Valuetainment - February 27, 2023


The Public School Crisis In America - Why It's Time to Put Your Kids In Private School


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00:00:00.000 What if I told you the biggest monopoly we have in America today isn't Google, isn't Apple,
00:00:04.360 isn't Facebook, isn't Amazon, but it's in our K-12 schools and universities and I have data
00:00:08.900 to prove it. And on top of that, I'm going to make an argument to you today why you ought to
00:00:12.940 consider having your kids leave public schools as soon as possible. And by the way, before you say,
00:00:20.020 how could you say something like that, Patrick? You're a byproduct of a public school. I'm a
00:00:24.440 byproduct of a public school. How could you say something like that? You're assuming that today's
00:00:29.000 public school is the same as the public school you and I went to. A lot has changed. And last
00:00:34.260 but not least, I'm going to show you two numbers, the cost of sending your kids to a private school
00:00:37.740 versus a public school taxes we pay for. And you'll be able to decide and see that private school is
00:00:42.700 actually cheaper than sending our kids to public school if we allowed it to the free market to
00:00:48.300 decide. So let's get right into it. Again, I'm going to make my argument, you may like it,
00:00:59.900 you may not like it, but if you do get value from this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to
00:01:04.120 the channel. Let's get right into it. Let's look at some stats of private schools versus public
00:01:08.140 schools. In America, we have roughly 32,461 private schools, 5.72 million students are in private
00:01:15.940 schools in America, which is roughly 10.1% of all students. By the way, 643,000 of the 5.72
00:01:22.820 million is in California alone. If you were wondering which private schools are leading
00:01:26.860 the most, at the top is Catholic schools, 38.8% of them, and the least popular is Islam, 0.8%.
00:01:33.120 These private schools combined have 441,496 full-time teachers. Average private school size in America
00:01:40.740 is only 176 students. Some of you guys may be thinking it's 1,000, it's 2,000. Nope, that's public.
00:01:45.360 Most private schools are very small. And the total dollar amount it takes to operate these 32,461
00:01:50.760 schools is roughly $87.5 billion per year. They get this through raising money and through getting
00:01:56.020 tuition. That's how they do. They don't get the money from the government, hence it's a private
00:01:59.580 school. So now let's take a look at public schools. We have 97,568 different public schools, a total of
00:02:05.240 50.6 million students that are enrolled. The average class of a public school is 519 students,
00:02:12.760 remember, compared to 176 students. And their funding is roughly $640 billion that you and I
00:02:20.940 pay for. Once again, $640 billion that you and I pay for. Now, on the other hand, when it comes
00:02:26.420 on to public schools, public schools have 3.2 million full-time teachers. So if you were to kind
00:02:31.100 of break down the math, in public school, for every one teacher, there are 16 students. And in private,
00:02:36.020 for every one teacher, there are 12 students. So you get slightly more attention per student
00:02:40.760 in private than in public. So now let's look at which states lead the way in enrollments in
00:02:44.840 America. I'll give you the top five public school states in America. Number one is California,
00:02:48.460 6.86 million. Number two is Texas, 5.84 million. Number three is Florida, 3.38 million. New York is
00:02:54.380 four. Illinois is five. But here's an interesting stat. From 1990 till today, which school has increased
00:03:00.860 enrollment the most? Look at the numbers. Texas has increased 60.6%. Florida's increased 52.9%.
00:03:07.900 California is not even half of those two numbers at 26.7%. Illinois is at 8.8%. And New York has
00:03:14.020 barely grown since 1990. That's 30 plus years ago, only 3.9%. So now let's look at cost. Let's look
00:03:21.940 at cost if you send your kids to private school or if we would have done public school with all the
00:03:25.700 taxes we're paying per student. The average cost for a private school in America, according to
00:03:30.920 educationdata.org, is $12,350 per year. And if you want to know what the high is in Connecticut,
00:03:37.700 it's $24,000. In Wisconsin, it's $3,500. But on average, it's $12,350, okay, for private school.
00:03:44.560 If you were to break down the public funding, the money you and I pay in taxes, $640 billion for 50.6
00:03:52.200 million students. Now we send these taxes to how much we pay per student. Here's what the numbers
00:03:57.340 would look like. $12,648. So now again, $12,350 private school, $12,640 a public school. Less
00:04:05.180 private, more for public. So the question you got to ask is the following. I don't have a problem
00:04:09.760 paying more for public because it's better. Is it? Where you're like, no, public sucks. My kids,
00:04:15.480 I don't even know what they're going to eat, the teaching, all this other stuff. Well, then this is
00:04:18.520 why you ought to consider sending your kids to private school. That's why we're having this
00:04:21.640 conversation. So now let's look at a couple of different things when it comes down to school and what
00:04:25.100 things we should be concerned about. These are 10 or 11 things I have here. Number one, parents not
00:04:29.060 being involved enough. When you look at statistics of how kids do, parents' involvement in school is
00:04:35.240 just as important, if not more important than the actual school kids go to. Vice recently did a
00:04:42.200 research on this and a guy who's Asian talks about why so many Asians do so well in school. And he's
00:04:48.240 trying to explain to them and everybody's interrupting him. He says, look, if you want to know why kids do so
00:04:53.880 well in Asian families, it's because parents typically stay together. They have higher
00:04:59.020 expectations of kids going to school and they're involved. They want to know how you're doing in
00:05:03.420 homework. They're there. You have to give a lot of credence to that. So number one, the reason why
00:05:09.000 kids don't do well in public schools, parents are not involved. Number two, classes are overcrowded.
00:05:13.280 We already looked at the stats earlier on what it looks like for public school 16 to 1 versus private
00:05:17.300 school 12 to 1. The more crowded it is, the less attention teachers are going to put into your
00:05:20.940 student. Number three, number three is affordability. Can the average person afford to send their kids
00:05:25.440 to school, private school, and pay that $12,350? Most people think it's $40,000 or $50,000, but
00:05:30.800 $12,350. To most, that's still a lot of money. But I'm telling you right now, if you're watching this
00:05:35.860 and you're making $75,000 a year, you're making $100,000 a year, you're making $150,000 a year. And to
00:05:40.780 you, Pat, that's a lot of money for me to send my three kids to private school. I am telling you,
00:05:45.380 based on some of the things we'll talk about, find a way to make that extra money with a side hustle
00:05:49.780 to send your kids to private school. I'm not telling you finance your house. I'm not telling
00:05:53.500 you take all your savings out of your 401k. I'm not telling you to do all that other stuff. I'm
00:05:57.260 telling you find a secondary income to be able to fund private schools because public schools are
00:06:02.300 not what they once used to be. Number four, public schools take a long time to adapt and adjust to
00:06:08.220 the innovation that's taking place today. So STEM, technology, all of that, they're way behind the
00:06:12.260 eight ball. Private schools, because there's pressure from parents who are giving money to the private
00:06:17.000 school, they can say, why are we not making investments into this? Why are we not doing
00:06:20.580 that? Why are we not doing this? And the people running the school have to listen to the parents
00:06:23.700 because you're paying them money. Remember, anything that's free is usually cheap and you have no voice
00:06:29.120 to say anything to them. Anything you pay for that service, you can also expect a higher experience and
00:06:36.120 service if you're paying for it. Not telling you we're living in a perfect world, but there's more
00:06:40.140 ability to be able to impose and ask when you're paying for something than just sending them to public
00:06:45.080 school. Point number five, school safety. A lot of parents nowadays, if you're going to public school,
00:06:49.620 parents are concerned. Are my kids safe? Do schools have the funding to pay for the safety they provide
00:06:54.980 for you and I? Well, we don't have the money. The state's not giving us this. The state's not giving
00:06:58.880 us that. Versus in a private school, parents can meet and say, hey, what are we doing to make it safer?
00:07:02.700 Well, here's what we're doing. You got to come through here when you're dropping them up. You got to do
00:07:05.740 this. You got to do that. That is another thing that a lot of parents are thinking about. Not telling you
00:07:09.540 private schools are more safe than public school, but generally private schools are safer than public
00:07:14.880 schools. So point number six may be number one on a lot of parents' lists, which is curriculum and the
00:07:19.960 woke mob coming after their kids. They want to take their kids out of public schools to put them in
00:07:24.520 private schools or even consider homeschooling. I want to give you some stats here and you make a
00:07:28.300 decision for yourself. Do you remember at the beginning of the video, what's the first thing I
00:07:31.400 said when we started the video? I'm going to share with you the biggest monopoly in America and it's not
00:07:35.240 Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon. Remember that? And I said, it's in public schools. Let me give you some
00:07:39.180 stats. In Hollywood, what percentage of actors in Hollywood do you think are Democrats versus
00:07:43.600 Republicans? What do you think it is? The answer is 90% are Democrats, 10% are Republicans. And
00:07:48.380 generally the 10% that are Republicans, they're very quiet. Now let's break it down on teachers
00:07:53.880 in public schools. Here's the data. This is written about in an article by Washington Post by a research
00:08:01.160 conducted of Verdant Labs using political contribution data on the Democrat-Republican divide based on job
00:08:08.420 type. English teachers. Out of 100 English teachers in public schools, 97% are Democrats, 3% are
00:08:15.520 Republicans. Health teachers. 99% of all public school health teachers are Democrats, 1% Republicans.
00:08:22.200 Math and science is the only one that's slightly fairer. 87% are Democrats, 13% are Republicans. Now
00:08:30.200 if you're watching this and you're a Democrat, what do you say? Wow, this is awesome. I think what you need
00:08:34.240 to ask yourself is why are you a Democrat? Maybe because all your teachers were Democrats and you
00:08:38.300 eventually got baptized because there was no debate. What I like is debate. I'm a public school kid. This
00:08:43.360 guy right here. I don't like when people say, look at what Facebook is a monopoly. They got to break
00:08:48.440 them apart. They got to break apart Apple and Google and Amazon. This is not fair. It's abuse. This is the
00:08:55.580 ultimate monopoly to the same people so concerned about Apple, Facebook. Why don't we break you apart?
00:08:59.760 Why don't we make this even? 50-50. Why don't we make it 50-50? Would you be okay with that?
00:09:04.260 Specifically, if this is shared with a Democratic teacher, I'm sure you're losing your mind right
00:09:07.740 now watching this, getting ready to type and say how much of a fool I am for giving you these stats.
00:09:11.880 I'm okay with that. I have what you call thick skin is what I have because I like debate. I don't
00:09:16.300 like an echo chamber. I spend a little bit more time on this one here because we have a monopoly.
00:09:20.280 And if you as a parent are okay with this, send your kids to public school. But if you as a parent
00:09:24.640 now know about this data and you're still sending your kids to public school and not making that
00:09:29.440 additional money to have that discourse with your kids, then don't be upset that you lose your kids
00:09:33.640 when they turn 18 and they say, mom, dad, you have no clue what you're talking about. It's your fault,
00:09:38.260 mommy and daddy, not the teacher's fault. You have a choice to work a little harder, make a little
00:09:42.580 bit more money, find that additional $12,000, $13,000 a year, maybe $20,000 where you're living and send
00:09:47.920 your kids to private school so they don't get brainwashed. This is where you get to pick and choose
00:09:51.980 what school for your kids to go to that learn the right values and principles. I'm not talking about being
00:09:56.640 perfect. By the way, even at private schools, it's generally 50-50 with Republicans and Democrats.
00:10:02.320 My kids go to private schools. A lot of their teachers are Democrats. This doesn't mean it's
00:10:06.940 guaranteed that they're 90% Republicans. Not at all. The reason why I like private schools is because
00:10:11.940 it's pretty much 50-50 in private schools, but in public schools, full-on monopoly. Anyways,
00:10:17.500 that's point number six. Number seven, which is going to seem common sense to you, but it's going to
00:10:20.980 trigger certain people. You ready? I believe great teachers are underpaid, not teachers. I believe
00:10:27.060 great teachers are underpaid, and I believe bad teachers should be fired. Not yesterday, not a
00:10:34.580 year ago. The day they got hired, bad teachers need to be fired. There are certain people that shouldn't
00:10:38.660 be teachers, and there's many of them right now that are still working because those districts are
00:10:42.400 desperate for teachers, and they're desperately hiring bad quality teachers. Firing. A lot of parents,
00:10:48.040 this is something they think about, and it is a concern on almost every list you look at from the
00:10:52.880 left, the right, the middle. It doesn't matter. There's a lot of bad teachers out there, and there
00:10:56.580 are a lot of underpaid, great teachers out there. So, number eight is mental health, and I'm going to
00:11:01.100 talk to you from a parent standpoint. I'm a parent. I'm a father of four kids, 11-year-old today,
00:11:05.980 nine, six, and a 19-month-old, and there's a lot of different things that kids are dealing with
00:11:10.000 today that is different than when I dealt with when I was a kid. I didn't have Facebook, Twitter,
00:11:13.680 Instagram, all these pressure, even ChadGBT. We didn't have any of this stuff right when I was a
00:11:17.920 kid. So, the challenges are different. However, I think in many cases, sometimes teachers also
00:11:22.380 don't know how to handle this. Not saying teachers are perfect, but they don't know how to handle
00:11:25.620 this. I'll give it to you from my own personal experience. My kid, my oldest son, goes to school,
00:11:30.000 and a teacher really has a hard time with this guy. So, the first thing he says, oh, he can't pay
00:11:33.200 attention. Yeah, okay, you call it what? The whole ADHD thing? Okay, he can't pay attention. He's got to go
00:11:38.440 see this counselor, this therapist. So, I don't know where they're going, but because I'm a curious guy,
00:11:42.000 I'm following their, you know, their protocols. So, we go, and I'm just waiting for the teacher to
00:11:46.020 prescribe some medication. There we go. We sit there, and we go, oh, yeah, oh, okay, cool. We'd
00:11:50.320 like to do a test. Yeah, well, I just want to see. You guys got a camera, what you do to my son? I
00:11:54.080 just got to see. I don't have to be in there. Yeah, yeah. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah. Okay, no problem.
00:11:57.240 Great. And then, yeah, we think your kid, he needs to take such and such. I said, really? Yeah. I said,
00:12:01.140 nah, I don't think so. I think my kid has what I have. It's called being creative. It's called being a
00:12:05.620 young boy, and it's called you're all over the place. God knows how many times I moved as a kid. I moved so many
00:12:10.640 times in Iran when the war was happening. I moved to Germany, refugee camp, not learning German, and being bullied
00:12:15.740 on not speaking German and looking Middle Eastern in Germany. They don't like Middle Easterns if you
00:12:20.580 go there and have to learn how to make friends. And I came to the States, and I got to learn another
00:12:24.200 language, and we're moving from this, from that, from this. Parents divorced. Trust me, life was very
00:12:28.820 annoying for a long time as a kid, so I'm dealing with stuff, and I'm handling stuff on my own. Too often
00:12:34.860 in these types of cases, teachers are not properly trained on how to handle these types of kids. They
00:12:40.260 automatically put them in a box, and then we find out 33 years later, that kid was a genius. We find out
00:12:45.040 42 years later, when we're using a technology, we're like, oh my God. Oh, remember that one kid
00:12:48.840 in fifth grade that we thought was so freaking weird? His name was Elon. Is this the same Elon Musk?
00:12:54.320 Let me go back. Wow, he was in our class. That was our student. What a big mistake on mine. I thought
00:13:00.900 this kid was a troubled kid. No, you're just wired in a different way than you are. So sometimes parents,
00:13:06.880 like I watch very closely with how my teachers sell me who my kids are. And when I'm in all these
00:13:14.060 parent-teacher conferences that they do, and I'm involved, I'm trying to see what they say about
00:13:17.400 my kid. And my wife will always say, babe, I say, so what do you think about my kid? You know,
00:13:20.820 and I'll just sit there and I'll listen to him. I won't say anything. But if I notice there's not
00:13:24.080 an understanding about the kid, I'll take that moment and I'll say, hey, one thing about my son
00:13:27.580 you ought to know, he's like me. Here's how I was. Papa, papa, papa, papa. Okay, cool. This is what
00:13:31.900 works with them. If you need us, let us know. The more you communicate, the better we'll be able to work
00:13:35.320 together as a team. We're here to support you, but please understand our son is like papa. No problem.
00:13:40.500 Great. Guess what? Point number one was what? Parents not being involved. This is the part where
00:13:44.160 parents got to be more involved, which kind of helps when kids are going through the challenges
00:13:47.800 that they're going through in these types of situations. Because nobody was involved with
00:13:50.920 me and I was pretty alone. I was like, man, I don't know who to talk to. I thought I was really
00:13:53.780 weird. Do you realize it took me 25 years to realize I was weird, but it's good that I was weird
00:13:58.380 and I'm okay with it. But at the time when everyone's calling you weird, you really think you're weird
00:14:02.580 and you have problems. Does that make sense? Anyways, if it does, it does. If it doesn't,
00:14:06.540 trust me, it makes sense to five to 10% of people that are watching this. So this next one, many
00:14:11.800 parents may relate to, and some of you guys will fully disagree with this one. To me, it's when we
00:14:15.100 took prayer out of school and got out of school. That was a problem in my eyes. Let me explain
00:14:20.140 myself and you can say I disagree or I agree. Do you know what year it was when we took prayers out
00:14:24.060 of school? It was 1962. Do you know why? It was a case. Engel versus Vitale. And the simple prayer
00:14:29.920 they took out of school, do you know what the prayer was? This is what the prayer was. Almighty God,
00:14:33.840 we acknowledge our dependence upon thee and we beg thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers,
00:14:40.760 and our country. There's no Jesus mentioned. There's nothing mentioned. This prayer is a prayer
00:14:45.460 of what? I am grateful for the blessings my parents, my teachers, and my country. It's actually a good
00:14:51.520 prayer for kids to have, but we took it up. Now, for some of you that love having these debates about
00:14:56.500 God exists, God doesn't exist, faith this, faith that, let me just give you my case. I believe whether
00:15:01.120 this thing is right or wrong, when the kid becomes an adult, he's going to go through his own journey
00:15:06.540 of figuring out what God is real or it's not. That's his journey. But when the kid is younger
00:15:11.700 and he doesn't share all his fears and anxieties with his parents, isn't it better if he believes
00:15:18.140 in a God or a spirit that's bigger than him that he can talk to him at any time and he's got his back?
00:15:23.640 What do you think? Don't you think that helps that kid out a little bit more on how to cope with
00:15:28.580 these things while he's 11 years old, while he's 14 years old? I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. And by
00:15:33.980 the way, let me tell you a crazy story. I was an atheist for 25 years. Myself. I'm telling you this
00:15:39.460 myself. This much of belief that there is faith. Even when I was an atheist, I would pray to a God
00:15:45.560 I didn't believe existed because others told me, try praying. And that was my only out, okay? And as an
00:15:52.320 adult, it's a complete different story. Anyways, last point. We took prayer out. I think it was also
00:15:57.220 problematic. And I think we could solve a lot of different things if kids can do a simple prayer
00:16:01.780 as Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon thee and we beg thy blessings upon us, our
00:16:08.260 parents, our teachers, and our country. I think I can help the kids out a little bit more dealing
00:16:12.240 with certain challenges that they're dealing with today. I'll give my final thoughts and we'll wrap
00:16:15.440 up. I think life is all about risks. Who you marry, risky. You don't know if it's going to work out.
00:16:19.360 You're not going to know for decades. Maybe it doesn't work out, but it was great at first.
00:16:22.460 Having a job, risky. Starting a business, risky. Living in America, risky. Driving on the freeway,
00:16:28.280 risky because others are on their phones. There is risk involved, but there's a lot of risk today
00:16:32.660 with you sending your kids to public school and sending your kids to colleges that you know nothing
00:16:38.000 about. I had a friend of mine who sent his daughter to a school in Illinois. His daughter and
00:16:44.560 him were like this. He says, I spent $200,000 sending my kids to this one school. Every year,
00:16:50.800 she liked me less. And every year she was more bitter to me. And rather than coming back home,
00:16:56.780 she said, I don't want to come back and be around you. I cannot believe you're a capitalist and you're
00:17:00.600 this. I used to respect you. All you care about is money. The university, the father sent $200,000
00:17:06.960 to created this layer of division between him and his daughter that him and the two of them were
00:17:12.480 close like you wouldn't believe. It's a risk. That's all I'm telling you. You decide whether you're
00:17:17.780 comfortable with this risk or not. If you can figure out a way to make more money to send your
00:17:21.000 kids to a better private school, I highly recommend you start doing some research.
00:17:24.200 Anyways, if you got value from the video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel. I got
00:17:27.580 another video I want you to watch. 15 things they don't teach in schools. If you've not watched it,
00:17:31.940 click here to watch it. Take care, everybody. Bye-bye, bye-bye.