WELCOME BACK!!!!! Season 2, Episode 1

Alright, y'all, before we start, because some of y'all be tripping under the advice of counsel, I gotta add that the views, thoughts, opinions that are expressed on this podcast are mine and mine alone. They do not represent my employer. Alright, let's go. Honestly, ISD my. Because I was like, damn. Do we really want to get into this discussion? Because if we get into this discussion right here, y'all. Woman what? Talk to me, man. What's up? Welcome back to season two, episode one of Ridgemont Four's Finest, the podcast. We are here with the black ass back to school teacher Brunch with some of my teacher besties. And we got some of y'all fan favorites in the building. So you got Mr. Mysterious. Good morning. Good morning. Almost freestyle right there, but I'm let the music play. Houston shit. We got the professor. Good morning, gorgeous. Good morning. We got the virgo cutie with the booty. Aka OKC's finest. Good morning. Hey. And, of course, we got your girl, queen Charlotte d unfiltered one Good morning, my love. Good morning, peasant. Y'all. This was my shit. This was my shit. Guess who's bizak still smell a crack in my clothes. All right, we back, y'all. Welcome back. Man, it's been a minute. I missed y'all. No, you haven't. I did. I kind of missed y'all. You had 58 guests. I was like, man, I thought I was cool. Thought I was a fan favorite. I didn't have all the degrees that were needed. That's okay for some of the shows. Sometimes you have to be a little educated. Not to say that you're not educated. No, those shows are great, serious topics. But when we come do ratchet shit. I got my ratchet friends. Here we go. My ratchet friends that are also educated. Ratchet friends. Sophisto ratchet. That's what my hungry used to call them. Sophisto ratch. I take that. I'll take that. I like that. I like that. How's your summer? What'd you do, queen Charlotte. I traveled for volleyball. Oh, your club? Volleyball family, you know, real ghetto shit. Real ghetto shit. We had a great time, though. We had a great time. Relax. Release. Did you release? Not much. Oh, that sucks. Okay, well, Virgo Kitty with the booty, what'd you do this summer? You had some big life changes this summer. Are you done crying? I did. You cried all summer? I cried all summer. We had our first baby go off to college. Our baby went far, far away. Far, far. But our baby went on a full ride. A full, full ride. Absolutely. So we're going to take them tears and dry that shit up with the money that we were saving for not having to pay for college. Absolutely amen. I did nothing but that. Now you got one left at home, just one who requires all of your attention and is getting it. You know what he told me yesterday? He said, Damn, I hate she gone. Because now she giving me all the attention. I say, yeah, she's noticing that my room is not clean. Exactly. So she never comes upstairs. But now she's always up here. Great job working everything, every check it out. He's passing his classes, though. I think it's because he has amazing. Teachers on his schedule this year. Best teachers in the world, toot. But as we know, education starts at home, so he has a great core at the house. Amen. Amen. The professor baby we've been talking about professor. Professor came in here with a new step, a quick step tuned up this morning. Hey, she hit the corner like Mike Epson. That joke turned around that corner. I say something's different about you, professor. There's some positivity in your spirit. Something going on in that spirit. What you do to summer, professor? Yeah, I had a good summer, though. I did a lot of traveling. Can't escape these kids, though. I went all the way to hill country thinking I'm doing a nice getaway. We get on the elevator at the hotel, and here go three students. They all was there for a dog on AAU tournament. Oh, Lord. So we took it all the way to the east coast, to the beaches. That's okay. We can never travel and traveled, never. And Mr. Mysterious, what you do this summer? Well, I definitely escaped. So you know how I like to do school ends that day. The next morning I'm on a plane. You are? And I feel to a very nice place, very exclusive. I will give them shout outs, but. They would need to pay us. So go to an island off the edge of Cancun, very Greek style, mexican island, very lovely. Went there. Five star resort, five days. Everything was great. Landed on Wednesday, vegas on Thursday. Okay. And he didn't come back with a baby. That's all it means. Wow. Or anything that has to be picked up with antibiotics. I'm good. I'm good wherever I go. I'm like jadakiss. I'm good in all the streets. Vegas, Mexico. Hey, there's a lot of hate going on for the one guy shouts out to all the fans of Mr. Mysterious, we just want to let y'all know that he came back clean. Yeah. First of, let's wait. Before we get there, let's talk about my summer. My summer. Yeah, please get to your summer. I did a little podcast recording. I did a lot of rest and relaxation, a little resetting. I did travel with AAU basketball. My daughter plays. So a lot of my money, my time, my spirit went there. But you know what? We had a great we had a successful season. We ended the season playing up like three brackets. We played some seniors for that last tournament. These are 7th graders, by the way. We did get our asses smacked. But to learn less, we held our own. You got to go check them out. We held our own and I'm very proud to say that three or four of our girls will be playing for a school near you this season. So it's going to be it's going to be a great one. I'm girls going to be some dogs, so it's good to watch that. So let's go back to you, Mr. Mysterious, because you're looking about 25 pounds lighter. You are clean. It's part of that 75 soft challenge that we've been doing. Nothing soft by me, but the challenge tried to get it. Tried to get me on that one. Tried to get me on the soft 75. No, of course, Richmond finest started that. She put it out there, saw 75. I was like, cool, we can make this work. And it's simple. Get up if you can, if you can. And like David Grogan said, I think that's his last name, whatever you don't want to do, go do it. You don't want to lift weights, go lift weights. You don't want to go run, go run. You want to eat right. Go eat right. Because like Dion Cole is a comedian, said you already know what it tastes like. You had a drink, you didn't have the food. Okay, well, I'm talking about that. I ain't talking about you nasty ones. I'm talking about drink, food, sugar, candy. I'm talking about that kind of stuff. Oh, my God, here we go. Emails are coming in, text messages. And you started. That always started. So we get on the group chat. We get on the social media. We use, and people go in and they do what they do. The best thing is that you have people that are accountable. That are accountable. So I will tell you this, though. Once you start the journey and you tell people what you're doing as soon as you see them, hey, man, you go walk today. Goddamn, I just woke up with the pressure. But you are

00, and you be done clock 6 miles already. I get up because every other weekend I have a life, okay? You know what that means with my kids. And then on a regular days, I don't have nothing to do. You get up and you go walk. I walk today. You get up, you go walk. I saw a deer or some deer. Some deer. Because deer is plural. Absolutely. So I know you grammar, and you just get up and you go and so you just monitor what you do and just keep doing that. I mean, sweat it out. Take a shower, sit in ice as old as you get and just make it work. Okay? Then you can order smalls and mediums. It's great to go to the store and just say, I know what size I need. I'm just going to buy it. You have definitely dropped. I appreciate some weight. So that's inspirational. Thank you. As we suck on eat these chicken wings. As we eat these fried chicken wings, and this French toast with this bourbon glaze. But anyway and the grand. Ye. Thank you. That's a free shout out, that is. Oh, beverages. Okay. Sorry. Beverages. There you go. No free pub. You want to do a shout out to those people right there? I do want to do a shout out to Laugh Seven Studio the legendary Laugh Seven Studios in Missouri City, Texas with DJ producer extraordinaire defrancies. Shout out D Francis. I always say DJ, he'd be like, what the hell are you talking about? That's what I talk so fast. Anyway, y'all, anybody do some ratchet shit this summer? Nobody doing a ratchet shit. No ratchet. I like my freedom. You like freedom? Okay. Yeah, no ratchet shit. Being a mom, it's very hard to do ratchet shit. I did dance on the stage one night. You did? Yes. No kids allowed at Magic City. Didn't make no money. I went in. I was going to say, if you make no money, then it don't count. But it was freeing. It was freeing. Missouri City has $40 on tap. Always. That's the way. Any account, any place you go to. I know Missouri City has 40 owned tax. Whoa. Not that type of friend. Folks, calm it down. No 40. No. A little hot dancing 40. That's 39 plus one on the singles. We're a little classier than the 40. Ain't nobody better than 40 with this economy. Eggs, she has some club volleyball fees, so you got to come harder than the 40. Well, add the 40 on to your 30. I mean, whatever the fees is, you got to have something. And I did say he is not. R oh, my God. I hate it. Guess what? As soon as we get done with that, go out to the parking lot. So you said you had 39 plus one. I mean, I got 39 plus three. Oh, my God. Anyway, so have you all been keeping up with this his D foolishness? I feel like we could probably do ten episodes talking about his D and the madness they got on with my boy Machete Mike Miles. Machete Mike Miles over there making people lives hell. He wiling. We talked about it this summer a little bit before we left, and some of you all was like, man, I don't know. I'm going to get that 95. Oh, no. But now the people that thought they were going to get that 95, 92, realizing they getting the same 60 that the rest of us getting, and it's. Only for, like, pretty much this is only going to be for one year. Right? Like, I know some people said they just jumped in there to get that salary because they know it's going to be just for one year. But the amount of stress cameras in my classroom as I'm teaching door open. I think we've gotten so used to having our doors closed because of safety. But my thing is, in general, the lesson plans that are the format, and you telling me what to do and you monitoring me like a lab rat. Not for that amount of money, no, thank you. It's almost like working at a charter school. You put that stress on the teachers and the parents, and if this doesn't happen, you're out. Well, you know, that's his business. His business is charter. And so he has a whole company where he goes into schools and makes he has some schools in Louisiana that are now all chartered by he pretty. Much the Black Bessie. No. Do Y'all not if you taught history. You've seen this before, and you get it. Yes, we hot history. I know the professor understands this, all right? They send this guy in as the angel of death. He's the decoy. He's the decoy. They're going to send him in because what you have is you have somebody who's an outsider, which is easier to take because he's an outsider. You've had educators before. It didn't work. We've had somebody from New York, wherever they came from, we have people from all over the place. So now what do we need to do? Okay, they come in extreme. They come in extreme. He does everything that they want to do, but they can't do he does it year and a half, two years out, whenever he goes, and then they bring in somebody else. And this happens in clothing, happens in shoes. Remember when shoes was back in the day, I'm 43. So back in the day, your shoes, you might like, might have been 40, $50. Then they jump to 120. You like, I can't pay 120. Then they drop them down to 70. You so happy for that 70 they still made 30 more dollars on, right? So once he's gone and he won't be here five years, no way. He might be here two and a half. And then they're going to bring in somebody else, and that person is going to do maybe 50, 60%, maybe 70% of what he's done. But you'll be like, you know what? I can respect this person. Educate. And they're going to buy a contract out, too. And it's a hustle. I mean, I always ask, what do you want? Any district who's that large that has to fix a lot of problems. Do what do you want them to do? Well, I think that it's important to come up with a step by step plan, because at the end of the day, his D is too large of a district for this stuff to work. Right? That's the issue to me, because if it works there, then they don't want to implement that's. And I think that's the issue. That's the plan. Because I was kind of happy that the charter school situation in Detroit and New Orleans didn't work, because then they would have started making a bunch of cities like that because those are all charter school cities. And so that failure kind of prevented everybody else from experiencing it. So it's almost like you wanted to fail a little bit because you don't want to be a part of that mushroom cloud fallout from this whole situation. I just think that his D is living in, what is it? Fahrenheit 451 with the burning of the book. Oh, yeah. I just think they point out that book right now. We hot the canceling of the library. Exactly. Closing the libraries to make them detention or ISS centers. And it's back to you. Read what I say. Read you learn what I say. Learn scripted curriculum. Exactly. Say this. The students say this. Do this. Correct. Okay. We are definitely in a dictatorship. And this is the crazy part. I love the vocabulary. You're welcome. Yes. That's the Ela teacher over there. Hid is so big, and people forget when you look at the $95,000 a year school, not day, but school. Where is that actually at? Because Hid is huge. It's not Carnegie, that's not that school. It's not Lamar. It's not Lamar. It's not those schools. It's in the hood of state. So we have to speak demographics. So of course you're going to speak black and brown. Of course you're going to speak and it is what it is when you say this. These schools are not as prominent as they used to be. So these are the schools where a lot of generations have moved out, or it's a grandparent or great grandparent house. And these are not schools that are having a big influx of people moving in to change or to just add population. So when you start looking at the schools, I'm going, okay, so I don't condone whatever it is, what it is. It's going to be what it's going to be. But it's like, you know what? That's tough because you're dealing like in New York, you have a superintendent, associate superintendents. You have all this hierarchy to deal with, millions of kids in school, plus like 180,000 kids that's not in school. Right. They can do the micromanagement, the micromanagement, the systemic. They may have to break it down to do that. But once again, don't be fooled by this. We've seen this before. Bad guy, so called, comes in, he does his thing for a little bit of sheet. They get him out, bring you something a little nicer, and then you can buy into that. Yeah. Let me pose a quick question real quick. So do you all really feel that this would be going on if we didn't have school choice and you was forced to go to the school that you was zoned to? I don't really think it has a lot to do with it. I think it has to do with the push out of many black and browns in the inner city. And I think due to all of the talent and everything, moving out to the suburbs and going out to these different suburbial schools. That was the breakdown of the inner city. So you don't have the funding in there, you don't have the students in there. The school is just like a babysitters club. Sometimes I get that because when I worked in Hid, I was a Naviance coordinator. So that means we have to get these kids ready to go to whatever high school they want to go to, like show them the different career paths. What if you didn't have that? What if you went taking addict's finest and taking them to Lamar and Bel Air and West Side Facts and they. Had to go to work? Then it'll balance out. But would you have been investing in. These schools from no, no. Because the part of the reason why we're here now is because when they started shutting down Jones, when they initially started to shut down wheatley, when they moved Carnegie out of Sunnyside and then moved know all of these actions were pieces leading up to this where parents or people in the community didn't step up to fight for change like they doing from now. Correct. Now it's too late. Right? It's too late. That's what if they because you know, originally that open choice and his D was just for particular high school, it. Was Magnet Program or IBM or Vanguard. I'll share like this first time it. Was because Yates was not meeting standard on the Star Test. So it wasn't all schools, it wasn't his D, open choice. Then it was like 19 schools. I remember it was when if your school wasn't meeting standard then you can go wherever you want to. Correct. Like Worth them was a part of that. It was like what our morphs were. Saying is what if they actually just invested into those schools? We know that's not going to happen because we have to say and this is what people don't want to talk about. And then when I try to talk about on TikTok, people begin in their feelings. But it's the neighborhoods, right? So let's talk about the neighborhoods, let's talk about property taxes, those things that people don't think about that are important and vital in supporting back into your schools. So if I go I'm thinking about when I used to live in Brunswick, okay? And my kids would have been zoned to Worthy, the Albert Thomas Middle School and I forgot the elementary school that was right there. Frost. Frost elementary. Okay. Now where I lived was a good neighborhood, it was a newer neighborhood, but they were still zoned to those schools. Now right across the beltway, right across. The street walking distance was Dawson High School, right, was a whole nother school district. But my kids couldn't go there. I would have had to driven further down Cullen or sky, whatever one of them streets it is, to go to Worth where my kids would go right across street on Cullen, the same street and go but because it changed suburbs, it was no longer Cullen, it was something else. Cullen Parkway or something fancy. I think it's a thing about killer. Mike talked about this and my dad's a graduate of Yates. He went to school. My dad is, too. So like you said, my granny was professor and I just went to dancers. Queen Charlotte when you take when you have the name so first of all, it's this old thing to happen back. You know this history. People know this. Fifty s. Sixty s. Forty s. Thirty. S. I'm going to let you all talk and refill my cup. Yeah, go do two. Go do two. The ice is better over there. Okay? So when you are told that you cannot have that or it seems that you have to go over there, once you get the freedom of choice, you make that freedom of choice. Now let's say you can't go to any school but where you're zoned, right? We don't think we're going to have the super smart kids or the kids that whatever that are zoned there. Or better yet, what's the great thing about when you have a community, okay, you're good at this. You're good at that. They are good at this. Now when we come together, we're going to pull the resources, whether they're financial, community or educational. So when we gave the free choice and you can leave, I can't be mad at somebody that want to leave because sometimes you don't want to wait for the growth to happen. Just like in some districts, we know certain schools have this. They've built a brand new neighborhood and in a year, that demographic is going to change that school. It's going to change the whole school to what ISD going to happen. So let's say you can't leave you at Worthing, because right now if you go to Worthing and you go to Third Ward office scott it a lot of people with not a lot of melanin just jogging around Third Ward, of course, because they did what they wanted to do. So it's the reverse. So we had Regentrification, everybody went to the suburbs and now younger folks are. Coming back to the predominant. I mean, I show my daughter the houses in Third Ward all the time off McGregor I said this was all black lawyers, doctors, architects, you name it. And this was what my mom and them used to. The black city bourgeoisie, the Third War. And the people of the Jewish faith. That was what that was off of. McGregor that's definitely us. But what I'm also saying is it was there. I'm just a pineapple girl. Okay, it was there. But it's just like, why did we give it up for this moment? I get what you're saying, I do wholeheartedly. But I'm just saying, do I think that this mentality will be going on had the Greater been in their own high schools to where the states would have to be accountable to come and provide for this particular high school. Like, could you really have said, oh, well, these are low performing school? Well, not if they actually had the people who were zoned there. Were you talking? Now when you have a mix of culture, demographic of what parents and people want. So when I first started teaching, where I teach, they were like, well, Coach, I can't believe that in your class they're not doing all this is Preap. And so I say, well, hold on now. If I did everything you said, your kid average 75, you wouldn't be happy. So when you have people that, let's say it's one person, they make income A, they've come from this type of culture, then they had their kids have to go and be with demographic c, in that culture. Some people don't want they don't want the mix, even our own. They want to go to where it's already top notch absolutely. Already popping off and football stadium already. Built in program running. Whether it be football stadium already building program running, or just simply we don't do that. It was different for brown and black folk. When everybody was suffering, when everybody body was suffering, it sucked for you. There, there and here. We all got to get together. But when you kind of got your stuff going on in my neighborhood is cool, but yours not, and I got to wait on you and what you mean? Your class got 35 kids. They don't know how to act right. You don't know how to sit down. I don't want you to go to that class. I'm not mad at that. But it does affect the community, and we have what we have going on right now. You have your freedom of choice, and people can move. They got a lot of money. People can move. My grandfather don't say that. Because as a whole, the end of. Segregation, we have come up financially over time, and so now we have more options. And so now, because we know we have those options, I'm going to take it just like he said, because I ain't never had it. Absolutely. So you open up the door, I'm going to walk through it. I'm not going to sit here and be like, man, I'm going to just stay. I think, and this is another topic that I kind of wanted to get into on another episode because we're sorry. It's okay. No, but I think it probably needs to be discussed, right? We have the same kind of conversation when we talk about teachers who leave the hood to go teach in suburban areas or better. I put in my time. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Or you know what this remind me of? When Dion Sanders said he was leaving to go to Colorado as we're watching. The replay of the game, and it. Was amazing game Coach Prime, you're watching. The replay of the game today. I'm trying to get a job somewhere. But it's the same thing. And so I feel like I think it's what? One, two we've all been in Hi Z. Have you been in HIV? Okay. We've all same districts, okay? You don't know nothing. You don't know struggle. First of all, look at me. I use lotion and no cocoa. But don't tell what I don't know. You don't know nothing. I had choices. We all started or I know I got my start in his D. And I worked at the Jones High School and the Albert Thomas Middle schools. And so I understand the impact of community, right? When the community is not invested in themselves, the impact that it has on the schools in that community, you can say yes. Like you said earlier, it's some old money. It's some old grandma money, some old great grandma money. But when the grandma and the great grandma are raising the kids and they don't know or they can't get up to the school, they don't know everything that's going on. Some areas suffer, and we got a lot. I remember in Albert Thomas Middle School, shit, we was on lockdown damn near every other week because the DA, the Drug Enforcement Agency, was doing lockdowns on Crystal Springs and on the apartments all around the street. Hey. Shouts out to Albert Thomas, though we played him in a basketball game. We had a lot of fun. Had a great time at that school. Anyway, can we say this? Can I say this real quick? I know I'm cutting you off. Hey, you are. You keep cutting. I apologize. Hey, we shout out to all the districts out here. I know we're not a beat down anybody district. We don't shout out to all the districts. We're educating all the kids. How about that? We're talking about the districts that are in the news. We're not saying nobody else district. All right, you're right. My bad is her stuff. Raise my voice. Minus my bad being quiet. Six minutes. O'clock. But it starts with the investment in the community. So look at some of the schools that some of you I know we're all at different schools, but look at some of the schools that you guys are at and some of the districts that you guys are in. What is the difference that you see between the schools that you're in right now and the schools that we've taught in Hiz? The investment in the community, the PTA, the parental involvement, all of those things that we see are prominent in the schools that we're at now that lacked we didn't have those things in the schools that we were in. Hi, Z. Now, I'm also going to tell you hold on, Mr. Mysterious. I'm also going to tell you five. Minutes and 37 seconds notice the school. That Machete Mike Miles is not touching yet. It's the Carnegie's. It's the Lamars. It's the bel. Airs. It's the HSPVA. Hspvas. It's the schools where they have a strong alumni with a strong alumni. Well, Wheatley has a strong alumni, and Yates does, too. And Yates does, too. However, Sheila Jackson Lee is back. It's the people that are building into those communities. The PTA that's showing up, it can't be the alumni from 40 years ago coming, standing tall, making sure things don't happen. We're talking about the Carnegie's, the Belairs, the Lamars, these parents that are in there doing the open houses, the parents that are coming in doing the PTAs, and the meet the teachers. Those parents are strong. Their voices are strong. And so they're always seen, they're always heard. We don't have that at Yates and at Wheatley and at Albert Thomas and at the other schools until some shit go down, and then that's when everybody wants to do the I'm not you put me on a timer. You had way more time. That's my timer. No, that's my timer. Go ahead. No, that's my timer. You said six minutes. I'm not talking you just said something. Go ahead. Silencio poof of all. Go say your peace friend. Hey. Shouts out 1111 what if I'm at work? Self awareness has to be taught. It has to be in the community. I'm not making excuses for everybody, but I know it sounds like it, but I'm saying like this. I know where we work. Some of us work when I can sit at the house all day and focus on this and focus on that or do that, do that then. And I'm hot saying we're right or wrong. I'm just like, okay. I'm not worried about going keep the lights on. I'm not worried about making sure baby got shoes, baby got clothes. And I'm not saying they can't get it done. But we know demographically, even in the district, some of us work in one side of town is different from another side of town for a certain reason. Labor work choice. Now, on the flip side of that, one side of town goes and votes because they get it even though they at work, people in and vice versa. They don't have to do all the stuff they do. I got to be quiet. I'm raising my hand because I'm in class, but I'm done. No, go ahead, finish. That was it. That was it for me. I want to say something to your point, okay? And I see this a lot on social media. One thing we have got to stop doing is giving so many excuses. We have so many excuses as to why parents cannot parent. And everybody says the same thing. What if I'm at work? We are all at work. Our job is to be parents to our kids. It does not matter. Both of my parents worked two jobs up until I went to college. And guess what? My homework had better been on that table when my mama got home from her second job so that she could check it and put it back in my folder so I could be ready to go. So we always say parents are struggling. The economy is bad. Parents are working two jobs. Parents are doing this, parents are doing that. So what? You still have to parent your kid. What did you just say earlier? Before we started recording? Before we started recording. Education starts where, Mr. Mysterious? At home. At home. Guess what we can't keep saying. Think about all the shit that we have going on in our heads, in our minds, and our bodies as parents right now. Okay? If I only put myself first and I said, well, effort. I'm working two jobs. I'm slanging a podcast. I'm saying a little kuchi on the side, whatever. If I said I'm doing all of these things on the side, hot for $40 either. Don't get the drink no more. Hey, fellas, if you all out there right now trying to keep the podcast. Add another Zero sponsors, we'll be doing no. If I said I was doing all. Of jokes, jokes, jokes, and I was. So consumed with everything that I had going on, what would happen to my children? My responsibility is my kids. So I hate when people start the conversation or paint the narrative of, well, parents have this going on, and parents have this going on, and we got the pandemic, and we got the economy. So what? Your kids still need shit. Your kids still need you. You're right. So we can't say, well, these parents on this side of town are having to work so they can't go vote. We make time for what we want to make time for. Because guess what? I can say, hey, the same parent that didn't come to PTA or did whatever, they made time to come to the game that night. They made time to go to 5015 on Sunday. They made time to go to the address of Sunday fun day. Two free shots. So I'm just saying, sorry, that's three. But we make time for what we want to make time, and I need people to start back making time for their kids. I'm with it. And we got to kill. I cannot disagree with that. We got to kill big. I get both points, and I don't think it's always excuses. Sometimes I think it's ignorance. People don't always understand in some of those areas that we're talking about the importance of voting. Like, from top to the bottom, everybody a rally to go vote for the President, not understanding, but that the electoratorial college ISD the one that actually selects the President. Your popular vote matters, but it just doesn't if your representatives don't reflect what you're asking for. And so then when it comes down to local elections, state elections, everybody at home on the couch still trying to figure out why his D is in shambles right now. Because all you did was show up and vote for the president. You got a little loud on that one. History teacher shout out to you, sister. Did you hear her? People don't know. And then the ones who do know don't want to be community citizens and teach the ones that don't know. So if we talk about excuses, then we got to hold ourselves accountable and be like, oh, who are you teaching, though? 85% of dumb, deaf and blind. You got no East Coast stuff for that. This is true. Into that. When I say, who are you teaching? I'm going to go back to social media, right? Because you have a handful of black teachers on social media like myself, not ones that are on there entertaining the people, making funny faces, doing all this silly shit just to entertain and shuck and jive. You have a handful of black educators who are out here speaking facts, speaking knowledge, trying to pour into people, trying to educate people on the fuck shit that be going on with the public education system. But guess what? That is hot media that people want to consume. What is the media that people want to consume? People want to consume. Like right now, I'm hearing what's on the big thing right now is whoever I don't even watch reality TV. But the whole Erica MENA Mina and Ice pipeline, whatever they want to consume, that ignorance and that foolishness going on. But when you're telling them, hey, I'm a teacher over here on social media, and I'm screaming at you all about the decline in literacy rates in our black kids, the decline in literacy rates in our black boys, the mental health in our black boys. Nobody wants to hear that. So they say, well, nobody's educating us. Yes, they are. That's not shit that you want to consume. You want to consume the love and hip hop. You want to consume the Real Housewives shit. But there are people that are saying that. And again, I'm going to say we can log on these one $201,500 phones and look up all the shit that we want to look up. Look up shit to help your kids. One $200. I think it's not a norm in today's. We're not talking about your android to self educate. Put it down. You got to have a mind for. That with a QR code. You got to be a person that really wants to learn more. A thirst for knowledge to me, and you don't have that a lot. And so it has to be a paradigm shift to where we who is that? Is it the boys? The boys better get it right. It was one of the great. Beverage. It's the melanated beverage. We got to get produced. Extraordinary. Step it up. Because we need both, right? Right. You need the talented tent to go to the top and break barriers to be your senators and get on the Supreme Court and stuff. Like that. But then you need grassroots people who can come out into the community, be at your local library, and start teaching people. But how many? And I feel I understand that. And I think even with myself, I almost get exhausted. Can you go refill? Can we? That's true. It's almost exhausting being one of the few that are on the ground, feet to the ground, trying to make noise, make noise. Make noise. When you know that, hey, again, this is content that people are not trying to are not wanting to. Don't you think? Malcolm X was tired. He was tired, don't you think? Mega Elvis was tired. But guess what? They also had an audience back then, more of an audience that than we do now. What they were trying to get at. Because at that time, we were all oppressed. Because you know what? Sometimes if you give people too much too fast, then they forget where they come. So and I say that because at that time, you coming right off during that era, that's when you got, like, Brown versus Board of Education, right? Which I think was, okay, anyway, another podcast. Yeah, save that one. Save that one. But you had that kind of stuff back then. Coming off the heels of that, you really thought you had arrived and gotten somewhere. And so now I feel like some people feel like, oh, we made it, and so we don't have to do all that. But you still need to do this is something else that I talk about, right? I mentioned this the other day, especially with us. I'm going to talk to our cousins for a minute. We feel that when we move in certain communities, certain school districts, that we've made them, the work ends there because we talk about how important it is for black people to get on these school boards. Did you all see that school board video? I posted a video of the day where the lady was saying it was conroe ISD. And the lady was saying that a parent came to her and said that they had a complaint about their first grade or their first grade child came home and said that their teacher had a poster on their wall that had all of the different color races of hands or ethnicities. And the parent said that her child asked her, well, the poster says something. All are welcomed here. And the first grader line went home and complained to the mom. Like, my teacher had this poster that says all are welcome here. Why wouldn't I be welcomed here? Right? Playing that victim car shit. And it's like, first of all, girl, them kids can't even read, so you lying. Them kids cannot even read. You are lying. They ain't say that. But you get some mistakes. Why are you making these faces? No, it's about education system in America versus the world. What you're saying is right. I'm not knocking your hustle. But I have friends that live in other places and the way we educate here, right? No to them. No, I said to them. To them. So we're going to get back to. That because some first graders can read. And some should not have at all. And some first graders can comprehend. But we're talking about this kid who apparently made this big deal, called this big situation in Conroe ISD where their schedule then had to be. Can you stop making faces at Queen Charlotte? Please stop doing that. She do got them tights on, though. I have no comment about that. I'm here to talk about education. We are. But so does OKC Spider. You see these Nike Tights? I'm not looking at any of that. Whoever knows these people, I'm here to discuss. Thank you. Shouts out to lab seven studios. All right, anyway, let's go back. Let's backtrack because this is going to be a whole nother podcast when we talk about this. Let's move on to the next thing because I'm not giving you alcohol anymore. All right, let's go back. And the change of salary. Have you we've talked about the change in salary. All of these people that got hooked in thinking that they were going to be making six figures who only to find out right before school starts, before they're already in there, when they're already in their contract and cannot back out of their contract because Ta was sanctioned. Their license, I would give them $60,000 worth of work. But what take them cameras and push them. But remember, you're on a scripted everything. You're being told what to do. Every step of the way you deducted. My pay, I'm going to deduct my work. So therefore I'm giving you$60,000 worth. Be blessed. Been quitting? No. There was one teacher that went to the news even though they had been complaining. There was one teacher that went to the news and complained and then Hiz said, okay, now we're fixing it. Right? He went to the news. He had the courage to go to news. Do you all know that as of Friday, I've had three people inbox me on Instagram to show me their paperwork because people send me all their business. You all be trusting me. I love that for you all. But send me their paperwork saying that their salaries had not been corrected. They are still locked in. What they. The way they did it per a district employee that shall remain anonymous, is that they told you at your interview like they were immediately signing people on and they verbally told you one thing, but then on the paperwork, it was not filled in yet. And to what I understand again, I don't work there. This is just per employee. They don't have a salary handbook or guidelines. And so because they don't, there's nothing locked in stone or in writing to verify that. You should get that much. So on teacher's behalf. Now, I know you know better. You need to put that number right there before I walk out this door. Get you an attorney if you sign some stuff like that and make sure. It'S right, get an attorney. Because, you know. Attorneys cost can we. Stop talking about at the end of the day? I hate all these cliche sayings, first of all, don't you say how much attorneys cost. I'm having to do some extra work on the side, but ain't nothing wrong with that. You say you already got the most city finest out here. Something wrong. You keep saying ain't nothing wrong every time somebody mentioned finance. Yeah, I'm about to be your best friend if nothing's wrong when it comes. To finance, what I'm saying is this. Here's what I've learned as a man. I know you don't want to hear this. Ain't nobody coming to say, refill my drink. No, but guess what? I have to know this. So I used to do promotions back in the day when I did certain things on the entertainment game. And you know what you have to have covered? I was a man of my word, so I had everything covered. So when you go sitting here so my mom talked to me about that guy as a guy who got his contract changed. What did he do? He had the forethought, the well knowledge. To do what? He wasn't ignorant by choice. He went to the news. He was a special ed special education person. But he had had such so shouts out to all special ed coed teachers. You know why? Because they have to have so much documentation. He had all his documentation on point. He went to the place, say, hey, look what I got. You all need four, five, six. I got seven, eight, nine. They was like, you can't argue with this one guy, and I can argue with the one guy. Well, that one guy went to the media. He put him on black. But guess what? But imagine, had he not done that, they would have been messing with his salary. But guess what he did, though. He was not ignorant to what he had to do. He went to the media, and now he's giving an example. N-A-N before the E, the vowel hello to go. Give an example to all those who need to know what they need to do. Henceforth, guess what? Yeah. First Amendment right. He has also become a target, because guess what? Yeah, they own his team. Now. Every single thing you do, they document on point. I can promise you, this salary is. Only for one year. You know what's so cool about this, though? He showed up with everything on point. So I've already showed you my repertoire. My resume, my documentation of my days. I'm using all my days. And guess what he said? Here's what I have to offer. Here's what I'm showing at the school you said was this. Here we go. So at the end of the day, I was going to say this again. Anybody who's in this predicament who's decided to work where you're working, whether it's because you need the money or you have the money or you want the money, this is why I became a villain the last time I was on the podcast. You have the choice. It's your only God given right as Volition to do what you're doing or go work somewhere else. At the beginning of the past year, 22, 23, scifair needed 600 plus teachers. His D needed way more than that. Where I work needed so many teachers. And they killed us. They didn't put the website. They killed it. So I will say this to you. I don't know if you don't want to drive so far, you don't want to go. This route ISD what we talked about in everything that we do here, is all about choice. So you have options. I play poker. The minute you give up what you got going on, then they got you. Or you can go somewhere else. That's why I might be hated right now. Go somewhere else. You might have to wait till June, july. You don't have to stop March. March. Because this person here been counting down since the first day of school. She walked out of good morning. Six months, eight months. I'd be like, that's a different topic. That's for after dark patriot. That is for after dark. $40. Anyway, let's move on. Let's go to these lawsuits that the HFT or the Houston Federation of Teachers, the union, I use that term lightly because we know in Texas we no collective bargaining. But anyway, they have these federations or these associations where they will do their very best to fight for teachers'rights or come to the table, at least to try to fight for the rights of teachers. And so the Houston Federation of Teachers, the air quotes union for his D has been putting in work. And I'm going to say they've been putting more work in than I've ever seen them put in before. And I don't know if it's because of Mike Miles. They threatened a lawsuit against him last week, week before last, about social media posts. Because we all have some type of social media clause in our contracts, right? Some type. Sometimes they're very vague. But he came with something that was very specific in saying that teachers in his D could not speak about Hi SD in a negative way, which, understandable got that? What is it? North Korea could not sound like John Adams. Sedition act could not like any posts that are talking negatively about his D and could not share any post that spoke negatively about ISD. If you liked shared, commented, spoke about, then you would be facing termination. Their First Amendment, right? Okay, so Kim Jong and them boys. So anyway, the union threatened a lawsuit against him about that policy, and he quickly took it back. Right? So they won that one because, yes, you were trying to violate teachers First Amendment rights. And teachers don't under people ask me this all the time. Like, how are you able to get away with what you get away with? And saying, what you say, baby? You got first Amendment rights. You're not free of consequence. History teachers correct. You're not free from the consequences, but you are absolutely free to do and say what you want. What'd you say? OKC, what'd you say? Fine. Ass in them Nike Tights. All right, so then they filed a lawsuit. They actually filed a lawsuit against him this week because of the whole appraisal system. So he is trying to come in and change the whole Texas education code with the appraisal know we all in Texas go by t test, right? So he's coming in like, nah, Ft test, y'all Finna do this shit right here that I'm calling and I'm pulling up to the table. And so the rules in the Texas education code state that you have to get teacher input, community input, when you're coming with the new evaluation system. He did none of that. He just threw it in the policy and made it policy. And so the Houston Federation of Teachers sued him, or they filed suit against him for update. They won a is it called an injunction? What is it called? Where you could put a little pause on it until like, a certain date in order to give them time to review whatever they have going on. Let's pause here. We got some talk, some chatter going on. I'm sorry, I was just going to say he sounds like a man who don't run nothing at his house. So he come over here, but no. He'S y'all gotta remember, this man does not have well, I'm sorry. His superintendent certification is given by Greg it's been given by Mike Morath and Greg Abbott. It has expired. But now it's back updated again and then no, all right. It wasn't for me. Sorry. I'm like what y'all got going on. I like to keep preaching more Luther King. Shut up. So anyway, his certification, superintendent certification is expired, but apparently has been given grace by Mike Morath. This man has a military background. He does not have an education background. He has a military background and a business background. This man is coming in and he is working this district. We can always say that this is nothing but a business. It is. We always say that. We just try to get the parents to understand that this is a business. The teacher has been saying it. Yeah, it's a business, I get it. But more so along the lines of what's to stop him? Nobody. Okay. But unless these people, the union, like they've been doing, continues to put lawsuits in his lap, because now, as he was thinking that nobody was going know say anything. He's going to continue to get away with he's getting these lawsuits. Who know? You all know anybody from the military? Yes. My father, my brother. Your father, your brother. I know my uncle, his best friend, the guy who was his OC. They all have the same birthday and it always works. This is why the military was one of the first things to be segregated. They have desegregated sorry. They have these certain laws and rules. They will chop stuff down very quick. He not tripping about that lawsuit. He's like, cool, you know, do your thing, as we say in our history. I used to have a thing on my wall, on my door, and you walked in. You have the right for this, but the responsibility for that. So you have the right for freedom of speech, but also the responsibility to. Control what you say. Are we all here right now? We are. Do we all have the freedom of speech? We do. Have we all used it? We have. Have they ever seen my face? Whether it looks like this or the other face? They have not. Because I protect you all. Yes. I never said you did. You do solid to us. You do. Ridgemont Forest finest who go with my ass. This one don't give a damn. She don't care. We'll talk to her later. With $45 I upgraded you by but what I'm saying is this as we do have the right to come here and speak freely. Where we're at? At lab seven. Studio shouts out to my guy, mo city. What have we also had to make sure we are cognizant of that's the word. Yeah. Make sure that we what? Keep the little hot money they've given us? Absolutely. To make sure what we speak of in a certain way. Absolutely. You have done things in your personal and business wise to make sure anything you have is covered cover the right and the responsibility being extra with the. Attorney so I can get my legal papers filed for free. Go ahead. There you go. I'm not mad that but what we know is simply this at the end of the day, what I had to learn when I had a friend who moved up in a certain position that everybody has a household to protect. Of course it used to be my household was the whole community because the community could if my child did something wrong. Hey, bro, you got in trouble at school. Come holly at me the village. Go holly at your pops because you want to do what your thing was. Right. I got you. They got you when you get home. So now you only have so many you can that's why we only have so many people here that you can confide and let us talk. Absolutely. I get it. And it's not always the best, but rights and responsibility. Rights and consequences. So I'm gonna tell you what oh, boy. Did what's his name? What's his name? The military guy? Machete. McMahon Machete. Oh, I'm always calling that because I'm going to say what Machete did to you. In the military gang, they give you specific, not Pacific. That's the Ocean Pacific. Rick Ross now, I'm going to say specific laws. He said, hey, if you do this, you go have a conversation with you. If you say this no more, you get this. It ain't alcohol. If you say this, you get that. So guess what? If I go to a job, if I'm a contractor, like labor work, what do you want from me? Put the pool in. I want this kind of tile, this kind of CASBO. This. I say great. It's going to take me 30 days. They say, Cool, I got 30 days. I got to stay within my 30 days. If that guy is telling you right now on your social media, don't say this or that you grown. Just don't say this or that. Talk to your friends on the phone. Talk to your friends in person. So here's what you got to realize, and I'm going to say this, and I might not get a lot of friends on this. Education is a very feminine and woman driven occupation. It is. I'm not trying to tell you you have to do this, but he told you what happened if you do this. He just said, hey, don't like no posts, don't share no posts. Can you do that? Can you do hot talk to me? But you break the First Amendment with that. I'm just saying you just can't do that. It's like this. The best way to explain it is how you can't say bomb in the airport. That is the perfect example as a riot. Right. But hold on. In this case, I'm not saying I agree with it. Let's say that. But what I will say ISD you're going to start a ride. Essentially, it's the snowball effect of everybody trying to get on a bandwagon and causing this versus Mike type thing. If I say free Jordans, I'm a starter ride. If I say I'm saying specifically towards this situation, can I talk to Oklahoma's finest trying to silence his naysayer. He's smart. I get what you're saying, but you can't tell me I can't speak on. My yes, I can. No, you can't. Yes, I can. When I signed, my tea ain't never had none of their contracts. So my thing is, how are you. Going to yeah, you don't read them things then. I know, but what they do is. Hold you to the responsibility of not the Ta, the TEC, the Texas Education Code. So they'll tell you in your regular district contract to make sure that you adhere and abide by the rules in the Texas Education Code. And then when you go to the Texas Education Code, then they got to talk about all. Of those speaking against. Well, let me tell you something. I'm going to let loose as soon as I resign. It was March, April. No, girl. Yeah, it's one of them days when I do I'm let loose. What you got? Anyways, let's talk about Florida for there you go. Hey, you know what? You're doing a great job. Shouts out to you. I appreciate that. Ridgemont Force Finance. Thank you, thank you. You have provided us with food and. Beverage because you're going to keep talking. Go, I did fish. No, I like my ego stroked a little bit. Okay. I don't like the word. Let's talk about going to Florida. So we know Florida. We always say Florida in Texas. The first cousins, okay with the man. They brother and sister, brother and sister. With the foolishness step brother and sister who slept together. Shouts out to the Spanish and the French, coma survive. You all speak French? Never mind. No, we don't. Oh, my God. So let's talk about did you all hear about the assembly that that elementary school had where they called all the black students down to the cafeteria to do an assembly to talk to them or admonish them about their test scores, their standardized testing scores. Talk about how low their test scores were. And to tell them know, hey, if you guys do better on your tests, we will provide you incentives like McDonald's and chick fil a. And that if you guys don't do well, these are all the things that can happen to you because you lack literacy. All right? Or you lack what are some of the things that could happen to me? You could end up in jail. Been there. And I got two degrees. You can oh, God, this helpful here. Or you could end up dead. They told these babies that you're going to do that regardless anyway. I think it was a white principal, a white teacher and a black teacher that conducted this assembly all under fire right now. So you got the black community saying, you know what, hey, the black teacher that participated in this was doing that because the white principal told her to. And that teacher, sometimes we just got to do whatever our principal I would. Have stood down ISD have had to stand down. I would have went to the restroom doing the assembly or home one of them. Somebody created a real pretty PowerPoint. And so the parents are pissed, rightfully so, because they said, hey, first of all, this is not even a conversation that you should have had with the children without having it with us first. There is another way that you could have worded this. Now, here's the thing. We have all in some way, shape or form, it may have been worded differently. It may have put a little pretty sugar on the shit. But we have all had assemblies and meetings and PLCs where we talk about the demographics in the testing scores we talked about who was lacking, who was excelling, who was holding carrying the school on their back as far as the demographics were concerned or the dim pops, as we say in the education world. So now, was it right for them to have this assembly with the children? Nice sound. Oh, my God, you all too. I want you all to go get a romance. Not elementary school. Not at all. Not at all. I'm all about here for education. But was it right for them to have this assembly with the children? No, absolutely not. Okay, wait. So do I think that they should have went into detail of scores? Absolutely not. Do I think that they should have an assembly with children to give them black only children? The blacks only. The black only assembly. Let me make sure that I get to the no. We called the black children down and had an assembly, a black only assembly. Like, call them black parents down and. Having to ask a question. Sure. We called the students of the lowest performing scores down. No black children. But no. How did they word it? I'm asking you. I know the videos. My thing about this ISD this. I was told this a couple of months ago by someone who I've exchanged things with, dearly, that that was a conversation between that's not your business, okay? That was a conversation between me and you, not the child. Right. That's hot right there. So I was like, you know, you right, because we're grown and we can accept responsibilities. If I bring down and any I don't get I don't care if it's black, white, Puerto Rican, whatever you all believe in when I'm bringing kids down and talking to them about, hey, all of you all, here's what's going to happen if you all don't get your math scores, right? Because, I mean, come on. Let's be honest with it. My math scores have it. Well, according to Affirm, my math scores have done some bad things, but okay. I'm like, come on, guys, we have to be cognizant. Now, you've used that word twice today. I'm proud of you, cognizant. Thank you. Because I'm a black educator. You've taught me well. Thank you. I'm looking at all these professionals here. I'm the only guy me and my guy back here shouts out to slab seven studios doing anything? No. My thing is basically this conversation amongst adults. Stay with adults, and you have to talk to kids who have a certain age, how you talk to them. A lot of people looking their phones right now. I know you all can't see me. I don't like this hot attention. Look at me in my eyes. But we listening. I know you all listen. I would need you for you want. Us to change your name to Dr. McDreamy or something? Like, just say with your talk to my name is Dr. MC. Get it on out whatever it takes. It's a lot of good gum teeth ratio going. Y'all never heard that before. See, a good gum teeth ratio means next topic, please. No. Hurry up on some seriousness. I'm like this. That's not a good look. Okay? And then if I am the black teacher, I will never say what somebody's supposed to do. Because when you get put in a certain predicament, we always say, when you have past, what is it? Mine says 2020. Whatever. I guess I would have done that. But sometimes I'll send you like, what are you all doing? Hold on. Chill out. You may not be able to say, hey, I'm not with that. So the black chick was there or black guy was there, and they set up in the predicament. I know we say, hey, you got to do your thing, but it's a little tricky. Don't call down students to talk to them about what they need to do at six, seven, 8910, all the way up to 18 year olds. So my scores can look better for this school? Absolutely. If I can keep my job, they can. Right? It's not for their benefit. They're kids in other countries. They don't teach boys to reach, especially Finland. Document check. Do this till they 7th grade. I mean, I'm sorry. Not 7th grade. Seven years old. Seven. Eight years old. My bad. It's a little juice. Seven, eight years old. They call them play days. Before that, they learn social cues, how to act in social environments. Then they teach them to read. Here's the issue with America. It's not a bad thing. We teach everybody at the same thing. I'm 43 years old. The kids I have in my PE class, that's a little secret. They would not even been in a regular class. They'd have been even not in fundamental skills. We have kids that are on the spectrum. I'm socially bad educationally. I'm a genius. Or flip it right. I'm socially great, but emotionally terrible. So we'll have kids that go into a fundamentals PE or classroom, like, why am I in here with that kid and that kid and that kid? I'm regular. And they don't know that. Their own mental capability might be nine. To 1011 to a 30, but that's the system. And we talked about that off camera, whole nother deal. Next podcast. My bad. Let's move on to talk about old Marlin ISD is back in that's my. Favorite district in the building. Yeah, I remember Marlin ISD last year, that small district in West Texas that canceled the graduation because majority of their students had not met standard graduation requirements, and so they postponed the graduation for those kids. Well, they are back in the news as of last week because Marlon ISD canceled all Friday night UIL extracurricular activities because the kids were not passing. And so they canceled Friday Night Football. That included the football team, the drill team, the dance team, all of the people that participated in the activities for that night, because the principal, who, by the way, the acting principal is the superintendent. The superintendent came down and said, you know what? If this I'm going to take over as the principal of the school so I can make sure that she gets right canceled everything. So let's canceled it because of the actions from last year? No, he canceled it for the actions of this year. Like this year, you all ain't handling your business. So all y'all failing, all y'all not doing what y'all supposed to do, all. That are on the football team, all that are on the drill team. So he canceled the football game, so that means I canceled the football game. I'm punishing the football player. I'm punishing the drill team. I'm punishing the band. I'm punishing everybody. That's UIL. Let me just tell you something. As a coach, I have never been one to go after my entire team because of one person's actions. Now, if he could say that nobody has met, you know, then fine. But if you're just saying, well, grays are looking horrible, but if I got people on a football field, that means they're passing. If I got people in the band, cheerleaders, whatever UIL requirements, they're passing. So why am I holding them at hostage? I don't understand. I think as somebody who coached as well, I'm not even mad at it now. I will say, if it's more than a few, I think that's the right decision, because I'm sick of the culture that, oh, you could be an athlete and fail, and then we still want this to go. No, but that's what I'm saying. If you're failing, you're not playing. Okay, we know that's the requirements, but if we being real, there are many cases where people be failing and they still play. Not on my team. Okay, we know you, but I'm saying in general, the standard the standard, the normalcy of letting people continue to play and not pass, like, when is not allowing ignorant athletes, okay? There are coaches like you that might want your students to do well, but there are other coaches that's like, man, I just want you to win this game. And what you do outside of that, I'm not worried about it. So I think he's making some right decisions. Let me say this first, and I'm going to read you all a little bit some excerpts of this article. But I think what the professor is talking about I get what you're saying. We're talking about the mentality, especially of high school sports. Especially high school by any means necessary. I have seen as of last year, we know a very popular school that some of us know. Some people at that hit a whole felony drug case because their star running back was the pusher man, and we kept them in business. We know that they make provisions when they want to make provisions and who they want to make provisions for, because at the end of the day, when we talk about high school sports, high. School football especially, that's a million dollar. Billion dollar business, and it's all about the wins. All about the wins. We don't give a damn. And I say this, and we actually got some coaches coming. I'm trying to get your brother, but you don't even want to put your brother in a room with me because. He'S going to be touching his thigh the whole time he's been trying to. Get your brother as the head coach up in here, but you are scared to put your brother in a room with me. But anyway, we're going to have some coaches on because those are like another two or three pod pastor. We're going to be talking about the culture of Texas football. Shout out to coaches, I'm a coach in the building. You are a coach in the building, but you are a occupied coach. But we are going to talk about. Pause. We'll get to that in a minute. All right. Anyway, let's get to reading this article because I cannot stand you. All right, so marlin, Texas, no Friday football for marlin ISD this week. The district canceled their game versus another school, along with all extracurricular activities this week due to students not reaching I'm sorry. The golden standard. The academic lack of success that marlin ISD has experienced for over a decade to a decade and a half is no secret to no one said marlon ISD superintendent Dr. Harold Henson. Now, we are being very deliberate, therapist and driven to save and do everything that we can to eradicate that. So this man is putting some standards in place, and he says that every Monday he looks at each student's academic profile, which includes grades, assignment, completion, assignments being turned in on time and more. It's one thing to expect me to do better as a student, but as a teacher, I might want to find individualized time to sit down in a small group and reteach. Basically, guys, over the past three weeks, the staff has noticed that students were not performing at above average levels. If you made an 80%, you are capable of a 95. I want to make sure that individually, you are maximizing your potential. Are they not performing above average or they're at average? What caused him to cancel? So it sounds like he has set a standard for them that is above the bare minimum. And his expectation of them as a leader, which I'm rocking with I don't know. I'm rocking with I'm for his expectation is that you do better than the bare minimum, because guess what? He is one that obviously wants you to be somebody after you walk out of his doors. I wholeheartedly agree with superintendent principal henson. I get that. However, if I am meeting UIR requirements at an 80, because that's not even UIR requirements UIR requirements are 70. Not at all. It's a 70. Watch this. What is the star requirement for passing a ten? We didn't even want to talk about that. Yeah, let's cancel that, because I know it is. I know it is. For social studies, I say don't judge. My 7th grade is on his A grade curve. Dr. Henson says more games and activities could be canceled if the golden standard okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. The golden standard isn't met by next week when he checks grades again. He says the standard is the standard and the bar will not be lowered because our students are capable I'm fucking with it. I don't care. Okay, look. Hold on. Give me, like her go. Let her go. Nike tights on. We got. Hold on. Damn, you put too much what you. Put in this drink, ma'am? That is water and mineral water. Sparkling water. What he's saying? Because it's about more than just football. It's bigger than that. So I agree. But hold on. Wait a minute. What is the standard if the standard is above 80? God. That was my issue. It's some kids that are never in life going to be above that. Because my thing is, if you held this assembly, you told them, yo, this is where we are. This is where we need to be. This is where I want you to be, honestly. You know what I'm saying? I get that wholeheartedly and if you're going to do that, you're going to do that. However, if this is where we are. If this is where we were and this is where we are now, and we're above this 70, that's UIL acceptable. Because you know me personally, as a parent of an athlete, you better not bring that to Lord in my house in 85, because I know what you're capable of. I think this man is saying the. Same thing, but you're missing my point. We are coming from an era, of course, from last school year, from now. I'm mistaken. This is the school that everybody had like they had like five graduates or something like that. Okay, something like that. Okay, cool. They had met the minimum standard no, those five people had met the minimum standard of graduation. But now but what he's trying to do is bring everybody with this can we all agree with that? That he wants his school to run like this? Let the school run. That's what I'm saying. Bring that school, not five. Because who wants to graduate five? It's only about twelve of them anyway. But carry on. But I'm just saying you know what I'm saying? You want the whole school to adapt this culture. I get it. But you're telling me that if I used to be a 60% student last year, and you gave me some standard this year, and I'm at an 80 this year, and I'm proud of what I'm doing and I'm obtaining I mean upholding and I'm bettering myself, that that's still not good enough for you. I think what he's getting at is the missing assignments, the completion. And so I don't think he's looking at an average or a grade average. I think it's the lack of I know what you're capable of. And if I look and do grade checks on Mondays, if I'm seeing you're failing and you're failing because of stupid shit, like you didn't turn in a vocabulary assignment, or you didn't complete an I ready like silly stuff, we're talking about ability versus lack of effort. So if we're talking about meeting this, are you not meeting the golden standard because you're not capable of meeting the golden standard, or your effort is showing that you're not trying to? So if the golden standard is not. 80, then what is? I think the golden standard is everybody needs to turn their damn work in and come to class on time. I'm with that. I'm with that on the local watch this. I'm with that on everybody's classroom level. But when you tell me the test that represents what I do in the state, nobody's state test on our level where we teach, is even 60%. And so when I moved my levels, so I was at a star level, I moved to a lower level. There was like, hold on, sir. I said, first of all, you're not even great. I have the kid with the Kevin Hart hold on, bow. POW, POW. Right here. You're not even grade me on what you all do on that level. I said that level at that time was 52%. You're telling me half of us pass. Plus so two, three people pass. The only time I've made a mistake, nobody knows. Come on, keep saying like this. I'm like this. Your state level, is this your district level? Is this I have a problem when you hold teachers accountable for the we have the local level, but my state level is saying this, so let's stop lying. So I'm good with it. Whatever level I want to require, I'm with. So for that district right there that you just said I know. My bad. I apologize for that. Take it out. I know. Whatever my thing is to me like this, what is an actual passing rate? 50% of the kids? 60% of kids? 70% of kids. Okay. I think we need to just take star completely out of it, because even when I was in high school, we. Took what is it? Toss. Toss. When we took toss, I was never taught toss. I was just taught right. It was time to take the test. I was able to perform at a high level to master whatever I need to master and just take it. Because I was never taught toss. Exactly. I was never taught the test. I was literally just a student being taught every day. So my thing is, I don't even think we need to look at it as star. If the principal is saying, listen, I want my campus at an 80% level and I'm holding you guys accountable every week, I'm doing grade check, every week I'm doing this, every week I'm doing that, and that's fine. But if we're at this 80% level and teachers, too, I'm holding teachers accountable to put in grades every week to do this every week, you know what I'm saying? Because for you to cancel UIL important point, that means that everybody across the board needs to be doing their job. Yeah, I mean, from the janitors unlocking the bathroom on time to the teachers putting in grades on time. But that's what I'm also saying is I'm a fair coach and fairness is what I play off of. So if you're going to be fair across the board, you need to be able to say, hey, everybody did what they were supposed to do except you. So that is why I am canceling these UIL events. You know what I'm saying? So I'm not saying, oh, well, you know, they passed. Let them play. That's not me. Because I'm a parent of an athlete. Again, I don't tolerate that. But what I'm more so saying is, had everybody did their job, did that teacher put in all his grades? Am I missing this assignment? Are you holding me accountable for everybody? I get that we're going to wrap up this part of the segment in a second, but I'm sorry, I'm rocking with it. I think that it's bigger. The end goal is bigger than what we're seeing right now on the surface. We all know and we've taught athletes who were definitely not deserving to be on the field as far as academics were concerned. Don't look at neverland, because we're probably in one of the biggest football districts ever. It doesn't matter the biggest state. We're definitely a state, but we're definitely one of the biggest football districts as well. But y'all don't want to call a spade a spade, but we've taught some athletes who definitely we've all been bribed maybe or two with some damn waterburger gift card. Waterburger gift card. Amazon spec to keep athletes eligible for them to participate in the Friday night lights. They was rocking an 18 average in the class. They damn show didn't deserve to be on the field, but they needed them because without this one, two, three kids. We wouldn't be shit. Sorry, you don't want to say it because you're a coach, but fuck it. That'S what I'm here. No, it's not. By deserve. I'm a middle school coach. My kids so anyway, I'm calling a spade a spade. But I'm with him setting a standard because these gentlemen and ladies, too, I. Know it doesn't really apply because he's. Talking about football, but they have to know that you are who you are after these lights cut off on Friday night after you graduate from my school. What have I instilled in you. If I'm a coach, I'm coaching the whole you. I'm not coaching the athletic you. I'm coaching everything about you that's going to make you a better human being when you are not in my presence anymore. And I think that's what I agree. But because everybody right. I think everybody is being held accountable if the man is saying he's looking into the system on Monday. But look, he's checking grades. If you have assignments that are missing. I will say this. The only issue I have is with that and counseling stuff for their school is that ain't being done in the whole state of Texas. That's the standard. He's trying to right. But that puts them kids almost like a disadvantage because, okay, it's a little school, but theoretically speaking, it's not like it's no big. Scout, I will say this, minus whatever I do, we go talk definitely after this goes off. I'm saying like this. Let's wrap this up. I know you give me the straight eyes with good teeth and everything and a good cheekbones. I got to give them shout out. To Dr. Hicks from New Image orthodontics. I see what you're doing. All I will say is this. You have to be mindful what you take away from kids, right. What they don't know. So I know we have our things. And believe me, because I've had conversations this past week with 20 of them because they just can't cut some paper out and put on. Thank you. I promise you, I check grades every other two days. I'm like, say, bro, you can't just. Go do cover, decorate your notebook. That's an easy major. And watch this. And I'll be honest with you and your teachers, ain't ugly, bro. Wait. Because we don't want to be like the other podcast that's on, we are getting ready to shut this segment down. You're right. Thank you so much. Stay tuned for segment number two where we give you guys some back to school tips and we conduct the black ass professional development. Thank you all for joining us. Sit tight. We'll be right back. What this podcast?