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Welcome to In the Market with Janet Parshall. Today's program
is where Janet and her husband Craig take some of
the stories making headlines this week and offer their insight
and analysis. Before they get started, let's take a quick
look back at some of the highlights from the week.
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You have two thoughts. You have his perfect will and
his permissive will. His perfect will is all is that
we all would follow him and walk with him closely.
But because he's given us the opportunity through free will
to love him freely. That introduces the concept of permissive will.
So God is in charge of all, but he gives
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us the stewardship of our own lives and of government
and nations.
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Say to people, do you think God sees everything? Yeah.
Do you realize what he sees? He sees the middle
atom in the sun because he made it. He sees
right into it because he's the creator of all things.
He sees your thought life and every time you sin,
the Bible says you store up his wrath. That's going
to be revealed on the Day of Judgment. And until
people get a right understanding of God's character and nature,
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they'll not fear him and they'll not depart from their sins.
And that's the problem with modern evangelism. We preach a
God that's so oozing with love. He has no sense
of justice or righteousness or truth, and it's a violation
of the first and the second of the Ten Commandments,
where we shape a God to suit ourselves.
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We have to ask the question, what are the objectives
and goals that Jesus Himself sought after in his earthly life?
Do we have the glory of God primarily in view,
or is it the glory and the promotion of ourselves? Um,
obviously we have to have his fame as foremost in
our hearts. We have to be doing it, praying on
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the basis of what Christ accomplished on the cross. All
of those things, and many, many others are wrapped up
in the phrase in Christ's name. It's all about who
he is.
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When you take out sort of the Judeo-Christian ethics and
the and the work, you know, the principles of that
in a culture where you are respecting and you have humility.
We don't have humility. We have a lot of boasting
and pride, and I deserve, I deserve and get out
of my way. And, you know, you're you're not a victim.
I'm just going to do whatever I want to you.
When we have all that around us, it gets into us.
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I mean, we begin to start thinking we're the odd
man out for for dealing with this.
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To hear the full interviews from any of those guests
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on Past programs. Here's some other stories making headlines this week.
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South Korea's top court has cleared Samsung Chairman Jay Y.
Lee in a long running fraud case.
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Goldman Sachs second quarter profit beat Wall Street expectations, the
bank reported Wednesday, thanks to record revenue from its equities
division and a pickup in dealmaking.
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Dozens of people have died in a massive fire overnight
in the Iraqi city of Al Kut.
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Media platforms, investors and CEO Mark Zuckerberg reached a settlement
Thursday to end the $8 billion trial over Facebook users privacy.
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Janet and Craig have lots to share, and they'll put
the first story on the table when we return. To
get more information or to download the podcast of any
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The world needs hope and we have the greatest news
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That's 877 Janet 58 or go to in the market
with Janet Parshall. Happy Friday to you, friends, and thanks
so much for joining us for In the Market with
Janet Parshall. Craig, partial is with me. Joins me every
Friday as we walk through the marketplace of ideas, measuring
the crooked ideas from the straight ideas. And in so
doing we learn how to be good. Bereans test all things,
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and we practice applied Christianity, the whole truth of the
whole gospel to the whole world. We do this for
two hours every day and just want you to know
we wrapped up our one. And if you're interested, you
can go to wherever podcasts can be found in the
market with Janet Parshall. Download our one and you're going
to have the opportunity to hear Craig and me share
some of our thoughts about John MacArthur. Some of that
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we waited until Friday, by the way, to share our
thoughts because we wanted to do this as a husband
and wife. So we've got some thoughts on the passing
of John MacArthur. And then the rest of the hour
was devoted mostly to the defunding of the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting and PBS. And that's not now a hopeful
statement it is not a prophetic statement. It's a factual statement.
Because Thursday, the defunding the rescission bill, as it's called,
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passed the Senate today just after midnight. It passed the
House short of any differences worked out in conference committee,
it is now headed to the desk of the president,
where a question that has been debated for over 40
years in this town, and that is whether or not
this one broadcasting entity should be getting federal tax dollars.
And it was clearly the will of the people spoken
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through the legislative branch that, no, we've got now a
gazillion streaming platforms. If you have a not for profit
entity that you love and you support, do it with
your subscription dollars. Every time there's a fundraiser, you can
pick up the phone and you can call and you
can fill in the gap that amounted to about 1
to 2%. So if you like the product, terrific pay
for it. But not everybody should have to pay for it,
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particularly when those two entities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,
who then downstream feeds NPR, has lost its way. Abandon
its mission of being non-partisan. It is palpably biased in
one perspective. Great. That's your worldview. Pay for it. The
American public shouldn't have to. So if you want to
hear our remarks writ large, just download that podcast. We're
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going to start out today talking about the National Education Association,
which has nothing to do with students. It has everything
to do with a union and the rights of the teachers.
And somebody went undercover recently because the NEA used to
have a relationship with the ADL. You know what the
ADL is? It's the Anti-Defamation League, predominantly. This was an
organization that fought against anti-Semitism. Somebody went undercover, caught on
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camera with somebody talking about the largest teachers union and
their so-called inclusion. Um, but not really. Have a listen.
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So this is what's interesting is, is the NEA and
other organizations are are really all about diversity, Equality, justice
access thing. Unless he goes. So I have discovered that
that's the truth. Yeah. So I just do my job.
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So if you're that, everybody's included. Unless you're Jewish. Oh.
So now, on top of all the multiplicity of concerns
people have about the NEA, now it turns out they're anti-Semitic.
So it's not an all comers policy, by the way,
because if you're Jewish, you need not apply. So I
shared with you last week that it's always interesting that
around the 4th of July is when the NEA has
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their annual convention, and sometimes the fireworks that happen there
get lost in the fireworks. You're shooting off in the backyard,
but the residuals are important. And so the new president
of the NEA is a woman by the name of
Becky Pringle. I'm not going to say a word. Out
of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. You
have a listen.
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I can hear Chief Seattle crying out to us, urging
us to remember when, you know who you are. When
your mission is clear. And you burn with the inner fire.
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Of an unbreakable will. No cold can touch your heart.
No deluge can dampen your purpose. And yet you are
the stars in the darkness. Your light will not be dimmed.
Your purpose will drive you in a righteous fight for freedom.
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Because you know who you are. Yes, you know who
you are. You are the idiot. Our mission is clear.
We will advocate for the rights of education professionals. And
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we will change this world for our students. With that
inner fire burning, we will never bend. We will never
be broken because we are the NEA. And we will always,
always do what we must to be worthy of our students.
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Thank you, Eddie, for all you do every day, for
our babies and for our colleagues, and for your state
and for this country. Our word NEA.
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Onward homeschooling anyone? I mean, remember, first of all, they're
not your babies. And I do have the stretch marks
to prove that number one. Number two, they talked about
changing the lives of children. With what? Wokism die. Critical
race theory. Woke ideology. Trans ideology Marxist ideology. Reading, writing
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and arithmetic. Tenderly taught to the children who belong to
somebody else. It is a very precious and very important partnership.
But something happened to this union where I, as a teacher, never,
ever belonged. Thank you, Supreme Court, for giving us the
right to be able to withhold that part of our
dues that went to political ideas we didn't agree with,
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but it was one of those unions where I thought
I failed to hear what you're doing to protect children
getting a good education. It was all about and you
heard Becky Pringle saying this in her remarks. It's all
about their advancing, their worldview. They're changing the lives of
the children that come into their classroom. Craig, your thoughts?
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Um, you and I have followed very closely the history
of NEA for decades. And if you follow their conventions
and the resolutions that they pass, Resolutions reflecting what any
A is all about. Uh, she mentioned several times our mission.
Who we are. Our mission. Who we are. Never really
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defining it. Uh, there's a window. A little window, though,
to what she really meant. She said, because we are
fighting for freedom. And I'll get back to that in
a second. You and I have seen the resolutions passed
year after year. These are the most radical sociological, experimental,
experimental programs that use our children as lab rats and
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lab rats for a worldview that many, many Americans simply
cannot countenance in fact, violates. Certainly the beliefs of a
whole lot of Americans. Hence the movement away from public education,
school choice, homeschooling, and so forth. Um, but you, you
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and I have seen these resolutions. They're political in nature.
They are demanding abortion rights. For years they've been demanding LGBT,
Q and transgender rights for students, but very little about
the academic needs of children. And if you look at
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the history of American education over the last decade or
2 or 3, we are dipping lower and lower compared
to the rest of the world in academic success.
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On that note, 40% of American fourth graders have less
than the basic reading skills, and only 20% of 12th
graders are considered proficient in math. That is, educational malpractice.
And that, by the way, is according to the federal
government's National Assessment of Educational Progress. So when you look
at the NEA and you look at some of the
things that they have passed, by the way, here are
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some of the initiatives that were approved during the convention.
$3,500 to defend democracy against Trump's embrace of fascism by
using the term fascism in any materials to correctly characterize
Trump's programs and actions. Markedly partisan support for and participation
in the mass democratic movement against Trump's authoritarianism and violation
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of human rights. That includes support for the No Kings
movement and the Los Angeles based movement to defeat Trump's
attempts to use federal forces against the state of California
and other states and communities. This is their language, by
the way. This is the language right out of the initiatives.
I'm not being political. I'm telling you what the teachers,
the teachers union, one of the largest in the country,
there's the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association.
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They didn't pass. Let's see if we can get those
fourth graders to read like they should. Let's make sure
those 12th graders are proficient in math. It's anti anti
anti the administration opposition. This is their language again to Ice.
Uh response to the Supreme Court's ruling allowing parents to
opt their kids out of gender ideology. The Supreme Court
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just passed that the NEA will, quote, provide a local
sample of school board resolutions that protect educators in the
classroom who are teaching the LGBTQ inclusive curriculum and a
Know Your Rights document. So in other words, they're moving
in direct opposition to a ruling just handed down from
the United States Supreme Court. Oppose any move to, quote,
eliminate the U.S. Department of Education as illegal, anti-democratic and racist,
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attempt to destroy public education, and privatize it in its
interests of the billionaires. I've got a list as long
as my arm. Let me just stop there for a
minute and let's go to the idea about opposition to
the Supreme Court, to the closing of the Department of Education. Again,
this didn't happen until Jimmy Carter. This was a promise
made to the teachers union by then candidate Carter that
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he would establish a Department of Education. The conversation about
dismantling the Department of Education has been going on in
my town for decades because at its core, education is local. Well,
the Supreme Court weighed in on this one, and they
lifted an injunction against the current administration's efforts to get
to gut the Department of Education. The move allows for
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the administration to proceed for now, with mass firings that
slashed nearly half of the agency's workforce in March, as
well as other actions such as shifting management of the
federal student loan loan portfolio. So we had a judge,
and this is typical. I'm not even wasting my time
with these stories because it's like playing chess. You get
a rogue federal judge who goes, I say, stop, I'm
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going to put an injunction in place. That raises the
question of separation of powers. A local judge cannot undo
an executive action at the federal level, so that federal
judge shall remain nameless. Got 15 seconds worth of fame,
and the Supreme Court opened the door and said, nope,
you can move right ahead and start dismantling the Department
of Ed. Now there's more, and I want to get
Craig's take on that. But you hear the National Education Association.
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I'm sorry, did you hear reading, writing and arithmetic in
any of those initiatives that were just passed at their convention?
Absolutely none. And this is why more and more parents
are saying, give us charter schools. We're opting for home schools.
We want private religious schools. There has to be an alternative.
You and I don't hear the school boards or the
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school teachers of yesteryear talking. These are the Marxist leaders
of the future back after this. So we're focusing on
education right now because, uh, well, Mom and Dad, just remember,
you are the best Department of Health, education and welfare.
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And now the Supreme Court has lifted the door and said, yep,
this current administration can proceed with dismantling the Department of Education,
which hasn't been around very long. And I told you,
it's history and how it all started. And so, of course,
the NEA, having just concluded their national convention, is hotter
than a wet hen. And they're going to try to
make sure that somehow there's a pushback. Well, we'll see
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what happens down the road apiece. But remember, I also
played a clip undercover of someone said that they've decided
to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League and that
everybody's included except Jews. So these are just to name
a couple of more of the initiatives that were passed
at this recent convention, a training program that, quote, addresses
the alarming level of discrimination against and bullying of Arab
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American students in the public school system, protection of undergrad
and graduate ethnic studies programs at universities and community college,
incorporating Arab American studies into teacher teacher training days. And
then it goes on to say the union will, quote,
not use, endorse or publicize any materials from the Anti-Defamation League.
So what you heard on that on Undercover Audio was
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exactly spot on, such as its curriculum materials or its statistics.
NEA will not participate in ADL programs or publicize ADL
professional development offerings. The ADL is one of the most
prominent and widely cited researchers in tracking of anti-Semitism. anti-Semitism
in the US. And so an item that said that
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the Union, quote, shall use the NEA Jewish Affairs Caucus
screening out hate checklists and a Combating Antisemitism toolkit to
help teachers, students and families identify and respond to anti-Jewish hate.
That came about because apparently some of the union members said, uh,
what are you doing to protect Jewish students? Uh, because
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they really don't have a voice. And according to the
person who went undercover to the convention to get this information,
the person said the response was, quote, not very pleasant.
So this is the ideology. Again, stop me when I
get to, we're going to get Johnny's math skills up
where they need to be. We're going to make sure
that Susie can read a level that is absolutely in
tune with the grade level, that she's at the end
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of social passing, we're going to make sure that we
have given these kids the skills they need to flourish
outside of education K through 12, and should they decide
to go beyond after that, they'll be prepared for whatever
their next season in life takes them. So, Craig, let's
go to the constitutionality. Why do you think the Supreme
Court decided to lift the gate of this rogue federal
judge who said, no, stop. This is like the rogue
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federal judge that says you can't defund Planned Parenthood. Well,
that lasted 15 seconds. And then the quote, big, beautiful
bill got passed and Planned Parenthood is going to get
less money from the federal dollars that taxpayers have sent.
So these judges pop along the way, but they cannot.
They don't have the authority constitutionally to be able to
usurp a decision made by the administration.
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So what a US district court, a federal one federal
judge says no. What the president did in beginning the
process of reducing us, the Department of Education, um, dismantling it, um,
that's unconstitutional for whatever reason. I think the reasoning of
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that particular judgment I've read it is not persuasive to me, but, um,
regardless of the reason, uh, then the judge imposes a
temporary restraining order against the Department of, uh, of education
and the Trump administration from proceeding with the dismantling. One
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judge stops the entire federal executive branch from doing this.
Then it goes up to the US Supreme Court on
an emergency petition. The Supreme Court, majority of the court, um,
6 to 3, uh, chose to reverse, uh, that temporary
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restraining order. In other words, they, um, stopped the restraining
order from restraining the Trump administration from going ahead with
that plan at the at the at the current rate. Now,
the case is still going to be pending, but the
administration's hands aren't tied. However, the court didn't, and it's
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often that the court in these emergency petitions do not
give an opinion on why they decided to reverse the
lower court. They simply ordered that that temporary restraining order
would be reversed. What is in writing, and very extensively
is the dissent from, not surprisingly, Justices Sotomayor. She wrote
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the dissent, joined by Justice Kagan, joined by Justice Jackson.
And what she said and I went through it, uh,
a lot of, uh, legalese, a lot of technicalities about
the authority of the executive branch and so forth, and
why they thought, uh, that reversing the restraining order was
not right. But here's the bottom line of the whole case.
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Why are the plaintiffs attacking the Trump administration for this
movement about education? And why did the dissenting justices all
considered the liberal wing of the court Supporting those that
are attacking the current administration. It gets down to this
because in Sotomayor's dissent, she notes that the harm being
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created here is all about teachers unions, teacher quote, unions
that rely on federal funding and quote. In other words,
it's about the power of the NEA and other teacher
organizations to receive federal funds so that they can continue
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doing exactly what you've spent the last ten minutes or
so documenting partisan, radical positions that have nothing to do
with academics and violate, I'd say, the majority of the
values of the majority of Americans.
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Wow. So again, you know, the scriptures tell us to
look well to the ways of our household. Deciding where
our children will get an education is a huge decision
every single household has to make about their children. So
I give you this simply because now you go to
your prayer closet, you determine what's best for your child.
But I think it's imperative that you understand that one
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person who went undercover at this convention said it's all
about gender, sex, and politics. Nothing about educational basics. That
idea trickles down into the classroom, and then we get
these abysmal scores back after this. There's a sense of
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anxiety in our country, and I know you feel it, too.
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with Janet Parshall dot. You know, this is a fascinating
conversation about education because the Bible cares about children over
and over and over again. We read this and also
that educating a child is something that's talked about repetitively
in the scriptures as well. Hang the Lord's teachings around
your child's neck. Teach them day and night. Look well
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to the ways of your household. Train up a child
in the way he should go. So this is not
a sidebar story. This is a huge issue. God puts
specific children in our lives. We were divinely appointed to
be the parent of the child that God has placed
into our lives. So helping them mature, get the skills
so they can flourish and do that all is calling
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them to be is not a small issue. It is
a huge issue. And that's why more and more people
are deciding that they're going to seriously consider several options,
not just the public schools. And of course, that drives
the unions absolutely bonkers. Let me tell you, this broke
about an hour ago. America First Legal has discovered that
President Biden was pushing for the targeting of dissenting parents
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at school board meetings as domestic terrorists. We've talked about
this over and over and over again on this program.
What's interesting, however, is that now we've discovered that there
were concerns coming from his own Department of Justice that
their speech was constitutionally protected. The moms and dads, the, quote,
domestic terrorists was constitutionally protected, and there was absolutely no
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basis under law to go after these parents. And so, uh, apparently, uh,
America First Legal has obtained new documents conclusively proving that
Attorney General Merrick Garland's infamous October 4th memo, labeling concerned
parents at school board meetings as domestic terrorists, was politically
orchestrated and driven by the white House. Uh, what's interesting
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is I'm actually looking at a memo that was sent
out October 1st, 2021 that says that we're aware challenges
here in finding a federal hook. But white House has
been in touch about whether we can assist in some
form or fashion. And this is directly responding to the
idea of when a mom and a dad show up
and they say, I don't want that book read to
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my child, I'd like my child to be able to
opt out. God bless the Mahmood decision B Taylor that
just came down. This very interesting group of parents, Muslim parents,
Orthodox Christian parents who said, wait a minute. Montgomery County, Maryland.
You said we could opt out our kids. And then
without any explanation, you pulled that opt out opportunity and
you said they had to be force fed. This goes
back to the core speech Greg was talking about before.
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So parents rights got renewed and reinvigorated by this decision.
It's one of the reasons why Craig and I and
Sarah spent quite a bit of time talking about this,
because it was just a reminder to you, mom and dad,
that the penumbral right. That's how important this is in
the court's way. It's so self-evident, so transcendent, so important
that it's one of those rights you shouldn't even have
to talk about. It is so self-evident. Well, that's self-evident, right?
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To parent your child according to your sincerely held religious beliefs,
was reaffirmed at the end of June when the Supreme
Court handed down this decision, which is extremely important. So
now when you realize the previous administration was trying to
target those parents who dared to look well to the
ways of their household by showing it at a school
board meeting. Hey, let's be honest, most parents would rather
have a root canal than show up at a school
board meeting. But all of a sudden there was this
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line that got crossed when you. Wait, wait, wait. You're
telling me the boy wear pink, that this penguin is,
you know, married to another penguin having babies? I mean, really,
what in the world is going, oh, drag queens are
showing up in the library and parents are saying, enough, enough, enough, enough.
You know, reading, writing and arithmetic. And now you understand
why I played all that NEA stuff first. This doesn't happen,
you know, in isolation. This is trickle down ideology. It's
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why it showed up that way. So the bottom line is,
now we know that there was a political motivation to
try to silence these parents who came and spoke at school.
God bless those courageous moms and dads who showed up
and said, no, I'm going to speak what I believe
is what I know to be as truth, and I'm
going to fight for the lives of my children. Nehemiah.
Right there, up there repairing the wall after Jerusalem has
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been sacked. And he said, you hear the sound of
the trumpet? What do you do? Say it with me.
You've heard me say it a thousand times. You fight
for your families. Honestly, that fighting for our families never ends.
And so let me tell you the story about a
mom in North Carolina. This is a hysterical story. So
homeschooling mom by the name of Kristen Barkley and her
family moved from South Carolina to North Carolina. And there
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were a few more hoops that they had to jump
through if they wanted to homeschool their kids in North
Carolina than they had in South Carolina. And one of
those hoops in North Carolina says that homeschooling parents have
to have at least a high school diploma, and then
they have to submit to a state along with their intention.
They have to submit that diploma from high school, along
with a statement that said they planned to homeschool. No
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problem for Barkley, she'd been there before. She was a
graduate of Sweet Briar College, which is a very historical
women's college in Virginia. But North Carolina's Department of Non-Public
education denied her application. And this is why I love
to talk to Will Estrada from the Home School Legal
Defense Association. Here's what they said. She received an email
from the Department of Nonpublic Education containing concerning message. One
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or more problems exist in your notice of intent. Specifically,
the diploma evidence was not written in English. The email
added that it wasn't until this problem was that this
email added that until this problem is corrected, your homeschool
is not legally registered with the state of North Carolina.
The diploma was written in Latin. Okay. All the diplomas
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from Sweet Briar College are written in Latin. In fact,
most of the Ivy League colleges. Oxford, Cambridge. Their diplomas
are written in Latin. I'm sure that comes as a
surprise to the Office of Nonpublic Education in North Carolina.
So Berkeley contacted Sweet Briar. They sent an English translation
to the department. They denied her application again. This time
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they said the translation didn't have her name on it,
so they wanted the college transcript. So she says, I'm
getting the runaround. So she goes back to my friends
at the Home School Legal Defense Association, which sent the
state a ridiculous letter that said the Home School Legal
Defense Association senior counsel wrote a letter on Christian's behalf,
pointing out that their request for additional documentation went beyond
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what state law requires. What he didn't add, but could have,
is that the Department of Nonpublic Education was wrong to
consider the Latin diploma sui generis, an outlier posing a
unique problem. They pointed out the department was asking for
more than what was legally required. Well guess what? Abracadabra.
God bless the home school legal defense Association. They backed
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down immediately. Uh. And the translation, written in English, apparently
was the one they could really read. So here's what
she said. Thankfully, it wasn't a scary legal issue, but
it was an unnecessary difficulty. The most frustrating part was
that I did what they asked me, but they said, no, no,
you need to do more. My feeling was that I
have my diploma and that should have been enough. Home school.
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Legal Defense Association points out. It's why I talked to
Will on a regular basis that a lot of this
is happening as government bureaucrats all across the country are
desperate to stop parents from homeschooling their kids. Does it
come as a surprise? You heard the caterwauling of the NEA.
You heard some of the resolutions they just passed. You
know that they're very upset. The dough might be shut
because that has to do with funding their entity again
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and their ideas, which is far more important. So what's
anathema to them is that a parent would choose to homeschool.
I think it's absolutely hysterical. And honestly, it's a moment
of embarrassment for the Department of Non-Public education. Wouldn't accept
the diploma because it was in Latin. I don't know
about you. You know, I was around when we had
the height.
S13 (32:46):
By the way, the only requirement in the state school
was a high school diploma, not a college diploma. Instead,
she graduated from a a legendary women's college in Virginia
after four years of college. But it was written in
the world of academia that is in Latin.
S1 (33:05):
And here's another indictment I was around when we had
rotary phones. I took Latin in school.
S13 (33:10):
I did too. Now it was tough, but.
S1 (33:12):
I loved.
S13 (33:13):
It. There were some classics that are written in Latin
that we had to read, right?
S1 (33:16):
Exactly right. And instead of di CRT, climate change, women's rights,
reproductive rights, trans ideology, Marx.
S13 (33:24):
Or having AI, you know, teach us what we're supposed
to learn.
S1 (33:27):
Exactly. Well, it's Archimedes bathtub. Yeah, there's an idea from
the classics. You've got a bathtub when you pour more
water in. Archimedes bathtub can only hold so much water.
What happens? Something spills out. So the minute you pour
in di, CRT, Marxism, reproductive rights, yada yada, yada, what
spills over? Math, science, reading and ridiculous. So I think
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it's it's an embarrassment, by the way. And it was
in North Carolina.
S13 (33:52):
Janet, you and I watched this quite a bit in
terms of the trends of education over the years. This
is not a one off. No, this isn't just an anomaly. Uh, the, uh,
the treatment of of people who want to homeschool or
teach homeschooling have to go through these, um, sometimes rigorous
requirements of a state that are almost designed to deny
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the ability to homeschool. That's a problem. And I am
so glad that the lawyers stepped in to defend the
rights of homeschoolers.
S1 (34:24):
And, you know, we've known Home School Legal Defense Association
as far back as when Mike Farris was the head
of it. And, you know, this is before he founded
Patrick Henry College, and he was a watchman on the
wall for protecting homeschoolers and has been for decades, by
the way, and God bless this organization. So if you
are ever considering prayerfully as a family and whether or
not you're going to homeschool. And by the way, let
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me just give you a note of encouragement for a
whole lot of people who thought, oh, I can never
do that. I bet you did it during Covid. And
guess what? You survived. And maybe it wasn't as hard
as you thought it would be, but there are states
who think that you are, uh, you're not swimming with
the flow here. You're not? I almost said swimming with
the herd, but that would have been a mixed metaphor.
That would be dangerous. So I didn't say that. So
if you decide to do something different and not go
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to send your child to a public school, which, by
the way, if you own a home, your property taxes
are still paying for local education, whether you're using it
or not. And I don't see homeschoolers saying I shouldn't
have to pay my taxes. So give them the liberty
and the grace to be able to be homeschoolers if
they choose to do it. And by the way, what
I also love about Home School Legal Defense Association is
they put out the stats that say, oh, these homeschoolers
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are antisocial. They don't do well. Yeah, wow. They're willing
spending their winning spelling bees. They're going to Ivy League colleges.
They're winning debate classes. I mean, sorry, that argument just
doesn't pass muster anymore.
S13 (35:40):
Yeah, yeah. So, um, parents, caveat emptor. Be careful.
S1 (35:46):
Oh. Be careful.
S13 (35:47):
Oh, no. I'm sorry. Yeah. You got to take that out.
Have that edited, by the way. Take that out. We
can't we can't use that language, you know, which is
ironic because a lot of the people who don't like
homeschoolers would want us to become global.
S1 (36:02):
So that's right. There you go. Well, okay. Thank you.
S13 (36:05):
But it's a dead language, so. Yeah, yeah, we got
to remove it.
S1 (36:08):
Okay. Maximus, we got to take a break. Wait, that's
not Latin. It's a movie or I don't know. You're
a gladiator. Let me take a break. We'll be right back.
This is in the market with Janet Parshall and Craig.
Partial on Fridays. More after this. You know, very often
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on Fridays, Craig and I talk about artificial intelligence. Well,
this is going to be an interesting segue from our
conversation thus far on the subject of education and a
marriage with AI. So the American Federation of Teachers, and
that is the nation's largest teachers union. It's bigger than
the NEA, and it represents millions of staff within America's
education system, have joined forces with some of the world's
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top players in AI to ready another generation of tech
savvy educators. Again, not students. Educators. Announced Tuesday, July 8th
by the American Federation of Teachers and New York City
based affiliate United Federation of Teachers, along with tech giants Microsoft,
OpenAI anthropic, the new national Academy for AI instruction, will
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funnel $23 million toward free AI training and curriculum for
all 1.8 million union members. Again, not going to the students.
This is this is teaching the teachers. So our kids
are not reading at an appropriate reading level. They're not
doing math at appropriate levels. Now we're going to get
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the teachers to do I, I can just see it, uh, chatbot. Right.
My English lesson for tomorrow so I don't have to
do it again Monday I'm going to talk with Doug Smith,
our one. I hope he can join me because we're
going to talk about a new study that's been released,
sneak peek, that actually says using this stuff damages your
thinking skills. And then it actually is a downturn on
our being able to think critically. Oh, good. More teachers
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who can't think critically just with the classroom needs. So
the goal of the program and its brick and mortar
Manhattan facility, which is the brainchild of venture capitalist Roy
Barkat and modeled after other high tech training centers, is
to create, quote, a national model for AI integrated curriculum,
according to the coalition. And it's going to focus on
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skill based workshops, online courses and hands on training. Microsoft
will invest 12.5 million into the training program, with additional
eight mil in finding funding from OpenAI and 500 thou
from anthropic. This is all according to the New York Times.
I will then provide 2 million in technical resources. Um,
Brad Smith, who's the VP and president of Microsoft, said,
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how can you be the vice chair and president of Microsoft?
But I digress. To best serve students, one must ensure
students have a strong voice in the development and use
of AI. This partnership will not only help teachers learn
how to better use AI, but it will give them
the opportunity to tell tech companies how we can create
AI that better serves kids. Oh wait, I'm going wait.
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So you train the teachers. The teachers are going to
get back to the tech companies so they can beg.
Your better figure out how we're going to teach the students.
Isn't it the teacher's job to teach the students? And
again you're going to do AI. So the teachers are
going to have more. What? Pretty pictures in the classroom
rather than reading Moby Dick or A Tale of Two
Cities or doing basic math facts balancing your checkbook, there's
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a novel idea you're now going to do entertainment pictures
through AI and write your term paper with chatbot. Do
they grade on a curve?
S13 (39:40):
Janet, I have to tell you, and I don't want
to sound like the cynical pessimist, the doomsdayer. Uh, but
I'm going to doom a little bit here, uh, because
I see a much more serious, almost dystopian future for education.
You are. You are taking Microsoft, which I have some
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very extensive information about over the years, and their worldview.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'd say the vast majority of you
listening to this program, Microsoft's worldview, its founder, and those
that run it is distinctly different, if not controversial controverted
to your worldview, your values, what you believe. But they're
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also joining forces with a national teachers union, which also
has values which contradict what you believe and the values
you would want to inculcate for your children. They're merging
together in this project to send AI into the classroom. Now,
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number one, I think your point is well taken, Janet,
about dumbing down even further the educational level for children
in public education. But that really dystopian part, that the
dark and nasty potential for this is that I buy
every computer engineer who knows anything about artificial intelligence will
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tell you artificial intelligence is taught, quote unquote, in machine
learning from a biased database. That is. And it's it's
not necessarily intentional. It's just the the selection of the
data that's presented to AI to quote, teach it, to
then teach children through public education will be extensively biased
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in areas A that can't be predicted, but b those
that we do know. Uh, many of them will be
opposite to what you mothers and fathers believe in what
you want to teach your children. Once AI I comes
into classrooms, it is going to be an avalanche effect.
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Not just a stream, but an avalanche of new learning, uh,
habits for children. And what the artificial intelligence systems will
do will be touted by the teacher as well. The
artificial intelligence system, which you're using kids, is smarter than
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any human being on Earth. So believe exactly what it
says to you. And that's the danger. Artificial intelligence doesn't know,
quote unquote, anything except the data that's given to it
and the learning process that it is taught. So beware.
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Caveat emptor. To use another Latin term, uh, beware what
you're allowing in as an excuse, or I should say,
a substitute for education.
S1 (42:49):
Yeah. So we've spent again. Uh, I take umbrage with
the union that is more interested in politics, sex and
gender than it is in educating children. This is a
precious and important responsibility of teachers. And I can say
that having sat on the teaching side of the desk
and understanding how important it is being given permission impliedly
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by the parents to mold and shape and teach a
child how to think, which is different from indoctrinate, which
is different from propagandizing. And so I think these are
some important conversations. They're going to make some people mad.
We're going to be going after sacred cows in some respects.
So how does a Christian respond to all of this?
S13 (43:27):
Well, number one, you've got a basic choice. As a
follower of Christ, you can either be fearful or faithful,
faithful to the Word of God, faithful that God, who
is always faithful, will give you the direction for the
education of your children. Spend time in prayer, spend lots
of time in his word, and then keep your ears
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and eyes open to what is being taught to your
child in whatever educational form they're in. Be totally engaged.
Don't give that sacred job to someone else to oversee.
S1 (44:04):
So don't grow weary in well, doing, especially when it
comes to taking care of your children. Stay grounded in
the word. How are you going to know what a
vain and hollow philosophies? How are you going to know
what sounds good? What's being what's being marketed as a palpable,
plausible idea, but in fact is inherently unkind, uncompassionate, and
markedly unbiblical? The only way that that can happen is
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by staying grounded in the word and asking the Lord
for wisdom. How precious a promise to know that when
we ask for it, we will be given it liberally.
What a wonderful application of that word! I hope you
have a great weekend. Thanks so much for joining us.
We'll see you next time on In the Market with
Janet Parshall.