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Ep.52 It's time to end public schooling · The Orange Report with Kira Davis

• Kira Davis: Well, hello, everybody. Welcome. I don't know where you're you are watching this. Perhaps on YouTube, perhaps on Facebook, perhaps on X. We we X is our mainstreaming platform. So if you would like to go over there, you can join us at Kira Davis or the Orange Report OC. Just Orange Report OC. Sign up for the Substack at Orange Report. On just search Orange Report, the Orange Report Substack or search my name. Whatever, all this stuff will come up. Today we're gonna talk about California public schools and why they are collapsing. And I think it's time to end them. Sorry to be controversial. It really shouldn't be controversial at this point, but I do want to just talk about a couple of things before we get to the public school issue. Trump's. Coming to LA today, Trump's gonna be in California. I don't know if you've if you felt a d a weird vibe today when you woke up. If you feel the ground shaking, that's that's POTUS coming in for a fundraiser at Trump International Golf Course in Los Angeles this this evening. I guess he's on his way here right now. And I wasn't invited. I'm just here in Orange County. And well, we'll see, we'll see. How much how much money he raises. I don't know that California is necessarily you know, fertile ground for the Republican president to to campaign on, but it's fertile ground for donations, which is another reason why we do this show. Because we feel like so many people come to California to take our money. We have a lot of it here, take our productivity. But then when we have California issues, we just are left alone, you know, on the national scale. If you're a Republican, The national Republicans are going, Well, you know, California's never in play and we're not gonna waste our time or money there. So we're just always gonna keep losing because no one has the courage or the foresight to make a play for California. But when they want our money, they come, right? All of them Mike Johnson, you know, any of the federal, I've even seen Brandon Gill around here, Fundraising. when Matt Gates was in Congress, he was here a lot. He did marry a Californian. but everybody comes out here to fundraise. But then when it when we need some help, everybody's like, that's what you guys are just getting what you voted for. So I I don't know what Trump's intentions are towards California. I don't think this is an intention-based visit. This is a fundraiser visit, but I really do wish that. the the federal Republican Party, the National Republican Party would make a play for this state instead of leaving it because everything, it's a hole in the bucket. You know what I mean? It's a hole in the bucket. So the bucket's just going to keep draining until you plug up the hole. But we got to make a play for it. Now I do feel like whatever he's got going on with Spencer Pratt here, whatever this partnership is, it hasn't really come to full fruition what Spencer's going to be doing, if anything, in conjunction with the administration. But I do think that that's a step in the right direction. But I think if the Republican Party wants to be serious about protecting America from the rise of the DSA, you better come here and plug up this hole in this bucket here in California. and let's see, Scott, go to the last clip here. Let's play this clock Carl de Mile before we start talking about public schools, because I want people to be aware of what's going on. A lot of you understand that we have the voter ID initiative. It has cleared. It's going to be on the ballot in November. And we we knew that was going to happen, but a lot of people worked really hard. But we were very confident that it was going to find its way to the ballot. However, we also knew that they would play games with the wording of the ballot measure. they do this all the time. They do this all the time, but One of the things that a lot of Californians don't understand is that the language that ends up on your ballot measures, whatever it might be, gas tax or this voter ID initiative, that language is ultimately approved by the attorney general. This is why it's really important for you to get out and vote for Michael Gates for attorney general. My friend and I are gonna go walking for him tomorrow. We're gonna drop off some literature, maybe knock on some doors. and I would suggest, and he opened his volunteer office last week. I think it was in Tustin. And so there is an office for the Michael Gates campaign. As you know, he's on the golden ticket with Steve Hilton, Gloria Romero, Herb Morgan. And I think they added Jennifer Hawkes to that ticket for treasurer. another office you might not be thinking of but need to vote for. And but one of the things that I always tell people about Michael Gates as the attorney general is it's not just a matter of criminal prosecutions. We want crime prosecuted. Our AG will help with that, of course. But you have to understand that the AG has a lot of power, even with these ballot measures. What gets passed, what doesn't, because the language can change your vote. We found that out in the Prop six. Was that Prop Six? that was the gas tax a few years ago. Lordy. I there's so many props. Well, we found that out. We didn't want the gas tax. They gave it, they, they shoved it down our throats illegally. We put a ballot measure on the ballot to rescind it. And they played so many games with the with the language that people who thought they were voting no were actually voting yes. This is why I do a voter guide for every general election. And I tell you what your yes vote means and I tell you what your no vote means. So we've got the the voter ID measure on the ballot as was predicted. It has a 75% approval rate here in California. 75% across the board. This is completely bipartisan. Because you know what? Democrats, they don't like Republicans and they think Republi Republicans cheat. So they don't want Republicans to cheat. So they want voter IDs. And we Republicans, we know that the Democrat Party cheats here in California and in other places. So we want voter ID. I think that that mutual suspicion is just fine. It works just fine. We're all on the same page here. So let's go ahead and play this message from Carl DeMaio over at Save California. And he's also an assemblyman and Carl is giving us a little bit of warning here. Okay, I always tell you guys I always tell you guys that we're always just putting out fires here in California. And this is another fire that we have to put out. Carl is a great warrior for the cause. He's done a lot of great work for California. This is no exception. So if you can help with this, but you can help also by just spreading the word about Prop thirty-nine. They are relabeling it. An attempt to prevent, to prohibit voting. And that's not what it is. Furthermore, furthermore, if you are a lefty watching this show right now, furthermore, you should know this is a bipartisan issue. It has an approval rate of 75% in California. So this isn't a thing of Republicans are just complaining about the language. No, Rob Bonta is rigging this against his own voters. He's rigging it against his own party voters. Which is a feeling you which is, I think, eliciting a feeling among Democrat voters in this state that, maybe they don't really like us. Maybe the people we're voting for don't really care about us. A lot of Democrats found out found that out the hard way during the fires. I think a great example is that woman who confronted Gavin Newsom. Do you remember that in Pacific Palisades? And he happened to be there with a camera crew to, you know, do some misery porn and look at all the burned out. houses that he hadn't helped and she she ran to him she begged him she begged him for water can you please call Joe Biden for help please can you can you give us help can you call the president right now talk to the president and and Gab was just like I I I am and he h holds up his phone that's not talking that's not calling anyone and like I thought I'm I'm on the phone right now you know people like that realize well wait I have voted for these people loyally and they've treated me like I'm a right winger. They've treated me like they don't, which is also insane, right? We should not be treating people different based based on who they vote for. But this is where we are. I think that is a product of the left, but it is what it is. So there's a lot of Democrats. This is why this is why we were so put out by Spencer's loss in the primaries. It wasn't that we expected him to run to some kind of huge victory in the generals We were talking about a primary election in which the majority of the Angelino electorate was completely disaffected. They were the ones who were going to Karen Bass and Nithya Raman and their Democrat leaders that they have voted for over and over again and going, Okay, we're we're Democrats. We voted for you because we believe in your vision. Are you gonna help us? And they just gave them the middle finger. Picture Karen Bass at the end of that Skyway, just with that blank robotic stare. She knew she was getting hers, she didn't worry about what all All the rest of y'all were getting. Think about that. So there are there were so many disillusioned voters in Los Angeles, it it seemed very doable for him. And it was on election night. It was very doable for him to come out of the primaries. And I believe he did. I believe he did. At least I'm not, again, I'm not saying that he was going to run to some kind of victory in the generals. That would have been a whole different ball game. But the primaries on primary night, if we had. A if we had a sound and legal electoral system here, we would we would have and media, we would that it would have been called. It would have been called on the night of it would have been called when it was so clear that Nithya was far behind. They called it for Karen. They called it for Karen, but they didn't call it for Spencer. And then lo and behold, weeks later, after how many ballot drops? Six, seven ballot drops. wow, wouldn't you know Nithya Raman has suddenly come up with thirty thousand votes out of nowhere. So a lot of people are disillusioned here. And Rob Bont and Democrats are not helping themselves at all. Now, far be it from me to give them any advice on how to do that. You know, I I don't want to give them any advice on how to win, but gosh, if I was a Democrat voter, I'd be I'd be pretty upset. I'd be pretty upset about this because again, when you talk to Democrat voters, they say, well, we don't, we think Republicans cheat. And we don't we don't want them to cheat. We want to preserve our votes and voting voter ID. Now no liberal can tell me how Republicans cheat, but they do believe Republicans cheat. And I can't believe that they would think Republicans cheat in a state like California. We're we're really bad at cheating if we do. But fair enough. I mean, I'm all for skepticism. I think everybody should exercise a healthy skepticism. Voter ID works the same way on both sides. The only reason you wouldn't want it is because you want to cheat. And most voters in California realize that. So we're all supporting this voter idea initiative, almost statistically, pretty much. Almost everyone is supporting this. And yet Rob Onta is playing games with the language, trying to make it look like voting is prohibited. So Carl DeMile has filed that lawsuit. We'll see where it goes. I don't have high hopes for it because the entire California judicial system is bought and paid for by the Democrat Party. We're in real trouble here. I keep saying this. Like what are our options when you can't vote your way? Like you can't even mount a an effective campaign to move the people. You know, you I mean you can mount it, but you can't win with it. You know, if all of the judges are bought and paid for and the ballot system is corrupt and the counting system and the counters are corrupt and Our representatives like Ra Bonta, Gavin Newsom, the people we elect to be there are corrupt. What are your options as an American state? Do you even qualify as an American state anymore if you don't have sound and solid election? So to my mind, the voter ID is sort of the last stop on all this. This is our last opportunity to fix things. And if we pass this, well, this is the reason why they're working so hard against it, but if we pass this, I I do predict you will see a major shift, a landslide here in California. The the politics of this state will change overnight after we get our first ID'd election. Do without what you will. All right, today I want to talk about public schools. There's this great article in the New York Post. it's not a great article, but it's an article that is important of great importance. And this article, written by Zane Khan over at the California Post, California School District on the brink of collapse is planned to save it, is slapped. Down, unimpacting thousands of kids. All right, I just gonna read a little bit of this. One of you can keep that up there, Scott. One of California's largest school districts is scrambling to avoid a state takeover after county education officials rejected its financial rescue plan, leaving the future of thousands of students, families, and staffs hanging in the balance. The Sacramento City Unified School District Board is set to hold a special meeting. Tuesday evening, that's tonight, to decide whether to appeal the rejection of its $158 million solvency plan to California's state superintendent of public instruction. If that office sounds familiar to you, that is the office that Sonia Shaw is running for. And we had her here on this show last month. And as you know, Gavin Newsom has moved to strip all of the power out of this position. So Tony Thurmond, who is the current state soup. Has all of the control over this right now. As soon as Sonia wins, and she's gonna win, that's why they're changing this, they're gonna yank all of this power. But right now, Tony has the power to reject or accept a plan from an individual district to save themselves, which is absurd. It's absurd. It just flies in the face of the local schooling model. Absolutely. The and KCRA reported that, by the way, we want to give them credit. The emergency meeting comes just days after Sacramento County Office of Education rescinded the district board's action plan, action, approving the plan, arguing it failed to provide a sustainable path out of the district's financial crisis. And here's the superintendent, Cindy McCarn. I know nothing about Cindy, but her eyes say a lot. Last week, the school board unanimously signed off on the sweeping proposal, which prepared a district wide Which paired a district wide hiring freeze and spending reductions with a new labor agreement reached with the Sacramento City Teachers Association through 2030. I'm gonna guess this is where the hangup is. District officials argued the agreement would free up roughly $97 million by drawing on retiree health benefit funds, medical reimbursements, and money budgeted for vacant positions, helping close a massive budget gap. while allowing a district to retain local control. That doesn't sound too crazy, actually. I'm gonna bet this this board is liberal, but it sounds like they're going to cut some positions, pare down a little bit. It's what we usually ask school districts to do and what they never do. But county financial officials rejected the proposal the following day, concluding it relied on funding sources that would create bigger financial problems down the road. Okay, well let's let's read on. The plan shifted money between existing accounts rather than generating new revenue. Okay. New revenue is code for taxes. So here we have the problem. The county wants them to raise taxes, nut cut positions, and cut resources. The plan shifted money, okay, would increase long-term costs by tapping retiree health trust assets. How? And would reduce the District's financial flexibility in future years, according to the Sacramento County of County Office of Education. I don't understand. How would it increase long-term costs if you're tapping the retiree's own health trust assets? The money's there. It's just the employees saying we're gonna take this money. I I don't understand. Maybe I'm just dumb. Reading down the county's decision has intensified. Concerns that Sacramento City Unified could ultimately fall into state receivership if leaders cannot produce an acceptable recovery plan. Gosh, isn't that crazy? Isn't that funny how it works out? So this local school district wants to improve their finances, is working on cuts and alternative sources of financing. And the state says, no, that's not gonna work for us. And we know it's gonna throw you into bankruptcy. We'll just take it over. Isn't that interesting how the state's very eager to take over a local school district? Teacher union leaders blasted the county's decision, accusing state-appointed financial advisors of help of failing to help the district after months of oversight. It's very frustrating. These experts have been here helping our district for about eight months, and they have not come up with real solutions. And they have not made good proposals and they have not given clear information about where our district really stands financially. Sacramento City Teachers Association president Nikki Davis Molewski said they're always hyped. And they really seem, for some unknown reason, motivated to see our district fail, and we will not let that happen. hardly know who to root for here actually I hardly know who to root for. the teachers union should fail. The teachers union is probably the biggest reason why all of this is happening in the first place. So I don't know that I want to root for them. But then to me it's clear that the sound that the county is really rooting for a state takeover, which of course is related to more red tape, more bureaucracy, bigger government, which California loves big government. Sure, who to root for here. I think I'll root for the students. County Superintendent of Schools Dave Gordon defended the rejection, arguing the proposal depended on borrowing from fronts already earmarked for other obligations rather than creating genuine savings. All right, that seems like a decent counter argument. Many of the funds that they were proposing to put forward to solve the deficit are not new monies they were borrowed. Okay, we don't want new money. There is no new money. The minimum wage in this state is set to go up again in January. Our minimum wage is over double the national average, over double. And it's killing jobs in this state. That's why when you come to California, your Big Mac costs $10. Everyone wants to brag about the fast food wage here, which is $20. Great for my 18-year-old daughter. She loves that. Not so great for the franchise owner who now has to keep his. Business staffed with part-time teenagers because he literally cannot afford all of the other mess that comes with this. So we don't we don't need we don't want any new monies. You have all the money you need. Sounds to me like the board was trying to go find some of that money. And you because y'all be y'all will borrow money out of the general fund in a hot second lickety split in this state. That's why I always tell people. When you're reading your ballot measures, especially when it comes to new taxes or fees, you need to read, you need to look for a specific phrase in there. It's a specific phrase in the voter guide in the summary. And if you see it, you should vote no. And that is general fund. All right. So you may think you're voting for an education tax. This is literally almost every tax you you vote for in this state, has though has that little addendum. General fund. funds may be used to apply to the general fund if the general fund gets too low. It's money laundering. They tell you to vote for the tax, and then they end up saying, Well, the general fund is we're getting kind of low over there. We've got to put the money into the general fund. They put the money into the general fund and then it disappears because it doesn't have to be earmarked for anything there. And then that's how you get things like, you know, Gavin Newsom's three mansions or Javier Pacera's you know, vacations and all of his perks or the Bontas homes that they own. That's how you get all that's how you get Jennifer Siebel Newsome's business. That's how you get it all comes out of the general it's just money laundering. Okay. I was on a tangent. All That they offer. Okay, but the teachers union was saying we're okay with shifting this money, right? Did I read that correctly? All of those things are not new money, they would have to be repaid, not just in their base amounts, but in the loss of interest. You guys never repay us for the money you take. You never repay us. Tuesday's special meeting will focus slowly on whether the board focus solely, excuse me, on whether the board should formally challenge the county's decision by appealing to the state superintendent. The outcome could determine whether Sacramento City Unified, which serves tens of thousands of students in California's capital region, and that's not many for a city like Sacramento, can maintain local control over its finances or moves one step closer to state intervention as officials race to stabilize the district's. deteriorating fiscal outlook. I was just looking at the comments at the end of this story. Just raise more taxes and import more illegals. That should help a lot. California is a wasteland of dem policies and corruption. Yeah. Accurate. Another money pit. Accurate. All right. Yeah, so I found this story really interesting on a couple of different levels. Number one, here in Orange County, CUSD, Capistrano Unified School District, that's my school district. That's the one I you guys remember when I ran for school board. they have said, released a statement recently saying that they are they are missing students that That they have seen a decline in enrollment. Last year, the superintendent Chris Brown, not the Chris Brown that sings and dances and beats up women. Well, I don't know if superintendent Chris Brown sings and dances. I have not heard of him beating up women. I don't think he does that. But he might sing and dance. I don't know. But it's not the same guy. Our superintendent Chris Brown was giving a a state of the district address. At a school board meeting last year or last school year. And a little piece in there that kind of flew under the radar and no one really talked about it. But we have been trying forever to find out from CUSD how many of our students are gone, what you know, the decline, the decline in enrollment since 2020. And it's really hard to get those numbers out of the district or the state. But he happened to mention it. in his address and he said that CUSD is down 12,000 students since 2020. 12,000 students. That's a lot. That's a lot of money. When you think about if you just want to average this out, I'm not going to do math for you, but just think about what what the cost that is attached, both federal, state and county, when you're if you combine all those to each student in California, I think it's up around $20 $21,000 a student. So to be missing 12,000 students out of our school district, yeah, we're missing a lot of money and we're a very wealthy district. And we're the second largest district by region in the state of California, and it's a very wealthy region. So if we're missing that many students and we're missing that much money and it's beginning to cause us problems, imagine what's going on in LAUSD. Well, LAUSD is having the same issues. Only worse because they don't have the base to make up. Here, parents can make up a lot. They're no, they're missing tens of thousands of students. They I don't think they've released any solid numbers yet, but they're missing tens of thousands of students and they're really missing. In CUSD, those numbers can be attributed to homeschoolers, to people who have moved out of California, to people who have moved to charters or pods or private school. in LA, those kids are just gone. And a lot of them disappeared during COVID. And we don't know where they went. We don't know who they went to. We have no records. Again, I would like to point out to you the amount of money that is attached to each student. I mean, work out. This is what this is why I'm saying public school needs to go. I think we're at the end here. I don't know what service public school provides right now, except babysitting. And don't get me wrong, that's valuable. I understand how valuable that is, but basically that's what public school has become daycare. And I'll tell you what, we found out during COVID that communities actually can come together and provide their own education needs. They can provide for their own education needs when they are allowed to. Don't tell me about, well, what did the poor kids in LA do? Well, a lot of them did have options and they weren't allowed to take them. They weren't allowed to take those options. So if we have a government who will work with the community, The community can provide schooling. What we're seeing right now in California is a collapse of public education because the teachers' unions have, it's just been a free-for-all here. A free for all. Do you know LAUSD has lost billions? Do you know that in was it 2018 or 2017? Might even have been 2016, LAUSD had a scandal with iPads. They had this big idea that they were going. I don't know if it was an idea or just more money laundering. It was just more money laundering, really. They made a deal with Bill Gates and Microsoft, where they were gonna buy Chromebooks, all Chromebooks for the school. That changed to iPads, so they made a deal with Tim Cook or whoever at Apple and sunk a $750 million into buying iPads for all everyone in the district against. The advice of literally everybody. Because parents don't want to be responsible for iPads. you live in a district where people, you know, this is mil hundreds of thousands of kids, millions of people. You can't control for what's gonna happen to the iPad. So you have disrepair, being hacked, being sold, all of that thing, all of those things that can come into play, but also just the idea of of just this screen time. During the school day. That was a big deal. So they did it anyway. They spent the $750 million. They got the iPads. They distributed the iPads to LAUSD and they lost most of them, or most of them were broken or hacked. $750 million down the drain. So in that same year, they canceled the program, but only after they bought the iPads, they canceled the program. But they still wanted stuff for the kids, so they brought back the Chromebooks. And then I and then they they gave more money to the Chromebooks, but then they re-upped that Apple iPad contract, I think, in 2019 or 2020. And again, it failed. Does everybody understand the game here? Does every under everyone understand what's going on here? If you want an LA USD, it needs to be broken up, first of all, at the very least. It's way too big of a district. Our school district should not be big. Capistrano Unified should not be as big as it is. Frankly, I think that we have a a We should be, you know, divided into smaller groups. and LAUSD is a great example of that. But if you ever wondering, well, why is it so crazy? Why is L S L A USD L S D? There's people on L S D there. Why is LAUSD so crazy? Well, let me tell you something. If you want to run for school board in LAUSD, Okay, I'll I'll tell you what you need to run for school board here in Capistrano Unified. You need about a hundred grand. And that's a lot for a little little district, a little old district, you know, a district like ours. Big by region, but it's a a fairly insular community. $100,000 to run for a school board? I mean, what could your district do with $100,000? What could your school do with $100,000? What could you do as an individual educator with $100,000? And yet a mom Or dad's gotta figure out how to raise $100,000 to beat the union, even come close to beating the unions here in C USD. You wanna know what that price tag is in LAUSD? $3 million. You are not running for school board in LAUSD unless you have access to at least $3 million in your treasure chest. That's that's to start. So it's no wonder that LAUSD is so hopelessly corrupt. You have to be corrupt to find that kind of money in the first place. Why would that? You need to ask yourself why? Why would we spend so much money on school board races? I mean, even to this day, school board races are treated like a joke in the common electorate. You know, you think about it's just some mom, some mom in her mom jeans, you know, like me, walking around with their baked sales. No, it's cutthroat. It's nasty. Parents who run for school board on parent platforms are subjected to harassment, threats, attacks. I was followed around for almost two years by my union tales. I think they were worried I was gonna run again and they were just keeping an eye on me. They don't they don't that I have seen get physically aggressive, but they do intimidate you. It is intimidating to be driving around with your teenage daughter and knowing you can see the car in your re rear view mirror. Or going to Starbucks and you see them pull into Starbucks and you see them sitting there taking pictures of you while you order your frat. It's a it you we all, you, we, me, we all need to be asking ourselves why is there so much money going into these school board races? Ostensibly, you parents should really be the only ones really worrying about it. I mean, I think everybody should. Don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting that that's the best way. Everyone should worry about what's going on in your school board. It affects your property taxes, it affects the life in your community. But We would think one would think that these are issues that are really only important to parents of school age children. So why do we have to spend this much money on these races? Because your kids are valuable. You don't understand how valuable your children are to these people until you start digging into the money. You always ask where the money goes. Follow the money always. If it takes three million dollars to run for school board in Los Angeles. That's because they think your kids are very valuable. And they're gonna fight to the death for your kids in some cases. Now you pair that with other infringements on parental rights here in California. Like if you don't affirm the LGBTQ cult, if you don't affirm your kid who wants to transition, CPS will come and take your kid out of your safe. Home where they are loved and put them in a foster care system that is bak basically a sex trafficking system aided by the government. They'll put them in there. Isn't that interesting? Think about Javier Pacero, who's running for governor right now on the Democrat platform. Have you been following Steve Hilton's thr threads? You need to follow him on Ed because I don't care if you are gonna vote for him or not. Follow because he is he has unearthed this huge scam, scandal, it's not scam, scandal. coming out of the migrant housing facilities in Los Angeles, where they were putting the migrant children during the Biden administration, Javier Bacera was ostensibly in charge of those children, but most of them are missing. Most of them were just let go without any follow-up. We don't know who they went to. We don't know what happened to them. Where are those kids? You know, why isn't anyone really concerned about those kids? Steve actually has testimony. Someone reached out to him in the comment section. And then he was like, Wow, I need to follow up on this. There are victims. Of Becerra's migrant housing facilities here in California, who were trafficked out of the housing facilities. They were specifically and with knowledge released to predators. And then they were enslaved. Those people are giving Steve Hilton their testimonies right now. You can go see it. You can judge for yourself. Don't believe me. Go judge for yourself. Okay, so all of that, all of what I'm telling you. The the the curriculum in our schools, a weird trans curriculum that's been affecting our schools, the the erosion of parental rights on purpose, Javier Pacera Bacera, who who has disappeared literally thousands of children, and then the immense cost of actually running to represent your own school board in your own community. Put it all together, and what does it add up to? They're coming. For our children, because they know sing it, Whitney. I believe the children are our future. She was prophesying. She was prophesying. The children are our future and they know that. And that's why they want to get them early. That's why here in California, they will teach your kindergartner about masturbation, genitals. Yes, they will. I know some of you are out there. Kira. Yes, they will. Don't tell me, Kira, don't give me that. You haven't seen the curriculum. You haven't seen the children resigning the curriculum. And you won't see it because you're not gonna go look. It's so far-fetched in your mind. You just think every Republican who is talking about this kind of stuff is is just well, we just hate liberals or we just hate Hillary Clinton or Gavin Newsom or whoever because you hate Donald Trump so much, you think that everybody else is like you. You think that we must have it out for just one single person. And that we believe that one single person holds the key to all happiness in the country, because that's how you believe, because you don't understand government and how it works or how it's supposed to work. You're projecting onto us, right? But we don't we don't operate like that on this side, and certainly not the parents in this parental movement like me. We know our stuff. We go do the research, we pull the pro the the public records requests, the FOIA requests, we go to the meetings, we interview the teachers, the union reps, the government reps. We know what's going on and we've seen this with our own eyes. They come for the kindergartners because that's the most impressionable age. And you should be suspicious when Governor Gavin Newsom gets up there and says, you know, we need to expand to pre-K. Why? Why? Why on earth does there's nothing valuable about sending your three year old to school? There's nothing. Now you might want to. I sent my three year old to school, but it was my parents' school. It was my mother and father-in-law's private Christian school a few blocks from our house where I knew he was gonna be with his grandparents all day and he was being educated in cursive, the Bible, and good manners for a few hours a day. But that was a choice I made. But why would anyone need to send their three-year-old to school? Look at the outcomes: reading, writing, arithmetic. We're in the basement on everything. So clearly, the more schooling we've had, the opposite. We've gotten opposite results from what they keep telling us. So why then? You have to ask yourself why. You need to start asking the questions. Don't just be like, isn't that crazy? I always talk, I always talk about my husband and what a sweet summer child he is. And he's always like, gosh, why would they do something like that? Like, say about this issue, he'd be like, it just doesn't make sense. You know, don't the teachers like they don't want to work more? You know, you think you just it's hard enough teaching kindergartners. Why would you want to advocate for? Having preschoolers in your classroom because my sweet summer child, it's not about the kids. Well, it is about the kids, but it's not about educating the kids. It's about stealing the kids, stealing their minds, re educating them. I didn't pull this clip, but there was a clip earlier. I think Gaze Against Groomers posted this clip yesterday, and it was of a teacher in a training session. Now you need to understand here in California and across the US. Teachers are trained. They have to take LGBTQ training. They don't take black history training. They don't take women's history training. They don't take local history training. They don't take training on government and the constitution. They take training on LGBTQ issues. There's no such thing as an LGBTQ issue that doesn't have to do with sex. Because that's all it is. That's all it is. That shouldn't be offensive to you. That's all it is. What is the other marker of LGBTQ? What is it? It's not right. I can look at I know a black person when I see one. I know a Chinese person when I see one. I don't always know a gay person when I see one. Some people are obvious. Hello, Scott Wiener. But you know, some people are less obvious. There's no biological marker. Outward biological marker. There's not even an inward one, but some of you have fooled yourselves into believing so. But there's no outward biological marker for this. So why do they have to get trained in this? It's very highly sexualized. All of it is to steal your child's mind and to shape them. And that should be your job. And there was a time when I fought for public school. I even ran for the public school here. I even ran to represent our parents on the school board. And the union made sure I didn't get there. Now we did flip the board, but As you've heard me say on the show before, that means nothing if the board does not work for the values that we flipped it for, right? So we're still waiting on a few things from them that we really wanted, especially a parental notification policy to help defend us against the state. We still don't have that. Don't ask me what's going on with the board. I don't know. Every time you reach out to them and ask, they say, We're doing stuff behind the scenes, like a bunch of Democrats. We're doing stuff behind the scenes. Still haven't seen anything, but just because you You voted in Republicans doesn't mean you can take your eye off the ball. nothing personal. Friends on the board, nothing personal. Okay. Cause I know that you guys like to take things personally. It's not personal. I'm thinking about the children. And I'm thinking about who's coming for our kids. And you guys know better, excuse me. You guys know better than anybody. Because you're on the inside, you're in those closed sessions, you know better than anybody that they're coming for these kids. I just think I think it's unconscionable to not do everything you can to stand in the way between this evil and our children. But we have handed over the public education bes despite, and those are criticisms for my Republican board, right? At least they're the women who are representing. The Republican side, the right side on our board, at least they're decent people. Do you know what I mean? I might not agree with the way that they're handling business on the board, but they're not gross people, I'll tell you that much. They don't hate kids, I'll tell you that much. That much I can guarantee you. And yet we have handed over the public education system to people who seem to hate children. This woman from the Teachers Association on gays against groomers, she was They they carried her clip. It wasn't their clip. They carried it. But she was talking about how it's important to get to these kids in second and third and fourth grade. because that's when they're most impressionable. She said it. I'm not I'm not rephrasing. She said it. And she talked about how she did a presentation in a classroom in Texas. And after the presentation, five kindergartners, no, third graders, five third graders went to the principal's office and came out. These are not statistics. That's not statistical. That's indoctrination. Then I want you to look at the outcomes of public school. I don't know what it's like in your area, but here in California, we are last in everything. We are graduating kids who can't read, who can't write, forget cursive. That's gone. Can't write, can't form full sentences, don't understand how governor governance works, don't understand how government works. They know nothing. Half the kids we graduate can't even speak English. Here in the state of California, we are dead last in everything. It's so bad that our UC system, University of California, has begged the governor to bring back SATs because they need some standards for the incoming classes. They cannot educate the amount of idiots who are coming through the schools at this point. Sorry to be direct. We're graduating idiots. We're graduating idiots. I graduated two very intelligent and hardworking students out of CUSC, out of the California public education system, by the skin of my teeth. It was not without a lot of work and angst on our part and prayer and deprogramming. We did a lot of deprogramming when they came home from school. A lot of you having to having to go through the ideas. I would always encourage my kids to think about the ideas. We would talk about some of the topics that would come up in school. I would ask questions. Think about draw this out to its logical conclusion. You know, deprogramming. That's what we had to do. Parents shouldn't have to do that. I had the time to do it. I didn't have the finances to to finance a private school. We didn't have that here. And a lot of people don't in California. That's on purpose too. But that I would say my daughter graduated last year in 25. And I would say, parents, that's probably the last of the decency you're gonna get out of the California system, public school system. It's desperate here. And this weird agenda, this weird curriculum has pretty much taken over the entire public school system. And yet nothing is getting better for anybody. And you know what? I want to tell you this story about a lady I met when when I was at one of the school board meetings advocating for our children, particularly our girls. And dads, can you do that too? Can you show up to the school board? Thanks to the dads who do show up. More than a few of you have been there. Thank you. But dads, can you step up? Don't leave it to the moms. Don't leave it to the ladies. If you see boys playing against your girls at school, please go out into that court and make a fuss. Make a scene. Make a scene. We need you. But I was at this. meeting and there was a mom from a different district who was there to give her testimony about her child who was basically kidnapped by this public school right from under her nose she wasn't allowed to be informed of any of her daughters transitioning at school new name they were giving her chest binders they were making appointments for they made an appointment for her daughter to go to Planned Parenthood to get testosterone and to get sex rejecting drugs. And sex reducting hormones. You she can't now she can't send sunscreen or aspirin to school for her kid to use without signing a waiver, but they kidnapped her child right from out from under her nose. And she said, My child did have mental health issues, which she was in therapy for. I had her in therapy. I was helping her. And they never came to me and asked. They never came to me and said, Hey, mom, can you be our partner in this? Because she said, if she had known, and this wouldn't have been me, but this is what she said. If I had known, I would have supported my daughter and I simply would have told her to just wait for any medical intervention until you graduate high school. That's what I would have said. But instead, they stole her right from under my nose. Here's what happened. This is the I'm getting to the part that blew my mind and it stays on my heart. And I always think about it. She said, but when she graduated, where were they? When she graduated high in high school, they knew her fake name, right? They knew the fake name that they gave her. They they promised her, we're the only people who love you. We're the only people who support you. We're giving you full support. And when she graduated and left school, where were any of those people? She said, nowhere. I was left to pick up the broken husk of my daughter's life alone. None of those people even remember her name. Not a single person called, not a single person sent an email. Not a single person sent a text to her to check up on her. They weren't there. The person who was there at the end is the person who was there at the beginning, mom. All these people want to do is destroy our children. They don't want to support our children. And the proof is in that pudding. So you just put all of these things in a in a listicle that I just ran down for you and ask yourself, what is the point of public education then? What are we graduating? Robots, slaves? We're graduating people who can't think for themselves, who have no visions for themselves, who can't read properly, who don't know the classics, so they don't know our history. At the same time, the DSA is on the rise. The Democrat Socialist Party, they want to abolish the Senate, abolish the Pentagon, abolish our borders, abolish the Constitution. None of it's an accident. It's not, again, I'm speaking to all the sweet summer childs out there who are like, wow, gosh, it's just. Education's gotten so bad. No, that's on purpose. Education is not public education is not education in this country anymore. It's a factory. Black people will understand this, right? We all get it. That's the it's it's the the school to prison pipeline. We have we have a phrase for it. The school to prison pipeline. It's not on accident, black people. It's not on accident. And yet, whenever somebody who's not a loyal Democrat comes to you and says, hey, You should be suspicious of the public education system and every black person I know wants to talk to me about systemic racism. Everyone, systemic racism, okay. Systemic racism right here in our public schools, a school to prison pipeline. Let's end this. Let's end the teachers' unions who are holding our kids hostage. You go, you're just manga. you're just you're just up Trump's ass. Like you don't have the ability to think for yourself, Kira. Because you cast a vote a certain way. When the person who doesn't have the ability to think is you, because you've laid out you've made the case perfectly, actually. You've made the case for systemic racism. You've made the case for the school to prison pipeline for black students, and yet you can't connect the dot between that and who's running the public school system. In California, it's not Republicans. And it hasn't been for quite some time. And also they're teaching your black boys and girls that they can. Cut off their private parts and be a different gen gender. If you don't think that that's diabolical, black people, I don't know what is. They're literally coming to steal our kids. They're educating our kids to hate America. They're educating our kids to hate our history. And then we wonder why we have all of these new young politicians coming into government, coming into the election system and talking about crazy things like. Abolishing the border and abolishing the police. Well, they learned it at school. We just saw what happened in the fall and through the winter when we had students going out with their teachers to protest ice. Teachers taking their public school students out of school, putting signs in their in their hand that said F-U-C-K ICE, little kids, and marching them around outside in traffic. Without the knowledge or the permission of parents. None of this is an accident. These things are all connected. Public school serves no purpose anymore except to train a robot army. I don't think that it can be saved. We have to starve the beast. I genuinely don't think that it can be saved. How do you do that? Well, one thing you could do, teachers, is you can get out of your unions because the unions are our biggest problem. Get out of the union. I was just at TFA, the Teacher Freedom Alliance, with my good friend Julie Collier, who is a teacher who has advocated for other teachers to leave the unions. This is your right now. This is your right under the Constitution. You have the it's called the right to work. You don't have to be part of a union to work. You can negotiate for yourself. And there, and yes, teachers are gonna go, well, there's insurance issues and there's training issues, and the unions will punish you. Okay, first of all, organizations like TFA, Teacher Freedom Alliance, or here in California, California Policy Center, CPC, they will help you find alternative insurance, alternative coverage, alternative trainings, and they will help defend you against the unions. That's one. Number two, I don't want to hear any more complaints from you public school teachers about hard it how hard it is to go up against a union. Because if you don't do it, Then who are you asking to do it? Me, my kids, our kids. If you don't stand between our kids in trouble, who gets the trouble? The kids. If you don't stand between our parents and trouble, who gets the trouble? The parents. You keep asking parents to get involved, and we don't have enough parent participation. Obviously, that's true. We have a lot of disengaged parents in public school. But when we become engaged, We are treated like pariahs. We are treated like the enemy by the unions, by teachers in the classroom at times, by our our our public education system in general. We are we're tr we're treated like enemies. So why? You know, I don't I'm not gonna say why, but you can imagine that that is dispiriting and discouraging for parents to come and help out in your classroom or to be involved in what it doesn't matter. Though if we're involved in what you teach them, we have no say in what you teach them. We're not allowed to opt out of anything. We're not allowed to complain about anything. So when you teachers, even you good ones, and I know there's a lot of you good ones out there, but when you teachers say, I just, I'm scared of the, I don't want to hear that anymore. Because guess what? The rest of us are too. Why do you, why are you any different than the rest of us? Why are you any different than my kid? Why are you any different than me? We're all suffering because of the teachers union. You're the only one that has the power to make a difference here by disinvesting, divesting, by getting out. And you have the option. And will it be hard? Yes. And maybe will you have to change careers? Yes. But my friends, this is war now. And the victims here are our children. The victims aren't you. You're not the victim. The children are the victims. So I'm no longer feeling very Supportive or compassionate towards even the good teachers who say the unions make it difficult for us. You are the only one who can break the union at this point. It's just you. You have to get out. You have to get out. And we break the teachers' union. Perhaps we could save public school, but I don't think it's a model worth saving. I actually think it's a very dangerous model. And schooling should be local. And by local, I mean state and county. And even by town. Let's go back to the one room schoolhouses. You know why? A lot I can already hear some of you out there watching going, well, then everybody's teaching everything different. Something is different in every that's not necessarily true. We have had localized schooling in the past and we do have some standards. but also sure, that's the problem, isn't it? Some of these kids are actually gonna compete and you don't want them to. 'Cause I'll tell you what, if we get to go to a local school schooling model and you put my community of Ladera Ranch and we have a local school model up against I don't know, pick a pick pick any area of LA up against an inner city area of LA, our kids are probably gonna outperform them. Yeah. We have yeah, because we have more resources, but we also have more parents who are involved and engaged. And you know, we have more people who are inclined to teach classical values, classical liberal education, classical liberal curriculums here. Yeah. Yeah. And that's why they always wanna outlaw homeschool. It's not cause the kids get weird. We think the kids are weird because we're like, kids are supposed to be, you know, like other kids. We think that the only way kids can socialize is with other kids their own age, which is probably a bad idea. It's best to socialize across the strata. You know, but yeah, they don't like how homeschoolers create competition that the public schools can't keep up with. And the and the homeschoolers show how education is supposed to go and how easy it is to actually educate your child properly and to create a good citizen if you put even the smallest amount of effort into it. So of course, yeah, you will see those inequities. But maybe more parents will be inclined to be involved in their education. Or maybe the parents who aren't inclined to be involved in education. involve their children in other things, other aspects that are good for society. For instance, maybe some of those kids go to trade school programs. Does every kid need to graduate, you know, understanding calculus? Probably not. But these are issues that states can take care of. And the other thing is if you go to a local model, then a state like California, you don't have to worry about a state like California infecting your community because you'll have local control over. But right now, the way it is, we're just a sieve. We just everything that we do here bleeds out into the rest of the country. And you that's why you you people in red states are seeing this. Everyone thinks Oklahoma's a red state. My friend Julie's from there. She's like, no, it's not. It's not. But people turn away because they're like, we don't have to worry about Oklahoma. The listen, the enemy never sleeps. They never stop. That's our problem, too. We're always taking our eye off the ball. So public education, I think, is a detriment to American society right now. Things we can do right now. 'Cause I'm not an idiot. I know we're not gonna end public education tomorrow. But things we can do right now to fix the public education boondoggle and all the federal subsidies, that's what Linda McMahon has been trying to do with the Department of Education. They've already closed a number of things. They've already pared down the office. I think the office has moved to be housed under the DOJ, which was a better choice, but it needs to be closed altogether because I don't think it'll be good to have it under the DOJ when A Democrat takes office. and then teachers, you will play the biggest role in this. You can be the heroes, you can be the warriors. You're always telling us how you care about our kids, and you guys are we're all supposed to be just like teachers are the greatest in society. They do the greatest job, they do the hardest job. I hate that. I don't buy it. You volunteer for the job. Thank you for doing it. Appreciate it. Like, definitely I appreciate it. I'm not trying to say that, but like I pay you for it. Right? I pay you for it. You're not doing it for free. And you're getting, and despite all the complaints of teachers, you're getting a a way better deal than those of us in private America in the private sector get. You just haven't been in the private sector, so you don't understand. So you can help us, you can help our kids, you can be the hero by divesting from the teachers' union and saying, I'm not gonna participate in this in this slow and steady kidnapping of our children. Into a factory system that just churns out more slaves and more robots and more prisoners and more idiots. I'm not gonna do it. I'm gonna negotiate for myself, I'm gonna negotiate for my students on my own, and I am going to make sure that I can do my job to the fullest without being hamstrung by the union. And if that means leaving the union, then that's what I'm gonna do. You need to leave the union. I don't wanna hear any more excuses. If you can't do it, get out of teaching. You don't even have to get out of teaching. I can guarantee you there's a ton of pods and homeschool programs and private programs across the country that would take a credential teacher and be glad for it. And you could sleep better at night. But I'm not compassionate anymore to teachers who complain about their unions. Get out then. Or don't look at me and tell me I'm supposed to be the one fighting for you and you won't even fight for our kids. You won't even fight against the monster you see every day. You expect me to do it, and I'm not in the union, and I don't know all the things that go on in there. And I haven't voluntarily chosen to give them my money every month and every year to do things that I don't like. I haven't voluntarily chosen that. You have. You're the only one that can can get out of this. So I just think it's time to implode the public education system, period, and watch America fly. Watch Americans take off. There's a better way to do this. Now, I know some of you are panicking if you're on the liberal side and you're listening to me and you're going, Kira wants her kids to be dumb. they are dumb already. Have you looked at our outcomes? Have you looked at the results, the stats? Don't talk to me about this because you don't. You don't look at the information. You just believe the talking points, beep, beep, beep, like a robot, beep, boop, boop. You don't look at, and then if you do, you just do a quick search so and then you just stop on what confirms. your worldview. You don't look at numbers. You don't look at data. You don't look at charts. Do I look like a charts and numbers person to you? No. And yet my head is in those things every day. I'm looking at numbers every day because I like to be informed. So don't tell me That I'm the crazy one. You don't know what you're talking about. We are churning out idiots. California is a prime example. We are dead last. So much so the university system here in California and across the nation is begging us to test our kids because we're sending them kids who can't read. Do you Google that? Put that into your AI. We're churning out children who can't read in California out of the public school system. The universities are begging us to change something. So if you're worried about abolishing the public education system and how that might create idiots, mission accomplished. We're already graduating a ton of idiots. The kids that get out of there with their right mind and some knowledge intact, those are the special ones. Those are the notable ones. We're churning, we are participating in this prison. to school pipeline and you guys are arguing against ending it. Check yourself. Seriously, like stand up for the kids for leave politics out of it. Stand up for the kids. So if you think, if you're worried about the idiots, don't worry. That mission's already already been accomplished. but there are other models for schooling. And I have to end this podcast, so I'm not gonna tell you what those are. You could just look those up. I doubt you will. But the challenge stands, you could just look just look those up, see what your you know, what what you think maybe get involved in in creating a a a well n that is the thing. This is the problem. This is why I left the left so long ago. This is why I could never vote Democrat again. Because the the large no the largest notion on that side is that if government doesn't do it, no one will do it. And so it has to be government that does everything. And I just think that's a dangerous attitude, you know, this is the attitude that it's gotta be, and then and then the idea is that I I shirk my personal duty and my personal responsibility off into the government. So I can feel really good about telling people we need to raise taxes so we can feed more kids at school. I'm in charge of I'm I'm in favor of raising taxes so we can feed more kids at school. aren't you wow, aren't you so compassionate? And then you go on your way and you don't know what's going on in school, what kind of food they're being fed, where the tax money went, how much of the money actually did go to the schools in the classrooms, what the food is like, you don't know any of that. You just get to feel good. So if I I asking you to take control of a local model is asking you to be responsible for your local neighbors. And I know that's too much for a lot of you out there. I know a lot of you can't stomach it. You'd rather just shirk your responsibility up. Just take someone else's money. I'll give you a little bit of mine. And then you take whatever you want from all those other people, especially those nasty billionaires. We hate them. We only like them when they give us our money. take the money from them. And then I don't I don't wanna see the unwashed mass washed masses. I don't wanna see all of this trouble. I don't wanna see, I don't wanna have to get up early and go volunteer somewhere or give someone food out of my refrigerator. or educate their kids. I don't I don't want to do that. I'll just leave that to other people. But you know, give me my sticker and a cookie because I voted to raise taxes on somebody else. And public school. It's useless. It's evil at this point. That's what I believe. And if I had another child at this moment, another school, I do my children haven't gone anywhere. I just mean a school age. I do have children. But just the school age children, if I had another child to put in school, I would not put that child in a California public school. I would not. And you should not either. And I know that creates some hardship for you, but when you're a parent, you do have to ask what you're willing to do to save your children. And let me tell you, they are destroying your children on purpose. And I've just laid out the case for you why your child is the most important asset in California and why the government is doing everything they can. To steal your child from you. Let me know what you think in the comments. I was always follow me on X, follow me, follow us on YouTube, look up the Orange Report with Kira Davis, Facebook, YouTube, X, Instagram. I did want to tell you before I left though that I do have another podcast. I never really talk about it that much on the show. I'm trying to be better about that, but it's a non-political podcast. It's called Journey to Christmas Land. My bestie Amelia and I do it, and we just review TV. Cheesy TV Christmas movies like Hallmark, Netflix, Lifetime, Great American Family. We love the TV, cheesy Christmas movie universe. And we call that universe Christmas land. It has its own rules, it has its own population, it has its own kind of fun. And politics never infects us there ever. We it is not political at all in any way, like not even a sneak. Not even like a little sneaky sneaky. Matter of fact, we don't do much negativity on the show, period. So I think it's fun. It's a fun kind of break. we do Christmas all year round. We're in our summer break right now. We have a lot of bonus content. If you want to sign up for the Substack, just go look for Journey to Christmas Land, wherever you listen to podcasts or on Substack. It is a Substack show. Okay. That's it for me today. You guys, if you did not get the chance to see my interview with John Gresco, the vice chair of Ladera Ranch. Civic council here in Ladero Ranch about our cancer cluster issues. Go back and watch that yesterday's episode. You can see some clips on Instagram. but he had some pretty alarming things to say and some pretty interesting notes to make about the crisis that we're in. I've he definitely taught me some things. So you want to go and listen to that conversation. And don't forget that there will be a meeting on September 9th here in Ladero Ranch to talk about this issue. I think the HOA is gonna be rocked, man. I don't I don't know if they're prepared for the amount of people that are gonna be coming to this. They're a volunteer board and so bless their hearts on this. But I do hope that they respond to the community. And I hope that we just we get the help we need. If you want to come and see what's going on here in here in Ladera and talk to the people on the ground, we invite you to do that and tell our story for us, please. Our children are dying and we need help and no one seems equipped to help us. All right, everybody, I will catch you next time. until we meet again. Just remember that sunshine is the best disinfectant. So bring on the sunshine.