The Irony Called Virginia Foxx

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[00:00:00]warming up of my coffee. I'm late.

[00:00:04]Shocking, I know. Um, this morning we are going to talk about the Virginia Fox debacle.

[00:00:17]So, I don't know if you are aware of what's been happening in the news, but it's quite quite interesting to me.

[00:00:27]So, Virginia Fox is in her 80s and she's the North Carolina representative. Uh, she's a congressman congresswoman.

[00:00:38]And so, the story goes that that a 10-year-old boy from Greensboro wrote her a letter um as part of a school project. So, he writes her a letter signed. You know, he's a he's a fourth grader.

[00:01:00]Oh, that's real bright. And oh, I don't even know if I can handle this. I got to move my chair.

[00:01:10]Let's see. Okay, I'm just gonna sit at a I'm going to sit at an angle. Um, so he writes a letter to Virginia Fox and the the assignment was they had to write a persuasive essay of their choosing and then they could mail it to a representative, a CEO, whoever a decision maker was um, to be influential in this persuasive essay in the points they were making.

[00:01:40]So, Christian Mango, the 10-year-old fourth grader, said he chose a topic including electric vehicles. And he writes her a letter. And in this essay in April, which he mails to his his representative, who is Virginia Fox, Congresswoman woman, he said, "We should have a $5,000 tax rebate for electric cars because they're better than normal cars. They're better for the environment, they pay less, and there's no gas." This is a 10-year-old.

[00:02:11]So, I mean, he's 10, right? So, this is kind of a nice letter. A few weeks later, the school receives this letter from Representative Fox via an email.

[00:02:26]Now, she writes, you know, thank you for writing me.

[00:02:32]Hold on, let me let me just look at the letter so you can see it.

[00:02:39]She writes, "Ask your teacher to explain propaganda to you. I will never be able to know. My guess is that your teacher will not be able to give you a good educational experience by helping you because they are too interested in indoctrinating you. How sad."

[00:03:05]So, let me just say that again. In case you just need it to be clear, ask your teacher to explain propaganda to you. I will never be able to know. My guess is that your teacher will not be able to give you a good educational experience by helping you because they are too interested in indoctrinating you.

[00:03:29]10 10 years old. 10 years old. Now, the best part of this whole thing is, oh, she also says in the letter, she directs this 10-year-old to read six articles about the disastrous record of policies enacted to address climate change, which is is weird. And then she tells Christian, who's 10, that he and his classmates will be saddled by this national debt crisis by the time they reach their 20s.

[00:04:07]He's 10.

[00:04:10]And so the mom said she attacked his teachers, his school, his education, and referenced propaganda, indoctrination, and other concepts that a 10-year-old has not been exposed to. This is totally inappropriate response to one of her youngest constituents.

[00:04:29]We told our son this is not an okay response.

[00:04:33]Nobody should talk to a child like that and nobody should talk to a teacher like that. She crossed the line. Now, there's a couple things that are wonderful about this thing. One, Virginia Fox is seeking reelection for her 12th term in Congress. Why do we not have limits for Congress 12th term? Um, so I think that is really important to think about as you're voting and thinking about how we're supporting the the next generation, right? So, her office um her office said this. A close read of the letter from Representative Fox coupled with an understanding of Representative Fox's record of holding educational systems to account.

[00:05:26]Holding systems to account that that's not even correct. Simply reveals a concern for indoctrination stemming from those responsible for educating students. The motives of the individual student who wrote the letter to Representative Fox were never being impuged. Not in the slightest.

[00:05:50]So, we weren't actually impugning you, even though we said you're being indoctrinated.

[00:05:58]Because if you accuse somebody, anybody of being indoctrinated, you're basically saying you're an idiot.

[00:06:09]You're an idiot. I believe this part of Guilford was added in a more recent round of redistricting. I had even told you the best thing. So, she boasted herself. She's one of the most conservative members of the North Carolina congressional delegation.

[00:06:26]Get this. I mean, this is delightful.

[00:06:29]She has a doctorate in education in curriculum from UNCCG. I got into UNCCG.

[00:06:38]I'm sort of glad now that I didn't go there. No offense against UNCCG, but I mean, I went to Chapel Hill and then NC State for my PhD. She taught at a local community college. She taught at Appalachin State. She was an assistant dean at Appalachin State. Then she was president of Mland Community College.

[00:07:01]and she was on the Waga County Board of Education for 12 years.

[00:07:07]So, what's interesting is that she never taught in an elementary school. And I think there is something curious about that.

[00:07:17]The other delightful thing about this, so she says, "Your teachers are indoctrinating you."

[00:07:24]the young the young sprite, the 10-year-old little fella, Christian Mango.

[00:07:31]He actually goes to a private Christian school.

[00:07:35]Yes, he does. He goes to the Canterbury School in Greensboro, a preschool through 8th grade Episcopal Day School, which has a one, a fabulous reputation, and two, it's not a public school.

[00:07:53]So, she just assumes this 10-year-old writes her a letter from some crap public school where, you know, the public school teachers are Satan's spawn. But no, no. Christian goes to a school where his parents pay 20 to 25,000 for his fifth through 8th grade years.

[00:08:15]She loves school choice. It's like her her lifestyle.

[00:08:24]I might have done my homework before I accused private school teachers of indoctrinating.

[00:08:31]Not that they can't, but she because she's old as hell.

[00:08:38]And I hate to say it, but mean as a snake assumed that, you know, this is just a run-of-the-mill crap public school, which is terrible in itself. But the Canterbury School, I mean, listen to their motto. I mean, this is great. Their motto, their philosophy, a preschool, 8th grade setting where children don't have to grow up too quickly. An intentional focus on the mind, body, and spirit in recognition that the best education occurs in an environment where students are exposed to a variety of people, perspectives, and ideas.

[00:09:16]Fourth graders are pretty smart. makes you wonder why his parents let him write her knowing her reputation.

[00:09:24]What?

[00:09:27]What does that mean?

[00:09:32]Because he's her representative. He didn't get to choose. You know, you have he has a congresswoman.

[00:09:40]So, if you're going to write somebody that influences policy, he picked electric cars, then I would write Don Davis, right? My children wouldn't write Virginia Fox because we don't live in Greensboro.

[00:09:57]Dear baby Jesus.

[00:10:02]But she also believes that the Department of Education should be dismantled. So, there's that.

[00:10:09]I just I find this delightful.

[00:10:15]The irony of calling these private school teachers Canterbury Day School expensive well thought of school indoctrinators is amazing. So people again you need to vote vote vote vote vote. Don't vote because somebody has an R or D by their name. vote if you think are they going to make the next the world better for our next generation. And it was interesting when I was up at the general assembly, not at federal government, but state government and you can go around and you can see all the offices.

[00:10:56]Not one representative has an R or a D by their door.

[00:11:01]So why is it so important when they're running, but they get rid of it when they get there?

[00:11:07]Isn't that interesting? I literally thought I would love to get some RD stickers and just pop them up on there.

[00:11:15]Probably get arrested for like whatever it is when you mess up stuff.

[00:11:26]Again, if you're just tuning in, we're talking about Christian Mango's letter to Virginia Fox. He wrote her his assignment for Katerberry Day School was to write a persuasive essay of his choice and send it to a change maker. He chose he wanted the government to give drivers a rebate for electric vehicle purposes and he chose to send it to his congresswoman because he lives in Greensboro, Virginia Fox. He said this, "They're better than normal cars. They're better for the environment. They pay less and there's no gas. Perfect for a 10-year-old.

[00:12:06]Maybe there is still a chance for six and a half million people to not die anymore and for the weather to get better. Just maybe glaciers stop melting.

[00:12:15]He sounds like a bright 10-year-old.

[00:12:18]Fox said, "Please ask your teacher to explain propaganda to you. My guess is that your teachers will not give you a good educational experience and help you learn to think as they are too interested in indoctrinating you.

[00:12:40]How did I hear about this? Um, well, I don't live under a rock. Somebody sent it to me last week and I wanted to make sure it was truthful and it is. Virginia Fox's office said, you know, they were not throwing shade on Christian at all. They were just throwing shade on his teachers who they know to be indoctrinators even though it wasn't a public school.

[00:13:09]Oh god.

[00:13:11]I mean it's just really a struggle struggle.

[00:13:22]She's asking to be her 12th term.

[00:13:30]12th term.

[00:13:38]And while we're talking about that, let's just do a little jump over that.

[00:13:42]Um, she loves a charter school, loves a school voucher, loves, you know, all the things to to get people to leave traditional public schools. And um the other night I was at a tennis match and we were playing a charter school and they beat us which was kind of annoying but you know charter schools um oftentimes are good at sports because if you live in North Carolina you can go to any charter school. Now how could Adrienne's kids go to a charter school in Raleigh? Well they would have to have parents to drive them to school or maybe have an apartment in Raleigh. So, charter schools are open to everyone seemingly.

[00:14:24]So, this mother says to me, um, she's asking about our new, we have a new public high school in in our community, and she said, "Well, where was the old high school? Where's the new one?" And I said, "Well, we tore down the old high school to build the new high school, and we just kind of had to make do for um really two years." So, we hadn't had tennis courts, right? Because they tore out our old tennis courts to build the new high school. And I said, she said, 'Well, why didn't they just move to a new location? And I was like, well, that's a perfect segue into the reason we didn't move into a new location is if we had left our old high school, which is in the middle of our downtown, a charter school would have moved in like a vulture on a dead possum. and a charter school, I'm explaining this to her, would decimate our community because we have one high school, one middle school, one elementary school.

[00:15:24]And she says to me, dead serious from the back of her uh SUV with two Yeti coolers in it and a great big dish of fresh watermelon. She says, "Well, we love our charter school." Because a charter school, honest to God, this is what she said. And it is the truth, but usually people are, I hate to say, not smart enough to say it, but people try to keep it secretive that know enough to know that it sounds terrible, but it's the truth.

[00:16:00]We love our charter school because it's basically like getting a private education for free.

[00:16:12]Straight from the mouth of a charter school family.

[00:16:16]Dead straight to dead truth. And I said, "Oh yeah." She said, "Yeah, we um we don't have to we don't have busing, so the parents have to drive, and we can't serve children with severe disabilities.

[00:16:43]Now, meanwhile, my child with a disability is running around at the tennis match. This is to totally true story. I have witnesses."

[00:16:53]And I said, 'Oh, so you get to um really weed out who can come to the school.

[00:17:00]And I guess she realizes at that minute maybe it doesn't it's not going the way she thinks it should go. And she says, "No, what we can do is have families."

[00:17:17]I just cannot believe this happened. I mean, I wish this was recorded. like I could have gone viral. We can just have families that really value their children's education.

[00:17:34]Uh, what you talking about, Willis? I said, "I have a feeling that the mother that works at the chicken plant for 12 hours a day values education more than you will ever comprehend."

[00:17:58]And she was like, "Yeah, WTF.

[00:18:08]You only value education if you have the ability to drive your child to school and to tennis matches."

[00:18:18]What?

[00:18:22]But you've just heard the truth about what a family at a charter school thinks. and it's one family. But I have heard it before.

[00:18:33]When you have a school that doesn't provide transportation or free and reduced lunch, you immediately knock out a huge part of the population that can attend the school.

[00:18:52]It's rare that I have the right comeback in the right time, but I think about that a lot.

[00:19:00]Um, I think about that a lot.

[00:19:06]Because it's just wrong.

[00:19:09]It's wrong.

[00:19:13]People are so entitled. Yes. Yes, sir.

[00:19:16]They are. Anyway, live from Eastern North Carolina, Virginia Fox doing her work this morning. I hope everybody does their work and make sure before you vote that you are really thinking about what you want the world to look like after you're gone.

[00:19:39]And I think there's a real focus on making everything better right this second. And there there's so we need to be not thinking about right this second. We need to be thinking about 30 years down the road. And so when you see vouchers and charter schools, you know, the goal is to spend less of our budget in North Carolina on education, right? That's the goal. But you're not seeing the forest for the trees because in 30 years when those kids haven't had a good education, they are going to be more likely to depend on public subsidies.

[00:20:27]they're going to be more likely to be in jail, more likely to not hold down a job, and so they're going to cost you more. So if we focus on giving a good education now in 30 years, it will save us a tremendous amount of money. And we know that.

[00:20:44]We know that um charter schools expel students who then end up back in the public school district and keep the voucher money.

[00:20:53]That's exactly right. I have a friend and that happened. Um, and public schools for their for the truth of it, they don't if a child takes a voucher for the year and the child is kicked out of the school in October, the public school does not have to serve the child for the rest of the year. And I have yet to see a public school refuse to serve a child even though they legally do not have to. Maybe it would be good if they didn't, honestly.

[00:21:23]I think that's important um to know that you'll see public schools time and time again. A child will leave and go to a charter school and they come back and the public school welcomes them with open arms. Um and you know it's just important charter schools boards are made up of hand selected folks oftentimes parents much like a private school. So where in a public school you have a school board.

[00:21:50]So, if you have trouble, you can go to a schoolboard member who was elected in your district and you can talk to them about your concerns. Now, they may or may not listen, but at least you know that they're fairly uh they should be neutral. Um it's important news breakak education Dr. Adrien Wood.

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