Friend of the Treehouse John Spiropoulos shares a ground report from the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles where concerned parents and grandparents are protesting against the school district policy to keep in-class education stopped. As noted in the interviews, the COVID school shutdowns are hurting everyone, particularly those communities where education was already a challenge.
The “progressive” policies and regulations around COVID in California are impacting minority neighborhoods at an alarming rate. In essence, the democrat shut-down policies create racist outcomes. As John Spiropoulos notes: ” The year long shutdown of live, in-class instruction in Los Angeles public schools has had an adverse effect on children’s academics, particularly those in low income areas. This report focuses on a back-to-school rally organized by the Women of Watts organization.”
The proportion of child mental health visits to Emergency Rooms dramatically increased from March through October 2020 over the same period in 2019.
• The share of mental health-related hospital emergency department visits rose 24% for children 5-11 compared to the same time period the previous year.
• The share of mental health-related hospital emergency department visits increased 31% for adolescents age 12 to 17 compared to the same time period the previous year.
• While there were increases for both males and females, female cases were far higher than male cases.
(Source: CDC November 13, 2020)
Still another study found the increase in poor grades “appears to be most pronounced among students from low-income households, multi-lingual students and students learning virtually.” And it could be long lasting for many. “The students who are most at risk of lasting academic harm from failing grades are students who have been learning remotely, students living in poverty, multi-lingual learning and students of color.” (source)
In California, the negative effects of school closures on academic progress appear greater for English learners and students from low-income families.” That’s analysis comes from PACE, the Policy Analysis for California Education, a non-profit, non-partisan research center formed by Stanford University, USC, UCLA and the University of California, Berkeley. Some of the findings:
• 5th graders in California lost roughly two points in reading and math assessments while in a typical year, they would have gained 10 points.
• 6th graders lost almost 30 points in reading assessments where they normally gain five points.
(Source: Information from PACE, reported by “The 74.” February 16, 2021, www.the74.million.org – The 74, a non-profit, non-partisan news site covering education in America)
Like the recall efforts, these people will be labeled extremists. We’re all extremists now.
Not likely in this case as it’s a black woman leading the charge for black kids in Watts.
That doesn’t matter to the progs, all Trump supporters are white supremist no matter their color.
They memory hole them.
Black people don’t matter when trying to better their lives.
A black or brown trying to improve their lives becomes invisible.
In the past anyway.
Now that dinosaur media has less viewers than a tween Youtuber demonstrating her make up skills we’ll eventually get this country back on track.
The YouTuber line – rotfl. Nailed it.
If she fights the teachers union, she is a automatically a racist.
And the real racists are in the teachers union, and the dem/commie party.
Yes. And Trump is golfing at a Mar A Lago while we are being marginalized and targeted by the government and the country is being destroyed. I fear we have been abandoned.
awwww…..do you need someone to lead you every step of the way? Bless your heart…..w/ a pat pat gently on the head.
Sad isn’t it.
This is the kind of thing, if we had elections, that would lead to the overlords getting voted out of office. Good thing for them we don’t have elections any more.
Typical. Democrat policies hurt those that vote for them the most.
I no this sounds cruel, but these people get exactly what they voted for.
I have lost all sympathy for Demonrat voters complaining about the consequences of their votes.
Trump asked “what do you have to lose”
He won, then made massive improvements for minorities & the underserved.
Then those people voted for Harris/Obiden (along with all the other CA overlords)
It’s good I no longer have any more fu*ks to give because I no longer give F about these idiots.
If the last election taught us anything, it’s that “these people” DON’T get exactly what they voted for. I live in CA and trust me, we are not getting what we vote for. The progressives are. And I’ll let you in on a little secret………….it’s not just happening here in CA.
The more the progressives get what they want, the more they can scream “systematic racism”.
This particular case is all about the communists in the Teachers Union. I suppose there are a few dedicated teachers who want to be in the classrooms and really do care about children………but they are few & far between.
The more the country is divided, the easier it is to conquer.
I don’t give a F about them but I support them and their efforts. They chose their fate. And SD has said previously it needs to hit home for some.
I think a train is driving through some of these people’s homes at 100 miles an hour. It’s hitting home now.
I’m glad you’re fed up.
Take a deep breath.
Pray.
Think strong and buckle up
While I agree that I have no sympathy for the Dems who actually vote for these clowns we have just seen an election w widespread vote theft. Did they really vote for them? Maybe not. Trump has historic levels of Black, Hispanic and Muslim voters.
The parents in my district in Oregon fought hard to get them to open.
We are one of the few in the Portland area who are opened. Fight for your kids. This “crises” has nothing to do with health.
Amen. Parents have got to get out and fight like hell.
“• 5th graders in California lost roughly two points in reading and math assessments while in a typical year, they would have gained 10 points.
• 6th graders lost almost 30 points in reading assessments where they normally gain five points.”
Why do they need to learn to read anyway? Almost everything they would read in schools is now propaganda. They would probably be better informed if the didn’t know how to read.
If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.― Mark Twain
“Why do they need to learn to read anyway?”
So they can read Mark Twain, of course.
you mean read Dr. Suess
I think the schools have banned him.
So they can get past the system and read somewhere.
In liberal Baltimore not one school had kids that could read and write. And we now know they haven’t had a real vote in 70 years.
Now liberals are saying math is racist, to make sure black people also cannot make any money or solve problems.
It’s re-slavery obviously
You cannot do people as much harm as the Left has done unless it is intentional.
There are only 2 possibilities
1) Every idea the Left has is terrible due to their drug addled retardation
2) They don’t want anyone off that plantation EVER
By the way, Native Americans are reporting all the same problems the Left has delivered everywhere else
This crap is intentional
AND they are addle brained too.
You can be a corrupt moron like Senile Joke Bribed-en
Lydia Friend, the woman in the bottom photo above, was interviewed by Steve Bannon during the first hour of his show this morning. He seemed quite taken with her and her campaign to open the schools in the LA Unified school district. So was I.
The full interview is on Bannon’s Rumble page –
“National Hero Goes Against Bureaucracy To Get LA Kids Back To School” 10:30
https://rumble.com/embed/vc4rt5/?pub=4
She was amazing—full RedWhiteBlue AMERICAN–fighting for everything that is right to do: kids in school, packpacks, meals, supplies for kids; meals for the homeless, etc etc ETC—trying to meet the needs of ALL in her community. Inspired by love for her grandchildren and her God. A real inspiration to all of us! I hope we see more of her because she shows us how to get done what needs to be done.
Right now she is taking on the Commie Teachers Union—the school districts all around hers are OPEN–why not Watts??!?!?!? Because, as she candidly remarked: the teachers are quite happy having paychecks while they stay at home. Screw the kids. She and John discussed how it was in the 70’s—when the teachers would show up at a kid’s house to roust them out to be present in school. Sure were teachers of a different character at that time.
Whatever we can do to put pressure where it will do some good—-we’ll be doing the Lord’s work. Those are OUR kids too! They are the future of America—-and need to be in school.
Outstanding summary. Thanks.
Bolshevism never works nor does the suspension of our Constitutional rights over a fabricated “pandemic”.
Rights are rights – they can never be suspended by fascists.
THIS!!!!!!
The lady who organized this, a woman in Watts, had a lengthy talk with Bannon on this morning’s War Room. Worth listening to.
—Inspiring. The woman runs on pure love, for grandchildren, for neighbors, for community, for God.
I’m going to cry. That’s beautiful.
Anyone have a link?
Where are people watching War Room now?
Here is the live link where you can click the podcast to view previous programs.
https://pandemic.warroom.org/listen-live/
Our district superintendent tried that at the beginning of this baloney. I fought her tooth and nail. Finally our governor said 4 days a week in person or we would have been all virtual. Our students have lost a full year and more. Sinful what our government has done to this country
What is this 4-days BS. It is either all or nothing. Covid cares less whether it 4-days, a week, a month and so on. Covid is not only an illness, but it is now Politics. The Covid Politics is the real pandemic.
I heard at one point that the day without class was to give janitorial staff time to disinfect the school. I don’t know if that’s the case here or not.
That is actually very believable. I am a member of a nonprofit that only meets officially one day per week but the building is used on some other days by some of the members to conduct maintenance and other necessary business.
When our state’s 100% lockdown was relaxed last summer, the facility was re-opened for its weekly work session but with masks, distancing and a limited number of volunteers allowed in to work (you had to sign up ahead of time).
But the staff decided to spend another day entirely dedicated to cleaning and disinfecting the entire premises where any volunteer had worked, the rest rooms, the auditorium / lunch room, etc. They radically changed their operating procedure because of covid. I wasn’t in agreement at all because I knew all along covid is just another flu virus if not a bit more contagious. But people are running scared out of any rationality because of the media hype, and business and nonprofit facility managers are running scared of lawsuits….so we have buildings being cleaned as if surgeries were conducted within every room, every day.
In our little corner of PA, we have gone from full remote (all virtual), to 2-days-per-week (A/B groups of 2-days in physical school, 3 days remote) to 4-days per week (Mo/Tu/Th/Fri by having a child go in both A/B groups to balance class sizes) to 5-days per week starting next Monday 3/22. I have heard that we still have about 30% of the student pop with parents that want to keep going full remote (aka “cyber”) until the end of the year, and the other 70% will return to physical school.
As a parent, it has been very frustrating. It has taken a lot of work to keep them on a track of what we “expect” them to know at their grade levels. It is VERY easy to miss an assignment, turn something in late, or the answer key was entered wrong in a digital test (yes, teachers are human and make mistakes). We can sense the frustration from the teachers as well… Zoom is a solution, but not THE solution to stream 20 different conversations at the same time. There just isn’t a substitute for face-to-face learning, or rapid feed back, clear communication, learning facial skills. And we aren’t even talking about the missed physical education from gym, science experience, field trips, concert bands, etc.
So, I can’t even imagine the “underprivileged” areas like what we hear out of Philadelphia. Those parents were already getting a raw deal from their school districts BEFORE the crisis, and now its not clear what’s going on in the city. When you only had 25% of the students at grade level BEFORE COVID, and your “good news” is that it has remained steady… whew.
https://whyy.org/articles/early-data-show-hopeful-signs-for-pandemic-learning-in-philly-but-huge-questions-remain/
I’m also reading that Philadelphia public schools may remain open all summer to allow students to “catch up” to their grade levels. That will of course require mountains of cash to fund the teachers union to get teachers to show up, which may or may not actually result in learning.
Parents need to be able to do what they feel is best for their Kids. It is called freedom. The Communist Libtards, which includes too many teachers are only interested in control. The real danger, they have no common sense and have cockamamie influence over our children.
We homeschooled in the 90’s
Our children now dominate
I’m so sad for so many
I’m so furious I boil
Ditto our family but from 1997-2014
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Why bother to “keep up” with the public school curriculum and assessment protocols. Yank the kids out and homeschool. (Caveat, stay away from “on-line” as much as possible; it has multifarious problems.) As for “field trips” — parents can do way better themselves (much more fun AND educational for kids to not be herded about in a line). Music? Hire an out-of-work musician. Phys ed? Put on your running shoes and do it with them. Best decision I ever made in my life was to “re-do school” the right way with my kids. Yup, they were completely off-track with their high schools, but by age 15, had no problem with the entrance exam for the local community college to take those kinds of classes I couldn’t easily provide (most states permit “dual enrollees” who are still in “high school”, including those being home-schooled.
https://hslda.org/legal/pennsylvania
True
Say it loud with clarity and strength
Everywhere
President Trump wasn’t the only victim of the Sino-Democrat Rona Virus!
Trump was the target of the “plandemic,” but the collateral damage was huge, and is still not finished.
Absolutely! This was a Chinese bioweapon to remove President Trump and without massive election fraud it would have failed in spite of killing millions of people around the world! It’s amazing how our astute military and intelligence agencies continue to play dumb and ignore the obvious!
Thank you for getting it
Hope you’re resisting immensely
Indeed…Another area I was so hopeful that President Trump would be able to dismantle and rebuild. I’m thankful I don’t have to contend with this since my daughter is almost 26 with a great job. I would be home schooling if I had little ones today. I realize this isn’t possible for everyone. Heard from others there are now ‘pod’ systems where parents are hiring dedicated teachers to teach small groups of students. Sounds like a great alternative to me.
I just can’t believe all these teachers buy in to the teacher’s union corruption. Surely there are some that care about educating these youngsters. A plus is that many now see how broken the public school system is and will result in creating alternative learning systems to challenge the status quo.
As far as reading goes, when will the Generals at the Pentagon and the top enlisted space cadet at the Space Force be taught to read. If they knew how to read they could read the US Constitution and its Bill of Rights and have some idea of what it was they all swore an oath to protect and defend rather than attack.
We hear you!
Somehow they need to make it into a black vs illegal immigrants problem That will get the Biden administration’s attention.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/italy-launches-criminal-manslaughter-investigation-after-teacher-dies-hours-after-getting-astrazeneca-vaccine_3735806.html
Hidalgo woman, 75, dies 40 minutes after receiving Covid vaccination
But health officials say there is no evidence that her death was linked to the shot
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/coronavirus/hidalgo-woman-75-dies-40-minutes-after-receiving-covid-vaccination/
She received the shot because she was 75 y/o and had heart disease. But because she had heart disease, there was no evidence that she died from the shot.
If the teachers want to insist on being guinea pigs, may their wishes please be fulfilled.
The news media used to make “news” when somebody died at Walt Disney World in Florida like there was some kind of rule of nature that prevented death at Disney World. People die all the time every day and sometimes it doesn’t matter where you are. People even die in the hospital! LOL
https://www.thehealthyamerican.org/There are people all over the US working to lawfully push back against the un Constitutional policies of the left. People should connect with the following persons for tips, support and information on the best way’s to “nullify” the tyrannical left:
Pam Popper, Wellness Coach in Ohio https://www.bitchute.com/video/rJAPwyW9YYDf/
Peggy Hall, The Healthy American in California: https://www.thehealthyamerican.org/
Dr. Shiva: https://vashiva.com/dr-shiva-live-how-do-cloves-effect-the-immune-system-a-systems-biology-analysis/
There are resources available for people to push back.
These are all great patriots. Popper’s recent interview with Dr. Tenpenny is definitely worth a listen.
Hope that people remember this crap when their teacher’s union contract is up renewel.
What are they gonna threaten?
Go on strike? ?
Teacher’s Unions have been staging “outdoor work sessions” [AKA illegal picket lines] and playing other strike-like games in Masssachusetts since September. Yes. That was not a typo. September.
Their behavior has been so egregious that even the state courts, which the unions more or less own, have slapped them down a number of times.
The school systems remain almost completely closed. It is alleged they will reopen near the end of April for the last couple weeks of the school year.
The reality is that most teacher unions have been on strike since March of 2020- a full year. They will remain on strike until they’ve squeezed every possible concession from feckless municipal authorities, or until there is “fundamental change” in the way people view the relationship between their elected officials and special interest groups such as public service unions.
We get what we
vote forput up with. The sooner the people fenced into the urban sharecropping blocks of LA and other cities realize this, the faster their lives will improve. Until then parasitic special interests will continue to victimize them.Sadly, they haven’t missed a paycheck while compromising the students’ education throughout this entire plandemic. The corruption continues with nary a blip 🙁
The schools are closed, the borders are open, and we are at war.
Fire all the teachers now. Let them compete with all those wonderful illegal aliens for the increasingly small number of $15 per hour minimum wage jobs.
Hire new teachers that want to work. If ordinary parents can be expected to teach their own children at home with no resources, then almost anybody can be trained to teach children in schools with government resources.
If we had anything remotely looking like leadership, we would do to the teachers unions exactly what Reagan did to the Air Traffic Controllers in the 80’s.
He fired them.
Perhaps the organized parents should also place demands on WHAT and what will NOT will be taught in the curricula upon the return. If they are already organized place these demands also!
I’m a big believer in homeschooling, if you can possibly make it work. If you aren’t able to do it alone, think about how you can collaborate with some like-minded friends to form an informal cooperative. Maybe some retired folks or former homeschool parents would help with helping get this off the ground. Here’s how I’m using my homeschooling creds and my math/science background to help some local families:
I’m currently tutoring a student whose mom has pulled him from the online “learning” public school that is not serving their family well. He is so happy to finally have some face-to-face interaction with the outside world. He’s really bright, and I’m happy to help him pursue his interests.
I have another student who withdrew from private school and has been homeschooling and working during the pandemic. I’m helping her piece together her high school transcript and portfolio, since her mom hasn’t ever done this before.
I’m teaching a math-meets-art class for a five-family homeschool cooperative. They meet once a week cooperatively for social, English and math enrichment, with each family spending the rest of the week teaching their own children. This is one of the highlights of my week, as these young people are so engaged in life and learning.
This is wonderful…God bless you.
I listened to an Anothony O’Neil (one of Dame Ramsey’s personalities) “The Table” podcast at the beginning of February. Not that it matters, but Anthony is Black and had on 2 Black entrepreneurs in this episode (February 8, 2021 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-table-with-anthony-oneal/id1543458790?i=1000508163762) where they were talking about entrepreneurship.
One of the two guests made a striking comment about their mom. The mom had started as a receptionist with Met Life, if I recall correctly or it was a large Insurance company like that, and worked her way up the ladder to the point she had an executive offer on the table when she retired, all without a college education. The guest who shared this was talking in the context of that’s what the mom wanted for them, work hard in a “safe” good paying job and live a decent life. Entrepreneurship wasn’t part of the expectations from the family.
The Black community needs to step up and take ownership in their communities with actions just like this: rallying for schools opening. No one else can come save the community but those living win it. Democrats aren’t used to being pushed against by their “constituents”.
From the podcast mentioned above, one of the two entrepreneurs made an interesting observation in that this will be the first generation of Blacks that will really pass along property and businesses to the next generation that’s not coming from something like a savings account or life insurance policy. Entrepreneurship is still relatively low in the Black community based on the simple fact that previous generations haven’t been exposed to the entrepreneurial efforts of their parents/friends/other relatives.
I hope as more of the people wake up to what the liberal policies are doing to their communities, new candidates emerge to challenge the life long office holders. Even if they run as aDemocrat and don’t robotically vote with the far-left, its a step in the right direction. They can take back their communities and thrive, becoming very successful. They just need to realize government isn’t the solution to their problem!!
I think these actions are a good step and it shows most people have an inherent understanding of what should be happening, it’s just that big government steps in and crushes dreams.
Any question that Trump won California? Saw that analysis yesterday that I think CA lost 700K people, yet the total vote for both Xiden and Trump went up by 3.2 million or something like that.
Fortunate thing here it’s black women leading this. This is the only way this changes. Whites can talk forever and get nowhere. It will take black folks to right this ship.
My boss who is uber liberal and has bought into all of the covid nonsense has a son in college. Nice, smart and very social kid is being sent to a rehab place in AZ because he has suddenly developed bipolar depression. What do these bureaucrats think is going to happen when you suddenly tell people that their social lives must be put on hold for an entire year for a “plandemic”.
My nephew’s kids attend a small rural Christian private elementary school. While their school was stuck using Zoom for a few months, the kids had to be in front of their computers with the screens on and wearing their uniforms. At first, I thought the uniform thing was silly, but now it makes good sense.
Most of the schools around here, public and private, have been open for in-person instruction for most of the school year. I think most of them allowed an extra week off after Thanksgiving and Christmas in case of excess exposures at family gatherings.
Don’t think that parents don’t take their kids to the grocery stores when the kids are not in school.
I would say, this begs the question whether the problems now visible are, in fact, new, or if they’re just now visible to the parents – teachers and school counselors covering up mental problems and passing students who should be failing. Or whether the tests are now being manipulated so they can say “See! Homeschooling doesn’t work! We have to put your child in our indoctrination center, for their own good!”
These parents need to ask the “health” officials why are movies and tv shows being produced in the United States while our schools are shut down completely!
Go get them girls!!!! We the People are behind you….they may call us bigots but we are not the ones who want your kids to suffer. We want them to succeed. When they succeed. We succeed.
Interesting that those who cry racist the most are the ones at the heart of this problem in Watts.
WAKE UP AMERICA!!! We don’t have a race crisis. WE HAVE AN ELITISM PROBLEM and it’s not just white elites. Elites come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. All religions. It’s time we take our country back.
Amen!! Our children suffer working parents suffer. We all suffer. Union leaders get out of the picture and teachers teach !!
I don’t buy into the disproportionate impact on low income kids.
Everyone knows poor kids are just as smart as white kids.
Talk to the Hand Progs said ‘Everyone knows poor kids are just as smart as white kids.’
Is that an unintentional allusion that “white kids” can’t also be “poor kids”?
It’s a Joe Bribed-en quote.
Racist Rapin Joe said that one.
Oh right! I had forgotten, but I did hear him say that…
Thanks!
All States should follow the lead of West Virginia. Move the funding of the schools from the system to the parents. Problem solved.
Accountability is what America needs, and the school systems have mostly failed the students / parents / community.
Conservative districts are opened.
Liberal districts are closed.
Rich liberals send their kids to private schools anyhow
The kids have been home for 3/4 of the school year. The parents should all send in their notices to homeschool their kids, thus ending the power of the teachers’ unions. No kids= no federal aid = should bring these districts to their knees.
This is the worst case scenario when the state legislature is a single party of self serving cowards.
The leader of the group….Lydia Friend…was on Bannon’s Warroom, along with John this morning. She’s a hard working Grandma who called on teachers to go back to work & if they don’t think its safe….they should quit! Love her!
It’s ironic because One of the arguments to keep schools closed is that
Opening the schools is a form of white supremacy with the justification that Covid 19 disproportionately
Impacts Blacks and Hispanics yet children son or get sick from Covid or spread it, so keeping the schools closed serves only To increase the academic achievement gap and act as a source of faux outrage and political activism. It’s truly mind blowing.
I suspect the mental health impacts of Covid on children is far worse than people realize and will have long lasting impacts. We have created a trauma cohort group by allowing this shut down to continue. Once we got past the two weeks to flatten the curve we should have demanded to open back up. By not doing so we have abdicates our power to our corrupt government and established a precedent that can’t be taken back. And that’s on top
Of losing a critical election. There was no reason to stay shut down once you really break down all the relevant numbers.
I am not surprised girls are showing higher rates of mental health impact – girls are more socially motivated than boys regardless of what the gender is a social construct crowd says.
When you know what the existing test score discrepancy is, a higher decrease in scores is exponentially problematic. The achievement gap has been consistent despite any programs targeted at decreasing it (minus Enron accounting numbers fudging) – an increase kn that gap is a sign of significant trouble ahead.
Any stats on increased child abuse?
I have conflicted feelings.
These people are all going to work every day? They don’t know how to read? There is nothing that is taught in elementary school that cannot be duplicated at home in 2-3 hours. As for high school, most of it can be duplicated as well; get the books and read to the kids, talk about what’s been read — lots of homeschool information and lists out there. Maybe not so easy with higher maths, things like chemistry lab, foreign language, or being in band or sports if those are not the parents’ things. So do more in other stuff and organize groups at church. I don’t get the giving up.
Great vid! Thank You, John Spiropolous.
A few things:
Conservatives need to learn how to not let a crisis go to waste. The damage from the lockdowns is massive but there is an opportunity to crush the leftist indoctrination factories know as public schools. Vouchers, wholesale firings of teachers who won’t work, union-busting and other actions become possible because of this craziness. We are chasing the short-term politics of the situation rather than pursuing our equivalent of the Left’s long term strategy.
The OED … the Oakland, CA Teachers UNION is still demanding reparations before resuming in-person classroom teaching
https://reparationsforblackstudents.org/
Because FREE $$$$$ “fixes” COVID. Right?
CONGRATS John for getting this on Bannon’s War Room. You are an internationally known film maker now!!! I hope to see more of you there, here and everywhere.
Excellent job making a real difference. 🙂
The deadline for the Recall Gavin Newsom petition was this week, so collecting signatures is over and now it is time to do what they call racist for elections, check signatures against LEGAL CITIZEN VOTERS. IF you signed the petition and at the same time removed yourself from the voter rolls you may be screwed.
They had almost twice the signatures they needed, a good cushion, so they feel pretty good this will make it’s way on to a ballot.
Source: OAN