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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Oh, for Ava.
Maybe for Corey.
I mean, I would get dressed up for Corey. I'm a fan of Corey's for a long time. All right. I'll take it. We'll take it. Oh, you guys, come on in. We have a great show for you today. We're going to let everyone come in. I see people still parking and running in.
And we're going to have such a good conversation with Corey DeAngelis today, you guys, about school choice and your favorite and mine, Randy Weingarten and teachers unions and where's your tax money going for schools and where should it go? But we can't do any of that until we do something simultaneously. So Brie, take it away. Dr. Von Hardy, you're in trouble.
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Chapter 2: How does Corey DeAngelis define school choice?
You should be able to take that money to a private school. Just like with food stamps, we don't say you have to take food stamp dollars. And we can disagree about whether we should have food stamps at all. That's not the argument I'm making. But if we're going to have it, and if we're going to fund SNAP benefits for people, and taxpayers are forced to spend money on those things,
it shouldn't go to a government institution and we shouldn't corral people and say, you got to go here and line up in the bread line. Instead, like we do with food stamps, the money should follow the person.
And so we should fund the student, not the system has been my tagline for years, fund the individual, not the institution, which is really interesting because Democrats support all of these other programs where the money follows the person and not the
the um the building like medicaid vouchers those you don't have to take those that funding to a government-run assigned hospital you don't have to take pell grants which are college scholarships for low-income kids students you don't have to take those to state-run universities or the community college and certainly not one that you're assigned to you get to choose a private or public university
makes sense for your children it's your health it's your diet it's your whatever so why why wouldn't you be able to choose it's just we're in america you have children you hope for the best for them you you know like i mean i i look at some towns that are decent towns but the schools And so now what? Like, I'm just stuck here.
I got to uproot my whole life and move somewhere because I have to go to this school and I can't afford a different private school. It makes total and utter sense. And all I've seen in the last.
you know call it decade for sure our parents rights being stripped away and blatantly and teachers blatantly saying like there are kids and you know this is what i do for our kids i'm like oh they are not your kids they're students of that school and that's about it and also you know
I don't want to forget what's going on now either at these public schools are indoctrinating kids into becoming protesters. And by the way, some violent protesters. And, you know, the parents don't even know what's happening. And I just want to touch on that, too, for a minute, Corey, if you could let the group know what's going on with those things, too, at public schools.
Yeah, it's insane. These anti-ICE protests, which are not organized by the kids, but the unions want you to believe that they are. But kids want to get out of class. Obviously, they're kids. You need to have some leadership in the schools. The adults are the ones who are supposed to say, you know what, you're supposed to be on campus. They're supposed to be keeping these kids safe.
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Chapter 3: What are the criticisms of teachers' unions mentioned?
And I think part of the problem is, like, especially today is I did a podcast with PragerU recently with Marissa Streit. And The other person who was on the podcast with me was a California teacher, and her name is Jessica, I'm going to say Tapia. And she was pointing out part of her story.
I think she was basically forced out of the public school system because they were trying to get her to buy into transgender insanity. And because she had her religious beliefs, I think she ended up winning a settlement in court and got paid out by the government school system for violating her religious rights.
And I just saw ā I was on Newsmax discussing this the other day, but there was a teacher in Maryland, I want to say, where the teacher believed in biological reality of men and women, right? And they were trying to ā Yeah, it's just ā you can't have that. You can't have that in the propaganda.
There's women and men? What?
Yeah. So that was her religious belief. And the teacher was forced to... to voice the preferred pronouns of the confused child, which I'd say that hurts the child, and it also hurts the rights of the teacher, because that's reinforcing this transgender insanity confusion of the child. And if someone has troubles and they're confused about things,
If someone has a drinking problem, you shouldn't say, oh, yeah, go and have another. You should try to steer people on the right course towards reality, especially when we're dealing with children. Maybe you can make an argument that maybe it's different when they're adults. I'd say they're still confused, but especially for children.
You shouldn't try to put your thumb on the scale in the direction of having them confused for the rest of their lives as well. But my point is that, you know, teachers are having their rights violated, not just parents and kids. And if you look at where the money goes, yeah, a lot of it goes to the union. And, you know, now teachers can keep that money in their pocket, not give it to the union.
Like, why would you not do that?
join the teacher freedom alliance opt out today.com but if you look at overall spending in american public schools since 1970 we have data on this per student spending has increased by about 170 percent after you adjust for inflation so it's a huge increase in spending to about twenty thousand dollars a kid now which is about thirty percent higher than average private school tuition right now and
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Chapter 4: How has COVID-19 impacted the school choice movement?
They're learning things that are also practical. They're not being indoctrinated. They're living up to what your morals and values and standards are as a family, not the teachers or the teacher's union. And I think it's something worthwhile trying. It's your kid. And if it's at all possible, it might be a struggle. it might be difficult at first, but, you know, take the first step in doing it.
And, you know, if you could buddy up with someone even better, but I mean, Mike Cernovich, his wife is, uh, they're both huge homeschool, uh, proponents and, and, And they have four kids and Shauna's homeschooling four different ages, two boys, two girls. And the bonding and the experiences they're having, I think it can be done.
I think it could be a challenge at first, but you'll find a way and it's your kid and it's worth it. So I want to push that because the schools are just little mini indoctrination camps and And no shade, but most of these kids are not learning jack about jack.
No, it's a glorified daycare program. And even then, it's worse than that because the kids aren't safe. I mean, look in Chicago. They have 55 public schools with not a single kid proficient in math. 55 schools with 0% proficiency. It's crazy. And they spend 30,000 a kid in Chicago. And guess what? Their teacher's union president is named Stacey Davis Gates.
She called school choice racist a couple of years ago. And we just found out she sends her own kid to a private school. So if the chef doesn't eat the food at the restaurant, don't go to that restaurant. They know better than anybody else. And so- She knows this is not going to cut it.
And Votie Bauckham said it best, we cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans. The good news is parents aren't as surprised anymore and the genie is never going to be put back in the bottle. We can't unsee what we saw through Zoom school and now we have social media, people going viral for injecting politics into schools.
you know this isn't just happening in blue states it's in red states as well and parents aren't having it anymore and i'd go even further to say that the public school system in its current form discriminates in particular against all families but especially against religious families because they say they can't be religious but if you're religious and you want that kind of upbringing you almost don't have a choice you have to send your kid to a private christian school or another type of religion and you're forced to pay twice there's actually a
an argument to be made that the public school system is a violation of your 14th amendment rights and i'd take it a step further and so did uh phil hamburger a professor in the wall street journal the other uh it was a few years ago where he even took it a step further and said The public school system violates your First Amendment rights because it's a form of compelled government speech.
So if you want to get a good grade in that school system, you basically have to regurgitate what the leftist teacher tells you. Your taxpayers are forced to fund it even if they disagree with what's being taught in the school. And so the only way out ā
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Chapter 5: What role do parents play in the school choice debate?
So they might have disagreed with DeSantis and everything else, But they saw that this basically became a single issue vote for them because they wanted their kid to get a better opportunity than they had. And school choice is the way to do it. I want to hit one thing that I saw in the chat because this audience may kind of be aware of this argument and they might believe it.
And I don't think it's a good argument. I think it's making perfect the enemy of the good. But the argument goes that we can't have school choice because that would mean government controlling all private education. Shorthand argument is with government shekels comes government shackles. My quick response is that you can get the shackles without the shekels.
And look in states all across the country this past year that were calling to regulate homeschooling. You had Illinois, New Jersey, California homeschooling.
all of these states that don't have school choice programs so the states that have school choice are actually the ones that have more homeschooling freedom not the opposite and when you have more beneficiaries of homeschooling through school choice you build a bigger tent to fight back against that overreach in fact the opposite happened in illinois in 2023 they killed their school choice program they got rid of scholarships from 9 000 families
And then those same tyrants came after homeschool freedom two years later. And so even after 40,000 homeschool people and others in the community signed up against the bill, the committee passed the bill on a party line eight to four vote. It ultimately died and didn't get to the governor's desk, thankfully. But it's kind of this eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
They're gonna come after you again. And the best way to mobilize is to get more people on your team in order to fight back against that.
And it's your money. It's your taxpayers' money. It's your money. And your kids. And your kids. Imagine that. Oh, yeah.
If you're a homeschool family and you're still concerned and you say, like, you know, I still don't want to take any chances, No school choice program has ever forced anybody to take the money. And so you can make that cost benefit decision on your own, but you shouldn't tell other families that they can't make that choice for their homeschool situation or private school.
So, you know, the thing is, we can't make perfect the enemy of the good. We don't want to miss the forest for the trees. If you're on Randy Weingarten's side and Becky Pringle's side, and not President Trump's side and Milton Friedman's side, a free market economist who first wrote about school choice in 1955 in his essay, The Role of Government in Education.
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Chapter 6: What are the arguments against school choice?
So those are two things that I think everybody should do.
I love that. And the other thing you guys can do is forward this video to them, this live stream to them just to hear the conversation and the reasons why. Corey, I hope you enjoyed this and I hope that you'll come back again because this is so informative for us and it's just nice to be able to have a conversation. and take our time to kind of parse things out.
And I know that we'll have more questions next time if you do join us now that we've got this ball rolling. And if we can ever do anything for you, you have the Scott Adams School Army behind you in this endeavor. And we will be sure... Everyone will, I'm sure, be following you if they haven't already and reposting your information. You're doing... God's work. I tell you, you are tireless.
I see you out there for years and you are definitely one of the more useful human beings I've seen. And we can't thank you enough. And I am running late. It's one minute after 11. I'm not doing my job. So we're going to do- It was great.
Thank you guys so much. And I'd love to join again. I could have kept going for another couple hours. It was so fun. So thank you.
We're going to do a closing sip to Scott, to everybody that came into school today. We truly, we see you. We appreciate you. We're reading your comments and we'll be back tomorrow with the news crew to close out the week with some news. Corey, thank you so much. And you guys, I will post Corey's information after the show when we repost this live stream.
And as always, Scott Adams, we miss you so much. And we hope we're doing you proud. And so let's have a closing sip to Scott, our beloved Scott. To Scott.
To Scott. To Scott.
Love you guys. Thank you so much. Thanks, Brie. We'll see you tomorrow.
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