The Glenn Beck Program - April 21, 2022


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Ryan Walters & Stephanie Elad ｜ 4⧸21⧸22


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Glenn Greenwald joins the show to talk about what's going on with Elon Musk and the media, and why it's time for parents to wake up to the fact that we're in a new world, and we're not going to get it all our own way.

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00:00:00.300 Oh, Stu, what an exciting show today, filled with exciting things for our children.
00:00:08.700 Yes, absolutely true.
00:00:11.220 Were you paying attention to the show at all?
00:00:12.200 No, I'm trying to see what part of today's presentation could actually be spoken in a
00:00:18.640 podcast preview.
00:00:19.520 Yeah, okay, so the first hour, a lot of it you needed a decoder ring because I couldn't
00:00:24.960 use any of the language that's being used in our schools.
00:00:27.660 Yeah, you can use them to eight-year-olds, you cannot use them on radio to adults.
00:00:31.160 Yeah, that's how bad it is.
00:00:33.220 But also, we had Glenn Greenwald on today, who I thought was fascinating about, are we
00:00:37.940 winning or losing here?
00:00:39.320 What's really happening with the media and Elon Musk?
00:00:43.680 Are people waking up or not?
00:00:45.740 Yeah, we have a mom who decided to go to a school board meeting, got attacked, basically, 0.99
00:00:52.540 by the school board.
00:00:54.120 Excuse me, ma'am, this is our meeting, not yours.
00:00:56.880 And now, she's running, so it will be her meeting even more so in the future if she
00:01:02.640 wins.
00:01:03.120 And a hero, a guy who wrote a letter, he runs the State Board of Education in Oklahoma,
00:01:10.400 he wrote one of the most scathing letters to an independent school district.
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00:02:53.700 Parents, listen up.
00:02:57.140 We're in a new world.
00:02:58.140 And you're going to listen to this, and you're like, somebody's got to do something.
00:03:04.540 And you'll listen to this, and you won't think it affects your children, but it does.
00:03:10.360 We have been pushing back on critical race theory for a couple of years now.
00:03:14.600 And I want to give a shout-out to people like Chris Rufo or Asra Nomani.
00:03:22.580 She has been on the show.
00:03:24.660 Also, different people that I think are quite remarkable as well.
00:03:32.320 Kelly Skye is one that really has been doing a lot of work on this, and I appreciate all the work.
00:03:40.800 It is people like this that help the rest of us understand.
00:03:46.800 We are now pushing back on something called comprehensive sexuality education.
00:03:53.020 But I don't think parents really understand how deep this is.
00:03:59.300 I did a show on CSE about a year ago and had no idea how deep this well went until we really started doing research on it.
00:04:08.380 Governor Ron DeSantis brought this to the forefront by signing the Parental Rights and Education Bill.
00:04:15.300 This banned sexual orientation and gender identity curriculum in kindergarten through the third grade.
00:04:23.640 This freaked the left out.
00:04:25.440 They're still freaked out.
00:04:27.160 Jen Psaki was crying about it the other day, saying what a horrible, horrible thing this really is.
00:04:35.020 We'll get to that audio here.
00:04:36.420 Disney repeated the lie that it's the don't say gay bill.
00:04:40.660 It has nothing to do with that.
00:04:43.440 I'm going to show you what it does have to do with.
00:04:48.720 Last night, I showed the textbook and I read things verbatim that made me so uncomfortable.
00:04:58.200 I had to blur the screen legally.
00:05:00.540 Finally, our attorneys advised us, if you show these things on the screen, you could be in trouble for exposing child porn.
00:05:13.240 But these are textbooks, I said.
00:05:17.280 Yes, but the law is clear.
00:05:19.500 So I couldn't do it.
00:05:21.860 I couldn't show it.
00:05:23.120 But the teachers can show it in second grade.
00:05:28.000 The pictures that we blurred out.
00:05:33.680 First one was a naked boy looking into a mirror and his genitals are exposed. 0.93
00:05:39.380 We blurred the image.
00:05:41.040 And you know what?
00:05:41.900 If it was if this is what Christians and common sense people were saying, this is outrageous.
00:05:48.800 OK, I didn't like the image.
00:05:51.960 I mean, we used to be very, you know, scientific about it, very sterile when we would teach these things.
00:05:59.320 I think that's a better way.
00:06:00.800 The young girl is bent over looking at herself again.
00:06:05.440 It was blurred last night, but fully visible to children in schools.
00:06:09.820 OK, if that were it, I would be OK, I can see both sides here.
00:06:16.660 But that's not that's not this is K through 12.
00:06:22.580 Merely showing kids with their genitals exposed.
00:06:26.680 Is not the point and certainly not enough.
00:06:31.780 They also have to show actual actual sexual acts that would make porn stars blush.
00:06:40.660 Last night, I showed a blurred image and a quote from one of these textbooks.
00:06:47.440 I'm not going to use all of the language.
00:06:51.460 In fact, let me ask my radio executive producer, Stu.
00:06:54.820 Can I use this word on radio?
00:07:01.800 Let's skip it where there's no reason to.
00:07:05.120 You can't really understand it.
00:07:06.580 I got a new blank harness today.
00:07:10.360 Actually, blank, blank harness today.
00:07:12.620 I can't wait to put it on you.
00:07:15.080 It will fit my favorite blank perfectly.
00:07:20.360 You're going to look so hot.
00:07:22.420 If you watch the special last night, you know what all of that is.
00:07:27.400 And it is disgusting.
00:07:31.600 It goes on.
00:07:33.860 There is a two boys talking to each other.
00:07:39.380 And one says to the other, I can't wait to have your in my mouth.
00:07:45.060 Not the technical term.
00:07:47.080 I am going to give you the of your life.
00:07:51.820 And then I want you inside me.
00:07:56.460 K through 12.
00:07:59.500 The textbook goes on with an image of children performing some of the sex acts they were just talking about.
00:08:09.720 This is what the left wants to show K through third graders.
00:08:15.100 This is what Disney is advocating to protect.
00:08:18.920 I showed at the top of the show last night a gender questionnaire.
00:08:23.820 It was produced by the new Hanover Title IX coordinator.
00:08:28.700 He claimed he got it from a university and adapted it for K through 12 students.
00:08:34.700 So this is meant for college students.
00:08:38.760 And they're introducing it to kindergartners.
00:08:40.920 Another form from the school district in North Carolina.
00:08:45.720 It specifically states that there should be measures taken to conceal information from parents while the school continues gender identity treatment.
00:08:56.360 Is this happening to your child right now?
00:09:00.640 There's actually no way of knowing because the schools are being told to keep it from you.
00:09:10.920 Now, what is a groomer?
00:09:14.960 I would think that we would all agree that a groomer is somebody.
00:09:20.280 I know if I, you know, we happen to have a creepy uncle.
00:09:25.200 And he was taking my kids aside.
00:09:28.520 And he was talking about these very things.
00:09:33.380 And then said, let's keep this from your parents.
00:09:37.700 Don't tell anybody in your family.
00:09:40.060 I, you'd have a hard time me not killing that family member.
00:09:45.720 Quite honestly, I'd chase him out of the house with a shotgun.
00:09:48.580 Wouldn't you?
00:09:50.320 Wouldn't you claim rightfully so that he was grooming your children? 0.71
00:09:56.800 I would.
00:09:59.340 This is just doing it with your tax dollars.
00:10:02.840 Now, consider all of this and then keep in mind the views of our new Supreme Court justice in, you know, giving light sentences to sex offenders.
00:10:16.740 But surely that's not the view of the mainstream Democratic Party, right?
00:10:20.720 Well, really, here's Dick Durbin making the case that somehow the abundance of child porn on the Internet makes everything OK.
00:10:32.500 These guidelines that you promulgated don't reflect the reality of today.
00:10:38.160 We know as well that the guidelines were written, some were written, in an era when the materials we're talking about were physical materials.
00:10:49.480 And we now live in a world of Internet and access to not just tens and hundreds, but thousands of images.
00:10:57.400 If that is your decision, if that is your decision, if that is your decision, who is protecting our children?
00:11:07.980 The answer is no one.
00:11:10.620 And you know what?
00:11:12.640 We have given this job up.
00:11:15.840 We have got to be the ones protecting our children.
00:11:21.000 And our children will protect their schools and their teachers because they don't want you.
00:11:27.480 I know mine don't do not want me going in through the halls and talking to the teachers and everybody else and going, wait, what the hell are you teaching?
00:11:36.340 Because then they feel they'll be singled out and they will be.
00:11:41.180 They also, because they've watched enough Disney and everything else, they also think this is normal.
00:11:53.040 What do you call groomers?
00:11:55.260 What is a groomer?
00:11:57.360 Well, how about this?
00:11:58.340 This is this is one of the people from the San Francisco Gay Men's Choir.
00:12:02.880 Is this grooming?
00:12:04.380 Quote, we'll convert your children.
00:12:06.600 It'll happen bit by bit, quietly and subtly, and you'll barely notice it.
00:12:11.660 We can keep you can keep them from disco.
00:12:14.100 You can warn them about San Francisco.
00:12:16.460 You can make them wear their pleated pants.
00:12:19.040 We don't care.
00:12:20.200 We'll convert your children. 0.98
00:12:22.640 Yeah, that sounds like grooming.
00:12:25.360 How about this from the most popular kids network in the world?
00:12:30.960 Nickelodeon.
00:12:32.000 In honor of International Transgender Day of Visibility, 0.99
00:12:34.840 meet Time and Nickelodeon's 2021 Kid of the Year finalist, Rebecca Brusehoff.
00:12:39.460 Growing up in the LGBTQ plus community has given me a different perspective on how I see the world.
00:12:45.040 Trans kids are so much more than their gender identity.
00:12:48.420 Stop.
00:12:49.280 This is crazy.
00:12:50.380 This is like maybe a nine-year-old, ten-year-old that is talking about trans kids 0.53
00:12:54.680 and saying that they're so much more than their gender identity.
00:12:57.940 Yes, that is our point.
00:13:00.240 Everybody is much more than their sexuality and their gender identity.
00:13:09.160 Here's a gay porn star that bragged about talking to his preschoolers, preschoolers, about sex. 0.82
00:13:18.560 Then we have gender. 0.99
00:13:20.580 Go ahead.
00:13:22.380 This is a fifth-grade teacher openly disclosing proudly her lesson plan for teaching gender and sexuality.
00:13:30.960 Then we have gender expression, which is how you show your gender to the world.
00:13:34.680 It's usually based in a sort of binary system, which isn't perfect.
00:13:38.000 Again, you can slide these up and down to show the different gender.
00:13:40.580 You know what's great about this is it has a giant stuffed unicorn off to the side.
00:13:45.560 So the kids, I mean, when you have to have a stuffed unicorn standing next to these charts,
00:13:55.200 you're aiming pretty low.
00:13:57.920 Now the Biden administration is pushing puberty blockers for trans kids
00:14:02.780 and radical trans agenda being openly bragged about and taught to five years old, five-year-olds.
00:14:13.960 Does anybody have any idea the damage that is being done?
00:14:17.960 Do you know the experiments that are being conducted on your children?
00:14:24.660 And quite honestly, I don't think they're experiments.
00:14:27.020 I remember the day my probably eight-year-old son, seven-year-old son, ran into porn on the Internet.
00:14:39.020 He came in crying.
00:14:41.520 He was devastated by it.
00:14:43.900 Devastated.
00:14:45.040 He ran into something horrible.
00:14:48.200 He didn't know what to do with it.
00:14:50.720 He didn't have his arms around that at all.
00:14:57.020 They're now teaching that it is okay.
00:15:02.160 And you don't, I want to show you the slippery slope.
00:15:07.280 Remember when we said pedophilia, the next thing we'll just start normalizing pedophilia.
00:15:13.300 Oh, that's crazy.
00:15:14.320 Let me give you something else.
00:15:16.460 Try this.
00:15:18.040 This is from three years ago.
00:15:20.360 This is Dennis Prager and Bill Maher.
00:15:23.640 Three years ago.
00:15:25.400 These are giant left-wing lies.
00:15:27.740 We're talking about degrees.
00:15:28.740 To say that men can menstruate is a lie.
00:15:31.880 And that is now, that is what is said.
00:15:35.180 Wait, wait, wait.
00:15:36.240 Where did that go?
00:15:36.860 I never heard it.
00:15:37.680 You never heard it.
00:15:38.620 Okay.
00:15:39.360 Check it out, folks.
00:15:40.340 Oh, ha, ha.
00:15:40.880 Check it out.
00:15:41.900 Anyone who says a man cannot menstruate is considered transphobic.
00:15:45.920 I missed this whole story.
00:15:47.920 You did.
00:15:48.700 I did.
00:15:49.180 I did.
00:15:49.440 Tell me where you're getting this.
00:15:51.340 Just Google it.
00:15:52.080 Can men menstruate? 0.89
00:15:52.940 Well, who is saying this?
00:15:54.080 Who is saying this?
00:15:56.120 Everyone is saying this now, Bill.
00:15:58.180 That was three years ago.
00:16:00.100 The entire audience laughed at him, laughed at Dennis Prager for saying, it's crazy what's
00:16:07.340 coming, what's going on that men can menstruate.
00:16:11.580 And they all laugh.
00:16:13.300 Those same people that laughed three years ago are now the ones enforcing it and saying
00:16:22.000 that you are a hateful bigot if you say, no, men cannot menstruate.
00:16:29.860 And this is how fast it's happening.
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00:17:59.760 We want to welcome to the, um, to the program, Stephanie Allad.
00:18:05.920 Uh, she is running for the, uh, Texas school board, uh, position, uh, and that voting I 0.74
00:18:12.420 begins, uh, begins, I think Monday, the 25th, which is next Monday, right?
00:18:17.940 Stephanie, welcome to the program.
00:18:20.240 Thank you, Glenn.
00:18:21.200 I wanted to put you on because I wanted to, um, use you as an example of somebody who is
00:18:27.940 just a normal person, uh, just a parent that started seeing problems and you're getting
00:18:34.620 involved.
00:18:35.280 So tell us your story, Stephanie.
00:18:38.860 Sure.
00:18:39.400 So I actually moved to Texas about nine years ago.
00:18:42.500 I live in Frisco.
00:18:43.480 So it's the Frisco independent school district.
00:18:45.500 And my husband and I moved here nine years ago.
00:18:48.300 I was born and raised in California, lived there my entire life.
00:18:51.200 And we moved here due to my job promotion.
00:18:54.500 And when we were trying to select, you know, community to join and be a part of, we had
00:18:59.100 two, we have two kids who are still in Frisco schools.
00:19:02.200 They were much younger than everywhere we went.
00:19:04.860 We heard Frisco ISD was the best school system in North Texas or one of the best, right?
00:19:11.320 So we, husband and I, we wanted to do the best for our kids, of course.
00:19:15.100 And so we said, I guess we're moving to Frisco.
00:19:17.060 And so we did.
00:19:17.900 And the first few years, it was really amazing.
00:19:20.300 And we couldn't believe our luck.
00:19:21.920 And then we started to notice some things and we didn't really know, you know, maybe
00:19:25.320 that's just how things are, you know, as our kids got older.
00:19:28.580 Um, and then we started to notice some more things.
00:19:30.840 And then I think like a lot of parents in COVID during COVID, we really started to notice
00:19:35.640 some things about how, how things were run, what was going on, what, what they were
00:19:41.220 teaching, what they weren't teaching.
00:19:42.900 And so I decided to show up to a board meeting last April, actually.
00:19:49.260 Um, and as I was sitting in the audience waiting, you know, very politely for my turn to speak,
00:19:54.240 the school board president at the time said, this is our meeting.
00:19:57.080 And he said it kind of rude.
00:19:58.680 And he said it a couple of times.
00:19:59.960 And I thought, wait a minute, isn't this supposed to be the community's meeting?
00:20:03.420 Isn't it our meeting?
00:20:04.760 I was really kind of flabbergasted, quite honestly, by the comment.
00:20:08.040 So instead of reading my prepared comments that I had brought with me, um, I decided
00:20:13.560 to talk about that.
00:20:14.940 And so I said, you know, you said this was your meeting and I don't, I don't think so.
00:20:18.740 I think it's our meeting.
00:20:19.500 And I think the people who've been sitting here for that point, almost three hours deserved
00:20:24.140 a little more respect than that when they were spending their time trying to be involved
00:20:28.140 in their community.
00:20:28.980 So that's what kind of started this for me.
00:20:32.960 And then I started, you know, just, I was also interested, I'd been hearing about the
00:20:36.560 CRT thing in the news.
00:20:37.880 Right.
00:20:38.540 And I just wanted to make sure we weren't doing that in Frisco.
00:20:41.120 And I was assured, oh no, we're not, we're not doing that in Frisco.
00:20:44.220 We would never do such a thing.
00:20:45.640 And then I started looking and I, and one day, um, I went on the board's website and
00:20:51.180 I read their board priorities and they have one specific priority about equity, diversity
00:20:57.520 and inclusion.
00:20:58.600 And one of the bullets underneath that said, work to eliminate unconscious bias and support
00:21:04.160 equity and social justice through institutional leadership.
00:21:09.120 And that sounded a lot like CRT to me.
00:21:11.200 Yeah.
00:21:11.500 It's got, there's a, there's a, there's a lot of buzzwords there.
00:21:16.120 Yes.
00:21:16.600 In one sentence.
00:21:17.480 Yeah.
00:21:17.860 There's a lot.
00:21:19.220 So you saw that.
00:21:20.740 And when did you decide you have to be involved?
00:21:25.100 Well, I think in that moment where they said, this is our meeting, I think something inside
00:21:32.860 of me just fundamentally shifted.
00:21:34.420 And I just got, I was, I couldn't believe that that's how our, you know, so-called elected
00:21:39.660 leaders were treating us.
00:21:41.220 And there was never any apology or clarification either later in that meeting or, you know,
00:21:47.440 afterwards where we said, where someone said, you know, actually it really is all of our
00:21:51.320 meetings.
00:21:51.680 And we didn't mean to communicate otherwise.
00:21:53.740 There was none of that.
00:21:54.540 And I realized that's how they really think like we're subjects or something.
00:21:59.760 And so at that moment, I knew I had to do something.
00:22:01.840 I don't think I knew I was going to run, but I knew I had to do something.
00:22:05.060 So I started meeting with other parents who were equally concerned.
00:22:08.800 We started to learn about some of these, you know, CRT inspired assignments.
00:22:13.440 Um, at the next board meeting in May, there was a parent who came, who read from his son's
00:22:18.940 assignment and the writing prompt for his eighth grade middle schooler was, um, basically the,
00:22:25.140 the prompt was, you know, was assumptive that we're a systemically racist society.
00:22:29.400 And so he came because he was very offended and upset by that.
00:22:33.140 And he wanted to bring it to the board's attention.
00:22:35.740 And he also filed a formal grievance about the assignment and nothing was done.
00:22:40.120 So it just sort of snowballed from there where parents wanted to do something.
00:22:45.080 And we had dozens and then it turned into hundreds.
00:22:47.660 And then it turned into a Facebook page of over a thousand parents and community members
00:22:52.440 who've kind of had enough and who, who want to do something.
00:22:55.340 And so in the midst of all that is when I decided to run for the board.
00:23:00.200 So Stephanie, have you found, uh, SEL social emotional learning in the district?
00:23:08.400 Yes.
00:23:08.840 Well, they, they talk about that all the time and they're implementing it and they're,
00:23:13.040 they're quite proud of their efforts in that regard.
00:23:15.420 And I just learned at the last board meeting that they've, they've approved some kind of
00:23:20.040 program.
00:23:21.220 I haven't had a chance to really dig into it yet because I'm in the midst of the campaign,
00:23:24.420 but they've basically approved a program that's going to, you know, survey students and,
00:23:28.500 and ask how they're feeling and their emotions and, you know, things like that.
00:23:32.080 And that is obviously of concern.
00:23:34.360 And I know that parents can opt out and I will be opting, you know, my, my kids out.
00:23:40.860 But what people don't know.
00:23:42.780 Go ahead.
00:23:43.420 What people don't know.
00:23:45.040 Well, they just don't realize what's really going on and they don't know that these things
00:23:49.580 are even occurring, let alone, you know, how problematic it can be because they can ask
00:23:53.700 questions like, you know, do you have a trusted adult you can talk to at home?
00:23:57.780 Right.
00:23:58.320 You know, well, those kinds of questions can be very invasive.
00:24:01.080 And we've seen, you know, I haven't seen a ton of that in Frisco yet.
00:24:05.080 I've seen little bits and pieces, but you see where, you know, the schools sort of come
00:24:10.560 in and start to sort of take over the role of the parent.
00:24:14.580 And you see, we've seen those things.
00:24:17.120 I'm from California.
00:24:18.020 So I hear about this stuff all the time.
00:24:21.180 Yeah.
00:24:21.640 And so, again, I haven't seen a ton of it in Frisco.
00:24:23.960 I've heard little bits and pieces, but I'm just afraid this kid could make it work.
00:24:27.920 And I also, you know, my big thing, Glenn, too, is that I really just want the schools
00:24:31.800 to teach my kids math and science and, you know, Spanish and whatever else they're taking
00:24:36.520 and focus on academics instead of all of these other character building things.
00:24:41.800 I mean, let's be nice to everyone.
00:24:43.460 Let's treat people with respect, right?
00:24:45.060 Everyone should be treated with respect at school and have some, you know, behavior standards.
00:24:49.600 We shouldn't bully.
00:24:50.540 We shouldn't do any of those things.
00:24:52.140 But we also don't need to be spending time and resources on things other than the academics,
00:24:56.900 because while we're doing that, our academics are falling off a cliff.
00:25:01.720 So here is the here's the interesting thing.
00:25:03.920 I just did a special last night on SEL, and I urge you to watch it because this one comes
00:25:09.060 from the CDC and then through the Board of, I mean, the Department of Education to our schools.
00:25:16.440 And it's the reason why they can say, oh, we're not teaching that sexuality stuff.
00:25:20.860 We're not teaching CRT because it's embedded in everything.
00:25:26.740 And so you'd have math problems that are dealing with, you know, social injustice.
00:25:34.540 And it's it's everywhere.
00:25:37.400 S social emotional learning SEL is, I think, the key to understanding all of it.
00:25:48.840 There might be something bigger than this, but this is coming right from the the CDC.
00:25:54.360 And it's our whole government is involved.
00:25:58.460 I mean, I just you've got to get on the parents like you've got to get on the school board and I don't know,
00:26:07.080 take on the teachers union and the rest of us have got to start standing up and demanding that the Department of Education is abolished
00:26:17.400 because it's it's a poison right now.
00:26:20.380 Well, I think in Texas, the larger issue is really the Texas Association of School Boards.
00:26:27.720 They're actually a bigger concern of mine.
00:26:29.860 And as you may know, there are over 20 states.
00:26:34.640 I think it's up to 22 or 23 states now who have left the National School Board Association because of, you know,
00:26:42.440 the stance that they took on calling parents like me domestic terrorists.
00:26:46.700 Right. Texas is not on that list. Texas has not left the National School Board Association.
00:26:52.600 California has and Texas hasn't. That's embarrassing to me.
00:26:56.300 I will tell you, I think it's California and current Texan.
00:26:59.380 It really is. Stephanie, Stephanie, people like you are more awake than Texans that have grown up here.
00:27:06.540 They're just so numb to it all.
00:27:08.260 They're just like, ain't going to happen here.
00:27:09.980 And it's happening right under their nose.
00:27:12.540 And they're not getting involved because they've just grown accustomed to being Texas.
00:27:19.720 The people who are coming in for the right reasons, you know, you might move here because your job transferred you,
00:27:25.740 but you also were happy to escape California.
00:27:28.100 And you know what you know what that looks like.
00:27:32.000 You guys are on the front lines in Texas.
00:27:35.160 It's really vital that people like you that understand the state you came from.
00:27:41.860 Take this one by the reins and say, ah, don't go that way, because most Texans, I don't think, get it.
00:27:50.560 Well, that's such a good point, because because I am from California, I see this stuff a mile away.
00:27:55.800 I see the seeds of it and how it starts and how it grows.
00:27:59.880 And, you know, we moved to partially, yes, because of my job promotion,
00:28:04.700 but we had been talking about leaving California for a couple of years prior to that.
00:28:09.160 And when all this stuff came up, you know, like I said, the first few years, we kind of lived in a bubble.
00:28:13.120 We thought we were kind of done with all this.
00:28:14.580 We were in Texas.
00:28:15.360 We were safe.
00:28:16.500 Right.
00:28:16.920 But then we realized we weren't.
00:28:18.260 And so my husband and I looked at each other and we said, I guess we better get involved and fight here because where else are we going to go?
00:28:24.600 So that's what we're doing.
00:28:26.880 Good for you.
00:28:28.780 I'm sure there's no polls or anything, but if somebody wants to find out more about Stephanie,
00:28:34.180 if you happen to live in the Frisco area, it's Stephanie, the number four, F-I-S-D dot com.
00:28:43.440 Stephanie, good luck with your campaign and your election.
00:28:46.560 God bless.
00:28:47.400 Yes.
00:28:47.860 Thank you so much.
00:28:48.840 You bet.
00:28:49.440 Bye bye.
00:28:49.700 I saw a letter that honestly, I want to frame and hang in my office.
00:29:05.640 I love it so much.
00:29:06.720 It was from the office of the secretary of education to the Oklahoma state board of education.
00:29:15.380 And Ryan Walters is the name of the Oklahoma secretary of education.
00:29:19.920 He writes, I am asking the state board of education for an emergency special board meeting this week to address the Stillwater public school boards,
00:29:29.880 complete avoidance of their elected duty to protect, educate, and oversee the care of our most important asset, our children.
00:29:38.800 Since the Stillwater public school board has neglected to do this, I'm asking the Oklahoma state board of education to give crystal clear guidance that boys use the boys restroom and girls use the girls restroom.
00:29:53.160 It could, I could not be more disappointed in the Stillwater public school board after they had heard from parents, teachers, and leaders across the state and country, asking them to stop playing this woke gamesmanship.
00:30:07.420 Our kids need better role models, and it is disappointing that the board members of the Stillwater public schools did not pay attention in their biology classes, and they need further instruction on what a male and a female are.
00:30:21.380 Both myself and the attorney general have tried to offer them a common sense solution.
00:30:28.160 Have males use the male bathroom? 0.99
00:30:31.640 Females use the female restroom? 1.00
00:30:35.220 I don't know how much more clarity I can give them.
00:30:39.120 Special accommodations have been made for students struggling with gender dysphoria in the past,
00:30:45.040 allowing them to use private bathrooms that every school has,
00:30:49.720 instead of using common sense, the Stillwater public school board has caved to far-left radicals.
00:30:57.340 Our schools should be focused on educating kids in reading, writing, and mathematics,
00:31:02.900 and not involving themselves in a role that is not within their authority.
00:31:08.120 There are basic values that we as Oklahomans strive to live by.
00:31:11.780 Chief among them is the desire to put our children's safety first.
00:31:15.580 The Stillwater public school board has failed to put their children first, and I need you to guide them back to reality.
00:31:24.000 Perhaps you can succeed in giving Stillwater public school board the clarity they so desperately need.
00:31:31.040 Again, what I'm asking you for is to instruct the Stillwater public school board on what a male and female are. 0.87
00:31:40.800 That's fantastic.
00:31:44.620 The author is Ryan Walters.
00:31:47.540 He is the Oklahoma Secretary of Education.
00:31:50.320 Ryan.
00:31:52.720 Yes, sir.
00:31:53.520 Thank you for having me on today, Glenn.
00:31:55.120 You, this is epic.
00:31:57.500 I love this.
00:31:59.540 I'm sensing there was a little, you were a little peeved when you wrote this.
00:32:06.000 I was, and I still am.
00:32:09.060 I mean, you know, I have sent them, I sent them a letter a few weeks ago.
00:32:13.320 I thought they could solve this.
00:32:14.740 I told them not to put radicals over their students, not to put ideology over biology, and not to put wokeness over safety.
00:32:21.300 We've had school, we've had parents, grandparents showing up at school board meetings,
00:32:25.800 talking about that we have girls in the school that are telling their parents they're not drinking any liquid during the day
00:32:32.180 because they don't want to go to the bathroom because there's males in the female bathroom, and they are uncomfortable. 0.96
00:32:36.880 We're talking about middle school girls, Glenn.
00:32:39.860 This is not hard.
00:32:41.160 It's not difficult.
00:32:41.820 But we've got a far left extreme group that is showing up and getting in the ear of these school board members.
00:32:47.860 And again, they're caving to them rather than putting student safety first.
00:32:51.280 And we're not going to tolerate it in the state of Oklahoma.
00:32:52.820 I tell you, you couple this with just CSE, I don't know if that's in schools in Oklahoma, but you couple this with CSE,
00:33:02.300 and your kids in middle school are all screwed up and hyper-sexualized, and it's going to be a disaster.
00:33:12.360 Right, and I mean, and that's the thing.
00:33:14.060 And when I talk to parents across the state, parents want the reading, writing, arithmetic.
00:33:18.900 We want our kids to go to school and a focus on academics.
00:33:22.300 We want better for our kids.
00:33:24.480 We want them to have opportunities in life that comes from that understanding of our academics standards.
00:33:30.680 But this whole nonsense of pushing in radical extremism under the form of CRT or this hyper-sexualized curriculum,
00:33:38.860 it is not going to happen.
00:33:40.680 I mean, we're going to continue to fight on this front, and we have to stand up.
00:33:43.740 And I have gotten hundreds of emails and phone calls from parents, you know, asking for more help on,
00:33:50.720 hey, we're speaking up, we're showing up at school board meetings, and this is still going on.
00:33:54.940 We have to take a stand.
00:33:56.460 We have to stand with families and say, your child is not going to go to school and face indoctrination.
00:34:02.800 We're just not going to allow it.
00:34:03.720 I have to tell you, I wish Texas was as bold as you are right now, but unfortunately, Texas, I think, is asleep at the switch in many ways.
00:34:15.680 Do you have SEL being incorporated into your schools now, social-emotional learning?
00:34:24.980 Yes, sir.
00:34:25.340 That's something we're taking a look at.
00:34:27.020 We're starting to look back through our textbooks and look back through what's actually going on.
00:34:31.300 Again, I've got a stack of complaints and issues from parents that I'm sifting through.
00:34:36.760 We've got parents that, again, are doing a great job here of being engaged, and they've been sending me stuff,
00:34:41.640 and we're digging into this because, again, you've seen these national groups that are sticking all this in curriculum.
00:34:47.500 And, again, what in the world are we talking about all this stuff in a math class?
00:34:51.680 It has absolutely no place for it.
00:34:53.060 I'm going to tell you something else, Glenn.
00:34:54.460 You know, we're a conservative state here.
00:34:57.000 I've got teachers that send me this stuff going.
00:34:59.000 You won't believe this.
00:35:00.420 I just got this curriculum and told I need to teach this in my class.
00:35:04.940 This isn't math.
00:35:06.300 This is not what I signed up for.
00:35:08.360 And so, yeah, I've been getting it from parents and teachers sending me this curriculum going, hey, what is this?
00:35:13.740 And so we are doing a deep dive.
00:35:15.480 Governor Stitt and I are very committed to ensuring that our students are getting academics and not indoctrination in our schools.
00:35:20.900 So we are actively taking a look at all those materials and what's available and making sure parents have that transparency that they deserve and seeing what's being taught in their schools.
00:35:29.600 And, again, you send your kid to school, you're expecting them to learn that those academic standards, not to be part of a social experiment by the far left.
00:35:38.580 So, Ryan, when I did a special last night on SEL and I found that it really started through the CDC and then through the Department of Education down into our schools, all these radical groups are involved in it.
00:35:52.580 The unions are involved in it.
00:35:55.620 What is the solution here?
00:35:57.580 I mean, I think I think a the the board of or not the board of education, the the Department of Education needs to be abolished.
00:36:08.540 It needs to go to the states and the states need to take care of it, not the national, because the federal government is just corrupt through and through with all of this stuff.
00:36:20.280 Also, I think everything shows me that the schools, the teachers unions, they may not be involved in the local level, but they are involved up at the top in a big way.
00:36:34.180 What is the solution?
00:36:35.580 What's the biggest problem that we should be aiming for?
00:36:39.860 Absolutely.
00:36:40.480 I'm going to give you I'm going to give you three things going.
00:36:41.860 First of all, you're spot on in it.
00:36:43.840 Amazing how many problems we have in education that come from the feds.
00:36:47.660 The Federal Department of Education should have nothing to do with the states.
00:36:51.520 We don't need it.
00:36:52.580 They're not helpful in any way, shape or form.
00:36:54.900 All they do is find a new social experiment.
00:36:57.040 It was Common Core.
00:36:57.960 Then it was CRT.
00:36:59.160 And now it's all this over sexualization.
00:37:01.800 That is all that that we've gotten from them.
00:37:04.160 There's no help to your point.
00:37:05.980 They cause more problems.
00:37:07.860 They don't need to be involved.
00:37:08.920 That's why Article, you know, Amendment 10 of the Constitution reserves power to the states.
00:37:13.560 And that's where education should be wholly located.
00:37:16.180 And so that's where we've got to get back to that.
00:37:19.640 Number one.
00:37:20.360 Number two, we've got to have school choice.
00:37:22.460 I mean, that's something I'm a champion for school choice, because at the end of the day,
00:37:25.840 you've got to empower a parent to say, I want to send my kid to this school.
00:37:29.360 I want to say, if you're going to do this in the school, we're taking the money and we're
00:37:32.560 going to go to another school.
00:37:33.860 And that is really the way to empower parents.
00:37:36.560 And by the way, that's why the Biden administration is attacking charter schools now.
00:37:39.620 Right.
00:37:39.920 I mean, the Biden administration, they force indoctrination.
00:37:42.860 And then they say, and by the way, you can't opt out of it.
00:37:46.380 You don't have another choice.
00:37:47.780 So that's part of this bigger national plan there.
00:37:50.600 And so we absolutely have to have school choice.
00:37:53.120 We have to get the feds out of education. 1.00
00:37:54.960 And lastly, we've got to have transparency so that parents can actually see what's being
00:38:00.080 taught in the school, have that relationship with the teachers and the school board.
00:38:04.480 And, you know, that's one of the things we want to see is school boards that are actually
00:38:07.320 very open with what's being taught in their schools.
00:38:09.640 Again, my background is I'm a former public school teacher.
00:38:12.960 And you know what?
00:38:13.480 Every time I have a parent that wanted to talk to me or wanted to work with me on their
00:38:17.560 kid's education, I always thank them.
00:38:19.540 There's nothing better for a kid's success than an engaged parent.
00:38:22.600 It is outrageous that you've got a federal department of education and a president that
00:38:27.960 act like it's a problem for parents to be at school board meetings.
00:38:31.260 It is absolutely outrageous.
00:38:33.100 We have to keep parents engaged and we need to be finding ways to get them more engaged.
00:38:36.800 I will tell you that I've had teachers actually tell me, Mr. Beck, we've got this covered.
00:38:44.660 When I asked for, tell me the books you're going to be reading.
00:38:47.320 Do you have an extra textbook I can bring at home and work with them so I know where you
00:38:52.700 are?
00:38:53.640 You know, let me help.
00:38:55.780 And they just scoffed at me.
00:38:58.000 We have this, Mr. Beck.
00:39:00.120 I'm like, really?
00:39:01.500 Because you work for me.
00:39:03.140 I don't work for you.
00:39:04.780 You are to supplement me, not the other way around.
00:39:10.080 It's unbelievable.
00:39:12.240 A good teacher, and again, you know, I work with teachers every day.
00:39:16.200 Good teachers say, absolutely, parents, come on.
00:39:18.540 You know, here's what we're doing.
00:39:19.480 Here's things you can do at home.
00:39:20.600 Here's things to reinforce what we're learning.
00:39:22.180 I mean, I'm a history teacher, Glenn.
00:39:23.820 If my kids go home and mom and dad are going over World War II with them and asking them
00:39:28.300 about what we covered in class and are showing the kids that, hey, what you're learning in
00:39:31.980 school is important and we want to be a part of it, I'm telling you, there's nothing
00:39:35.680 better in an educational experience than to have a parent like that.
00:39:38.780 So I have, it is outrageous that we wouldn't have that approach in all of education to
00:39:43.860 include parents, grandparents in their kids' education.
00:39:47.240 I mean, we all know the family unit is what's central to our society.
00:39:51.160 We need to be ensuring that those conversations are happening.
00:39:55.180 And that's where, again, I want the conversation around the kitchen table to be about school
00:39:58.760 choice, what school's best for you, but about what's going on in your school.
00:40:02.140 What are you learning about?
00:40:02.940 Let's get it all out here on the table.
00:40:04.220 Let's talk about it.
00:40:04.980 That should be the type of behavior we're encouraging rather than labeling parents to show up at school
00:40:09.280 board meetings, domestic terrorists, and trying to make it tougher for charter schools around
00:40:12.920 the state so parents have less choices.
00:40:14.720 Every good teacher I've ever met has always said, my gosh, we're so glad that you and others
00:40:21.020 are showing up to these things.
00:40:23.260 You're talking to your kids.
00:40:24.620 We're so grateful because so many parents are disengaged.
00:40:28.260 We've gone from that to parents need to shut up and sit down.
00:40:33.620 We've got it.
00:40:34.520 And that's so dangerous.
00:40:36.520 Ryan, I appreciate it.
00:40:37.580 Thank you so much for your frank words and standing true to American values.
00:40:45.480 Oklahoma Secretary of Education, his name is Ryan Walters.
00:40:49.500 Na na na na na na.