Rahm Emanuel

50% of our kids cannot read at grade level.

And you are arguing about a bathroom and a locker room access when you should be focused on how do we improve reading scores.

And that's why I went to, I don't know if you know this, but I went to Mississippi because they have this miracle, the first national leader to go down.

I said, okay, the science of reading and all the other type of parts of that should be the national model.

The answer is right there.

You just got to have the courage to take it.

Yeah, what is the miracle there?

They turned their education system around?

So let me finish the first question.

So do I think, as somebody also that said, you know, we weren't really good in 2024 when we talked about the kitchen table, the family room, the only room we did well was the bathroom, and it's the smallest room in the house.

Do I think that's dead?

I think people know that there was a consequence getting caught

in what I call a cultural cul-de-sac.

We declared and wanted to bring the cultural wars to our schools, and we lost that.

Do I think people are conscious of that?

I think they were aware, and I, somebody that in 2016 as mayor of Chicago signed bathroom access, but I never lost my focus on graduation rate, 3D scores, and math scores.

So we can be a culture, and we are as a party, rightfully, a culture of acceptance.

We became a culture of advocacy, and that's where we crossed the line.

As I like take the issue, I've said this before on boys playing in girls sport.

I'm not undermining title nine.