Transcripts For CSPAN2 Lance Izumi The Corrupt Classroom 201

CSPAN2 Lance Izumi The Corrupt Classroom February 10, 2018

And we are glad that they are here to do that for us. Lance has an incredible background. Not much experience with the military or think tanks or education and lance has all of them. Something notable that you might not of known is he is a speechwriter for gentleman here in california and does anyone remember the name george duke mason . He was also the writer for ed neese in the reagan administration. He has that and he is military experience and he is now the head policy person at tr i on the education track and delighted to welcome him back. [applause] thank you, erica, for that kind introduction and for welcoming back here to the Silicon Valley to the Biggest Group therapy session in the bay area and erica mentioned i started my career after law school and im a recovering lawyer so i started my career as a speechwriter and for those of you vaguely remember governor george i was the guy who gave the duke all that charisma. So i was a speechwriter for the governor and speechwriter for annis when he was attorney general of the United States and i also tell folks that behind every great man theres a little japanese guy at a keyboard. Im glad to hear from joel that the bar will be open because i always sound better and i hope all of you partake. I want to thank erica for reaching out to invite me back and i want to thank you joel for having me back. I like to thank all the volunteers out there who have helped staff this event. It takes a lot of effort of a lot of people to put these together and i have great admiration for organizations like yours provide this outlet where people can feel marginalized and isolated especially in an area like San Francisco bay area. Im going to be talking about education and i was heartened on the way into the hall today when i iran into erica and i were walking in and iran into a young man here and his father were coming here for the first time and this young man is just starting high school and junior in high school, right . Okay. Anyway, so this is his first time here and hes coming here in order to get ideas and to get some bolstering from being a Public School for the first time you were in private school and that is what i will be talking about today. What is that experience like ive written this book called the krupp classroom and sometimes its biased indoctrination, violence and social engineering to show why America Needs a School Choice. Let me give you some back in. Ive been with the Pacific Research institute, independent Research Things take in San Francisco and also is incremental where im based and pasadena. With the free market think taking focusing on california issues and [inaudible] our president and ceo has been talking about healthcare here and thats her big issue but i am the senior director of education of our center for education and the crack senior fellow in education studies at pacific reports. Ive been with them for the past 20 plus years. I cant believe that. And a lot of my time researching education in california ive focused on academic issues like test scores and how well schools are doing and some of you and some of you have come up to me before the event started and talk to me about the previous work and i wrote a book not as good as you think which looked at the underperformance of middleclass in more affluent schools here in california and a lot of people think that the only poor performance were experiencing is from the schools that are populated by kids from low income backgrounds and that certainly is not the case. For example, here in california most recently on the National Exam that most states assess if you look not at californias students as a whole but just at those students who are classified as not from poor or low income backgrounds, the nonpoor students let say on eighth grade mathematics defined 55 of nonpoor students feel to perform at the present level in mathematics. It was even worse in reading. For nonpoor students on the eighthgrade reading exam 57 , nearly six out of ten, nonpoor students in california failed to perform at the proficient level on reading. Theres a lot of academic underperformance going on in your own backyards basically. When i wrote that book more than ten years ago called not as good as you think a number of the schools i featured were schools here in the Silicon Valley and im sure that things have not changed since that time. The thing of it is and 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 or some of the other academic subjects but there are lots of of the reasons why parents may be dissatisfied with the education that their children are receiving, right . What are some of the things . Some of those things make up the chapters in my book. For example, lets take the issue that a lot of you are interested in politics. Right . All of us are interested in politics and we have often talked about liberal bias in society as a whole and certainly in america and American Culture but its the case that theres a liberal bias in the classroom and its not just on college campuses. You see a lot of news about a professor lecturing about something that is offensive to anybody who has the point of view of all of you but a lot of it is down in the k12 level as well and for example when i look at the list of examples in the book take for example the anti trump protest that were occurring here in the bay area in berkeley and San Francisco and Northern California like sacramento where i am from and who is the leader of these protests mr. Mark one of the key leaders of the protest is woman named yvette and some of you may recognize her name and she was on Tucker Carlson show last year, i believe and she is a middle School Teacher at Martin Luther king Public Middle School in berkeley and she is also one of the key leaders of the radical organization by any means necessary and shes been in the forefront these violent and destructive anti trump protest that have been occurring. In fact, she allegedly physically assaulted a man and an anti trump rally in sacramento in 2016 and that started a huge mealy that started with numerous people staffed. Eventually after going through a lot of videotape that event the Sacramento County district attorneys counted charged her with criminal charges based upon her involvement with this violent demonstration. But she said that the First Amendment and this is one of her excuses when people ask her about her activity is the First Amendment should not protect the speech with which she disagrees and that she labels speech. But if you think about that shes involved in violent activities and has this ideology that basically says that most of you should not have free speech rights because what you believe in and what do parents think about that must work even for a liberal bastian like berkeley parents think this is just beyond the pale. One berkeley parent said that her violent in your face message has no place in the classroom especially at a school named after an activist, Martin Luther king, who preached for social change through nonviolence. Its not just someplace like berkeley but here in Mountain View for example a history teacher was suspended after he lectured students on the parallels between donald trump and adolf hitler. Yup. Both trump and hitler supposed this teacher supposedly said wanted to make their countrys great again so. The thing of it is i also want to make clear that this type of trump arrangement that came to the fore in 2016 to the president ial campaign and certainly continued after the trump had been inaugurated as president of United States that this is not a phenomenon that is limited just to a place like the bay area or to california. Its all across the country in blue states, red states, purple states, for example, in carolina in english teacher made students compare speeches by trump and adolf hitler. In a secret audio recording one of her lessons by a student in her class the teacher can be heard saying the only people who are safe 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 this teacher was attacking anyone who liked trump or anyone whose parents like to. But another parent also said most conservative parents in that area dont want to fight the system because they know they will be shut it down. Sound familiar . You thought you were the only ones here in the bay area who had that feeling. Its like that across the country and this is in a state of North Carolina that went for donald trump. In texas a teacher another very red state in texas a teacher did a fake assassination of President Trump in class using a squirt gun as she yelled die, die, die at the projected image. A colorado teacher but President Trump face on a pinata and asked students to take a whack at it. One of the parents in the classroom said it so disturbing that this is happening in a School Setting and why divide people . Why do this . They are good questions. What is to be gained from encouraging students to take a whack at President Trump . In New Hampshire high School Teacher dressed up as donald trump and danced to a profane anti trump rap song. The New Hampshire parent asked its not even like this was a sociology teacher, this was a geometry teacher. [laughter] i dont know what equation that person is doing. [laughter] a new york teacher gives out a homework assignment with fill in the blank answers so with the correct answers are to complete the sentences were ones that disparaged President Trump. A new york parent said i dont think that is putting your personal feelings about politics into a six graders homework paper is proper and there were at least a thousand sentences that couldve been used besides disparaging our president. Absolutely true. Right customer but it is more than individual teachers and if you look at Teacher Unions here in San Francisco the San Francisco Teachers Union issued a lesson plan for all teachers in the district after President Trump selection that called trump a racist and sexist man who had a huge racist and sexist base so it wasnt them just attacking trump but them attacking all of, i assume all of you, but all the people who voted for him, as well. The lesson plan asked students to create a poster directed at Trump Supporters who are described as dehumanizing students. The lesson plan only included articles and reports and videos by leftwing sources and publications like producer director michael moore. So how are pro trump students most appeal when trump is characterized by teachers as racist, sexist and unjust. Theres no acknowledgment of the Chilling Effect that such policies have on free speech in general and specifically on the stability of students to make up their mind about candidates and policies. A lot of you know a republican activist in the bay area, [inaudible], the National Committeewoman from california and she calls this plan by the San Francisco Teachers Union and inappropriate began the that unfairly demonizes the campaign that donald trump the winner, iran but also the people who voted for him. But there is more to political and ideological bias than individual teachers and Teachers Unions who are talking about President Trump. It goes much deeper than all of that. The curriculum itself is often intentionally biased and onesided. If you look at californias history of social studies curriculum framework which is supposed to guide the teachings and instructions and classroom it conspicuously fails to mention for example the monumental atrocities committed by communism in the 20th century. Exactly how do they depict communist nations such as the soviet union in the section on the cold war the curriculum framework only says that the soviet union had a poor record of protecting human rights. [laughter] is that it . And never mention the fact that soviet union killed at least up to 20 Million People during its existence. And i was being ultraconservative there but yes, wait to you hear another statistics i will come up with within a second. The framework also says the cultural revolution and the great leap forward in communist china, which were two of the biggest mass murderers events in Human History, caused what not genocide but caused unrest in disorder. It is not mentioned these two programs alone killed up to 46 million ordinary Chinese People. One of the things i mentioned in the book is that if you look at what happened in countries like communist china during these programs you have unbelievable things occurring, evil, atrocities are occurring in for example, the great leap forward was the force imposition of communist agricultural policies on the Chinese People which resulted in the largest mass famine in Human History and it caused in the countryside parents to cannibalize their own children in order to survive him a trade their children between families in order to cannibalize them in order to survive. Unbelievable things that make you wince just reading the words on the page. And yet, we are told that this was a regime that simply caused unrest in the countryside. Not surprisingly the framework fails to mention that as a whole over the 20th century communism is responsible for at least up to 100 Million Deaths and yet none of that makes it into classroom in california. About the immensity or the evils that was communism, so for example millennials find out that for those people who have heard of him, one in four have a favorable opinion of Vladimir Lenin and even worse than that, more millennials believe more people died under the administration of george w. Bush then under joseph stalin. So, you know, whatever you went about the bush family, i mean, there is no concept of what Jean Kirkpatrick the investor of the United Nations during the Ronald Reagan demonstration said about the soviet union and communism and Ronald Reagan, her boss depicted communism as the evil empire. There is none of that that comes through. And what is the future for people who have that viewpoint . Turns out that only 25 of millennials according to polling data say that living in a democracy is essential. That should be scary that only according of millennials actually think democracy is essential for living in this country, so doesnt just stop at political bias. That would be shocking and enough to fill the entire book, but like they say on those tv commercials, but wait there is more. Theres also things that just, school safety, violence in the classroom. If you look at the latest federal statistics its absolutely shocking to see them out of violence taking place across America School campuses. According to these federal statistics, 65 of the Public Schools reported more than one incident of violence that translate to more than three quarters of a million crimes committed on our Public School campuses and its even worse than the grades. Nearly nine in 10 Public Middle Schools report there have been crimes of the violence committed on the campuses. Lets put some faces to these statistics. One of the things ive tried to do in this book is not only talk about the data its to tell the human story about behind the data like so say for example this little 9year old girl named manny turpin. She went to a Public Elementary School in alabama and she was unfortunately the victim of bullying and physical assault. She was assaulted by another student, which caused her to receive a concussion. She was bleeding all over her face. She had contusions and she was in bad shape. Of the school calls her mom and to pick lanny up, so the mom goes to the nerve Nurses Office and the nurse then tells lannys mom that oh of course when lannys mom asked how this happened at the nurse tells lannys mom that oh, she accidentally fell and hit her head. Now, lanny although she had a concussion and was bleeding and was able to pipe up and say no, mama, i told them this other girl jumped me, so of course lannys mom is extremely upset by this information and goes to the principle and asks the principal what will be done about the perpetrator of this crime

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