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🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Shockingly low literacy rates, underfunded schools, and overworked teachers are creating a perfect storm, leaving millions of students behind academically. Dr. Phil sits down with educators, parents, and a former senior official in the U.S. Dept. of Education to uncover what's REALLY happening in our public schools. Samantha, a former special ed elementary school teacher, says all she wanted to do since she was a child was work in education. But after experiencing the reality of teaching in the modern day, she says she will never step foot in a classroom again. Also, disgruntled parents, Mark and Val, noticed their two kids being underserved in their public schools. Their son was falling behind in reading and math, and their daughter was unchallenged. But they didn’t know until the pandemic forced them to look at what their kids were doing in school. They decided to pull them out of school, sell their house, and “world school” them. Justin, a former principal, reveals how schools are being pressured to pass students even if they don’t show up to class. Jeanne Allen, the CEO of the Center of Education Reform, shares her 30-year battle with the education system and how she’s trying to change the “factory-like” public school system into a more productive one.
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0:00.0 | Code Red. I'm talking about an elementary and secondary education system which is in full catastrophic collapse. |
0:07.0 | If you give your attention to the certain students who are struggling, I'm failing somebody else right now. |
0:12.0 | 19% of graduates can't read. |
0:15.0 | It's a scandal. It's not acceptable. |
0:17.0 | Billions of dollars are being spent to educate kids that aren't getting educated. |
0:21.6 | We have a system that's dysfunctional. The borderlines under corrupt. |
0:25.6 | This is a national emergency. |
0:27.6 | Well, America today I am delivering a code red. |
0:40.3 | You know me and you know I am not one to yell fire in a crowded theater. |
0:45.3 | You're about to learn the truth about a genuine, ongoing national emergency. |
0:50.3 | I believe the single greatest threat to the American way of life |
0:55.0 | and are standing on the world stage. |
0:58.0 | You will likely think, why is no one else shouting about this from the rooftops? |
1:03.0 | In fact, why is anyone talking about anything else? |
1:06.0 | I'm talking about America's public education system. |
1:10.0 | If you were expecting something more dramatic |
1:12.9 | like spies in our midst, |
1:16.0 | hang on to your hat. |
1:18.3 | I'm talking about an elementary and secondary education system, |
1:22.1 | which is in full catastrophic collapse. |
1:25.6 | Not coming soon right now. Once the envy of the world, our schools are |
1:31.7 | failing at every level. Now you're out of school, so why should you care? You should |
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