Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 734 ｜ Teachers' Unions Must Be Stopped ｜ Guest： Marissa Streit

00:00:00.000 Well, there is a problem with the education system in the United States. If you listen to this

00:00:04.660 podcast, you are probably well aware of that. But where does this problem start? Today, the CEO of

00:00:11.840 PragerU, Marissa Streit, is joining me to talk about the corruption of the teachers' unions

00:00:16.860 and how this is manifesting itself in the classroom. And then after that interview,

00:00:21.700 I'm going to react to some of the craziest and most popular TikTok videos of teachers

00:00:26.340 just airing out all of their absurdities that they are bringing into the classroom to confuse

00:00:34.180 children. This episode is brought to you by Good Ranchers. Go to GoodRanchers.com. Use

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00:00:43.540 Well, thanks so much for joining us. For those who might not know, tell us what your job is at

00:00:59.120 PragerU. So I am the CEO of PragerU. And you're the person who called the shots and you started

00:01:05.700 this whole thing. Yeah. PragerU actually started 11 years ago in my kitchen. And in some ways,

00:01:12.340 it's like my first child. I have three other kids, but PragerU started first.

00:01:16.600 Wow. And how did you get the idea? I don't know if I know the answer to all of the questions that

00:01:23.580 I'm asking. I thought that I knew, but how did you get the idea to start PragerU?

00:01:27.860 So it was actually not my idea. The idea came about from Alan Estrin, who is the producer of

00:01:34.800 Dennis's radio show, and he's been working with him for 30 years. And then one day he said,

00:01:39.500 you know, we really need to use the internet to help cure people. It looks like we need to give

00:01:45.100 some medicine for the mind. And Dennis Prager has what we call, you know, kind of like penicillin for

00:01:50.360 the mind. He has this great way of explaining complex ideas. And America has become sicker and

00:01:56.620 sicker. And really, education got us into this massive mess that we're seeing today. And so they

00:02:02.080 said, well, let's hire somebody who has kind of a background in education. At that point in my life,

00:02:07.820 I had a master's in education, I taught in California, every grade, kinder through seventh,

00:02:12.980 I ran a school myself. I also had a nonprofit background experience. And I had experience in

00:02:20.800 digital media. And so the combination of all of those random skill sets seem to have been

00:02:25.580 kind of what maybe God planned for me. And so the three of us got together. And we started really

00:02:32.380 small, as I mentioned, we started in my kitchen. And Dennis thrusted me with, you know, his his name

00:02:39.620 and his values. And I worked closely with Alan to build what is now the largest educational media

00:02:46.040 enterprise, the conservative movement has ever seen.

00:02:49.460 And the combination of your skill set and your background, also kind of sets us up for the video

00:02:56.300 that you guys just published about why education in this country, specifically public education,

00:03:01.320 is failing. So tell us a little bit about that. Why is it so bad?

00:03:06.740 Right. So this is exactly why I'm here. And this is why I'm doing what I'm doing.

00:03:12.080 20 years ago, when I started with the world of education as an educator, I realized that there is

00:03:18.220 a very big bully in school who is never held accountable for their bullying. And those are the

00:03:23.300 teachers unions. And so we we produced a short 20 minute mini documentary that really outlines and

00:03:30.360 explains why one of the biggest problems in America right now that we're facing are the fact

00:03:35.080 that we have these teachers unions that actually admit this is just before I joined Prairie before

00:03:42.040 we got started in 2009. The head council of the teachers union announced that they don't really

00:03:48.440 care about students. They don't really care about government schools. They care about power.

00:03:52.680 And I saw that firsthand when I was an educator. And it frustrated me because there were not enough

00:03:58.320 organizations out there that are actually advocating for kids and advocating for parents.

00:04:03.140 And so you fast forward 20 years now where we are seeing the power of these teachers unions and the

00:04:10.580 fact that they basically haven't been stopped and they keep gulping and gulping additional power.

00:04:15.520 And they have it has come to a point, Ali, where they don't even hide it anymore. Back when I was a

00:04:21.540 teacher, it seemed a little sneaky, a little bit behind the scenes. But if you read their most recent

00:04:26.820 the NEA, which is the largest teachers union group in America, they published in July their platform and

00:04:34.600 the things that they were going to be focusing on. And they're not focusing on issues that help children

00:04:39.980 or teachers. They are focusing on very hard left wing political issues. And they're using the teachers

00:04:47.480 unions, the power of the reach that they have with their membership and their money and their connections to

00:04:53.780 actually brainwash American kids. And if I if I spend a moment just describing to you how egregious this 0.58

00:05:00.300 platform is, one of the things that they're focusing on, I'm just going to read you a list. I have the entire packet

00:05:05.580 here from July. But I pulled out some excerpts because I think you might find this really interesting.

00:05:11.020 One of the things that at the top of their agenda is support transitioning students and push the whole

00:05:16.700 pronouns agenda, fight institutional homophobia, fight for equity, fight against white supremacy

00:05:24.300 culture in America, anti black and colorism, fight for for more DEI, diversity, equity and inclusion,

00:05:31.700 and make sure to put pressure on universities to use that as a tool to decide which kids should make

00:05:38.900 it into college. In addition to that, they want to fight by all this. This is how they write this

00:05:44.100 all means to defend Roe v. Wade and give students kids access to birth control and abortion. Additionally,

00:05:52.500 I have a few more of them. They they're working on giving asylum for migrants who are now arriving at

00:05:57.860 the border. This is a very topical issue, actually, this week. Fight Florida and their don't say gay

00:06:04.580 law, which, of course, we all know is a complete farce with the way they title it. Mandatory fight

00:06:10.020 for mandatory masking and vaccines in schools. This is, again, in the NEA's agenda. This article number 35,

00:06:19.140 if anybody wants to look it up, attack the largest largest 25 organizations that they don't like. I would

00:06:25.780 not be surprised if PragerU is probably on their list. Take a stand on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,

00:06:34.500 accusing Israel of abuse and discrimination, packing the courts. I mean, for goodness sakes,

00:06:41.060 how are any of these issues important for children? And so we have to this is our time as parents

00:06:48.500 to defend our kids to defend our future and fight this behemoth. Wow. I had a woman, a former teacher,

00:06:56.420 who was on the show a couple of years ago. I think she was out of the state of California,

00:06:59.780 who tried to stand up to the teachers unions because they're not just taking away valuable

00:07:05.060 education from kids. They're really bullying a lot of teachers. Teachers who don't agree are scared and

00:07:10.980 for good reason to stand up to the teachers unions because they really act kind of like the mafia.

00:07:16.180 They're like, if you do not support us, if you don't align with how, with, you know, the things

00:07:22.820 that we believe, then we're going to ruin you. We're going to make it very difficult to do your

00:07:27.940 job. So when the teachers unions have this much power and they are this disinterested in the success

00:07:34.340 and the well-being of students, how in the world do we begin combating it? Sometimes it seems like

00:07:41.060 they're just too big and too powerful to embed with the Democratic Party for us to really be able to

00:07:47.540 push back against them. So the teachers unions are the Democratic Party, you know, read through the

00:07:54.500 list. It's basically synonymous. I don't believe that we fight because we know we can win. I believe

00:08:00.340 that we fight because we know we have to fight. Yeah. And, you know, the truth is with us. And I also

00:08:05.860 believe that there is something very powerful about parenting that gives you a source of energy

00:08:11.940 that you never believed that you would have. And so if parents understand what is at stake and we all

00:08:19.140 come together, we can be so incredibly powerful. And part of what we knew need to do is we need to

00:08:24.420 revolt. This is this is our revolution. This is our moment to protect our kids. And our eyes need to be

00:08:30.500 wide open and we need to just push hard against it. And I can't tell you how many teachers I know

00:08:37.620 that actually share our values and are still part of the teachers unions, thinking that they have to

00:08:44.020 be members because they think they need the protection. I mean, on a daily basis, I get

00:08:49.300 DMs on my Instagram from teachers who follow us and say, you know, I'm really sorry, but I feel like

00:08:54.820 I have to be part of the union because I feel like I need the protection. And it's really a farce

00:08:59.140 because they don't actually protect good teachers. Teacher good teachers don't need to be protected.

00:09:03.700 They're not going to get fired. It's the bad teachers getting protected. Right, right. They

00:09:09.060 protect not just bad teachers, but in some cases, criminal teachers. There was that story a couple

00:09:13.620 years ago, I remember in the New York Post, where this guy was still getting paid over $100,000 a year

00:09:21.060 after he had been found guilty of sexually harassing high school students. There are these kinds of

00:09:27.380 rubber rooms across the country where these bad, corrupt, in some cases, criminal teachers

00:09:33.300 are still getting paid taxpayer money. That's what the teachers unions are good for. 0.99

00:09:41.380 Exactly. I mean, they protect the bad teachers and they actually don't reward the good teachers

00:09:46.980 because there are plenty of really young, energetic, incredibly amazing teachers out there. But just

00:09:53.540 because they haven't been tenured a year yet, they haven't received, you know, they don't receive

00:09:58.340 bonuses. What is what a great way it would be if we could reward teachers who do great by actually

00:10:03.940 providing them bonuses for doing good work, as opposed to being rewarded based on the number of years

00:10:10.100 that you serve the membership of the NEA and the teachers unions, which is now how they effectively get

00:10:16.580 rewarded.

00:10:28.100 I wonder sometimes what is the why behind this? When you have stories coming out of places like the city

00:10:33.700 of Baltimore, where I think it was last year that almost half of the class graduating only read at about

00:10:41.460 a kindergarten level. So we're talking basically illiterate adults, and they are able to graduate

00:10:47.460 because what we see in the pursuit of so-called equity is just the lowering of standards over and

00:10:52.900 over again. I just wonder why someone would even go into the field of education if they don't care about

00:10:58.820 that. Why don't you want your students to be able to read? Why don't you want them to be able to write? Why don't

00:11:03.140 you want them to be able to do math? I mean, I know that, okay, yeah, sure, we've got some corrupt communists in 0.96

00:11:08.420 there who just care about power. They just want activists. But surely that can't characterize all of 0.76

00:11:14.420 these even liberal teachers. So I just wonder, like, what is the motivation behind dumbing down these

00:11:19.940 students?

00:11:21.620 Yeah, I mean, I think the dumbing down these students is is blame and child abuse, right? And like to not

00:11:28.740 hold kids accountable to the standards that they could and should be held accountable to is child

00:11:35.220 abuse. I don't believe that all teachers are bad. And I don't believe that the teachers who are

00:11:39.940 teaching at lower standards are bad. I think the lower lowering of standards comes from two places.

00:11:46.020 One is it's institutional. And, you know, it's in the system's best interest to lower the standards in

00:11:53.060 order for them to have an easy time simply meeting the standards, right? It's like, okay, well, if we

00:11:57.780 didn't meet the standards last year, let's just lower the standards so that we don't have to hold the

00:12:02.660 bureaucrats and the teachers accountable for something like that. And the other thing is,

00:12:07.060 in many cases, what I have seen is that the standards have been lowered in the name of

00:12:12.340 equity. And so there is this flattening of expectations of kids. And you are not allowed

00:12:18.020 to have some kids who are ahead and some kids who are in the middle and some kids who are below.

00:12:22.100 What they're trying to do is flatten everybody's ability. And so the way to do that is to lower the

00:12:27.220 standards as much as possible so that nobody feels bad because there are other kids who are doing

00:12:33.380 better. And so rather than allowing, having a philosophy that is a little more competitive,

00:12:38.660 you know, I believe that part of a competition is a great thing for a child, but they don't believe

00:12:44.660 in competition. They believe in equity. And so if you don't believe in competition and you only believe

00:12:49.540 in equity, the only way to actually achieve equal results is to completely lower the standards to a

00:12:56.420 point where anybody can pass. And that has been essentially what has happened in our education

00:13:01.620 system. They've continued to lower the standards so that everybody can pass and everybody, like an

00:13:07.460 assembly line, can be brought up to the next grade without real accountability from the bureaucrats

00:13:13.220 or the system itself. Man, and that has lifelong implications. Of course, you're going to be,

00:13:19.860 in a sense, a slave to the system and completely dependent on an entity to take care of you

00:13:25.780 if you have not achieved true liberation. They use that word often, not really meaning liberation,

00:13:32.260 but true liberation, which comes through education, the ability to read, the ability to reason,

00:13:37.700 the ability to write and communicate is everything. It's everything. And to not be able to teach kids

00:13:44.580 that, that have the capacity, as you said, it is a form of abuse. It's certainly a form of neglect.

00:13:49.700 So for the teachers and especially the parents who are listening to this, I know you mentioned

00:13:54.660 the revolt, but they're listening and they're incensed and they're thinking, OK, I want to get

00:13:59.620 involved. I want to do something. Whether or not a parent has kids in the public school system,

00:14:04.500 it's still your tax dollars. It's still your community. You still have a vested interest because

00:14:08.900 those kids are going to grow up to be your future leaders and neighbors and voters and all of that.

00:14:14.180 And so we all have to care. Tell us the first steps to take for people who just want to get involved

00:14:19.940 and try to fight, as you said. OK, so there are a few types of fighters out there. There are people

00:14:25.860 who are like us who can run into arrows and we're in that field. Right. And so it's a lot. I don't want

00:14:31.780 to make it sound like anybody should just go and speak and be vocal because not everybody can do that,

00:14:36.740 but everybody can do something. Right. And so one thing you can do is start with your own community,

00:14:42.420 your own family, your friends and your community. We are trying at PragerU to provide as many

00:14:47.380 resources as we can for parents, including the parents who are not ready to be out there and

00:14:51.860 vocal. We've created an app that you can download onto your television. You can download onto your

00:14:57.060 iPad. And instead of your child watching the type of garbage that is out there, and frankly, 0.94

00:15:02.100 a lot of the educational stuff that is out there is garbage. Watch PragerU. It's broccoli for your 0.99

00:15:06.980 child's brain. You'll be the smartest kid at the next birthday party, I guarantee. We have shows for

00:15:11.860 kindergarteners all the way through 12th grade and up. So that is one way to get started. You can

00:15:16.740 also get to get started by simply being informed every quarter. There is just a massive amount of

00:15:24.020 more information that parents need to be aware of. We can't keep our head in the sand. The more aware

00:15:30.100 you become, the more you're going to build the instinct on how you can be helpful to the movement. Right.

00:15:35.860 And so follow accounts like yours, follow PragerU, subscribe to our newsletters. We provide a lot

00:15:41.300 of information of what's happening out there. If you're ready to actually enlist, join your school

00:15:47.220 board, join your community board, join your city council. Most of these egregious decisions are

00:15:52.820 actually made on a local level. People pay attention to presidential elections because it's exciting and

00:15:58.260 it's all over the news. But most of the things that are impacting people in their families are really

00:16:03.140 localized decisions. And so try to find a way to get involved. And then also don't do it alone.

00:16:09.780 Find a cohorts, find other friends that can do this with you. If you're, if you're locking arms with

00:16:14.900 other parents, you're going to be much more powerful and much more confident. And I would also say this

00:16:20.500 is a little, a little behind the scenes information from back when I was a head of a school. This is a

00:16:26.340 little advice. When you go to the head of school, if you're, if you're sending your kid to a school,

00:16:31.380 do not meet with them alone. Request a town hall. The reason they want to have alone meetings is

00:16:36.660 because you're more isolated and they can say things to you that they won't say publicly.

00:16:40.980 And they will, you know, some of them actually listen, but many of them just pretend to listen.

00:16:45.780 They'll pretend to take notes and they'll pretend to say that they're going to do something about it.

00:16:49.460 But because they're just meeting with you face to face, there's no real accountability.

00:16:53.220 And so find your cohort and have town halls with the leadership of the school and say,

00:16:57.540 many of us have the same issue. Many of us are concerned about, you know, the sexualization of

00:17:01.860 our kids and the lowering of standards and, and all of the things that you're concerned about.

00:17:06.180 Push for these town halls so that it can be recorded and so that it can be public and so that

00:17:11.380 there can be actual accountability afterwards. And then, you know, lastly, I would say is just

00:17:18.740 talk about it with everybody you can, including your children, you know, make sure that they're

00:17:23.060 prepared to know that when you send them to school, the values are taught at home, not in school.

00:17:29.780 It's not the job of the government to teach your kids values. It's the job of the parents. And we

00:17:34.500 need to take that ownership back into our own home so that we don't forfeit some of the most

00:17:40.420 important things in our kids. And that is their character and their moral values. For too long,

00:17:45.780 we've been relying on these institutions to do that for us. And it's a lot of work. I totally get it.

00:17:51.780 But it's something that we can't neglect. And that is those are the beginning seeds of

00:17:56.500 what I believe is the revolution that we need to create.

00:17:59.380 Yes, and amen. Well, that is so good. And I really do encourage people download the app. People

00:18:04.340 are always asking me what content should I allow my kids to watch? Well, you don't have to worry

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00:18:16.260 content right there. Thank you so much for taking the time to join me. I know this is going to be

00:18:20.260 really encouraging for a lot of moms out there. Thank you, Allie. I love your work.

00:18:35.940 Okay, I love that conversation. She is just so fiery and informed. And she just makes me feel like I can

00:18:45.940 run through a wall for the sake of our kids. All right, just to kind of put a fine point on how

00:18:51.540 crazy our schools are right now. How crazy some of these teachers have become. I just wanted to react

00:18:59.700 to some popular TikTok videos that have been posted recently by human beings that are educating our

00:19:08.500 children. Just to give you an example of what we're up against here. Here's one.

00:19:13.860 Another way to make sure that students' pronouns are respected in your classroom is to give a class

00:19:18.900 survey. It's anonymous. And the first question you can ask is, what is your name on the roster?

00:19:24.900 Then the next question following up could be, you know, what is the name you'd like me to call you in

00:19:30.020 class? And it's really important to follow those up with questions such as, can I share this information with

00:19:36.020 your caretakers? Can I share this with your other teachers? Can I share this information with other

00:19:40.820 students in the classroom? And then doing all of that again with pronouns. All right, so I know that

00:19:46.580 this might sound like she's just being considerate and she's just protecting their safety. But look,

00:19:50.820 parents have a right to know this stuff. And I don't know, maybe you think, well, what if the parent

00:19:55.940 is abusive? Look, if the parent is abusive, then teachers are mandatory reporters. If they actually suspect

00:20:01.780 abuse, they have to report that to the proper authorities. What they mean, typically, these

00:20:06.500 activist teachers by safe or unsafe is, do these parents affirm their idea, the idea that their

00:20:14.660 daughter can become a boy? And so that's what they deem as safe. What is unsafe is a parent who says,

00:20:22.500 you know what, I know my daughter, this might be a difficult stage that she's going through right

00:20:26.820 now, but we are going to affirm how God made her and we are going to help her accept who she is and

00:20:31.700 love her body. That's what they would deem unsafe. So the people they are protecting these kids from

00:20:37.620 is really just parents who care about the best interests of their kids. These teachers don't,

00:20:42.260 these teachers don't care at all. This is like about them feeling good. This is about them finding

00:20:48.260 validation in children because these teachers at the end of the day are not going to walk alongside

00:20:55.300 these students as they medically transition and ruin their bodies and lives. They're not going to be 1.00

00:21:00.340 the ones picking out the pieces of their depression and suicide when these children are pushed into

00:21:05.140 irreversible damage. The parents are. And so this attempt to try to separate parents from kids in the name

00:21:13.220 of safety and love and inclusion, I mean, it's criminal. It's absolutely criminal. All right, here's the next one.

00:21:20.020 So in the preschool classroom I work in today, a little kid asked me, are you a boy or a girl?

00:21:25.940 And this has happened a few times, but I live in a pretty conservative area, so I don't necessarily

00:21:30.500 feel comfortable saying what I would like to say, which is I'm neither. Some people are neither a boy

00:21:35.060 or a girl. So I just went to my go-to, which is, well, what do you think? And they said, I think you're a boy.

00:21:42.500 And the kid next to them said, no, she's a girl. And then the first kid said, no, she's a boy.

00:21:50.580 And I think she's a boy is personally pretty gender affirming for me. And it came at a great time

00:21:58.180 because tomorrow is my first HRT appointment and I'm very nervous and very excited. So wish me luck.

00:22:05.860 Oh my gosh. So, so sad. I mean, first of all, she is laughing about these young children being

00:22:14.740 confused about this. As we've talked about before, it is so important for kids' development to be able

00:22:19.060 to put things and people in categories, to be able to distinguish between male and female, helps them

00:22:24.020 understand themselves and put themselves in proper context and categories, and do the same for other

00:22:29.620 people. Kids you see naturally order their world to try to make the world make more sense and try to make

00:22:35.060 the world smaller. It helps them feel secure. It helps them feel safe. Kids like routine. They

00:22:39.780 like predictability. They like stability. And when you destabilize their understanding of the world by

00:22:46.500 saying that this person who really looks like a woman, but just has short hair and probably dresses

00:22:51.780 like a man is neither one or the other or both one or the other. I mean, you are seeking validation

00:22:59.460 from the confusion of children. And again, that's wrong. There's very, there's something very grotesque.

00:23:04.820 I think about that. We should be providing as much as we can as parents of these children,

00:23:09.620 a foundation of clarity and truth. Having said that, I believe that

00:23:16.740 Mr. DeLeo would make an excellent president. However, I feel that electing the only cis white male on this 0.90

00:23:28.820 board president of this district sends the wrong message to our community, a message that is contrary

00:23:38.740 to what we as a board have been trying to accomplish. I think that it's important that we practice what we

00:23:46.820 preach and that our words have strength when they are spoken. All right. So this is someone in

00:23:55.060 Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. This is the school board at Upper Moreland School District saying that they are

00:24:04.500 not going to elect a guy for the president of the district because he is a cis white male, a cisgender

00:24:12.500 white male. Because again, in leftist crazy world, your immutable characteristics, your identity as a 0.88

00:24:21.380 white person is a strike against you. It's not a matter of competence. It's not a matter of 0.96

00:24:27.140 qualifications or background or merit or even desire to do the job. It is just a matter of what boxes you

00:24:33.780 check off. And that is why so many things that are run by leftists just spiral into chaos and to disarray

00:24:40.820 because they care less about what you bring to the table as far as your skill set and more about

00:24:47.060 completely meaningless characteristics like how much melanin you have in your skin.

00:24:53.060 So these are the people that are making decisions in a lot of cases about what your students are learning,

00:24:59.140 what your kids are learning. Like if you have a white student, wouldn't you be a little bit concerned 1.00

00:25:04.020 to have them in the school district knowing that the people making the decisions see them as someone

00:25:08.420 who is automatically disqualified from certain positions simply because of the skin that they were 1.00

00:25:13.540 born in? Or are we past that? Doesn't that sound kind of familiar from a few decades ago? We didn't like how that

00:25:20.580 worked out. Why would we reverse that and hope for different results? Crazy. All right, here's another clip.

00:25:30.580 I have a thought. Now I know the trolls are going to be like, oh, she should have stopped there.

00:25:35.460 But I'm not going to do that. So there's a lot of controversy about whether or not sex education,

00:25:41.940 health education, relationships, gender, all that stuff should be taught in the classroom. 0.99

00:25:47.700 Here's what I think. You, you as in parents, send their kids to school to learn math, reading, writing,

00:25:54.500 history, science from a professional, right? But in the same token, a lot of people who do that

00:26:03.220 also think that they're experts in sexuality education because they've had kids. With all due respect,

00:26:11.060 just because you had kids does not mean that you are a sexuality education expert. It does not mean

00:26:16.740 you are an expert in sex. It does not mean you are an expert in the body. It does not mean you are an

00:26:21.220 expert in gender. It does not mean you are an expert in relationships. So the same way that we're sending

00:26:26.820 our kids to school to learn these skills, these life skills like math and quadratic equations and calculus

00:26:33.220 and whatever else from a professional, we also need to be ensuring that our students are learning

00:26:38.900 information about their health, about identity, about very complex issues from a professional.

00:26:48.580 I mean, like, it makes sense. It makes sense.

00:26:52.500 No, it doesn't make sense. You're not an expert in anything. You're not an expert in anything.

00:26:56.740 I have a lot of awesome teachers that follow me and love this podcast. And we did an episode about

00:27:02.900 education and teachers a few weeks ago and something that a lot of you said, because there,

00:27:09.300 I think it was about this tweet that someone said, you know what, these parents, they shouldn't be able

00:27:12.820 to homeschool. Teachers go through all of this education, get all of these certificates in order to

00:27:18.180 homeschool. That makes them, or in order to educate your kids at school. And so that makes them an 0.96

00:27:23.940 expert. You're not an expert because you didn't go to school for this. And what a lot of you said,

00:27:28.020 who are teachers, is that the courses that you took were basically jokes. That what you have learned

00:27:34.500 about being a good teacher, you have learned on the job. That most of the things that you learned in

00:27:39.940 school were not actually what helped you become a teacher and that those certifications are really

00:27:45.540 meaningless. Look, I had a lot of friends in college who were education majors, and it was

00:27:50.260 something that they even joked about, that their classes were so easy, that their courses were easy

00:27:56.340 to take. Now, these people are great teachers and they learn on the job. It's a matter of loving your

00:28:01.060 job and learning as you go. But a lot of great teachers will tell you that their degree was almost,

00:28:08.820 maybe not entirely, depending on what you teach, but almost meaningless. Like, I think actually,

00:28:14.500 teachers are probably better off studying a different major than education because these

00:28:21.060 education courses are so often packed in with so much activism and so much meaninglessness and so

00:28:27.300 many empty lessons that you finish with a degree that, in some cases, like this, girls make you feel 1.00

00:28:35.300 like an expert, but you're really not. And this is what I said on Twitter, and I know some people got

00:28:39.300 angry about this. This is not demeaning teachers in general, especially those who have learned so much

00:28:44.340 apart from the degree that you have. Whatever degree this girl has, whatever degree, degrees, 1.00

00:28:50.900 plural, this girl has, I guarantee that 95% of parents in this country could probably complete 0.59

00:28:57.140 it in a month. Just take the test, give me the quizzes, tell me what you know, I guarantee I could

00:29:03.220 do it. This girl is not an expert in anything. She's not an expert in sex. She's not an expert in 1.00

00:29:08.500 identity, whatever that even means. She's not an expert in relationships. She's not an expert in

00:29:13.060 children. Yes, being a parent of a child makes you an expert in those things for that child because

00:29:18.660 this woman doesn't know anything, anything personal about the children that she is, that she is teaching,

00:29:24.740 but they think that they know more than you. They think that they are better than you. I'm sorry,

00:29:28.900 but you do not know. You do not know the children that you are serving. You don't know them like their

00:29:35.220 parents do. You don't have a right to talk to them about this kind of personal stuff. And I think that

00:29:39.220 you're creepy if you want to. I really do. We have too many creepy teachers out there. A lot of great

00:29:44.740 ones. Too many creepy ones.

00:29:57.860 Okay, I think we have one more.

00:30:00.340 So I run the pride club at my school. And I'm having kind of an issue with another teacher in

00:30:07.940 the school building right now. I have a couple kids who have come to me and told me that she has

00:30:14.820 called them out in the middle of class for being gay. She said some pretty terrible things about me

00:30:22.740 and the club, telling kids that she thinks it's stupid and a waste of time. And, you know, we're 0.99

00:30:30.020 pulling kids out of her class, which technically, yes, you know, we are pulling kids out of the class.

00:30:36.420 Um, but it's only for 30 minutes a week and it's on Mondays. So the last like 30 minutes of first

00:30:42.340 period, the kids come to me. Um, I understand that, you know, the kids are coming to my class during

00:30:49.140 another class period. Um, I have okayed this with my administration, with my principal, my admin on that,

00:30:55.540 uh, because the kids told me straight up, they were like, we don't want to have it after school

00:30:59.380 just in case because some of their parents don't know. Um, it would make them feel more comfortable

00:31:04.660 to just, you know, do it at school. That way it's a little more, you know, discreet. So it is completely

00:31:10.180 okay with my admin that I am running this club during school hours. And again, it's only 30 minutes

00:31:15.300 a week. Um, however, this teacher is now crossing a line. Um, she is calling out my kids. She is saying

00:31:24.420 extremely homophobic things. Um, she's bashing the community and the club itself. Um, and I'm 0.98

00:31:33.380 kind of fed up with it. She literally came to my class and went through every name in her roster 0.98

00:31:38.100 to try and get me to out, um, the kids to her. So she knew who was, uh, you know, not straight.

00:31:44.820 Um, so that way, you know, she'd have that information, which I did not give her. I would

00:31:50.500 not give her that. I don't really care if she doesn't like me, whatever, not my business. I don't

00:31:57.140 particularly care if she doesn't like when the club happens because that's not her business either,

00:32:02.740 since I okayed it with my admin. Um, all right. I know that was long. I don't understand why these

00:32:09.260 people go to TikTok with like these kinds of problems. First of all, why does the TikTok

00:32:13.180 world need to know that? But I think that this clip does highlight, um, an important thing that's

00:32:18.460 going on. Like this teacher is taking kids out of a class where they are probably learning something

00:32:24.120 valuable because of their identity. And she got approval of this by the administration. So the

00:32:29.880 administration knows that these kids for 30 minutes a week are not getting taught the things

00:32:34.660 that they need to be taught or not learning reading, writing, and arithmetic and are instead

00:32:38.960 getting together to talk about what sexuality and gender. Maybe that's why our literacy rate is so low.

00:32:44.520 Maybe that's why our math competency rate is so low. Maybe that's why you see those videos

00:32:48.720 circulating constantly of the man on the street interviews in New York city, where a guy is like

00:32:55.180 asking a young person, Hey, how many States does the United States have? And they don't know.

00:33:00.380 Like, what does it mean when this clock is pointing to the nine and the six, they can tell you like

00:33:06.180 we're talking about 18 year old kids in the United States, in some cases who don't know the answers

00:33:11.620 to these questions. And in case you think that's a one-off, you can look at the statistics.

00:33:16.780 I mean, we ain't smart. That's for sure. We don't have a, we do not have a concern about being too

00:33:24.120 smart in the United States because kids simply are not learning as much as they used to.

00:33:28.900 And when every classic book is deemed controversial and it's replaced with like

00:33:33.160 anti-racist baby, we've got a problem. We've got a problem. And look, I know that these teachers

00:33:39.080 are not every teacher. And you could say, Oh, well, you're just picking your cherry picking.

00:33:44.860 Look, videos like this are rampant on TikTok. These are not just like a select, they are a select few,

00:33:52.280 but they're not a representative of a small population of teachers. This is coming down from

00:33:56.980 the teachers unions. It's infecting the minds of thousands of teachers across the country.

00:34:02.940 Like I said, there are a lot of good teachers, a lot of great teachers, a lot of wonderful Christian

00:34:06.880 teachers. And I'm glad that you are doing what you are doing. It's your light in the darkness,

00:34:11.340 that you are teaching truth to those kids. You might be the only representative of that these

00:34:16.100 kids ever get. And that's amazing. But just know, especially if your kids are in public school,

00:34:22.220 this is coming to your area. It doesn't matter if you're in a rural area in Alabama where you know

00:34:27.240 all the teachers because they're in your Sunday school. This is headed your direction because it

00:34:32.460 starts at the top. And that's what progressivism does. It takes over institutions and tries to conform

00:34:39.260 everything to its own image for the purpose of activism. So just beware, just understand that the

00:34:48.560 problem is really big. But you, of course, as Marissa said, can raise a respectful ruckus

00:34:54.220 for the things that matter. And you can also ensure that your kids are educated in a way that aligns

00:34:59.980 with your values and that they are actually becoming smarter from the things that they learn 0.93

00:35:03.960 rather than dumber. All right, that's all we've got time for today. We will see you guys back here soon. 0.91

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - January 04, 2023

Ep 734 ｜ Teachers' Unions Must Be Stopped ｜ Guest： Marissa Streit

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