The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1853 - Shocking Body Cam Footage Reveals How Bad Public Schools Are Now

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00:00:27.820 Around 2 p.m. on January 6th, 2023, a Richnick Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia,

00:00:37.060 a black six-year-old boy pulled a 9mm Taurus handgun from his backpack and shot his first

00:00:43.680 grade teacher, Abby Zwirner, in the middle of class. There was no provocation. The bullet

00:00:48.860 entered Zwirner's hand and lodged in her chest, nearly killing her. When police arrived, another

00:00:54.080 school employee, a reading specialist, quote unquote, was holding the child, almost as if

00:00:59.080 she was trying to protect him from the police, even though he clearly posed a danger to her

00:01:04.200 and everyone else in the room. And then the boys started talking. Now, this is body cam footage

00:01:09.660 that took more than three years to release to the public, supposedly because of routine bureaucratic

00:01:15.580 holdups. As you watch this, you can come to your own conclusions about the actual reason that they

00:01:21.720 withheld it for so long. Watch.

00:01:23.900 Let's leave the gun there.

00:01:37.280 I told the AP that there was a threat earlier about it.

00:01:44.620 That was a time last year.

00:01:50.640 He is six years old.

00:01:53.200 He has been on a modified schedule.

00:01:55.380 His mother has to pick him up at 2.30.

00:01:57.740 This is his first week without his mother coming to school with him.

00:02:01.400 1346, myself and 2347, and the sheriff's deputy are inside room 11 with the suspect.

00:02:11.400 Gun is secured.

00:02:13.400 And I called 911 when I heard the, I'm the review specialist.

00:02:17.400 I came down the hall, she had blood.

00:02:25.400 We got some tall handcuffs, almost like this.

00:02:29.400 I don't know how many people are leaning around.

00:02:31.400 No, we're not.

00:02:33.400 Where's he?

00:02:35.400 It's over here on the floor.

00:02:37.400 When you shot the gun, did anything hurt you?

00:02:39.400 No. Let me see your hands.

00:02:41.400 Let me see your hands.

00:02:43.400 Where is the weapon?

00:02:45.400 It's on the floor.

00:02:47.400 Stop. That's not .

00:02:49.400 That's not how we see each other.

00:02:51.400 .

00:02:53.400 His, uh...

00:02:55.400 I mean, he does have the gun residue, looks like.

00:02:57.400 Okay.

00:02:58.940 Let's just not touch his hands or anything, okay?

00:03:02.060 Yeah.

00:03:05.040 All right.

00:03:09.620 My mom had that.

00:03:12.520 I stole that from my mom.

00:03:15.000 Okay, buddy.

00:03:16.600 What's your name?

00:03:19.160 If you want a piece of me, come get it on me.

00:03:22.600 What's your name? 1.00

00:03:27.400 what he said was uh f you shut the f up ho i stole that gun from my mama i don't care if i go to jail 0.99

00:03:48.960 if you want a piece of me come get it among other things that's a six-year-old child talking to 0.99

00:03:55.500 police officers, and a reading specialist. And how does the specialist handle all this? Well,

00:04:00.360 she tells police he's on a modified schedule. Then she tries to inform the child that, well,

00:04:06.380 that's not how we speak to each other. She politely checks his hands to make sure he didn't

00:04:10.700 injure himself while he was trying to murder his teacher. In fact, I think I heard her say,

00:04:15.640 did you hurt yourself when you shot the gun? I believe was what she said. If you didn't know

00:04:23.200 the context, and you take out the reference to the gun, and if the police weren't there,

00:04:27.780 just based on how the woman is dealing with the boy, you would assume that he got in trouble for

00:04:33.000 throwing a paper airplane in class, or maybe shoving a kid in the hallway or something.

00:04:39.340 In fact, based on her demeanor and how she's treating him, you might think that the boy

00:04:42.800 isn't in trouble at all. You might think that the teacher is comforting him because of something

00:04:47.300 that happened to him. Maybe he got bullied on the playground, and now he's sad and has a tummy ache.

00:04:53.200 It's a microcosm of America, post-civil rights era.

00:04:57.300 On the one hand, you have a barbaric, dangerous criminal. 1.00

00:05:00.860 Then you have the clueless, coddling white woman 1.00

00:05:03.380 who's acting as if she's talking to a normal, functioning, well-adjusted human being. 1.00

00:05:09.980 There's a 100% chance that this woman and every other woman in the public school system 0.97

00:05:14.160 thinks that she can save this child. 1.00

00:05:17.660 She can make everything better. 0.59

00:05:19.020 She can sit him down on the carpet and maybe read him The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

00:05:24.620 And then he'll be off to Harvard, and Fortune 500 companies will line up to give him jobs that he's not qualified for.

00:05:30.220 And we can all pretend that he's actually successful. 0.90

00:05:32.340 That's the liberal fantasy playing out in this footage and in this woman's head. 0.71

00:05:38.720 Meanwhile, everybody with a pulse understands exactly what's going on here. 0.63

00:05:43.100 This child almost certainly cannot be reformed.

00:05:47.660 Barring some kind of miraculous intervention of some kind,

00:05:51.720 he will just become even more dangerous and volatile as he gets older.

00:05:56.880 He'll murder someone before long, if he's allowed to roam free.

00:06:00.580 I mean, he's already tried it at six. It's guaranteed to happen.

00:06:04.700 Already at six years old, he is a menace to society.

00:06:08.660 Now, is that his fault? Not really.

00:06:11.700 I mean, he's six years old. He's just a few years past being a toddler.

00:06:15.660 You don't become a cold-blooded killer at six, except by being conditioned that way in an

00:06:20.660 absolutely horrific, hellish environment. This child has been raised, to the extent that we can

00:06:26.880 say he's been raised at all, by barbarians. And now he is one himself. So if any bleeding hearts 0.99

00:06:34.140 out there want to say that, well, this poor little boy is a victim of his circumstances,

00:06:38.240 and it's not his fault. He turned out that way. I agree, for the most part. If you were born to

00:06:45.200 his mother, and you were raised in that home, and you had his brain and his rock-bottom IQ,

00:06:52.260 you would have ended up exactly like him, and you would have done exactly what he did,

00:06:56.360 because you would be him. So we don't even need to get into the nature versus nurture debate.

00:07:01.940 The fact is that, obviously, both nature and nurture factor into the kind of person you become.

00:07:08.960 And he didn't choose either of them.

00:07:10.780 He didn't choose his nature, and he didn't choose how he was nurtured.

00:07:14.120 He's a victim in a very real sense.

00:07:17.740 That's true, and that's extremely sad.

00:07:19.700 It's a tragedy.

00:07:21.220 I mean, it's a very real tragedy.

00:07:23.260 It's a terrible thing.

00:07:25.480 But we live in reality, and we have to deal with reality.

00:07:29.720 So questions of fault and blame and victimhood are academic

00:07:35.320 Because in real practical terms, the fact is that we are left with a child

00:07:40.240 Who is wildly dysfunctional, dangerous, destructive, and unstable

00:07:45.320 He is not going to wake up tomorrow, or the next day, or next year, or a decade from now

00:07:50.740 And have magically transformed into a civilized, well-behaved young gentleman

00:07:56.220 You can feel sorry for him all you want, but while you're feeling sorry, you have to decide what to actually do with kids like this.

00:08:06.420 And there's really only two choices.

00:08:10.280 Either keep him in the system and allow him to continue disrupting the education of every other kid in the school

00:08:16.580 and stand by and just kind of wait until he decides to harm or kill someone else,

00:08:21.620 offering innocent kids and adults up as sacrifices for the sake of giving this kid

00:08:26.420 unlimited chances. Or you can remove him. You can take this kid and every kid like him and

00:08:34.260 remove them from the system, remove them from civilized society, consign them to an institution

00:08:40.160 somewhere. If they commit violent crimes, you can put them in jail or juvenile detention.

00:08:45.860 The benefit of this second strategy is that it protects innocent, civilized, well-behaved people

00:08:51.240 and allows society to function and allows our systems to operate as they're supposed to.

00:08:58.500 And that vastly outweighs the downside, which is simply that the dysfunctional,

00:09:03.760 dangerous kids suffer the emotional distress of being expelled from civilized society.

00:09:10.060 Which is unfortunate, but either they suffer the emotional distress of being expelled from

00:09:14.940 civilized society, or everyone else suffers the distress of watching civilized society

00:09:20.300 be destroyed by these people. And that's really not a hard choice at all.

00:09:27.480 Besides, this kind of kid is better off in an institution anyway. I mean, it can't possibly

00:09:32.000 be any more nightmarish than his home life. The boy's father is a career criminal, big surprise, 0.61

00:09:37.900 who was not living with him, big surprise, at the time of the shooting. Actually, in 2023,

00:09:43.100 his father was a fugitive with an active arrest warrant, having skipped multiple court hearings

00:09:47.760 on an assault charge. He also had multiple convictions, including one for breaking and

00:09:51.380 entering and one for violating a protective order after he allegedly hit the boy's mother in the

00:09:56.260 jaw. The school was apparently unaware of all this and allowed him to attend classes with his son

00:10:01.340 on occasion. Now, that's not to say the mother, a woman named Deja Taylor, was much better. Just a

00:10:07.880 month before the shooting at the school, Taylor used the same handgun to shoot at the boy's father.

00:10:13.100 This is from the Washington Post.

00:10:15.420 Quote, prosecutors cited a series of text messages between Taylor and the boy's father,

00:10:19.700 which appeared to show that Taylor opened fire on him with the same weapon about a month before

00:10:23.940 the shooting at Richneck Elementary. The shooting followed a dispute over whether the father was

00:10:28.940 cheating on Taylor with another woman. The father was not hurt in the incident. Additionally,

00:10:32.460 Taylor's son had twice taken her car keys from her purse and gotten into her car. On one occasion,

00:10:37.440 he crashed the vehicle, and on the other, he refused to leave. Police had to break a window

00:10:41.560 to get him out. Following the school shooting, investigator found copious amounts of marijuana

00:10:47.660 in Taylor's residences and vehicle during searches. So she shoots a firearm at the

00:10:55.480 father of her child in a public setting of some kind, and nothing happens to her. Before that,

00:11:00.020 her child stole her car and wrecked it. And evidently, despite this very alarming series

00:11:05.500 of events, no one did anything. No one did anything to her. No one did anything with the kid.

00:11:14.600 That was it. And this is nothing new. I mean, if you go back to 2008, there was a viral story

00:11:19.600 about a black kid who stole his grandmother's car and he damaged a bunch of property, nearly

00:11:24.460 killed people. The local news and the police treated the whole episode like, you know, some

00:11:29.700 kind of joke. Kids will be kids. Nobody was prosecuted. Watch. Letarian Milton is not your

00:11:37.240 typical seven-year-old. Few his age have ever driven an SUV up and down several busy streets.

00:11:42.420 It all started at his mother's townhouse. Letarian says he took the car keys and hopped into his

00:11:47.000 grandmother's Dodge Durango. When I came through the back door, I looked on the counter, my keys

00:11:51.900 were gone. I took my grandma car because I got mad at my mom and then I suddenly had my friend

00:11:56.740 come in and he smokes with cigarettes. He started the vehicle and put it into

00:12:01.060 gear. I yanked it. I yanked the thing. And off they went. Two seven-year-olds

00:12:07.640 alone on the road. Letarian drove several miles through Lake Park in Palm

00:12:11.240 Beach Gardens. We got the one call that I told you about of a driver in the

00:12:14.140 vehicle who looked too short to be able to see over the steering wheel. Along the

00:12:16.920 way he ran over two mailboxes, hit two parked cars in a Costco parking lot and

00:12:21.340 struck two moving cars near Walmart. I want to do it because it's fun. It's fun to do

00:12:26.020 bad things to drive into a car. But did you know that you could perhaps kill somebody? Yes, 0.72

00:12:31.000 but I wanted to do her stuff for my friend. It all ended on investment lane and consumer drive.

00:12:36.020 That's where Latarian hit the curb and sideswiped the sign. The SUV took most of the beating, 1.00

00:12:40.860 snapping off one of his axles and wheels. A grandmother's rage. I want to whip his behind. 0.86

00:12:46.080 That's what I want to do right now. If I thought they wouldn't take me to jail, 0.99

00:12:49.620 I'd whip his behind right now. You don't think he should be punished for all of this? 0.98

00:12:53.340 There's a little bit no video games for a whole weekend.

00:12:57.360 And one unusual story for police.

00:12:59.640 Are you sorry?

00:13:00.880 You understand that now your grandma's going to have to pay to have those cars fixed?

00:13:04.780 Because you hit those cars.

00:13:06.740 Can my mom help her?

00:13:08.200 Well, you never believe this, but that kid, Letarian Milton, went on to commit more serious crimes, both as a child and an adult.

00:13:15.640 In 2017, he was arrested with his friends for armed carjacking after the group held a Lyft driver at gunpoint.

00:13:21.820 Watch.

00:13:22.220 This is Milton entering a West Palm Beach courtroom Monday to face charges stemming from an armed robbery and carjacking.

00:13:29.680 Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputies say a Lyft driver picked up four young males and a female early Sunday morning

00:13:34.700 and drove them to a Wendora Way in West Palm Beach.

00:13:37.780 That's where the female exited the vehicle.

00:13:40.040 Investigators say the suspects told the driver to take them to another location.

00:13:44.000 When the driver refused, authorities say one of the suspects pulled out a handgun and hit the driver in the back of the head.

00:13:49.700 The driver says he got out of the car and was robbed of his wallet and jacket.

00:13:53.920 He later told deputies that Milton, who was in the front passenger seat, got out and hopped into the driver's seat and sped away with the other suspects.

00:14:01.320 According to investigators, the driver gave detectives a phone number, which led to the identification of Milton.

00:14:07.140 Deputies arrested Milton Sunday afternoon.

00:14:09.640 So Milton was the getaway driver and he was a real criminal mastermind ripping off a Lyft that he called with his cell phone.

00:14:15.640 and for this particular crime, he was released after a few years because no one actually serves

00:14:19.120 a significant prison sentence anymore, especially for minor crimes like carjacking. I've seen

00:14:25.220 reports that he's committed more crimes after this, and I'm sure he has. We all know he's

00:14:30.000 going to continue committing crimes until the day he dies. That was evident for a long time.

00:14:34.520 That was evident back when he was a child. All of this could have been avoided if Milton had

00:14:40.100 been thrown in prison for life, if he had gotten any kind of serious punishment the moment that

00:14:45.400 stole a car. And when he publicly stated that it's fun to do bad things, if there had been any kind

00:14:51.540 of real consequence, this is not the behavior of a normal child. This is psychopath. And no amount 0.97

00:15:01.280 of DEI hiring or counseling service or affirmative action is going to change that. But everyone 0.63

00:15:06.800 pretended otherwise. The police pretended that they could talk some sense into this kid. They

00:15:12.040 didn't imprison his parents, and now every time Letarian Milton is allowed to appear in public,

00:15:16.920 he's a danger to everybody around him. The same inevitable pattern is playing out again

00:15:21.760 in Newport News with Deja Taylor and her six-year-old kid who's shooting up his elementary

00:15:26.800 school. Clearly unfit to be a parent, just like the father, but nobody did anything about it

00:15:34.120 because this is par for the course in overwhelmingly black areas of the country. 0.98

00:15:39.020 After this shooting, due to all the attention, she was convicted, surprisingly, of child neglect and firearms charges, which generally doesn't happen in these kinds of cases, especially when the kid is black.

00:15:52.580 But she's already out of prison.

00:15:55.740 And otherwise, she wouldn't have been punished at all, if not for the national attention to the story.

00:16:02.280 This is how millions of black children are raised.

00:16:04.660 Deja Taylor is probably a top 10% mother in Newport News, if we're being honest 0.96

00:16:11.660 An enormous number of black kids in school behave just like this particular six-year-old 1.00

00:16:19.200 Even if most of them don't shoot their teachers 1.00

00:16:22.140 The body cam footage reminds, if you went to public school at any point over the last, I don't know, 60 years

00:16:29.000 It's going to remind you of scenes that you witnessed countless times in public school

00:16:35.100 It's extremely common in public schools to this day, as even the most left-wing people on the planet will admit.

00:16:41.900 It was just a couple of weeks ago that we talked about Nicole Hannah-Jones,

00:16:45.000 the New York Times writer who deliberately sent her daughter to a mostly black inner-city school

00:16:49.360 as a way to fight white supremacy, or whatever she was trying to do. 0.99

00:16:53.620 She eventually pulled her daughter out of that school because the black students were violently attacking each other in the cafeteria every day.

00:16:59.540 She spent one day at the school, and she was horrified by what she saw. 0.91

00:17:03.600 This is a woman who was so ideologically committed to leftism

00:17:06.240 that she actually sent her child to the worst school she could find,

00:17:09.960 and she bragged about it.

00:17:10.960 And then, after having to be around the kids in that school for one day,

00:17:14.780 it dawned on her that she had made a horrible mistake.

00:17:18.100 The administrators didn't even attempt to control the children,

00:17:20.280 and even if they had tried, they probably wouldn't have accomplished anything.

00:17:24.740 The administrators at the elementary school in Newport News, 0.97

00:17:28.480 where the kid shot his teacher, were equally as useless.

00:17:32.760 In fact, Abby Zwirner, who required multiple surgeries just to regain the use of her hand, filed a lawsuit against the school, and she ultimately won $10 million because of how outrageously negligent the administrators were.

00:17:47.180 This is from NBC.

00:17:49.240 So listen to this.

00:17:50.040 Quote, the Virginia teacher who was shot by her six-year-old student texted a loved one before she was wounded that the boy was armed and that school officials were failing to act.

00:17:59.840 Abigail Zwirner sent the text about an hour before she was shot on January 6th,

00:18:04.000 saying that the student said he had a gun in his backpack

00:18:06.780 and that administrators at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News weren't helping.

00:18:11.640 Around 11.15 in the morning, Zwirner told the administration

00:18:14.460 that the student had threatened to beat up a classmate.

00:18:18.840 Then at 12.30, a different teacher told a school administrator

00:18:21.900 that he had searched the boy's backpack because he thought he might have a weapon.

00:18:25.300 And finally, just before 1 p.m., a third teacher told an administrator that the boy had showed another student a gun at recess and threatened to shoot him if he told anyone.

00:18:36.780 At that point, another school employee requested another search of the boy's backpack, which was denied.

00:18:43.100 Quote, the administrator told the employee to wait the situation out because the school day was almost over.

00:18:50.880 This is according to the teacher's attorney.

00:18:53.340 So this is the way public schools handle the news that a six-year-old has a gun on campus and is threatening to kill other children with it.

00:19:02.320 They just wait for the school day to end so they don't have to deal with it, which actually is—I have a very low opinion of the public school system, as you know.

00:19:11.680 This is way worse than I thought.

00:19:13.420 I mean, I thought that, I knew that they were negligent and all of that, but I would have figured, naively, I would have thought that even in the most negligent public school, like the one thing that will get everyone's attention and will get a quick response is if a kid in school says he has a gun.

00:19:31.700 Silly me, I thought that was still

00:19:34.780 Still, even now 0.81

00:19:36.820 With these kids can get away with anything

00:19:38.420 I thought the one thing they can't get away with

00:19:41.580 Is going to school and saying

00:19:42.900 Hey, I have a gun

00:19:43.800 You know, I thought that was still like

00:19:47.420 Standing up on an airplane and saying

00:19:48.900 You have a bomb

00:19:49.460 I mean, it's like

00:19:50.640 There's going to

00:19:51.820 That's one of those things

00:19:53.220 That's just going to get a major response

00:19:55.460 From every authority figure around

00:19:58.440 Apparently not

00:20:00.940 apparently these kids can go to school and actually tell people they have a gun and show

00:20:06.180 it to people. And the administrators are going to say, well, you know, day's almost over.

00:20:11.060 It'll probably be fine. You know, what is it? We have 45 minutes left. I'm sure we're fine.

00:20:18.120 The assistant principal of the school, whose name is Ebony Parker, apparently didn't care,

00:20:22.720 you know, about any of this. This is on top of the fact that before the shooting,

00:20:26.780 the six-year-old had numerous other documented behavior problems, which won't shock you,

00:20:30.360 where he attacks students and teachers.

00:20:32.800 The week of the shooting, he threw Zwerner's phone and destroyed it.

00:20:38.280 Yes, a six-year-old destroyed his teacher's phone before shooting her a week later.

00:20:44.660 Whatever the opposite of a bright future is, this kid has it coming.

00:20:49.500 But our system isn't set up to protect innocent people from barbarians like this,

00:20:53.520 so we're not even allowed to know his name.

00:20:55.340 I mean, in a functioning system

00:20:58.580 The moment he threw the phone

00:21:00.580 The moment you grab

00:21:02.280 A teacher's piece of property

00:21:04.780 And smash it

00:21:06.200 You're gone from the school forever 0.99

00:21:08.000 You're expelled

00:21:08.680 That's it, you're done

00:21:10.880 And

00:21:13.120 But that's not how it works anymore

00:21:15.860 And when he finally murders someone

00:21:18.700 Assuming he's still a juvenile

00:21:19.840 We still won't even know his name

00:21:22.300 They'll let him out again

00:21:24.280 In just a few years

00:21:25.240 and then when you finally murder someone again as an adult then maybe they'll tell us but even then

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00:24:03.920 slash walsh. Despite the overwhelming evidence that these schools are full of hopeless

00:24:09.740 violent, and dangerous children who can not be rehabilitated. And despite the obvious fact that

00:24:16.620 the administrators at these schools are completely incompetent, leftists like Nicole Hannah-Jones

00:24:21.560 insist that inner city schools are only bad because they're underfunded. It's one of the

00:24:26.400 great myths on the left, one of many myths. And of course, because it's a myth, as a factual matter,

00:24:33.120 it's not true. The mythical underfunded inner city school is not really true.

00:24:41.540 These schools receive some of the highest per-student funding, not just in America,

00:24:46.120 but in the world. And not just right now, but in history. So it's like a closer look at Newport

00:24:52.780 News public schools and how much money they receive and spend every year. This is taken

00:24:57.620 directly from the district's website. So this is the fiscal year 2026 budget. As you can see,

00:25:03.600 under the estimated average per pupil cost for public education, they list total financial

00:25:08.100 support per pupil at $18,659 per school year. So that includes state and federal funding.

00:25:15.900 That's your tax dollars at work. Every single year, the government takes about $18,000

00:25:20.580 from the pockets of the taxpayers

00:25:24.320 so that this six-year-old can get an education.

00:25:28.360 And that's just for one child.

00:25:32.380 And that's not unique to Newport News, by the way.

00:25:34.400 $18,000 per student is roughly in line

00:25:36.520 with national averages.

00:25:38.800 So you have to ask, where is this money going exactly?

00:25:41.960 How much money are the teachers and administrators

00:25:44.120 making to oversee violence and carnage

00:25:46.400 and dysfunction like this?

00:25:48.320 How much money is going to the unions?

00:25:50.580 Well, maybe here's the best question. What was the per-pupil cost to educate a student in 1960?

00:25:58.420 You know, back when students could, like, read and write. If we adjust for inflation,

00:26:04.360 right, what's the number? Well, it turns out that Heritage Foundation has run the numbers on this,

00:26:09.160 and they found that in real dollars, meaning inflation-adjusted, per-pupil spending in

00:26:14.760 American public schools was just $2,763 in 1960. That was four years before LBJ launched his

00:26:23.800 disastrous Great Society education programs, which would supposedly end poverty and lead

00:26:29.460 to racial harmony. The spending continued to increase from there. In 1980, per-pupil spending 0.93

00:26:35.060 was $7,359, and today the number is more than twice as high as that. So we're spending more

00:26:42.360 than twice as much to educate each student compared with 1980, and more than six times

00:26:47.000 what we were spending in 1960. And what are we getting for that money? I mean, what's our return

00:26:53.080 on this massive investment? Evidently, we're paying for six-year-old black kids to shoot 1.00

00:26:58.280 their teachers with no oversight whatsoever. Apparently, all this money can't even get 1.00

00:27:03.900 enough oversight in the schools to intercept a child before he shoots a teacher, even when

00:27:13.080 he's advertised to everybody all day that he has a gun. All this money is going into a bottomless

00:27:19.680 pit to enrich unions and administrators while schools pretend to educate students who obviously

00:27:24.300 can't control their own impulses, much less learn anything. There hasn't been any improvement in

00:27:29.940 test scores or student aptitude, everything's gone in the wrong direction, with one exception

00:27:35.080 that we'll talk about in a moment. The Stanford economist, Erika Hanushek, put it this way a

00:27:41.320 decade ago, quote, this productivity decline is remarkable, particularly when compared with

00:27:45.340 dynamic improvements in productivity elsewhere in the U.S. economy. Schooling outcomes are the

00:27:49.600 same in 2015 as they were four decades before, even though school funding is now several times

00:27:54.900 as high. So a pretty stark and frankly disturbing window into how much the civil rights era has

00:28:00.900 transformed this country and drained our treasury at the same time. But that's not all. Despite 0.65

00:28:05.680 receiving this massive amount of money, the Newport News School District has the audacity

00:28:09.600 to demand even more handouts directly from local residents. This is a real video the school

00:28:17.240 district produced and uploaded last year watch and while you're shopping don't forget to use your

00:28:24.400 reward cards in a smart way your food lion mvp card harris teeters vic card the kroger plus card

00:28:32.120 and other reward programs can be linked directly to the school of your choice so when you buy

00:28:38.560 everyday products you're supporting your child's school to link your reward card visit the store's

00:28:44.700 customer service desk for more information. Another way to support

00:28:48.780 education is through DonorsChoose.org which continues to be a wonderful

00:28:53.400 online resource to directly equip classroom instruction. Just like the name

00:28:58.320 implies, generous donors get to choose specifically which projects to fund.

00:29:04.140 Simply visit DonorsChoose.org and type in Newport News Public Schools or a

00:29:09.880 specific school in the search bar to find a project that needs financial

00:29:14.020 support. Donors can fund an entire project, or part of a project, and can clearly see where every

00:29:21.260 dime is spent. So you get to see exactly where all your donations are going, but as for your tax

00:29:27.380 money, that's apparently been vaporized. It's totally gone, just like your social security

00:29:32.040 contributions. You don't get to see the money. But if you donate to the school on top of your

00:29:36.680 taxes, well, sure, you can track that money. No problem. It's an incredible video. First,

00:29:42.120 they demand that you hand over the cash back rewards you get from your grocery store. They

00:29:46.280 claim that's a smart thing to do. Just hand your money over to them every time you go to the store

00:29:50.480 and then they direct you to a donation page where you can send them even larger amounts of money to

00:29:55.360 fund various projects the teachers have set up. The projects, as you just saw on the screen,

00:29:59.880 include a rug for quiet time. They need $227 for that. I don't know. I feel like you could find a

00:30:07.460 cheaper rug, maybe secondhand, go to a Goodwill or something. Why is that $200? Another project

00:30:12.500 was seeking $208 to pay for some puppets to help ESL students, meaning foreign students who can't

00:30:18.360 speak English. Again, I don't know what kind of puppet store they're going to. The puppets are

00:30:23.740 $200. Whatever happened, when I was a kid, we made puppets out of a brown paper bag,

00:30:32.360 Put some googly eyes on it.

00:30:33.620 There's your puppet.

00:30:35.780 And then there was the final project,

00:30:37.480 Disinfecting Wipes for Miss Harris's Classroom,

00:30:40.700 which came in at a relatively modest $44. 0.98

00:30:44.720 Still seems like a lot for disinfecting wipes.

00:30:47.100 So you're getting $18,000 to educate every student,

00:30:50.000 more than the average school district,

00:30:51.540 at any other point in the history of this country,

00:30:53.620 adjusted for inflation.

00:30:55.240 And it's still not enough.

00:30:57.520 Somehow, $18,000 per student doesn't cover a rug or disinfecting wipes.

00:31:03.500 It's a scam, and they're not even hiding it.

00:31:05.840 Multiply this one school district by about $14,000,

00:31:09.060 and you get a sense of how big the problem is.

00:31:11.600 We've let teachers and unions and administrators run amok for far too long,

00:31:15.500 occupy a kind of privileged status where no one's allowed to criticize them.

00:31:19.160 But the fact is, overall, they're doing a horrible job.

00:31:22.600 Now, they're getting more money than ever, and they're producing worse results.

00:31:27.940 In any other industry, that means they would lose their jobs, and that's exactly what needs

00:31:34.140 to happen here. The only state that's moving substantially in a positive direction is

00:31:38.820 Mississippi, which we've talked about before. It used to be one of the worst performing states in

00:31:43.640 the entire country in terms of student achievement. Their fourth grade reading scores ranked 49th in

00:31:48.540 the nation in 2013. By 2024, they were up to ninth place. Math proficiency increased by more

00:31:54.400 than 12%. I don't want to overstate the progress. Students in Mississippi are still underperforming

00:31:59.780 by eighth grade, but they made a drastic improvement for elementary school students

00:32:03.000 in a relatively short period of time. And it's clear how they did it. First, they refused to

00:32:08.160 allow students to progress a grade if they couldn't read. They recognized that in a functioning school,

00:32:13.540 some students simply do not deserve to take up space in the classroom. They also taught students

00:32:19.800 how letters correspond to different sounds, which sounds pretty basic, but before that,

00:32:24.500 they were basically telling students to guess how to pronounce words based on context clues.

00:32:28.820 These are pretty obvious common sense reforms, but in most states, school administrators didn't

00:32:33.760 even bother with any kind of reforms. They're happy to continue making more and more money

00:32:37.560 every year while their students shoot at them, you know, in some cases. The public school system

00:32:44.020 is irreparably broken and useless now, primarily because in general, it refuses to admit

00:32:50.320 that many of their students, like the one who shot this teacher, simply cannot be reformed.

00:32:57.380 And normal civilized children should not be forced to share a class with them.

00:33:02.600 If they could simply admit this, then they wouldn't need $18,000 per student.

00:33:07.560 they'd go back to spending $2,000 a student or less.

00:33:12.080 If they refuse to, quote, educate the students who cannot be educated and refuse to be educated,

00:33:19.320 this is the approach we need to adopt because the prevailing educational model,

00:33:24.440 the one we've tried over the past 60 to 70 years, is dead.

00:33:28.960 Now, there might be scattered pockets in the country where public school system is still relatively functional,

00:33:32.900 but that will change. 0.99

00:33:35.040 Diversity had already put it on its deathbed, thanks to kids like the one in that video. 0.95

00:33:40.400 And new changes like AI have destroyed whatever hope there might have still been for the system.

00:33:47.600 I mean, at the scale of mass government-run education, there's really no way to stop students from using AI for every assignment.

00:33:54.520 That's obviously exactly what every kid in public school is already doing.

00:33:59.000 At a certain level, you can't even really blame them.

00:34:01.160 I mean, when your teachers are illiterate, ChatGPT may seem like a better option.

00:34:05.840 And I'm not even exaggerating here.

00:34:07.800 Some of these teachers are actually illiterate.

00:34:10.360 So in 2017, New York eliminated the academic literacy skills test as a requirement for teacher certification 0.65

00:34:16.260 because the non-white teachers were failing it at an extremely high rate. 0.99

00:34:21.820 So it was a diversity problem.

00:34:23.740 And white teachers were passing at a rate of 64% on the first try, which is still way too low, by the way,

00:34:30.020 While black candidates had passed around 40%, which meant that the test had to be racist.

00:34:36.600 So here's a sample question to give you an idea of how easy it was or how racist it was.

00:34:43.440 I mean, you be the judge.

00:34:44.380 This is from a practice test on study.com that gives you kind of an idea.

00:34:48.900 It says, question, which of the following should someone do as they read an informational text?

00:34:56.560 Your choices.

00:34:57.620 Choices.

00:34:57.940 A, read the text quickly all at once. B, avoid rereading if possible. C, take notes. D, wait

00:35:08.920 until after they read to write down summaries, further questions, and their reactions.

00:35:14.680 So the answer, as you might have guessed, is take notes. Some of these questions might be

00:35:23.280 ironically difficult in that you assume that they must be, there's an answer that's really 0.97

00:35:30.540 obvious, but you kind of assume that the question can't be this dumb. Is this a trick? Is there 0.95

00:35:36.320 some other answer that I'm supposed, is this a trick question? No, it's not a trick question.

00:35:40.820 It's just that take notes. Yeah. So the answer is not to rush through the text and never look

00:35:45.320 at it again. Who could have guessed? And apparently this kind of question was truly vexing for the

00:35:51.020 overwhelming number of non-white teachers who took the test. So here's another question. Which

00:35:58.380 of the following is not a feature of narrative texts? Is it A, plot, B, point of view, C, headings,

00:36:06.260 D, conflict? This can be a tough one if you've never seen a TV show or a movie or read a book

00:36:13.220 or talked to another human being at any point in your life. So it's obviously C or headings,

00:36:18.140 which is not an element of narrative. So these are basic questions for a child,

00:36:22.620 but New York teachers couldn't get the questions right. A lot of them can barely speak English,

00:36:28.840 apparently. Listen up, there are enough people listening to this show right now that if they

00:36:33.540 don't vote, it could swing key states in the 2026 election to the Democrats. And everyone

00:36:39.720 listening knows every single ultra far left democratic socialist will be showing up to vote

00:36:45.340 this fall. Democrats are fired up and we can't let them win because if we lose, they'll undo

00:36:51.240 everything our movement has fought for. I need you to vote early so that you can bank your vote

00:36:56.580 and fight back against the left's turnout machine. If you live in the critical Senate battleground

00:37:01.040 states of Maine or Ohio, early voting is already underway starting this week. So go to gopvotes.org

00:37:07.440 right now. Find out when you can vote. Making your voice heard is easier than ever. You can get

00:37:12.860 election reminders, look up your polling location, and pick a date to vote early. Go to gopvotes.org

00:37:18.060 today, paid for by SLF PAC, not authorized by any candidate or candidates committee.

00:37:24.060 Additionally, this year, they got rid of the AATAS test, which was a test for teaching

00:37:31.080 assistance. They replaced it with a more modern test, which presumably means that too many people

00:37:36.260 were failing the old one. Let's try a couple of those questions from the old test. Here's one

00:37:41.080 from study.com. Question, if 12 inches is equal to one foot, how many feet are there in 72 inches?

00:37:50.160 So it's multiple choices. The answer is seven feet, eight feet, five feet, or six feet.

00:37:55.980 They actually tell you that there are 12 inches in a foot, just in case you're from Uganda and 0.92

00:38:00.080 have no idea how anything works in this country. And then they ask you to do some very basic 0.97

00:38:04.700 multiplication in your head. 72 inches is what you get when you multiply 12 inches by six.

00:38:10.320 When you multiply one foot by six, you get six feet, and therefore the answer is six feet.

00:38:15.900 This is a question you'd expect teaching assistants in public schools to answer, but that's no longer necessary.

00:38:21.920 Here's question two, and again, I'm not making this up.

00:38:25.240 It says, question, you're about to check the first drafts of your class.

00:38:28.720 What would be the best way to assess the student's performance?

00:38:31.360 Do you, A, take notes to determine who among the students is the best in grammar?

00:38:36.360 B, set fixed criteria on how to grade each of the students' works.

00:38:41.220 C, take notes to determine who among the students is the most creative.

00:38:45.420 D, just give them all the same grade to avoid disappointing students.

00:38:51.800 Now, you can tell just reading these responses that the people who wrote this test spent about five minutes writing the questions and answers.

00:38:58.540 A and C are extremely similar responses, and neither of them make sense.

00:39:03.140 D is very explicitly a nonsense answer. It's a joke, really.

00:39:07.020 Obviously, if you're going to grade students, you need criteria, meaning basis for giving them grades.

00:39:13.700 And now teaching assistants in New York apparently don't need to figure this out.

00:39:17.800 So for now, if you have a five-year-old child and you're deciding how to educate them in the modern world,

00:39:24.820 you basically have only two viable options.

00:39:26.960 If you're thinking about, okay, my kid's going to spend the next 12, 13 years in some kind of educational environment,

00:39:33.200 starting now, what are your options? Going to public school is really not an option on the

00:39:41.060 table. So what other options do you have? Well, you could spend a lot of money on one of the

00:39:45.600 relatively few, truly elite private schools. Or if you aren't a millionaire, or even if you are,

00:39:54.140 homeschool, which includes highly localized and small-scale homeschool co-ops and homeschool

00:39:58.720 academies as well. There are ways to do it, homeschooling, so that it's not just you with

00:40:03.720 your kids. I mean, there's ways that you can still have a community and have support.

00:40:09.060 As I said, you might be able to find scattered pockets here and there where the public school

00:40:12.920 system is still moderately functional. But those places are extremely expensive, and they're

00:40:17.600 basically the same as paying for a private school when you factor in the cost of living in those

00:40:21.260 districts. Unfortunately, there's very little hope that the school system will improve in any

00:40:26.760 widespread, measurable, lasting way, especially because now the institution exists to protect

00:40:32.680 itself. Teachers' unions remain some of the biggest funders of Democrats in public school

00:40:37.980 systems and Democrat-controlled states. They can't be fired even if they're drinking on the job or

00:40:43.060 openly wishing death on their students. Those are not exaggerations, by the way. These are real

00:40:47.340 cases. In 2010, a tenured fifth-grade New York school teacher named Christine Rubino posted the

00:40:54.480 following statement to her Facebook account after a student drowned while on a class field trip to

00:40:59.280 the beach. She wrote, quote, after today, I'm thinking the beach sounds like a wonderful idea

00:41:03.740 for my fifth graders. I hate their guts. They are the devil's spawn. One of Rubino's friends 0.94

00:41:10.420 responded, oh, you would let little Kwame float away. And Rubino replied, yes, I would not throw 0.93

00:41:16.040 a life jacket in for a million. Rubino was fired. Seems like a pretty logical consequence.

00:41:24.480 But she appealed her termination and was reinstated

00:41:27.440 Because according to the courts

00:41:29.700 While her reference to a child's death is repulsive

00:41:32.600 There's no evidence that her postings are part of a pattern of conduct

00:41:36.340 Then there was the case of Nicholas Salento

00:41:39.920 A special education teacher at Colonia High School

00:41:43.180 Who was fired by the Woodbridge School District

00:41:45.240 After he was found consuming alcohol on school grounds

00:41:48.300 He was actually caught drinking on two separate days

00:41:51.800 But he had tenure

00:41:53.540 Which is an absurd concept for anyone, much less a special education teacher.

00:41:58.460 So they had to hold a hearing.

00:42:00.180 And at this hearing, Salento claimed to be an alcoholic.

00:42:02.840 So it really wasn't his fault.

00:42:04.980 And a state arbitrator bought it and overturned the firing.

00:42:09.220 He eventually got his license suspended for just two years.

00:42:12.720 You know, because he has a, quote, disease.

00:42:15.340 Alcoholism is a disease.

00:42:17.480 It's like having cancer.

00:42:18.320 It's not his fault.

00:42:20.300 And on and on.

00:42:20.860 These people are untouchable because they look out for one another. They unionize, they lobby,

00:42:25.240 and it's working. It's been working, of course, for many decades. Even though birth rates are low

00:42:30.720 and student enrollments is declining, their budgets and the number of administrators keeps

00:42:34.740 rising. It's been a steady, massive increase from 1960 every single decade. And then you get to

00:42:42.660 COVID. COVID was probably one of the final nails in the coffin. Teachers and unions fought to close

00:42:47.560 the schools for as long as they could. They showed their cards revealing that they don't

00:42:52.940 think the schools are all that important or necessary, or else they do think the schools

00:42:57.520 are important and necessary, but they were willing to deprive the kids of the important,

00:43:01.520 necessary thing in order to protect themselves from the flu. Either way, there's no coming back

00:43:08.240 from that. No matter how much body cam footage they hide and no matter how many literacy tests

00:43:14.480 they shut down, everyone is now well aware that the public school system is not only

00:43:19.120 useless but actively counterproductive. It endangers students while protecting its own

00:43:24.980 by design. Whatever alternative you're thinking about for your own children, whether it's

00:43:30.660 homeschooling, private school, or something else, you should rest assured that it can't

00:43:36.280 possibly be any worse than what these vultures have been selling ever since LBJ promised to

00:43:42.040 end poverty. It turns out, no matter how much money you throw at these people, it's not going

00:43:47.240 to help. They only demand more, to the point that they're begging for your credit card reward at

00:43:54.840 the grocery store. Well, if that six-year-old school shooter accomplishes anything in his life,

00:44:01.120 it'll be helping millions of Americans realize that it's time to stop giving it to them.

00:44:08.440 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you

00:44:10.940 on Monday. Have a great weekend.

00:44:12.840 Godspeed.

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00:44:21.120 has started with protesting. 1.00

00:44:22.260 You're a traitor! 1.00

00:44:23.040 Uncle Tom! 1.00

00:44:23.780 This is our generation's civil rights.

00:44:25.540 I have no idea what the protest is about.

00:44:27.500 Bingo!

00:44:28.060 Given the current climate,

00:44:29.540 should a figure as polarizing as Clay Saunders

00:44:32.180 even be allowed on Kansas?

00:44:33.460 Can you hear me okay?

00:44:34.720 Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Friedman.

00:44:37.160 This is a decision I cannot find. 1.00

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00:44:40.940 As-salamu alaykum. 1.00

00:44:44.940 Are we paying attention? 1.00

00:44:46.940 They've taken over the building, they're downstairs,

00:44:48.940 and they've blocked the doors.

00:44:50.940 I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.

00:44:54.940 We cannot run and hide.

00:44:57.940 Mohammed is the messenger of God.

00:45:00.940 There is no God but Allah. 0.99

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00:45:13.780 They call that leap project.

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00:45:18.020 You need a course in safe weapons handling.

The Matt Walsh Show - October 08, 2026

Ep. 1853 - Shocking Body Cam Footage Reveals How Bad Public Schools Are Now

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