Utah State school board member urges parents to flee public schools

Well, we've got some history classes and we've got to go to today.

Yesterday and today, these two days are book-ended with monumental moments in history,

when juxtaposed against each other, really turned our country in a different direction.

Yesterday's event started us off on the right path. Today's history class does a complete U-turn

and then takes us in the wrong direction. I'm going to spend some time diving into those history

classes today. I also want to piggyback on what we started talking about yesterday and that is

morality being at the core, being at the center of education, or at least it should be. Morality

should be at the core. We started looking into this article, this piece by Alex Newman. I didn't

get through it all and I wouldn't mind revisiting that today because I'm looking at another piece

here on un morality being the thread that we shouldn't let go. This piece is in regard to AI and

I'd like to juxtapose that piece along with Alex Newman's piece in terms of morality being the

center point of education. I'd love to get into the freedom trucks, the mobile museums of U.S. history,

the tour has begun. It's going to begin in earnest this month, but it has started the freedom trucks,

the mobile museums made a stop in Florida. I want to highlight what that looks like because we're

celebrating 250 years, 250 years of glorious American independence and what a celebration it is.

I was around in 1776. I was around in 1976 for the bicentennial. I was just a lad, but I remember it

well. I remember the quarters coming out and I remembered thinking how cool the bicentennial

quarters were. Matter of fact, I collected them. It was just a fun time. Celebrating the bicentennial

was a big deal. And here we are, the semi-quinsentennial. Did I get that right? It's a mouthful.

I don't know. Maybe I didn't. We're celebrating 250 years and it's beautiful. It's glorious. Listen,

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Listen, the whole day, the whole three days. They're just going to be fantastic.

So I encourage you. I implore you make your plans to join us there. July 2nd,

July 3rd and July 4th. So what we've been doing, normally we do this on Fridays.

We're going to take some time, though, and do it today. We've been highlighting some of our

founding fathers. Specifically on Fridays, we spend some time with the signers of the declaration.

Maybe men who you aren't aware of. Maybe men you didn't even know their names. There's 56 of them,

by the way. And we know the famous ones. We know John Adams. We know Benjamin Franklin and Thomas

Jefferson. Those are three of the five that were on the committee to draft the declaration.

Do you know the other two that were on that committee of five, by the way?

Yes, you nailed it. It was Sherman. How about the other one?

Oh, look at that. You two for two. Let me. Yes, you're correct. The other two. But we're going to

explore these men because a lot of people don't know the other two. The other two men who are on

the committee of five. They know three of the signers and who in the world are the other 53. And

that's what we've been having fun this year, at least on Fridays so far, exploring who these

individuals are. And we're going to keep moving forward in that vein on Fridays. But today,

today's a special history class before I get to the juxtaposition of a couple of different events

that took place one yesterday, one today. I want to spend some time on another matter of history.

This involved the Patriot Army preparing to occupy Dorchester Heights just outside of Boston. This

was the move that drove the British out of Boston. This was the move that just said, hey, we've

taken the high ground and we've got big guns pointed in your direction. It's your move now,

gates or hall, whoever. I think it was. I think I think how had been gates had been replaced by

how at this point. Don't quote me, but I think my history serves me well. So this is the day, March 3rd,

1776. George Washington's Patriot Army was indeed in the final stages of pulling off one of the

biggest upsets in revolutionary war history, one of the biggest surprise upsets ever. And it was,

it was really the first. And it was thanks really. All the things goes to a bookseller,

a bookish type of individual, a man, a man, a man by the name of Henry Knox is a bookseller.

But he's one of Washington's officers. And he comes up with a pretty decent idea here. This is the

opening phase of the war. And it found the opening phase, by the way, found the British in

control of Boston. The Patriots weren't able to break the red coats hold on the port as it were.

And Washington's running out of time here. The enlistment terms of many of his men are expiring soon.

He would, he would face this battle by the way over and over and over again. Enlistment terms

are expiring. And Washington needs to do something. Something has to happen. And it's got to happen

soon. Or he's not going to have much of an army left. Henry Knox, who is a bookseller turned

officer, has a, has a decent idea. So so Knox here owned the London bookstore in Boston. And he

was a reader. He read all he could get his hands on, specifically military subjects, especially

artillery. He loved artillery. He loved reading about artillery. He loved reading about military.

This is what made him so valuable to Washington as an officer, a commander, an advisor.

Because he loved to read. And this happened to be the subject he was reading.

And he comes up with this unlikely suggestion, this unlikely idea. 300 miles away at Fort

Ticonderoga in New York. Lay the answer to the Patriots problems. What, what's that answer?

Anyone know? Anyone know what the answer is? If you know the story, you know the answer.

Yes, you are correct, sir. The answer is cannons. Cannons filled the fort at Ticonderoga.

And it just so happened that Knox knew about cannons. And he knew that these cannons were at the

fort. And if the Patriots can somehow get to Fort Ticonderoga and get the heavy artillery back

to Boston, an idea that made several officers shake their heads and disbelief. But if they could

pull this off, then they could drive the British out. Now, the disbelief was, how in the world

are you going to transport all those cannons? You're going to march to New York. You're going to

go to the fort. Then you're going to transport all those cannons back again. How are you going to

pull this off? Well, Washington, Washington didn't care about the house. He loved the idea. And he gave

General Knox here, Henry Knox. He gave him his blessing. I don't think he's a general at this point.

But he gives him his blessing. And he says, go after it. You have my blessing. Go to Fort Ticonderoga

and bring back cannons. So Knox hurried. He hurried to the fort. He chose the 59est biggest gunners

he could get his hands on. 59 big guns. He hand picked them. And with this one, that one, that one,

the other one, 59. And he loaded them onto sleds and pulled them by horses, by oxen, by men,

any way he could pull them. And he made his way south. Day after day, they skidded along the snow

covered trails of North America. They lurched through mud. They lurched through mountainous drifts.

They heaved up rough hills and down steep valleys, crossing the frozen Hudson River. The ice cracked

and a huge gun broke through and everybody panicked. At this point, they're thinking, we're all doomed.

We're out here on the frozen Hudson trying to haul these heavy cannons across the river,

the ice cracks, and they lose a cannon breaks through the ice. But somehow the men

not willing to let the cannon go, they're able to pull it out. And they do so successfully.

And in late February, the noble train of artillery made its way to Boston. Late February,

they show up. And can you imagine not only the look on Washington's face, but the look on all

the other officers who were like, this plan is crazy. Henry Knox, you're a fool for even suggesting

it. Be gone with you, but Washington loved the idea. It was crazy enough to work. Come on,

you hear that line in the movies all the time. It's crazy. It just might work.

I don't think Washington said that. He probably didn't. He probably understood the odds

of getting there and getting back again as a hobbit once said. But he was, to him, it was worth

the risk. Let's go after it. Let's get these big guns back here. In February, the noble train

of artillery, as it was called, reached Boston. During the first few days of March, 1776,

Washington's army made a big racket to distract the enemy while they moved the guns into place

atop of Dorchester Heights. So they're building and they're firing off on the other side,

the other side to draw away the enemy's attention to what was happening on the Heights.

Early one morning, a sleepy British century blinked in disbelief through the dawn

mists toward Dorchester Heights. This is where Knox's cannons, as if appearing out of nowhere,

were aimed straight down upon him and upon the city and upon all the British.

Doom had set in. They looked up one day and there were, you know, there weren't guns.

And the next morning, they wake up and there's nothing but guns. The biggest.

The British at this point realized they could no longer hold Boston, not under that type of cannon

fire. They soon boarded their fleets and they sailed away. Now, Dorchester Heights had Boston

in their view. There's no way that the redcoats can now take the heights that they can escape.

The ships are too far out in the harbor. Their big guns can't reach the heights.

So at this point, the Americans have free reign and they will unleash Holy Hell upon Boston.

What is so confounding here is that general Clinton of the redcoats was pressing hard.

He was pressing how pretty hard to take the heights. I mean, Clinton's over here like,

well, why don't we go up there and take Dorchester Heights and point our cannons down at

the American Army? And for whatever reason, how was it on board with that? But why would you not

be on board with that plan? Why would you not want to take the high ground? Now, there are a number

of these decisions even throughout the early phases of the war, but not only the early, but throughout

the whole thing. You're scratching your head as if to say, why didn't the British do this? I mean,

if they do this, this thing plays out a whole lot differently than what it plays out.

But they didn't do it. His brother, Admiral Howe and the guns out in the harbor can't hit

Dorchester Heights. And so Howe hasn't known the choice. He can't hold the city. He's got a board,

the ships of his brother and sail away in retreat. Henry Knox's long haul had saved Boston.

It was indeed the first major victory of the Revolutionary War.

We had the siege on the city, Washington, Washington came out on top. The first battle,

the first portion of the war went to the Americans and driving out the British and utter

retreat from the city. The loyalists, they jump on board the ships and they all leave.

And it was at this point that Howe said, look, I will spare the city. I will not burn it to the ground

if you let me leave in peace. And Washington agreed with the plan. He liked the idea. He didn't

want to see Boston raised. He didn't want to see a level. And he allowed how to depart in peace

in an exchange for the city. I don't know if things would have been different if they would have

just went in and just captured everybody. I mean, it would probably have been an ultimate

bloodbath at that point. Maybe you let them retreat. Could we have ended this thing like right now?

I don't know. I don't know if things might have been different. Hindsight, though. Hindsight's 2020.

It's 2020. But we owe this victory to a bookstore or an owner in Boston. The London bookstores,

what it was called. And Henry Knox was a reader. So all you kids out there, let this be a lesson

to you. Reading could save your life by galley reading could save the life of your country. It

could save the life of your best friend. Get out there and read kids. Read, read, read, read, read.

Like there's no tomorrow. Find yourself a good book and read it. Read it to your parents.

Buy a good book. Have your parents read it to you. As a matter of fact, I have got an interview

coming up that I am. I'm really excited about. It's with an individual who is involved in spearheading

a particular program designed to encourage Christian fathers to read to their kids.

I mean, it's this whole curriculum that set up. I've explored it. I've looked at it.

It looks fascinating. I'm excited to bring the interview to you. It's going to happen here.

Hopefully in the next couple of weeks because, you know, Alejandra Knox reading could save your

life. Reading is important. Reading, not only does reading, but reading good things,

reading great works, reading the great book and the great books, and exploring the best

authors that history has to offer. That is what is entrenched in a classical education. That's

the beauty of a classical education as we love to read. We love to read the best of the very best

to what we hang our head on. We love to explore it. We love to talk about it. We love to have

conversations about it. We love it when our kids get to the point where they can take part in these

conversations. That, my friends, is a beautiful thing. All right. So that's history class today. Henry

Knox and the long haul of the cannons from Taikonda, Roga, March 3rd, 1776. They showed up in

Dorchester Heights, shocking the British faithful, shocking them right out of Boston.

Okay. On the other side of this break, we're going to revisit another history class.

And we're going to do so in conjunction with this whole idea of morality and morality being

the golden thread that kind of weaves its way through history. We talk about the golden thread of

history quite a bit. We refer to it as the hand of providence. Morality is also a thread that we

shouldn't let go of. That we need to hang on to that. That can be the glue. The glue that

unites us together. We talked about this yesterday. We started talking about it yesterday.

And I'd like to finish that conversation today. Also, before this day is done, I want to get

to the freedom trucks and talk about the mobile museums that are making their way throughout the

countryside. They're pretty cool. I got to tell you that they are pretty cool. All right. All

this to come on the other side of this break. Don't go anywhere.

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Okay, so let's look at something here, shall we?

Shall we go back in history? And let's pay attention because something happened

yesterday. Yesterday wasn't an anniversary. I didn't get to it yesterday. I didn't talk about it.

I wanted to save it for today because today is its own anniversary.

And it has everything to do with education. It has everything to do with teaching history

properly. It has everything to do with morality being the thread that we should never let go.

Again, we started talking about this yesterday. Alex Newman wrote this piece about the Republican

who is on the school board in Utah, deep red Utah, on the state school board.

What's her name? Christina Bogas. I don't know if I'm pronouncing your name right, Christina.

I apologize if I'm not Christina Bogas. And she basically wrote an open letter to

the families in Utah basically saying that she was not going to run again for this seat.

But in this open letter, she urges parents that they should withdraw their children from the

public school system. She cited concerns over what she described as indoctrination and failed academics.

She said, get your kids out. That was her message. Get your children out.

She discovered layer upon layer of dysfunction in the public system.

And it led her to the belief that it's beyond repair. Beyond repair.

And it's probably beyond repair because morality is gone.

Because that thread of morality that used to be woven throughout our education system is no longer

with us. It's just it's vanished. Now, here's an example.

I want to give you an example of how we should be teaching our kids about history based upon

two historical events. All right, let's talk about yesterday's event first.

This would have been March 2nd, 1807. Congress outlawed the importation of slaves.

March 7, 1807. I asked my kids. It just so happened that our 10th grade, 10th or 9th grade.

I think that it was the 10th grade history class. I was I was subbing yesterday in the 10th grade

history class. Our history teacher was out for the day. So I stepped in any any chance I can step

into a history class to sub. I'm doing it because well, why not its history in their 10th graders?

And as Russ used to say, their young skulls full of mush to be shaped and formed.

And why not shape and form them correctly? Well, that's our model here. We're going to shape

and form them correctly. So I said to them, why do you think Congress would outlaw the

importation of slaves in 1807? Why not do it? As the Constitution was being drafted and one of

them rightly noted, there had to be be some compromise. The Constitution would not have

been ratified otherwise. And so the language in the Constitution is that Congress cannot

abolish this horrific deed until 20 years later. Ultimately, that's what a boils down to. So

1807. March 2nd. Congress passed a law banning the importation of slaves. Basically banning the

slave trade. Now, they didn't ban slavery. Slavery was still a thing. Slavery was still allowed.

That was going to have to be a whole nother battle. But the importation, okay, we're doing this in

chunks. We're doing this in phases. Importing slaves was outlawed. It's no longer a thing. It's

no longer allowed. And now we're moving in this direction to dispose of slavery, okay? The

obviously prior to this 1807, prior to Congress outlying the importation of slaves, the

Northwest ordinance declared that any of the territories in the Northwest, which would

indeed become states eventually, had to be free states. They were not slave states.

They were states that if they were entered into the Union, were free. And this was the model

that the founders had created. They wanted, as new territories became states, they wanted them

to be free. They didn't want slave states. They wanted to cause this thing to wither on the vine.

Unfortunately, though, 1820, March 3rd, which would be today, 1820, a new Congress takes over.

Guess who's in charge of this Congress? Anyone want to take a stab at which party is in charge

of this Congress? Uh-huh. You guessed it. It would be the Democrat party. They control the Congress.

And in so doing, Congress passes what we refer to today as the Missouri Compromise,

which said, look, it main wants to be a state, so does Missouri. So here's what we'll do. We will

compromise with you. We'll allow Maine to enter the Union as a free state, but you have to allow

Missouri to enter as a slave state. Geographically, where is Missouri located? Yes, sir,

it's located in the south. You know your geography and you know it well.

And these Southern Democrats wanted to promulgate this evil. Why? I couldn't tell you. I mean,

maybe because they enjoyed the money it brought in. Maybe they enjoyed the greed and the wealth and

the power it brought them. It certainly doesn't support humanity, but this compromise took place.

And it was the Democrats. Now, we are told today that America was built on evil. America was

built on slavery. That's a lie. America was not built on slavery, but there were indeed individuals

in the country that aligned themselves with a particular political party that did not want to

let slavery go. It's just a fact. I don't, I'm not even trying to be divisive right now. I'm not

trying to call out Democrats. If you voted for a Democrat, I apologize. I'm not talking about you,

per se, but I'm talking about the party that you vote for, the party that you elect. This party

is entrenched in horrible policy. They're entrenched in evil policy.

Ultimately, demonic policy, even, you could say. And they loved the idea of slavery,

and they were unwilling to let it go. And so here we are. We're trying to rid ourselves as a

country of this evil, but there's particular people who would rather not engage in a conversation

about the morality of this issue. They would rather just let it be. It's a money maker by

Golly. The South needs it for their economy. Let's not talk about morality here. Let's let morality

go. There's always been a particular group of people in this country who are diametrically

opposed to morality. They want nothing to do with it. And so this is what Alex Newman

was talking about in this piece that we started yesterday where Christina Bogas,

the member of the Utah State School Board writes this open letter and tells parents,

get out, get your kids out of the public school system. It's laced with indoctrination and the

academic protocol within the public system are failing. You are not doing your children any justice.

And ultimately, it's because there's no morality. The indoctrination comes at the cost of

there not being any morality. The failed academics arrive at the cost of there not being any

morality. We've talked about this and you might say, how does a lack of morality have anything to

do with academics? It has nothing to do with academics. And I would say it has everything to do with

academics and the proof is in the pudding. We've talked about the proof. David Barton and the

group over there at Walbilders, they have explored the SAT scores. We've watched the downfall.

Matter of fact, you can go look at the charts right now. They're on my Instagram page. The Dean's

list is 33. Just scroll down to the bottom. I don't post on Instagram a lot. Most of my postings

nowadays happen on on substack. But occasionally I will drop an Instagram. And the charts are there.

I encourage you go to Instagram and look at the charts and see for yourself that yes, morality

has everything to do with academics. Once, once morality was kicked out of all the schools,

when morality was ushered out in 16, not 16, 1962, 1963. We talk about this here all the time.

David Barton and that group over there at Walbilders ran the numbers. And the numbers don't lie.

After 1963, when the Supreme Court made those two decisions to get rid of morality,

when I say get rid of morality, talking about prayer and I'm talking about the Bible.

The point of prayer and the Bible in schools was not to proselytize. It was not to

Christianize Americans. It was to keep morality in the public school system.

And this is the whole point of the Ten Commandment battle going on right now.

And the fact that that appellate court and the Fifth Circuit

said that yes, in Louisiana, that lock can move forward. That the Ten Commandments can be

on display because they're on display right alongside other documents. And it is our history.

And our history is rooted in morality. It's just that simple. There's no two ways about it.

It's rooted in morality. And when you get rid of morality,

you take away the foundation for academics. It's just gone. It's just it's gone. What's the point?

What's the purpose? I mean, a lot of people, they don't make that connection. That morality and

academics are united. They're tied together because what's the point of pursuing academics now?

What's the point of pursuing hard things? What's the point of learning the language of God,

which mathematics is? Why would we study the language of God when we don't study God anymore?

When we can't study God, he's out. He's not a part of our public schools. He's not a part of the

public school system. And so when kids ask this question, when am I going to use this? The teacher

can't say, let's talk about the beauty that is presented here by God himself. That mathematics

is the language of God when he created the universe. Look at everything. Look at it all. You can see

the shape in some of the galaxies. Look at the sunflower. Look at, I mean, go through the list. Look

at the shell of a snail. I mean, Fibonacci is everywhere. The Fibonacci sequence and these

numbers that reoccur. Well, this has come from a creator and he's put thought to it. He's put

intellect to it. He's put intention to it. This is the basis of our moral system, at least in

education. And you can't talk about it. You can't present math in that way anymore.

I mean, you should still be able to. I think if I was a math teacher in a public school system,

I would. I would. I'd do it. You know I would do it. I would do it. If I taught history, I would

I would teach history and I would teach it right. All right, I'm digressing. My point is that

morality is tied to academics. Morality is tied to everything. It's at the foundation of

everything. And so Christina Bogus comes along here and she and this open letter tells parents,

get your kids out of the public system. Just just get them. Just get them out. Get your children out.

That was her message. She talked about the the whole language method being used. And how that

is creating dysfunction in terms of how we're teaching our kids to read. I mean, yeah, I was

looking at this report the other day. Talk about academics. Let's pause here just for a second.

Let me let me pull this report up. See if it's that's not it. Let's see if this one is it.

Ah, this is it. Here's the headline. K-12 reading math scores lagging behind pre-COVID-19

pandemic levels. This is a recent study. State math and reading assessments for 2026 have been

updated with questions that align more more closely with what students are learning now. All right,

so here's the report. Only one third of American K-12 schools have returned to the pre-COVID-19

pandemic. Academic levels and math are reading. This is according to what used the organization

that used to be known as Northwest Evaluation Association. Now they're just the acronym NWEA.

So they say a third of American K-12 schools only a third have returned to pre-COVID levels.

Now I got to tell you the pre-COVID levels weren't great. They weren't great to begin with.

They certainly weren't as good as what we were in 1962 before we ushered morality out of the

school system. But NWEA has analyzed scores from more than five million students across 9,326

schools comparing scores from 2019 to the 2024 data. That's the most recent from the name.

And the organization said that only one in seven schools recovered in both math and reading. One in

seven. They said that schools serving high poverty neighborhoods made the largest gains in

scores over the past five years. But they're still behind the pre-COVID pandemic levels, which as I

said, they're not great. Those pre-COVID levels. She said some schools have recovered by avoiding

initial declines. Others have rebounded with remarkable growth. And these rebounder schools offer

critical lessons and investments that can help students regain lost ground. But they don't list what

these schools are. But you know, Utah, she's telling us Christina Bogus is saying that the reading

is pathetic. It's horrible because we're going to learn to teach a whole word, but what happened

to phonics? I mean, we used to teach phonetically, which the schools that still are teaching phonetically,

the kids are reading. And they're reading at grade level. Our students here read at grade level.

Now, we do get some that come in from other schools who aren't at grade level. We have to bring

them up to speed, but eventually we get them up to the point to where they're reading at grade level.

And how do we do it? We do it because of the program that we use. And because of what they're

reading, I mean, they're going after it. She said here in this piece, Bogus said that during COVID,

the education went from bad to worse. And she said ultimately, it's because they were shutting

down schools and nobody wanted to teach. They weren't interested in teaching.

And so it was at this point that she said she felt like she had to do something. And so she

got into teaching. And once she got into teaching, she was immersed in the alphabet soup that would

teach teachers how to be Marxist. D-I-C-R-T-S-E-L. He talked about this yesterday. She said they had to go

through empathy sessions on how LGBT individuals experienced intimacy, that the teachers had to be

empathetic to understand how LGBT students experienced intimacy. And she said, here's her direct

quote, I was like, I don't need that to be a better teacher. Nobody does. We don't need this to teach.

She said the summer of 21 marked a turning point for her when the state board adopted a particular

rule that was originally titled educational equity in schools. She said the policy was described

as full-on installation of Marxism by some. And it was supposed to, the purpose of it,

supposedly, and actually was to inject more equity in anti-racism into education, supposedly,

I should say, but not actually. In reality, it served to only indoctrinate and weaponize teachers

and students. Teachers and students with particular ideologies that ran contrary to American

and biblical principles and values. This is what bogus believed was actually happening.

And she said, as a teacher, I could give you endless first-hand accounts of these Marxist

struggle sessions that she had to endure when it came down to teacher development.

And she said, meanwhile, parents keep expressing concerns about all the pornography in their

libraries and all the radical gender ideology and the assault that many of them are feeling on

their parental rights. But those concerns are just ignored that at best they're ignored,

at worst, they're mocked, mostly they're mocked. And they're drowned out by the teacher's unions.

We need morality back again. That's the point of this conversation. Morality has to return.

All right, I'm up against it. We're going to pause here for this break. We'll pick it up again

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this yesterday. Ultimately, Christina Bogus makes note here that Utah is a deeply conservative state.

It's basically dominated in the government by Republicans. So, how in the world can it be

that herself or Republican writes an open letter to parents saying, get your kids at a public school?

You know, we're aware of these issues and Democrat-controlled states. You know, we believe it's more

widespread. But she said it's everywhere, and specifically, Utah families have a false sense of

security. And I would imagine any family that has their child in a public school who is a

any conservative family whose child is in a public school probably has this false sense of security

from the most part. She said, despite its Republican majority, 13 of the board's 15 members

identify as Republican, the board's voting record says otherwise. How can that be? Well,

perhaps they're Republican and name only. And just one instance, an April 2025 resolution banning

DEI from Utah public schools failed in a vote of 10 to 4. How in the world when you have 15

board members and 13 of the 15 say they're Republican? How does banning DEI from Utah schools

fail in a vote of 10 to 4? It should have been 15 or 13 to 2. It should have been a smackdown.

I mean, you got board members over there, bought and paid for? Or are they just? Is it that they

just run as a Republican because they know that's the only way they're going to get elected?

And they govern as a Marxist. She alleged that administrative hurdles updated forms and a lack of

response make it difficult to accomplish anything of substance. She said there's always one excuse

after another. She said some critics dismissed her concerns accusing her of being an elitist or

having, you guessed it, white privilege. Of course, she's a white woman. Yes, she has white privilege.

Of course, that's the case. She's an elitist who has white privilege. However, bogus, who was,

I hope I'm pronouncing her name right, bogus, bogus, bogus. I don't know, bogus.

She's born into foster care and she wasn't adopted until the age of 11.

By 23, she was a single mother trying to make ends and to me. So yeah, lead us. She said that's

definitely not me, definitely not an elitist. Most assuredly, not an elitist. Come on, give me a break,

elitist. But you know, that's the go to it. It becomes name calling.

She said that the problems within the education system are not being halted by the state's

Republican-controlled legislature, although voters don't even realize it. For example, she said

an anti-DI in education bill was passed by lawmakers. But it included many exemptions and no progress

has been made. She cited playcation bills taking place in the legislature. We're going to play

Kate. And that's part of what got her involved in the first place was this playcating going on.

Before her election, she testified before lawmakers and people began to encourage her to run

for office. Finally, when her husband suggested she run, she decided to go for it. But what she found

was a system that she says is impervious to positive change. It's impervious.

We are no longer teaching content knowledge, she said. The system is so stuck in these

woke ideals, it's not teaching children to really think, aha, and there it is. We are not

teaching kids to think. We're not teaching them how to think. We're not

we're not teaching them how to have courage or have have prudence or have wisdom or have faith

hope and love or have thoughts about any of these things. She said the curriculum is terrible,

veteran teachers know it. But they continue to use it anyway because they have to. They have

no other choice. She said they've dumbed down everything that children are reading garbage

if they even read it all. Isn't that just what I just got done saying? I just feel like I just

said that a few minutes ago that we read here we read the great book The Great Books

and the very best authors that history has to offer us. But it's not that way in most public systems.

And she's not the only one speaking out on this though. There was another

Board of Education member from Utah by the name of Emily Green who also announced she was not

seeking re-election. Green made a social media post. She said we should not look to politicians

for salvation of our families and this nation's future. If we want to preserve what matters,

that battle now belongs to us. It starts with parents reclaiming their authority and responsibility.

We outsourced our most sacred work and our children are suffering the consequences.

That hits deep. We outsourced our most sacred work. What is the most sacred work?

Well it's educating your kids. It's raising your children in the values and the virtues and the

morals that you want them to have and that's been outsourced. It's been outsourced to people

who don't share your values, who don't share your virtues and who certainly don't share your

morals. They are diametrically opposed to what you stand for as an American family member,

as an American parent, as an American grandparent. They're diametrically opposed to it.

I mean the school board in Montgomery County, Maryland said that their plans have been thwarted

thanks to that Supreme Court ruling telling the school board that children had the right to opt out,

parents had the right to opt their children out, homosexual content material. That goes against

our plan. That's really going to thwart our efforts. I mean I'm paraphrasing me. That's what

the board said. That's really going to slow down what we're trying to do over here,

which is turn the kids against the parents. It's too indoctrinating.

An Arizona farmer state superintendent, Diane Douglas, who had served from 2015 to 2019,

came to the same conclusion as as Green and Bogus, that the public school systems as beyond reform.

Douglas said the system was designed to do what it's doing. The only real option is to abandon it.

And she reached out to Bogus after her comments. When asked what was next,

Bogus said she wasn't sure yet, but likely she'd finished her term and continue teaching as long

as the Lord's, as long as it's the Lord's will, she said. I look forward to affecting the

lives of the next generation for as long as the Lord allows it. The communications coordinator

from the state board of education here in Utah, Kelly Sprout told the epoch times that the comments

made by Bogus reflect her individual opinion, and they are not the official opinion or position of

the board. Well, of course they're not. I mean, if the boards voting 10 to 4 against a DEI

abandonment, Kelly Sprout said the board stands by the work done by our dedicated staff who worked

tirelessly to accomplish the board's mission of academic and organizational excellence and

Utah education for an elevated educated citizenry. But is that what we have? Do we have an elevated

educated citizenry? And can we possibly have an elevated educated citizenry if that citizenry

is not taught morality? If they're not taught values and virtues, if they're not, if they're not

given the education that our founding fathers felt like they should have, that religion, morality,

and knowledge should forever be a part of education. That was the point of the Northwest

ordinance, by the way, which also declared that those states that would be born from that

in Northwest territory would not have slavery. Because our founding fathers didn't want

slavery, and they wanted morality as the foundation of excellence in our education system.

All right, my friends, this is, this isn't going away. This is not going away. The objective here

is that you reclaim education. That's, that's the opportunity here. I think we should take

bogus as advice and Emily Green's advice and just come to the conclusion that the public education

system is defunct. And take back our most sacred duty, which is to educate our kids. Take it back.

Take it back. It's rightfully yours. You deserve it. Take it and do it well, my friends. Do it well.

All right. Boy, I'm looking at the clock and time does fly when you're having fun.

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