KFI AM 640.

You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the IHeart Radio app.

This is Carl DeMio filling in for John Cobleb while he's off on some much-needed vacation.

And we've got a lot to get to this hour.

It's about fixing schools.

We haven't heard very much controversy about California schools, have we in a long time,

huh? Yeah, it's been very passionate as parents have been pretty ticked off and they have

every right to be ticked off because the schools have failed to students. Our students are not

meeting academic standards.

And parents, I think it was during COVID, when all the shutdowns happened and everyone

had to, you know, have their kids go remote to school and they sat there while they were

also told they're not allowed to go to work

so everyone was at home and for a few weeks the parents kind of basically got to go to school with

their kids they sat there as the the kids were on these computers and they were listening and they're

like wait wait i'm not hearing a whole lot of reading,

writing, and arithmetic, but I hear a whole lot of climate change and personal pronouns.

And so parents woke up when they started asking questions.

And when they asked questions, they started finding out some things that they weren't happy about

and they, and rightfully so.

Let me give you some stats that will astound you.

Per student in California, we spend $23,519, and that's just in the California State General Fund budget, $23,519 per student.

On top of that, you have to add all of the property taxes and parcel taxes and special taxes that local government collects

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