Rebel News Podcast - Why parental choice in education is the single-most important battle of our time (Guest： Alex Newman, New American Magazine)

00:00:00.000 The Alberta government has fined us at the rebel for illegal criticism of the education minister

00:00:05.620 David Egan. But I'm not going to be censored by the government so today I'm still talking about

00:00:12.760 how terrible the education system really is. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.

00:00:30.000 By now I'm sure you've heard about the latest attack on the rebel by Alberta Premier Rachel

00:00:41.420 Notley. We were convicted in our absence of illegal political criticism by Alberta Premier

00:00:46.840 Rachel Notley's new hired mercenary the elections commissioner. Now the newly created elections

00:00:52.960 commissioner decided that our billboard on the side of highway 2 criticizing Alberta's

00:00:58.680 education minister David Egan for failing Alberta students broke elections advertising laws.

00:01:06.440 For that we received a fine of $5,500 that we will fight with everything we have because we are never

00:01:13.940 going to stop criticizing the government. We are a media outlet and it is our right to do so. Now you

00:01:21.040 can see Ezra's incredible video explaining the whole situation about how this is really an existential

00:01:26.560 threat to the survival of the rebel at StandWithTheRebel.com. It's pretty clear Notley doesn't want me

00:01:34.180 talking about how terrible the education system really is and so I'm going to because I'm a journalist

00:01:40.740 and a political commentator which means I'm going to comment whether she likes it or not. So joining me

00:01:47.760 tonight is my new American friend. One who literally wrote the book on the creeping Marxism of the North

00:01:54.980 American education system and how it is harming our children and future generations of kids to come. 0.86

00:02:01.600 My guest tonight in an interview we recorded earlier in the week is journalist, author, and educator

00:02:08.680 Alex Newman of the New American Magazine.

00:02:24.980 Joining me now from the New American Magazine is someone I'm rapidly becoming a fast fan of Alex

00:02:37.100 Newman. Now I had Alex on the show a couple weeks ago. Not my show. I was filling in for the big boss

00:02:42.600 on the big show. But I wanted to have Alex back on because we before we had a conversation about the

00:02:50.280 green tyranny of climate change because I met Alex at the climate change conference in Poland. But Alex also has

00:02:58.000 another what I would probably call an expertise. And that is the creeping Marxism into our education system.

00:03:07.900 So joining me now from sunny Florida, and I'm jealous, is Alex Newman of the New American. Hey, Alex, thanks for

00:03:15.320 joining me. Hey, thank you so much for having me, Sheila. Are you trying to make everybody hate me by

00:03:18.880 telling all the Canadians I'm in sunny Florida? I want them to feel sorry for me. I don't care what

00:03:25.320 that means for you. That's awesome. That is really nice. So thank you for having me, Sheila. Now, when I say

00:03:31.700 that you've, you're a bit of an expert on the education system, you literally wrote the book on it,

00:03:37.500 didn't you? I did. Yeah, I was really fortunate to work with Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld. He and I

00:03:44.340 together co-authored the book Crimes of the Educators, how utopians are using government

00:03:48.760 schools to destroy America's children. Dr. Blumenfeld literally spent 50 years of his life.

00:03:55.200 He just passed away a couple of years ago at age 90. But he spent 50 years of his life involved in

00:04:00.660 the education fight. He lectured in all 50 states, all over Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the United

00:04:05.320 Kingdom. And so he was, I think, the go to expert on education. And before he died, he wanted to write

00:04:12.620 one more book. And they contacted me to see if I would work with him on that. And so I was just

00:04:16.880 incredibly fortunate to work with him on that. And now we just literally, as we speak, Sheila,

00:04:22.920 we're going to press with a special report on education in the New American Magazine,

00:04:26.600 going through all the insanity that's going on today, how we got here, where this is going,

00:04:32.400 and what the alternatives are for parents who want to get out. And in addition to that,

00:04:36.300 I'm a teacher. I teach at an online school called the Freedom Project Academy, K through 12

00:04:41.960 Christian school in the United States. We have students in all 50 states and 12 different

00:04:46.260 countries. So I didn't realize that you were a teacher at a Christian school. That's phenomenal

00:04:53.240 to hear. As Canadians, we often hear the words common core thrown around when we're watching

00:05:02.160 American coverage as we want to do, because it seems to me that a lot of the progressivism

00:05:09.120 affecting America is incubating itself here. But how would you describe common core to a Canadian,

00:05:17.480 someone who doesn't really understand what that is? Like, I think that we are inflicted with the

00:05:22.740 same things. Maybe we just call them something different here. We have discovery math. I don't know

00:05:27.900 if you have that in the United States, but could you give us a Coles Notes version of what common

00:05:33.240 core is?

00:05:34.860 Sure. Well, thank you for the opportunity, Sheila. And at its simplest level, common core was the first

00:05:39.880 open effort to nationalize education in America. Like you guys in Canada, you guys have provinces,

00:05:45.000 and each province is supposed to be in charge of education. Well, in the United States, we have 50

00:05:50.040 states, and each state historically has always been in charge of its own education system. And typically,

00:05:54.500 it's been local school districts and local communities that run the education system.

00:05:58.960 But for a period of decades, they were quietly consolidating control over this. So in the end

00:06:05.500 of the 1970s, with Jimmy Carter, we got the Department of Education, but it was still federal

00:06:09.820 law that the federal government couldn't intervene in terms of what was taught. Well, when we got the

00:06:14.700 Obama administration, they rolled out this common core program, and they pretended like it was developed

00:06:22.560 by the states. Of course, it wasn't. It was developed by special interest groups, people

00:06:26.140 like Bill Gates. You know, he put $2 billion of his own money into it, as well as different

00:06:30.420 federally funded organizations and establishment groups. And they put together this set of national

00:06:35.060 standards that supposedly was going to improve education in the United States. Now, I happen to

00:06:40.940 know the only two subject matter experts who they put on the Common Core Validation Committee. I serve on

00:06:46.560 board with them. Dr. Sandra Stotzky from the University of Arkansas was the English expert,

00:06:53.100 and she refused to sign off. She said, these standards are terrible. You're taking out all

00:06:56.840 the good literacy. This is going to reduce the critical thinking abilities of children. I'm not

00:07:00.900 signing off on it. And now she goes around the country speaking against it and testifying in state

00:07:05.440 legislatures that they should get rid of it because it's a disaster. So the only English expert refused to

00:07:10.380 sign off because it was a disaster. And then on the math side, we had Dr. James Milgram of Stanford

00:07:15.600 University. And he also refused to sign off. He said, these are as non-challenging as possible.

00:07:20.800 They're not clear. In some cases, they're literally based on incorrect math, believe it or not. And so

00:07:26.400 you have a, from an academic standpoint, these are just absolutely disastrous. From a centralization of

00:07:32.920 PowerPoint point of view, again, this is absolutely disastrous. You have now all control over education

00:07:38.180 being centralized in one place. And then if you take it to the next level, and I think, you know,

00:07:43.540 to understand Common Core, you need to understand the broader context that they came about in.

00:07:47.980 There is a global effort led by UNESCO, the UN's education agency, to globalize education standards.

00:07:55.480 And the Common Core is very much a part of that agenda. In fact, Bill Gates, who financed the

00:08:00.240 Common Core, actually signed an agreement with UNESCO in 2004 on behalf of Microsoft to globalize

00:08:05.680 education. The UNESCO has what they call a world core curriculum. And the leadership of UNESCO,

00:08:11.420 including its actual Communist Party director general, Irina Bokovo, stepped down at the end

00:08:17.300 of last year. She was going around telling everybody, hey, this is great. Now we're getting

00:08:21.680 all these countries to adopt national standards, and we're implementing our global goals through

00:08:25.840 the national standards. So what Common Core is, is not so much just the nationalization of education,

00:08:31.340 it is the globalization of education. And they'll tell you this, right? They were running ads on television

00:08:36.460 in the United States bragging about how under Common Core, we would have the same standards in Paris,

00:08:41.080 in Shanghai, and in Chicago. So we could measure what everybody was doing on an even platform all over

00:08:46.080 the world. So we now have a globalized education system. And it is actually, in fact, you can demonstrate

00:08:52.580 this using the government's own data, dumbing down the population of the United States, and facilitating

00:08:57.900 the further indoctrination of the American people. So it's a disaster all around, Sheila.

00:09:02.020 You know, it is very chilling, because local school boards are really the last bastion of

00:09:06.500 parental autonomy over the education system. It's, you know, it really is a human right for parents

00:09:13.240 to be able to determine the education that their children need, and that is best done, like everything

00:09:19.940 the government does at the local level. And this is really stripping away the parental involvement

00:09:26.140 in the education system. But I was reading on the New American magazine website, that this has been

00:09:37.840 really exposed as a failure by empirical measurements. So I believe it was a school that

00:09:44.940 had taken Common Core reading out of the school, and they immediately saw an improvement in their test

00:09:50.040 scores.

00:09:50.360 Yeah, that was a phenomenally interesting story. Here in Florida, we had what's called a charter

00:09:56.200 school. And, you know, that's maybe a whole other issue. But they decided, well, in fact, I found out

00:10:00.760 that their reading scores were at the top of the state. They were like in the top 1% of the state. And

00:10:04.920 in some cases, their students were the top performing kids in the whole state. And I automatically knew,

00:10:10.000 see, this gets us into a whole other issue, but I automatically knew what was happening in this

00:10:13.660 school. Under the Common Core, they have kindergarten children memorizing what they call sight words. And in fact,

00:10:20.000 this is mandated under Common Core. So, you know, I have to give a little bit of a refresher or

00:10:24.600 explanation of what this means to people who don't know what it is. So we, in English, we have a phonetic

00:10:31.120 alphabet where every one of our letters represents one or more sounds. So a P sounds like P and an A

00:10:36.300 sounds like A, and you combine it and it sounds like P, right? In Chinese, you know, they use symbols 0.98

00:10:43.320 that express an entire word. So you would memorize the whole symbol, and then that symbol would represent a

00:10:48.240 word or an idea or a concept. So it's completely different ways of writing. Now, back in the 1840s,

00:10:55.920 they did this experiment in the public schools in Boston, where they started teaching children how

00:11:00.680 to memorize entire words instead of teaching them that, you know, each letter corresponds with one or

00:11:06.220 more sounds, and this is how you blend the sounds together, and that's how you determine what's written

00:11:09.820 on the page. They started getting the children to memorize, you know, this series of squiggly lines.

00:11:14.280 When you see those squiggly lines, that means cat, rather than a C stands for K, and an A stands for

00:11:19.840 U, and a T stands for T. They would say, this means cat. When you see these lines in this way,

00:11:24.220 that means cat. So the results were disastrous. In fact, the guy who invented it, he had good

00:11:29.380 intentions. It was Reverend Golodet, and he wanted to teach deaf children how to read, and deaf children

00:11:33.840 couldn't hear sounds. So this was, you know, really a great way to teach them how to read. You couldn't do it

00:11:38.620 any other way. And so that was a great advancement for them. But when they tried it on non-deaf children, 0.65

00:11:42.920 what they found was a complete cataclysm. So all the leaders of the public schools in Boston got

00:11:47.800 together, and they wrote a phenomenal essay. It's just as relevant today as it was back then,

00:11:51.880 saying that, hey, this method of teaching reading doesn't work. We're getting rid of it. It's just

00:11:55.800 ridiculous. This is not how you teach reading with a phonetic alphabet. So anyways, fast forward 60 years 0.96

00:12:02.140 later, a guy called John Dewey, who's really the founding father of what passes for education today in

00:12:07.580 America, the public school system, decided to resurrect this and create reading primers so that

00:12:12.860 teachers and colleges of teachers all across the country would be indoctrinated in the use of this

00:12:18.940 methodology. Since then, we have had a complete breakdown of our literacy skills. If you look at

00:12:24.960 the government's own data, you see that Americans are now illiterate as a nation. You know, if you look

00:12:31.600 in some places like Washington, D.C., the government's own data shows that more than two-thirds of the

00:12:35.780 population is functionally illiterate. At a national level, just 13 percent of American adults, and this

00:12:41.960 is according to the U.S. Department of Education, are considered proficient in reading. Even in states

00:12:47.440 like California, which historically has been a high-performing state in education, more than half

00:12:52.240 of the children are not even ranked proficient. They can't even read at a basic level in the state

00:12:57.700 of California. And this is all because of this reading methodology. So when I saw these scores at this

00:13:02.620 charter school in Florida, I immediately knew what was happening. They were teaching the kids how to

00:13:06.680 read using phonics. So I called them and I said, hey, you have really good reading scores. Can you

00:13:10.460 tell me about your reading program? They said, oh, yeah, we just use phonics. We don't use the common

00:13:13.940 core. I said, oh, I already knew that. Wrote an article about it. It ended up going viral. It got picked up

00:13:19.720 probably by hundreds of news articles and news websites and publications. But it shows you how dangerous the

00:13:27.320 common core is. I mean, we're mass producing illiterates and we have the solution. I mean,

00:13:31.880 the solution is right in front of us. Just teach reading how we always taught reading for thousands

00:13:35.300 of years. But they don't want to do that. So now I think you would probably agree with me that

00:13:41.340 education really is the forefront of the culture war. And especially here in my home province, we are

00:13:48.580 governed by, to be honest with you, a bunch of progressive wackadoodles that recently us here at

00:13:54.260 the Rebel have run afoul of, specifically because of our criticism of our education minister failing our

00:14:01.140 grade nines, where many of them are not proficient in math, which is basically crippling an entire

00:14:08.080 generation of our workforce. But there's also a pervasive anti-Christian sentiment in all of this, too.

00:14:17.260 Here in Alberta, we had, you know, basically with the swipe of a pen, they closed down the, it was a

00:14:25.480 massive Christian homeschooling school board that operates under the education ministry here. And

00:14:32.000 they basically shut it down, the alleged financial impropriety. They didn't even bother to investigate.

00:14:38.580 And overnight, nearly a third of all the homeschool students in the entire province were out of,

00:14:44.380 but without a school to go to, really. What's been your experience with that pervasive

00:14:51.900 anti-Christian sentiment in education in America?

00:14:57.560 I'm so glad you asked about this, Sheila, because this is at the heart of what so-called

00:15:01.700 education has become today. You know, I mentioned John Dewey earlier. He, you know, if you go to

00:15:05.740 Wikipedia, they call him the, you know, the godfather, the founding father of America's public education

00:15:10.260 system. And he really was. And fortunately, he was very honest about his agenda. One of the things

00:15:16.300 that he did, he drafted and signed what's called the Humanist Manifesto. And in this Humanist

00:15:21.900 Manifesto, it was an incredibly important document. The very first plank, they said, we religious

00:15:26.420 humanists, and, you know, to their credit, they were honest. It's, you know, it's a religious

00:15:29.840 worldview. But they said, we religious humanists regard the universe as eternally self-existing

00:15:35.300 and not created. And you compare that with the first words of the Bible. And the Bible

00:15:40.020 tells you that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. So you have this

00:15:44.060 guy, John Dewey, with a lot of money from the Rockefellers, by the way, you know, big

00:15:48.200 oil money.

00:15:48.700 Those Rockefellers. 1.00

00:15:49.600 They're involved in everything, right? Including the global warming scam that we were exposing

00:15:53.040 not too long ago. And you had John Dewey team up with the Rockefellers and a whole bunch

00:15:57.700 of others to hijack our education system. They did. They were very, very effective at it.

00:16:02.260 They actually targeted the teaching colleges. And so John Dewey was very open about his ideology.

00:16:07.400 He was a humanist. He rejected even the idea of God. He wanted socialism. He thought, and

00:16:13.300 if you read this Humanist Manifesto, it's very clear. They talk about getting rid of the profit

00:16:17.360 motive and collectivizing the means of production. I mean, it could have come straight out of Fidel

00:16:21.580 Castro's handbook, you know. And he was very, very transparent about the fact that we want to use

00:16:27.600 the schools to fundamentally transform American children so that we can transform America.

00:16:32.680 And he wanted a socialist America, and he said so. And so from the very beginning, and

00:16:38.660 you know, this is really when we started getting the institutionalization of the government education

00:16:42.600 system in America. And I'm quite sure that these same influences dominate the Canadian system.

00:16:47.740 From the very beginning, one of the purposes of this system was to erode the Christian faith 0.93

00:16:53.540 of the American people. It's been very, very successful. And, you know, in America, I don't

00:16:58.480 think you guys have the same thing in Canada. But in America, our founding fathers, when they wrote the

00:17:03.100 Declaration of Independence, they said, they actually wrote in these exact words, we consider these truths

00:17:08.500 to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain

00:17:15.020 unalienable rights. So our founding fathers in our country said, we have rights, and our rights come from

00:17:19.440 God. And then they continued, and the purpose of governments, the governments are established among

00:17:23.540 men to protect these rights. So our founders said, God gave us rights, God created us, and we

00:17:29.260 established governments to protect the rights that God gave us. Now, John Dewey said, hey, there is no

00:17:33.400 God. And that means there's no objective source for your rights. So our founders didn't view this as a

00:17:38.020 religious statement. They, in fact, viewed it as a self-evident truth, as they wrote in our Declaration

00:17:43.000 of Independence. But with this philosophy that Dewey had, this ideology, this religious worldview,

00:17:49.040 if you will, which is how he described it, they gradually got rid of that. In fact, in the 1960s,

00:17:55.500 in the early 1960s, it culminated in a series of Supreme Court decisions that banned the Bible

00:17:59.880 from our schools, that banned prayer from our schools. And now they literally teach the kids,

00:18:05.000 the same Common Core people have the next generation science centers, they teach the kids that there is

00:18:09.380 no God, that science proves there is no God, that we came from apes that came from slime, and that there

00:18:14.500 was no creator at all involved. It was just chance over billions of years. And so kids go

00:18:19.000 out into the world. And this is fundamental to the worldview of a person. If a God created you

00:18:24.880 with rights, and a God loves you, and you're created in his image, you look at the world very

00:18:28.720 differently than if it was just all a big giant cosmic accident, your life has no more value than

00:18:33.740 that of your goldfish. You have a totally different outlook on the world. And so in America, and I'm

00:18:39.040 quite sure the same is true of Canada, the government schools have become probably the single largest

00:18:44.160 engine for the propagation of anti Christian religious views and ideological views that that

00:18:50.100 exists. Alex, I couldn't agree with you more. And another one of the crazy progressive things that

00:18:58.940 happened in my province over the last two years is we actually had a school board tell a Christian

00:19:06.140 school that they couldn't teach portions of the Bible and they had to remove portions of first

00:19:14.160 Corinthians from their school handbook, because they said it ran afoul of this safe school policy,

00:19:24.260 they said it was discriminatory, and it wasn't inclusive. And they did this at a Christian school. So they had

00:19:31.600 to remove portions of the Christian Bible from their teachings. Now the school, to their credit, did not

00:19:38.060 comply, but they were immediately turfed from the school district, and had to become a completely private

00:19:43.960 school, as opposed to a more accessible school under the public umbrella. But I absolutely agree with you that

00:19:51.360 there is just this pervasive anti Christian sentiment, and it is creeping into Christian schools, where Christian

00:19:59.520 schools now find themselves censoring themselves preemptively sometimes. I saw at the New American, there was

00:20:07.900 actually an article about a Christian teacher who was fired for using the correct biological pronouns, which is

00:20:15.660 also, you know, good grammar.

00:20:17.900 All right. Well, you know, that's the next frontier, Sheila. And actually, I've written about Alberta on a few

00:20:23.400 occasions. I have an education blog called the Newman Report. And I've covered Alberta education policies at least

00:20:28.900 twice now. And this is one of them, because it's crazy. But you know, this is the next frontier, you guys

00:20:34.600 are one step beyond where we are right now in America. In every one of our 50 states, a parent has

00:20:40.420 the option to completely opt out of the system. So a parent can pull their kids out of the school, and you

00:20:45.140 can go to any kind of school you want to, it could be an independent Christian school, a church school, you

00:20:50.080 could homeschool them. Most of our states are still very free when it comes to homeschooling. But the next

00:20:55.660 frontier is now to come after these last little bastions of opposition, because for their ideology

00:21:01.920 to be credible, they need to completely, you know, it really makes me think of that old story, I'm sure

00:21:08.220 you've heard of it, the emperor has no clothes. You know, as long as there's one little boy out there

00:21:12.860 to raise his hand and point out, hey, you know, emperor, you're naked, actually, you're not really

00:21:16.480 wearing any clothes. As long as that boy is out there, there's a risk to the entire indoctrination

00:21:21.500 system. And so the next frontier now, of the education establishment, if you will,

00:21:27.940 is to smother and destroy all opposition. And so that's taking a number of different forms

00:21:32.260 around the world. In Sweden, where I've spent a lot of time, and in fact, two of my kids were born

00:21:37.280 there, I saw this happen firsthand. First, the government came in and they said, oh, you know,

00:21:41.540 we're just going to fund all the private schools, we're just going to give tax money to all the

00:21:45.140 Christian schools and the private schools, and then that way, we'll have real school choice.

00:21:49.240 And so all the schools started taking government money. And then, you know, just like the mousetrap,

00:21:53.580 boom, the trap closed shut. And now you all have to teach the government curriculum, you all have

00:21:57.900 to teach first graders that gender is a social construct, and that homosexuality is a desirable 0.99

00:22:02.780 lifestyle, and all these types of things, you must teach them, no deviation is allowed. They ban

00:22:07.700 prayer, even in Christian schools. And so we're now seeing that in the United States, where they want

00:22:13.000 to come with the money. And once you take the money, you know, they call it strings attached,

00:22:17.420 I call it chains attached, right? They want to chain these people down. So that, you know,

00:22:22.440 I don't care what people believe, if you want to have a, you know, a hippie left wing school, good,

00:22:26.800 have one. I'm happy for you. If you want to teach your kids, you know, your progressive ideology,

00:22:31.820 good, do that. But don't come and interfere with the with the educational freedom of everybody else.

00:22:37.300 And that's where this is all going, unfortunately.

00:22:39.080 Yeah, I mean, in Alberta, we have a pretty diverse school system, arguably the most diverse school

00:22:46.260 system in the country. We not only fund our charter schools, our public schools, our Catholic schools,

00:22:53.640 and we also fund private schools up to I think it's about 70% or so, which if you were a progressive,

00:23:02.020 you would say, hey, that's a really great idea. Because what it means is there are no socioeconomic

00:23:07.620 barriers to a parent directing the education of their child the way that the family chooses the

00:23:14.120 way that the family sees fit that everybody has access to a school that suits their child as opposed

00:23:19.680 to the general cookie cutter school. But the movement here in Alberta is to enforce the cookie cutter

00:23:27.360 ideology that everything has to be brought under the thumb of the public secular system. And all these

00:23:35.620 other schools just they they need to go to the wayside simply because they do take that public

00:23:42.320 funding. Whereas I would argue that Christians pay school taxes, too. And they have the right to

00:23:48.680 decide how they spend that money. That's right. And, you know, they talk about how much they love

00:23:53.580 diversity. But then when it all boils down, they hate diversity. They hate diversity of thought and of

00:23:58.400 opinion and of educational choices. And, you know, I tell people all the time, this is the battle.

00:24:05.380 You know, every dictator throughout all of history has understood if you want to control the future.

00:24:09.200 And in fact, Hitler said this directly, right, that he who owns the youth owns the future. I mean, 0.87

00:24:13.920 he quoted directly this was entered into the evidence at Nuremberg. Every dictator has understood

00:24:19.060 this. Every progressive has understood this. John Dewey understood this. This is why they were so

00:24:23.600 maniacally obsessed with getting control of the school system. So as long as we have options,

00:24:28.300 as long as parents have the option to withdraw from this and to educate their children in a way

00:24:33.040 different than what the government wants, you know, we're in good shape. But what's happening now

00:24:38.520 is that is gradually being eroded. They don't want Christian schools. They don't want independent 0.94

00:24:42.520 schools. They don't want schools that have different pedagogy or different ideas. And, you know,

00:24:47.640 if you draw the lines out, what you see is that this has enormous implications for the survival of

00:24:54.900 liberty, for the survival of our countries, for the survival of self-government, because what they're

00:24:59.400 doing now is they are indoctrinating the children into these ideologies, these ideologies of globalism

00:25:05.160 and socialism and humanism. And, you know, in America, something like 87 percent of the children go

00:25:10.180 to public schools. You know, do the math. Eventually, the older generations will die off. 87 percent, 1.00

00:25:16.480 that's more than enough to win every election in the country. So what's going to happen? Well,

00:25:20.600 eventually, we're going to lose our freedoms. We're going to lose our rights. We're going to lose

00:25:24.120 our country if we don't address this. And so that's why I say all the time, education is the

00:25:29.400 single most important battle of our time. We must focus on this, because if not all the other battles,

00:25:35.920 you know, everybody out there listening, I'm sure, has their pet political views. And, you know,

00:25:39.440 I want my gun rights safe. I want, you know, my free speech. I want the border laws and for,

00:25:43.940 you know, whatever it is, whatever your pet issue is, over the long term, you're going to lose

00:25:48.180 if you don't focus on this education issue. And so I say everybody, you know, keep focusing on your

00:25:52.580 issues, but also recognize that you have to devote some of your time and some of your energy to

00:25:57.060 education, because otherwise you're going to lose on everything else. Now, Alex, you're bringing your

00:26:01.640 message that education is truly the battleground for the future up to frigid Alberta. You're headed to

00:26:11.860 Calgary for a conference. What's that all about? That's right. Yeah. Thank you so much. I'll be

00:26:16.460 at the Freedom Talk conference. That's going to be in Calgary. And if I'm not mistaken, it's February

00:26:22.140 8th and 9th. I don't know the exact venue, but anybody who puts that into a search engine can find

00:26:28.100 it online. It's going to be a lot of fun. There's going to be some great people there. I know Craig

00:26:32.340 Rucker, who was with us in Poland, will be one of the speakers there. And I looked at the list. It looks

00:26:36.740 like some amazing Canadians. So I'm really excited to be a part of it. And I hope to meet as many of

00:26:42.160 my Canadian friends as possible when I'm up there and I'll bring a big jacket. So you better. I think

00:26:49.500 you're in for a pretty rude awakening about the weather. Now, where can people find your book

00:26:55.940 on education? In America, at least it's available at all the big bookstores, retailers in Canada. I

00:27:02.180 don't know what the situation is, but certainly you can get it through amazon.com. It's available and

00:27:06.460 you can order it online. You can also get it on Kindle if you like. And our special report in

00:27:11.380 The New American, that's being printed as we speak. And that'll be available in the coming days

00:27:17.620 through our website at thenewamerican.com. People can order copies of the print issue or they can

00:27:22.580 get a digital version of it as well. Excellent. And what was the name of your book again,

00:27:27.260 just so that people can plug that right into Amazon? Absolutely. It's Crimes of the Educators,

00:27:32.740 how utopians are using government schools to destroy America's children. And they're using 0.94

00:27:37.660 them to destroy Canada's children as well. Great. Alex, I want to thank you so much for

00:27:42.460 being extra generous with your time. Again, I promised you 20 minutes and we are past that.

00:27:47.660 But I just find you to be so fascinating. And I learn something new every time. And I look forward

00:27:53.660 to hopefully catching up with you in Calgary in a couple of weeks. Awesome. Hey, thank you so much,

00:27:58.260 Sheila. I really appreciate it. Thanks for everything you're doing. And I hope I'll see you in Calgary.

00:28:01.340 Great. Thanks, Alex. Thank you.

00:28:16.420 Well, there you have it. The fight for parents to retain control of the education system or in

00:28:21.640 some instances, wrestle control back from centralized government really is a fight for the future of

00:28:28.120 the culture. In Alberta, we have a lot of good people working very hard on this issue, especially

00:28:32.820 those at Parents for Choice in Education. We also have a similar group in Ontario at Parents as First

00:28:39.640 Educators who really are on the front lines battling for parents' rights every single day. And because

00:28:45.560 they are battling for parents' rights and smaller government, they are called names like homophobes and

00:28:52.260 bigots and xenophobes by people who have never met them, never looked at their work and never really

00:28:58.900 investigated what they are trying to do. In short, they're getting the standard treatment activists get

00:29:07.720 from the left. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. I hope Rachel Notley was watching and

00:29:14.600 hello to you, elections commissioner. You don't scare me one bit. Thanks, everybody, so much for

00:29:21.160 watching, especially you haters out there. I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same

00:29:26.840 place next week. And remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

00:29:44.600 Yeah.

00:29:49.600 Oh, yeah.

00:29:55.240 Oh, yeah.

00:29:57.220 Oh, yeah.

00:29:58.740 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:30:01.960 It's,

00:30:02.560 it's, it's it, it's, it's.

00:30:04.340 It's, it's, it's, yeah.

00:30:06.880 Good girl.

00:30:08.200 Oh, yeah.

00:30:08.900 Yeah, yeah.

00:30:10.460 You, yeah.

00:30:13.300 I know.

Rebel News Podcast - January 24, 2019

Why parental choice in education is the single-most important battle of our time (Guest： Alex Newman, New American Magazine)

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