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Have made in this country being rolled back in the name of quote social justice. i think what these schools should do is stop focusing on teaching kids that the constitution and our institutions and traditions are racist and spend that money figuring out how to recover the learning loss that we were talking about. that should be priority number 1 for all schools in the country. not this push to create identity boxes and pit people against each other. >> dana: they will need each other going forw...

Have done and my family has done in serving our country. very surprised and hurt to see that. we were elected a year ago, we were so excited to join our colleagues and work together to find common grounds for our students who have suffered for a year and a half with historic learning loss. they have real academic needs that need to be met and we have been spending our time trying to address those needs and to serve the students and we have just been so disappointed that our colleagues, when we w...

Was critical race theory or whatever, and now this. in a way, are we on the verge of a total rethinking of how our public school system should work and how it should be more responsive to the needs of kids and their parents? >> well, i think weve already seen the makings of a parental revolt. if you look at the number of school board recall elections, theyre off the charts compared to the past 15 years. and one point i really want to drive home here is these teachers unions are endorsing critica...

Kids need to be in their classrooms and need to have that hands on learning time. the ones that have been hurt most are the ones that will pay the price the longest. >> martha: just a few seconds. if you were still in your job at the education department, what -- give me one thing that you would do to catch these kids up. 30 seconds. >> i would give families the power to make the choices for their kids where theyre going to go to school, where theyre going to get tutoring if they need it, where ...

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And they say democrats bumbled the critical issue of education. take a listen to what they told me. >> they really didnt listen to parents. parents, we were sitting there talking and trying to have reasonable conversations with them, educated conversations. we were coming in, doing our research saying hey, this is happening, how can we do this together? and they dismissed us. >> to be clear, they said their issue wasnt about some of the other things like critical race theory and mandates. it was...

Really suffered when schools were closed. >> it effected my family dynamic and my social circles and every part of me that the kids couldnt go to school. and so i had to figure out what can i do to make sure that that never happens again. >> and you feel like right now not enough it being done to address the learning loss and you think it is a crisis. >> our kids are in crisis. the learning loss is real. >> so were in a situation where our kids are really far behind and they need a lot of help. ...

That critical race theory were in virginia schools is a lie, its not true, that was made up by youngkin and his winning was based on a lie. what do you say to that? >> well, im going to say that i give parents the benefit of the doubt because they saw things that they cannot unsee during covid. their relationship with their schools has changed forever, and they saw things that they were concerned about in terms of how their children were sewed to identify themselves -- supposed to identify thems...