This School Helps Poor Kids Succeed, Teacher Unions Try To Shut It Down 

Shows how out of touch Hochul is.

Please attend a charter school. "Imagine" is not a question, "state governor" is not supposed to be capitalized and neither is "black." Correct sentence: Imagine a state governor* stating that black* children don't know what a computer is.*

@@SalvableRuin Mid sentence capitalization has a long history going back at least a couple hundred years but these days RU-vid supports at least some AsciiDoc. Say like: "Imagine a _state governor_ stating that _black_ children don't know what a computer is?" or "Imagine a *state governor* stating that *black* children don't know what a computer is?"

​@@SalvableRuinMaybe they would have if Democrats thought it was more important to: - Allow School Choice for All parents and their children instead of taking the "donations" (aka bribes) from educational unions - Stop trying to cockblock competitive schools, programs, and courses to pretend that their failing schools and ideologies don't suck - Get out the way. The selfish bitches would Move and get out the way. Just get out the way. Seriously, get out the way But, vampires love blood too much

Oh wait. No need to imagine... Hochul actually said that. That's really what she thinks of black people.

That works right up until you realize that so many of the machines have gone overseas, and today's American workforce needs to be able to think, create, and make decisions. Even in the trades, these kinds of skills are needed.

​@@rosc2022 Not anymore, thank you chatgpt.

He was absolutely right.

George Carlin was way ahead of the curve. The government wants emotional people who don't have the ability to use reason and evidence as well as question the system; This is why police departments only hire people based on an upper threshold for Intelligence.

⁠@@rosc2022that’s a load of bullshit. Even in the post 9/11 era many people stayed home compared to those in the pre-1960’s.

you dont need imagine it... the left does it every day.

"There's enough choice already!" I have no clue wtf she was talking about. You're literally assigned your school district by what neighborhood you live in; that's not a choice!!!

ANY FAMILY

@@humbughumbughumbug Most Rep states as far as I know have school choice. I know we do where I live. Have for years now.

@@AvalonDreamz that's crazy to me. Obvious what state I live in politically, and the unions purposely lock you into the school by where you live. Literally protects their jobs because they're guaranteed a body of students and therefore tax dollars. If you have a teacher or administrator that hates your kids or you, then you have no choice; the teachers union will destroy your child's life with falsely bad grades and constant punishment and probably sending CPS to your home. The obvious answer is to change the school district but that requires selling your home and buying another one that's more expensive. That's why home buying web sites had reviews for school districts for the home (although I can't find that data on Realtor anymore!) which made homes more expensive for good schools and really cheap for bad ones.

This. This right here all day every day.

Maybe, but it IS their right!

@@DMSProduktions no it isn't because they are employees of the taxpayers.A union just shields the scumbags so they can keep their permanent jobs with very poor performance. That never should happen.

Ehh property tax is extortion anyway... so yeah.

@@DMSProduktions They don't have a right to my tax dollars!!

I'm going to have to disagree with you. The Teachers Union is for the union leaders, not the teachers. A very long time ago one of my best buddies was a union official for his company (not teachers union). He bragged about the perks and such afforded to him and the other officials.

Teacher unions are a way to enslave teachers to government

Charlie, well if you’re still in touch with him maybe we can get an answer as to why public schools are pushing DEI, LGBTQ, and gender ideology?

@@charliej8606 thats every union buddy. they served their purpose 100 years ago when workers had no rights. now its time to go the way of the dodo with those crooks

The teacher's union is one of the most powerful unions in the nation. They are big in membership and money. A lot of money goes to the Democrats party.

Exactly

Exactly, which is why the system we have is based on the Prussian school system. Designed not for the good of the people, but to create uncritical and obedient drones. I think the education system would see much improvement if it were privatised.

Thinks? They know that, they don't just think it. It's a fact.

"I love the poorly educated." - DJT

And they are right. Socialism is a race to the bottom.

Do they teach how bad white people are in those charter schools?

Not only will he never see the inside of a good school but he has to live with *that* for his entire childhood.

LIKE a deranged lunatic??? She IS a deranged lunatic.

Think we all notics that !

Don't worry. She's not thinking about him. He'll get used to it.

@@lancemcque1459 So true. Selfish, activist parents are a cancer.

True

Neighborhood schools paid for and supervised by parents made America great. When the government took over, schools, and America, slowly declined. When the unions took over, American education fell off a cliff.

None of the money they receive gets invested into the students anyway. Hell, I'm pretty sure that they keep the quality of their "education" low so that they can ask for more funding as if that's going to do any good. This kind of thing creates perverse incentives.

Government is the only employment sector where you can fail upwards with higher positions, pay, benefits, and budgets

@@mattgayda2840 It almost seems like the ones who fail the most are rewarded the most.

lmao only clowns quote that joker

I agree! They're really bad and they're run by really bad people.

Wow! Mandarin! That is incredible! Teacher's Union is just plain evil! To deny this type of reality is insanity

Yinghua academy?

its sad that the union mafia does that to large cities. i learned mandarin in public high school.

Not just teachers unions but all unions, socialism at its finest.

yep, I guessing non union screen out the bad one and the union end up with them. it is a union busting scheme that all it is although I'm not saying the school are run right.

You got it in one… follow the money.

Charter schools take money from public school. That is a fact. Stosel showed you a graph showing their rate of success with less funding, which only showed half of the equation and left out half of charter schools funding. The graph intentionally mislead. That’s propaganda

Propaganda does not mean untrue. I believe you meant to say something like, "... isn't just wrong, it's the opposite of truth." All the best propaganda is true. It is far more convincing that way. Propaganda is only wrong when they lie and/or it is used to harm rather than benefit a population. However, that is subjective enough that there can be a debate about every message from the government. I would imagine their score would be around 60% good, 40% bad. Or a D-. Government got about 0% right during COVID so their score is getting worse.

Saying that charter schools don't take money from public school violates the laws of mathematics and reality. Have you ever heard of a budget? You can look at the state's budget for education and they aren't taking, they're stealing since their who scam is a fraud.

There’s a few reasons: 1) they take funds from public schools, 2) they hand pick kids (no special education or ELL students), 3) they don’t have to follow the same rules (#2), 4) they pay staff less.

5) the education your child receives is much better.

Because the Charter schools would mostly show them up for the crap teachers they are.

Hand picking the best students seems a good thing to me. Those students won't be bullied for wanting to learn. If they are black they won't be told that they're acting white if they don't use AAV. They won't need to dumb themselves down to protect themselves. Anyway I don't know if you are even correct in saying that they hand pick them. In the right environment everyone can be successful.

Paulo Friere. Pedagogy of the "oppressed". He wrote the bible of how public schools should be run and they've been in a death spiral ever since. The kids that come out of public schools may not be educated in the traditional sense but they'll march in the street over injustice at the drop of a hat. It was never about teaching children but indoctrinating them. The Unions will never admit this, lest they be lynched by mobs of angry parents who realize their kids were made into tools of a sick ideology.

Shush! Don’t you know that things are supposed to be simple! You are gonna hurt people’s brains with your thoughts and uncertainty

Which is the reason we need more charter schools. We need a spectrum of schools with different difficulties and costs, different specialties and teaching styles. Schools need to have enough competition that the strongest survive. Every student needs a school that serves their needs. The only way to have that is to let the students have many options to choose from.

​@thesentientsword8480 and the money needs to follow the student rather than being spent directly on schools simply because they exist.

they use lottery system to take students

Or Athletics.

Traditional: science, English, being a decent human 😅

Race doesn't exist. Sex is not an appropriate subject for children.

If charter schools take Federal money, they're also woke. Not woke=no Federal money.

Do they hire based on DEI?

Well said!

To reference a common saying, they don't want people to learn how to fish, they want government to give them their fish every day, so that come election time they can scare the people with "My Republican opponent would take your fish away, and you would starve".

thats why their motto is "vote blue no matter who". its literally "don't think about it, just vote for us"

Yep... demos r up to their old tricks of trying to keep ppl uneducated!🤦🏾‍♀️

Bingo!

Thank god, ppl with the actual power to enact anything as monstrous as you have suggested, are too intelligent to even entertain such a nitwit thought. Go back to your trough.

Unless you want to have a cushy retirement on the local taxpayers backs.

@@illbeyourmonster5752 That is more true than most have any clue of, and I know a _ton_ of teachers.

@@illbeyourmonster5752 we don;t need unions for a nice retiremnet plan. We can all eanr more, save and invest on our own.

They are bad but not as bad as cop unions!

They all suck equally. Everything unions originally fought for legitimately is now federal law. Their only purpose now is to keep those monthly dues checks coming in to keep their elected democrat politician's and union official's slush fund afloat.

You are forgetting the lobbying arm of the “unions “ got to pay for all that bribery.

Teachers are supposed to be second parents

and about the power of the union to influence gov't to get more and more tax money sent their way

​@@PortugalZeroworldcup And they are jealous that charter school teachers are making them look like the useless failures that they are at their jobs.

@@PortugalZeroworldcup Says who?

And so disheartening to others push to shut it down

I’m lucky that in Canada in the 90s we still had human like teachers and humanity. I went to a public school in the suburbs of Toronto.

I love that they’re proving that ALL kids can achieve academically if given the chance.

@@myahnombre That's right. The culture of "success is too white" needs to be completely abolished!

@@KimberlyCaldwell-xb2if "And so disheartening to others push to shut it down" especially when they themselves are black too! These kids are our future. Why set low expectations for ANY kid? Set it high and let the kid figure things out along with the teachers who do the same. Brilliant! It's almost like Success Academy understands that people GROW at every stage of their lives! Why can't the Dems see this? $$$$$, that's why. Blacks are just cash cows for their public school funds and future voters for when those public schools brainwash them into thinking they're worthless.

It's also about lack of support from parents and sometimes even admin. When you have everything piled on you with no support, few resources, and ALL the blame ... I mean, what do you get bout of staying? Certainly not the money.

And get this they're only paid for class hours crazy right? The funny thing is folks want 110% out of their educators but only willing to compensate minimum wage for it. So no shit they're done with it.

You are dead on. And in some cases, the teachers who are doing their best, are blamed for the failing grades of kids who daily won't even pick up a pencil. That's the teachers fault? Those kids should be removed from the classroom so teachers can teach the kids who want to learn. But those kids have to watch teachers spend all their time on disciplining kids who don't care or getting that kid or two to pick up a pencil. We have our priorities out of whack.

Agreed, it is a combination of poor leadership, over the top record keeping, poor support from some, a minority, of parents but unless children have a safe space to learn and parents engaged you are on a hiding to nothing. My teachers took pride in their pupils achievements, it vindicated their efforts.

Exactly! The Sisyphean task of dragging an apathetic or even hostile group of students through a lesson is an exhausting experience. Do that all day every day with the addition of admin telling you you're the problem and parents alternately ignoring your attempts to contact them and yelling at you for giving their precious baby angel any kid of consequence, and it will drain the life out of any teacher. It's hard work, with little to no purpose or progress. On the other hand, leading a group of engaged students, who are enthusiastic and want to be there through lessons. . .that's the dream. It is encouraging and uplifting and fun. It's hard work, but it matters. What you are doing makes a difference.

They always were.

from day 1

They just did decades ago

If teh pandemic didn't teach people this point, I don't know what will.

The teachers unions are some of Biden’s largest campaign donors. They are 90% blue. Therefore, your children are going to receive left wing politics within their curriculum.

It isn't simply one cause. There are other elements that prevent some schools from being good. At this point I'll take good over great.

Thank democrat voters

@@dicky7600 republicans are just democrats driving the speed limit.

​@@dicky7600all voters are idiots...

Parents do worse tbh.

Teacher's unions care about one thing...and one thing only: more and more and more money for teachers.

It's way past time to take a good hard look at teachers' unions. Teachers DO need a voice, but the huge investment the unions have in politics has turned into a conflict of interest. They are nurturing a system, through their political contributions, that actually puts teachers' lives in danger in some locations. Way to get around the old spoils system as a way of generating political funding.

@@TeddyRumbleJust one other thing. Perpetuating themselves to ensure the competition never gets passed square one.

...and democrats, and the media...

Nope, not the unions fault, it's the teachers fault for joining and paying union dues.

It´s the parent´s fault they are not building utopia with comrades in there, they want the evils of capitalism.

Vote out the Democrats. Democrats = Corruption + Failure

And what are you going to do about it? Democracy a joke and privatization of education isn't solving the the problem it's deflecting the issue. Our education system and the need to change it show that democracy is a horrible way to address this issue, just look at how many people is going to disagree with me that's the point.

@LockheedMartinEnjoyer , what are you talking about? Privatization is producing the best results. It is being shut down, limited through legislation and attacked by Democrats constantly to prevent their precious teachers' unions from losing power. Your argument is actually that Democrats are effective in destroying private sector effectiveness with corruption. Get some objectivity.

​@LockheedMartinEnjoyer did they say they were going to do anything about it?

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Facts, It is the only way to build to a better future, Educate kids to succeed.

The public school system believes in no child's behind left alone. Sick.

No teachers paychecks left behind

The public schools have moved to a No Child Allowed Ahead philosophy.

Exactly. The public school system just doesn't work for a lot of kids. It didn't work for me, but homeschooling and alternative school and going to schools in my group homes did. My grades were amazing in those schools, not so much public school.

80% but still better than public school

Seeing that was the saddest part of this video.

I literally cried myself.

Nobody is stopping their parents from homeschooling them. Homeschooled children are some of our nation's best and brightest young scholars.

Disappointing yes but the answer to that question is NO. Here is the difference. These kids obviously have a parent or parents which care about their education. As such, they will learn to read and write in public school and will probably go and lead productful lives. The school is important sure but no so much if you do not go to one the child's life is ruined.

@@freeinghumanitynow Their parents likely can't afford to quit their jobs to do that.

Bad charter schools should be FIXED. Give up on the public schools.

This ends up just putting more focus on things like graduation rates and test scores than actual learning.

@@sergel02 thats a good point, i guess thats partly why public schools are the way they are

But this is a problem with no matter what system you have. There will be failing schools because there are several charter schools that are literally the opposite of this school. They kick students out. Who fail instead of helping them. Then the kids are so far behind they can't enroll back into a program at the right level. I feel like people are trying to rain the school systems, which either way, if you're not doing right by your kids at home, there's nothing that a charter school or a government school is going to do to fix your kids​@@sergel02

@@ljprep6250public schools can be good… if people actually know how to run them.

So now I wonder how Success Academy handles their discipline. The kids from poor backgrounds often have behavoral issues due to parental neglect. Are they simply vetted out before the lottery?

And ... is _terrified_ by it. That's why _they_ won't allow it, as long as _they_ are in power. We need people like Trump who don't kowtow to the establishment. Honestly, I think that's his greatest virtue.

Yeah, that was heartbreaking. Hopefully someone will be able to help that kid and all the other ones we didn’t see that have the same need but didn’t get in that year. 😣

Charter schools are public. They have a parental board. The one in my town was attacked a few years ago by activists for not allowing a commencement speech about a certain thing. The principals reputation was ruined. He was driven out.

I don’t think we should ditch public schools. Some people need that. If we ditched it entirely, education would no longer be a right, which it should be. Success is about people who want it, and as a public school student, I didn’t really want it. I never had ambition, I was just fine with chilling out

@@ajw20 I disagree, perhaps in concept you are correct, but in the current climate public schools only serve to train mindless drones, not actually provide an education. If i were to take that position, i would suggest re-designing the entire public school system to focus on learning how to critically thing and how to learn, not mindless memorization. I was one of those who pursued success, i found it explicitly because i was willing to buck the public school system by skipping straight to college (with reverse dual enrollment for all my classes). If i had stayed in school i would have continued to be held up by the way the school system specifically trys to ensure that no student can progress too far ahead of the "pack". I agree with your "success is about people who want it" my observation is that Those who find success in public school find it despite the structure, not because of it. Education has not been a right for a long time, (not only in america as well, globally as well) it has been replaced with a fake "education" focused only on raw knowledge and conditioning to unquestionably believe and obey instructions from authority.

@@dlanbatal I can agree with that, yeah, a very valid perspective indeed My main point is “ditching” public education simply won’t do, and it’s a terrible argument that will only lead INEVITABLY to a system where education is either fully privatized or where the best education is in the hands of those who can afford it, not those who seek it. I don’t think I need to explain why that’s bad. Reform is what is needed, but I feel like this commenter, and sadly, many people in this video’s comment section as a whole, are VERY misguided on incentives of education and how we can achieve greater academic success. (I also think people are being way too harsh on the unions, as teachers are people, too! But that is more of a personal thing.)

I remember hearing a story from a friend who's in IT. He said the one time he worked in an area with union workers he wasn't allowed to plug in computers because "that's an electrician's job".

@@Sgt_SealCluber Their rules are their downfall.

Yep, wanting everything to have the same results. Not effective at all

It's not all sunshine and rainbows though. The turnover is pretty high and the glassdoor reviews say less than stellar things about the management there. But it still provides poor families with a significantly higher chance of not having their kids getting involved in vice related activities

@ouya_expert I can imagine that standards leads to a lot of people leaving. Not many that can survive a high stress environment, especially when women make up the majority of educators.

Teachers unions function as intended by giving teachers as many benefits as they can. Unfortunately the teachers unions aren't getting the results in students needed to justify all the benefits. I agree with another comment I saw that said any entity taking in public funds should not be unionized.

...then Police Unions

And we must always remember that not all parents are created equal.

She was paid to be ignorant.

Competition is the key to most things. Because it means that people are constantly striving for excellence, competition produces both higher quality good and services and over times makes them cheaper.

Yeah. If there's something teachers really want more than higher paychecks (which is the narrative told by unions), is for the parents to be parents.

Yup, I have several family members who are teachers in the public schools and they all say many of the kids are from broken families. Kids with families that care and have the means either home school or send their kids to a private school, that's pretty much the norm here in MA which is saying something since MA is rated number one for public schooling. Unfortunately, if you don't have the means to homeschool or afford private school you have to deal with the public schools since MA doesn't allow for school choice to be used for any schools outside of the public schools.

Stop blaming parents. We are running as fast as we can to get away from you teachers. 5.5 million home schoolers our kids rank in the top 20% of the nation and graduate with real degrees and our kids are not on drugs, alcohol or sex confused.

@@stephenstafford3238 I'm a huge fan of home schooling. Anything that gets the kids away from the Bill and Melinda Gates indoctrination centers. More power to ya! Agreed. Homeschool is often better than public school.

This country was and is built on bootstrappers. The railroads in the Sierra would not have been built if it wasn’t for the Chinese saying I know we can, when the Anglos believed in themselves in that they can’t.

Yet another reason to NEVER vote for a Democrat

Money doesn't corrupt; it's a catalyst; if the person is good, Money enhances their goodness, whereas if they are corrupt, then it only enhances their corruption.

Government propaganda schools.

This is how Sweden is. They want charter schools. It forces Public schools to up their game. In Sweden, Public schools are force to be top notch, and its a bargaining chip to get students to come. Or else they will just go to a charter school.

I know that money is short, but never, never, let your children to attend public schools. No child deserves this kind of torture.

Congrats, your hard work will pay off.

That is GREAT parenting ❤

You can't even spell "principal" correctly. Get hooked on phonics. 😂

@@VoltairesRevenge its the correct spelling of the wrong word, so my no need for phonics

Yeah, she's awesome! But her detractors will just say "she too white!"

@@VoltairesRevenge 6th grade spelling bee champion here. I cringe every day, but I don't judge. Yer sadness is showing.

i'd love someone to do a breakdown of where exactly the money is going in both these different types of school, to show where the waste is coming from in state schools. i'm going to guess whatever it is, someone in the school is getting money out of it them self.

@@ge2719 The entire administrative division is sucking down the largest percentage. Nepotism in the school book line is strong. And I'm sure George S. has paid someone to insert Marxist pablum books in there, too.

​@@ge2719 It's administrators. Same shit as colleges today. Back when I was a junior in high school, I got on the schoolboard as a student representative. We didn't have much power (it was me and a buddy), but we did get to see the school budget sheet. We were a high school of about 2000 kids total, pretty moderate sized, yet there were dozens of people in administrative roles whom none of us had ever met, nor really knew what they were doing. And these people got GENEROUS six figure salaries while good teachers languished with a salary maybe 10-15% of what these crooks got.

He’s also a lot SAFER, public schools have a lot of violence.

Amen!

No but if you provide mentoring, supplies and tools to talented kids from poor parts of the city their chances for success increase.

Nah what children go through in the earlier years matter. If you were poor but still had access to better education you would be standing above wherever you are now.

👌🏼 Elon…

Agreed. Kids have a lot more available to them than 100 years ago, even the poor areas. The biggest factor in a child's success is their mentors. A good example goes a long way.

And on top of that each student they take away from public school is a child they can’t profit off.

The bigotry of low expectations is Union Run schools

Which is why schools are removing AP classes and calling math racist.

@@diveoshin1863 and a chance for a parent to experience parenting for once. Double edged sword to what is happening is families get brought together. Those that don't fall apart God is sorting the wheat from the chaff.

@@joeyGalileoHotto must make racism equal for the special chosen but only for the chosen....

I have heard the same story from several teachers.

Nah, the number one issue is lack of accountability for teachers.

Government will never allow it. The power of government comes from violence and indoctrination. The government simply won't cut one of its legs.

We NEED school choice!!!

The counselors we had in high school didn't do anything. All they did was bitch that X kid was going to flunk out and be useless. They'd scold you, but none of them ever helped you.

I agree in principle, but I think children and their parents need to take charge of their education rather than letting others handle it for them. Allowing the state and federal governments to inject themselves in to local matters through grants and other funding was a huge mistake.

@@The_Gallowglass I'm not sure what the standard is, but I went to high school in the 80's and never once met or talked to a guidance counselor.

@@slipperyslope8413 I only did twice and both times she was an asshole. She even told my friend he would never amount to anything, but now he's an RN, has a beautiful house and property, wife and kid...so she was totally wrong.

Most likely

Every human has a father. Humans do not procreate asexually. They might know their father or live with their father but every human has a father.

If they don't, they will still likely BE dads to the kids they father.

well its a random lottery, so over half of them won't. but if they go to a nicer school that is ran better and teaches them discipline like their father should be doing, then they will have less behaviour issues and be more effective learners.

I thought that part of the point of the lottery was to not discriminate on family type. My understanding was that the father-present stats for these kids was similar to the surrounding community. That's part of why the academy stands out: they don't accept father absence as an excuse. Yes, fathers do make a huge difference, and it is far more difficult to educate a child without one, but Success Academy just treats that as one more challenge to overcome.

This

Its a money funneling system: government money goes to schools, then gets recycled to the city, and lines the pockets of underqualified bureacrats who constantly delay projects

its not like we have a company that's an actual monopoly

I'm an Airline Pilot who got furloughed once and so I sub taught for nearly two years and I was horrified by the conditions of the public school system where I live. Even more than this though, was the incredible levels of narcissism exhibited by the fulltime staff. They're as smug and arrogant as any work group I've ever seen.

No government entity should ever have a union. Conflict of interests.

Do you teach children that you think people wearing mixed fabrics should be punished?

The nonsense policies were deliberately enacted, were they not?

@PROVOCATEURSK An ad hominem attack unrelated to the topic being discussed. Clearly the school you went to failed to teach you logic.

​@@PROVOCATEURSKThe god tier irony of having "Provocate" in your username as you use a logical fallacy to provoke someone 😂

@@qrzone8167thats not ironic its literal 😂😅