday.com. If you're a teacher, that's very easy. You click on

00:58:37.160 your state. It'll show you how to opt out of your union. And then look, you have more money in your

00:58:41.220 pocket. You still have twice the legal representation than you had before you get 2 million in liability

00:58:46.720 insurance in your name, as opposed to the union's name. Uh, I mean, I think Randy Weingarten's union

00:58:52.020 gives you a maximum of a million in this insurance, whereas this one gives you 2 million and you don't

00:58:56.700 have to pay for it. Like, why would you not do that? So optouttoday.com. If you're a teacher,

00:59:01.580 even if you're a Democrat, because you know, you guys might want to focus on the basics as opposed

00:59:05.860 to activism. And then the other thing is tell your lawmakers to support school choice. Um, it's,

00:59:11.680 you know, there is a federal school choice program. That's a tax credit that just passed in the big,

00:59:16.120 beautiful bill. Uh, president Trump got it done and 27 governors have already opted in.

00:59:22.220 How do we do that query? How do we, who, who are the lawmakers that we need to tell?

00:59:26.400 Yeah. So that one is solely in the decision of the governor's hand. So you can tell your governor,

00:59:30.320 you can contact them. You can Google how to contact your governor very easy. And they have forms.

00:59:34.920 And then also lawmakers in your state, just tell them to pass school choice because this is how you

00:59:41.460 have true leverage. Even if you want to stay in the public schools, it's good to have that ability

00:59:47.180 to escape if you need it. And then, you know, if you go to the school board meeting, if you're in a

00:59:52.020 competitive environment, they'll listen to you instead of, you know, calling you a terrorist or

00:59:56.460 labeling you as a bad person. So those are two things that I think everybody should do. 0.85

01:00:01.660 I love that. And the other thing you guys can do is forward this, uh, video to them,

01:00:07.680 this live stream to them just to hear the conversation and the reasons why Corey, I hope

01:00:14.480 you enjoyed this. And I hope that you'll come back again because this is so informative for us.

01:00:21.480 And it's just nice to be able to have a conversation, um, and take our time to kind of parse things out.

01:00:27.920 And I know that we'll have more questions next time. If you do join us now that we've got this

01:00:32.600 ball rolling and if we can ever do anything for you, you have the, uh, Scott Adams school army

01:00:38.920 behind you in this endeavor. And we will be sure everyone will, I'm sure be following you if they

01:00:44.920 haven't already and reposting your information. Um, you're doing God's work. I tell you, you are

01:00:51.660 tireless. I see you out there for years and, um, you are definitely one of the more human useful

01:00:58.380 human beings I've seen. And we can't thank you enough. And I'm, I am running late. It's one

01:01:05.120 minute after 11, I'm not doing my job. So we're going to do. It was great. Thank you guys so much.

01:01:11.680 And I'd love to join again. I could have kept going for another couple hours. It was so fun.

01:01:15.480 So thank you. We're going to do a closing sip to Scott, to everybody that came into school today.

01:01:21.540 We truly, we see you. We appreciate you. We're reading your comments and, um, we'll be back

01:01:27.000 tomorrow with the news crew to close out the week with some news. Corey, thank you so much. And you

01:01:32.980 guys, I will post Corey's information after the show when we repost this live stream. And as always,

01:01:39.420 Scott Adams, we miss you so much and we, um, we hope we're doing you proud. And so let's have a

01:01:46.620 closing sip to Scott, our beloved Scott, to Scott, to Scott, to Scott, to Scott.

01:01:55.800 Love you guys. Thank you so much. Thanks, Brie. We'll see you tomorrow.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 26, 2026

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