Called of resistance that blob. Its like this jabba the hutt thing that cant be bug. The Janitors Union come the politicians, school board bureaucrats. We have four or five people to sign off, we have to get the direct of the critically to say that this is crazy to want at least a crazy. John thats our show tonight. And here is john stossels. John americans schoolchildren have been caught in a double run monopoly. It is not for lack of money, we have tripled what we have spent on k12 education by test scores do not allow. The good news is there are all kinds of alternatives that allow kids to escape the government cannot wait. But here is one word that you will be interested in. It is because it was created none other than libertarian congressman ron paul. Were homeschoolers, introducing the ron paul curriculum, which is what . It is a freedom curriculum,. Youre not going to go into every home and teach. How and were . It is going to be through the internet. It is studying the constitution, not from the textbooks, but they will have a lecture to do video lectures at the young people can watch at their own speed. It is going to be designed to get people to read and get people to write and to think about businesses and how to interact. So im very encouraged by this and now hopefully we can participate in this in our Public School system and avert the disaster. John youre going to charge homeschoolers about 250. So its free and the teachers can get these free videos, some of which you are on. In economics. Thats right, we mention some of the free ones in the book. We have to sell our program. But ours will be free from kindergarten to fth grade. You know, a pretty good start. John okay. People are suffering, they dont know what to do. I went to Public School k12. So many drugs in Public Schools, parents are looking for something. We have private School Options which some people can afford. But homeschooling is affordable. It isnt that bad become a much better education, just think of how well the homeschoolers have done. They dont even teach geography geography anymore. That was my favorite subject. A major case in texas was one that in the days. John they argued that we have to have uniforms, education, the parents wont do a good job. That turned out not to be the case. They close down private schooling, they will continue to try to do, i believe, im afraid that they will have a regulation when he do well in homeschooling and one of the qualifications that you have to have a degree for such and such school. There is a staunch group that defends the Public School system and that is the Biggest Union in the company, the Teachers Union. John im told that they dont mix, homeschooled kids and publicly schooled kids. Yes, you are talking about socializing. We have a lot of homeschoolers, but they would come out, and you would know them because of the mother being there with three of her kids. So there was an argument there that they would be antisocial. John lets me a couple of homeschoolers. This is Veronica Andreades. She is 16 years old. This is jeremiah burch, he is 12 years old, both are homeschooled by different families here in new york city. You guys must have no friends of your homeschooled. [laughter] some people have said that. Entirely not sure that homeschoolers have friends, but ive actually made a ton more friends with a homeschooling program. John had he do that if you are home all the time . There is a group of 7000 parents and they do a little social activity. John your mother made a video of the dance were homeschoolers get together. John this is not a church basement. Yeah, they hosted a little dance they are all the homeschoolers in the community. They have summer classes, i went to the metropolitan museum of art, made a bunch of friends there and they do like three to five lazier and i made a bunch of friends there. Actually made a bunch more friends with homeschool. John Veronica Andreades comedic ballet, karate lessons come, unique kids outside the home . Yes, exactly. John what you like about this . I like it because it allows me to morph my curriculum into my interests and to direct what i am learning i have really developed an interest in being a writer. I have found that homeschool azmi to do exercise that helps me develop my talent. That way i am better prepared for that. John but your brother is going to regular school . Yes, when we all got to high school my parents gave us a choice, you can go to high school you can keep on going homeschool. My brother said he wanted to high school. They felt like they could be more motivated to do more work in the school environment. John you wrote a wall street journal oped about this. That is how you came to our attention. Yes, i did. Jeremiah, do you have regrets at all . No. John you sound pretty certain. And just in the past four years you have tried private school, that was too expensive, Public School and you were bullied . I was bullied almost on a weekly basis because i was small and i was in kindergarten. I didnt know how to fend for myself. John one guy threatened to take your watch . Yes, i brought a little toy watches what he said that he would kill my family i didnt give him the watch. I was scared because of this. John are you being homeschool because youre hiding from Government School . No, no, it also works because im an actor. I perform and i sing. Its good because i can have a big audition monday. Then i can do school another day if im busy all day with the show. I usually do it on a weekend, sometimes a holiday. Because thatis when most of the schools are shut down and there is not really auditions. John it is not just her parents teaching. You take life classes on the web . Yes. I attend an online school, so schedule classes during the week and i go on and attend. But i can do that from home. John so how would your curriculum added things like that . It would fit in. And i think the extra activity is very important that you have pointed out. But i think the important thing that they are talking about, one is selfdirected. They pick and choose what they want to do in their life, that is what a good program would be like. But the other thing would be it seems to me that they are enjoying what they are doing and all you have to do is look at what is happening in Public Schools. Theres a lot of boredom and no fun. John im going to stop you. We shouldnt call it Public School. Government school. There is a difference. Thank you doctor ron paul. And thank you both for coming on. Something coming up more radical than homeschooling. These kids like it. I. Its so amazing that i can come here everyday and do whatever i want thank you orville and wilbur. Amelia. Neil and buzz for teaching us that you cant create the future. By clinging to the past. 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Parents love it, louisiana some 8000 kids got voucher money this year, most use it to go to a prive school. So parents love it, kidsike it, but eric holder, u. S. Attorney general said last month that the department of justice went to stop louisiana from issuing some of those vouchers. Why is that . Eric holder claims it will interfere with his desegregation effort. He would not come on the show to explain, so lets ask louisiana congressman steve scalise. Whats going on . The state estate within a program that allows 8000 children that are low income to have options if they are in a Failing School. Eric holder is saying that the students should be trapped in these Failing Schools and not have options if their parents to give them to send them to a scha better life. It shows the warped priorities in the obama administration. John we a Second Company have a reason for this. They say that the vouchers impeded the desegregation process. Last year, louisiana vouhers increased racial imbalances in 34 schools. I do not know where they are making those numbers up front. 90 of the students we are talking about a minority students. Their parents are the es that say that we want our children to be removed from the Failing School so they are not trapped in a place where they cant get an education go somewhere else where they have better opportunity in life. Why should we deny them that opportunity . Is a late appearance thing that i dont want my children to be trapped in a school that is rated to be failing. This only applies to schools by the state rating system. For the record, when we tink of Government Schools, this big melting pot. But they are more segregated segregated now the private schools and one found that different races were more likely to get together and not self segrega and private schools. Absolutely. Allowing this program to go forward, its been a very Successful Program and the parents love it. Helping the parents, children are trapped in Failing Schools. Eric holder says that i dont care, you should be trapped in a Failing Schools that we can engage in some kind of social experiment in washington dc. And let me talk on an odd idea from the last. There is an idea that say that if you send your kid to private school, you are a bad person. And it is important to preserve for the Public School. But it would rule in one of the most essential institutions to get what is best for your kid. For the common good. Anyone who is disgraceful enough to try to take cheap shots at someones children, i think it says a lot about their character. But if you look at this across the country, whether it is white or black or rich or poor, they are still paying taxes that go to Public School, and that is one fewer school but the public has to educate. So it takes money away from the Public Schools if you shut down private school system. So im not sure what they are trying to achieve. Maybe they just want to dumb down the system. But the fact that you have public and private schools shows that there is a need to fill a void. That if i think there is a better option to educate my children, why would you want to deny them the opportunity for better education . Indeed. Thank you congressman steve scalise. Coming up, Union Teachers of writing in the streets. Th are mad because they lost some privileges um. Wheres mrs. Davis . She took an early spring break thanks to her double miles from the capital one venture card. Now what was mrs. Davis teachin spelling. Thats not a subject, right . I mean, spell check. Thats a program. Algebra. Okay. Persons a and b are flying to the bahamas. How fast will they get there . Dont you need distance, rate and. No, all it takes is double miles. [ all ] whoa. Yeah. [ male annouer ] get away fast with unlimited double miles from the capital one venture card. Youre the worlds best teacher. This is so unexpected. Whats in your wallet . Who are we . Usa. [cheers] the one that was a Teachers Union protest outside my office because they were mad about what i said on him on 2020 mac some shouted stossel, shame on you. Because i criticized tenure and union rules that make it almost impossible to fire a bad teacher. These rules are even bad for good teachers because the best dont get paid more. As bad as the rules are, there is a place where they are worse. Union teachers have been able to sell their teaching jobs in mexico or give them to other family members. They, too, could never be fired. Now, Union Teachers in mexico are rioting because the new government there changed the rules. Here to explain this is the report of the covers the wall street journal for latin america, mary ogrady. Thank you for having me do and i consider good news because maybe the protesters will win. There is a long way to go. But the Teachers Union in mexico is the largest event in latin america. Presients have been unwilling to touch the privileges of the Teachers Union for almost eight years. John they can really sell their jobs as part of their union deal . They had, more credible than that, when you graduated from the teaching school, you were guaranteed a job, and once you started that job you had tenure for the rest of your life. John and you got tenure immediately . Yes. I once asked an american Teachers Union boss about tenure, one of the few that talk to me. One that heads the new york Teachers Union. Most professions do not have tenure. You have to be in a person. Which is a nice thing is the one you are and forever unless you die or are killed. Well, there is that perspective of it. John he is laughing, and this is just the way it is in most schools. Why do you accept this . I think in mexico because of the poor country. People think that what they really want to get is access. And its only recently that i think that the awareness is growing in the country that if mexicans are not educated, they are not going to be part of the middle class. He wants a new president says i want to change this, these riots have gone off and on for more than a month. They went on before they voted on the new rules. But the rules didnt have. Desk mic and a pass because they are not satisfied with growing a Little Corner in the backyard anymore. They want the more hightech jobs that are coming into mexico because of the north American Free trade agreement and they want to be part of that scene. So eve special interest, the Teachers Union, remains very powerful. As you can see, very activist. A large percentage backs the president on this one. When Teachers Unions protest, they are noisy and disruptive. But in mexico, they take hostages and they shut the whole city down. Yes. I think it has backfired on him, particularly when they did it and people couldnt get to the airport and a lot of the boulevards were closed because mexico city already has a big traffic problems. Wanted it continue . They think that tey can get it changed back and they also think that they can push back with the process of implementation and that is really one of the big question that remains out there. They change the law in the book, but is this going to be really implemented . A few years ago a Teachers Union boss planned to give 59 brandnew hummers to Union Officials until people heard about it and protested . Yes. This explains why it has been so powerful. Imagine that the particular unit has 1. 4 million members. They collect dues from all the teachers and goes into a pot and theres no transparency or lobby for the union has to show how the money is spent. That particular union boss actually is in jail right now because the president had her arrested. But the other thing is that they could use the money to spread around to the politicians. We dont know. Im making allegations. Im fairly certain that they are probably true. But it has all been one big black box. John protesters are taking hostages . Yes, they said that we are going to take these hostages and hold onto them until you guaranteed teaching jobs for graduates of the school. John what happened . They eventually let him go, but the problem remains. They just have kind of moved on them for new hostas, i suppose. The Teachers Union exists in many countries because the world copies america. Schools get government funding. They have little real competition. Often the result schools worse than ours. As what is a parent to do. A british researcher was surprised to discover that even in the poorest places, parents will pay two centers kids to private school. Even in these places where parents earn only a dollar a day. They will often take their kids out a three Government Schools and instead pay typically a dollar a week so their child