raising curious well educated children outside of the conventional classroom and it is written by carrie mcdonald, ms. mcdonnell before we get into the substance of the book tell us a little bit about yourself. >> it is great to be with you i am a senior education fellow at the foundation for economic education celebrating our 76 year anniversary this year as the oldest free-market think chain and a scholar at the cato institute of the freelance writer and as you mentioned the author of untold which came on 2019 the spring of 2019 that had a quite a bit of renewed interest over the past year plus given full shutdowns in the upsurge in interest in homeschooling and alternatives to school for tickly with school shutdown and delayed reopening plans. >> on the practical level have you been in the preschool level or the school-age? >> i am a homeschooling mom myself i have four children who have never been in school who range from 7 - 14 and high-end personal experience and reflection but i travel the country in writing the book and i visit other homeschooling families as well as learning centers and

cover of this new book raising children outside of the conventional classroom and its written by carrie mcdonald senior education fellow for economic education and add adjunct scholar at the a instite and as you mentioned is the author of on the schools that came out and had quite a bit of interest given the full shutdowns and the upsurge in interest and alternative schools against the shutdown and of the reopening plans the book does tie in from the personal experience and reflection and to visit other homeschooling families as well as the learning centers and other school alternatives and customize for their children's education's. with the economics and graduate school and policy at harvard was the education choice and freedom and education entrepreneurship coming up with new learning models for the demand. >> you say your children have been homeschooled. but have they been unschooled, is there a difference? >> the difference is that homeschooling of course or alternatives to schools in conventional classrooms focused on education if we think about education from schooling including the metho

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cover of this new book raising children outside of the conventional classroom and its written by carrie mcdonald

raising curious well educated children outside of the conventional classroom and it is written by carrie mcdonald, ms. mcdonnell before we get into the substance of the book tell us a little bit about yourself. >> it is great to be with you i am a senior education f

the charges were brought i open county prosecutor carrie mcdonald.heir son from 815-year-old ethan is the suspect in the deadly school shooting at oxford high school so what charges will ultimately face is still unclear. all three of them, parents and son are in jail in isolation, the parents are being held on $500,000 bond each so where the case goes, rewards, potential accomplices and culpability, all unknown. what is known, this past tuesday 14-year-old hannah saint giuliani, 17-year-old madison, 15-year-old tate meyer and 17-year-old justin schilling were shot and killed while at school, place that's supposed to be and should be a safe zone. eric. eric: i think of the victims ranging from ages 14 to 17. ethan's parents, james and jennifer crumbley allegedly alerted by school authorities and not acting on any of this. mercedes joins us. we are on the telephone, where you see his parents being held in jail? >> it's interesting because it's a bold and aggressive move by the prosecutor but is warranted under circumstances, as reported the parents kne

mcdonald's are having to pay more on wages. we announced in our company-owned restaurants sort of an across-the-board minimum 10% wage increase. that has been carriedward by many of our franchisees. and i think we're just having to get creative about, how do we get people to come and interview for a job at mcdonald's? and you're seeing our franchisees do things like, hey, you know, $50 for an interview, or free iphone after 90 days. i mean, that is sort of all the things we are having to come up with right now to make sure we can staff the restaurants. david: but most of the people who are young and work at mcdonald's, are they minimum wage people who go up from minimum wage, or you up above the legal minimum wage now? chris: yeah, we are above the legal minimum wage. so it is $7.25. and there are very few places these days that you can be competitive in the marketplace paying the federal minimum wage. i think from our vantage point, what we announced in our company-owned restaurants is $11 is the starting wage. and then, you know, as you move up, you quickly progress through that. if you are a restaurant manager or someone who has maybe been there

reggie: kumasi: kumasi: today is mariah carries favorite things at mcdonald's.n of christmas is kicking off her special menu and today is the first of 12 straight days of deals. through december 24, you can get it different menu item with a minimum one dollar purchase. you can find the items on the mariah menu today's the big mac. reggie: that's a pretty good deal actually. i looked this up. wednesday will be the free mcc afe. will letwill letwill letwill lel a homeowner in utah transforms his redbook test has red brick home into a real-life gingerbread house. kumasi: you can see cookies on there. this is the interior designer. the chocolate is brown caulking. there is a new item thisthis vanilla wafer. reggie: that's impressive. kumasi: runners celebrated the return of the sonoma county half marathon. organizers sent us the video and the weather -- and the weather made it challenging. one runner over over over over r half marathon. you get champagne after? event and festival in downtown sonoma. mike: some of them like to them in the rain. until number two with

carry 10,000 shipping containers a piece. >> i always wonder when i see a kid's meal toy at mcdonald's or some novelty item, the tchotchkes youy back, somebody in some plant is making this and saying to themselves, i don't even know what this thing is. >> that's absolutely the case. >> someone's making the clattering teeth you winde must what is this and what am i doing? >> yeah. i happen to live in baltimore, it used to be the china of america. they used to make everything from bottle cans to umbrellas here. now all of that gets made in asia. it's the workshop of the world, right? it doesn't matter where you live outside asia or southeast asia, that's where all of that stuff pretty much gets made. >> you mentioned covid, as i mentioned, the miracle of hitting a button on our phone and get something quickly, we did begin to appreciate that with covid. >> yes, because of so many supply chain issues -- by the way, do your christmas shopping early this year. it will only hit us again. right now there are 60 container ships in a queue at the port of long beach, los angeles. this is totally unprecedented. they're doing record volu

. >> carrie is partnering with mcdonald's to give out free food every day until christmas eve.you. ainsley: should we set off all the alexas around the country. alexa, play mariah carey all i want for christmas. carley: i love it i support that. ainsley: it's so good. america is what, brian? brian: awake. ainsley: vaccine mandates could be spending criminals back out on the streets. fema county adult detention center in arizona might be forced to release a number of nonviolent inmates if more correction officers don't get vaccinated before the new year. here to react is the sheriff's labor association of people that county president mike dough mention go. good morning, mike. >> good morning. how people that work there have already resigned? >> we're hearing upwards up to 30 already since the mandate has been put in place. ainsley: why would you have to release -- >> -- and more to follow for sure. basically what had happened was we at that point we had 220 non-vaccinated correction corrections officers. as a result the county administrator issued a memo basically saying if more

carries up to 15 years in prison and a $7,500 fine and mandatory dna collection. it is very, very rare to see the parents charged in a high school shooting case, but oakland county prosecutor karen mcdonald explained why she was making that move. take a listen. >> both defendants were aware that he was searching ammunition on his phone at school. instead of reacting to that as a concerned parent and worried about safety, mrs. crumbley texted, "lol, i'm not mad, just next time don't get caught." and obviously, on this very tragic day on the 30th, they were called to the school and about their son's drawing, which literally depicted threats and acts of violence. and instead of disclosing to the school that he had full access to this weapon, they chose not to, chose not to take their son home, they chose not to tell anybody that he might be dangerous when it was clear and they had every likelihood that he was and instead they left. >> reporter: and instead they left. the prosecutor saying that these parents, had they acted, could have prevented this tragedy from happening. therefore, they are criminally negligent. we did hear from the lawyers representing jennifer and james crumbley, they i