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Parents in Michigan are getting in trouble for what?! Plus, if your kid got bad grades and wasn't able to attend prom would you be mad at the teacher or your kid? Listen now!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fread's show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Somebody said on the Texas a child protection services worker, Yes,
it would be nice to forget, but as a human,
I'd have to have that reminder of how vile other
humans are. I believe that, Like if you're in that field,
or law enforcement, or maybe even as a healthcare worker.

(00:25):
I'm sure there are things that you'd like to forget.
I'm sure, but I think you'd become robotic if you
didn't forget about the human part of your life. Like
if you forgot about the human part of your life
and then you want to do your job. The only
way that works, I think is if you have a
job that's robotic that doesn't require any part of you,
because that's empathy, that's.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Relatability, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Like, if you're a nurse and you're just a robot,
you're not going to be I don't think as effective
of a nurse, or as effective of a doctor, or
effective of this if you don't have if you can't
bring some of yourself to it.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
I don't know if that I mean it would be nice,
I guess, but I don't know if it would work.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
It'd be nice to like not take that home like
police officers are like nurses, you know, the stuff that
they take home and they have to sleep with and
think about and stuff like that during the day.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
But I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Maybe if you go in there robotically, but that's even
a word, maybe you're more efficient at your job, Like
you're thinking more with your brain than your heart, you know,
even though you need both.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
I think in that field, yeah, maybe you're right, But again,
that would be good if you were like a factory worker,
you did something where you didn't necessarily have to put
yourself into it. HM as much, I'm not minimizing that role.
I just think if you work maybe as a I
don't know, do you think. I mean Mike the mechanic.
I realize he owns the place, he owns the gay raage,
so he has to relate to the customers. But as
far as like wrenching and stuff like, you would probably

(01:43):
get a lot more work done if he didn't have
to talk to anybody or have to or if he
didn't have it to bring any of himself to it.
But then he might get a lot less business because
people probably come to Mike the Mechanic because he's Miked
the mechanic right.

Speaker 6 (01:54):
And he does payment plans and he just doesn't charge
you at all. Right at the he says, he's all
I'm working so harb. Well, every time I go there,
he's just yapping with some customer and talking about this
and that. Well, I'm like, you could get so much
more work done. But I'm not saying nothing.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Ear Yeah, I'm not saying nothing. Let me see what
else here. Oh, someone wants an update on Kaitlin's grounding blanket.
What are you feeling grounded?

Speaker 7 (02:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:21):
I think I feel it.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
I don't know how.

Speaker 8 (02:23):
I mean. Some people said that it takes them a month,
and honestly I was lagging on putting them on my bed,
you know, because I didn't know how to wash them
and I was being lazy.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
But I think I feel it.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
How many times you've been electrocuted? Just like two or three? Couple? Yeah? Yeah,
a big deal?

Speaker 5 (02:36):
A couple?

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah? All right.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Biggest stories at the day, Yukon overwhelmed South Carolina eighty
two to fifty nine to win its record twelfth NCAA
women's basketball national championship, and the men played tonight. The
Houston Cougars rallied past Duke, which I turned that game
off because I didn't see any way the Duke wasn't
going to win. And then they didn't win in like
Houston went in heroic fashion, came back from down over

(02:59):
ten and I guess, and then one I think they
were down seven with a minute and a half to go,
and they won the game. But you know, typical me,
I'm like, eh, I don't even to watch this anymore.
Duke's gonna win. Oh, Duke, here we go again. Always Duke, Duke,
do you know whatever? And then they lost?

Speaker 5 (03:13):
They did.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, I may have just mentioned that you came in
hot this morning, and now you're not paying attention, so
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
You use all your energy? Are you want sings? Now
get out of here.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Trump has extended the TikTok deadline yet again, uh the
deadline for TikTok to divested US operations for a second time,
saying a potential deal to avert a band requires more work.
The owner Byte Dance, which is based in China, It
faced at April fifth deadline to sell it US business,
which was also an extension from a January nineteen. The
target day didn't go anywhere though. We didn't do the

(03:48):
whole thing where it went away and came back. So
there's that, yep. So we didn't play with your emotions
in that way, which it played with me a little
bit too, to be honest.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh yeah, when it went away, there was a moment
of sadness. Yes, I'm like, you're.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Still recovering from that moment.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
What am I going to do with the hours and
hours of free time that I get back? And where
am I going to get stuff to talk about on
the show if I don't have that anymore? Like how
did people do this job in the old timy days?
Like what do you have to do? Get up at
you know in like the in like the seventies, Like
how did Eddie and Jobo do this? They had to
like breathe the newspaper, you know, I think that was
the nineties. But whatever, how did they do it? They
had to get up and they probably well that they

(04:27):
probably had money for like.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Staff and a writer's room. I probably people probably.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Hate people to tell them when they would show up
and you know at six oh one, and it would
be like, hey, Eddie and Jobo say this Okay, God
bless God, bless Eddie and Jobo Radio legends. I tell
you so. Fire Festival two point zero. So this is
this is probably the least surprising news of the day.
If you're not familiar with Fire Festival. Fire Festival, there's

(04:52):
a whole documentary about it. Shout out to the guy
who had to secure the heavy on water from the airport.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
What a hero.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
But this was this was supposed like a Lallapaloozah Coachella,
you know, sort of thing on an island that was
all these musicians and and and you bought tickets where
you were supposed to be able to like camp out,
and I mean it was it was supposed to be
this whole like lifestyle experience week of whatever. And there

(05:20):
tried to be a total disaster, people in FEMA tents
and eating bad sandwiches, and then the artist showed up
and it was just this complete And Billy McFarlane, the
head of the whole thing, he went to jail over
this because he took everyone's money and then didn't fulfill
any of what you know, he said he was going
to and then it was a whole scam. Well, this
guy gets out of jail and decides he's going to

(05:41):
do it again. And predictably, we're having problems with Fire
Festival two point zero. They're having venue issues a month
before the event. Oh so, TMC got a hold of
text messages that claim that the town of Plado Carmen
in Mexico is backstabbing them. One message reads they the
government posted on ex Instagram, et cetera, giving their blessing
and support, and then yesterday they say we've never heard

(06:04):
of them.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
It's hilarious.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Another one read and at this point we're not doing
any event there and we plan on making it very
public and showing all the evidence. This comes days after
Billy McFarlane stated online he was working with the town
to make the festival happen and shared a timeline of
paperwork being signed and fees being paid. Okay, now, Jason,
as somebody who's been involved with many a production, we

(06:27):
are a month out and they haven't booked a venue,
which means they don't have any artists. Yeah, because there's
no one who's going to First of all, I don't
know any artists who are going to sign up for
this after all the bad press before. But even if
they were I don't know any management who's going to
be like, sure, no venue, Fine will be there, just
let us know where.

Speaker 6 (06:43):
That's not how this works, right, Like every artist needs
certain things in order to perform, and you don't even
have a venue yet, not even a stage or speakers or.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Mic insurance or any of the other stuff. I mean,
there's so much that goes in back. He served time
for throwing a festival? Why is why why are we
talking about this?

Speaker 6 (07:02):
Like you think you're gonna get paid?

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Well, I would have been damned sure if I'm this
guy and I'm doing this again, I would have been
damned sure it's really gonna happen if I'm.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Doing it again.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
We'd make the situation they were in there together.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
He might be going back.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
It sounds like cause and then what was it good
Morning America or somebody they they tried to book the
like the hotels using the code on the website, and
the hotels like we've never heard of this, like they've
made it all up, like it's another disaster, and it's
just like, dude, if you're I get it, like you
really throw this thing, like let's get it right this time.

Speaker 5 (07:39):
Then it is, don't you need a permit or something
like what.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
I guess that's what he says he's signed up for,
but like, I don't Again, we're doing this a month in.

Speaker 6 (07:47):
Advance, and supposedly they have receipts of like confirmations of
permits and stuff, and all of.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
A sudden the city is like, no, I don't know you.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
I've never heard of this.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Man.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
I meant Danny's Pizza with Jimmy know, you had to
plan that at least a month in advance.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
I mean, flick three weeks.

Speaker 9 (08:03):
But cunning, you.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Could think Billy McFarland didn't plan it. We would have
all showed up and it would have been like, you know,
some other party in the room.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Yeah, would have been terrible.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
Don't trust Billy.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Texas Roadhouse has replaced Olive Garden as America's top casual
dining chain. Olive Garden, which held the top spot since
twenty eighteen, came in second this year. Last year, Texas
Roadhouse on increase of fourteen point seven percent in sales,
making five point five billion dollars. There's seven hundred and
twenty locations. Olive Garden saw about a one percent increase.
The rest of the list included Chili's, Applebee's, and Buffalo

(08:35):
Wild Wings. I don't know if I've maybe once have
I eaten a Texas roadhouse, And for no reason, I
just have never been in the proximity really of a
Texas roadhouse.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
There isn't one near my home.

Speaker 6 (08:48):
No, But as a regular, I will say, oh to
both options.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
That Texas roadhouse.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
It is packed all the time, like a minimum hour wait.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Whenever you got it always looks good like in the
TikTok videos I see or whatever. But I there just
isn't one really around here, so I don't ever get
to go, and you're not gonna get that delivered, in
my opinion. I'm sure the Texas roadhuse people are upset
with me for saying that. But there are certain restaurants.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
I'm not ordering a steak from Outback delivered. I'm gonna
go down back. If I'm gonna go to out Back.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Correctly, just you to go.

Speaker 6 (09:17):
I don't even know if you can't deliver Texas warehouse.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
I think it's just you have to go get it.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
You have to get it.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
I picked it up.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
I don't pick up anything, trust right, Oh yes, how
do I know, I know, just trust me on that.
One Michigan school district issued a letter to parents and
guardians asking him to stop smoking marijuana in the school
parking lot during drop off and pickup times.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Hell yeah, Michigan.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
So you're waiting to.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Pick up line which can be very long at times,
you know, it could be over forty five minutes. It's like, well,
but here's the thing. You're in a car that you
drove there, and you have to drive the car home.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
As you pick high.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Like that cantails.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
You can get a dui for being high.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
So like, let's maybe not right, that's a good idea.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
The superintendent of the Orchard View School District made it
clear that smoking marijuana in school property is against the law.
He also expressed concerns about parents driving under the influence.
He said that while the district respects personal choices made
outside school grounds, the proximity to students requires stronger restrictions.
The letter didn't indicate how many smoking incidents occurred or
whether law enforcement had been involved, and emphasized it under

(10:22):
Michigan state laws he legal for anyone to smoke marijuana
inside a vehicle, for miners to be in a vehicle
where the driver may be under the influence of marijuana,
and to drive while under the influence of marijuana. A
delivery driver, and I don't know why this is news,
but it is on an electric bicycle, was caught on
video in New York putting a pizza back in the
box after it fell on the pavement. The woman who

(10:47):
showed it said the pizza was face down on the pavement,
which I suppose is worse than face up. I don't
know when the man picked up the fire. The woman
tried to get him to stop, but he didn't listen
put it back in the box. The video was posted
to a New Yorker's Instagram page and it has over
one hundred and forty thousand likes, or has been viewed
that many times. It's not knowing what service the delivery

(11:07):
driver worked for. Now. We don't know if the dude
put it back in the box and threw it away right, just.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
Leave it on the ground.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, I mean, I guess the assumption is that he
had it delivered or like that he still delivered it
to the people. But I'm assuming that he just picked
it up and then not to make a mess even
more of a mess and then threw it away somewhere
right business. Yeah, I'm hoping nobody ate that, but I
do have to wonder. And I know you you you
moonlit at one point Jason as a door dash delivery driver. Yeah,

(11:36):
and I do wonder sometimes Now they seal the bags
and all the stuff, but I wonder, like, you know,
we have stuff falls out and they're like whoop this,
you know or whatever, you know that kind of stuff,
or you just take a fry, just one, you know,
just reached in there and just grab oneir Oh.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
There was one time it was five guys and you
know how good those smell and it fills up your
whole car, and that was hungry and I was so
close to just reaching in and taking one, but I
didn't do it. I was very proud of myself. But
it was close.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
I was. I was right there.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Hot take from a door dash aficionado. Five guys. While
I do order it from time to time, is much
much much better in the restaurant.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Does exist when you get it, or is.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
It just cerates? The fries don't deliver well. The burgers
are fine, but the fries are a little sog, yes,
because you know they pour the like if they put
them in the cop and then they like the fries
go in the cup, and then they pour more on
top of that, which only just coach the inside of
the paper bag that they deliver it in. And and finally,

(12:37):
the woman who has the world's longest female tongue says
that people screaming shock when they see him. It measures
three point eight inches long. I don't know how many
times she's sticking her tongue out, but it's three point
eight inches long from the tip to her lips, So
that doesn't include the party inside her mouth.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Wait, how long from the tip to the lip?

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Almost four inches three point eight inches, so it's about
as far from here to here. Oh, it looks like that, which,
of course everyone can see. You know when I say
it looks like that, because we're on the radio, the
people's creaming shock. When she shows her lengthy organ, same come.
The California resident Chanelle Tapper, reveals that she enjoys seeing

(13:17):
people's reactions. There's a variety of bizarre tricks she can
perform with her extravagantly long tongue, raging from flipping cups
to removing Djenga blocks and holding up the schoon by
curling her tongue around the utensil.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Girl, it's like an elephant tusk.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
It's sort of so, yeah, there's any Yeah, Well, I
was gonna say if this werenna dude, everyone would be like.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Oh, what's the guy look like? Wow? It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter what he looks like.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
It's National no housework Day, National Beer Day, and National
Coffee cake Day today as well. The entertainment of Poort
Calem has that next we'll get some blogs, our audio journals.
Waiting by the phone is brand new. Wanted somebody get
go to We'll get to that too, all in the
next twenty minutes or so. In the French Jobs, Kiki's Court,
All rise, the Honorable kig league is here. Judge Kiki. Yeah,

(14:09):
it's your courtroom. Take it away, all.

Speaker 10 (14:11):
Right, let's step into the courtroom. It says, Hey, Kiki,
am I wrong for preventing one of my senior students
from attending prom I've been a teacher for ten years now,
and this is the first time I've had this issue.
One of my students has been a constant problem and
pain in my behind since this school year started. He's
a senior and this is his last chance to attend prom.

(14:34):
While I understand how important prom is to him and
his family, I can't understand why it hasn't been so
important to him and his parents that he passed my class.
Our school has a very strict GPA requirement for all students,
and unfortunately, he's been failing my class all year. I
repeatedly contact his parents and asked for their support to
come up with an action plan to help him. They've

(14:56):
missed every meeting that we've scheduled, and they've ignored my
emails and call until now. Now his mother is sending
me emails, leaving nasty voicemails, and even calling our principal
to pressure me to adjust his grade in my class.
He did a huge prom proposal, secured a date, and
has been telling everyone that he's actually going.

Speaker 5 (15:16):
However he's not.

Speaker 10 (15:18):
I feel bad that I will be the cause of
him missing out on his senior prom. I feel bad
for his date, But what kind of example would I
be setting if I let for my other students if
I let him go?

Speaker 5 (15:28):
Am I wrong?

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Judge, Kiki? What say you?

Speaker 5 (15:33):
You know what? I'm always for the teacher? I am?

Speaker 10 (15:35):
I'm on the side of the teacher in this case,
I feel like, what can not only what kind of
example are you setting for the other students if you
tweak his grade, but what are you setting him up
for in life? Because you cannot just fail all of
your responsibilities and then still think that you get to
enjoy the reward.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
That's insane.

Speaker 10 (15:53):
Like, if you've been failing my class, you've been a
pain in my butt, so you've probably been very disrespectful.
I've been trying to contact your parents and work on
an action plan to help you get ahead, to help
you graduate, to help you get to prom, and they've
made no effort. But now that it's prim time, you know.
Now your mom is calling. Now she wants to email.
You know your.

Speaker 5 (16:11):
Parents have failed you, and you failed yourself.

Speaker 10 (16:13):
You're a senior at this point and if you're not
holding up to your responsibilities, there's the consequences to that,
and I don't think she should feel bad about it.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
I agree Judge Kiki, how wise, thank you wise and sound.
Here's a song forget about Let's go all what's over
eight five five one oh three five You can call
text the same number. I mean, you could make the
argument that this is a once in a lifetime thing
and he'll go the rest of his life without ever
having gone to his senior problem. Now, you also have

(16:41):
to get good grades or passing grades at least, you
know what I mean. Like you you, and that was
the thing. It's like, you either meet this level, this
minimum requirement, or you don't get to go. So you're
right if you just say, now, well that thing I
said before, I didn't really mean that right, Right? Then
why everybody else work so hard?

Speaker 10 (17:00):
And I've seen teachers get this type of pressure, not
even just from parents but from other administration at the school,
especially for students who are sports players play you know,
the star basketball player, the star football player. It's almost
like to the teacher like, come on, man, you know
we need him, so give them the grade.

Speaker 5 (17:16):
And it's like, no, these they need to earn their grades.

Speaker 10 (17:19):
You can't just be us in class and not do
what you're supposed to do and then still think that
you should be allowed to go to prom or allowed.

Speaker 5 (17:25):
To play play in the game. That's not how it works.

Speaker 10 (17:28):
And I feel like when we allow kids to do that,
we're setting them up for failure.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Yeah, you do them in disservice because in the real world,
nobody cares.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
Nobody.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, it's like, if you don't get the work assignment done,
then you might get fired. And that's your fault. There's
nobody else's fault. That's what you're supposed to do. Mm hmm, yeah, yeah,
I mean, and let me see all these texts. That's
his fault. And he failed his date by not being
truthful with her, and she probably already bought an expensive dress.
That's it.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Yeah, that sucks for the date, right, And I'm sure.

Speaker 10 (17:57):
The mom was like helping him plan the pro proposal,
but you're not helping him get his grades.

Speaker 6 (18:01):
But that's the difference for me, is that the parents
weren't cooperative from the beginning. Like, so now I'm almost
feeling bad for him because, like he may not have
the support system at home to push him to be
able to catch up to everyone else, to be able
to go right. If you were, you know, if the
parents were involved right from the beginning, when the teacher said, hey,

(18:22):
there's a problem, and you're kind of getting, you know,
the push from home and school and you're still not
doing it, then I might feel a little bit different.
But I feel bad that he might lose out on
like these memories just because you know he might not
have the most.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
This happened a lot of these.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
I mean it happened a lot because I bet teachers
go home feeling bad about what they weren't able to
get their students to achieve, when really it while it
is their job to a certain extent, it's the parents'
job to back up the you know, the what the
teachers are try and do instilled, because it's not a
teacher's job to raise children, even though I think a
lot of teachers are doing it. But that was really

(19:00):
frustrating because you feel like, I'm sure this this teacher
feels like she's failing the kid, and she gets to
well she is failing the kid, but he's failing.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
It's the class.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
But like she gets to be the bad person here,
but she's going above and beyond to try and get
him to succeed. So I feel bad for the teacher. Uri.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
How you how you doing? Hey?

Speaker 7 (19:22):
Guy?

Speaker 11 (19:22):
Something good?

Speaker 3 (19:23):
How about yourself?

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Hey? Good morning? Hey, thank you thanks for listening being
part of the show.

Speaker 11 (19:28):
Thanks Eddie and Jumble.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Oh wow, wow, I didn't know they worked here, but
God bless you the other place without business. So yeah,
so what's going on? What do you think about this
this court case? I mean, the teacher is trying to
save this kid in a lot of ways and get
him to perform, and he's not. And and there was

(19:52):
a there were there were guidelines. There was you know,
you had to meet this requirement or you can't go
to prom. He didn't meet the requirement, so he's not
going to prom, and now the teacher feels bad about it.

Speaker 11 (20:02):
I agree with the teacher, and where Kiki, as parents
and as a teacher, I help teachers before you trust
them so much for them to do their own work,
and if they cannot man up or do their job
as an adult. Technically he's an adult already. He should
be responsible for his awesome and if his parents are
sugar coating him not able to do his job, then

(20:22):
there's no point of her letting him. She's trying to
let him go regardless, because if she lets if she
lets him past and just let him go like that,
she's sugarcoating his grape, like oh it's okay, don't worry
about that. Feel bad.

Speaker 7 (20:32):
No, there's no such.

Speaker 11 (20:33):
Thing as feeling bad or no excuse it at all.
I was just saying earlier, like my daughter myself. I
have a daughter, she's a summer and having her SECT
sixteen this year.

Speaker 7 (20:43):
So I told her, I.

Speaker 11 (20:44):
Know I haven't been there to help job, but if
you don't make up your grace, I will cancell your.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Party and you're done.

Speaker 11 (20:50):
I know it works for fort first, I agree, and
then the parents not being the park either. That's therefore also,
so there's a tea with.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
The parents of you're I agree, Thank you, have a
good day, Thanks for listening.

Speaker 5 (21:09):
Keep standing on businessman.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, I mean that's the thing that you what about
all the other kids, all the other kids that that
performed and worked hard. And then so now if this
one kid gets to show up to prom and the rest,
and then the teacher looks like, you know, she's a
pushover exactly, and she loses credibility with the whole room
over one kid because it was like, well, wait, anute,
So I guess I didn't have to do well. I
guess the rules don't apply. Hey Darien, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
How's it going?

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Hey man, what do you think.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
I think this teacher shouldn't feel bad at all? This
student made the decision themselves.

Speaker 11 (21:45):
They had plenty of time. It doesn't even sound like
the student is trying.

Speaker 12 (21:49):
Maybe maybe there's a little bit of time and he
gets beg or try to get all work done in
a few weeks or something.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Well, the other thing is she's holding his hand as
it is. Yeah, you know, and that's something else that's
not going to happen in real life, is that she's
already sort of like nursing him through this, like I'll
give you extra help. I mean, I'll do whatever I can,
like I'll go I mean, this is more than should
have to be, you know what I mean, as far
as the kid has an obligation to do the school work,

(22:21):
and the teacher shouldn't have to go step by step
by step by step to get you to do it,
because that doesn't exist in the real world.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
No one's going to do that for you.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
And so he already has an advantage and he's failing
at that too, right. So yeah, hey Darren, thank you man,
thanks for calling. Have a good day. So already he's
being coddled.

Speaker 10 (22:40):
Yeah, and she tried, even with the parents, like I've
been calling and emailing you all to set up an
action plan to just work with me here, like, let's
do whatever we can. Let's be a team to support
this child. And they won't even make the effort. So
it's like and now, but now when we get close
to prom and you want to buy a dress, and
I mean, it sucks. And then you know the whole thing.
Now you have all the in the world. Now you

(23:00):
know my number, now you know my email address. That
is unacceptable, teacher now.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
And so the parents are doing him a disservice on
a number of levels. Hey, Kathy, Hi, good morning, Yeah, Hi,
how are you? Hey Kiky's court, what say you?

Speaker 7 (23:15):
Yes, I'm just I know he maybe seventeen or eighteen. However,
you know, maybe he's you know, I don't want to
say a learning disability, but maybe he has you know,
my lady HD or some type of issue that's holding
him back or maybe not able to focus as much.
Maybe his parents never looked into that either. Yeah, that's
a tough one. I don't know, you know, because it
does think that his parents never you know, came to

(23:38):
any meetings or tried to talk to the parents, you know,
I mean they did. What I'm saying is the parents
never reached back out to the teacher like like you said,
until now, so well, that's pretty much my outlook on it.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yeah, Kathy, maybe he does have a learning disability, but
he has the teacher's full attention. In fact, probably more
than most other students are getting so right and all
that true, so there would be. Now it's not as
though she's saying, hey, hey, y'all, y'all, you're on your own.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Here's this.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
You better get an A and I'm not going to
help you. And if you don't get an A or
B or a C or whatever, then you can't go
to PROM. And I'm not even going to assist you
in this. No, she's right there alongside him and he's
still not getting it done.

Speaker 11 (24:19):
That's true. Yeah, it was like maybe something's undiagnosed.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
It could be, it could be, you know, but I
mean he's got he has support. So Kathy, thank you,
good day, Thank you too. Glad you called. Oh I'm
saying I think she was saying something nice. Whatever you said,
it was nice.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Thank you. Hey, Stephanie, good morning.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
Good morning.

Speaker 13 (24:39):
Hi Fred, love you guys.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Hey, love you two. What do you think I think?

Speaker 11 (24:44):
You know?

Speaker 14 (24:44):
Prom is a once in a lifetime experience, so it
would be really sad for him to miss out on it,
but totally understand where the teacher is coming from. In
my opinion, the saddest thing about this entire story is
the lack of support at home.

Speaker 11 (24:58):
I mean, that's where it all starts.

Speaker 14 (24:59):
Yeah, my thought is, maybe throw the kid one last
pail mary, maybe some extra credit, and see what he
does with it. Hopefully doesn't stumble the ball. But if
he performs, then maybe allow him to go. Just give
him kind of that one last opportunity.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah, maybe maybe, So thank you, Stephanie, have a good day.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Thank you guys, you too, because.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Nobody wants to see a kid miss that on that.
But again, you're doing you're doing the kid a long
term disservice, right if you just keep making it you know, Okay,
we'll forget about that, that expectation. How about this one. Oh,
you're not going to meet that. We'll forget about that
because no one's gonna do that for you in the
real the rule, right, no one's gonna do that for you.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
And we mentioned too, like support coming from home, and like,
for a minute, maybe I'm thinking maybe there isn't support
at home, right, and that's where my mind kind of went,
and maybe that that's another place that you know, he
needs more supported and I totally agree. But then Kiki said,
the parents are coming up here for prom and doing
promposals and getting tuxes. So I'm like, well, then the
support's there, it's just in the wrong place exactly, you know.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah, they need to back the teacher up.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
And that's what I feel bad for his teacher and
for a lot of teachers who, yes, who feel we've
had him on the air before, we've helped with you know,
classroom wishless and stuff, and it's like they feel inadequate
because they can't provide the experience for their kids that
meets their standard. But it's not necessarily their fault. I mean,
they it's not. If they don't have the budget or

(26:20):
they don't have the parental support or whatever. Then they're
doing the best they can and they don't need to
feel bad about their efforts because other people aren't supporting them.
But they do, many do. We've heard him on the
show before. Hey Delilah, Hi, Hi, Hey, so Kenny's Court.
Just to recap here quickly, the teacher a teacher has

(26:41):
written in Takiki saying, hey, look, I've got a student
who's not performing. I'm trying to help him perform. He
didn't meet the minimum expectations, so he can't go to prom.
His parents have been nowhere to be found. Now all
of a sudden, it's well, wait a minute, parents are here,
going I want my kid to go to prom?

Speaker 1 (26:55):
What are we going to do about this?

Speaker 2 (26:56):
And so you know, does she let it slide or
does she stand all business?

Speaker 13 (27:02):
I am it's a tough situation because teachers, like you
were saying, like they kind of have not a lot
of control of the education system that we have for kids.
And I think that the prom should not be tied
to a students' grades because students, I think are being
failed by the education system we have. I'm a big

(27:25):
proponent for like Montessori style education where teachers you have
to master something before you can move on. So what's
to say that this student has not It has been
failed long time ago by the school system where he's
not at a point where he can catch up and
get his grades up because maybe he's lost interest and

(27:46):
even like the opportunity to excel in school because he
was lost along the way years ago.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
So I think parents to manage like shouldn't. Shouldn't as
a parent, shouldn't you be watching the education that your
child's getting and if they're falling behind or or if
they're if in fact they're being the school district or
the process is negligent, then shouldn't the parent be the
one to step up and either supplement or change the
school or do something about it. I mean that may be,

(28:17):
but like you had the kid, it's you set the standard.
It's your job, right.

Speaker 9 (28:22):
That's true, But it depends what levels they're at, Like
what what if both parents work, you know, full time jobs,
or they don't have that kind of support at home,
or maybe they don't.

Speaker 13 (28:34):
Speak the language, or maybe they just you know, maybe
they're from a different country and they don't even know
how the school system works here, or you know, they're
kind of putting it up to the student to carry
on on his own. So I know it's a very
different opinion, but I think I think the school system
has to change to where students can they have to

(28:55):
master something before they could learn something else, instead of
everybody learning the same information. Now everybody is going to excel.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
The same way.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Well, fair enough to thank you. Have a good day.
Thank you.

Speaker 13 (29:08):
I'm one of the thirteens.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Thank you, appreciate you.

Speaker 11 (29:13):
Coach basketball, coach you are I know.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Who you are?

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Well Hi, yeah, yeah, you passed Paulina and I got
some questions. They have a good day. Thank you, Delilah.
I'm not going to blame this on the school. It's
not the school's responsibility.

Speaker 7 (29:30):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
There are issues with the unders, and I'm sure teachers
would say the same thing that there are issues, But
I'm not blaming this on the school. And I think,
I think that this would be doing a kid at
disservice on a number of levels.

Speaker 10 (29:42):
Oh yeah, and I see it happen so much. I
hate to keep bringing up with student athletes. I feel
like I've seen this happen a lot of times. And
then they get in the real world and they go
to college, right, and then somebody's doing their homework in college.
But the moment they get injured, now it's they have
no meaning to the school, you know. They they they're
not they can't play because they injured themselves, they tore
the ACL or whatever, and now they're just out in
the world lost because if somebody passed them all these

(30:05):
years and they don't know anything.

Speaker 8 (30:06):
Yeah, and parents like they're focused on their child. But
I have so much compassion for teachers because they're trying
to focus on all the children. So you know, these
pushy parents come in and it's like you're worried about
one kid. These teachers are trying to be empathetic and
you know, care about all these students and all these
different situations.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
There's got to be some compassion for the teachers.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
And she would appear she's already gone above and beyond
to try and say this kid, Adam, So this happened
to you.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah, good morning. Are you doing Hey, good morning man,
thanks for calling. Of course.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (30:37):
I was this student, and I was very appreciative that
the teachers and educators around me actually pushed me to
not go to prom and didn't let me go because
I was schooling around in school and I wasn't doing
my best. And me being a parent, now, I definitely wouldn't.
I wouldn't do that for my child, wouldn't want my
child's teachers to do that. I mean the biggest thing

(30:59):
that my principal set to me, you know, I took
it to like my provo the provosts and the dean
and the principal and tried to fight it. And my
principal looked at me and just said, listen, man, the
prom is a privilege.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
It's not a right.

Speaker 12 (31:11):
Like that's something that that's something that you've earned at
the end of the year from all the good work
that you've done. It's not a right to go to prom.
That's something that the school puts on to celebrate all
of the great you know, accomplishments that the students and
you all have done and to commemorate the year and
all of that, and that's that's a privilege. And uh
and yeah, so it's not. It's that's not what it's for.

(31:32):
And then also it kind of set you know, because
I did have people in my life who was like, no,
you got to go to prom, man, you got to
go to prom. We got to fight this. But you know,
I have people tell me like, you're setting the wrong example,
you're teaching him that it doesn't your education is not
the most important thing.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, well, what's interesting more important?

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Adam, And I bet you would agree with this, But
if you had put as much effort into school as
you did into fighting their decision, then you or the parents,
if they had put enough that same energy into trying
to get his grades up as opposed to now complaining
that the teacher, then you may not have been in
that situation. I would imagine you look back and you
see it that way.

Speaker 12 (32:10):
Oh one hundred percent, And no disrespect to the young
lady who just got off the call. But I do
believe at the end of the day, there is the
responsibility of the parents and tandem with the teachers and
the student to make the priority of the education first.
That's the whole purpose of going to school. That's the
whole that's that's what we do. So you know, yeah,
I think I know for a fact I was not
trying my hardest and I was not doing my best.

(32:31):
And I love my parents. They were great parents, but
like she said, they were busy, they were doing a
lot of other things and the focus wasn't on that
and it wasn't on my education. So but it was
it was totally my fault. And I was happy that
they decided to for me not to go to crime.
So I ended up, you know, hanging out with my
friends after the fact.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
But yeah, well's still out there. Hey, man, I appreciate
this perspective. And the truth is, Adam, I don't know
if if you've gotten to pass on all this, I
don't know if you'd be calling saying this maybe now
you're growing up in more mature But the fact that
you can now see that, I think probably that decision
and others like it played into that right where someone
just didn't let it go and said no, this is

(33:09):
the rule and you didn't meet the standard, so you
can't do it.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
That had to have helped you as you grew.

Speaker 12 (33:15):
Oh, absolutely into Keky's point.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
It's set.

Speaker 12 (33:17):
It's set the proper perspective moving forward in my life because,
like she said, when you get out here in the world,
the world's not gonna treat you like that. You have to,
you know, take responsibility for your actions. So so yeah, right,
you right on right.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
On board, Adam. I appreciate you. Man, have a great day.
You'll find you out good day. Look at that. Look
at Kik that man, Yeah, have me real.

Speaker 10 (33:36):
Yeah he did value a lesson case close seat your
standout business.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
That's right, I got you, the entertainer reported headlines.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
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