00:00:57.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:04.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:47.000I hope these couple days at both the Educator Summit and America Fest are life-changing.
00:01:52.000That is our goal, to create immersion experiences that make you really challenge yourself to want to be bold and courageous, maybe to take a stand to homeschool your kids, maybe to start a Turning Point Academy, maybe to send them to the Dream City Christian Turning Point Academy right down the street.
00:02:09.000Maybe to, hey, I'm going to, as a student, I'm going to stand up against the nonsense that is being taught in my local school.
00:02:15.000Whatever it might be, we try to create that experience for you.
00:02:20.000And Turning Point Academy is just getting started.
00:02:22.000It's going to be incredible to see what God does through Turning Point Academy in the coming years.
00:02:27.000And Hutz, you're doing a wonderful job, and the whole team has worked really hard.
00:02:30.000So I'm going to talk just about one very basic thing, and then we could do some questions.
00:02:36.000I think truly the issue with American education, and there's plenty, but the one that is most important for us to focus on is the people that have run our education system over the last 100 years, started with John Dewey, Woodrow Wilson played a big role, is they fundamentally do not understand what education is.
00:02:59.000We have a completely different opinion of what education is and what it should be.
00:03:04.000And so if you walk into any government school here in Phoenix or across the country, they believe that education is allowing students to choose what direction they want to go, presenting them with a bunch of options to liberate them from a very broken world, and really having young people find themselves.
00:03:49.000You're leading them forth towards a fulfilling life towards beauty, towards truth, towards goodness, towards virtue.
00:03:55.000And so therefore you must know what the end in goal is, the end goal is before you even begin the education process.
00:04:02.000Far too often teachers will get their fourth or fifth graders kind of sitting around a room and they'll ask them their opinions on the news cycle.
00:04:11.000A controversial thing that shouldn't be controversial to say is it's completely irrelevant what a fifth grader opinion is on the news cycle.
00:04:20.000It's not about the votes of a fifth or a sixth grader.
00:04:22.000You can get their perspectives and guess what?
00:04:25.000You need to correct them when they're wrong.
00:04:27.000That's what a teacher is supposed to do.
00:04:30.000A teacher needs to know the path to put a student on.
00:04:33.000That's not to say you have to get a student to agree with everything that, you know, how you see the world, but there is a right and a wrong way to educate a child.
00:04:45.000For example, at Turning Point Academy, we proudly say there will be no critical race theory.
00:05:51.000And this is one of the reasons why our education system has gone so, so incredibly wrong.
00:05:58.000And what's interesting is that it's not that the educators that are currently running our system don't believe in that.
00:06:06.000It's they say they don't believe in it, but then they want their version of the truth to be taught to children.
00:06:12.000We are seeing a crisis in American education unlike anything this nation has ever experienced, where children are being taught that men and women are basically the same.
00:06:23.000They are being taught the awful ideas that there's white privilege and that there is this racism embedded at every single corner in our country.
00:06:33.000And more than anything else, they are being taught in gratitude.
00:06:38.000It is an entire generation that is being taught to view the world through a lens of not being grateful.
00:06:45.000In the scriptures, it tells us time and time again, be thankful, be thankful, be thankful.
00:07:24.000When you go to college, you get a degree in ingratitude.
00:07:27.000Better yet, when you go to elementary school or in high school in America, they are not just ungrateful, but they become increasingly bitter towards the world.
00:07:37.000Now, you're going to hear from Dennis Prager in a little bit, but there's a couple things that at Turning Point Academy we are going to communicate very clearly that not even most private schools communicate, that almost no public schools communicate.
00:07:49.000I should call them government schools, not public schools, because they don't serve the public school.
00:12:34.000Most children are never even exposed to this teaching whatsoever.
00:12:38.000And this leads perfectly into the rise of anti-Americanism in our country.
00:12:44.000You want to know why there's so much anti-Americanism, structural anti-Americanism in our country?
00:12:50.000It's because we do not teach the students, young people, that there is something to be appreciative of, grateful for, thankful for, and instead, nothing but complaining for what happened before them.
00:13:03.000What we're going to do at Turning Point Academy is we are going to teach the beauty of the American founding.
00:13:09.000We're going to talk about the magic of 1776.
00:13:12.000We're going to talk about how the founding fathers quoted Deuteronomy more than any other book in creating the freest best country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:13:21.000We're going to teach the truth about slavery, that we were the first country to actually do something about abolishing the sin of slavery that pre-existed America, and guess what, still exists in the world today.
00:15:03.000You know, pray for the nation of which you are in, or badrash, it's the badrash, which is the Hebrew word.
00:15:08.000Demand or to seek the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
00:15:14.000We are called to fast and pray for our leaders.
00:15:16.000Said differently, I believe it's a good thing to want what's best for your country.
00:15:22.000And we are teaching our children the exact opposite.
00:15:25.000And honestly, I think it creates deeply unhappy people.
00:15:28.000I think people are happier when they're able to say, I have a country that has done something pretty cool, that has done something heroic or epic.
00:15:38.000And what we're going to try to do at Turning Point Academy is try to fix that.
00:15:40.000But it's going to take all of you through our educators network, through our resources, through our curriculum, through our teacher trainings, through our partnerships that we're doing with so many of our schools.
00:15:50.000It's going to be an all of the above approach.
00:15:52.000And there's so many great educational opportunities out there that already exist.
00:15:56.000But here's the one thing I could tell you: it's not enough.
00:16:01.000We are at a crisis right now in America where if we do not do something bold and dramatic, we're going to have an entire generation that suffers from historical Alzheimer's.
00:16:13.000That's exactly where we are right now.
00:16:15.000Our nation is suffering from Alzheimer's.
00:16:17.000We don't know where we came from, who we are, or where we're going.
00:17:17.000Meaning this: if you have to write 5,000 pages that men can become pregnant, you are woke.
00:17:23.000If you have to write thousands of pages to say that borders do not matter or that white people need to atone for something they didn't do because they look like someone who was evil hundreds of years ago, you are woke.
00:17:35.000If all of a sudden you have to apologize for something you did not do, you are woke.
00:17:54.000And by the way, we're going to be working with some of the best anti-woke theorists, James Lindsay, many other people, to just with precision and with incredible tenacity, make sure you're informed to know how much of a danger this is.
00:18:07.000I believe this set of ideas that we are now teaching our children, that is in our military, in corporate America, is in every corner of society.
00:18:15.000If we do not do the most ambitious and bold counter-offensive of this, it will destroy everything that we love.
00:18:27.000Their number one goal is to destroy the backbone of any functioning society, the family.
00:18:33.000Wokeism is the virus that will last a lot longer than COVID, and dare I say, do more damage.
00:18:41.000And far too often, churches, schools, and businesses tap dance with this evil, and I will say it again: this evil set of ideas.
00:18:50.000If you teach an 11-year-old that you could take a set of drugs that will chemically castrate you and that will liberate you, you are an evil human being, period.
00:18:59.000Including the people that put up with it, that administer the drugs, the entire system.
00:19:03.000If all of a sudden you go into a Francis Parker School, I'm going to excuse you the details, okay?
00:19:10.00014, 15, and 16-year-olds are being distributed.
00:19:13.000Let me just say this: incredibly graphic sex toys to 14, 15, and 16-year-olds in class, not extracurricular, by the dean of students at Francis Parker School in downtown Chicago.
00:19:29.000Not only should we need to answer the question of what is a human being made in the image of God, mind, body, soul, but it's also what is a child?
00:19:38.000I got to give credit to my Jewish brothers and sisters.
00:19:41.000They really get this idea of protecting child innocence.
00:19:45.000There's a moment where you are a child no longer.
00:19:49.000Think that Christians need to have some form of an equivalent, not necessarily in a religious context, just as a ceremony like, hey, you are now an adult.
00:20:24.000It's that up until that moment of the crossing of the line of where the parent says, Thank God I'm no longer responsible, it's that child's innocence must be protected by adults.
00:20:36.000The protection of the innocence of children is the mark of a moral or an immoral society.
00:20:51.000They're bringing drag queens into churches.
00:20:54.000They're bringing drag queens into schools.
00:20:56.000You can see the material, you see the videos, you see all of it.
00:20:58.000And it goes back to a theorist, Rousseau, but also a thinker who is an evil person, Dr. Kinsey, who believed in the widespread sexual manipulation of children.
00:21:10.000I truly believe one day we will be judged as to whether or not we stand up against this widespread, unspeakable immorality.
00:21:55.000I have no idea where this is going to go except up and wide and just be able to be a blessing to many people.
00:22:03.000And it really is, I think, the next and most exciting development that we have at Turning Point USA and all the other programming we have.
00:22:12.000And so I'm going to take some questions, but I encourage you: if I have just piqued your curiosity at all, talk to Hutz, talk to Francine, talk to Jennifer, come to the booth, the Turning Point Academy booth, sign up for information, get our materials, and we're super thrilled and excited to work with you.
00:22:27.000Okay, let's do some questions, everybody.
00:23:38.000What can we do now that we control Congress to push that agenda to remove the Department of Education?
00:23:47.000Well, I wholeheartedly agree with that.
00:23:48.000That's never going to happen, but I totally agree.
00:23:51.000It should, and we should aim high, and maybe my lifetime that will happen.
00:23:54.000But let me tell you what we can do, is we have to be more in the mold and the model of Ron DeSantis and do this on a state level and kick out CRT and wokeism on a state by state, county by county, school board by school board level.
00:24:08.000That, I think, is a great use of time.
00:24:10.000Federal government, here's what I would like to see the new Congress do.
00:24:14.000I want to see a special committee to investigate Merrick Garland to find out why moms and dads were put on the domestic terror list for showing up at school board meetings.
00:24:24.000That I want our new Congress to do immediately.
00:24:27.000And people should go to jail for that.
00:24:44.000One of my beliefs that I have right now is local, local, local.
00:24:49.000I am less interested in the federal than I ever have been.
00:24:53.000I'm not totally cynical about it, but there's a lot wrong.
00:24:58.000It feels as if there's like this Praetorian guard of the administrative state that is almost untouchable.
00:25:04.000I have some ideas on how long term to solve that, but the local, the state, the county, the municipal, just right now, there's a pastor, Tim Thompson, who's amazing, who just, his church helped take over a school board in Temecula, California.
00:25:19.000And within their first meeting, they banned critical race theory from all of their schools.
00:25:24.000That is a church with involvement that won with action.
00:26:20.000The money follows the child in this state more than any other state.
00:26:24.000Here's my argument, and this is why we're doing the Educators Teacher Summit right here, is that we need teachers who are willing to leave the comfort and the safety of a government job with a government pension, trust in the Lord, and trust in faith to go maybe go into a pod school or a private school to not necessarily even earn less money, but to have less certainty.
00:26:47.000And a lot of people in the American teaching profession are too comfortable with their tenured pension job.
00:27:21.000I had teachers that I went to a government, I went to Christian Heritage Academy, and I went to government school, and I had some fabulous government school teachers, and I had some awful government school teachers.
00:27:31.000And you're going to hear this over and over again.
00:27:33.000The awful government school teachers earn just as much as the fabulous ones.
00:27:38.000The idea that we pay bad teachers, that they're still employed, I think we should fire 10% of all American teachers and then pay the top 10%, 10% more.
00:27:47.000You don't have to overthink that, right?
00:27:49.000Unfortunately, that's easier said than done.
00:27:51.000That's why I'm a big fan of school choice, where you can actually do that within the public government school model.
00:27:59.000If I don't come off clear, let me know.
00:28:02.000With the Twitter files being released and all these things going on, specifically, what do you think will change?
00:28:09.000Like on a scale of zero being nothing, business as usual, 100 being like it would reverse everything that Twitter did, or government, Twitter, all the stuff.
00:29:21.000They feel hamstrung by the teachers' union.
00:29:24.000Would a suggestion be also in a local level, getting individuals to organize their own kind of union to be able to go up to Sacramento or whatever your state capital is and advocate for them so that those teachers then also have a place to go and a place to actually that's a good idea.
00:29:43.000I think that effort is better spent just leaving the government school system altogether and building an alternative.
00:29:48.000But it could be, look, if you are a government school teacher and you're here, welcome.
00:30:30.000And although we don't have woke ideology as an issue or CRT, you know, we have some other insidious things, as I'm sure many of you can identify with, as far as the social media access that a lot of our kids have, TikTok in particular.
00:30:46.000And I know that many of my students have access to that.
00:30:50.000And of course, I don't have direct ability to maybe speak into that with the parents.
00:30:57.000But I've noticed that those are the most defiant children that I encounter.