February 13, 2025 • 36 mins
In the first hour of today's episode of Ryan Schuiling Live, Ryan looks at the concerning news out of Cherry Creek Public School Disttrict and JeffCo School District.
Molly Lamar, a teacher in the Cherry Creek Public Schools, reveals fear-mongering by the superintendent on potential ICE deportations of immigrant students. She separates fact from fiction, emotion from reason with Ryan.
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Molly Lamar, a teacher in the Cherry Creek Public Schools, reveals fear-mongering by the superintendent on potential ICE deportations of immigrant students. She separates fact from fiction, emotion from reason with Ryan.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Parents in Jefferson County are demanding action after shocking revelations
about the hiring and oversight failures.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
In local schools.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Jeff Coo Kids First, a parent led group, sent a
letter to the superintendent and school board urging immediate reforms
to protect students.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The letter highlights.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Disturbing cases, including a middle school liaison with an active
warrant who was later arrested for allegedly molesting students.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And a teacher who.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Resigned due to misconduct but was rehired at another school
without proper betting. In another case, a social worker was
accused of sexual assault and remained employed despite the complaints.
These failures are a part of a growing crisis in Colorado,
where teacher arrests for sexual crimes arising at an alarming rate.
(00:45):
High profile cases, including former jeff Coost Schools chief David
Weiss's arrest for multiple counts of sexual misconduct with miners,
have exposed.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Major gaps in background checks.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And accountability for teachers and staff. Parents and lawmakers are
calling for stricter hiring practices, improved reporting systems, and stronger oversight.
Some proposals include mandatory psychological evaluations for teachers, enhanced training
on professional boundaries, and closer collaboration between schools and law enforcement.
(01:17):
A public board meeting is scheduled for Tomorrow, Thursday, February thirteenth,
at five o'clock in Golden and their parents can voice
their concerns. The meeting is also available virtually. The link
to participate can be found on the Jeffcoe Public School's
website or in an article we just published on Rocky
Mountain Voice about this whole situation.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
That's our good friend, Heidi Ganall, and I thought she
summed it up quite well there on X where a
lot of this storm had been brewing. And now things
that we have been discussing on this very program with
guests like Jimmy Sangenberger and Lindsay Datco are finally coming
to light on a national scale, as Chaiya Riicheck of
(01:59):
Lib's of TikTok has shined an even brighter light on
the malfeasance going on in Jefferson County public schools. Here
in Ryan, Schuling live Glad to have Zach Segers alongside.
You can text us at five seven seven thirty nine.
If you have children or know somebody who has children
in the Jeffcoe Public Schools. I want to hear from you,
(02:22):
and even if you don't, I want to hear from
you if you have kids, if you care about kids.
This is a very important issue to me as somebody
who was a kid, somebody who has two nieces, somebody
who's been a camp counselor somebody who's been a coach,
somebody who's been a teacher, somebody who's been a graduate assistant,
(02:44):
college professor. That we take care of our young people
should be paramount and go without saying, but the jeff
Coe Public Schools are more interested in indoctrinating children with
DEI and and affirmative action and woke in doctrinations, and
(03:06):
also hiring along those lines, being obstinate and hiring along
those lines, not being an ally to parents but instead
serving as a barrier between parents and children, and that
we call grooming. Don't tell your parents, you can trust us.
(03:27):
There's been a lot of nebulous language, and intentionally so,
and it's not just jeff Co Schools. As we'll discuss
throughout this program. It developed into kind of a theme
for today protecting your kids. And I say that because
as a parent of your children, they are your kids.
(03:47):
They are not our kids. A school is not a family,
and that is some of the creepy language I have
observed coming out from the superintendent at Cherry Creek Public Schools,
Christopher Smith, calling him out by name, saying that we
are a family here. No kids have their own families,
(04:09):
or they should and if they don't, then that's a tragedy.
And then other adults who are trusted figures in the
community should then step in and provide some level of
guidance and protection. But you're not protecting kids from their
own parents unless those parents are outright physically, mentally, psychologically abusive.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And that's a high bar, and it should be.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Some parents might discipline their kids a little more severely
than others, but I think up to a very high standard,
a parent has that right.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
They also have a.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Right to know what the hell is going on in
my school district where I send my kids, where I
entrust these adults to look after to to teach my children.
I'm not sending them off to be part of another family,
as Christopher Smith cites it. And we'll have a guest
(05:10):
coming up in just a little bit, Molly Lamar, and
she is a proud parent and advocate of teacher herself,
and she's the one that brought my attention to a
rather disturbing video produced by the Cherry Creek School superintendent
fear mongering and conflating illegal immigrants with legal immigrants and
(05:35):
putting out there the notion that Ice is coming to
deport all the immigrant students, regardless of status. That is false,
that is misleading, that is fear mongering, that is ratcheting
up the rhetoric, and his feelings get in the way
I think of his judgment and logic and reason. You
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have a very important and special role as an administrator,
as an educator, but you're not their family. You are
not their family. A school is not a family. They
do that intentionally because they intend to subvert the actual
family of those children, of those students, to replace that
(06:18):
family with a better family. As educators know more than
parents do, Educators feel more than parents do, Educators care
more than parents do, and that had tragic consequences for
a family in the Columbine schools of jeff Co. There
is so much ground to cover here, and I want
(06:41):
to try to go at least a little bit chronologically,
because this is an epidemic, a failure of trust in
the Jeffco Public schools. It's not limited to them, but
it's the worst there and we've been reporting on it
on this program for months now.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Lindsay Datkole joined me coming.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Up at the top of the hour, heading into hour
number two. And then finally doctor Rich Guggenheim, part of
Gays Against Groomers. He has an initiative looking to further
protections for girls and women's sports and spaces here in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
He sees that.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
There might be some cracks in the veneer of Donald
Trump's executive order along these lines that was signed a
little over a week ago. That does not extend to
the states themselves unless it's in a public school. And
there are plenty of private clubs and sports you sign
up for that are not affiliated with schools, and he's
(07:41):
concerned about that and he's doing his level best to
fight on behalf of our girls here in Colorado. Well,
you may have heard about this administrator in the Jeffco
Public school So we're going to start there. This goes
back to January second, so a little over a month ago.
Nicole Fierro, during some very solid reporting for Fox thirty
(08:02):
one KDVR Here in Denver, I'm David Weiss. Listen to
this harrowing, twisted tale.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
David Weiss took his life after being accused of possessing
child pornography. Arnicole Fierro was the first to uncover and
break this news.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
She joins us Live Now with the very latest nicle.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Hey, yeah, guys, we are learning there is a death
investigation in Maryland for David Wise. Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
telling us they were alerted by Maryland authorities yesterday January first,
as they too are investigating this man who has now
apparently taken his own life. We're told they say the
investigation continues, and they're actually giving us more specifics, saying
(08:44):
it's surrounding possessing child sexual abuse material, child pornography, to
be clear. In Jefferson County Schools an institution centered on children, you.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Never think that that's going to happen in your school district,
especially with somebody that's so elevated in a position.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Parents are disturbed to learn the chief of schools over
the whole district is now not only fired, but dead
and now being investigated for possessing child pornography.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I was emailing, you know, with other concerns I had
directly with him, even just if he was like a
month ago.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Shocked by the details, concerned for what's next.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Concerned now because there has been a debt, that they
won't receive the answers that they need and the details
that must come out so that we have a full
understanding of what really took place here from somebody who
was in the highest position of public trust.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
The term person of trust becoming disturbing to parents.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
We have asked for boundaries around that term, as it's
a huge glorification.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It's used in curriculum.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
It's used to allow children to freely develop relationships in
ways that don't have boundaries.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Another plea for parents communication from their district. They tell
us they haven't gotten any direction communication about wis at all.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
I sent emails to the board in the district begging
them to give the community and their employees, first and foremost,
some information that would help them feel at ease, to
help them feel that they are in charge, that they
understand this is going to shake up this school community,
the entire community, and that they are on top of it,
(10:23):
that they will take it seriously and they refuse to answer,
and his silence is.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Deafening, particularly around the nature of the investigation.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
This person had a great deal of influence on past
investigations that have to do with grooming and sexual abuse
in our schools.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, so I personally sent three emails to the district
today asking them for one a statement around his death too.
Why parents were notified weeks after the termination of this
man December nineteenth to no, how our stations with reaching
out since then too? We're told just before five o'clock parents, now, finally,
do you have any email giving some detailed sun inclination
(11:03):
news to what's going on? Of course they want a
lot more and we are following anything more. SHARE's office
telling us they're looking to the who, what, where, when,
why around this alleged child pornography investigation. Anything happens, we'll
let you know.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Of course, sunlight must drive out darkness, and especially in
our schools where our most vulnerable, the children of our country,
of our state, of our school districts are intrusted in
the care of these adults. Why did information have to
trickle out from Jeffco Public schools? Why were they not
upfront transparent, get ahead of the story, say hey, look
(11:39):
this happened. It's terrible. He's been terminated, David Weiss. But no,
they had been cajoled into providing this information as how
do you and all pointed out in the audio that
I shared to start this show, there will be a
meeting tonight in Golden for Jeffco Public Schools where the
public is welcome to attend and to voice their concerns.
(12:01):
And I would strongly suggest that, obviously, peacefully, anybody who
lives in that district, who has children in that district,
who pays taxes in that district, would attend that meeting
and voice your concerns, not only over this epidemic of incidents,
This is not an isolated incident, David Weiss, far from it,
but how it's being addressed, or rather more importantly, how
(12:24):
it's not being addressed by jeff Co Public Schools. They
are not putting their foot down, They are not making
a declaration that they are going to protect children at
all costs. Now, they're going to do just the bare
minimum and claim that they care more about their kids
than you do it. They don't. This is Marxist philosophy
that the state can replace the family. The state can
(12:46):
replace religion. Remember this part of what you just heard.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
It's a huge glorification. It's used in curriculum. It's used
to allow children to freely develop relationships in ways that
don't have boundaries.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
So that was.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Becoming disturbing to parents.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
We have asked for boundaries around that term.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Good terms, the term person of trust, becoming the.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Person of trust, it's rather opaque and vague and odd
and strange and weird. A person of trust a pillar
of the community. That's a term I heard a lot.
And again, one of the reasons I'm so passionate about
this issue is having covered the entire Larry Nasser abuse
scandal at ground zero from day one, and talking to
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all those families and talking to all of those girls
who were victims. They numbered in the dozens, if not hundreds,
And Larry Nasser was protected and empowered by an establishment
that would rather do that than let this bad publicity
come cascading out that would reflect.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Poorly upon them.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
So rather than do the right thing, they did what
they felt was the most prudent thing. We just try
to sweep it under the rug and try to bury
it and try to pretend it didn't happen and let
it'll just go away.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Cannot do that. Cannot do that. Then there was this story.
So that was January two.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
This from just a couple of days ago, and update
on the story that we first covered here. Teacher had
sexual relationship with special needs student. This isn't Jeff co
asked him to bring a gun to school to shoot
a colleague. A twisted Colorado teacher this is from the
New York Post who started a sick relationship with a
(14:35):
special need student, sent thousands of messages to him, ordered
the child to bring a gun to class to shoot
her colleague, and introduced him to fentanyl. Prosecutors say her name,
imagine Kay, You were a para professional busted after officials
noticed her obvious favoritism toward a sixteen year old boy.
According to the First Judicial District Attorney's Office in Lakewood.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Colorado, you were twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
She showed an unhealthy interest in her student that was
noticed almost immediately after she started working at Brady Exploration
School in August of twenty twenty three. The DA's office
investigation revealed in November of that year.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Twenty twenty three, after the.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Boy hinted at an improper relationship with you or in
a classroom assignment that another teacher saw. Authorities at the
school contacted the Lakewood Police Department. They soon uncovered evidence
of a disturbing sexual relationship between the pair, including explicit
text messages and signs that drugs, guns, and alcohol had
been introduced. Per prosecutors, thousands upon thousands upon thousands of
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messages were sent by you or to her student and
vice versa with references to many sexual encounters. According to prosecutors,
you were introduced the teenager to illegal and deadly drugs,
including fentanyl. First Judicial District Attorney's Office Special Victims Prosecutor
Brinn Chase told her sentencing hearing she also attempted to
get the boy to bring a gun to their sexual encounters,
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as well as shoot a fellow faculty member in their school.
The sentencing hearing heard, you were told the boy quote
to bring the gun to school and shoot another faculty
member in the leg, Chase said at the hearing. Speaking
at the hearing on January thirty one, the boy's mother
spoke of yours painful betrayal of herself and her vulnerable son.
The DA said she said you were in preyed on
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her son and led him to believe she genuinely cared
for him, all while exploiting him for money and manipulating
him into thinking he was the one, said the mother.
What makes this even more painful, she continued, is that
I trusted the defendant. You were a sentenced to four
years in jail on January thirty one after pleading guilty
last November to sexual assault on a child and contributing
(16:45):
to the delinquency of a minor, both felonies, a month
before her trial was due to start. In exchange for
her guilty plea, prosecutors dismissed three other.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Felony accounts in one misdemeanor.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
She also faces at least ten years of sexual offender probation,
which could be a life sentence depending on her success
with a sex offender treatment program. You were apologized to
her victim's family in court as she stood before the judge.
I'm really sorry. This will never happen again. That's a
daylight night dollar short.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Now.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Paraprofessionals, as this imagine ky Ewer was, are paid to
provide classroom management and additional instruction to a licensed teacher.
The question is why does this keep happening in Jeffco
Public schools?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
How do these hires slip through the cracks?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Or is there not a viable enough vetting process to
spot these red flags and problems in the first place,
Because I can't imagine the Jeffco Schools is just so
cursed that they happen to have all these absolutely Banana's
employees coming to apply in that school system.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
An administrator, as we heard.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Toward the beginning, David Weiss caught with child pornography a
parapro here, imagine ky Ewer taking advantage of a special
need student developing a sexual relationship with him, telling him
to bring a gun to school. These are just two
of many cases, and you're going to hear about another
one coming up in hour number two right out of
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Columbine High School, and it's finally getting local and national
media coverage outside of this program. CBS four Colorado Sean Boyd,
the best reporter in town for my money, tells the
story and you'll hear it here a little over half
an hour from right now, that a female faculty member
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conspired with counselors at Columbine High School to declare a
female student homeless even though she wasn't. They simply took
her word for it. They did not confer with the parents.
They did not consult with the parents. They kept this
secret from the parents. They did this with the nefarious
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motive by the female teacher, who has since been terminated.
So the female student, under age, I might add, could
move in with the female teacher, live cohabitate in the
same residents as the female teacher.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
This is out of control.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Jefferson County schools is off the rails, and I don't
know what more it's going to take before law enforcement
or Child Protective Services or somebody in the federal government
comes in and shuts them down a time out. We
got much more to get to Cherry Creek Schools. Some
craziness going on there too. Next on Ryan Schuling Life.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
We've had training with our security guards, our office managers,
community liaisons, nurses, before and aftercare employees on just in
case what happens if ice does come into our buildings,
what is the process and procedures that we do with that.
We call legal to make sure they have the official
documentation that they need. Student rights are extremely important and we.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Don't take that lightly.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
The second thing that's attached to this video is a
link that has know your Rights videos, community resources, mental
health resources. Because it's not just the students who are
struggling worrying if their families are going to be deported.
It's also their friends who are worried about their friends.
It's also you if you need help, if you're struggling
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with mental health.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I need you to get what.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
You need so that you can support the students in
your classroom or the students that ride your bus. Thank
you again for being part of the Cherry Creek family,
and I hope you have a great week.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
That is Christopher Smith, the superintendent of Cherry Creek Public Schools,
posting a video on immigration fear mongering about ice deportations
that could come to their schools, enter their buildings and
simply drag children away. He does not delineate between children
who are here with legal immigration status or families that
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might be here illegally. It's a totally different part of
the conversation. But should illegal immigrants the children of illegal
immigrants be allowed to attend public schools on our taxpayer
dime when they're not contributing to the funding of those schools.
They should just be able to come here with their
hands out collect social security. We're finding that out with
(21:24):
the Doze investigations, attend publicly funded schools without contributing anything
themselves directly. I would argue no, but he doesn't even
draw the line between those who are immigrants who may
be here perfectly legally, and trying to stoke the flames
of fear that ow iis might deport you too if
you don't have proper documentation. Listen, if there is documentation
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authorization that these kids and their families could produce, they're
here legally.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
That's the distinction right there.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
And we start this conversation really at the end, this
creepy part that I cannot get over, I cannot get past.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Thank you again for being part of the Cherry Creek family,
and I hope you have a great week.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Not a family that is deceptive and blurring language between
the lines of what the family is for the kid
and what the school is for the kid. School is
not the family, but he would have you believe otherwise.
And somebody who's standing up against that and really making
a lot of this public and I appreciate her time
and her efforts along these lines. You can follow her
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on x at Molly for COEO Kids. It's Molly Lamar.
She's a mom, she's a teacher, she's a parent advocate,
thankfully fighting for the rights of parents and their students,
their students.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
She joined us on Ryan Schuling Live. Molly.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
Welcome, Hi Ryan, Thanks for having me on now.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
You posted this video and I watched the entire thing.
It's longer, it's about five minutes long, and I just
pulled the most pertinent parts as I saw.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Them in that clip. But overall, what was your reaction
to that video when you first saw it?
Speaker 9 (22:55):
Well, thanks for kind of giving a description of my experience.
And I also happened to be a former teacher in
a Title I school where ninety five percent of my
students were Native Spanish speaking, and we had many of
the students in my classroom were children of illegal immigrants,
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so I actually have a lot of knowledge and experience
with the subject. My biggest concern when listening to that
video with mister Smith is the unnecessary funds going towards
program or you know, a contract with this consulting firm
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which claims to help and support families with potential mass deportations.
I think it's important for listeners to know that students
are already protected under the law regardless of their immigration status.
So you know, you have Plilor Vdo, which is a
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nineteen eighty two Supreme Court ruling that stay states can't
deny children of illegal immigrants access to free public education.
I mean, if you're a kid in the US, regardless
of your immigration status, you have a right to be
in school.
Speaker 10 (24:14):
And then we also.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
Have the Fourth Amendment, which guards against unreasonable search and seizure. Basically,
law enforcement can't just show up and start searching students
and removing them. And then finally you have the FURPA,
which is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which
prohibits schools from providing information such as immigration status to
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federal agents. So in other words, a teacher can't just
call Ice and say, hey, there's this undocumented student, come
get up. That's against the law. So why is all
of that important to know? Because this program, this contract
isn't necessary And in education, every dollar is precious and
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taxpayers that you know, there is no government money, it's
all hard earned taxpayer money that needs to be spent wisely.
And we don't need to be funding unnecessary programs. You know,
I think there are two parts to this conversation if
we want to, as you opened up, talking about should
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illegal immigrant children be in schools is a separate conversation,
right than what this is, at least for me, what
this is about, and that is unnecessary, unnecessarily spending dollars
with programs that we don't.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Need for those that are not in the Cherry Creek
School District, and I happen to be I reside there,
living in Greenwood Village. You've described to me, at least
in our previous conversations about Christopher Smith, and that he's
largely governed by his emotions. He will frequently cry in
these meetings. This video even he appeared to be kind
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of on the verge of tears of itself. But more
concerning than that to me is that he kind of
cherry picks maybe a political issue of the week and
chooses to capitalize on that and give it a platform
in these videos that he's sending to those who are
in the Cherry Creek School district. Can you kind of
give us more a handle on Christopher Smith, his leadership
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as the superintendent and what direction Cherry Creek schools are
heading in.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Well.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
I think leadership is important, and especially after a pandemic
where all children were affected and negatively affected, it's really
important for leadership to lift up the entire community, not
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use divisive language, and not strike when the opportunity presents
itself to politicize current events our children are watching. I
highlighted something very positive that I think Cherry Creek High
School has done recently. You know, they just started a
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Turning Point USA chapter at Greek. How refreshing with all
of this negative, divisive language that keeps coming out of
you know, the district to have this chapter that, you know,
whether you agree with it or not. Turning Point USA
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is an established organization that helps kids learn to think critically.
It's not teaching them what to think or how to think,
but how to think critically for themselves. And I find
it increasingly frustrated when the leadership of the district is
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politicizing education.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Molly lamar Our guests she's on Exit Molly for COO kids,
and she's doing her level best to bring awareness to
issues that arise in school districts like Cherry Creek Public Schools.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
A lot of these are echo chambers.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
There's not a lot of voices like yours or mind
Molly from the right that are permeating through the walls
of these schools. Is a check and balance going wait
a minute, this might be crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
My broader question, and this is an observation I've made
about Jeffco Public schools, which is in an infinitely worse shape.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I think you and I would both agree on that.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
But this misplaced notion, this misplaced sense of self righteousness
from administrators, school staff, teachers, they're very important, but that
they can stand in or stand in the way of
parents looking out for the best interest of their sons
and daughters. And what makes them feel like they're empowered
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or entitled to do that, to carry on some kind
of relationship with a student that might be separate or
secret from the parents.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
It's a sentiment that I hear frequently from parents. I
just can't wait until my children are out of school,
and Ryan, I find that to be so sad and disheartening.
Our children are only children once they have one childhood,
and to use them as political ponds for these leftist
(29:42):
agendas that really have no place in our classrooms. It's
sad and it's wrong.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
She's one of the good voices.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
Yeah, I sincerely hope that parents. The best thing that
I think they can do is show up, be in
the classroom, volunteer, be in the hallway, get to know
your teachers.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Be involved.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Such key advice there from somebody who has worked in
education herself and is looking out for kids in the
Cherry Creek School District and throughout Colorado. You can follow
her on ex at Molly for Coeo Kids, Molly Lamar
our guest, Molly, thank you so much for your time,
for all you're doing, and I look forward to many
more conversations.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
Likewise, Thanks Brian, have a great day, you too your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Five seven, seven, three nine, We come back another edition
and another installment of Trump's Hot Takes, and still to
come the CBS for Colorado bombshell story on another egregious
example of abuse by those entrusted to protect our kids
at Columbine High School. We'll talk about that with Lindsay
(30:47):
datkoa chef co Kids first coming up. Just after the
top of the hour, Ryan Shielding Live rolls on. After this,
it's time once again for another is of Trump's hot
takes turning the forty seven president's epic interactions with the
fake news media.
Speaker 11 (31:06):
I believe that, yeah, I believe that he would like
to see something happen.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I trust them on this subject.
Speaker 12 (31:13):
I think he'd like to see something happen. I think
it could have happened a long time ago. I think
Biden number one, it shouldn't have started, but it did.
And now all those cities are knocked down like demolition sites.
All those beautiful golden towers are knocked down. There's nothing
going to replace them. But much more importantly, you lost
millions of people. A lot of soldiers, but you lost
(31:35):
millions of people when they knocked down those cities. And
they're all laying down on the side. They're laying down,
just in.
Speaker 11 (31:42):
Ashes and all crumbled up concrete. They literally look like
a world class demolition site. And many of them, almost
all of them, but many of them. And this should
have been done by Biden years ago. This should have
never been allowed to happen. I know he's a friend
of yours, He's.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
A friend of CNN. That's why nobody wants you CNN anymore,
because they have no credibility to Okay.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Who else, Yes, just totally trash his CNN to Caitlyn
Collins's face, and then okay, who else?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Moving on President Trump?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Another hot take there, and we'll have one more for
you concluding the show in our number two back here
and Ryan Schulding live your text five seven seven three nine, Ryan,
do students' rights Trump federal law news?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
To me? What is Chris Smith talking about? It's a
valid question, and I don't say this lightly.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I really value my conversation with Molly Lamara a moment ago,
and I understand the sentiment, the sympathy that you would
have for a young child here illegally and should they
have the right to go to school?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
That goes to this Texas point.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Ryan, I'm so annoyed by your conversation about illegal aliens
children having a right to education in our schools. How
come there isn't a concern about the quality of our
children's education who are citizens of our country. Well, that
might go to a point that Donald Trump made earlier today,
the President on whether or not the Department of Education
should be shut down.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
All Department of Education is closed.
Speaker 10 (33:13):
Oh, I'd like it to be close immediately. Look, the
Department of Education is a big conjob. We're ranked so
they ranked the top forty countries in the world. We're
ranked number fortieth, but we're ranked number one in one
department costs per pupil, so we spend more for pupil
than any other country in the world. But we're ranked
number forty. We've been between thirty eight and forty. The
(33:35):
last time I looked it was thirty eight, and then
I looked two days ago it came out the new list.
It came out at number forty. So we're ranked forty. Norway, Denmark, Sweden,
I hate to say it. China as big as it is,
it's ranked in the top five, and that's our that's
a primary competitor. We're ranked number forty.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
And you see what Trump is doing there, how he thinks,
where's the return on investment here? Number one in spending
dollars per pupil, number forty in terms of.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Educational performance by our students. Where's the money going? What
is it doing?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
What good has the Department of Education done other than
serve as a money laundering front for democrats and the
teachers' unions. There are not many, if any, in leadership
positions there with the unions, Randy Weingarten, the whole kitten kaboodle,
who are anything but operatives of the Democratic Party. So
why should we have a federal agency funding that, I
(34:29):
would say we shouldn't you know? I always go back
to the story of my own mother, who I'm very
proud of her and may she rest in peace.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
She was a Serbian immigrants child. She came here at
the age of two.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
She knew not a word of English when she walked
into kindergarten in River Rouge, Michigan. She had a wonderful
kindergarten teacher helped her learn English. Help my mom teach
her mom English. It was not spoken in the home.
My mom ended up skipping a grade at River Rouge schools.
That's how smart she was. But she was not cursed
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by parents who brought her here illegally. My Baba, my grandmother,
went through the proper channels, got a sponsor, her aunt,
who lived an e course, got a job upstairs living
with said aunt in this country, who vouched for my grandmother,
who sponsored her. My Baba became an American citizen. She
worked very hard to do things the right way. And
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my mom was a little immigrant child, a legal immigrant child.
Now I understand the sentiment of well, you don't want
to blame the kids. Yeah, but it's not our fault either,
American citizens, the American government. It's the parent's responsibility to
come here correctly and legally. If they don't do that,
that's tough, But it's their fault, and their kids had
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nobody to blame but their own parents for bringing them
here under false pretenses. That's my whole point here. Come
here legally, do it the right way, or go back
and try again. Lindsay, dad, go next. More trouble than
jeff Coe Public schools
Parents in Jefferson County are demanding action after shocking revelations
about the hiring and oversight failures.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
In local schools.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Jeff Coo Kids First, a parent led group, sent a
letter to the superintendent and school board urging immediate reforms
to protect students.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The letter highlights.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Disturbing cases, including a middle school liaison with an active
warrant who was later arrested for allegedly molesting students.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And a teacher who.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Resigned due to misconduct but was rehired at another school
without proper betting. In another case, a social worker was
accused of sexual assault and remained employed despite the complaints.
These failures are a part of a growing crisis in Colorado,
where teacher arrests for sexual crimes arising at an alarming rate.
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High profile cases, including former jeff Coost Schools chief David
Weiss's arrest for multiple counts of sexual misconduct with miners,
have exposed.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Major gaps in background checks.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And accountability for teachers and staff. Parents and lawmakers are
calling for stricter hiring practices, improved reporting systems, and stronger oversight.
Some proposals include mandatory psychological evaluations for teachers, enhanced training
on professional boundaries, and closer collaboration between schools and law enforcement.
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A public board meeting is scheduled for Tomorrow, Thursday, February thirteenth,
at five o'clock in Golden and their parents can voice
their concerns. The meeting is also available virtually. The link
to participate can be found on the Jeffcoe Public School's
website or in an article we just published on Rocky
Mountain Voice about this whole situation.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
That's our good friend, Heidi Ganall, and I thought she
summed it up quite well there on X where a
lot of this storm had been brewing. And now things
that we have been discussing on this very program with
guests like Jimmy Sangenberger and Lindsay Datco are finally coming
to light on a national scale, as Chaiya Riicheck of
(01:59):
Lib's of TikTok has shined an even brighter light on
the malfeasance going on in Jefferson County public schools. Here
in Ryan, Schuling live Glad to have Zach Segers alongside.
You can text us at five seven seven thirty nine.
If you have children or know somebody who has children
in the Jeffcoe Public Schools. I want to hear from you,
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and even if you don't, I want to hear from
you if you have kids, if you care about kids.
This is a very important issue to me as somebody
who was a kid, somebody who has two nieces, somebody
who's been a camp counselor somebody who's been a coach,
somebody who's been a teacher, somebody who's been a graduate assistant,
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college professor. That we take care of our young people
should be paramount and go without saying, but the jeff
Coe Public Schools are more interested in indoctrinating children with
DEI and and affirmative action and woke in doctrinations, and
(03:06):
also hiring along those lines, being obstinate and hiring along
those lines, not being an ally to parents but instead
serving as a barrier between parents and children, and that
we call grooming. Don't tell your parents, you can trust us.
(03:27):
There's been a lot of nebulous language, and intentionally so,
and it's not just jeff Co Schools. As we'll discuss
throughout this program. It developed into kind of a theme
for today protecting your kids. And I say that because
as a parent of your children, they are your kids.
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They are not our kids. A school is not a family,
and that is some of the creepy language I have
observed coming out from the superintendent at Cherry Creek Public Schools,
Christopher Smith, calling him out by name, saying that we
are a family here. No kids have their own families,
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or they should and if they don't, then that's a tragedy.
And then other adults who are trusted figures in the
community should then step in and provide some level of
guidance and protection. But you're not protecting kids from their
own parents unless those parents are outright physically, mentally, psychologically abusive.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
And that's a high bar, and it should be.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Some parents might discipline their kids a little more severely
than others, but I think up to a very high standard,
a parent has that right.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
They also have a.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Right to know what the hell is going on in
my school district where I send my kids, where I
entrust these adults to look after to to teach my children.
I'm not sending them off to be part of another family,
as Christopher Smith cites it. And we'll have a guest
(05:10):
coming up in just a little bit, Molly Lamar, and
she is a proud parent and advocate of teacher herself,
and she's the one that brought my attention to a
rather disturbing video produced by the Cherry Creek School superintendent
fear mongering and conflating illegal immigrants with legal immigrants and
(05:35):
putting out there the notion that Ice is coming to
deport all the immigrant students, regardless of status. That is false,
that is misleading, that is fear mongering, that is ratcheting
up the rhetoric, and his feelings get in the way
I think of his judgment and logic and reason. You
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have a very important and special role as an administrator,
as an educator, but you're not their family. You are
not their family. A school is not a family. They
do that intentionally because they intend to subvert the actual
family of those children, of those students, to replace that
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family with a better family. As educators know more than
parents do, Educators feel more than parents do, Educators care
more than parents do, and that had tragic consequences for
a family in the Columbine schools of jeff Co. There
is so much ground to cover here, and I want
(06:41):
to try to go at least a little bit chronologically,
because this is an epidemic, a failure of trust in
the Jeffco Public schools. It's not limited to them, but
it's the worst there and we've been reporting on it
on this program for months now.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Lindsay Datkole joined me coming.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Up at the top of the hour, heading into hour
number two. And then finally doctor Rich Guggenheim, part of
Gays Against Groomers. He has an initiative looking to further
protections for girls and women's sports and spaces here in Colorado.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
He sees that.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
There might be some cracks in the veneer of Donald
Trump's executive order along these lines that was signed a
little over a week ago. That does not extend to
the states themselves unless it's in a public school. And
there are plenty of private clubs and sports you sign
up for that are not affiliated with schools, and he's
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concerned about that and he's doing his level best to
fight on behalf of our girls here in Colorado. Well,
you may have heard about this administrator in the Jeffco
Public school So we're going to start there. This goes
back to January second, so a little over a month ago.
Nicole Fierro, during some very solid reporting for Fox thirty
(08:02):
one KDVR Here in Denver, I'm David Weiss. Listen to
this harrowing, twisted tale.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
David Weiss took his life after being accused of possessing
child pornography. Arnicole Fierro was the first to uncover and
break this news.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
She joins us Live Now with the very latest nicle.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Hey, yeah, guys, we are learning there is a death
investigation in Maryland for David Wise. Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
telling us they were alerted by Maryland authorities yesterday January first,
as they too are investigating this man who has now
apparently taken his own life. We're told they say the
investigation continues, and they're actually giving us more specifics, saying
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it's surrounding possessing child sexual abuse material, child pornography, to
be clear. In Jefferson County Schools an institution centered on children, you.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Never think that that's going to happen in your school district,
especially with somebody that's so elevated in a position.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Parents are disturbed to learn the chief of schools over
the whole district is now not only fired, but dead
and now being investigated for possessing child pornography.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I was emailing, you know, with other concerns I had
directly with him, even just if he was like a
month ago.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Shocked by the details, concerned for what's next.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
Concerned now because there has been a debt, that they
won't receive the answers that they need and the details
that must come out so that we have a full
understanding of what really took place here from somebody who
was in the highest position of public trust.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
The term person of trust becoming disturbing to parents.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
We have asked for boundaries around that term, as it's
a huge glorification.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It's used in curriculum.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
It's used to allow children to freely develop relationships in
ways that don't have boundaries.
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Another plea for parents communication from their district. They tell
us they haven't gotten any direction communication about wis at all.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
I sent emails to the board in the district begging
them to give the community and their employees, first and foremost,
some information that would help them feel at ease, to
help them feel that they are in charge, that they
understand this is going to shake up this school community,
the entire community, and that they are on top of it,
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that they will take it seriously and they refuse to answer,
and his silence is.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Deafening, particularly around the nature of the investigation.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
This person had a great deal of influence on past
investigations that have to do with grooming and sexual abuse
in our schools.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
Yeah, so I personally sent three emails to the district
today asking them for one a statement around his death too.
Why parents were notified weeks after the termination of this
man December nineteenth to no, how our stations with reaching
out since then too? We're told just before five o'clock parents, now, finally,
do you have any email giving some detailed sun inclination
(11:03):
news to what's going on? Of course they want a
lot more and we are following anything more. SHARE's office
telling us they're looking to the who, what, where, when,
why around this alleged child pornography investigation. Anything happens, we'll
let you know.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Of course, sunlight must drive out darkness, and especially in
our schools where our most vulnerable, the children of our country,
of our state, of our school districts are intrusted in
the care of these adults. Why did information have to
trickle out from Jeffco Public schools? Why were they not
upfront transparent, get ahead of the story, say hey, look
(11:39):
this happened. It's terrible. He's been terminated, David Weiss. But no,
they had been cajoled into providing this information as how
do you and all pointed out in the audio that
I shared to start this show, there will be a
meeting tonight in Golden for Jeffco Public Schools where the
public is welcome to attend and to voice their concerns.
(12:01):
And I would strongly suggest that, obviously, peacefully, anybody who
lives in that district, who has children in that district,
who pays taxes in that district, would attend that meeting
and voice your concerns, not only over this epidemic of incidents,
This is not an isolated incident, David Weiss, far from it,
but how it's being addressed, or rather more importantly, how
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it's not being addressed by jeff Co Public Schools. They
are not putting their foot down, They are not making
a declaration that they are going to protect children at
all costs. Now, they're going to do just the bare
minimum and claim that they care more about their kids
than you do it. They don't. This is Marxist philosophy
that the state can replace the family. The state can
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replace religion. Remember this part of what you just heard.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
It's a huge glorification. It's used in curriculum. It's used
to allow children to freely develop relationships in ways that
don't have boundaries.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
So that was.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Becoming disturbing to parents.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
We have asked for boundaries around that term.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Good terms, the term person of trust, becoming the.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Person of trust, it's rather opaque and vague and odd
and strange and weird. A person of trust a pillar
of the community. That's a term I heard a lot.
And again, one of the reasons I'm so passionate about
this issue is having covered the entire Larry Nasser abuse
scandal at ground zero from day one, and talking to
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all those families and talking to all of those girls
who were victims. They numbered in the dozens, if not hundreds,
And Larry Nasser was protected and empowered by an establishment
that would rather do that than let this bad publicity
come cascading out that would reflect.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Poorly upon them.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
So rather than do the right thing, they did what
they felt was the most prudent thing. We just try
to sweep it under the rug and try to bury
it and try to pretend it didn't happen and let
it'll just go away.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Cannot do that. Cannot do that. Then there was this story.
So that was January two.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
This from just a couple of days ago, and update
on the story that we first covered here. Teacher had
sexual relationship with special needs student. This isn't Jeff co
asked him to bring a gun to school to shoot
a colleague. A twisted Colorado teacher this is from the
New York Post who started a sick relationship with a
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special need student, sent thousands of messages to him, ordered
the child to bring a gun to class to shoot
her colleague, and introduced him to fentanyl. Prosecutors say her name,
imagine Kay, You were a para professional busted after officials
noticed her obvious favoritism toward a sixteen year old boy.
According to the First Judicial District Attorney's Office in Lakewood.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Colorado, you were twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
She showed an unhealthy interest in her student that was
noticed almost immediately after she started working at Brady Exploration
School in August of twenty twenty three. The DA's office
investigation revealed in November of that year.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Twenty twenty three, after the.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Boy hinted at an improper relationship with you or in
a classroom assignment that another teacher saw. Authorities at the
school contacted the Lakewood Police Department. They soon uncovered evidence
of a disturbing sexual relationship between the pair, including explicit
text messages and signs that drugs, guns, and alcohol had
been introduced. Per prosecutors, thousands upon thousands upon thousands of
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messages were sent by you or to her student and
vice versa with references to many sexual encounters. According to prosecutors,
you were introduced the teenager to illegal and deadly drugs,
including fentanyl. First Judicial District Attorney's Office Special Victims Prosecutor
Brinn Chase told her sentencing hearing she also attempted to
get the boy to bring a gun to their sexual encounters,
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as well as shoot a fellow faculty member in their school.
The sentencing hearing heard, you were told the boy quote
to bring the gun to school and shoot another faculty
member in the leg, Chase said at the hearing. Speaking
at the hearing on January thirty one, the boy's mother
spoke of yours painful betrayal of herself and her vulnerable son.
The DA said she said you were in preyed on
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her son and led him to believe she genuinely cared
for him, all while exploiting him for money and manipulating
him into thinking he was the one, said the mother.
What makes this even more painful, she continued, is that
I trusted the defendant. You were a sentenced to four
years in jail on January thirty one after pleading guilty
last November to sexual assault on a child and contributing
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to the delinquency of a minor, both felonies, a month
before her trial was due to start. In exchange for
her guilty plea, prosecutors dismissed three other.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Felony accounts in one misdemeanor.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
She also faces at least ten years of sexual offender probation,
which could be a life sentence depending on her success
with a sex offender treatment program. You were apologized to
her victim's family in court as she stood before the judge.
I'm really sorry. This will never happen again. That's a
daylight night dollar short.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Now.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Paraprofessionals, as this imagine ky Ewer was, are paid to
provide classroom management and additional instruction to a licensed teacher.
The question is why does this keep happening in Jeffco
Public schools?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
How do these hires slip through the cracks?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Or is there not a viable enough vetting process to
spot these red flags and problems in the first place,
Because I can't imagine the Jeffco Schools is just so
cursed that they happen to have all these absolutely Banana's
employees coming to apply in that school system.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
An administrator, as we heard.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Toward the beginning, David Weiss caught with child pornography a
parapro here, imagine ky Ewer taking advantage of a special
need student developing a sexual relationship with him, telling him
to bring a gun to school. These are just two
of many cases, and you're going to hear about another
one coming up in hour number two right out of
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Columbine High School, and it's finally getting local and national
media coverage outside of this program. CBS four Colorado Sean Boyd,
the best reporter in town for my money, tells the
story and you'll hear it here a little over half
an hour from right now, that a female faculty member
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conspired with counselors at Columbine High School to declare a
female student homeless even though she wasn't. They simply took
her word for it. They did not confer with the parents.
They did not consult with the parents. They kept this
secret from the parents. They did this with the nefarious
(18:56):
motive by the female teacher, who has since been terminated.
So the female student, under age, I might add, could
move in with the female teacher, live cohabitate in the
same residents as the female teacher.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
This is out of control.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
Jefferson County schools is off the rails, and I don't
know what more it's going to take before law enforcement
or Child Protective Services or somebody in the federal government
comes in and shuts them down a time out. We
got much more to get to Cherry Creek Schools. Some
craziness going on there too. Next on Ryan Schuling Life.
Speaker 8 (19:39):
We've had training with our security guards, our office managers,
community liaisons, nurses, before and aftercare employees on just in
case what happens if ice does come into our buildings,
what is the process and procedures that we do with that.
We call legal to make sure they have the official
documentation that they need. Student rights are extremely important and we.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Don't take that lightly.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
The second thing that's attached to this video is a
link that has know your Rights videos, community resources, mental
health resources. Because it's not just the students who are
struggling worrying if their families are going to be deported.
It's also their friends who are worried about their friends.
It's also you if you need help, if you're struggling
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with mental health.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
I need you to get what.
Speaker 8 (20:29):
You need so that you can support the students in
your classroom or the students that ride your bus. Thank
you again for being part of the Cherry Creek family,
and I hope you have a great week.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
That is Christopher Smith, the superintendent of Cherry Creek Public Schools,
posting a video on immigration fear mongering about ice deportations
that could come to their schools, enter their buildings and
simply drag children away. He does not delineate between children
who are here with legal immigration status or families that
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might be here illegally. It's a totally different part of
the conversation. But should illegal immigrants the children of illegal
immigrants be allowed to attend public schools on our taxpayer
dime when they're not contributing to the funding of those schools.
They should just be able to come here with their
hands out collect social security. We're finding that out with
(21:24):
the Doze investigations, attend publicly funded schools without contributing anything
themselves directly. I would argue no, but he doesn't even
draw the line between those who are immigrants who may
be here perfectly legally, and trying to stoke the flames
of fear that ow iis might deport you too if
you don't have proper documentation. Listen, if there is documentation
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authorization that these kids and their families could produce, they're
here legally.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
That's the distinction right there.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
And we start this conversation really at the end, this
creepy part that I cannot get over, I cannot get past.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Thank you again for being part of the Cherry Creek family,
and I hope you have a great week.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Not a family that is deceptive and blurring language between
the lines of what the family is for the kid
and what the school is for the kid. School is
not the family, but he would have you believe otherwise.
And somebody who's standing up against that and really making
a lot of this public and I appreciate her time
and her efforts along these lines. You can follow her
(22:24):
on x at Molly for COEO Kids. It's Molly Lamar.
She's a mom, she's a teacher, she's a parent advocate,
thankfully fighting for the rights of parents and their students,
their students.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
She joined us on Ryan Schuling Live. Molly.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
Welcome, Hi Ryan, Thanks for having me on now.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
You posted this video and I watched the entire thing.
It's longer, it's about five minutes long, and I just
pulled the most pertinent parts as I saw.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Them in that clip. But overall, what was your reaction
to that video when you first saw it?
Speaker 9 (22:55):
Well, thanks for kind of giving a description of my experience.
And I also happened to be a former teacher in
a Title I school where ninety five percent of my
students were Native Spanish speaking, and we had many of
the students in my classroom were children of illegal immigrants,
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so I actually have a lot of knowledge and experience
with the subject. My biggest concern when listening to that
video with mister Smith is the unnecessary funds going towards
program or you know, a contract with this consulting firm
(23:37):
which claims to help and support families with potential mass deportations.
I think it's important for listeners to know that students
are already protected under the law regardless of their immigration status.
So you know, you have Plilor Vdo, which is a
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nineteen eighty two Supreme Court ruling that stay states can't
deny children of illegal immigrants access to free public education.
I mean, if you're a kid in the US, regardless
of your immigration status, you have a right to be
in school.
Speaker 10 (24:14):
And then we also.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
Have the Fourth Amendment, which guards against unreasonable search and seizure. Basically,
law enforcement can't just show up and start searching students
and removing them. And then finally you have the FURPA,
which is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which
prohibits schools from providing information such as immigration status to
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federal agents. So in other words, a teacher can't just
call Ice and say, hey, there's this undocumented student, come
get up. That's against the law. So why is all
of that important to know? Because this program, this contract
isn't necessary And in education, every dollar is precious and
(25:05):
taxpayers that you know, there is no government money, it's
all hard earned taxpayer money that needs to be spent wisely.
And we don't need to be funding unnecessary programs. You know,
I think there are two parts to this conversation if
we want to, as you opened up, talking about should
(25:29):
illegal immigrant children be in schools is a separate conversation,
right than what this is, at least for me, what
this is about, and that is unnecessary, unnecessarily spending dollars
with programs that we don't.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Need for those that are not in the Cherry Creek
School District, and I happen to be I reside there,
living in Greenwood Village. You've described to me, at least
in our previous conversations about Christopher Smith, and that he's
largely governed by his emotions. He will frequently cry in
these meetings. This video even he appeared to be kind
(26:08):
of on the verge of tears of itself. But more
concerning than that to me is that he kind of
cherry picks maybe a political issue of the week and
chooses to capitalize on that and give it a platform
in these videos that he's sending to those who are
in the Cherry Creek School district. Can you kind of
give us more a handle on Christopher Smith, his leadership
(26:31):
as the superintendent and what direction Cherry Creek schools are
heading in.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Well.
Speaker 9 (26:36):
I think leadership is important, and especially after a pandemic
where all children were affected and negatively affected, it's really
important for leadership to lift up the entire community, not
(27:00):
use divisive language, and not strike when the opportunity presents
itself to politicize current events our children are watching. I
highlighted something very positive that I think Cherry Creek High
School has done recently. You know, they just started a
(27:23):
Turning Point USA chapter at Greek. How refreshing with all
of this negative, divisive language that keeps coming out of
you know, the district to have this chapter that, you know,
whether you agree with it or not. Turning Point USA
(27:45):
is an established organization that helps kids learn to think critically.
It's not teaching them what to think or how to think,
but how to think critically for themselves. And I find
it increasingly frustrated when the leadership of the district is
(28:10):
politicizing education.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Molly lamar Our guests she's on Exit Molly for COO kids,
and she's doing her level best to bring awareness to
issues that arise in school districts like Cherry Creek Public Schools.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
A lot of these are echo chambers.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
There's not a lot of voices like yours or mind
Molly from the right that are permeating through the walls
of these schools. Is a check and balance going wait
a minute, this might be crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 3 (28:36):
My broader question, and this is an observation I've made
about Jeffco Public schools, which is in an infinitely worse shape.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
I think you and I would both agree on that.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
But this misplaced notion, this misplaced sense of self righteousness
from administrators, school staff, teachers, they're very important, but that
they can stand in or stand in the way of
parents looking out for the best interest of their sons
and daughters. And what makes them feel like they're empowered
(29:04):
or entitled to do that, to carry on some kind
of relationship with a student that might be separate or
secret from the parents.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
It's a sentiment that I hear frequently from parents. I
just can't wait until my children are out of school,
and Ryan, I find that to be so sad and disheartening.
Our children are only children once they have one childhood,
and to use them as political ponds for these leftist
(29:42):
agendas that really have no place in our classrooms. It's
sad and it's wrong.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
She's one of the good voices.
Speaker 9 (29:52):
Yeah, I sincerely hope that parents. The best thing that
I think they can do is show up, be in
the classroom, volunteer, be in the hallway, get to know
your teachers.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Be involved.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Such key advice there from somebody who has worked in
education herself and is looking out for kids in the
Cherry Creek School District and throughout Colorado. You can follow
her on ex at Molly for Coeo Kids, Molly Lamar
our guest, Molly, thank you so much for your time,
for all you're doing, and I look forward to many
more conversations.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
Likewise, Thanks Brian, have a great day, you too your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Five seven, seven, three nine, We come back another edition
and another installment of Trump's Hot Takes, and still to
come the CBS for Colorado bombshell story on another egregious
example of abuse by those entrusted to protect our kids
at Columbine High School. We'll talk about that with Lindsay
(30:47):
datkoa chef co Kids first coming up. Just after the
top of the hour, Ryan Shielding Live rolls on. After this,
it's time once again for another is of Trump's hot
takes turning the forty seven president's epic interactions with the
fake news media.
Speaker 11 (31:06):
I believe that, yeah, I believe that he would like
to see something happen.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I trust them on this subject.
Speaker 12 (31:13):
I think he'd like to see something happen. I think
it could have happened a long time ago. I think
Biden number one, it shouldn't have started, but it did.
And now all those cities are knocked down like demolition sites.
All those beautiful golden towers are knocked down. There's nothing
going to replace them. But much more importantly, you lost
millions of people. A lot of soldiers, but you lost
(31:35):
millions of people when they knocked down those cities. And
they're all laying down on the side. They're laying down,
just in.
Speaker 11 (31:42):
Ashes and all crumbled up concrete. They literally look like
a world class demolition site. And many of them, almost
all of them, but many of them. And this should
have been done by Biden years ago. This should have
never been allowed to happen. I know he's a friend
of yours, He's.
Speaker 10 (32:01):
A friend of CNN. That's why nobody wants you CNN anymore,
because they have no credibility to Okay.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Who else, Yes, just totally trash his CNN to Caitlyn
Collins's face, and then okay, who else?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Moving on President Trump?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Another hot take there, and we'll have one more for
you concluding the show in our number two back here
and Ryan Schulding live your text five seven seven three nine, Ryan,
do students' rights Trump federal law news?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
To me? What is Chris Smith talking about? It's a
valid question, and I don't say this lightly.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I really value my conversation with Molly Lamara a moment ago,
and I understand the sentiment, the sympathy that you would
have for a young child here illegally and should they
have the right to go to school?
Speaker 2 (32:47):
That goes to this Texas point.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Ryan, I'm so annoyed by your conversation about illegal aliens
children having a right to education in our schools. How
come there isn't a concern about the quality of our
children's education who are citizens of our country. Well, that
might go to a point that Donald Trump made earlier today,
the President on whether or not the Department of Education
should be shut down.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
All Department of Education is closed.
Speaker 10 (33:13):
Oh, I'd like it to be close immediately. Look, the
Department of Education is a big conjob. We're ranked so
they ranked the top forty countries in the world. We're
ranked number fortieth, but we're ranked number one in one
department costs per pupil, so we spend more for pupil
than any other country in the world. But we're ranked
number forty. We've been between thirty eight and forty. The
(33:35):
last time I looked it was thirty eight, and then
I looked two days ago it came out the new list.
It came out at number forty. So we're ranked forty. Norway, Denmark, Sweden,
I hate to say it. China as big as it is,
it's ranked in the top five, and that's our that's
a primary competitor. We're ranked number forty.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
And you see what Trump is doing there, how he thinks,
where's the return on investment here? Number one in spending
dollars per pupil, number forty in terms of.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Educational performance by our students. Where's the money going? What
is it doing?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
What good has the Department of Education done other than
serve as a money laundering front for democrats and the
teachers' unions. There are not many, if any, in leadership
positions there with the unions, Randy Weingarten, the whole kitten kaboodle,
who are anything but operatives of the Democratic Party. So
why should we have a federal agency funding that, I
(34:29):
would say we shouldn't you know? I always go back
to the story of my own mother, who I'm very
proud of her and may she rest in peace.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
She was a Serbian immigrants child. She came here at
the age of two.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
She knew not a word of English when she walked
into kindergarten in River Rouge, Michigan. She had a wonderful
kindergarten teacher helped her learn English. Help my mom teach
her mom English. It was not spoken in the home.
My mom ended up skipping a grade at River Rouge schools.
That's how smart she was. But she was not cursed
(35:01):
by parents who brought her here illegally. My Baba, my grandmother,
went through the proper channels, got a sponsor, her aunt,
who lived an e course, got a job upstairs living
with said aunt in this country, who vouched for my grandmother,
who sponsored her. My Baba became an American citizen. She
worked very hard to do things the right way. And
(35:25):
my mom was a little immigrant child, a legal immigrant child.
Now I understand the sentiment of well, you don't want
to blame the kids. Yeah, but it's not our fault either,
American citizens, the American government. It's the parent's responsibility to
come here correctly and legally. If they don't do that,
that's tough, But it's their fault, and their kids had
(35:46):
nobody to blame but their own parents for bringing them
here under false pretenses. That's my whole point here. Come
here legally, do it the right way, or go back
and try again. Lindsay, dad, go next. More trouble than
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