Ep 329 ｜ Exposing the Mafia-Like Tactics of Teachers Unions ｜ Guest： Rebecca Friedrichs
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In this episode of Relatable, I sit down with author and activist Rebecca Friedrichs to talk about the corrupt nature of public school teachers unions and how they are actually working against the interests of teachers and students in our schools.
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Friday. I am so excited to talk to Rebecca Friedrichs
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today. We are going to be talking about the public education system in the United States,
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how it has been burdened by the corrupt teachers unions. And we're going to talk about some
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of the issues and the causes that they are championing in opposition to the well-being
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of your child and of teachers in the public school system. And she's also going to give us
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some action steps for how we can fight against this corruption that is unfortunately
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working against disproportionately and negatively underprivileged children who are being served
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and underserved by the public school system. Before we get into that conversation, I want to
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take a quick ad break. Rebecca, thank you so much for joining me. Thanks for having me. Okay, I think
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a lot of people who listen to Relatable are familiar with you, maybe have read your book. But just in
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case, can you tell everyone who you are, what you do, a little bit about your story?
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Sure. Well, I'm Rebecca Friedrichs. I was an elementary school teacher for 28 years. I would
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still be there with my adorable students if it wasn't for the nasty teachers unions who have been damaging
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the teaching profession and our educational system and our republic for decades. So I stand as the voice
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of good and loving teachers who want to do a great job. And I expose the damage that unions are doing
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in our schools. And to do that, I started a nonprofit called For Kids and Country. You can find us at
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forkidsandcountry.org. And I wrote a book called Standing Up to Goliath, which is full of testimonies
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of brave teachers and parents. And we expose what's really going on. And I just travel the country
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speaking to groups and speaking to people like you to help get the message out.
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And I want to talk a little bit more about your book and the case that you are involved in that
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made its way to the Supreme Court. But I want to back up and kind of talk about your story. I talk
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a lot about teachers unions and really the unethical nature of public unions in general. And I've got a
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lot of public school teachers and public school parents who listen to my podcast and say,
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you know, you're blowing it out of out of proportion. These teachers unions aren't that
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bad. Or I'll get public teachers, public school teachers who say, well, if it weren't for the
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union, I wouldn't have any defense or I wouldn't have any help. Can you talk about how you discovered
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the true nature of teachers unions, their corruption and how they're actually working against
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Yeah, I am so glad you asked me this series of questions. And this is going to be a somewhat
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Because thank you, because it is true. So many teachers have no idea what these unions are actually
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doing with the tens of billions that they collect from teachers annually. So I want to say to those
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teachers out there, I actually served as a union leader for three years. And I was an executive
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member of the board of my local association. And what I discovered, teachers, is your local union is
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usually wonderful. It's your teacher friends. They stand up for you. I stood up for my friends. I'd go in
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when someone was being mistreated by a bad administrator. I would stand for them. So I understand why you
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think there's nothing wrong with the union. But the truth is, the state and national unions are run by
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Marxists. They are the ones that are behind all of the unrest in our country. They are behind
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organizations like Black Lives Matter, the Women's March. They are 100% pro-abortion, abortion up to
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delivery, and after. They are so radical that I had to write a whole book about it. I was going to write
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a long pamphlet because I know most teachers don't have time to sit down with a whole book with all the
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crazy things going on in our schools. But it's so unbelievable, I had to write a whole book. And teachers,
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everything that you complain about in the teacher's lounge, your teacher's union is behind
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it. They are behind the radical sex education. If that has hit your school district, your local
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might be going, oh my gosh, this is terrible. But your state and national are pushing it, lobbying for
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it, funding it. They wrote the law in California and in multiple states. The teacher's unions are behind
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the anti-American agenda. Read some of my editorials. If you go to forkidsandcountry.org and go under our
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Rebecca's editorials, I wrote one about the 1619 project. And you can see how it's the teacher's
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unions who are behind bringing that into our schools and worked with the New York Times and those who wrote
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that nonsense, that very troubling, hurtful nonsense that's harming our country. Your teacher's union is behind
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organizing and supporting and starting Black Lives Matter. I could go on and on and on. But teachers,
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everything you complain about, everything that's making your job hard, those anti-discipline policies where
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you can no longer discipline children or suspend them for a willful authority or, excuse me, willful
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defiance of an authority figure. We can't do that anymore in the state of California because of
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teachers' unions. The teachers' unions also put into office every far-left radical Democrat like AOC,
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like Elhan Omar, like Biden and Harris, Kamala Harris, who intervened against myself and my fellow
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teachers when we took our case to the Supreme Court. Kamala Harris intervened the entire state
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of California against us. All we wanted was freedom so we could stand up for our students. So teachers,
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your union is not what it claims to be. And I would ask you from a loving teacher heart to please
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read my book so you can see the truth. Just read it and then make your decision after that. And then
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parents, the teachers' union actually bullied the PTA to such a degree in the 1960s and the 1970s
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that the PTA has no voice for parents or kids. They had to take a stance of neutrality. So they only
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support whatever teachers' unions support. It's completely corrupt. And Allie Beth mentioned that it's the
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other government unions as well. She's 100 percent correct. All of this fraud we see in this election
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cycle, the government unions are behind it. And if you think about how they run the DMV, which has the
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voter rolls, how they run the USPS, the Postal Service, and how they have infiltrated every one of
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our government institutions and agencies, and they are out to destroy our constitutional republic,
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that is not an understatement. And we would just ask you to look at the evidence before you make a
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decision on that. Yes. And in case some people don't know, we also have a good portion of our audience
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who is younger. They might not realize even what a public union is. But teachers' unions, police unions,
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firefighters' unions, those are public unions that we are supporting with our tax dollars,
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that very often, especially teachers' unions, like you said, they are then using the funds that they
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get from our tax dollars to support these far-left Democratic politicians that then pass policies and
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push policies that not only do we disagree with, but also work against the well-being and the liberty
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and security of our families, which is why public unions, many people would argue in general,
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are just unethical to use our tax dollars in that way. Can you talk a little bit, I know you write
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about this in your book, but can you summarize for us how you began to discover and uncover as a teacher
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what teachers' unions, the state and national teachers' unions, really stand for?
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Well, that was because I stepped up and got involved and sought for myself. So from the first
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day in the classroom, I was actually a student teacher, and I was learning from this incredible
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master teacher. And I saw a teacher next door to us abusing children. She would grab them and yank
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them and scream in their little faces. They were first graders. They were six years old. They came up to
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her waist. And I was so mortified. And so I went to my master teacher and I said, hey, I'm learning
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about how to report child abuse. And I don't know what to do because it's the teacher. And that's the
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day she sat me down and said, Rebecca, today's the day you learn about teachers' unions. And she
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explained to me that the teachers' union was defending this woman and that the district could do almost
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nothing about it. And I witnessed that over and over. You teachers out there and parents know
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there are bad teachers in a lot of our public schools. And you're thinking, why don't we fire
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that person? We don't fire them because the teachers' unions won't let us. They make the situation
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almost impossible or very expensive for the school districts to rid themselves of these very abusive
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people and often bad teachers who aren't teaching the children much. The other thing, I stepped up
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as a union leader after I noticed that throughout my career, I was about 14, 15 years into my career,
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and I noticed that I was for school choice. But every time I'd go to one of my mandatory staff
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meetings, the union would come in and tell us how evil, evil, school choice is evil. You have to
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fight this. Oh, the children are being abused in the charter schools. They're not getting a good
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education. Oh, they're stealing money from the public schools. Well, then I went and I did my own
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research and I listened to debates from both sides. And I discovered the school choice was outstanding
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and I wanted it for my future children. I didn't have children at the time. And so I discovered that it
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was the teachers' unions destroying school choice, trapping poor, innocent children,
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in dangerous, underperforming public schools. That's evil. That's wrong. And they even have a
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moratoria against wonderful charter schools. And I support charter schools. My husband's the president
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of a charter school. And so when I served as a union member, I went to annual leadership, state-level
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leadership meetings, and I was actually abused there. My book opens with a scene of 300 teachers
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being abused in a breakfast at a California Teachers Association conference. And we were abused by Lily
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Eskelson-Garcia, who was the most recent NEA president, and other union leaders. Do you know
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why they abused us? Because one teacher during Q&A stood up and asked, you know, I'm here standing for
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my colleagues and we're concerned that our dues are being spent on politics. We don't like that.
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We want to know how we can gain a voice so that our dues won't be spent on politics,
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particularly far-left politics. Do you know those union members ganged up on us? They stood on the
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stage really angry, and they, you know, stood around the room with their arms crossed, very mafia-like.
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And they told us that if we didn't agree with their politics, then we were basically bigots.
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And they told us that we didn't know what was right and that their way was right. And then they told
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us the right way to think their way. It was very like communism, being inside. And so that's just
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a few highlights of what I experienced and what helped me to see the truth about the unions.
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And for anyone who is listening to this, and maybe you're thinking, okay, well, this is her experience,
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but this isn't true in general. We've talked about on this podcast that some of the stories that you
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just told, for example, of a bad, abusive teacher not being able to be fired. Well,
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this is happening throughout the country. I'm sure that you talk about this as well,
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but the idea of rubber rooms, that even teachers who are caught, for example, in a sexual harassment
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or sexual assault situation, that sometimes those teachers are not only not fully fired, but they are
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also, they're not turned over to civil authorities and they're placed in these so-called rubber rooms
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where they're doing administrative things and are still getting paid a full teacher's salary.
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There was a story out of New York, a teacher from Long Island who had been in this rubber room for 20
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years and over that time had made over a million taxpayer dollars after he had been accused of sexual
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harassment from a couple of his high school female students. And so how did this happen? Have
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teachers unions always been like this? How did this grow into this massive corrupt scheme to work
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against parents and good teachers and kids? Yeah, well, it's really on purpose. So a few things to
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address that. Number one, when our founders set up our constitutional republic, they knew the only way
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to keep a free republic is with a well-educated and moral citizenry that could self-govern. That is
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the reason that our founders used as our first textbook, the Holy Bible. People think, oh, separation of
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church and state. Look, separation of church and state is not in the constitution. Go read it. It only
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takes about 30 minutes to read our constitution. Those words are not there. Those words came from
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a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist ministers. He was actually letting them know
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your religious liberties are protected in this country. The state cannot trample on your religious
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liberties. But the teachers unions and other leftists have used those words to frighten teachers
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and parents and to tell us that we can't talk about God in our schools. It's a lie.
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It's a complete lie. So our founders actually started our schools with something called a classic
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liberal arts education, true liberal arts, where our students were learning. They were reading the
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classics. They were learning Greek and Latin. They were studying from the scriptures. The reason they
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studied from scriptures was so that they could learn things like the golden rule, treat others the way you
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want to be treated. Don't murder. Things like that. Things that all of us know are good, strong
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values. So what happened was the teachers unions infiltrated our, well, pardon me, they call themselves
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teachers unions. So these Marxists who really wanted to undermine our republic knew they had to get into
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our schools, destroy our educational system, and destroy our morality. They have done this,
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if you look into history, they've done this over and over. Almost every communist country, this is how
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it started, an infiltration. They call it the Long March of the Left. So they marched into our
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institutions by starting, by taking over our teacher associations. So the National Education
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Association was started in the 1800s, actually by some pretty kind teachers who wanted to do good
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things, who had made little pamphlets that were full of scripture and prayers and patriotism,
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and they were infiltrated. And they were infiltrated by these Marxists who had this goal of getting into
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our schools and undermining our educational system and our morality. And they did it slowly because they
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knew teachers wouldn't accept them right away if they, you know, said what they were. So if you think
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about it, if you were evil and you wanted to take over something, you would get behind the sweetest faces
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you could find, the most trusted voices you could find. That's teachers. Teachers were highly admired
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in those days. And wouldn't it be nice if we could get back to that, teachers? And we would if we would
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reject unions. They are the ones making people not like us anymore. So they infiltrated, brought new ideas
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into our schools. They removed the classical liberal arts education. And they brought in humanism. And
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they brought in real socialist tendencies. And they brought in all kinds of a new math. Now we have
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common core. Now we have removed the classics from our schools and replaced it with teachers can bring in
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stuff from a website that's never even been checked over now. We brought in all kinds of things to on purpose
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damage our educational system and our morality. If you don't believe it, just look at the numbers.
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Teachers, you know, I taught kindergarten through fourth grade. It is not rocket science to teach a
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child how to read. All these excuses that we need more money, that's a lie. All these excuses that,
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oh, this and that, the parents aren't helping. Look, I had no problem teaching children from all kinds
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of backgrounds, even with their parents in jail. As long as I was in a supportive school system
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with a principal that would support discipline, with supplies that I needed. It wasn't rocket science.
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Those kids could learn. But in the old days of our country, over 90% of Americans could read.
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Even those that were out in, you know, farmland somewhere, they could all read. They could run a
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business. Now look at our numbers. They're, yeah, they're a disaster.
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Right. And we saw a lot of things start going downhill in different sectors of society started
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in the 1960s. And you write about in your book how a lot of people viewed the teachers unions just
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kind of neutrally. Like they didn't have a whole lot of opinion about them because they existed for
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their purpose for the most part. But then they started to become more political. They started to
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fight for, quote, LGBTQ rights and, you know, left wing health care policy and different things like
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that. And we have seen them become more and more political, more and more powerful, and really have
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the Democratic Party by the throat so that those two groups are really in cahoots. And that's why you
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have people like Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, because they're so supported by these teachers unions
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actively working against teachers and parents and students. Why that administration says that they
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are going to fight against the expansion of charter schools, that they are going to fight against the
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expansion of school choice for the very mythical reasons that you said that teachers unions were
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telling you guys that school choice actually steals money. Charter schools steal money from private
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school. And it's a privilege. What I've gotten so interesting, and this is more Marxist critical race
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theory language, is that school choice is a white privileged argument, that you're actually
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undermining the education of black and brown students and students in immigrant communities
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and students in poor communities, when really the opposite is true. So how is it, is it, well, I guess
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maybe I know the answer, but how is it that the Democratic Party and the teachers unions and the media
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and all of this left-wing Marxist propaganda have all joined together and become so powerful and yet
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so many people don't know it exists. Sorry, I have to rant one more second because I have something
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that I'm thinking. Now, they don't know it exists, but it's so pervasive, it's so powerful, it's so
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ubiquitous. And we just hear people repeating their talking points that, oh, we're not funding public
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schools. Like you said, that's a lie. The reason that teachers aren't getting paid enough is because,
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you know, we're giving tax breaks to the rich and big corporations, but we're funding the police,
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but we're not funding schools. That's a lie, that we're not prioritizing our children. It's not us.
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It's the teachers unions that are not spending that money wisely. So I want to hear more from you.
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How did that all happen with all of these segments of societies coming together with this
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terrible alliance without people realizing? Exactly. And I'm so glad you're awake to it. And
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I know Glenn Beck's awake to it. So often I'm listening to regular media and Fox News, for
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example, and they'll go on and on and on about all these problems and they never mention the teachers
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unions. And I'm sitting in my house going, it's the teachers unions. They're behind it. They're
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funding it. How did this happen? Money and power. So we know about unchecked power, right? If you have
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unchecked power, you get away with all kinds of stuff. So the government unions, let's just consider
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all of them. You know, every government employee, pretty much everyone is unionized. We're talking the
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Department of Education. We're talking the FBI. We're talking the CIA. Like you mentioned, the police
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and fire teachers, the DMV, the post office, go on and on and on to all of our institutions. They're
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unionized. Think about how much power that is. If you just Google the AFL-CIO, how many different
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people are unionized under them, you'll get this long list. Nurses. I mean, it just goes on and on.
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Now, they're collecting hundreds of billions with a B annually, tax free. And then they are spending
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that money on politics, all far left politics. Why? Well, if you want to undermine a free republic
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and you're a bunch of Marxists and you want socialism to rule, which always leads to communism,
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then you stand together sort of as an oligarchy, right? You're the big leaders and everybody else has
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to be the peons. When the unions changed our school system and removed that outstanding classical
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education, they brought in a different system that actually allows about 10% to be well-educated and to
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be rulers and the rest of us to be dumbed down. That's a recipe for disaster. So what I witnessed
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with my own eyes being a teacher union leader and what many of my other friends who are in my book
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who actually stepped up at the national level in the unions, they were bullied, they were spit upon,
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they were booed off the platform when they dared to speak up in defense of teachers, in defense of
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protecting children from radical sex ed, telling kids to, literally telling us to teach children
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about oral on anal sex. Yes, teachers, if you don't believe me, this is true. Read my book,
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three chapters on this. It's unbelievable what's going on. And so these teachers spoke against it
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and they got booed off the platform. They were barred from committees. They were completely silenced.
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Just like our college students are being silenced on college campuses, teachers have been silenced for
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decades, like you said, about since the 60s. So how did this happen? How did they get this power?
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It's mafia type control. Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. That's what it sounds like.
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Exactly. There's a story in my book about this sweet lady, Ruth Finnegan. She's in her 90s now.
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She's so brave. Well, in the 60s, she was a teacher in Hershey, Pennsylvania. And the unions came in and
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they said, we're going to unionize you all. You need us. Here's what they tell teachers. Teachers
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will recognize this. You need us for liability insurance because you're going to get sued.
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And she goes, I'm not here to harm the children. Why would I get sued? What do you do for me?
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Well, they couldn't convince her that she needed to join. And so she said, no.
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Every other teacher in her school joined, as did the principals at that time. She spoke to them one
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on one or in little groups. And they would say, oh, no, I don't want to join the union. But if you
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don't, oh, they make your life miserable. They'll fire you. They'll ruin your job. So they all joined.
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And so when she wouldn't join these unions, literally, she was after school. She was grading
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papers. This was a sweet young teacher. They came into her classroom, five men in black suits.
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And harassed her. Literal mafia tactics. They did it to her twice. She finally caved and joined. She
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feels very guilty about having joined. She felt like we could stop this nightmare if the teachers
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would have stood together. But they wouldn't. And that's what happened. Teachers are so terrified
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that they refuse to stand up to these unions. Now, if you're feeling tempted to get mad at teachers,
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look in the mirror, America. Most people still are politically correct. They'll only say certain
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things. You're not allowed to question that we have a sex ed agenda in our schools because, oh,
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then you're saying something against the LGBTQ hogwash. When you're telling children how to go get an
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abortion without their parents' knowledge or permission in a public school, when you're teaching
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a child in a public school to have anal sex in order to avoid pregnancy, that's an attack on
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religious liberties. That's child abuse. That's all kinds of problems. Don't tell me that I can't
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speak against that. Or if I do, I'm harming the LGBTQ. So they use these mafia tactics. And then we
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have seen with our own eyes that teachers unions practice talking points on us as teachers. They would use
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them to bully us if you were at the national level, my girlfriends who actually served at the national
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level. And do you know, six months, a year later, we'd then hear those talking points coming out in
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the form of Democrat talking points. And you know what? I don't call them Democratic anymore because
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they're not. I call them Democrat. It's crazy how defensive people who don't realize that all of this
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is going on gets. When I talk about the corruption of public schools and the public school system
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and the teachers unions, most public school teachers that I talk to and who follow me are
00:27:12.860
exactly like you. They're wonderful people who care so much about their students. And they are saying,
00:27:18.860
yes and amen, you're exactly right. I see all of that happening in the public school system. But then
00:27:23.160
you get some public school teachers and some parents and public school kids who are just in flat
00:27:27.500
out denial who accuse people like me or you of exaggerating, of fear mongering, of not really
00:27:32.840
knowing what's going on. And I do have a question for you that I get from a lot of these kind of
00:27:37.660
skeptics is, well, what about in states where there aren't teachers unions? Aren't public schools free
00:27:43.660
from corruption in those cases? And I would love to hear you speak to that because a place like Georgia
00:27:50.100
doesn't have teachers unions. And yet you're still seeing, I saw in DeKalb County, for example,
00:27:55.000
that's a little bit outside Atlanta. They're having a BLM social justice week. And so leftism,
00:28:01.440
Marxism, and that's not just a buzzword, it has a real definition that does define these teachers
00:28:05.760
unions and BLM self-evalidly. How are these things infiltrating some of the public school systems,
00:28:14.220
even without the presence of state teachers unions in places like Georgia?
00:28:21.320
People think like, oh, I'm in Texas. This is never going to happen to me. Well, the sex set I just
00:28:26.080
told you about, it's in the Texas legislature right now. So what people need to understand is
00:28:32.140
when you collect so many tens of billions of dollars annually tax-free, you have a lot of money
00:28:37.960
to wreak a lot of havoc over everybody. So even though you don't have a total control
00:28:46.480
of all of your school districts by unions, it doesn't matter because they'll collect the money
00:28:53.260
nationally, you know, through their forced, well, it's not a forced dues scheme anymore because we
00:28:59.940
took a case of the Supreme Court, teachers, you're not forced to pay them anymore, but most people don't
00:29:04.100
know that. So about 90% are still paying them. And they take that money and they send it wherever
00:29:09.460
it's needed. So, hey, maybe they raise it in California and they send it to Georgia or Texas.
00:29:15.800
And that's exactly what they're doing. They've had their sights on Texas for a long time,
00:29:19.740
which is why I have friends who escaped California to Texas. And they're like, hey, wait,
00:29:23.880
what's going on here? Why am I suddenly fighting the same thing? Don't believe this lie, people.
00:29:29.120
When they say, oh, don't California my Texas, they think, or don't California my South Carolina or
00:29:35.240
whatever, they think Californians like me are escaping California, coming to red states and
00:29:41.000
then destroying them. That's a lie. Those of us who escape, it's because we have conservative views
00:29:46.740
and we want a conservative place to live. And we want freedoms. We want our constitutional republic.
00:29:51.820
What's going on is the government unions are cheating and they are manipulating and they have
00:29:57.040
so much money. They lobby at every level. And like I said, they've infiltrated the PTA.
00:30:02.120
So when you're a legislator and you have someone from the PTA come, you think, oh,
00:30:06.960
this is what the parents want, right? And so they are so deceptive. They are so manipulative. They're
00:30:14.840
so wealthy and they have legislators by the neck, literally. If you want to get elected and you're
00:30:25.080
a Democrat, oh, you've got to do whatever the teachers unions want, whatever the government unions
00:30:29.940
want. So nobody's safe. And by the way, homeschoolers are not safe either because the goal of a Biden
00:30:37.620
administration, which God forbid, God forbid that happened, their goal would be to stop homeschooling,
00:30:46.180
stop private schooling, stop charter schools, and make every child attend a government-run
00:30:55.260
Yep. You're absolutely right. A lot of people have asked me, do you really think that we'll go,
00:31:01.180
for example, France has decided to severely restrict, if not ban homeschool altogether,
00:31:07.060
starting at three years old. Kids have to go to public preschool. And people have asked me,
00:31:12.660
do I think that's the end game here? I do. Do I think it's going to happen in the next year?
00:31:18.860
No. And I don't think it's a necessary, I don't think it's an inevitable outcome because I do think
00:31:26.160
that we can push back and the people still do, hopefully right now, have a voice and have power.
00:31:33.180
But look, this is an international, I know you probably agree with this, this is an international
00:31:38.200
movement. If you look at who is actually behind the sex education, in addition to the teachers'
00:31:44.280
unions, it's in partnership with organizations like Planned Parenthood, with UNICEF, with the WHO,
00:31:51.180
these are left-wing, godless, Marxist, again, organizations who have a vested interest in,
00:31:59.240
like you said, tearing down and disintegrating the hearts and the minds and the morality of kids,
00:32:06.620
pitting them against their parents, severing the parent-child relationship.
00:32:10.480
All of that is necessary to create a dumbed down and immoral proletariat in order to have
00:32:18.100
the collectivist left-wing future that these big international organizations are looking for.
00:32:24.920
So sexual immorality and perversion, the breakdown of the nuclear family,
00:32:30.680
the dumbing down of kids to where they cannot critically think and they don't know actual history,
00:32:35.620
all of that is a part of an ideology. It's not a conspiracy theory. We can point to the policies
00:32:41.720
and the organizations that are explicitly doing this, the politicians who are explicitly doing this.
00:32:46.560
It is for a specific purpose. They want more chaos in the streets. They want more division. They want
00:32:53.500
more people, more young people who are willing to raise their fist for communism without even a
00:32:58.820
thought to the world how communism has ended over the past 100 years. That's the goal. And public
00:33:05.240
schools, unfortunately, are being used as a vessel to accomplish that. Do you agree?
00:33:10.860
I agree 100 percent. That was all so well said. People need to realize that the teachers unions in
00:33:17.800
particular, they are the most brutal of all. They are a stronghold of exactly everything you just
00:33:24.680
described of this Marxism. And I can't state it strongly enough. And you brought up these other
00:33:31.880
organizations. It is true. I have friends who are conservative, loving parents who volunteer as
00:33:39.480
lobbyists at the United Nations. They have been lobbying against this sex ed for decades. And here's
00:33:45.860
what happened under the Obama administration. Countries would come in, poor countries from Africa or
00:33:51.860
something would come in seeking clean water and food and education for their children. And they would
00:33:59.080
be told, oh, sure, we'll help you with all that as long as you take this sex ed. The sex ed has been
00:34:06.020
destroying their countries. They're coming back because what it does is it divides families. It creates all
00:34:13.920
this out of wedlock pregnancy. And it just creates, like you said, more confusion and havoc and anger and
00:34:21.700
everything else. So they come back trying to escape it. And they're bullied at the United Nations. And so
00:34:27.980
then they're trying to stand together. The other thing people need to know, the World Health Organization,
00:34:32.820
yes, they're behind this. And you know what else? The CDC. I'm so glad people finally know about the CDC.
00:34:40.140
Number one, they're unionized. Number two, if you will just go on the CDC website right now,
00:34:45.880
if you're listening, and look up young men having sex with men, they have a whole, I mean, just pages
00:34:52.220
and pages on how we as teachers and parents, we're supposed to support young men having sex with men.
00:34:59.960
We're supposed to give them a safe place and normalize this. And here in my state, California,
00:35:06.580
they've already, through the governor, they control, Governor Newsom's 100% controlled by
00:35:11.800
the teachers unions. So has Nancy Pelosi and all the leadership in California. They have just signed
00:35:18.780
a law that if there are only 10 years or less between a child and an adult, so the child's 14,
00:35:28.060
the adult's 24. You cannot prosecute that person, that adult, as a child predator.
00:35:36.880
This is, this, so in other words, we are legalizing pedophilia. And this has been their goal from day
00:35:43.600
one. The CDC is behind it. And you can also go on to something called the Healthy Teen Network.
00:35:49.540
Just check out some of the lessons. They're teaching your children via virtual learning.
00:35:54.440
If your child has an activist teacher, teacher in quotes, because they're activists that the unions
00:36:00.780
have plopped into our schools, good teachers would never teach this stuff. They're actually
00:36:05.040
teaching your children that healthy sex during COVID is to do sexting and to look at pornography.
00:36:12.100
And they're leading them to pornography experts online. It's unreal. These people belong in jail.
00:36:19.080
And you're 100% right that it's all part of, all you have to do is study communism,
00:36:24.840
study Marx, read the book, The Naked Communist. All you have to do is a little bit of research and
00:36:31.140
you will discover that everything we are witnessing right now is 100% Marxism to lead to socialism and
00:36:38.000
communism. It is a disaster and we must save our country from this. And the way we save our country
00:36:43.720
is getting public sector unions out of our schools, out of our institutions, out of our agencies.
00:36:51.720
That's where we start because they are the stronghold. They are, I call them the root of the
00:36:56.300
problem. They're creating all these poisonous branches from their poisonous root. So we have
00:37:04.360
So what does the average parent do who feels overwhelmed right now? They're realizing, wow,
00:37:09.580
this is a problem. I've got my kid in public school, but I want to fight. I want to fight
00:37:14.700
against this, but I don't know where to start. What would you recommend for them? Or even the
00:37:20.640
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bless them all. And first of all, I want to say to these parents,
00:37:24.020
I was a single parent for seven years with a little boy that they kept labeling ADHD and,
00:37:31.180
you know, just super active. He's not, I don't believe in that stuff. He's just brilliant. And,
00:37:36.140
you know, the schools weren't serving his needs properly. They're making him fill in bubbles
00:37:40.960
instead of letting him use his mind and his hands. And anyway, that's a different argument. But if
00:37:46.220
you're a parent and your children are in public schools, I cannot urge you strongly enough to pull
00:37:53.440
them out of those public schools. Now, if you're, let's say you're in a state where your public schools
00:37:59.680
haven't been totally infiltrated yet, do not fall asleep. It is coming.
00:38:05.020
You know, get on your school board. You'll discover if you run for school board,
00:38:08.720
you will believe me about the unions because they will attack you with everything they've got.
00:38:12.560
They will call, they call me the spawn of Satan. They'll do the same to you. They'll call you all
00:38:16.680
kinds of evil and do evil things to you. You can read stories about that in my book, but stand up,
00:38:22.500
go to every school board meeting, make your voice heard, step up on the, you know, committees in your
00:38:28.520
district. And if there is a union help to remove it. But get your kids out of those public schools.
00:38:35.480
They're not safe places anymore. If they're doing virtual learning, sit down and watch what they're
00:38:39.280
learning. Now, what you have to realize is a lot of teachers are still amazing. We have great teachers
00:38:44.960
in this country, but they are trapped in a corrupt system. So there's a lot of good teachers who aren't
00:38:50.780
going to do these bad things, but it's going to come down. For example, we're no longer in
00:38:56.800
California. We're no longer allowed to call the children boys and girls because we can't assume
00:39:01.520
anyone's gender. You mentioned earlier, they want to have them in preschool starting at age three.
00:39:07.680
Please don't put your children in a government run preschool. Here's what they're being taught.
00:39:11.680
If the unions have totally infiltrated and the sex ed is in, your children are told that
00:39:18.140
your parents, when you were born, your parents didn't know your gender.
00:39:22.720
So they assigned you a gender and someday you'll figure out your gender from a whole spectrum of
00:39:28.320
an unending number of genders. And then you'll choose your gender. Did you know that in a lot
00:39:33.680
of places, the school can give your child puberty blockers without your permission or your knowledge
00:39:38.800
because your child says, Oh, I really think I'm not a girl. I'm really a boy. Um, you know,
00:39:44.780
they were behind the teachers unions were behind, uh, allowing biological boys to compete against
00:39:50.640
girls in sports. That's evil as a, as an athlete. And my dad and I fought so hard for my rights as a
00:39:56.860
female athlete. And now females can't, uh, don't have a fair shot. This is all the unions. This is
00:40:02.620
all coming out of the public schools with the, with the public sector unions that call themselves
00:40:08.180
teachers, call themselves unions too. They're not, they're Marxists. So I can't state it strongly
00:40:13.160
enough teachers. I know it's, it's, it's even tougher for you because here's what Marxists do.
00:40:20.060
And you have to understand that they've put you in a system and they've tried to convince you
00:40:26.740
that you have to have, you need them. So what did they do? They've given you good salaries. They've
00:40:32.980
given you, um, a Cadillac medical insurance. You have better than most Americans. The teachers
00:40:38.080
unions fought for Obamacare and then they opted out of it. So you're not stuck with it.
00:40:43.160
But your money passed it. Uh, that's hypocritical. Um, you have pensions teachers, as you know,
00:40:51.120
uh, lifetime pensions. Most Americans don't have that. And, um, I know that you don't want to give
00:40:57.640
all that up, but the problem is if you're, um, I think it was Benjamin Franklin who had a statement,
00:41:03.300
something like those who give up liberty for security will have, will soon they'll have neither
00:41:09.820
one. They'll have neither liberty nor security. So what's happened teachers, because you've said,
00:41:14.600
Oh, I got to protect my, my pension. Oh, I need to protect my paycheck. Oh, I need to protect my
00:41:18.780
medical insurance. Oh, I need the whole country's going down. And this is other public sector
00:41:25.200
employees too. We're losing our Republic. We're losing our liberties. We teachers have to step up
00:41:34.460
teachers. You are people who love, you love to step up and help save people. You love that. That's
00:41:41.060
our hearts as teachers. We want to give our hearts to families and children. We do everything. I mean,
00:41:46.240
I know teachers who have adopted children when their parents died. Okay. This is what the heart,
00:41:51.440
this is the heart of a teacher. If God called you to be a teacher, you have got to stand up to this evil.
00:41:56.660
You know, I couldn't afford to leave the classroom, but when God asked me to do it, I did it. And I
00:42:03.040
didn't have a paycheck for a couple of years, nothing. And I was still working really hard
00:42:07.500
building our nonprofit. And you know what? God's blessed it. And I never went hungry and I didn't
00:42:12.440
lose my home. And I have to tell you teachers, the teachers unions tell you that they defend you.
00:42:17.920
They tell you that they give you that liability insurance. I have a good friend, best teacher I worked
00:42:23.380
with during my 28 years in the classroom. She lost her job in three days and she was guilty of
00:42:29.460
nothing. She was falsely accused. They basically wanted to get rid of her because she was about to
00:42:33.660
be completely ready to get her good pension. You know, she was a couple months shy of being invested
00:42:39.780
or whatever they call it, fully vested. She was chased out and harassed. She lost her home. She lost
00:42:45.620
everything. She's renting a little apartment now from her parents. And then they blackball her and,
00:42:50.460
you know, didn't want her to get a job anywhere else. It's evil what's going on out there. The
00:42:54.460
unions are not going to defend you unless you speak their language, unless you do their bidding,
00:42:59.820
unless you push their agenda. There are organizations out there. One's called Christian
00:43:04.640
Educators. One's called Association of American Educators. They're all on our website. If you go to
00:43:09.680
forkidsandcountry.org and click on teacher freedoms and protections, the menu item, you can discover how to
00:43:16.640
stop paying unions, how to opt out. And we have these organizations that where you can get liability
00:43:22.540
insurance that is a fraction of the price of what you're paying the unions. And it's double the
00:43:28.480
coverage, $2 million per incident. The unions give you $1 million. And the unions, teachers, I know
00:43:34.540
they've told you that if your principal harasses you or whatever, they'll defend you. That's a lie.
00:43:38.520
They only defend you if you get sued or if you're doing their bidding. But these organizations,
00:43:46.660
CEAI and AAE that are under our menu item under liability insurance, they will defend you even if
00:43:52.520
you are harassed by your administrator or, you know, if you're told you have to be silenced about
00:43:58.360
something, that you have lawyers available to you at all times. So you can get better coverage.
00:44:03.320
You can sleep well at night knowing that you're not giving to this evil system that is damaging
00:44:09.020
our children. We have to step up as teachers. And I will keep fighting. I will fight till the day I die
00:44:14.660
to try to get unions out of our schools and our institutions.
00:44:18.200
Yes. Thank you so much. And just a quick note for teachers that are in places like Georgia where
00:44:22.820
you're thinking, OK, there's not a teacher's union. There's still administrative corruption.
00:44:27.640
There is still bureaucracy within the public school system. You can bet your bottom dollar that
00:44:32.680
teachers' unions and the corrupt portions of the public school system in places like Georgia
00:44:37.440
are behind the senatorial candidates like Ossoff and Warnock. Those people, even if there are not
00:44:43.580
state teachers' unions in places like Georgia, the teachers' unions are still going to fund the
00:44:47.760
campaigns of those kind of senators and still are going to have them by the back of the neck if they
00:44:53.680
get to D.C. And those senators, whether or not they're teachers' unions in Georgia, are going to fight
00:44:59.220
on behalf of these corrupt teachers' unions when they get to D.C., which will disproportionately and
00:45:05.520
negatively affect your children and especially underprivileged children. So it is a lie. This
00:45:10.580
whole thing of voting for Democrats and voting for liberals is actually the more compassionate
00:45:14.580
thing to do for underprivileged kids. It's not true. Example number 1,000, and maybe the most
00:45:20.880
important one, is the teachers' union to the Democratic politicians who support them. So thank you
00:45:26.040
so much, Rebecca, for shining light on this, for your fight. I really encourage everyone to go out
00:45:32.300
and read your book. It is standing up to Goliath. That's correct, right? Standing up to Goliath?
00:45:39.040
Goliath being the teachers' unions. I'm really enjoying the book, and it's just so illuminating,
00:45:44.340
troubling, and challenging in the best way. As a mom of soon-to-be little kids,
00:45:54.940
too, I am, you know, thinking a lot about this stuff and a lot about their education and wanting
00:46:00.560
to protect them and to preserve their innocence as much as I can and just make them smart little
00:46:06.620
critical thinkers. And parents just, we can't fall asleep at the wheel. There's too much at stake. And
00:46:11.700
I just appreciate your fight on behalf of these kids. Thank you. And I so appreciate you helping me
00:46:17.880
to get the message out there. Yes. Thank you so much.