S12, Ep. 34: Government Has Failed At Education

On this Salcedo Storm Podcast:

Sydney Henry, managing Editor of Texas Scorecard.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hello, I am you happy people.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Down by breaking a major story, Chris, congratulations. Listen to a
single score podcast. I can tell you, folks, they're worried.

(00:44):
They're very worried about the parental school choice, an education
freedom movement that has been sparked in this country largely
due to freedom lovers like those who listen to this
program and President Trump himself. He has been committed since
his first term in office to changing the conversation on
going with something that works because Gov Ed has failed.

(01:06):
Let me give you a a story that came down
from ABC Fake News. This was on October twenty ninth,
the day I'm recording this podcast, so it's the day
of and it just so happened. I was talking about
this very topic on the podcast today. I could give
you the actual report from ABC Fake News. It looks

(01:28):
like it runs and I can't be right eight minutes.
Maybe it's some sort of special report they ran on
one of their programs. I'll just read the write up
on it to you to give you a sense of
where they are the left. The school choice movement is
bolstering access to educational options for US students and families.
According to parents, educators, and policymakers who spoke to ABC

(01:50):
Fake News, school choice has become a buzzword in education
circles over the years and can simply mean putting parents
in charge of their child's education. But by definition, it
is a practice that allows public education funds to follow
students to the schools or learning environment environments families choose.

(02:10):
According to ed Choice, the nonpartisan, nonprofit K through twelve organization,
they don't know what they're talking about, folks. Naturally, ABC
Fake News would go to people who don't know what
they're talking about. The definition of parental school choice and
education freedom. It isn't that it allows public education funds

(02:31):
to follow students to schools or learning environments of their choice.
What it does is it allows tax payer dollars to
follow the child. We invest in the child, not in
the government run institution. These are not government institutions dollars.
This is not Gov. Ed's money. This money was dedicated

(02:53):
We were told to our children, not to these failed
government institutions. So again, what is the name of this thing,
ed choice, ED choice. They don't know what the hell
they're talking about. At the federal level, the ABC fake
news article continues. Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, who chairs the Health, Education,

(03:14):
Labor and Pensants Committee, is urging states governors to opt
in to its his recently signed school choice model. The
provision included within the President Donald Trump's megabill provides a
charitable donation incentive for individuals and businesses to fund scholarship
awards for students to cover expenses related to K through

(03:34):
twelve public and private education starting in twenty twenty seven.
By participating, you can give countless students the chance to
pursue the education they deserve without any new state spending
and without new mandates or added bureaucracy. Cassidy and the
bills other Republican sponsors wrote in a letter to states
sent earlier this month, seems rather complicated to me, doesn't it.

(04:00):
I'm kind of ford. Just wait a minute, why don't you?
Because there's a dollar figure attached to every child when
they sit their butts down in the seat of a
GOV ed school. That's the dollar figure that should follow
the child wherever they go in that state that dollar figure,
and it doesn't. I mean, we're already paying it. The

(04:21):
states are already paying it, the federal government's already paying it.
We don't need to reinvent the wheel. Parental school choice
and education freedom says that a child can go where
the child to the child's parents deems the child should
go to get a proper education, and that the money
set aside for the child's education by the taxpayers should

(04:43):
follow the child, not the institutions. It's as simple as that.
But folks, all of the mechanisms created around this gov
ED industry, which is by the way, failing our children
and by the way, failing to keep our children safe,
which we'll get to in our conversation here in a moment.

(05:03):
This is proof positive, folks, that if you want to
waste money, if you want to basically start patting the
pockets of those who are least deserving, create a government
program to administer money, create a government program to administer services.
Because that's exactly what gov ED is, folks, a government

(05:23):
program designed to administer services. And by the way, the
entities that are created become the emphasis and lost in
the case of gov ED and your children lost in
all that is your children because the focus is on
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Speaker 2 (09:14):
All right, folks, conversation now with the managing editor of
Texas Scorecard, the one, the Only, Sidney Henry.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Hey, lady, Hey Chris, thanks for having me on.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
We have a lot to talk about, you know what.
And it seems a lot of Scorecards energy lately has
been toward writing a terrible wrong which is gov ED
and highlighting all the problems with GOVED. And there are
several stories out there, you guys I've been covering. First off,
a Central Texas school district reviews books to ensure compliance
with the law. This comes after a judge said that

(09:47):
certain school districts could keep you know, questionable titles inside
of Texas school libraries. So what's this all about?

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Right? So this is a different this is regarding the
different law. We also passed the legislature passed Senate built
thirteen during the regular session, which is intended to further
protect children from sexual ideology and increase transparency in the
content that's accessible to them. So under this new law,
it defines harmful content profane content and rather than I
think you were referring to the Reader Act, which passed

(10:19):
back in twenty twenty three, and it's had lots of
legal challenges against it, which federal judges have. Most they
have upheld the fact that book vendors should not have
to rate books. That is what the federal courts have upheld,
which was part of the Reader Law. Senate built thirteen
was somewhat of a fix to the Reader to the

(10:39):
Reader Act, and it came in and said, okay, no,
we flat out note we can't have profane content. We
don't want harmful content, we don't want indecent or profane content.
All of this needs to get out of our children's libraries.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Right and so a lot of parents would agree with that.
So where do we stand before we get into the
specific the specifics of this story.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Yeah, So, currently every parent in Texas has the option
of starting a petition to create like a board for
your library and asking your school district to create it
and then parents can be on the board and make
sure that what is being offered in the libraries is
good for kids and not harmful. That is currently where

(11:27):
the new law has. It just kind of took effect
in September one, so they're still kind of getting it
under control, making sure school districts are in line with it,
and moving on.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, making sure school districts don't get their own ideas,
which many of our gov Ed schools are just ignoring
the law and doing whatever the hell they want to anyway,
because there are no checks really in our laws that
hold gov ed schools accountable. So what about new braun
Fells ID what do they have to tackle here? Was
it profane books or was it diversity inclusion equity stuff?

Speaker 3 (12:01):
So for New bron Fules, it was profane books. It's
graphic novels with sexual images, sexually explicit topics, nudity, allusions
to child molestation, rape, incest. All of these things are
in books that kids have access to, and so they
are currently they close the libraries so that they could
begin reviewing the catalog. Now they've reopened the libraries and

(12:22):
they're going to continue reviewing the catalog, pulling books to
make sure that everything that the students have access to
is stuff that is appropriate for the age.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Okay, understood. Now, this this has been a chronic problem.
And as a matter of fact, I heard I think
it was Mitch Little at a press conference today in Salina,
or at a location adjacent to Salina the day we're
recording this podcast. It is this environment inside of gov

(12:51):
ED that a lot of people have been noticing that
because they have Democrat style competency inside of gov ED,
they have Demo style shall we say, tolerance for perversion
and for breaking laws, that we have this rash, this problem,
this this epidemic of bad actors being hired in gov ED.

(13:17):
Tell the folks out there is what happened in Selina.
The got Mitch Little and a whole bunch of other
people's ire up and it's causing a whole bunch of
legal flurries.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Go ahead, Yes, of course, So the Salina story started
at the beginning of October, a middle school coach, Caleb
Elliott was arrested for invasive visual recording. He was recording
undressed boys in the middle school locker room. The boys
are actually the ones who went forward and told the
principal and said, hey, he's doing this and this has
to stop. But it turns out this wasn't the first

(13:47):
time Caleb Elliott had been in trouble for something like this.
He had previous he had, according to the lawsuit that's
been filed, previous instances of predatory behavior toward boys. He
had started a quote quote romantic relationship with a high
school student, which in Texas that's a crime. That's called
an improper relationship between teacher and student, and it is
in fact a crime. He had also been caught last

(14:11):
year installing cameras in the boys' locker room, and they said, hey,
you can't do this, it's illegal. And so he'd already
been caught, he had been banned from the locker room
last year, and now this year this has all happened.
This fall. He was arrested for the invasive visual recording
and then a few days later he was arrested for
possession of child pornography the images of these boys. According

(14:33):
to parents, more than thirty boys or around thirty boys
were victimized as part of this crime. And Solana has
really gotten everyone all fired up because when this lawsuit
came out, it showed that not only was this coach
a predator according to the arrest records, according to the boys,
according to all of these things, but he had also

(14:54):
had all of these instances of past issues that had
either been covered up they been hidden. So now all
the questions are who knew about this, When did they
know about this? And why did they cover it up?
And parents have their suspicions about why. Caleb Elliott's father
is the longtime head football coach and athletic director in Solina,
ISD And so with the family connections, they're like, he

(15:16):
moved schools, who all knew? When did they know? And
why did they cover it up for so long until
they just couldn't anymore when the boys came forward?

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Right, And so this is a I mean, and it's
hard to imagine, although you would see because we know
the nature of people who work in Gov. ED and
the administrations these as stated, their Democrats, their leftists, they
don't have a very high moral fiber to begin with.
And it's easy for me knowing about what happened in

(15:45):
Loudon County, for example, when they basically allowed a young
man who was pretending to be a girl access to
the girl's locker room, he raped one girl, so they
didn't report the rape and they transferred him to another
school where he did it again. So that is what
that is what the mo of gov Ed has been.

(16:08):
And then look at prosper prosper isd with that bus
driver here in Texas, that bus river that molested those
two little girls for a year, right, and the school
district tried to cover it up rather than and tried
to get the parents not to go public so they
wouldn't get found out, instead of prosecuting the wrong doer,

(16:28):
making sure the wrong doer met justice.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
What is.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Maybe you don't know, because I'm having a hard time
understanding the psychology behind these leftists in gov Ed who
would see harm to a child and their first instinct
is hide it rather than expose it. What do you think?

Speaker 3 (16:48):
I honestly don't have an answer to that, Chris, other
than sometimes people do horrible things and we don't always
have an explanation for it other than sin. But in Solana,
a lot of the parents, a lot of the locals
seem to think this is this is tied to the
football program, this is tied to their legacy. They've won
state championships, and so the fact that a football coach
is in trouble for predatory behavior, the fact that he's

(17:09):
the son of the head football coach. I think that's
why this was covered up for so long and why
it was allowed to continue.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Wow, Well, if that's the you know, whatever the reason is,
I think it's these cases are poster children really for
parental school choice and education freedom, because it is obvious
that Govit is not looking out for our kids. So
Mitch Little was going through this press conference where he
was they're on a fact finding mission. They want to know,

(17:39):
as you stated, who knew what and when? And is
there any possible way that they could not that they
could not have known when hiring this football coach's son
about his past transgressions or do we know? Do we
know that at this point?

Speaker 3 (17:56):
I think based on the timeline that I've seen, they
may not have known when they high him, but they
knew after they hired him, when he was in a
relationship with the student, when he was caught trying to
set up cameras in the locker room, apparently he told
them it was to deter any stealing, but then they
banned him from the locker room, so that they clearly
had other suspicions as well. And according to according to

(18:17):
the lawsuit, what the boys have said is that as
soon as coaches the other coaches were gone from the
locker room, Caleb Elliott would come in. So as soon
as no one was around he would come in, he
would point cameras at them or and he always had
his phone like he and they thought he was pointing
the camera at them. So which seems to have been
true since they found a child pornography on his phone

(18:40):
of these boys.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Oh good grief. Well, so I think that's going to
be the determining factor here, folks. I mean, keep an
eye on what's going on in Solana, because I think
what's going to determine is Okay, once you knew you
had a problem, because it became evident and through according
to what Mitch Little said in his press conference, it

(19:03):
became evident there was a problem. What action was taken
by the school district, And if it ends up being
for the football program, it mean, Katie bar the door.
I mean that is that is just beyond the pale.
Anything else. Scorecard is working on this week we ought
to know about.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
We will continue to cover Slina. It seems like something
new comes out every other day. With Mitch's press conference
this morning, I know they're expecting more lawsuits to be
filed in the coming days. Mitch passed was the author
of a law this last session that got passed, and
that ends governmental immunity for public schools and abolishes their
official immunity protections in certain sexual abuse cases. So Selina

(19:43):
is really going to be the test case, and we're
going to be watching that closely.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Right And we couldn't he couldn't believe that in the
state of Texas, it was they had some he called
there's another name for it, something immunity. I can't remember
what the actual legal term was, but the immunity sovereign
immunity correct which allows government to basically get away with
breaking the law, which is really antithetical, which is against

(20:07):
really what government's supposed to be there to do. But
it was it was unconscionable that that was the rule
of law for so many decades in Texas, and it
took Mitch Little to get rid of it. Quite a
feather in his cap. Sidney Henry, everybody managing editor a
Texas scorecard. If folks want to keep touch, show with
what the stories you're working on or some of the
issues that are coming across your desk work and they.

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Speaker 2 (20:33):
Thanks lady, appreciate catching up.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Thanks for having me, Chris.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
That's going to put a wrap on this Salcedo Storm
podcast until we visit again. My friends, remember this, A
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A society's worth is measured by how much power is
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