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Todd Huff. Email Todd at tod Huff show dot com. You want to be part of today's conversation. In fact, I want to spend some time talking about a couple of a couple of things I've heard from a couple of listeners here in the past. Well, I think it was yesterday maybe maybe Wednesday evening or yesterday, So to huffshow dot com. Is that email address or you can text as well. Three one two zero twenty eight thirty. It's a pleasure to be here, and I want to start by going going
back to what we talked about. I think it was Wednesday, maybe Tuesday, where we talked about again for those of you, and I know folks, we have listeners across the country, and we're on in stations in of course Indianapolis, which is homebase, Dallas, Denver, Salt Lake City, Knoxville. Of course we have listeners on the podcast which Steak, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple Podcast wherever, and then of course Red State Talk Radio as
well. Those are all places that you can listen to this program. So I know folks are all over the country, but home base for us is technically Indianapolis. Now I say technically because we've been traveling on the Truth Tour. We're currently in I guess south West Florida. I've been here for a little bit, and but Indie's home. And there was a story earlier this week where a group of journalists called Accuracy in Media. They did a bit
of an expose. Reminds me every time of Joe Gatto from The Impractical Jokers. And there's some school officials school administrators in Indiana who were caught on video saying some app absolutely reprehensible things. Predominantly what they're saying is basically they are
trying to keep information away from parents, away from taxpayers. They almost seem proud that they are able to sneak in things like critical race theory, although they'll be quick to tell you, we don't do that in the curriculum. We don't have a book that says on the cover critical race theory. They don't do that because they know that would be well, that would be a catalyst for a very angry, very vocal group of people coming to school board
meetings and so forth. So but what they do is, and they've admitted this on video multiple school districts, and folks, I should tell you, and it happened in Indiana, but it's happening everywhere. We went through this earlier this week. I don't want to rehash that, but your school district has this. I don't care where you are. Your school district has this. Knoxville, Salt Lake City. I know that some of you out in Salt Lake City think, yeah, you know, we're pretty conservative. Bet
me there is someone in your district. Now, it could be just in the classroom level, could be one teacher, could be two, five, ten, fifty, it could be any number of teachers. Then we've got the principle, so it could be building wide. And then, of course, I guess the worst case scenario is when you have these woke superintendents or assistant superintendents like we have in the state of Indiana, who are pushing this stuff district wide, school wide, all the buildings, all the students,
and so forth. Now, there are many good teachers. This is not meant to be a blanket assault on teachers in general. But to act as though that there are not woke teachers all across the fruited plain is beyond naive in my estimation. So this is happening in your school district. One of the school districts that this happened in, well, one of these districts was
is Plainfield Community School Corporation, which is metro Indianapolis. I had a buddy who lives very close to there, not in the district, but close. He told me that he looked it up after seeing some of these stories and so forth, And I don't think you'd seen the video yet, but he'd kind of gotten a little bit of the information about how they were effectively bragging
about pushing critical race theory in the classrooms. Not again, not as not through a textbook or through curriculum, instead actually teaching things like white guilt, actually dealing with the whiteness of their students. But if you look at how this district voted, or the city or the county. I guess where this city's located or the town's located. It's Hendricks County, Indiana, and Hendricks
County is two to one Republican back in two thousand. I don't know if you looked at two twenties election or twenty two, but it's two to one Republican. That's how the election came out. So sixty seven to thirty three percent. So again, if you're Bernie Sanders mathematician, that means for every three people that vote in that county, two of them voted for Republicans and
one voted for some leftist who's pretending to be a moderate Democrat. That's the only way you get elected and those parts of the country anyway, So it's conservative, is the point. And again it's happening. It's happening everywhere. So I had a listener in response to this, Brian. This was actually on Facebook. Folks were on Facebook. I don't we don't do too much there because again we've run into some problems. I don't want to get into
that today with Facebook, particularly YouTube YouTube. And my estimation is the from my experience is the most aggressively looking to censor people who have opinions like like I have, and if Facebook has done some things too that are questionable. But we are on here. You can check out our Facebook page, be sure to like it whatever that'll help us get more traction there. But we predominantly use this channel, talk radio stations and the podcast as we're growing,
and we'll do more on social as we grow. But anyway, I got this message from Brian on Facebook and I wanted to address it on today's program. It's a good I guess, a good topic since it's a Friday, and then also it kind of summarizes again what I just touched on and explained, and it's an earlier episode of the week. So Brian writes in US as Todd has the undercover video of school administration. School admins even raised an
eyebrow with our lawmakers. That's a good question. So you think about this, you think this is something you have school administrators, assistant superintendence. In fact, I don't say the name of the of the individuals. They're public officials, right, So we need to identify who is causing the problems, who are who are the people that need to be disciplined. Honestly, they
need to be fired. We're well past that. If you're on camera explaining to the person that has the hidden camera, basically how proud you are of sneaking these things inside the school district, and you're teaching your students to do things that you know the taxpayer, that you know the parent does not want taught to their child, and you're bragging about that, kind of patting yourself on the back, talking about how you're doing it covertly. I don't care
what the thing is you're doing covertly. You deserve to be fired. One percent deserve to be fired now. Of course, just simply by knowing the names. We don't want to hassle folks like the left does when they find out where Cavanaugh lives and that sort of thing. That's not the point. That is not what we want. But there needs to be some public accountability. And so this ended. I'm forgetting her first name, A del Vecchio.
She's an assistant superintendent in Plainfield Community School Corporation. She one hundred percent needs to be fired. Now. The school district releases this press release or statement basically saying that the video was edited and all this stuff. It's painful to read. I think I've got it in the stack of stuff from earlier
this week if you want to see that. But the point is, the point is, if you are a superintendent, or you're an administrator, if you're a teacher, if you're a principal, and you were doing things deliberately and knowingly against the will of the taxpayer and the parent, you deserve to be terminated. I don't care how long you've been there. I don't care what level of degree you have. I don't care any of that, none
of that. You have violated the public trust. It's not a mistake, right, It's not a mistake these A mistake is if you lose your temper and you say something you shouldn't say. A mistake is handing out a worksheet that maybe has one question pertaining to some of these issues that maybe you didn't
catch or something like that. That's a mistake. But to intentionally and deliberately try to find ways, subtle ways to sneak past your true intentions and the actual lessons and curriculum that you're teaching students, to sneak those past the taxpayer, past the parent, and then to use some sort of clever terminology or word game to protect that little bubble that you've created, to make sure that you're not ever found out that my friend is one hundred worthy of being fired.
And so Brian saying, okay, so we've seen this video. You know what, we're the lawmakers. My first question, and maybe Brian would would would say this too, where where's the school board? Because I'm telling you, if I was a school board member and I saw this, the very first call that I would have made the next morning would have been to the superintendent of the school. Now she's not in this case in Plainfield, she's not the she's the assistant, I think superintendent. My first call would
have been there to the superintendent's office and saying, what's going on? This is completely unacceptable and this needs to be remedied immediately. What is your plan and course of action? The school board technically has one employee that's the superintendent.
The superintendent then hires hires everyone else. Then, of course, as it as you moved down that that kind of school hierarchy, you know, the individuals in ar of hiring teachers and so forth, Well, they'll hire their individual teachers, but the Superintendent's the one person the school board is really trying to hold accountable. Now, the school board has to, at least we did when I was on the school board. You had to approve usually
kind of a month in arrears any new personnel changes. But essentially there's one employee that the school board members elect, and that's the superintendent. And if this individual, this guy does not do his job and hold this individual accountable. I don't care about leaves of absence and investigations. I can conceive of no explanation, no context where telling someone with a camera, an undercover camera,
whatever. I can conceive of no context that would be justified in saying someone should be trying to keep things from the parents and the and the taxpayers from the community. There's that's not a good scenario. Public school is designed to be accountable to the local, the community, to the taxpayer. That's not happening in these places. And it's not just playing field, it's others as well. Martinsville School, I think there's a nut was at Elkhart or
something Goshen. I think it was Goshen, which is in northern Indiana. It doesn't matter because it is your school too. That's what I want you to really to know. And Brian saying, in this question here, what are what are the lawmakers doing about this? Because at least in this state, at least in this state, the state legislature is in control of a lot of what happens in education. Are they talking about this? Are they concerned about this? You know, it's disheartening a lot of times. Indiana
has lots of Republicans in the House and Senate. But I'm telling you, for those of you that are outside of the state, and again your state may be the same way. We have a lot of rhinos. I mean, folks, this is the state that gave us the governor of Eric Holcombe. One of our senators is Todd Young And this is not Those are not anywhere near conservative, principled, constitutional conservative individuals. These are folks that are
at best moderates and at worst something much much more ideologically dangerous. And so but what are the what is the state doing about it? What are the legislative individual legislators doing about it? Maybe they're talking about it. I certainly don't haven't heard it. I certainly haven't seen it. Brian says, here are they try trying to. I mean, he alludes to the fact of this being brushed under the carpet, and I mean this. These are good
questions because this is precisely what happens. And by the way, it's what happens when we allow individuals of any I don't care if it's school board member, county council, city council, mayor, you know, governor, lieutenant lieutenant governor, attorney general, whatever the office that's being voted on, whatever person we're electing, we have to make sure that they don't just say the right things during the election they say, wow, we've got a lot of
woke schools. Vote for me, and I'll take care of it. Well, now as the time. Now's the time that we see who has the medal to see this through. We see the true leaders that stand up. I don't care what the official leadership is, what the position is. I don't care about jeopardising committee seats and all this sort of stuff. I don't care about trying to go alone to get along within the Republican Party, and
neither the vast majority of you that are listening to my voice. You want to see results, and you don't want some weak need man be panby representative or senator or whatever, afraid to bring this up with leadership demanding that these sorts of things be addressed, because this is completely unacceptable when public officials try to deliberately circumvent the will of the American taxpayer, the will of the parent. That is what is happening in schools in Indiana. It's happening in your
school as well. I'm going to take a quick time out, my friends. You're listening here to conservative not better Talking. I'm your host, Todd huff Back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Just going through a question I got from a listener Brian on Facebook. He has kind of a part two of this question. First of all, his question was how what are lawmakers doing about this? Again, don't get these problems are all over the country. So even though the example is Indiana, this same
thing is happening in your part of the country and in your district. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, we talked a lot about what had happened in Tennessee and the Tennessee State House, which is relevant. Again, the same sorts of things happening there are happening on a less dramatic scale, with the expulsion of members and so forth. But they're happening everywhere everywhere in
this country, or at least the backdrop is the same. So it matters to people in Indiana that it's Indiana, but to those who are not in Indiana, this same scenario is happening, and we need to nip this kind of crap in the butt. So Brian also asks, He says, until we well, let me back up here, he says, the problem, you know, will the problem ever get addressed until lawmakers actually step up and do something about it, Because, after all, I'm paraphrasing here, we
have a bunch of educators who are being taught these things in schools. They are coming in as teachers at all levels. And again it's not every teacher, I want to be clear on that, but it doesn't need to be many when it's a cancerous and absolutely morally depraved ideology, which is what the
radical left is. So are we ever gonna be able to address this if school board members, if legislators are not willing to deal with this, are we simply not going to have more and more woke people in the schools while the rest of us watch the moral implosion of these ones highly respectable Historically, you go back to some of the things that um, you know, the education system had been. There were times when it was good in America's history.
It's been a long time, but now we've gone way past not even good to absolutely dangerous. I told a good friend of mine, I said, look, I we homeschool. We've homeschooled us. When did we start twenty fourteen? Is that right? Since two thy fourteen? So we've we've homeschooled our Our oldest son is um thirteen years old, thirteen year old son, eleven year old daughter, nine year old daughter. They've all been homeschooled their entire lives. Um, I've never been one that has come out and
said, you know, take kids out of public school. I think that
parents need to be very aware of what's going on. And my position had always been because I believe so much in the choices of individuals that we make us, you know, within our own families, right, there are factors and considerations that there's not a one size fits all thing and we should be able to be individuals who can you prioritize and all that right, and we still should, but it's getting harder and harder for me to say that public
school is a viable option for parents because of this crap that is happening. I used to think that if you stayed engaged in the education, that it was enough. I don't know if I think that anymore. To be quite honest with you, in factifies to be completely honest with you. I don't think that I do. I don't think that I do. I begin to ask myself the questions. I mean, I've been asking these questions for twenty years, but I really get close to answering a question, this question right
here. Differently, is the public school system? Is it irreparable? Has
it reached a point where the inmates are running the asylum? You know, staying engaged as a parent, it's not helpful, It doesn't do any good at some point if you're being intentionally deceived by the teachers or the principal, or the superintendent or the fill in the blank school board members, whatever, And it's hard to stay on top of it when you're being fed a line of what's really going on with winks and nods going on behind the scene,
and you're not privy to what really is going on. It's hard to stay involved, and so I get really close to saying the public schools. I hate to say this, one hundred percent mean this. I was even though we homeschool, I was a school board member. I'm not necessarily a proponent of the public school system, but I am a proponent of, Hey, if it's what we've got, let's make it as good as we can make it. Right. There's still good people, they are good teachers, good
administrators, but those the percentages are shifting, They're shifting. The evidence is abundant, it is all around, It is ubiquitous, It is there for anybody who wants to see, and it's It's makes for tough discussions because again there's always room for specific differences between schools, and maybe your school's got a great principle, a great teacher. But at some point I think we could all agree. At some point, it reaches a point of no return,
It reaches a certain level of corruption. That is that is not that needs to it needs to be scrapped, and candidly, part of what needs to happen is that the Department of Education needs to be completely eliminated, in my opinion, which sounds I look, it sounds maybe extreme to some people, but the Department of Education. We had a lot of educating going on in this country long before the Department of Education, and there will be plenty of
it that happens outside of that. I mean, if you homeschool, or if you send to a private school, I mean a lot of these. A lot of the education going on already doesn't need even a proficient local public school doesn't need the oversider direction or authority of the Department of Education. This just breeds corruption, and it breeds a one size fits all approach, and it's usually an approach that's said that that walks lockstep with radical leftist ideology.
And it's not healthy for your kids. It's not healthy for our grandkids, kids, his nieces and nephews, whoever. So the Department of Education definitely needs to go. You know what else needs to happen is we need to have If your state doesn't have this, it needs to have it. It needs to have the school the dollars that are assigned per student to follow that student. School choice needs to be a thing. School choice needs to be
a thing. If you are not happy with where your child is going to school, you should be able to move that child to another public school or candidly to a private school, and you should be able to get access to that money. I'll even go as far, and maybe I'm biased here because we've done it, but keep in mind, we've done it since twenty fourteen, so we're not doing it for the money. But I would even go
as far to say, why can't that go to a homeschool education. There's things that you can that you need to pay for for homeschool education as well. Why does why should the money not follow the student? Why should these school districts not be held accountable instead? What they want to do is what we've seen caught on camera here. They want to deceive us. They want to be an instrument for societal change, for social change, for equity or
whatever the catchphrase of the day is. They say that they can be instruments to be used by the left. They don't say this publicly, but in the closed door meetings they absolutely do. Teachers unions, that's another thing that I think it's an absolutely ridiculous debacle. I'm not a guy that's anti union. I'm not. I don't know that I would be. It would just depend on the circumstances. But I am against the idea of public unions because
who are they, Who are they unionizing against? Who does the teachers union unionize against. It's effectively, at the end of the day, the taxpayer, and I think that that's utterly ridiculous, to be quite honest with you. These are things that have the Department of Education, the idea that there's no accountability in school choice where the people can vote with their feet and move the dollars, and the teachers union and the crap that comes in through that
particular avenue is disgusting. I've seen that firsthand as a school board member, even in a relatively conservative and reasonable school. I mean, we had some really good teachers union reps that we dealt with in the past. But if you look at what the teachers union as a whole wants to do, if you look at the sides of the issues they're on and where the money they raise goes, it's certainly not to the constitutional conservatives. It's absolutely going to
the radical extreme off the chart leftists. So, Brian, thank you for the questions, well several questions here in the Facebook post. I've got to take a break shifting gears a little bit in the second half of the program. Here, I've got another question that I got an email about yesterday that I want to touch on. So I'm going to take a break though my friend Shift gears, and we'll see you on the other side of the break
back in a minute, my friends. A very very rare incident happened here behind the scenes during the break Oz had to say, I disagree with you on one point. And I said, do tell Oz what is the one point? And she said, look, I don't think that we should take that this you know that the dollars should follow the kids if you homeschool because and she's got a good point here, which is obviously not what I was
saying. I just want to be on the to be very clear about that, because she said, look, if if we were to take dollars and those dollars would be applied for homeschool, then there would be it would come with strings attached, which I get. I understand that. I understand that. My only point is to say, first of all, I would well, I would fight that vigorously too. And if it comes with strings attached, and I don't, I wouldn't want it either. But I do think
that. I mean, homeschooling comes with costs. There are many things. There's still the same curriculum and so forth, there's still filled trips and other programs that you might want to put your child through that the money supposedly is yours. Anyway, I just think I just think it's inconsistent to say, well, you can have the money if your kid goes to public school, which is going to teach your child a bunch of bonk apparently in today's world,
critical race theory, transgender stuff. Who knows what other crazy stuff is on the on the horizon or that's happening that we don't even know about anyway, Very very rare for that to happen. But oz Oz disagreed, and I point is taken. That's not to be clear. I wasn't saying that that is how that I would take that deal either, And she's right to be aware of that. She's apparently listened to me over the course of these years, knowing that these leftists never ever sleep. They never sleep. It
is a full time it is their religion. It is it is their religion, and they will stop at nothing to see it implemented and accepted. Well accepted, not the word forcefully fed to the masses around the country. So that being said, I want to switch gears here a little bit. Got an email from a listener too, And by the way, I need to
do this more often. I often just reply back to listeners. Occasionally I talk about it on the program because sometimes I get the emails, you know, not when I'm doing the program, so they I'm preparing on show prep and I'm I'm not going through and and putting some of these good questions sometimes into the into the show prep. So I need to get better at that.
But that being said, that being said, I got a question from a listener named Bonnie, who I hear from Bonnie on a regular basis, And Bonnie, I appreciate your messages and encouragement and the fact that that you listen on a very regular basis. But Bonnie sent me an article yesterday, headline here Fox News. Alvin Bragg. Now, this is the district attorney in Manhattan that has well, he had the grand jury who recommended that Trump
be indicted. Right, this is the individual. He's funded by George Soros. He's a radical leftist. I don't even know if that's a fair assessment off the charts radical leftist. But here we go headline, Alvin Bragg promises not to prosecute theft to establish quote racial equity, balance the crime of poverty so effectively. And I gotta take a break here, but I want to
get this set up just a little bit. But Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said during his campaign that racial equity I'm reading from the article here needed to be a priority and that he did not believe thievery should be prosecuted since it was quote a crime of poverty. During the twenty twenty one May twenty one meeting, Bragg articulated his intention to focus on racial equity instead of prosecuting theft.
So, in other words, there's laws on the books that say effectively, thoushan that still I'm not that's the gist of these things, and Alvin Bragg says, I'm not going to pursue that. However, I'm going to look past the statute of limitations. I'm going to get extra creative, an extra optimistic when it comes to Trump, my successes of actually getting some sort of a conviction on President Trump. I mean, if that's his perspective,
not mine. But he of course is dealing with allegations or crimes, alleged crimes that the statute of limitations, according to attorneys, has already passed. He's also trying to well, he is prosecuting, charging someone who has not been charged federally. The FEDS did not want to go after this, yet Alvin Bragg does so. He's interested in stretching the law, manipulating the law,
doing whatever it takes to go after his political opponents. But if it comes to someone who is well robbing people involved in theft, Alvin Bragg is not really interested about that. Even though it's a law, it's it's remarkable. You've got one that's clearly a law on the books. You've gotten another one in the case of Trump, that requires all sorts of mental gymnastics to even get to the point where one can even begin to articulate the why or
the crime allegedly involved. Here, he doesn't want he doesn't want anything to do with the clear cut case of theft. He's not going to charge them. He's wanting to have racial equity, which good luck with. I mean, we've moved from equality by the way treating people all people have an equal rights to equity, equity of outcomes, which the government, the government, which cannot do anything by the way they can they can. I mean,
they are wrong on all their projections. They've created massive inflation, they can't get us out of Afghanistan the right way, all these things they But yet they want to tell us what the sea levels are going to be and one hundred years they're gonna tell us that they can make equal pay for equal work somehow a reality, as though that's easy to even quantify and you know, put in a nice, neat little boxes. There's obviously a lot more that
goes into that discussion. It's not what they want you to believe that it is. And of course now they can create racial equity, equal outcomes for all people based upon some delusional way of thinking that say that, well, that believes that they know what's best and if we just simply oblige and follow
their tremendous leadership, everything will be okay. But I'm want to talk about this quick time out though she asked Bonnie asked a question about this, and I want to get to it. So timeoutse in order my friends sit tight back in just a minute. So Bonny basically in her email asks well, she says, I wonder if there aren't any checks and balances in our system to deal with this kind of thing. I mean, after all, there's as attorney in Manhattan. Of course, you know that depends on what the
laws of the state of New York are and so forth. But how can he basically totally ignore certain laws on the books and then make incredible stretches of the imagination to even come close to charging someone else? And that's clearly, I think, unequivocally, what is what's happening in the case of Trump.
And of course, in comparison to how District Attorney Alvin Bragg is well telling us he's wanting to deal with the issue of theft in New York City because it is quote a crime of poverty, and he wants to ensure racial equity, and so a couple of things. Number One, state that certain states have some restrictions or some guidance for district attorney as far as what they can do and so forth, they can also step in. They can also step in, I don't know specifically in New York. I read I read a
little bit on this specifically in New York, but in general. In general,
legislatures have authority and power. But it goes back really to what we were talking about earlier in the program, and that is, if these legislators don't have the I'm trying to think of the polite way to say this, but the intestinal fortitude to take the steps necessary to deal with people abusing our public education system, and if they don't have the intestinal fortitude to deal with district attorneys, that are clearly, look, a district attorney's job is not
to write the law. The legislature passes that and then it's signed into law. If it's a state law by the governor, if it's a federal law by the president, and so the executive and the legislative branch have approved that law. That's not the job of one district attorney. Now, there is such a thing as prosecutor prosecutorial discretion, but that's not that's not saying I'm
not going to charge this type of crime. That's really more supposed to be reserved for circumstances where an individual's uh, you know, particular detailed circumstances can play a role into a case. It's not just I'm going to ignore certain aspects Now some people would argue and say, well, yeah, that is, but that's not That's not how this country. The legislature has passes the laws, and it's the job of these folks like district attorneys to make sure
that the law is enforced and so. But what it all comes down to is if you don't have legislators or people who are in elected office with the strength and the courage and the character required to have the tough conversations and to see these things through, we're going to sit here and be on the losing end of all this stuff. So timeouts in order, my friends back in
just a minute. Welcome back, my friends. Turns out that leadership comes down more often, more times than not, to character than it does the sub sort of a brilliant strategy. I'm not saying that it never comes to that, but it normally comes down to the strength of the resolve of those in power. And right now, we don't have a lot of folks that are doing a great job. I will say. I will say that there are some promising folks too that are out there, though, Trump, de
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