Welcome to another episode of The Chicks on the Right podcast.

Today we're very excited to have with us, Gino Young, who is a 29-year-old black conservative author, an education whistleblower, who spent a year teaching inside the public school system, the classrooms of the Chicago land area.

And you saw a whole big bunch of drama that we want to get

into. Plus, you're a Prince fan, so you're like automatically BFFs with us. Yeah, we're

totally without us even knowing you. But we know you've seen some just unbelievable failures

firsthand because you were compelled to write a book about that.

So tell us some of the most egregious things you saw and that you talk about in your new book.

Absolutely. Well, just for starters, when I first started working in the public school system,

I was working in the south suburbs of Chicago. So on our first day there, we saw that children

were told that no one is capable of failure. They said that we don't give Fs at the school. We

get B's because no one at the school is capable of being a failure. And just from the jump street,

that's just giving the children such a false impression on life because I don't care who you are or where you are on life's journey. You're going to fail. And failure is good because it gives you time to reset the chess pieces and recalibrate. But they're given a very, very false impression on life from the first day that they enter. They're told that they can't fail. And I just noticed this overall sense of apathy amongst many of the teachers and the administrators,

and the teachers, many of them were frightened to even speak out.

Like, whenever they would tell me anything or any time I mention a story in my book,

they would always speak in like a whisper or a wispy tone.

And it's like they were afraid.

The teachers were more afraid of the deans and the administrators than the students were. The students would be out in the hallway, high-fiving, the, the, the deans playing with them and whatnot. And the teachers were afraid to speak out because they knew that there were repercussions if they did. So that was probably- Is that because, like, if you say nobody is, like, we can't fail anybody anybody is that because they get funding from the federal

government is that why like they don't want to fail is that why yeah oh yeah so i'll just get into

that in the book i break down the numbers um to send a child to school in the state of illinois

it costs um approximately 21 000 just a standard child without any special education iEPs or

anything like that but if they reclassify the children as special education, that becomes $41,000. So the district has found ways to game the system, and they understand that if they throw out too many children, they're going to be losing funding. So they don't want to throw anyone out. They don't want to fail anyone. And they will even go in there and change their grades if they're failing, if they have too many Fs in that class, they will change

their grades to make sure that they keep their ratings high. Oh, my God. This isn't

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