Honors Student Exposes Reading Crisis in Schools

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/philly-prep-school-senior-faces-121523885.htmlthe pathetic and sad state of education in our society. This has been a cause of mine for a very long period of time here on this program, because the stuff just, makes me so sad. It makes me sad, it gets me angry. There was a story this past week of actually an honors student, honors student, great GPA, it’s a minority as well, going around, he made a video. made a video that went viral. He was interviewing his fellow classmates, basically giving them a card to read off of. And one kid after another in his class, gonna be graduating, couldn’t read it.

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couldn’t read the card. He put that out there and now the school is threatening to expel him from school, not allow him to go to prom or anything like that for exposing a reality. It wasn’t like he was racist or he was trying to put him down. He was basically doing what journalists should actually be doing, showing how sad.

how pathetic and sad schools are. They don’t even cover this crap. They don’t want to tick off the frickin’ teachers unions, the most satanic thing in our society. One of the most satanic is the frickin’ teachers unions. Randy Weingarten, I’m sorry. Pure unadulterated frickin’ evil. I don’t know if you saw this. Made a little bit of news, but you had, you had.

educators and school administrators canceling school in North Carolina for 700,000 students to go to a protest with waving around signs. F ICE, defeat Trump’s agenda, Trump’s a Nazi, ICE out, protect trans kids, refuse fascism, stop bombing schools. Was it about kids?

did the same thing in Chicago.

Chicago is some of the worst schools in the entire country. no, right? They skip school and they bust the kids to protest.

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Now again.

I understand. I understand that there’s good teachers out there. And I also I’m not naive to the fact that I don’t care how great these school teachers are. If the parents don’t give a damn, the kids are not going to give a damn. I am and I’m talking about this school with the kid, you know, going around and showing that the kids can’t read. The kids can’t

I’m not quite frankly, I’m not blaming the school that the kids can’t read. I’m blaming the parents. How do you not know this? How do you not on top of your kid’s education? this again, and I’m going to be every single time I talk about this, that’s racist. That’s terrible. I always get ripped. I always get ripped. I’m just giving you a reality here.

What schools need now is they basically need to have, you want to break the cycle, you need to evaluate parents, okay?

You need to evaluate parents and we got to get back to holding kids back from school.

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Because maybe this is by design. I’ve actually had that one. I it’s by freaking design, man. Yeah, that line from Caddyshack, the world needs ditch diggers. They don’t care. They don’t care. They just want these, you know, they don’t want these kids to get too edgy. I’ve actually had people tell me that. Again, that makes me want to pull my hair out. But I’ve actually entertained that. That might be part of the plan because it really is this bad. I got to

I went to school. Everyone could freaking read.

I mean, this is nonsensical to me. And yeah, when I went to school too, yeah, kids get held back.

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No, we shouldn’t be passing kids. but you know, they just got to get my diploma so they can go do something. What difference does it make? You don’t need a freaking diploma to do certain jobs in life, a high school diploma. What are you going to give them a diploma for? They can’t freaking read.

What’s the point?

And again, these people are eventually allowed to vote. Again, I’ll get to a whole nother topic that I’ve gotten into here on the program, basically saying, hey, listen, you can’t pass a basic citizenship test. You shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

What I said by evaluating parents. There’s some schools that have gotten it right. We’ve talked about some of these charter schools where they take kids and they bring them they set up or were they not mistaken? I think they were in Mississippi. I can’t remember off the top of my head. We need as a society. Again, we don’t have we weren’t spending maybe so much money on wars.

and interest payments on our debt. We need need privates. We need national Hogwarts. Yeah, like, you know, Harry Potter and the kids, they get sent to Hogwarts. Schools where you’re taking kids out of. The environment they’re in, and I’m sorry, OK?

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Your kid can’t read, okay, in high school. You are, I’m sorry, you’re shit parent.

Who’s raising your shit parents?

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That is your job.

That is your job as a parent. Every school my kids went to, I went through, schools I rejected. remember a kid wanted to go down, there was like a public middle school. They went to a great elementary school, was public, to wear uniforms, And they were supposed to go to this school. I go in there, I’m doing a school tour, and a bloody teacher had a tough time with the English language, and I’m like, what?

I’m speaking with the principal and I’m talking about my options. The principal, yeah, you know, send your kid to private school. I do it. All right, done. I don’t care what it’s going to cost. That’s my job.

That’s my job. That’s your job as a parent. Who do drop it off? Let the state educate my kid. No, that’s your job to educate your kid. And if you can’t do it, this is why we need to do this. There’s no way we are ever going to break this cycle. This cycle. I’m sorry. And I’m not the state take over. I’m sorry. You got to say, right, listen, OK, you’re in a certain situation, whatever it may be. You know what? We’re going to send your kid.

and you send your kid to a school where they’re going to be pushed and they’re going to be held accountable. I don’t know. Again, I don’t, you know, I don’t know. I don’t know. know it’s never going to happen. Never going to happen, but it’s getting worse instead of better. You take a look at the test grades and inner city school. It’s just what are these? What are these kids going to do?

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What exactly are they going to do?

You can’t read?

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Here in America?

No, but you know, we’ve got to have the teachers doing walkouts and you know, got to more money. More money, more money. Yeah, that’s it. buy more iPads because that’s worked out so well. It’s a frickin’ book, man.

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