Putting the Community in Community Schools Can Save Public Education / Jeff Bryant

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5 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Jeff Bryant joins us to discuss his recent writing on the threats facing community public education and the ways schools and communities are resisting them. Articles to be discussed include "How a Struggling Boston School Found Success in the Roots of its Haitian American Community," and "Voters Across the Political Spectrum Gave Public Education Important Wins in the 2024 Election," both available at The Progressive. Rotten History from Renaldo Migaldi and The Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen both follow the interview. Check out Jeff's recent writing at The Progressive here: https://progressive.org/topics/jeff-bryant/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	The President Making Jack The water
0:25.6	The water is with the
0:26.6	Picking Jack This is hell. This is hell.
0:53.3	So on the day before This is hell.
1:04.0	So on the day before RFK Jr.'s confirmation hearings, and that's just going to be a coronation, really,
1:09.3	the day before his confirmation hearings to be in charge, to be the health secretary,
1:13.5	there is what ABC News has called the worst outbreak of tuberculosis in American history. The AP then reported that the Centers for
1:21.2	Disease Control said it is not the worst outbreak in U.S. history. However, many have been sickened in Kansas and a couple of
1:30.4	people have already died. Of course, there is no vaccine to cure tuberculosis, so who knows
1:37.0	if RFK Jr.'s anti-vax policies will be an obstacle to public health, as many are concerned that
1:43.6	they will be. But, you know, as many are concerned that they will be.
1:45.3	But, you know, it's a really terrible disease that you will have to take antibiotics for several months and go through just incredible, horrible pain.
1:55.9	And who knows if RFK Jr. is going to give you even access to those antibiotics.
1:59.6	Maybe you're the kind of brave
2:01.1	genius who thwarted the billion-dollar propaganda campaign of vaccines to cure COVID-19, as the new FBI
2:10.9	director says. So, Will, you had a false diagnosis of TB. Yeah, that was a scary weekend.
2:19.2	I bet.
2:20.0	I was wondering where I was going to put the iron lung.
2:22.1	What were the symptoms that you were showing?
2:24.3	So this was way back when it was more common to do a skin test for TB.
2:29.6	Okay.
2:29.7	I had to do it to teach in the Rockford Public Schools.
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