May 28, 2025 • 31 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (05/28) - What on earth is "grading with equity"?! The Emergency Management Department in LA has budget increase requests denied even after the disaster of the fires in January. More on the federal lawsuit revolving around the wasteful spending on homeless programs in LA. More on the Memorial Day Weekend riot in Downtown LA.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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single segment, and you shouldn't. Now Here is the latest stupidity.
(00:45):
I don't know every you know, like every week there
are several stories about these new woke progressive policies that
make no sense. Like if they're benign, they make no sense.
Most of the time. They're really destructive. They're infuriating, and
I always say, how did they think of this? This
is not stuff normal people who would even think of.
(01:07):
There is a super attendent of schools in San Francisco.
Her name's Maria Sue Su and she unveiled a new
program just last night called grading for equity. Equity is
one of the most destructive words now in government.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Equity.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
If you don't understand the concept of equity, see equality
is that means we all have an equal chance at
succeeding at one thing or another. That's equality that everybody
gets the same type of chance. Equity means we're supposed
to all have the same outcome. So imagine being a
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smart kid in San Francisco. You do well in school,
you're the problem because there's a lot of kids who
do badly a lot of the time. It's because they
don't care and they're lazy. Maybe some of them are stupid,
Not a big deal. There's always jobs in government. You
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could be a mayor or a governor. So I don't
know why they always trying to equalize everything for the
stupid kids. There's politics for them. Well, they had a program,
and it was a voluntary program. Seventy teachers in fourteen
high schools, about ten percent of the educators grades nine
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through twelve educators. I noticed some years ago teachers stopp
being teachers and they became educators. It's like garbagemen became
maintenance technicians and they got rid of the grading system. Now,
there was one story which said the new passing grade
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would be forty one, not sixty one. Right, sixty one
to seventy was always a D. Seventy one to eighty
was a B, and fudget a point either way, and
then and then no.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It was a C.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Right, seventy one to eighty was a C. Eighty one
to ninety was a B, and then ninety one, two
one hundred was an A. Now you get a D
if you're at forty one, not sixty one, although I
just found a story that A was dropping as low
as eighty. This is according to the Daily Mail. While
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a mark of twenty one is a D. Twenty one,
you can get four out of five wrong, and you pass,
according to this plane in San Francisco, four out of
five wrong. I mean, I don't know why one story
says forty one, another is twenty one.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But this is the state of journalism.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Now twenty one, I mean, come on, twenty one. That
is ridiculous. That's an F minus.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
If you're breathing, you can get a twenty one. It
came from a consultant name Joe Feldman. Now here's how
the thinking goes because they found a piece on him.
At the School Superintendence Association website. There was an article
from twenty nineteen and Joe Feldman said, well, when you
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implement this system, the percentage of students receiving d's and
f's decreased. Well, yeah, if the standard's now down to
twenty one, and then you're.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Just going to pass them, and then you're gonna have
to keep doing that year after year after year because
they're not learning if they're failing.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
And then he said, and there was so much great
inflation going on, Well this is great inflation because now
you're getting an A with a score of eighty and
you're getting a D with a score of twenty one.
How does that combat great inflation? It literally is great inflation.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I thought we got rid of all this stuff when
you know, remember a couple of years ago they said, okay,
well a lot of these elite universities weren't going to
require SAT and ACT scores.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Well now they're bringing them back. But now we're going
it's almost like we're going.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Backwards because they ended up with a lot of students,
especially at the elite schools, or couldn't cut it. They
just simply were overwhelmed because they I'm sorry they didn't
have the capabilities they did. We're not all born with
the same brain, you know. IQ is pretty much something
you're born with and if you grow up in if
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you're first of all, if you're curious, and you grow
up in an enriched environment, you could maximize your capacity.
IQ tells you what your capacity is. Some people don't
have much of a capacity. This is the way it is.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Although the SAT when people take those prep courses and
they're expensive, and so many people argued, well, not everybody
can afford out those prep courses.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I went through this three times with my kids. What
the what the prep courses do? It helps you achieve
your capabilities. But the IQ is the capability score. Now,
whether you bother to pay attention in class and do
the hard work and do the prep, that's up to you.
So IQ is different than you know, an SAT test score.
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Anyway they have, they were so much blowback from everybody
in the world that Maria Sue the superintendent, unveiled the
plan last night and today big U turn tires screeching.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
That was fast.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, this didn't last. This didn't even last twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Well, it shouldn't, because that's stupid.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
At the May twenty seventh Board of Education meeting, we
presented a proposal for a professional development opportunity in standards
based grading. What that that That is gibberish. There was
no action taken. No changes to grading passes were adopted
by the district or the Board of Education. We hold
every student to high standards and our goal is to
support student soon success. And you know what, this even affected,
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This even insulted left wing politicians. Rocanna, as a congressman
from the San Jose area, a very left wing. He says, Mi,
amigrant dad asked me where the missing ten percent went
when I scored a ninety. He came to America for
the chance to work hard and pursue excellence. Giving a's
for eighty percent and no homework is not equity. It
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betrays the American dream. That's another thing. There were going
to be no weekly tests and there was going to
be no homework. Somebody else posted San Francisco Schools trying
its hardest to make sure all middle income families who
could move out of the city do so right away.
Grading for equity is going to be a real disaster
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and We had one tech executives who's thinking about running
for Governor's name is and is a difficult name to pronounce,
Shamath Polyhapitia, and he says, it's a disgrace that this
comes from the pre eminent tech capital of the world.
It is you know, I what was I just reading
the other day? You know they well, Trump wants to
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move all the iPhone manufacturing here to the United States,
and that's just not possible. And part of the reason
it's not possible is we don't have very many American
students who will grow up and become qualified to work
at that level of tech. Apparently in China where most
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of the manufacturing goes on, and in India, according to
one of the people in the industry, you can fill
football fields with all the students coming out of school
who are technologically capable of manufacturing, inventing iPhones and all
the successive and connected technology. Football fields were the students
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every year in the United States, he said, you can't
fill a room. We produce stupid children and uneducated children.
There is much there's vastly more intelligence coming out of
India and China than in America. Our kids really are dopes.
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Like I told you, in California, three quarters of the
kids in California graduate high school not proficient in math
or reading, So they can't read and they can't add
and subtract three quarters of them. And this has been
going on for thirty five years, which means some of
these people are now in their fifties. A thing of
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that that's being going assence nineteen ninety. So if you're
eighteen and nineteen ninety, you're now fifty three years old.
And everybody from age fifty three and younger. Every year
in LA Unified, seventy percent of the kids, seventy five
percent of the kids can't do math, can't read.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
What do you think we have here?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
You think Apple is doing recruitment seminars here Now they're
going to India and China because the parents insist on
you not only get educated, you retain the education. You
just sit in the classroom, you actually learn it, you
get tested.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
On it all right, more coming up.
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John Cobelt Show, Moistline, Get to It. Certainly gave you
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the iHeartRadio app. Yes, don't worry. You can do badly
in school. You can get d's and f's. They'll pass
you through anyway. Equity, right, and then you could take
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your equity and become the mayor of Los Angeles. It
doesn't matter how you could be like a mid double
digit IQ and be the mayor of Los Angeles or
be on the city council. And so this is what
happens when you have people with load of middling intellects
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and your budgeting for the coming year in Los Angeles,
what would you do? This is a good test of intelligence.
You have an emergency management department. You have a gigantic
cleanup after the Palisades wildfire, which no other city in
the history of America's had to deal with. We routinely
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get floods, mud slides, droughts, earthquakes, the earthquake. We're a
day closer to an earthquake. It's been thirty one years,
thirty one and a half years now. So they were
LA leaders were asked, maybe we should increase the budget
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of the emergency management department. Not only that big events
coming twenty twenty eight Olympics, twenty twenty six World Cup
super Bowl is in there somewhere, I forget which year.
So we're going to have literally millions and millions of
people coming into the city, and you could have any
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of these disasters happen at any given moment. We could
have an earthquake in the the middle of the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Super Bowl is twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Twenty so we got three and three years World Cup
super Bowl. Well, because the city council can't do math.
And again this is where I point out, I'm sure
all these people went to LA unified public schools. There
are billion dollars short in the budget, and last week
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they rejected funding increases requested by the Emergency Management Department.
The EMD wanted to hire more staffers and fix broken
security equipment around its facility. Broken security equipment. I don't
know what they have in there, but I guess it's
easy to steal. There was an audit done several years
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ago by the city controller at the time named Ron
Galprin found out that La spends a dollar fifty six
per resident on emergency management. San Diego spends two forty
six long Beats spends two twenty six. San Francisco spends
seven dollars and fifty nine cents. Wait what seven fifty
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nine they spend?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
How much would that be? I'm not going at that.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I went to schools in the LA school district.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Oh is that it?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Five times more. They spent five times more. LA only
has thirty people. Thirty people in the Emergency Management department,
which is why when they fire exploded in the Palisades
there was nobody around to do anything. To give you
another comparison, New York has doubled the population, but they
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have seven times as many people in their emergency department.
Philadelphia has half the population and has sixty percent more employees.
The current leaders of the Emergency Management Department, the GM,
is Carol Parks. The assistant GM Jim Featherstone. Featherstone told
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the council, we're one of the most populous and at
risk jurisdictions in the nation, if not the world. It's
really not in the city's best interest not to have
recovery capability for a disaster similar to the one we
just had. A Pete Brown, a spokesperson for Carol Park, said, well,
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for Tracy Park actually it's inevitable that we're going to
have another disaster and we still won't be prepared. We'll
be in the same position we were before. We got
a horrible taste of what it's like when we're not prepared,
and despite all that, we haven't learned a lesson from it.
We're doing the same thing. That's what stupid people do.
See with Karen Bass, she can actually watch a fire
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burn seven thousand buildings, displaced twenty thousand people, and she
will not increase the emergency management department by a dollar
or by one employee.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Rick Caruso.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Said, what Bass of the city council is doing is
a blatant display of mismanagement and bad judgment. We're in
an earthquake zone, we're in a fire zone. Come on,
She's dangerous and destructive, and so is the city council,
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led by Marquise Dawson. These are dangerous, destructive people that
can't do math. I'm sure they can't read. How do
you have thirty people in emergency management in the city.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Of Los Angeles? What a joke? What a jed. But
it's not a joke.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It's dangerous, and they have two people running the department
Carol Parks and Jim Featherstone telling him directly, this is awful.
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The Parks just wanted ten positions minimum. None of them
were included. They wanted an in house recovery team, which
they don't have. When the Palisades fire broke out, the
Emergency Emergency Management Department had no person assigned full time
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to the recovery. You hear that in the Palisades there
wasn't one city employee assigned to the Palisades recovery.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
There's nothing to say.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
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We're on from one to four every day, and if
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everything we did today, so you can listen to that
or tonight or tomorrow. One thing we are waiting for
some news on and I guess we'll have a lot
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of detail tomorrow, is that federal Judge David Carter is
holding hearings this week on a lawsuit. This lawsuit you
may be aware of, it's La Alliance for human rights.
This is a several groups, a lot of businesses and
other groups that says the city has blown wasted billions
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of dollars in homeless money, and the investigations so far
have proven that group right, and they want they would
like to take away all the homeless money from the
city and maybe have the judge put it into a receivership,
having an outside court appointed receiver start to decide what
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to do with the billions of dollars coming in because
Karen Bass can't handle it. She's blown the money and
they don't know where it is. And that's what's damning.
It's not like we can look at the invoices and
the programs and say, Okay, the money went to this program,
what did they spend it on?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
All right? What good did it do? You know? Did
it get people off the street?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
What? You use your eyes, you can see it didn't
get anybody off the street. There was an audit done
by Alvarez, Alvarez and Marcel Public Sector Services. It did
an eighty two page audit and they've been testifying in
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this case and they found widespread failures in financial management.
This is Karen Bass and this is that Valicia adams
Kellum that Bass hired to run. That's why the county
has pulled out a LASSA. The county divorced themselves from this.
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It was so bad, and adams Kellum was the one
who gave two million dollars to her husband's foundation. The
audit from Alvarez and Marcel identified, if you hadn't heard this,
raise yourself two point three billion dollars in funding, but
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much of it could not be properly accounted for. Can't
account for it, don't know where it went. I had
two billion dollars basically lost to the wins. Don't know
where it went, don't know if it did any good.
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Nearly half the people placed in programs ended up homeless
again if you more than one in four ended up
with permanent housing. The LA Alliance attorney said these findings
are not just troubling, they are deadly. Total dysfunction of
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the system has resulted in devastation on the streets. Total
dysfunction devastation. So tomorrow Bass is going to testify, and
today two councilwomen, Tracy Park and Monica Rodriguez, who have
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been very critical of the city, they are testifying. I
don't know if it's going on this minute or not.
But today was a scheduled day and tomorrow for Karen
Bass and the West Side Current is reporting. Now LA
Alliance is the group that's suing, right. You know how
many attorneys they have two? You know how many attorneys.
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Karen Bass has eleven, eleven attorneys. This is our tax money.
After blowing two and a quarter billion dollars on the vagrants,
the mental patients, and the drug addicts, now we're gonna
blow god knows how much money. They hired Gibson, Done
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and Crutcher, LLP, one of the most prestigious law firms
in the country, nine attorneys, nine plus two city attorneys
for a total of eleven.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
See.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
LA had agreed in a federal settlement three years ago
that they were going to fix the homeless. They were
going to fix this enormous waste and mismanagement, and they
did not. It just got worse. So the city has eleven,
the plaintiffs have two, and the judges presiding over the evidence.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
And the arguments.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
It's going to be up to him, but he has
indicated he's really not happy. He really doesn't want to
send it to a receivership because a receivership is unelected.
But what Bass has managed is so disastrous it's incomprehensible.
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Imagine if you were the mayor, or you were in
charge of Lassa. Could you lose two billion dollars? Could
you lose track of it over two billion? Would you
only have thirty people working in emergency management after the
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Palisades burned?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Would you do that?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I have never seen a worst managed city in my life.
I lived in New York, I lived in Chicago. I
lived out here for you know, thirty years now. I
never remember any mirror being this bad. Garcetti was really,
really bad. Somehow Karen Bass is worse. There is tell
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me one thing she does well? Like what is she
has gotten better here? I mean a whole chunk of
the city doesn't exist anymore. She's shrinking fire, she's shrinking
the fire department, and she's shrinking the police department further
because she gave excessive raises to Cubica workers in all
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the riff raft departments that none of us know about,
our care about, because they don't do anything useful for us.
Police fire it's different. We're way underfunded in police, way
underfunded with fire way underfunded in emergency management. All the
money went to homelessness, and all the money was lost.
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Nobody knows where it is. They should be broadcasting her
testimony on live television tomorrow. I don't know why that
isn't a thing in a democracy.
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Early in the show, we spent a lot of time
on Gavin Newsom still, even though he says it's deeply unfair,
still allowing boys men to participate in girls' sports, even
at the championship level. Covered this extensively and you could
hear all about it, and you should on the podcast
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John Cobelt Show on Demand to be posted after four o'clock.
Conway will be here in moments. So the Memorial Day
weekend riot, remember about a thousand people showed up in
downtown LA and we were wondering, well, why didn't the
police stop it? Because they boarded a train and terrorizing
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the passengers and spray painting the inside of the train.
They were spray painting all the local businesses. And it
was around a sixth well it was it came off
from a rooftop warehouse party sixteenth in Trinity. They came
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across a rooftop concert taking a place taking place across
two parking lots, and people were calling in complaints because
a big disturbance. It was promoted on social media and
the owner said these people are trespassing and wanted them out,
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but there weren't enough officers and the whole thing spilled
out onto the street as he had one hundreds, maybe
one thousand people, and that's when they started vandalize the
vehicles in the neighborhood, the storefront, spray painting everything in sight,
a cop car, a metro train, and when the police
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showed up, they started vandalizing the police cars. One officer
hit in the face with a bottle. And here's the
killer line. No arrests were made, No arrests were made.
Carrying bass on Monday Fumford. It's unacceptable under any and
all circumstances, and these people will be held accountable to
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the fullest extent of the law, except she doesn't have
any police to arrest them. How do you hold them
accountable to the fullest extent of the law where there's
no police. In fact, that's what the LA Police Commander
Lily and Caranza said, our officers were heavily outnumbered, so
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the decision was to clear the area rather than make arrests.
But I can assure you we will find those responsible. Yeah,
that was yesterday. Today the story is police are seeking
the public's help in identifying the rioters who are on
the illegal rooftop concert. They were shooting fireworks at an
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LAPD helicopter and several officers were struck by projectiles. You
have to break up the warehouse party with an overwhelming
show of force immediately, but they didn't. Karen Bass and
the city council, led by Marquis Harristawson, have defunded the police.
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We should have ten thousand officers. We have eighty seven hundred,
and after next year we'll be down to eighty four hundred.
By the way, we needed twelve thousand. So we're gonna
have two thirds of a police department, half a fire department.
And so of course they're gonna hold a concert. They're
gonna have their big warehouse party and the police and
fire are gonna show up. These people don't care. They'll
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just start firing at the helicopter. They'll start spray painting
the police car. They're in charge police are not allowed
to do anything, and so they end up not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
No arrest made, no arrest. Can you imagine that?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
But they have video and now they're asking the public
to rat out the people on the video.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, that's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Wow, total breakdown in Los Angeles under Karen Bass. Total breakdown.
There's a doctor named afshin a Chaven. He runs a clinic,
the House of Health Clinic on Washington Boulevard, and he said,
this type of vandalism happens every day every day in
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his neighborhood because we don't have the police, and the
police aren't allowed to enforce the law. There's no arrests,
you know, but never did this extense extent, said doctor.
We really need to teach future generations how to care
for one another.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Sure, most of these kids don't have a dad. I
don't know what the moms are up to. But if
you talk to the moms, they'll say, no, my baby
boy is wonderful. You have extremely dysfunctional I wouldn't even
call them parents because again, I don't think most of
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these people have dads. Extremely dysfunctional neighborhoods A thousand. You
ended up with a thousand people willing to riot all
at the same time. Well, that that's a deep seated
problem that you know, over in an entire region that's increasing,
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and and police are defunded. And Karen Bass all she
can do is that is pretend she's indignant. She was
really upset. She wouldn't be defunding the police further and
she is, and defunding the fire department further.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
And she is.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
But hey, that's what the people wanted. Oh, all right,
when we come back, Well I'm not coming back till tomorrow.
Conway is going to be here though, And Michael Kurzer
has the news live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
can always hear the show live on KFI Am six
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and you could play that anytime later this afternoon, tonight,
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single segment, and you shouldn't. Now Here is the latest stupidity.
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I don't know every you know, like every week there
are several stories about these new woke progressive policies that
make no sense. Like if they're benign, they make no sense.
Most of the time. They're really destructive. They're infuriating, and
I always say, how did they think of this? This
is not stuff normal people who would even think of.
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There is a super attendent of schools in San Francisco.
Her name's Maria Sue Su and she unveiled a new
program just last night called grading for equity. Equity is
one of the most destructive words now in government.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Equity.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
If you don't understand the concept of equity, see equality
is that means we all have an equal chance at
succeeding at one thing or another. That's equality that everybody
gets the same type of chance. Equity means we're supposed
to all have the same outcome. So imagine being a
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smart kid in San Francisco. You do well in school,
you're the problem because there's a lot of kids who
do badly a lot of the time. It's because they
don't care and they're lazy. Maybe some of them are stupid,
Not a big deal. There's always jobs in government. You
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could be a mayor or a governor. So I don't
know why they always trying to equalize everything for the
stupid kids. There's politics for them. Well, they had a program,
and it was a voluntary program. Seventy teachers in fourteen
high schools, about ten percent of the educators grades nine
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through twelve educators. I noticed some years ago teachers stopp
being teachers and they became educators. It's like garbagemen became
maintenance technicians and they got rid of the grading system. Now,
there was one story which said the new passing grade
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would be forty one, not sixty one. Right, sixty one
to seventy was always a D. Seventy one to eighty
was a B, and fudget a point either way, and
then and then no.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It was a C.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Right, seventy one to eighty was a C. Eighty one
to ninety was a B, and then ninety one, two
one hundred was an A. Now you get a D
if you're at forty one, not sixty one, although I
just found a story that A was dropping as low
as eighty. This is according to the Daily Mail. While
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a mark of twenty one is a D. Twenty one,
you can get four out of five wrong, and you pass,
according to this plane in San Francisco, four out of
five wrong. I mean, I don't know why one story
says forty one, another is twenty one.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
But this is the state of journalism.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Now twenty one, I mean, come on, twenty one. That
is ridiculous. That's an F minus.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
If you're breathing, you can get a twenty one. It
came from a consultant name Joe Feldman. Now here's how
the thinking goes because they found a piece on him.
At the School Superintendence Association website. There was an article
from twenty nineteen and Joe Feldman said, well, when you
(04:31):
implement this system, the percentage of students receiving d's and
f's decreased. Well, yeah, if the standard's now down to
twenty one, and then you're.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Just going to pass them, and then you're gonna have
to keep doing that year after year after year because
they're not learning if they're failing.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
And then he said, and there was so much great
inflation going on, Well this is great inflation because now
you're getting an A with a score of eighty and
you're getting a D with a score of twenty one.
How does that combat great inflation? It literally is great inflation.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I thought we got rid of all this stuff when
you know, remember a couple of years ago they said, okay,
well a lot of these elite universities weren't going to
require SAT and ACT scores.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Well now they're bringing them back. But now we're going
it's almost like we're going.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Backwards because they ended up with a lot of students,
especially at the elite schools, or couldn't cut it. They
just simply were overwhelmed because they I'm sorry they didn't
have the capabilities they did. We're not all born with
the same brain, you know. IQ is pretty much something
you're born with and if you grow up in if
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you're first of all, if you're curious, and you grow
up in an enriched environment, you could maximize your capacity.
IQ tells you what your capacity is. Some people don't
have much of a capacity. This is the way it is.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Although the SAT when people take those prep courses and
they're expensive, and so many people argued, well, not everybody
can afford out those prep courses.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I went through this three times with my kids. What
the what the prep courses do? It helps you achieve
your capabilities. But the IQ is the capability score. Now,
whether you bother to pay attention in class and do
the hard work and do the prep, that's up to you.
So IQ is different than you know, an SAT test score.
(06:23):
Anyway they have, they were so much blowback from everybody
in the world that Maria Sue the superintendent, unveiled the
plan last night and today big U turn tires screeching.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
That was fast.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah, this didn't last. This didn't even last twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Well, it shouldn't, because that's stupid.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
At the May twenty seventh Board of Education meeting, we
presented a proposal for a professional development opportunity in standards
based grading. What that that That is gibberish. There was
no action taken. No changes to grading passes were adopted
by the district or the Board of Education. We hold
every student to high standards and our goal is to
support student soon success. And you know what, this even affected,
(07:18):
This even insulted left wing politicians. Rocanna, as a congressman
from the San Jose area, a very left wing. He says, Mi,
amigrant dad asked me where the missing ten percent went
when I scored a ninety. He came to America for
the chance to work hard and pursue excellence. Giving a's
for eighty percent and no homework is not equity. It
(07:41):
betrays the American dream. That's another thing. There were going
to be no weekly tests and there was going to
be no homework. Somebody else posted San Francisco Schools trying
its hardest to make sure all middle income families who
could move out of the city do so right away.
Grading for equity is going to be a real disaster
(08:06):
and We had one tech executives who's thinking about running
for Governor's name is and is a difficult name to pronounce,
Shamath Polyhapitia, and he says, it's a disgrace that this
comes from the pre eminent tech capital of the world.
It is you know, I what was I just reading
the other day? You know they well, Trump wants to
(08:30):
move all the iPhone manufacturing here to the United States,
and that's just not possible. And part of the reason
it's not possible is we don't have very many American
students who will grow up and become qualified to work
at that level of tech. Apparently in China where most
(08:53):
of the manufacturing goes on, and in India, according to
one of the people in the industry, you can fill
football fields with all the students coming out of school
who are technologically capable of manufacturing, inventing iPhones and all
the successive and connected technology. Football fields were the students
(09:14):
every year in the United States, he said, you can't
fill a room. We produce stupid children and uneducated children.
There is much there's vastly more intelligence coming out of
India and China than in America. Our kids really are dopes.
(09:37):
Like I told you, in California, three quarters of the
kids in California graduate high school not proficient in math
or reading, So they can't read and they can't add
and subtract three quarters of them. And this has been
going on for thirty five years, which means some of
these people are now in their fifties. A thing of
(09:59):
that that's being going assence nineteen ninety. So if you're
eighteen and nineteen ninety, you're now fifty three years old.
And everybody from age fifty three and younger. Every year
in LA Unified, seventy percent of the kids, seventy five
percent of the kids can't do math, can't read.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
What do you think we have here?
Speaker 3 (10:19):
You think Apple is doing recruitment seminars here Now they're
going to India and China because the parents insist on
you not only get educated, you retain the education. You
just sit in the classroom, you actually learn it, you
get tested.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
On it all right, more coming up.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 3 (10:47):
John Cobelt Show, Moistline, Get to It. Certainly gave you
enough material today eight seven seven Moist eighty six eight
seven seven Moist eighty six are usually talkback feature on
the iHeartRadio app. Yes, don't worry. You can do badly
in school. You can get d's and f's. They'll pass
you through anyway. Equity, right, and then you could take
(11:11):
your equity and become the mayor of Los Angeles. It
doesn't matter how you could be like a mid double
digit IQ and be the mayor of Los Angeles or
be on the city council. And so this is what
happens when you have people with load of middling intellects
(11:33):
and your budgeting for the coming year in Los Angeles,
what would you do? This is a good test of intelligence.
You have an emergency management department. You have a gigantic
cleanup after the Palisades wildfire, which no other city in
the history of America's had to deal with. We routinely
(11:55):
get floods, mud slides, droughts, earthquakes, the earthquake. We're a
day closer to an earthquake. It's been thirty one years,
thirty one and a half years now. So they were
LA leaders were asked, maybe we should increase the budget
(12:18):
of the emergency management department. Not only that big events
coming twenty twenty eight Olympics, twenty twenty six World Cup
super Bowl is in there somewhere, I forget which year.
So we're going to have literally millions and millions of
people coming into the city, and you could have any
(12:40):
of these disasters happen at any given moment. We could
have an earthquake in the the middle of the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Super Bowl is twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Twenty so we got three and three years World Cup
super Bowl. Well, because the city council can't do math.
And again this is where I point out, I'm sure
all these people went to LA unified public schools. There
are billion dollars short in the budget, and last week
(13:10):
they rejected funding increases requested by the Emergency Management Department.
The EMD wanted to hire more staffers and fix broken
security equipment around its facility. Broken security equipment. I don't
know what they have in there, but I guess it's
easy to steal. There was an audit done several years
(13:36):
ago by the city controller at the time named Ron
Galprin found out that La spends a dollar fifty six
per resident on emergency management. San Diego spends two forty
six long Beats spends two twenty six. San Francisco spends
seven dollars and fifty nine cents. Wait what seven fifty
(13:59):
nine they spend?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
How much would that be? I'm not going at that.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
I went to schools in the LA school district.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Oh is that it?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Five times more. They spent five times more. LA only
has thirty people. Thirty people in the Emergency Management department,
which is why when they fire exploded in the Palisades
there was nobody around to do anything. To give you
another comparison, New York has doubled the population, but they
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have seven times as many people in their emergency department.
Philadelphia has half the population and has sixty percent more employees.
The current leaders of the Emergency Management Department, the GM,
is Carol Parks. The assistant GM Jim Featherstone. Featherstone told
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the council, we're one of the most populous and at
risk jurisdictions in the nation, if not the world. It's
really not in the city's best interest not to have
recovery capability for a disaster similar to the one we
just had. A Pete Brown, a spokesperson for Carol Park, said, well,
(15:19):
for Tracy Park actually it's inevitable that we're going to
have another disaster and we still won't be prepared. We'll
be in the same position we were before. We got
a horrible taste of what it's like when we're not prepared,
and despite all that, we haven't learned a lesson from it.
We're doing the same thing. That's what stupid people do.
See with Karen Bass, she can actually watch a fire
(15:43):
burn seven thousand buildings, displaced twenty thousand people, and she
will not increase the emergency management department by a dollar
or by one employee.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Rick Caruso.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Said, what Bass of the city council is doing is
a blatant display of mismanagement and bad judgment. We're in
an earthquake zone, we're in a fire zone. Come on,
She's dangerous and destructive, and so is the city council,
(16:27):
led by Marquise Dawson. These are dangerous, destructive people that
can't do math. I'm sure they can't read. How do
you have thirty people in emergency management in the city.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Of Los Angeles? What a joke? What a jed. But
it's not a joke.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It's dangerous, and they have two people running the department
Carol Parks and Jim Featherstone telling him directly, this is awful.
(17:05):
The Parks just wanted ten positions minimum. None of them
were included. They wanted an in house recovery team, which
they don't have. When the Palisades fire broke out, the
Emergency Emergency Management Department had no person assigned full time
(17:25):
to the recovery. You hear that in the Palisades there
wasn't one city employee assigned to the Palisades recovery.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
There's nothing to say.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am
six forty.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
We're on from one to four every day, and if
you miss stuff, we had a lot of good stuff today,
shouldn't have missed it. After four o'clock, we're gonna post
the podcast John cob Show on demand and it's got
everything we did today, so you can listen to that
or tonight or tomorrow. One thing we are waiting for
some news on and I guess we'll have a lot
(18:11):
of detail tomorrow, is that federal Judge David Carter is
holding hearings this week on a lawsuit. This lawsuit you
may be aware of, it's La Alliance for human rights.
This is a several groups, a lot of businesses and
other groups that says the city has blown wasted billions
(18:36):
of dollars in homeless money, and the investigations so far
have proven that group right, and they want they would
like to take away all the homeless money from the
city and maybe have the judge put it into a receivership,
having an outside court appointed receiver start to decide what
(19:01):
to do with the billions of dollars coming in because
Karen Bass can't handle it. She's blown the money and
they don't know where it is. And that's what's damning.
It's not like we can look at the invoices and
the programs and say, Okay, the money went to this program,
what did they spend it on?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
All right? What good did it do? You know? Did
it get people off the street?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
What? You use your eyes, you can see it didn't
get anybody off the street. There was an audit done
by Alvarez, Alvarez and Marcel Public Sector Services. It did
an eighty two page audit and they've been testifying in
(19:44):
this case and they found widespread failures in financial management.
This is Karen Bass and this is that Valicia adams
Kellum that Bass hired to run. That's why the county
has pulled out a LASSA. The county divorced themselves from this.
(20:06):
It was so bad, and adams Kellum was the one
who gave two million dollars to her husband's foundation. The
audit from Alvarez and Marcel identified, if you hadn't heard this,
raise yourself two point three billion dollars in funding, but
(20:28):
much of it could not be properly accounted for. Can't
account for it, don't know where it went. I had
two billion dollars basically lost to the wins. Don't know
where it went, don't know if it did any good.
(20:52):
Nearly half the people placed in programs ended up homeless
again if you more than one in four ended up
with permanent housing. The LA Alliance attorney said these findings
are not just troubling, they are deadly. Total dysfunction of
(21:13):
the system has resulted in devastation on the streets. Total
dysfunction devastation. So tomorrow Bass is going to testify, and
today two councilwomen, Tracy Park and Monica Rodriguez, who have
(21:34):
been very critical of the city, they are testifying. I
don't know if it's going on this minute or not.
But today was a scheduled day and tomorrow for Karen
Bass and the West Side Current is reporting. Now LA
Alliance is the group that's suing, right. You know how
many attorneys they have two? You know how many attorneys.
(21:55):
Karen Bass has eleven, eleven attorneys. This is our tax money.
After blowing two and a quarter billion dollars on the vagrants,
the mental patients, and the drug addicts, now we're gonna
blow god knows how much money. They hired Gibson, Done
(22:18):
and Crutcher, LLP, one of the most prestigious law firms
in the country, nine attorneys, nine plus two city attorneys
for a total of eleven.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
See.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
LA had agreed in a federal settlement three years ago
that they were going to fix the homeless. They were
going to fix this enormous waste and mismanagement, and they
did not. It just got worse. So the city has eleven,
the plaintiffs have two, and the judges presiding over the evidence.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
And the arguments.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
It's going to be up to him, but he has
indicated he's really not happy. He really doesn't want to
send it to a receivership because a receivership is unelected.
But what Bass has managed is so disastrous it's incomprehensible.
(23:23):
Imagine if you were the mayor, or you were in
charge of Lassa. Could you lose two billion dollars? Could
you lose track of it over two billion? Would you
only have thirty people working in emergency management after the
(23:43):
Palisades burned?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Would you do that?
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I have never seen a worst managed city in my life.
I lived in New York, I lived in Chicago. I
lived out here for you know, thirty years now. I
never remember any mirror being this bad. Garcetti was really,
really bad. Somehow Karen Bass is worse. There is tell
(24:13):
me one thing she does well? Like what is she
has gotten better here? I mean a whole chunk of
the city doesn't exist anymore. She's shrinking fire, she's shrinking
the fire department, and she's shrinking the police department further
because she gave excessive raises to Cubica workers in all
(24:40):
the riff raft departments that none of us know about,
our care about, because they don't do anything useful for us.
Police fire it's different. We're way underfunded in police, way
underfunded with fire way underfunded in emergency management. All the
money went to homelessness, and all the money was lost.
(25:03):
Nobody knows where it is. They should be broadcasting her
testimony on live television tomorrow. I don't know why that
isn't a thing in a democracy.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
You're listening to John Cobels on Demand from KFI A
six forty.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Early in the show, we spent a lot of time
on Gavin Newsom still, even though he says it's deeply unfair,
still allowing boys men to participate in girls' sports, even
at the championship level. Covered this extensively and you could
hear all about it, and you should on the podcast
(25:44):
John Cobelt Show on Demand to be posted after four o'clock.
Conway will be here in moments. So the Memorial Day
weekend riot, remember about a thousand people showed up in
downtown LA and we were wondering, well, why didn't the
police stop it? Because they boarded a train and terrorizing
(26:05):
the passengers and spray painting the inside of the train.
They were spray painting all the local businesses. And it
was around a sixth well it was it came off
from a rooftop warehouse party sixteenth in Trinity. They came
(26:26):
across a rooftop concert taking a place taking place across
two parking lots, and people were calling in complaints because
a big disturbance. It was promoted on social media and
the owner said these people are trespassing and wanted them out,
(26:47):
but there weren't enough officers and the whole thing spilled
out onto the street as he had one hundreds, maybe
one thousand people, and that's when they started vandalize the
vehicles in the neighborhood, the storefront, spray painting everything in sight,
a cop car, a metro train, and when the police
(27:10):
showed up, they started vandalizing the police cars. One officer
hit in the face with a bottle. And here's the
killer line. No arrests were made, No arrests were made.
Carrying bass on Monday Fumford. It's unacceptable under any and
all circumstances, and these people will be held accountable to
(27:33):
the fullest extent of the law, except she doesn't have
any police to arrest them. How do you hold them
accountable to the fullest extent of the law where there's
no police. In fact, that's what the LA Police Commander
Lily and Caranza said, our officers were heavily outnumbered, so
(27:54):
the decision was to clear the area rather than make arrests.
But I can assure you we will find those responsible. Yeah,
that was yesterday. Today the story is police are seeking
the public's help in identifying the rioters who are on
the illegal rooftop concert. They were shooting fireworks at an
(28:15):
LAPD helicopter and several officers were struck by projectiles. You
have to break up the warehouse party with an overwhelming
show of force immediately, but they didn't. Karen Bass and
the city council, led by Marquis Harristawson, have defunded the police.
(28:36):
We should have ten thousand officers. We have eighty seven hundred,
and after next year we'll be down to eighty four hundred.
By the way, we needed twelve thousand. So we're gonna
have two thirds of a police department, half a fire department.
And so of course they're gonna hold a concert. They're
gonna have their big warehouse party and the police and
fire are gonna show up. These people don't care. They'll
(28:57):
just start firing at the helicopter. They'll start spray painting
the police car. They're in charge police are not allowed
to do anything, and so they end up not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
No arrest made, no arrest. Can you imagine that?
Speaker 3 (29:15):
But they have video and now they're asking the public
to rat out the people on the video.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, that's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Wow, total breakdown in Los Angeles under Karen Bass. Total breakdown.
There's a doctor named afshin a Chaven. He runs a clinic,
the House of Health Clinic on Washington Boulevard, and he said,
this type of vandalism happens every day every day in
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his neighborhood because we don't have the police, and the
police aren't allowed to enforce the law. There's no arrests,
you know, but never did this extense extent, said doctor.
We really need to teach future generations how to care
for one another.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Sure, most of these kids don't have a dad. I
don't know what the moms are up to. But if
you talk to the moms, they'll say, no, my baby
boy is wonderful. You have extremely dysfunctional I wouldn't even
call them parents because again, I don't think most of
(30:27):
these people have dads. Extremely dysfunctional neighborhoods A thousand. You
ended up with a thousand people willing to riot all
at the same time. Well, that that's a deep seated
problem that you know, over in an entire region that's increasing,
(30:53):
and and police are defunded. And Karen Bass all she
can do is that is pretend she's indignant. She was
really upset. She wouldn't be defunding the police further and
she is, and defunding the fire department further.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
And she is.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
But hey, that's what the people wanted. Oh, all right,
when we come back, Well I'm not coming back till tomorrow.
Conway is going to be here though, And Michael Kurzer
has the news live in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Cobalt Show podcast. You
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