you will have kids with opinions coming into the classroom. and how to manage those discussions appropriately so we have a model of what civil discourse in our nation should look like. >> that's the key thing, teachers model civil discourse. when they're working, as i think the lion's share of educators do across this country, to teach how to think, not what to think, it's incumbent on the rest of us, it's particularly critical that the presidential sites are stepping up to help support educators in this effort. let me comment on what was said by painting a day in the life. if you're showing up in the classroom and you're one of the nation's 200,000 social studies educators at the middle school or high school level, and it's january 7th, 2021, you know what you're going to talk about. you know what you're going to engage those students on. but what you don't know is what your building principal or the superintendent or the legal counsel for that district might be saying. because oftentimes there's subtle but steady pressure to avoid those kind

was discussed in the classroom. they don't have that training and i will tell you from talking the teachers directly. they don't get the opportunities to go get the training because once again social studies is the bottom of the heap in the education world. they just are and with limited budgets administrators. i hear this all the time from teachers principles. do not i'll have the budget for social studies teachers to get. to get substitute teachers into the classroom so that they can go take a day and get trained. even the teachers that want to get the training even when there's access to the training they can't get there because they don't have the budget to get out of school and have somebody take over their classroom. it's a really desperate state of affairs. so we have to have accessible professional development. either tim or bob one of you alerted alluded to this as well earlier about the fact that most of our a social studies teachers a good majority of them frankly are coming out of college teaching these s

they just add so much more richness to the classroom. but when i started teaching at the community college, i realized a lot of my students, especially women returning back to school, did not have a lot of the support i had. i thought, we have to have a women's mentoring group on campus. i found that many of the women who came back may be did not have some of the skills in technology. so many of them had anxiety. they were trying to juggle it all. when i mentored these students, i felt like i was making a difference. i don't know whether you know this, but some of these -- i especially taught this one woman who left her husband, she was abused, she was living in her car with her children. she got into a shelter and they saw how smart she was and they got her into community college. it changed her whole life. i meant toward her and helped her write an essay, and she got into a four-year college and now she is an accountant and she has this great life. there are so many stories like that. hundreds of them out there. they are a place for peo

and these stories are in the books that we read in the classroom, in the school libraries. when i talked about the lgbtq books, learning about the people we need to work with come out whether it be in the school or the community. it is important that we do better when we know about each other. it is within our books that we learn about each other. >> thank you. >> i will echo everybody's thoughts. we need to build tolerance and empathy. we do that by starting through literature and we allow her lung -- youngest learners to be uncomfortable -- comfortable when they are uncomfortable. and let them ask questions and express different viewpoints. >> very good. thank you all for your thoughtful answers to that question. i am going to yield to mr. jordan for his five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. what do you think is the biggest threat to free speech? >> the two biggest problems are a lack of viewpoint diversity. it is not enough to have free speech. you need to be presented with ideas that challenge you. >> was that more on college campuses? >> i think the situation on col

that is what ends up in the classroom or in the library. by and large, they bring a list of materials to be acquired. school boards vote on them and that is how they show up. is that true? yes, to my knowledge. >> can we agree that school boards are the ones who authorized purchases? >> yes. >> does the school board have the legal authority to save a goes in and out of classrooms? >> it is my understanding it places the superintendent in the position to make those decisions. >> does the school board have a responsibility to decide in the funding to acquire materials? >> in terms of loving county, we have a board of supervisors that approves the budget. it is our superintendent that has that decision. >> when the materials are allowed to come in or there is a decision to remove it, is it just done at the behest of a group or is there a vote of somebody, whether it is the school board or even the decision of the superintendent. >> not always. most libraries have weeding processes with the removal of books. and a general consensus, especially

it's not so new, it's really comes out of the use of 16 millimeter films in classrooms which is something we've talked about for the 20s and 30s but in the '50s is a massive expansion of the use of 16 millimeter film. that's driven in part by technology. you see a particular tour there of the kodak pageant projector. it was a new projector kodak invented, lighter, more portable, easier to thread, the film didn't burn. always good when a school system invests in it although it sometimes did burn but it was advertised as not burning. this new version of classroom technology really sort of fostered the expansion of the educational film industry. jeff alexander in his book "films you saw in school" estimates there were approximately 100,000 or so, given or take, films made in this period and they were made by educational film companies so these would be companies like coronet, archer. we'll see archer today when we watch "duck and cover." even encyclopaedia britannica, again, just to capture the new media idea that an encyclopedia producer would be branching out into classroom film, captures

of course, they would think that they think it have more applications the classroom. but this became even more urgent in the context of the dropping of atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki in japan. and the real escalation of what several people have called the nuclear culture, or the nuclear future. so this nuclear future, on the one hand, everyone knew about this. everyone knew that this ended the war, that was a massive loss of life. it was a very grim dark scene. so that's kind of the dark side of atomic culture. the thought was that, in the post war period, really harnessing nuclear energy for positive uses. so eisenhower gave a speech in 1953 became known in retrospect as the adams four-piece speech. and this became a kind of a propaganda campaign for the peaceful uses of atomic energy. peaceful uses of atomic energy would include reactors for generating energy but also things like radioisotopic. so using the reactors to create radio isotopes that become medical tracers. that's why you have, in the local that eventually gets made, the medical icon to. medicine,

it's really comes out of the use of 16 millimeter film in classrooms, which is something that we've already talked a little bit about for the 20s and 30s, but moving that discussion forward what's going on in the 50s is a real massive expansion of the use of 16 millimeter film in classrooms, and that's driven in part by technology. so you see a picture there of the kodak pageant projector. the pageant projector was a new projector that kodak invented it was lighter. it was more portable. it was easier to thread the film didn't burn. always good when i when a school system invests in it, although the film did sometimes burn but it was advertised as not burning. um this new new version of classroom really sort of fostered. the expansion of the educational film industry so film historian jeff alexander in his book films you saw in school. estimates that there were approximately a hundred thousand or so give or take films that were made in this period and they were made by largely by educational film companies. so these would be companies like coronets archer. we're going to see archer today wh

said, which is that parents have no role in what is going on with teachers or what goes on in the classroom that you as parents would actually want teachers to feel the same way that you do about your kids. you care for them, to be nurturing them and taking responsibility for them and providing a great service. i don't think it is the same thing but everything gets cut up, everything is going in an ad and that is not something we can afford. there was a big "wall street journal" piece where he interviewed a democratic voter in new jersey, who don't know who they are going to vote for because of masking kids in schools, and they are just saying, wait, i have to -- sorry, anyway. >> jason: but this is part of the point, judge. look up a biden actually said. the president of the united states come he doesn't get a pass by saying, i meant this. >> judge jeanine: what he said, the children are hours when they are in the classroom. they are not somebody else's children. wrong. my child is my child, whether my child is at home or in the classroom. they are not your children, they are always my chi

his comments in the classroom that have parents and students sounding the alarm. this is "today in the bay." >>> good thursday morning. thank you very much for making us a part of your morning. i'm marcus washington. >> i'm kristin sanchez. >> it's time to look at what you can expect as you head out the door. mike, you're tracking the roads because they're wet this morning. vianey arana will talk about the rain. >> we have heavy pockets that pushed through, we have more heavy rain expected. let's look at satellite radar. you can see also some thunderstorm activity mainly into parts of sacramento. look at stormranger, we have heavier pockets pushing through fairfield, concord, the san francisco area, pushing this in closer in san francisco, you can see the highlighted yellow around 280, you can see some of that orange color there. that means heavy downpours at times. through south san francisco. then over to the south bay, downtown san jose, just had that rain push out, but just behind it we have more on the way. here's a closer look at what to expect for your thur

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>> well, the students have been -- i have not been able to talk about this in the classroom. ver me because i have no idea what would happen if the issues even arose spirits only very recently in the last week was i free to speak about the issue in the classroom. the students are extremely curious about a lot of issues, this one in particular. we have not been able to discuss it in class. it has been very restricted. but the students have been fine with me, right. i haven't had any problems with students. >> todd: interesting. as you both stated college university like there's supposed to be about robust exchange of ideas, ideas you may agree with and ideas you may not agree with peer that is what makes that time in a young person's life so important because they form their views on the world through those robust discussions, through having their eyes open to views they may not have had previously. hopefully, this lawsuit helps keep that, keep that in our colleges and universities going forward. professor meriwether, tyson, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> think you.

lawrence: what is the mood in the classroom from the students? are they agitated?ause they're not getting the proper learning -- >> absolutely. children want to learn. teachers want to teach. this is not an indictment of teachers or schools. children want to be there. and yes, they are happy in new york city at least that there's no more masks. they feel free. but they feel frustrated at times because again there's, you know, they go to remote or they have to be out for several weeks so there's such disruptions in learning that there's a frustration. i mean, let's not even get into the social emotional impacts of school closures. on children of all ages -- so there's an excitement yet there's still a frustration on their part because we have not figured this out. this was an experiment back in march of 2020. it didn't work. lawrence: shouldn't be experimenting on children. and i'm not sure we know ramifications still enough -- but thank you merriam for fighting for our kids y'all are two of the good ones thank you for stangtding up for them up next crime is surge i

the other image in the classroom is a picture of william penn. this is a famous painting of a tree signing between william penn and the native americans found in pennsylvania. these are the kind of images that as a young girl forward mott would have been exposed to and would have been a part of her world. she became an instructor there. she learned her salary as a full-time instructor was $40. his salary was $100 a term. she married him any way. i guess she didn't think of it as his fault that he was paid so much more. this inconsistency didn't extend to salaries. they married and moved to philadelphia where they move into this modest dwelling here. although quite a nice one for the day. they has six children. five that lived to adulthood. mott was famous for her housekeeping and rolling out pies as people were meeting in her living room and listening and contributing as she carried on her domestic responsibilities. freedom of religion and any number of other causes that she spoke to. as a minister she was not allowed to be paid. she depended upon

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first, the bill prohibits classroom instruction about sexuality or things like transgender in k-3 classrooms and at the third rate, those curriculum need to be age-appropriate. at the beginning of every school year, parents will be notified about health care services offered at the school with the right to decline any service offered. [applause] finally, this bill ensures whenever health training is given to our young students, parents receive it first and give permission for the school to give it to their child. there has been a lot of discussion about this particular piece of legislation. you have seen a lot of sloganeering by leftist politicians and activists and corporate media. you still see it even today after this stuff has been debunked. it's true that many of the people helped whip this up of never read the bill and haven't taken the time to do that when we rather further their narrative. i must tell you, these leftist politicians, corporate media outlets in some of these activist groups actually have read the bill. they are sloganeering because they don't want to admit that they su

while acknowledging that books in the classroom book clubs are not required, he says the overall list shows what he calls a leftward bias. >> when we approach those themes , with similarly situated materials or materials with similar points of view, we are not really getting much balance. we are creating bias in materials that should be neutral. >>he argument is always that there is no neutral. what you call the pre-ideological days had its own ideology that left out these voices. >> i don't know that i subscribe to that. if we are talking about stoes from new and different voices, that is great. i am ok with that but the question i will ask is if they are going to fundamentally allenge what i am trying to do from a moral perspective at home and if they do, we are violating trust with our community. >> this is about choosing, not banning books. >> you start saying that you can't read thisook, i don't want this book in the library, that book is being banned. that is what is happening. they are asking them to police books from the shelves and that is what is happening. that is real. a p

if there is a gender issue in the classroom, you notify the parents. what i need to know from you is my question, where do we send curriculum requests? you have to have those in before you can opt out of anything your teachers want to sell our children. host: randy weingarten? guest: i'm not quite sure i understand the question. every school system is different. when i was a teacher, my first day of teaching, i would do a contract with my kids and we would talk about what the curriculum was and is for the year or for the semester. we taught semester by semester. i would ask them to talk to their parents and i would ask them to sign the contract. i try to actually make sure that what i was going to teach that semester kids knew, parents new and it was pretty transparent because i needed parents help. i needed parents to help support our kids when we were debating. i think every single school system has some way of making sure that parents know whether curriculum is because that's wharton's and that parents are our partners. this is about teaching kids.

the covid relay funds to push crt in the classroom. a parent reacts to the stunning review of the taxpayer dollar. >> todd: that is part of the big show we have lined up. texas attorney general ken paxton, brian brenberg in the studio. and larry as well. don't miss it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ make way for the first-ever chevy silverado zr2. with multimatic shocks, rugged 33-inch tires, and front and rear electronic locking differentials. dude, this is awesome... but we should get back to work. ♪ ♪ this good? perfect. if you're gonna work remote... work remote. find new workspaces. find new roads. chevrolet. ♪ ♪ >> todd: welcome back. johnny depp's bodyguard taking a stand testify he saw scratches and swelling on the actors face during his honeymoon with ex-wife amber heard. the bodyguard said he never saw the couple physically fight but johnny depp became a pattern with several injuries. listen. >> what i noticed was most of these marks, most of these things, if you look at the picture, like i said, on the left, under his eye is a swelling. >> todd: th

. >> we want parents to have 100% the option to have their kid back in the classroom five days a week and every school district in iowa is going to adhere to that. >> it doesn't matter what your color, where background is, texas is the land of opportunity for absolutely everybody. >> we are not having vaccine passports in the state of florida. [applause] and not just in government can't make you, private businesses can't make you because you have an opportunity to participate in the society, we will have a resurgence of freedom in this country in 2022. it's going to be a great year for us. >> laura: every single one of those governors lift up to their pledges, but the democrats and the media, they really thought, they hoped that these anti-lockdown governors would be finished, politically. now we see they are right all along. now the state is known for the most are coney and covid rules like new york, they fare poorly and states like florida, are among the best. [applause] and today, "the new york times" grudgingly conceded that governor desantis has governed with remarkable effect, e

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unprecedented role the teacher unions play in cdc policy that cap did millions of kids out of the classroomplus, bracing for a new flood of illegal migrants at our southern border. officials warning they are not enough federal agents to handle the new crisis. brandon judd is here. but first let's take a look back at some the top newsmakers with mornings with maria and this edition of this week's talkers. ♪ joe manchin is on board to raise $1 trillion in new taxes. >> three -- one americans oppose taxing unrealized gain. they know they are not really real. spirit what can shoppers be doing with inflation of 40 or highs? >> what we recommend is first of all try to buy on sale. there's always items on sale every week, eggs, ribeye steaks, et cetera et cetera. try to buy on sale and free stuff. maria: can you confirm headlines these talks out of turkey are quote unquote constructive. >> it might be constructive but i don't believe it. putin has been a bad faith actor and the russians are using this opportunity to regroup that's a dangerous opportunity right upper they're getting crushed they're

. >> reporter: instead of heading to the classroom, hundreds of oakland students gathered at lake merritt to watch their teachers and union supporters rally against the district's decision to close or consolidate 11 schools over the next two years. >> to me, it's disgusting. how do you hand-pick schools to close? >> reporter: the district, anticipating the teacher's strike today, urged families to keep their kids home from school, saying they simply don't have enough subs to fill the classrooms. the union says 94% of teachers respected today's picket line. the district says some students did come to school, and staff focused on making it a positive experience for them. parents at today's strike say if the closures go forward, thousands of students will face new risks as they end up having to go farther from home to get an education. >> the things that our children can see while they're walking to school, to their new schools, it can ruin their education. it could ruin their mental health. children can get shot on the way to school. >> reporter: district officials say the closure and conso

they're more likely to have a higher sense of belongingness in the classroom and within the school.rs of color are also important for white students as well. any progress? >> reporter: at the charles f. patton middle school in suburban philadelphia, ahmir williams is a student teacher. now a college sophomore, he didn't have a black teacher until mr. anderson taught him history in sixth grade. >> he told me to walk in my greatness, and hearing those words come from his mouth was, like, really liberating. it gave me a lot of confidence. >> reporter: had anyone ever said that to you before? >> no. >> reporter: that is exactly why el-mekki wants to quadruple the number of black male teachers over the next 10 years. >> it's as simple as if you can see it, you can be it. you have smrng a black male, who you look exactly aligning, and it makes you think that they can do it, why can't i? great job today. >> reporter: which may be the most important lesson these kids can ever learn. >> have a good one. have a good one. >> reporter: for "eye on america," i'm jim axelrod in philadelphia. >> o

now to really chaos in the classroom. that middle school brawl in antioch this week shining a light on. >> a problem that is happening across the country. nancy loo gives us a look at this wild scene and examines the impact of the nationwide teacher shortage in our schools. >> this is the latest violence symptom of the chronic teacher shortage. problem for school districts across the country. in this case, sixth-graders going at it inside a middle school in antioch, california. according to a parent, the teacher didn't show up for work on monday and no sub was provided the fact that there was no teacher there. >> and that's the whole problem with all of this. my concerns are that my child is not getting an education. not an academic education may be an education and how to fight there's been a blitz of brawls across the country over the past 2 years with students, parents and educators partly blaming the unprecedented stress of the pandemic. >> near portland, oregon, one district shut down for a week in december due to too