[applause] im delighted to bring back lands when it was still santa clara in the audience for those that remember his days. Now his main focus is education and he will talk about corruption in the classroom and part of the remarks will be very nerveracking and make us angry that somebody has to fight that so we are glad that hes here to do that for us. He has an incredible background. There are people who have experienced in the military or think tanks were education and he has a little of all of them. Some things are unknowable he was a chief speechwriter for agent a man in california and also a writer for it ed meese in the reagan administration. He is the head policy person at the Pacific Research institute on the education track and we are delighted to welcome him back. [applause] thank you very much for that kind introduction and all of you for welcoming back here to the Silicon Valley. The Biggest Group therapy session in the area. I started my career after law school and i may recovering lawyer so i started as a speechwriter and for those of you who remember i always tell folks i was the guy that gave him all that charisma. I was a speechwriter for ed meese when he was attorney general of the United States and also i tell folks that behind every great man is a little japanese guy behind every keyboard. [laughter] im glad to hear that the bar is going to be opened because i opi always sound better after a couple of dream is so i hope all of you will partake. I want to thank eric for reaching out to me and the conservative liberty for him and all the volunteers out there that are at this stuffing event. For those that provide this outlet for people to feel marginalized and isolated. So thank you to this organization and all of you who took the time out to come here. Im going to be talking about education and i was very hard and on the way to the hall today when i ran in to a young man here and his father coming in for the first time and hes just starting high school so this is his first time here and hes coming here in order to get ideas to get some bolstering for being in a Public School for the first time a. And that is a lot of what im going to be talking about is what is that experience like in Public Schools these days. Ive written this book called a corrupt classroom and the subtitle is biased indoctrination into social engineering by America NeedsSchool Choice and let me give you a little bit of background on me in my research. Ive been with the Pacific Research institute which is a freemarket think tank in San Francisco but we also have offices in sacramento where im based and also down in pasadena and we are the leading freemarket think tank focusing on california issues and national as well. Weve had our president and ceo talking about health care that im the senior director of the center for education and current senior fellow. With pri for the last 20 plus years. But in a lot of my time and in research and education in california, i focused a lot on academic issues like test scores, how well schools are doing some of you have come up to me before the event started and talked about my previous work that looked at the underperformance of middleclass and more affluent schools in california. A lot of people think the only poor performance we are experiencing are from those that are populated by kids from lowincome backgrounds and that is certainly not the case. The. Most administer the assessment for national progress. If you look not a cannot have ca students as a whole that just goes that are classified as not from poor or low income backgrounds, lets say on eighthgrade mathematics you find 55 of them on the poorer students fail to perform efficient level in mathematics and its even worse than reading for them on the poorer students in the eighthgrade reading exam, 57 of the nearly six out of ten nonpoor students in california fails to perform at the proficient level on reading. The performance that is going on in your own backyard basically. When i wrote that book more than ten years ago, a number of the schools i featured were here in the Silicon Valley and im sure things have not changed since that time, but the thing that is the reason i wrote this book called the corrupt classroom is that parents make decisions about where they want to send their child not just on test scores and how kids are doing in math or english were some of the other academic subjects. Theres lots of other reasons why parents may be dissatisfied with the education that their children are receiving. So what are some of those things cummings would make up the chapters in my book. So, for example the issue that a lot of you are interested in, politics read all of us are interested in politics and weve often talked about liberal bias in the society as a whole in american culture. But certainly the case there is a liberal bias in the classroom and its not just on College Campus is. Here in San Francisco and other Northern California seems nine from anderson is a peter of these protests . One of them is a woman named event and one of you may recognize her name she was actually on Tucker Carlsons show. Shes actually a middle School Teacher at Martin Luther king Public Middle School in berkeley. And shes also one of the key leaders of the radical organization by any means necessary and has been in the forefront of these violent and destructive antichump protests that have been occurring. She allegedly physically assaulted a man at a rally in sacramento in 2016 and started a huge meal leave that ended up with numerous people staffed. Eventually after going through a lot of video of that event, the county office ended up charging her various criminal charges based upon the involvement in this violent demonstration. But the First Amendment, and this is one of her excuses when people ask her about her activities, the First Amendment shouldnt protect the speech with which she disagrees and she labels the speech. But if you think about that, ind the violent activity she has this totalitarian ideology that basically says that proper the most of them should not have free speech rights because of what you believe in. What do parents think about that, even for a bastion like berkeley, this is beyond the pale. The violent i violent inyourfe has no place in the classroom especially at a school named after an activist Martin Luther king who preached for social change through nonviolence. But its not just some place like berkeley, here in Mountain View for example, a history teacher was suspended. The thing of it is, what i also want to make clear is this syndrome that came to the floor in the 2016 and certainly has continued after trump has been inaugurated, this is not a phenomenon that is limited just to a place like the bay area or just california. Its all across the country in blue states, red states, purple states. So for example, North Carolina in english teacher made them compare speeches by trump and adolf hitler in a secret audio recording of one of the lessons by a student in her class the teacher can be heard saying that the only people that are saved from donald trump are White Christian males. One of the parents of one of the kids in that North Carolina school said that her son felt like this teacher was attacking anybody who liked trump or anybodys appearance select trumdont wantto fight the systy know that they are going to be shouted down. And you thought you were the only ones here in the area that have that feeling. Its like that across the country and this is in a state that went for donald trump. In texas a teacher did another fake assassination using a squirt gun as she yelled die at the projected image. A colorado teacher put president trump. Face on a pinata and asked the students to take a whack at it. One of the parents from the classroom cold and said it is so disturbing that this is happening in a school setting. Why divide people, why do this. What is to be gained by encouraging students in a classic take a whack at president donald trump. They dressed up and dance to a profane antitrump song. And this was a geometry teacher. I dont know what the creation of person is. A new york teacher gives out a homework assignment with a fillin the blank answer. The correct answers to complete the sentences are ones that disparage president trump. A new york appearance said i dont think that is putting your personal feelings into the sixth graders homework paper is proper. There were at least a thousand sentences that could have been used beside each disparaging our president. Absolutely true. But its more than individual teachers. If you look at the teachers teas unions here in San Francisco it was by all teachers in the district after president trumps election but called him a racist and sexist man that had a racist and sexist race so it wasnt just the been attacking trump but i assume all of you and all the people that voted for him as well. The plan asked students to create a paper directed at the supporters who are described as dehumanizing students. The lesson plan only included articleincludearticles and repoe sources and publications like producer director michael moore. So, how are the students supposed to feel what your character faced by teachers and racist and sexist an and and un . Theres no acknowledgment of the Chilling Effect that such policies have on free speech and generally the students to make up their own mind about candidates and policies. A lot of you probably know thate republican activist in the area, the National Committee woman from california and she called this plan by the Teachers Union and inappropriate propaganda that demonizes the campaign that donald trump brand but also the people that voted for him. There is more to the political and ideological bias than individual teachers and Teachers Unions who are talking about president trump. It goes much deeper than that. The curriculum itself is often intentionally biased. If you look at californias history and social studies curriculum framework which is supposed to guide the teaching and instruction in classrooms conspicuously fails to mention, for example, the monumental atrocities committed by communism in the 20th century. So how do they depict the communist nations such as the soviet union . The curriculum framework says the soviet union had a poor record of protecting human rights. [laughter] is that it lacks a no. It never mentions the fact that the soviet union killed at least up to 20 Million People during its existence. I was being cultural conservative. But wait until you hear another statistic im going to come up with in just a second. The framework also says the cultural revolution and the great leap forward in communist china, which two of the biggest mass murder events in Human History caused what . Not genocide of unrest and disorder. It doesnt mention that these two programs alone up to 46 million ordinary chinese people. One of the things i mentioned in the case if you loo book is if t happened in countries like communist china, you would have unbelievable things occurring like fo for example the great lp forward. It caused on the countryside. To cannibalize their own children in order to survive, trade between families, cannibalize them in order to survive. Just unbelievable things that would make you wait just reading the words on the page. We are told that this was a regime that simply caused unrest in the countryside. And not surprisingly, the framework fails to mention that as a whole. Its up to 100 million yet none of that makes it into the classroom in california. What is the impact of this failure to transmit this basic information about one of the most important ideologies that when governments in the 20th century is the fact that whitewashes that experience. And you dont know the immensity that was communism. A. Even worse than that more believe that more people died under the administration of george w. Bush than joseph stalin. During the administration they said about the soviet union and communism and also what Ronald Reagan depicted communism is the evil empire. What about the people that have that viewpoint. That should be scary. Only a quarter of millennial stink that democracy is an essential for living in this country. Like they say on those tv commercials, but wait, theres more. Theres also things such as school safety, violence in the classroom. When you look at the latest federal statistics its actually shocking to see the amount of violence thats taken place across Americas School campuses. According to these federal statistics, 65 of the schools reported more than one incident of violence that translates to more than three quarters of a million crimes committed on Public School campuses and its even worse than the sum, nearly nine in ten Public Middle Schools report that thereve been crimes of violence reported on the campuses. Lets put some faces to these statistics. One of the things i tried to do in the book is not only to talk about the data but to also tell the human story behind the data. Lanny went to a Public Elementary School in alabama and was unfortunately the victim of bullying and physical assault. She was assaulted by another student that caused her to receive a concussion and was bleeding all over her face and head can cushion. She was in bad shape. The school calls her mom into picking up. So she goes to the Nurses Office and the nurse tells his mom when asked how does this happen, the nurse tells her she accidentally fell and hit her head. Now, lanny although she had a concussion and was in was able to pipe up and say no, i told you this other girl jumped me. So of course her mom is then extremely upset by this information and goes to the principle. What is going to be done about the perpetrators of this crime, and principal allegedly says we are going to suspend that student, but it turns out they never did. So, you have the school, it was bad enough that way and he ended up these injuries but then the school tried to cover it up after that and so lannys mom ends up taking her out of school and decide to homeschool her butt is in an interview now in alabama and says many other parents have the same types of experience at the school. Hers made the newspaper but theres all these others and thats the important point is you might hear a terrible story like this, but its not an isolated anomaly. These sorts of things are happening all across the country estates. I will give you another example, and this is particularly bad. There is a little girl in South Carolina, africanamerican girl of the Public Middle Schools and he had been verbally and physically assaulted for two years for supposedly acting white. Now her parents at school but butsued the School District, but they were constantly taunted as the radio, white girl and want to be. She was forced to eat her lunch is in the girls toilet stall to avoid her tormentors. All of this is bad enough but the School Officials did nothing. The girls parents reported the harassment to the School Officials in the district officials and School Board Members and they did little or nothing. I should mention the girls father is a u. S. Army soldier at a base in South Carolina so here is this man putting his life on the line to protect all of our liberties and to protect the liberties of the School Officials, and what does he get in return . He allows these kids in school to solv assault and abuse his f. That is the kind of payment if we get back to the soldier . After reading this story, the lawsuit was filed just a few months ago. It reminded me of an episode anybody here ever watche watch e series on netflix called the crown, its a good series. Its a story about the royal family about Queen Elizabeth from when she gets sent into the throne in the 1950s through the rest of her life, but anyway there is an episode that focuses on Prince Charles where shes sent away by the royal family to a school in scotland because that is where Prince Philip has gone to school. He had a terrible experience and according to the epilogue he refers to his experience as hell on earth. You can only imagine that its probably what this girl in South Carolina felt about her time at this middle school having to eat her lunch is in the toilet sta stall. So in the face of this surging crime epidemic, whats being done you would think that we would be tough on the people committing these crimes. Unfortunately its the other direction under the Obama Administration they sent out a letter from a directive to the schools saying that they should stop suspension policies that have a disparate impact on minority students. Then the polic policy had to be eliminated. Okay. If you look at the research, and its research that has been done by the scholars at Florida State university, cincinnati, texas and dallas that shows that student suspensions are best explained by previous student behav