#52: Is 'Distance Learning' A Time Bomb For Public Schools? Heritage's Education Expert Explains!
The Ann & Phelim Scoop
The Unreported Story Society
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🗓️ 22 July 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It’s week 18 of the “two week” pandemic lockdown and it’s nearly August! Kids should be thinking about going back to school but in a lot of the country they won’t be. In California, Governor Gavin Newsom has made it nearly impossible for students to return to in person classes and in Los Angeles nearly 33% (one THIRD) of all students never logged on to an online class.
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The pandemic is robbing students of years of learning and critical socialization with their peers. On today’s podcast we’re joined by Lindsey Burke who is the Heritage Foundation’s top education expert. She shows how lawmakers can use the pandemic to radically change education for the better but the reality is that Unions are in danger of changing education policy for the worse.
Lindsay points out that the closures are an opportunity to implement school choice legislation that could allow students to return to class even if their local districts refuse to open. Thats Freedom. The “science” about reopening is very clear -- students are not at risk of COVID-19 and teachers are at a minimal risk. Countries around the world have reopened their schools and yet the United States is behind because of partisan politics.
Leftist teachers unions have taken advantage of the pandemic to advance their own radical agendas, including the California teachers’ union that produced a “wish list” for the future of education in the state. Lindsey also fills us in on some of the more innovative approaches to education around the world, including “pods,” education vouchers, and school choice legislation.
Also on today’s episode we correct the record on the late John Lewis. It's a story you won't see anywhere else. Although he spent much of his early life advancing the noble causes of Civil Rights, he later squandered this political capital lying and accusing Tea Party supporters of calling him racist names. Phelim remembers how his friend Andrew Breitbart led the fight to expose the slur.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, my name is Anne McElheny. |
| 0:06.6 | And I'm Phelan McAleer. |
| 0:07.6 | And welcome to the Anne and Phelan Scoop. |
| 0:09.7 | Yes. |
| 0:09.9 | It's July. |
| 0:11.1 | That's the scoop, not the Daily Virus. |
| 0:13.3 | No, but we should mention the Daily Virus, which everyone that is listening to the Daily Virus is enjoying it. |
| 0:19.0 | What is the Daily Virus, Alan? |
| 0:20.1 | It's a daily podcast telling |
| 0:23.9 | you about the news views and advice to survive the pandemic and madness of the pandemic so yeah we |
| 0:31.0 | it's a daily it's available on all podcast platforms and uh you know we we do this program every morning |
| 0:36.6 | something i think we cover everything and then you read the news that day and you see you've you this programming morning something I think we cover |
| 0:37.6 | everything and then you read the news that day and you see you've covered you have |
| 0:40.4 | covered what they're talking about and what other people are talking about so |
| 0:43.7 | we've brought it's a curation service but we do original reporting as well so |
| 0:47.3 | it's available on all by the way when we started doing it we thought it would last |
| 0:51.2 | you know six weeks so 18 weeks later yeah and unfortunately and |
| 0:56.6 | unfortunately i don't see any end in sight so if we can get up at 5 a.m. to do it you can you can you |
| 1:01.0 | get up at whatever you like and press the play button okay so later in the podcast today in the |
| 1:06.4 | scoop podcast we're going to be talking to Lindsay Burke about from the Heritage Foundation about |
| 1:11.7 | the situation for children with the crisis they're facing really so Lindsay's the the |
| 1:17.1 | Heritage Foundation's expert in education you won't want to miss that and as we are later |
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