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🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 95 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations. |
0:07.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show. |
0:14.7 | Today we're bringing you an episode I've been wanting to do for a long time on this |
0:18.7 | show because it impacts every single one of us in one way or another. |
0:23.5 | Today we're going to discuss education in America and specifically school choice. |
0:28.5 | Why do you basically have to go to the public school in which you pay taxes? |
0:34.3 | Why aren't there more options for most parents? |
0:37.4 | Who's stopping it and why and how can we get around them? |
0:41.7 | Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are spent on our public education system every |
0:45.5 | year and yet America's students are falling way behind its pathetic where our country is |
0:50.8 | right now in the international rankings. |
0:53.1 | Pathetic. |
0:54.1 | Our issues were certainly made worse by COVID but it's not actually a new problem. |
0:58.4 | You were falling behind even before COVID. |
1:00.4 | A 2018 survey found the United States ranked 22nd, 22nd in the world when it comes to |
1:08.9 | reading math and science scores. |
1:11.2 | Guess where the Chinese are? |
1:12.8 | Number one, we're not even close. |
1:15.1 | It's ridiculous. |
1:17.1 | Some argue the solution is more options for parents but critics of school choice say, |
1:22.8 | well, it sounds like a good idea. |
1:24.2 | It's got a nice shiny name. |
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