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Shocking Body Cam Footage Reveals How Bad Public Schools Are Now · The Matt Walsh Show

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Speaker 1: On January 6th, 2023, a Richnick Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia,
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Speaker 1: a black six-year-old boy pulled a nine-millimeter Taurus handgun from
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Speaker 1: his backpack and shot his first grade teacher, Abby Zwirner,
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Speaker 1: in the middle of class.
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Speaker 2: There was no provocation.
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Speaker 1: The bullet entered Zwirner's hand and lodged in her chest,
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Speaker 1: nearly killing her. When police arrived, another school employee, a
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Speaker 1: reading specialist, quote-unquote, was holding the child, almost as if
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Speaker 1: she was trying to protect him from the police, even
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Speaker 1: though he clearly posed a danger to her and everyone
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Speaker 1: else in the room. And then the boys started talking. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is body cam footage that took more than three
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Speaker 1: years to release to the public, supposedly because of routine
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Speaker 1: bureaucratic holdups. As you watch this, you can come to
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Speaker 1: your own conclusions about the actual reason that they withheld
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Speaker 1: it for so long.
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Speaker 2: Watch.
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Speaker 4: He just admitted that he had one.
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Speaker 2: He had one bullet.
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Speaker 4: Alright, let's leave the gun there.
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Speaker 5: I told the AP that there was a threat.
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Speaker 3: Earlier about it.
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Speaker 6: He is six years old.
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Speaker 3: He has been on a modified schedule.
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Speaker 2: His mother is to.
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Speaker 7: Pick him up at 2.30.
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Speaker 5: This is his first week.
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Speaker 4: Without his mother coming to school with him.
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Speaker 2: 1346, myself and 2347 and the sheriff's deputy are inside
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Speaker 2: room 11 with the suspect. Gun is secured.
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Speaker 7: And I called 911 when I heard this. I'm the
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Speaker 7: radio specialist.
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Speaker 5: I came down the hall.
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Speaker 6: She had blood.
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Speaker 4: She did?
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 5: We got some small handcuffs, almost like this.
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Speaker 2: Very good.
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Speaker 5: Where's the, uh, what's over here on the floor? When
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Speaker 5: you shot the gun, did anything hurt you?
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Speaker 4: No. Let me see your hands.
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Speaker 5: Let me see your hands.
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Speaker 2: Where is the weapon? It's on the floor.
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Speaker 6: It's over there.
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Speaker 4: Stop.
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Speaker 2: That's not how we shoot each other. F * *
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Speaker 2: * ing bitch.
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Speaker 4: I mean, he does have the gun residue.
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Speaker 3: It looks like.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Let's just not touch his hands or anything, okay?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 4: My mom had this.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 4: I stole that from my mom.
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Speaker 3: Okay, buddy.
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Speaker 2: What's your name?
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Speaker 4: If you want a piece of me, come get.
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Speaker 5: It on me.
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Speaker 2: Bitch.
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Speaker 5: His mom is supposedly... I don't.
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Speaker 2: Care if you call back up.
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Speaker 4: I don't care if I go to jail, bitch.
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Speaker 5: We know you know that language, and you know that's
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Speaker 5: not appropriate.
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Speaker 4: Mrs.
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Speaker 5: Kovacs is not happy with that.
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Speaker 3: I'm done.
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Speaker 5: I'm done.
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Speaker 1: What he said was, F you, shut the F up, ho.
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Speaker 1: I stole that gun from my mama. I don't care
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Speaker 1: if I go to jail. If you want a piece
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Speaker 1: of me, come get it, among other things. That's a
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Speaker 1: six-year-old child talking to police officers and a reading specialist.
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Speaker 1: And how does the specialist handle all this? Well, she
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Speaker 1: tells police he's on a modified schedule. Then she tries
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Speaker 1: to inform the child that, well, that's not how we
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Speaker 1: speak to each other. She politely checks his hands to
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Speaker 1: make sure he didn't injure himself while he was trying
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Speaker 1: to murder his teacher. In fact, I think I heard
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Speaker 1: her say, did you hurt yourself when.
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Speaker 2: You shot the gun? I believe was what she said.
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Speaker 1: If you didn't know the context and you take out
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Speaker 1: the reference to the gun and if the police weren't there,
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Speaker 1: just based on how the woman is dealing with the boy,
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Speaker 1: you would assume that he got in trouble for like
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Speaker 1: throwing a paper airplane in class or, you know, maybe
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Speaker 1: shoving a kid in the hallway or something. In fact,
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Speaker 1: based on her demeanor and how she's treating him, you
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Speaker 1: might think that the boy isn't in trouble at all.
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Speaker 1: You might think that the teacher is comforting him because
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Speaker 1: of something that happened to him. Maybe he got bullied
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Speaker 1: on the playground. And now he's sad and has a
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Speaker 1: tummy ache. It's a microcosm of America, post-civil rights era.
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Speaker 1: On the one hand, you have a barbaric, dangerous criminal.
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Speaker 1: Then you have the clueless, coddling white woman who's acting
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Speaker 1: as if she's talking to a normal, functioning, well-adjusted human being.
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Speaker 1: There's a 100% chance that this woman and every other
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Speaker 1: woman in the public school system thinks that she can
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Speaker 1: save this child.
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Speaker 2: She can make everything better.
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Speaker 1: She can sit him down on the carpet and maybe
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Speaker 1: read him The Very Hungry Caterpillar. And then he'll be
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Speaker 1: off to Harvard and Fortune 500 companies will line up
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Speaker 1: to give him jobs that he's not qualified for. And
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Speaker 1: we can all pretend that he's actually successful. That's the
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Speaker 1: liberal fantasy playing out in this footage and in this
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Speaker 1: woman's head. Meanwhile, everybody with a pulse understands exactly what's
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Speaker 1: going on here. This child almost certainly cannot be reformed.
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Speaker 1: Barring some kind of miraculous intervention of some kind, he
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Speaker 1: will just become even more dangerous and volatile as he
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Speaker 1: gets older. He'll murder someone before long if he's allowed
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Speaker 1: to roam free. I mean, he's already tried it at six.
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Speaker 1: It's guaranteed to happen. Already at six years old, he is.
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Speaker 2: A menace to society. Now, is that his fault? Not really.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's six years old. He's just a few
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Speaker 2: years past being a toddler.
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Speaker 1: You don't become a cold-blooded killer at six except by
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Speaker 1: being conditioned that way in an absolutely horrific, hellish environment.
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Speaker 2: This child has.
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Speaker 1: Been raised, to the extent that we can say he's
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Speaker 1: been raised at all, by barbarians. And now he is
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Speaker 1: one himself. So if any bleeding hearts out there want
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Speaker 1: to say that, well, this poor little boy is a
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Speaker 1: victim of his circumstances and it's not his fault he
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Speaker 1: turned out that way, I agree for the most part.
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Speaker 1: If you were born to his mother and you were
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Speaker 1: raised in that home and you had his brain and
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Speaker 1: his rock-bottom IQ, you would have ended up exactly like
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Speaker 1: him and you would have done exactly what he did
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Speaker 1: because you would be him. So we don't even need
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Speaker 1: to get into the nature versus nurture debate. The fact
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Speaker 1: is that obviously both nature and nurture factor into the
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Speaker 1: kind of person you become. And he didn't choose either
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Speaker 1: of them. He didn't choose his nature and he didn't
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Speaker 1: choose how he was nurtured. He's a victim in a
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Speaker 1: very real sense.
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Speaker 2: That's true. And that's extremely sad.
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Speaker 1: It's a tragedy. I mean, it's a very real tragedy.
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Speaker 1: It's a terrible thing. But we live in reality. And
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Speaker 1: we have to deal with reality. So questions of fault
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Speaker 1: and blame and victimhood are academic. Because in real practical terms,
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Speaker 1: the fact is that we are left with a child
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Speaker 1: who is wildly dysfunctional, dangerous, destructive, and unstable. He is
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Speaker 1: not going to wake up tomorrow or the next day
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Speaker 1: or next year or a decade from now and have
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Speaker 1: magically transformed into a civilized, well-behaved young gentleman. You can
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Speaker 1: feel sorry for him all you want, but while you're
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Speaker 1: feeling sorry, you have to decide what to actually do
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Speaker 1: with kids like this.
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Speaker 2: And there's really only two choices.
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Speaker 1: Either keep him in the system and allow him to
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Speaker 1: continue disrupting the education of every other kid in the
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Speaker 1: school and stand by and just kind of wait until
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Speaker 1: he decides to harm or kill someone else. offering innocent
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Speaker 1: kids and adults up as sacrifices for the sake of
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Speaker 1: giving this kid unlimited chances, or you can remove him.
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Speaker 1: You can take this kid and every kid like him
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Speaker 1: and remove them from the system, remove them from civilized society,
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Speaker 1: consign them to an institution somewhere. If they commit violent crimes,
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Speaker 1: you can put them in jail or juvenile detention. The
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Speaker 1: benefit of this second strategy is that it protects innocent, civilized,
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Speaker 1: well-behaved people and allows society to function and allows our
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Speaker 1: systems to operate as they're supposed to. And that vastly
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Speaker 1: outweighs the downside, which is simply that the dysfunctional, dangerous
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Speaker 1: kids suffer the emotional distress of being expelled from civilized society.
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Speaker 1: Which is unfortunate, but either they suffer the emotional distress
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Speaker 1: of being expelled from civilized society or Everyone else suffers
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Speaker 1: the distress of watching civilized society be destroyed by these people.
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Speaker 1: And that's really not a hard choice at all. Besides,
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Speaker 1: this kind of kid is better off in an institution anyway.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it can't possibly be any more nightmarish than
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Speaker 1: his home life. The boy's father is a career criminal.
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Speaker 1: big surprise, who was not living with him, big surprise,
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Speaker 1: at the time of the shooting. Actually, in 2023, his
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Speaker 1: father was a fugitive with an active arrest warrant, having
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Speaker 1: skipped multiple court hearings on an assault charge. He also
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Speaker 1: had multiple convictions, including one for breaking and entering and
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Speaker 1: one for violating a protective order after he allegedly hit
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Speaker 1: the boy's mother in the jaw. The school was apparently
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Speaker 1: unaware of all this and allowed him to attend classes
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Speaker 1: with his son on occasion. Now, that's not to say
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Speaker 1: the mother, a woman named Deja Taylor, was much better.
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Speaker 1: Just a month before the shooting at the school, Taylor
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Speaker 1: used the same handgun to shoot at the boy's father.
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Speaker 2: This is from the Washington Post.
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Speaker 1: Quote, prosecutors cited a series of text messages between Taylor
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Speaker 1: and the boy's father, which appeared to show that Taylor
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Speaker 1: opened fire on him with the same weapon about a
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Speaker 1: month before the shooting at Richneck Elementary. The shooting followed
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Speaker 1: a dispute over whether the father was cheating on Taylor
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Speaker 1: with another woman. The father was not hurt in the incident. Additionally,
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Speaker 1: Taylor's son had twice taken her car keys from her
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Speaker 1: purse and gotten into her car. On one occasion, he
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Speaker 1: crashed the vehicle, and on the other, he refused to leave.
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Speaker 1: Police had to break a.
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Speaker 2: Window to get him out.
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Speaker 1: Following the school shooting, investigators found copious amounts of marijuana
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Speaker 1: in Taylor's residences and.
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Speaker 2: Vehicle during searches.
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Speaker 1: So she shoots a firearm at the father of her
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Speaker 1: child in a public setting of some kind, and nothing
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Speaker 1: happens to her. And before that, her child stole her
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Speaker 1: car and wrecked it. And evidently, despite this very alarming
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Speaker 1: series of events, no one did anything.
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Speaker 2: No one did anything to her. No one did anything
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Speaker 2: with the kid. That was it. This is nothing new.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you go back to 2008, there was
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Speaker 1: a viral story about a black kid who stole his
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Speaker 1: grandmother's car. And he damaged a bunch of property, nearly
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Speaker 1: killed people. The local news and the police treated the
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Speaker 1: whole episode like, you know, some kind of joke.
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Speaker 2: Kids will be kids. Nobody was prosecuted.
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Speaker 3: Watch.
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Speaker 5: Letarian Milton is not your typical seven-year-old. Few his age
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Speaker 5: have ever driven an SUV up and down several busy streets.
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Speaker 5: It all started at his mother's townhouse. Letarian says he
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Speaker 5: took the car keys and hopped into his grandmother's Dodge Durango.
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Speaker 5: When I came through the back door, I looked on
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Speaker 5: the counter and my keys were gone.
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Speaker 4: I took my grandma's car because I got mad at
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Speaker 4: my mom. And then I suddenly had my friend come
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Speaker 4: in and he smoked with cigarettes.
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Speaker 5: He started the vehicle and put it into gear.
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Speaker 4: I yanked the thing.
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Speaker 5: And off they went, two seven-year-olds alone on the road.
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Speaker 5: Letarian drove several miles through Lake Park and Palm Beach Gardens.
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Speaker 7: We got the one call that I told you about
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Speaker 7: of a driver in the vehicle who looked too short
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Speaker 7: to be able to see over the steering wheel.
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Speaker 5: Along the way, he ran over two mailboxes, hit two
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Speaker 5: parked cars in a Costco parking lot, and struck two
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Speaker 5: moving cars near Walmart.
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Speaker 4: I want to do it because it's fun. It's fun
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Speaker 4: to do bad things and drive into a car.
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Speaker 5: But did you know that you could perhaps kill somebody?
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Speaker 4: Yes, but I wanted to do hill ride stuff for
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Speaker 4: my friend.
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Speaker 5: It all ended on Investment Lane and Consumer Drive. That's
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Speaker 5: where a letarian hit the curb and sideswiped a sign.
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Speaker 5: The SUV took most of the beating, snapping off one
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Speaker 5: of his axles and wheels. A grandmother's rage.
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Speaker 4: I want to whip his behind.
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Speaker 5: That's what I want to do right now.
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Speaker 4: If I thought they wouldn't take me to jail, I'd
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Speaker 4: whip his behind right now.
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Speaker 5: You don't think he should be punished for all of this?
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Speaker 4: Just a little bit. No video games for a whole weekend.
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Speaker 5: And one unusual story for police.
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Speaker 2: Are you sorry?
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Speaker 5: You understand that now your grandma's going to have to
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Speaker 5: pay to have those cars fixed because you hit those cars.
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Speaker 4: Can my mom help us?
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Speaker 1: Well, you never believe this, but that kid, Latarian Milton,
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Speaker 1: went on to commit more serious crimes, both as a
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Speaker 1: child and an adult. In 2017, he was arrested with
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Speaker 1: his friends for armed carjacking after the group held a
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Speaker 1: Lyft driver at gunpoint.
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Speaker 2: Watch.
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Speaker 5: This is Milton entering a West Palm Beach courtroom Monday
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Speaker 5: to face charges stemming from an armed robbery and carjacking.
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Speaker 5: Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputies say a Lyft driver picked
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Speaker 5: up four young males and a female early Sunday morning
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Speaker 5: and drove them to a Windora Way in West Palm Beach.
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Speaker 5: That's where the female exited the vehicle. Investigators say the
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Speaker 5: suspects told the driver to take them to another location.
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Speaker 5: When the driver refused, authorities say one of the suspects
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Speaker 5: pulled out a handgun and hit the driver in the
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Speaker 5: back of the head. The driver says he got out
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Speaker 5: of the car and was robbed of his wallet and jacket.
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Speaker 5: He later told deputies that Milton, who was in the
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Speaker 5: front passenger seat, got out and hopped into the driver's
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Speaker 5: seat and sped away with the other suspects. According to investigators,
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Speaker 5: the driver gave detectives a phone number, which led to
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Speaker 5: the identification of Milton. Deputies arrested Milton Sunday afternoon.
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Speaker 1: So Milton was the getaway driver, and he was a
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Speaker 1: real criminal mastermind ripping off a Lyft that he called
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Speaker 1: with his cell phone. And for this particular crime, he
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Speaker 1: was released after a few years because no one actually
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Speaker 1: serves a significant prison sentence anymore, especially for minor crimes
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Speaker 1: like carjacking. I've seen reports that he's committed more crimes
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Speaker 1: after this, and I'm sure he has. We all know
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Speaker 1: he's going to continue committing crimes until the day he dies.
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Speaker 1: That was evident for a long time. That was evident
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Speaker 1: back when he was a child. All of this Could
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Speaker 1: have been avoided if Milton had been thrown in prison
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Speaker 1: for life, if he had gotten any kind of serious
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Speaker 1: punishment the moment that he stole a car. And when
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Speaker 1: he publicly stated that it's fun to do bad things,
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Speaker 1: if there had been any kind of real consequence. This
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Speaker 1: is not the behavior of a normal child.
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Speaker 2: This is psychopath.
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Speaker 1: And no amount of DEI hiring or counseling service or
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Speaker 1: affirmative action is going to change that. But everyone pretended otherwise.
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Speaker 1: The police pretended that they could talk some sense into
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Speaker 1: this kid. They didn't imprison his parents. And now every
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Speaker 1: time Latarian Milton is allowed to appear in public, he's
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Speaker 1: a danger to everybody around him. The same inevitable pattern
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Speaker 1: is playing out again in Newport News with Deja Taylor
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Speaker 1: and her six-year-old kid who's shooting up his elementary school.
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Speaker 1: Clearly unfit to be a parent, just like the father.
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Speaker 1: But nobody did anything about it because this is par
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Speaker 1: for the course. in overwhelmingly black areas of the country.
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Speaker 1: After the shooting, due to all the attention, she was convicted, surprisingly,
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Speaker 1: of child neglect and firearms charges, which generally doesn't happen
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Speaker 1: in these kinds of cases, especially when the kid is black,
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Speaker 1: but she's already out of prison. And otherwise, she wouldn't
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Speaker 1: have been punished at all, if not for the national
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Speaker 1: attention to the story. This is how millions of black
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Speaker 1: children are raised. Deja Taylor is probably a top 10%
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Speaker 1: mother in Newport News, if we're being honest. An enormous
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Speaker 1: number of black kids in school behave just like this
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Speaker 1: particular six-year-old, even if most of them don't shoot their teachers.
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Speaker 1: You know, the body cam footage reminds, if you went
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Speaker 1: to public school at any point over the last, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, 60 years, it's going to remind you of
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Speaker 1: scenes that you witnessed countless times in public schools. It's
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Speaker 1: extremely common in public schools to this day, as even
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Speaker 1: the most left-wing people on the planet will admit.
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Speaker 2: It was just a couple of weeks ago that we
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Speaker 2: talked about.
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Speaker 1: Nicole Hannah-Jones, the New York Times writer who deliberately sent
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Speaker 1: her daughter to a mostly black inner city school as
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Speaker 1: a way to fight white supremacy or whatever she was
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Speaker 1: trying to do. She eventually pulled her daughter out of
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Speaker 1: that school because the black students were violently attacking each
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Speaker 1: other in the cafeteria every day. She spent one day
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Speaker 1: at the school and she was horrified by what she saw.
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Speaker 1: This is a woman who was so ideologically committed to
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Speaker 1: leftism that she actually sent her child to the worst
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Speaker 1: school she could find and she bragged about it. And
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Speaker 1: then after having to be around the kids in that
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Speaker 1: school for one day, it dawned on her that she
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Speaker 1: had made a horrible mistake. The administrators didn't even attempt
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Speaker 1: to control the children. And even if they had tried,
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Speaker 1: they probably wouldn't have accomplished anything. The administrators at elementary school,
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Speaker 1: at the elementary school in Newport News, where the kid
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Speaker 1: shot his teacher, were equally as useless. In fact, Abby Zwirner,
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Speaker 1: who required multiple surgeries just to regain the use of
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Speaker 1: her hand, filed a lawsuit against the school, and she
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Speaker 1: ultimately won $ 10 million because of how outrageously negligent the
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Speaker 1: administrators were.
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Speaker 2: This is from NBC. So listen to this.
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Speaker 1: Quote, the Virginia teacher who was shot by her six-year-old
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Speaker 1: student texted a loved one before she was wounded that
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Speaker 1: the boy was armed and that school officials were failing
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Speaker 1: to act. Abigail Zwirner sent the text about an hour
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Speaker 1: before she was shot on January 6th, saying that the
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Speaker 1: student said he had a gun in his backpack and
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Speaker 1: that administrators at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News weren't helping.
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Speaker 1: Around 11.15 in the morning, Zwirner told the administration that
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Speaker 1: the student had threatened to beat up a classmate. Then
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Speaker 1: at 12.30, a different teacher told a school administrator that
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Speaker 1: he had searched the boy's backpack because he thought he
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Speaker 1: might have a weapon. And finally, just before 1 p.m.,
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Speaker 1: a third teacher... told an administrator that the boy had
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Speaker 1: showed another student a gun at recess and threatened to
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Speaker 1: shoot him if he told anyone. At that point, another
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Speaker 1: school employee requested another search of the boy's backpack, which
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Speaker 1: was denied. The administrator told the employee to wait the
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Speaker 1: situation out because the school day was almost over.
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Speaker 2: This is according to the teacher's attorney.
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Speaker 1: So this is the way public schools handle the news
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Speaker 1: that a six-year-old has a gun on campus. and is
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Speaker 1: threatening to kill other children with it.
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Speaker 2: They just wait for the.
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Speaker 1: School day to end so they don't have to deal
19:28
Speaker 1: with it. Which actually is, I have a very low
19:32
Speaker 1: opinion of the public school system, as you know. This
19:35
Speaker 1: is way worse than I thought. I mean, I thought that,
19:37
Speaker 1: I mean, I knew that they were negligent and all
19:39
Speaker 1: of that, but I would have figured, naively, I would
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Speaker 1: have thought that even in the most negligent public school,
19:46
Speaker 1: the one thing that will get everyone's attention and will
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19:54
Speaker 1: says he has a gun.
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Speaker 2: Silly me. I thought that was still, even now, with
20:00
Speaker 2: these kids can get away with anything.
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Speaker 1: I thought the one thing they can't get away with
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Speaker 1: is going to school and saying, hey, I have a gun.
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Speaker 1: You know, I thought that was still like, you know,
20:11
Speaker 1: standing up on an airplane and saying you have a bomb.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like there's going to— that' s one of those
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Speaker 1: every authority figure around.
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Speaker 2: Apparently not.
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Speaker 1: Apparently these kids can go to school and actually tell
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Speaker 1: people they have a gun and show it to people,
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Speaker 1: and the administrators are going to say, well, you know,
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20:37
Speaker 2: don't know. So we have 45 minutes left. I'm sure
20:40
Speaker 2: we're fine.
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Speaker 1: The assistant principal of the school, whose name is Ebony Parker,
20:44
Speaker 1: apparently didn't care about any of this. This is on
20:48
Speaker 1: top of the fact that before the shooting, the six-year-old
20:50
Speaker 1: had numerous other documented behavior problems, which won't shock you,
20:54
Speaker 1: where he attacked students and teachers. The week of the shooting,
20:56
Speaker 1: he threw Zwirner's phone and destroyed it. Yes, a six-year-old
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Speaker 1: destroyed his teacher's phone before shooting her a week later.
21:08
Speaker 1: whatever the opposite of a bright future is, this kid.
21:10
Speaker 2: Has it coming.
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Speaker 1: But our system isn't set up to protect innocent people
21:15
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21:18
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21:22
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21:26
Speaker 1: a teacher's piece of property and smash it, you're gone
21:30
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21:31
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21:38
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21:40
Speaker 1: And when you finally murder someone, assuming he's still a juvenile,
21:44
Speaker 1: we still won't even know his name. They'll let him
21:47
Speaker 1: out again in just a few years. And then when
21:50
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21:53
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21:53
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21:56
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Speaker 1: Despite the overwhelming evidence that these schools are full of hopeless, violent,
24:33
Speaker 1: and dangerous children who can not be rehabilitated, and despite
24:38
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24:41
Speaker 1: completely incompetent, Leftists like Nicole Hannah-Jones insist that inner-city schools
24:46
Speaker 1: are only bad because they're underfunded. It's one of the
24:49
Speaker 1: great myths on the left, one of many myths. And
24:54
Speaker 1: of course, because it's a myth, as a factual matter,
24:56
Speaker 1: it's not true. The mythical underfunded inner-city school is not
25:03
Speaker 1: really true. These schools receive some of the highest per-student funding,
25:08
Speaker 1: not just in America, but in the world.
25:11
Speaker 2: And not just right now, but in history.
25:14
Speaker 1: So let's take a closer look at Newport News Public
25:16
Speaker 1: Schools and how much money they receive and spend every year.
25:20
Speaker 1: This is taken directly from the district's website. So this
25:24
Speaker 1: is the fiscal year 2026 budget. As you can see,
25:26
Speaker 1: under the estimated average per pupil cost for public education,
25:30
Speaker 1: they list total financial support per.
25:32
Speaker 2: Pupil at $ 18, 659.
25:33
Speaker 1: Per school year. So that includes state and federal funding.
25:39
Speaker 1: That's your tax dollars at work every single year. The
25:42
Speaker 1: government takes about $ 18, 000 from the pockets of the taxpayers
25:48
Speaker 1: so that this six-year-old can get an education. And that's
25:52
Speaker 1: just for one child. And that's not unique to Newport News,
25:57
Speaker 1: by the way. $ 18, 000 per student is roughly in line
25:59
Speaker 1: with national averages. So you have to ask, where is
26:03
Speaker 1: this money going exactly? How much money are the teachers
26:06
Speaker 1: and administrators making to oversee violence and carnage and dysfunction
26:10
Speaker 1: like this? How much money is going to the unions? Well,
26:14
Speaker 1: maybe here's the best question. What was the per pupil
26:17
Speaker 1: cost to educate a student in 1960? You know, back
26:22
Speaker 1: when students could like read and write. If we adjust
26:25
Speaker 1: for inflation, right, what's the number? Well, it turns out
26:29
Speaker 1: that Heritage Foundation has run the numbers on this and
26:32
Speaker 1: they found that in real dollars, meaning inflation adjusted, Per-pupil
26:37
Speaker 1: spending in American public schools was just $ 2, 763 in 1960.
26:41
Speaker 1: That was four years before LBJ launched his disastrous Great
26:48
Speaker 1: Society education programs, which would supposedly end poverty and lead
26:52
Speaker 1: to racial harmony. The spending continued to increase from there.
26:56
Speaker 1: In 1980, per-pupil spending was $ 7, 359, and today the number
26:58
Speaker 1: is more than twice as high as that. So we're
27:05
Speaker 1: spending more than twice as much to educate each student
27:07
Speaker 1: compared with 1980 and more than six times what we
27:11
Speaker 1: were spending in 1960. And what are we getting for
27:14
Speaker 1: that money? I mean, what's our return on this massive investment? Evidently,
27:19
Speaker 1: we're paying for six-year-old black kids to shoot their teachers
27:22
Speaker 1: with no oversight whatsoever. You know, apparently all this money
27:26
Speaker 1: can't even get enough oversight in the schools to, you know,
27:33
Speaker 1: intercept a child before he shoots a teacher, even when
27:36
Speaker 1: he's advertised to everybody all day that he has a gun.
27:41
Speaker 1: All this money is going into a bottomless pit to
27:43
Speaker 1: enrich unions and administrators while schools pretend to educate students
27:47
Speaker 1: who obviously can't control their own impulses, much less learn anything.
27:52
Speaker 1: There hasn't been any improvement in test scores or student aptitude.
27:55
Speaker 1: Everything's gone in the wrong direction, with one exception that
27:58
Speaker 1: we'll talk about in a moment. The Stanford economist Eric
28:02
Speaker 1: Hanushek put it this way a decade ago, quote, This
28:05
Speaker 1: productivity decline is remarkable, particularly when compared with dynamic improvements
28:09
Speaker 1: in productivity elsewhere in the U.S.
28:11
Speaker 2: Economy.
28:11
Speaker 1: Schooling outcomes are the same in 2015 as they were
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Speaker 1: four decades before, even though school funding is now several
28:17
Speaker 1: times as high. It's a pretty stark and frankly disturbing
28:22
Speaker 1: window into how much the civil rights era has transformed
28:24
Speaker 1: this country and drained our treasury at the same time.
28:28
Speaker 2: That's not all.
28:28
Speaker 1: Despite receiving this massive amount of money, the Newport News
28:31
Speaker 1: School District has the audacity to demand even more handouts.
28:35
Speaker 2: Directly from local residents.
28:38
Speaker 1: This is a real video the school district produced and
28:41
Speaker 1: uploaded last year.
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Speaker 5: Watch.
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Speaker 7: And while you're shopping, don't forget to use your reward
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Speaker 7: your choice. So when you buy everyday products, you're supporting
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Speaker 7: your child's school. To link your reward card, visit the
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Speaker 7: store's customer service desk for more information. Another way to
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Speaker 7: support education is through DonorsChoose.org, which continues to be a
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Speaker 7: wonderful online resource to directly equip classroom instruction. Just like
29:21
Speaker 7: the name implies, generous donors get to choose online. specifically
29:26
Speaker 7: which projects to fund. Simply visit donorschoose.org and type in
29:31
Speaker 7: Newport News Public Schools or a specific school in the
29:34
Speaker 7: search bar to find a project that needs financial support.
29:38
Speaker 7: Donors can fund an entire project or part of a
29:41
Speaker 7: project and can clearly see where every dime is spent.
29:46
Speaker 1: So you get to see exactly where all your donations
29:49
Speaker 1: are going, but as for your tax money, well, it's
29:52
Speaker 1: apparently been vaporized. It's totally gone, just like your Social
29:55
Speaker 1: Security contributions. You don't get to see the money. But
29:58
Speaker 1: if you donate to the school on top of your taxes, well, sure,
30:00
Speaker 1: you can track that money.
30:02
Speaker 2: No problem. It's an incredible video.
30:05
Speaker 1: First, they demand that you hand over the cash back
30:07
Speaker 1: rewards you get from your grocery store.
30:09
Speaker 2: They claim that's a smart thing to do.
30:11
Speaker 1: Just hand your money over to them every time you
30:13
Speaker 1: go to the store, and then they direct you to
30:15
Speaker 1: a donation page where you can send them even larger
30:17
Speaker 1: amounts of money to fund various projects the teachers have
30:20
Speaker 1: set up. The projects, as you just saw on the screen,
30:23
Speaker 1: include a rug for quiet time.
30:25
Speaker 2: They need $ 227 for that. I don't know. I feel
30:30
Speaker 2: like you could find a cheaper rug, maybe secondhand, go
30:32
Speaker 2: to a Goodwill or something. Why is that 200 bucks?
30:35
Speaker 1: Another project was seeking $ 208 to pay for some puppets
30:38
Speaker 1: to help ESL.
30:39
Speaker 2: Students, meaning foreign students who can't speak English.
30:43
Speaker 1: Again, I don't know what kind of puppet store they're
30:46
Speaker 1: going to where the puppets are $ 200. Whatever happened, when
30:50
Speaker 1: I was a kid, we made puppets out of a
30:54
Speaker 1: brown paper bag. Put some googly eyes on it. There's
30:57
Speaker 1: your puppet. And then there was the final project, disinfecting
31:01
Speaker 1: wipes for Ms. Harris's classroom, which came in at a
31:05
Speaker 1: relatively modest $ 44. Still seems like a lot for disinfecting wipes.
31:10
Speaker 1: So you're getting $ 18, 000 to educate every student, more than
31:13
Speaker 1: the average school district at any other point in the
31:15
Speaker 1: history of this country, adjusted for inflation.
31:18
Speaker 2: And it's still not enough.
31:20
Speaker 1: Somehow $ 18, 000 per student doesn't cover a rug or disinfecting wipes.
31:27
Speaker 1: It's a scam and they're not even hiding it. multiply
31:29
Speaker 1: this one school district by about 14,000, and you get
31:33
Speaker 1: a sense of how big the problem is. We've let
31:35
Speaker 1: teachers and unions and administrators run amok for far too long,
31:38
Speaker 1: occupy a kind of privileged.
31:40
Speaker 2: Status where no one's allowed to criticize them.
31:42
Speaker 1: But the fact is, overall, they're doing a horrible job.
31:47
Speaker 1: They're getting more money than ever, and they're producing worse results.
31:51
Speaker 1: In any other industry, that means they would lose their jobs.
31:56
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what needs to happen here. The only
31:59
Speaker 1: state that's moving substantially in a positive direction is Mississippi.
32:02
Speaker 2: Which we've talked about before.
32:04
Speaker 1: It used to be one of the worst performing states
32:06
Speaker 1: in the entire country in terms of student achievement. Their
32:09
Speaker 1: fourth grade reading scores ranked 49th in the nation in 2013.
32:13
Speaker 1: By 2024, they were up to ninth place. Math proficiency
32:17
Speaker 1: increased by more than 12 percent. I don't want to
32:20
Speaker 1: overstate the progress. Students in Mississippi are still underperforming by
32:23
Speaker 1: eighth grade, but they made a drastic improvement for elementary
32:25
Speaker 1: school students in a relatively.
32:26
Speaker 2: Short period of time. And it's clear how they did it.
32:30
Speaker 1: First, they refused to allow students to progress a grade
32:33
Speaker 1: if they couldn't read. They recognized that in a functioning school,
32:36
Speaker 1: some students simply do not deserve to take up space
32:40
Speaker 1: in the classroom. They also taught students how letters correspond
32:44
Speaker 1: to different sounds, which sounds pretty basic, but before that,
32:47
Speaker 1: they were basically telling students to guess how to pronounce
32:49
Speaker 1: words based on context clues. These are pretty obvious common
32:53
Speaker 1: sense reforms, but in most states, School administrators didn't even
32:57
Speaker 1: bother with any kind of reforms. They're happy to continue
32:59
Speaker 1: making more and more money every year while their students shoot.
33:04
Speaker 2: At them in some cases.
33:06
Speaker 1: The public school system is irreparably broken and useless now,
33:11
Speaker 1: primarily because, in general, it refuses to admit that many
33:15
Speaker 1: of their students, like the one who shot this teacher,
33:18
Speaker 1: simply cannot be reformed. And normal, civilized children should not
33:23
Speaker 1: be forced to share a class with them. If they
33:26
Speaker 1: could simply admit this, then they wouldn't need $ 18, 000 per student.
33:30
Speaker 1: They'd go back to spending $ 2, 000 a.
33:32
Speaker 2: Student or less.
33:35
Speaker 1: If they refuse to, quote, educate the students who cannot
33:40
Speaker 1: be educated and refuse to be educated, this is the
33:44
Speaker 1: approach we need to adopt because the prevailing educational model,
33:47
Speaker 1: the one we've tried over the past 60 to 70 years,
33:50
Speaker 1: is dead. There might be scattered pockets in the country
33:53
Speaker 1: where the public school system is still relatively functional, but
33:56
Speaker 1: that will change. Diversity had already put it on its deathbed,
34:00
Speaker 1: thanks to kids like the one in that video. And
34:04
Speaker 1: new changes like AI have destroyed whatever hope there might
34:08
Speaker 1: have still been.
34:09
Speaker 2: For the system.
34:10
Speaker 1: I mean, at the scale of mass government-run education, there's
34:13
Speaker 1: really no way to stop students from using AI for
34:16
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34:20
Speaker 1: school is already doing. And at a certain level, you
34:23
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34:25
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34:29
Speaker 2: And I'm not even exaggerating here. Some of these teachers
34:32
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34:33
Speaker 1: So in 2017, New York eliminated the academic literacy skills
34:37
Speaker 1: test as a requirement for teacher certification because the non-white
34:41
Speaker 1: teachers were failing it at an extremely high rate. So
34:45
Speaker 1: it was a diversity problem. And white teachers were passing
34:48
Speaker 1: at a rate of 64% on the first try. which
34:51
Speaker 1: is still way too low, by the way, while black
34:54
Speaker 1: candidates had passed around 40%, which meant that the test
34:57
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35:01
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35:05
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35:06
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35:07
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35:11
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35:14
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35:20
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35:26
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35:32
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35:35
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35:41
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35:48
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35:51
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35:54
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35:57
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36:00
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36:03
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36:05
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36:06
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36:08
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36:11
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36:32
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36:34
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36:36
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36:42
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Speaker 3: they got rid of the.
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Speaker 1: AATAS test, which was a test for teaching assistants. They
38:48
Speaker 1: replaced it with a more modern test, which presumably means
38:51
Speaker 1: that too many people were failing the old one. Let's
38:55
Speaker 1: try a couple of those questions from the old test.
38:57
Speaker 1: Here's one from study.com. Question, if 12 inches is equal
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Speaker 1: to one foot, how many feet are there in 72 inches?
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Speaker 1: So it's multiple choices. The answer, seven feet, eight feet,
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Speaker 1: five feet, or six feet. They actually tell you that
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Speaker 1: there are 12 inches in a foot, just in case
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Speaker 1: you're from Uganda and have no idea how anything works
39:17
Speaker 1: in this country. And then they ask you to do
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Speaker 1: some very basic multiplication in your head. 72 inches is
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Speaker 1: what you get when you multiply 12 inches by six.
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Speaker 1: When you multiply one foot by six, you get six feet.
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Speaker 1: And therefore, the answer is six feet. This is a
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Speaker 1: question you'd expect teaching assistants in public schools to answer,
39:35
Speaker 1: but that's no longer necessary. Here's question two, and again,
39:39
Speaker 1: I'm not making this up. It says, question, you're about
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Speaker 1: to check the first drafts of your class. What would
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Speaker 1: be the best way to assess the student's performance? Do you, A,
39:49
Speaker 1: Take notes to determine who among the students is the
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Speaker 1: best in grammar. Set fixed criteria on how to grade
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Speaker 1: each of the students' works. Take notes to determine who
39:59
Speaker 1: among the students is the most creative. Just give them
40:02
Speaker 1: all the same grade to avoid disappointing students. Now, you
40:08
Speaker 1: can tell just reading these responses that the people who
40:11
Speaker 1: wrote this test spent about five minutes writing the questions
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Speaker 1: and answers. A and C are extremely similar responses, and
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Speaker 1: neither of them makes sense. D is very explicitly a
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Speaker 1: nonsense answer.
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Speaker 2: It's a joke, really. Obviously, if you're.
40:24
Speaker 1: Going to grade students, you need criteria, meaning a basis
40:28
Speaker 1: for giving them grades. And now teaching assistants in New
40:31
Speaker 1: York apparently don't need to figure this out. So for now,
40:34
Speaker 1: if you have a five-year-old child and you're deciding how
40:37
Speaker 1: to educate them in the modern world, Now, you basically
40:41
Speaker 1: have only two viable options. If you're thinking about, okay,
40:44
Speaker 1: my kid's.
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Speaker 2: Going to spend the next 12, 13 years.
40:47
Speaker 1: In some kind of educational environment starting now, what are
40:53
Speaker 1: your options? Going to public school is really not an
40:56
Speaker 1: option on the table. So what other options do you have? Well,
41:00
Speaker 1: you could spend a lot of money on one of
41:01
Speaker 1: the relatively few, truly elite private schools. Or if you
41:07
Speaker 1: aren't a millionaire, or even if you are, homeschool. which
41:11
Speaker 1: includes highly localized and small-scale homeschool co-ops and homeschool academies
41:15
Speaker 1: as well. There are ways to do it, homeschooling, so
41:18
Speaker 1: that it's not just you with your kids. I mean,
41:20
Speaker 1: there's ways that you can still have a community and
41:22
Speaker 1: have support.
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Speaker 2: As I said, you might be able.
41:26
Speaker 1: To find scattered pockets here and there where the public
41:29
Speaker 1: school system is still moderately functional. But those places are
41:32
Speaker 1: extremely expensive, and they're basically the same as paying for
41:35
Speaker 1: a private school when you factor in the cost of
41:37
Speaker 1: living in those districts. Unfortunately, there's very little hope that
41:41
Speaker 1: the school system will improve in any widespread, measurable, lasting way,
41:46
Speaker 1: especially because now the institution exists to protect itself. Teachers
41:51
Speaker 1: unions remain some of the biggest funders of Democrats and
41:53
Speaker 1: public school systems in Democrat-controlled states. They can't be fired
41:58
Speaker 1: even if they're drinking on the job or openly wishing
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Speaker 1: death on their students.
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Speaker 2: Those are not exaggerations, by the way. These are real cases.
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Speaker 1: In 2010, a tenured fifth grade New York school teacher
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Speaker 1: named Christine Rubino posted the following statement to her Facebook
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Speaker 1: account after a student drowned while on a class field
42:15
Speaker 1: trip to the beach. She wrote, quote, after today, I'm
42:18
Speaker 1: thinking the beach sounds like a wonderful idea for my
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Speaker 1: fifth graders.
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Speaker 2: I hate their guts. They are the devil's spawn.
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Speaker 1: One of Rubino's friends responded, oh, you would let little
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Speaker 1: Kwame float away. And Rubino replied, yes, I would not
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Speaker 1: throw a life jacket in for a million. Rubino was fired.
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Speaker 1: Seems like a Pretty logical consequence. But she appealed her
42:42
Speaker 1: termination and was reinstated because according to the courts, quote,
42:46
Speaker 1: while her reference to a child's death is repulsive, there's
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Speaker 1: no evidence that her postings are part of a pattern
42:52
Speaker 1: of conduct. Then there was the case of Nicholas Salento,
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Speaker 1: a special education teacher at Colonia High School, who was
43:00
Speaker 1: fired by the Woodbridge School District after he was found
43:02
Speaker 1: consuming alcohol on school grounds. He was actually caught drinking
43:07
Speaker 1: on two separate days, but he had tenure which is
43:10
Speaker 1: an absurd concept for anyone, much less a special education teacher.
43:15
Speaker 1: So they had to hold a hearing. And at this hearing,
43:17
Speaker 1: Salento claimed to be an alcoholic. So it really wasn't
43:20
Speaker 1: his fault. And a state arbitrator bought it and overturned
43:24
Speaker 1: the firing. He eventually got his license suspended for just
43:27
Speaker 1: two years because he has a, quote, disease. Alcoholism is
43:33
Speaker 1: a disease. It's like having cancer.
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Speaker 2: It's not his fault. And on and on.
43:37
Speaker 1: These people are untouchable because they look out for one another.
43:40
Speaker 1: They unionize, they lobby, and it's working. It's been working,
43:43
Speaker 1: of course, for many decades. Even though birth rates are
43:46
Speaker 1: low and student enrollments is declining, their budgets and the
43:50
Speaker 1: number of administrators keeps rising. It's been a steady, massive
43:53
Speaker 1: increase from 1960 every single decade. And then you get
43:58
Speaker 1: to COVID. COVID was probably one of the final nails
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Speaker 1: in the coffin. Teachers and unions fought to close the
44:04
Speaker 1: schools for as long as they could. They showed their
44:07
Speaker 1: cards revealing that they don't think the schools are all
44:10
Speaker 1: that important or necessary. Or else they do think the
44:13
Speaker 1: schools are important and necessary, but they were willing to
44:16
Speaker 1: deprive the kids of the important, necessary thing in order
44:19
Speaker 1: to protect themselves from the flu. Either way, there's no
44:24
Speaker 1: coming back from that. No matter how much body cam
44:27
Speaker 1: footage they hide and no matter how many literacy tests
44:30
Speaker 1: they shut down, Everyone is now well aware that the
44:34
Speaker 1: public school system is not only useless, but actively counterproductive.
44:39
Speaker 1: It endangers students while protecting its own by design. Whatever
44:44
Speaker 1: alternative you're thinking about for your own children, whether it's homeschooling,
44:47
Speaker 1: private school, or something else, you should rest assured that
44:52
Speaker 1: it can't possibly be any worse than what these vultures
44:55
Speaker 1: have been selling ever since LBJ.
44:57
Speaker 2: Promised to end poverty.
45:00
Speaker 1: It turns out no matter how much money you throw
45:02
Speaker 1: at these people, it's not going to help. They only
45:06
Speaker 1: demand more to the point that they're begging for your
45:09
Speaker 1: credit card reward at the grocery store. Well, if that
45:14
Speaker 1: six-year-old school shooter accomplishes anything in his life, it'll be
45:18
Speaker 1: helping millions of Americans realize that.
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Speaker 2: It's time to stop giving it to them. That'll do
45:25
Speaker 2: it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
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Speaker 2: Talk to you on Monday. Have a great weekend. Godspeed.
45:36
Speaker 4: Every significant movement in history has started with protesting.
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Speaker 3: You're a traitor!
45:39
Speaker 2: Uncle Tom! This is our generation's civil rights!
45:41
Speaker 3: I have no idea what the protest is about.
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Speaker 7: Bingo!
45:44
Speaker 1: Given the current climate, should a figure as polarizing as
45:47
Speaker 1: Clay Saunders even be allowed on campus?
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Speaker 2: Uh, can you hear me okay? Saunders is a close
45:51
Speaker 2: personal friend of Chancellor Freeman. This is a decision I
45:54
Speaker 2: cannot fight. Islam will conquer the West.
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Speaker 5: As-salamu alaykum.
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Speaker 2: Are we paying attention? They've taken over the building. They're
46:05
Speaker 2: downstairs and they've blocked the doors.
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Speaker 7: I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.
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Speaker 2: You cannot run and hide.
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Speaker 6: Muhammad is the messenger of God. There is no God
46:19
Speaker 6: but Allah.
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Speaker 2: What do you say we turn those SOBs.
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Speaker 5: Into a fine red mist? As we move, one man
46:28
Speaker 5: will cover while the other guys go.
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Speaker 7: They call that leap project.
46:31
Speaker 3: Stretch them out with mist.
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Speaker 5: You need a course in safe weapons handling.
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