S13, Ep. 26: K-12 & "Higher" Education, Failing Our Children

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We're breaking a major story, Chris.

Congratulations.

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Folks, I am elated that

people are starting to recognize

how terrible

big government is. In particular, Gov, Gov Ed, government education folks, the worst

mistake, as I've told you over and over again, the worst mistake we ever made in this country

was allowing the government to educate our children. And government, the founding fathers

knew and understood its natural tendency was to grow itself to make it indispensable. So

the people who were involved in government could always have jobs, jobs, security. It's,

it's human nature. So what the, what the founding fathers did was to ensure that the US

constitution was a restraint on government, was a restraint on growth and power of government

so that these individuals couldn't do this knowing that it's human nature to seek security

and to always be able to have a job and be able to provide and survive, right? It's a basic

natural human instinct that must be defeated when you're talking about government. And Gov Ed,

as a prime example of this, in the state of Texas, government education is massively powerful.

It takes it in, inordinate amount of our, of our income. It take, it takes tax dollars and

doesn't perform and doesn't have to perform. It's, it's so crazy. These people take an increasing

amount of our money. They take the most out of, out of any country on earth. We spend the most

per capita of any nation on planet earth on government education. And what does it get us?

Pure garbage. My buddy Kenny Webster, you've, he's on radio in Houston and he does a podcast as

well. He was talking about just how whacked out the government education system is. It's not

just in Texas. It's everywhere. But even in a red state like Texas, this is the dynamic. Let's

say what Kenny has to say. Texas public school superintendents are making more than 400,000

dollars per year. Dozens of them. One guy is actually making $628,000 a year. That includes

money for cars and bonuses and pensions. And all of this while your property taxes are skyrocketing.

Meanwhile, the math and reading scores keep getting lower and lower. This is like hiring a high

cost chef to run a restaurant where the food is lukewarm and taste terrible and the service sucks

and half the tables are empty. But in this analogy, nobody can leave the restaurant and take

their money elsewhere. Now that's not how the free market works. This broken logic only

applies when the government is involved. Now he's, he's absolutely right about that.

Can think about this no matter how sucky your school gets, your government run school gets.

What can you do about it? Nothing because it's government. You can't say anything. You can't

demand hell when you show up to school board meetings. What are they calling you terrorists?

So you can't do anything about it. Here you're, and by the way, the government says,

oh, we're going to take more of your money and more of your money and more of your money because

even though we spend the most per capita on planet earth and it gets us the bottom

academic performance wise of the industrialized nations, we're still going to take more money.

Because we believe it just takes more money and it takes more money. Yet our continuing

as Kenny points out, continuing dropping of test scores from math, sciences, from reading,

it's, it is a bad investment because government is a bad investment. Public school superintendents

are supposed to be public servants. Unfortunately, in Texas, they're getting chauffered around

while teachers are scraping by and kids are getting remedial scores in math and reading. And

at this rate, the only thing well done in Texas schools is the superintendent's stake. It's time

to fix the system. We're all stuck with the bill for a meal. Nobody ordered and nobody likes it.

No kidding. And it's because there's an absence of competition. Nobody has to work for it because

it's government. Folks, government is a bad investment. Why can I say that? Because our

founding fathers believed it. They believed that government was a necessary evil stress on the evil.

So they worked very hard to limit its power. And frankly, the power to pick your pocket is

incredibly powerful and it ought to be stopped, especially because all it yields is a bigger bureaucracy

and crappier results. Now, Kenny brought up a lot of good points there. And I'm going to make

a few of my own. One, I've already made a couple of times because it's important. A fact,

the United States spends the most per capita on education in the entire world. That money

gets us the bottom of the industrialized nations and academic performance. We own the bottom

of the industrialized nations for spending the most, right? Why are we allowing these failed

Govet administrators to take gobs of money out of the classroom where it belongs? As always,

left-wing priorities are with themselves and not with your kids. So if you don't listen to me,

listen to Kenny Webster. Kenny is spot on with this. And folks, not to mention the fact that a lot

of our Govet institutions, remember, fake Republicans turned over you, turned over your children

to these Govet institutions. And what are they doing? They're hiring people putting your kids

at risk because they're not doing any proper vetting because all it's about is money for them.

Not about protecting your kids. Hell, it's not even about educating your kids anymore. It's all

about unchallenged power and keeping the money flowing where they say it's supposed to. You see,

I think the money ought to follow the child and not the failed institution. That's what we've got,

folks. Government education is a failed institution. Why can I say that? Just have a gander

at academic scores, folks. All right, more on education, coming your way on the

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for free. Texascorecard.com slash Chris. Folks, I want to welcome on Adam Khan. He is the Texas

scorecards higher education reporter. My man, welcome back. Thanks for having me. It's nice to have

you on because as I understand it, as you and I are doing this podcast, just today you had a massive

story drop. So what's going on? So this will especially be of interest to those of you

in the DFW area, but the University of North Texas, their board of regions at their last meeting

approved a leave application for a professor who is pursuing a venture in so called algorithmic

equity. We discovered this in the consent agenda for the February 2026 board meeting,

put in a couple follow up open records requests later. When we saw that and they came back this

week with just some really, really interesting information. Well, okay. So let's let's dissect this

algorithmic equity. That's I would imagine that's the same as diversity inclusion equity. The

die program, which is illegal in the state of Texas. So that's number one. Let's deal with that

first. Well, yes and no aspects of DEI certainly aren't okay, but that like the 2023

prohibition on things like DEI offices and like DEI certification and requirements for hiring

doesn't cover this type of research. I see. I see. So as long as they're doing it in the name of

research, you can you can research cultural Marxism all you want. And yeah, pretty much. It has

to be approved by several layers of several layers of the bureaucracy at UNC and they all signed off

on this, of course, but yeah, no, this is not covered by the legislation that was passed in 2023.

Well, the other half of this is back clear. Yeah, the other half of this is algorithmic,

which suggests to me artificial intelligence, yes? Yeah. I mean, to the best that I've been able

to determine as far as this project goes, it's some sort of, yeah, basically it's some form of

woke AI. They don't use that specific phrase, but they, they, you know, talk about a lot of the

similar phraseology in an email that the professor, the professor, who is pushing this. Her name is

Noreen Khan, no relation. She spells it K, she spells it K, H, A, N. She's the UNT Dallas professor

who is looking into this. I don't know necessarily much about her background, although in her

bio picture, for the UNT website, it does look like her bio photo is she's wearing an Islamic head

scarf. But I don't know that for an absolute fact. But she said a 2025, in September 2025, she

sent an email to Mario Casa de Calvo, who's the dean of the College of Liberal Arts, where she said

her aim for the project was to transform mathematics from a gatekeeping mechanism into an inclusive

data driven engine for social mobility and economic justice. Now, be fair, I'm not entirely sure

what that means. Because to some degree, it sounds like a bunch of gobbledygook. Yeah.

But UNT approved the project. Okay, so they approved the lead. Do me a favor, just say that quote one

more time. And let me see if I can divine this. Go ahead. Okay, so this is Noreen Khan writing to

the dean of her college, which is basically probably her boss, who's directly overseeing this.

And she said her aim for the project was to transform mathematics from a gatekeeping mechanism

into an inclusive data driven engine for social mobility and educational justice.

Let's let's deal with this first off. This whole gatekeeper nonsense that this goes back

to where these wokesters inside of government education and in higher education have been saying

that math is racist. That because certain people can't do math and they allege it is black people

and Latinos like me who are deficient at doing math thus their inability to do math is a gatekeeper

preventing individuals from getting these degrees in math and sciences. Right? Okay, so it has

nothing to do with their ability to do math. It has everything to do with that apparently only

white or Asian people are adept at mathematics, which I'm not folks. I'm not saying this is true.

I'm just saying this is what these left wing cooks say. And that's how they arrive at the conclusion

that math is racist. To me, Mr. Khan, I'm just going to say either you can do math,

which by the way I can't, I plateaued it pre-calculus, or you can't do math. And some people,

regardless of skin color or country of origin, have the ability to do math and others don't.

I think, I think an application like this at a so-called institution of higher learning

is number one, a waste of money. Number two is in furtherance of this idea of we're all different,

you know, and in furtherance of putting this wedge in between we all have different strengths,

we all have different, we're adept at different things. And the left likes to make us all the same.

And that's how it screams to me. What does it scream to you? Yeah. I mean,

I think that that's a good place to where it starts. I think ultimately,

that's a form of mind control. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're good. You're good.

But that's, you know, let left unshook, that's kind of where this will, you know,

plays out to in the end. Right. So, and by the way, folks, Adam Khan is our guest right now,

Texas scorecards, higher education reporter. And the second half of that saying, we want to use

artificial intelligence to, to basically bypass this, this requirement that if, if you're going to be

a math major or a science major or you're going to go join NASA, that you have to be able to do math.

We want to eliminate the requirement for mathematically driven, scientifically driven disciplines

that you'd be able to do math and this science. So, and so you can go get a job that requires

you to do math, but you can't do math, but you're still, you're still going to get paid.

This is, this screams to me what her whole project is about. Thoughts? Yeah. I mean,

I can't really argue with that. Well, what else did you find out on the article?

Okay. So, they also sent us her official leave request application where she stated that he,

she wanted to integrate artificial intelligence with equity driven practices, which I don't know

exactly what she means by that, but just that just sounds way too much like Chinese style social

credit scores for my comfort level. Yeah. I'm, you took the words right out of my mouth,

and the problem here is, like, if you really, I mean, if you really want to know, I think some of what

you were saying is a little bit more speculative, but yeah, I really, like, left, I think a, like,

Chinese style social credit systems is what this could potentially lay the foundation for.

Indeed. And that's what they're all, that's what they all work. Certainly. I don't want to see this

being done really anywhere, but especially in Texas with taxpayer subsidies. Yeah. You took

the words right out of my mouth that the, the idea that we as taxpayers are funding a project that

will ultimately lead to the destruction of our freedoms, our rights, our liberties, not to mention

academic excellence. I mean, it's, it's all going to lead to the destruction of, of what we have

built here, and we're financing it. What did the university say when you made the inquiries about

this? Well, we have not, we hadn't heard anything from them. Oh, that's a bad sign. Yeah, we're

probably going to probably get a sense and follow up open records requests later today. Oh,

another just, so it's not just that this project is going on and that one professor is doing this.

Who was it? The Dean who the professor wrote that original proposal to he in a later follow-up

email to the provost of the university who's his boss. So this is one person up the org chart

talking to two people up the org chart from the original professor. Okay. He said that this

proposal aligns with institutional priorities in equity driven pedagogy. Pedagogy is basically a

fancy word for teaching style. Wow. So it clearly shows that they consider some sort form of

equity to still be important in their teaching. Wow. Well, now exactly what they mean by that isn't

spelled out, but you know, and I don't think taxpayers ought to be paying for this. We, we,

I want, if I'm going to be investing in a STEM program, if I'm going to be investing as a

taxpayer in these programs that, that require us to, to be competitive in the 21st century,

I don't want to invest in a woke program that says, oh, you know what? Don't, don't worry about

being competitive. Just worry about being a communist. To me, I'm sorry, man, that's just,

that's just a step too far. That can't argue with you there. Yeah. Yeah. Well, where's this,

where's the story going to go? I mean, we will see where this goes, you know, we're certainly going

to stay on it and see what comes up, what they do next, but at the same time, it's finding

not really up to me. Yeah. Well, yeah, I understand the level of cooperation going to get and where

the desk there at Texas scorecard wants to, wants to put you, speaking of which, where have they

told you you're going next, anything you can preview the audience about your next project,

next article you're going to be writing? Um, it does look like Texas, tech in their university

health sciences center may have rebranded their old DEI team without having really removed it.

I think that is a possibility that that has happened. I'm not entirely

positive what that the new org is doing, but yeah, that's probably something we're going to be

looking into in the next few days. And that definitively is against state law. That that aspect of

it is against state law, yes? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, generally speaking,

so one thing you do need to understand about some of these higher ed institutions today,

compared to even two to three years ago is I do think at the leadership, both at the state and

at the individual institutional level, there's much more of a realization that there is a problem

than there was two to three years ago. Um, but cleaning a lot of this stuff up is also just kind

of a heavy lift. And, you know, you can't necessarily expect even if people at the top of me,

I'll give them to know where all the problematic stuff is. Um, all of which is to say that

Texas Texas current leadership has intended to be pretty proactive about addressing things when

they become aware of that. Okay. Well, we'll see where the story takes you. Adam Khan, everybody.

Higher education reported for the Texas scorecard. My man always appreciate the visit. Yeah. Thanks

for having me. Right there is going to wrap up this Salcedo storm podcast. A couple of things I

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