back with me, carol markowitz.carol, my question to you is the first line of your great column in the new york post, why does obvious damage to children get ignored for so long? >> i really want to know the answer to that question also. my real concern over these last two and a half years, i have a lot of concerns, but one of the main things that i keep coming back to us how the media shut down very obviously now write opinions. every article that i read in the new york times, wow, it looks like they lost when they didn't go to school for two years. yeah, we knew that. we have speech problems because kids were masked for so long. we don't know how these experiments with children will turn out. we need the media task the right questions about what we are doing and we don't have that. instead we have a media that shuts down any opinions until we are masking two -year-olds, describing a dozen antidepressants to teenagers or blocking puberty for preteens. everyone is afraid to speak up. people have been fired for speak

carol markowitz joins me now. how did this teacher expose the testing sham?ded to pass the algebra exam in new york city which used to be a high-quality exam at this point is dumbed down so much that questions are super easy and you only need 19% to pass it. he said to one of his students having a tough year, almost jokingly said she was all sees and you will get through and the kid did. stuart: that is it. it is multiple-choice, the youngster just ticked off see on every single question and that gave that student enough points to pass. lauren: exactly right. it is so funny because this kid deviated for two questions and guess to be and the answer would have been see on those and still past. some convoluted scheme to make anybody pass the take this test it is almost impossible to fail and it is a travesty. kids deserve better. what parent is okay with her kids passing 19%? stuart: you will need 19% success on questions to pass. is this widespread? >> go to college with that testing. it is elsewhere. >> i don't have a similar tale of -- i approach parents all

carol markowitz joining us now.f that kind of thing. i take it you've got to no mask problems in the schools in florida? >> no, i haven't. and, you know, part of that is just the confidence that i have that this is not going to happen in florida. this is why we moved, right? i like being sure that my kids weren't going to have to go through this for 10 days, 3 weeks, any amount of time. but the thing is, virginia has same situation. when fair pax county announced they were going -- fairfax county announced they were going to require masks, the next line was, well, we cannot actually require masks, so if you want to opt out, you can. you said it best. the masks don't work. zero covid because of masks, that literal has never happened. it's become such a political hinge. you know it's a left-leaning district when they impose mask mandates. i was in scotland recently, and nobody was wearing masks, nobody. i mean, i would say i saw fewer masks in scotland, a very left-leaning country, than i saw in free-wheeling florida.