Student Facing Disciplinary Action For Exposing Classmates’ Illiteracy

0:00 Alright guys, stop what you're doing.

0:01 Pay attention.

0:02 You need to watch this video because it is going

0:04 viral for all of the right or wrong reasons, I guess.

0:07 Because it is exposing that these American

0:10 high schoolers do not know how to read.

0:12 Just watch.

0:13 Read that ending score for me.

0:15 She wore a sue clothes that were, who's this for?

0:25 Extraordinary, but somewhat Er.

0:30 No.

0:31 Explain what that means.

0:32 I don't know.

0:33 No.

0:34 She wore a soho of clothes that were extra dur, whatever, bro.

0:40 But somewhat.

0:41 What does that mean?

0:43 She wore a lot.

0:44 Wait, she wore, bro.

0:46 I don't know, bro, can you take the cart back please?

0:48 All- Right.

0:49 I don't know if we're gonna be able to play the music

0:50 that is actually playing behind the TikTok because of copyright issues,

0:53 but if we can't, you should know that it

0:55 is like the most depressing piano music possible.

0:58 And it just gets sadder and sadder as these kids, these high schoolers,

1:01 most of them, I think 11th and 12th

1:03 graders are unable to read one simple sentence.

1:06 Well, I should say simple.

1:08 It's a bit of an oddly constructed sentence,

1:10 but the fact that most importantly, they don't even know the word extraordinary.

1:14 Probably the most common word in that entire sentence is shocking.

1:16 All right, so that video on TikTok has 17 million views on that platform alone.

1:21 It has also gone viral over on X, it's gone viral on Instagram reels.

1:24 And all of the comments across the board have unfortunately been very on point.

1:28 Like people have come together to say,

1:29 this is so wrong, we need to make a change.

1:32 Somebody said, cancel that prom right now back to study hall.

1:35 In other words, they said, wait, y'all, this ain't funny.

1:37 No it's not.

1:38 It's dire.

1:38 It is abysmal.

1:40 These are upper level high school students who cannot read a single sentence,

1:45 not with sounding out words, not with context clues, nothing.

1:48 Now somebody else commented on TikTok.

1:50 It said, gosh, I understand, and I get that that is a unique word.

1:53 Silhouette gets a slight pass, but extraordinary.

1:56 And then they put that meme, which is exactly how I felt watching that video.

1:59 Another person said,

2:00 this is the result of AI online school and No Child Left Behind.

2:03 And I would also add that it is the result

2:06 of Overfunding and the politicisation of our teachers unions and school

2:09 districts around the country that care more about lining their own

2:11 pockets and expanding their influence than actually helping students succeed.

2:15 And not to black pill and fear monger like 90 seconds into this episode.

2:19 But overarchingly, if you feel like you are safe, just you know,

2:23 blanket safety, sending your child to a charter school, a magnet school,

2:26 a STEM programme, think again because all of those students that you just

2:30 watched in that video attend one that is a Philadelphia STEM charter school.

2:34 So what I'm trying to say is that it really doesn't

2:35 matter if your child attends a public school, a charter school,

2:38 a private school, a magnet school, a STEM programme,

2:39 a private school across the board in this country,

2:42 kids are still falling way behind.

2:44 And what is so sinister is that the administrators who are in charge

2:47 are covering it up with meaningless success

2:50 statistics that are actually blaming the students.

2:52 Let's talk about it.

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3:03 Alright, so allegedly,

3:05 allegedly after that video went mega viral again, 17 million views,

3:09 the student who was recording the TikTok

3:10 and posting it on his social media channels,

3:12 he received pushback from the school.

3:14 So last Friday, he posted this on his personal Instagram story.

3:16 He said, I would post a part three, but the school board is trying to expel me.

3:20 Stop me from going to prom and stop me from walking at graduation.

3:24 I don't know, Chad.

3:25 So rather than saying, oh,

3:26 this is really embarrassing that our students dunno how to read,

3:29 no, they are now blaming the students for exposing it.

3:32 The students' allegations were further supported

3:34 by this now viral Facebook post,

3:35 which brought attention to the school allegedly pursuing disciplinary action.

3:39 And this person wrote that this black African American student is a senior

3:41 that is formed with a strong academic record and a high GPA,

3:44 which reflects consistent dedication, responsibility,

3:46 and commitment to their education,

3:47 to jeopardise their future at such a critical point

3:49 over an activity that seems intended for a lighthearted engagement.

3:52 Raises questions about fairness and proportionality in disciplinary action.

3:55 The school has preparatory charter school,

3:56 high school, and the TikTok page is what?

3:58 The vec, please do something about this and if

4:00 you have more information, please let me know.

4:02 So all of this came to light Thursday and Friday of last week.

4:05 I actually had no idea if this was a real story.

4:07 I saw one ex post about it.

4:09 I saw the rumours about disciplinary action.

4:11 I was like, this is crazy.

4:11 There were no news articles written about it yet.

4:13 So I shelved the story hoping that more things would come out.

4:16 And today they did.

4:17 The school actually made a statement denying all

4:19 of this, saying that the student in question, the young man filming the videos,

4:23 he is not facing expulsion Now, they also did not share and said that they could

4:27 not share if any other disciplinary actions are being taken.

4:30 So they said, no, we're not trying to expel him,

4:31 but per federal law, we can't say what else we might be doing.

4:35 Now of course, that could mean that they aren't

4:37 actually doing anything at all or could mean something different.

4:39 So just take that as you will.

4:40 Anyway, the student has not been deterred

4:42 and he has since posted two more similar videos.

4:45 Take a look at these.

4:48 The behemoth eviscerated, the its victims in the depths of the labyrinth.

4:51 Does- That mean- What?

4:53 Does what mean?

4:55 The card- It's giving the monster destroy the people.

4:58 Well, the victims in the labyrinth and the maid- Also,

5:01 I'm just gonna pause here because the TikTok language,

5:03 the TikTok brain rot language is on full display.

5:06 Rather than saying, this is what this sentence means, she said it's giving this.

5:09 Now the term, or I guess the phrase is it's giving,

5:12 is supposed to be sort of about vibes.

5:14 Like, oh, she's giving this, or it's giving X, Y, and Z.

5:17 You are using it to describe something.

5:19 It shouldn't really be used when you were

5:20 trying to rephrase what a sentence is saying, but also it's TikTok brain rot.

5:24 So just putting it out there,- Read the index part.

5:26 The lethargic dog refused to relinquish his spot on the sofa.

5:29 What does that mean?

5:30 The energetic dog didn't wanna get off the sofa,

5:32 he didn't wanna give up his spot.

5:37 The let the lethargic dog refuse lethargic,

5:43 the lethargic dog refuse to relinquish his spot on the on the sofa.

5:51 Alright, what does that mean?

5:53 I dunno, bro.

5:54 My God.

5:55 I mean, guys, it's so painful.

5:57 It is so, so incredibly painful.

5:59 Now, somebody commented on that last video and said,

6:01 okay, well this one wasn't as bad.

6:03 All of them read it.

6:04 And that's true, they got through the sentence.

6:06 But reading and comprehending the sentence are not the same thing at all.

6:10 And honestly, the comprehension side of it is far more important.

6:13 Not being able to explain that the sleepy dog did

6:16 not wanna give up his spot on the sofa is insane.

6:18 Like, and also lethargic being energetic, that's not comprehension,

6:23 not understanding, relinquishing, this doesn't make sense, bro.

6:26 This sentence doesn't even make any sense.

6:28 That is what should terrify all of us.

6:30 So needless to say, the student released those additional videos,

6:32 they just continue to go more and more viral.

6:34 Now there's all these articles being written about it.

6:36 And in addition to denying the allegations of expulsion,

6:39 the administration statement also said that these videos

6:42 do not accurately reflect the school.

6:45 Mm sure, Jan.

6:46 Sure.

6:46 So in the Philadelphia Enquirer, they published this statement and the school

6:49 said that the video footage does not

6:50 accurately reflect our school community or the values

6:53 we strive to uphold every day.

6:55 While some students may have agreed to be filmed,

6:57 the way the footage was presented lacks important context

7:00 that has led to a portrayal that is misleading and unfair.

7:03 The video titled, can You Read, does not represent the character,

7:06 effort, or abilities of our students as a whole.

7:08 So basically they are just trying to confuse everyone

7:11 and say these, these values do not represent us.

7:14 It is misleading.

7:14 He was trying to bait people into it.

7:16 And that does not change the fact that they could not read a simple sentence,

7:20 a sentence saying that the lethargic dog did

7:21 not wanna relinquish his spot on the sofa.

7:23 A 12th grader should absolutely be able to read

7:25 and comprehend that there is no context needed.

7:27 They're on camera and they could not do it.

7:29 So actually, yes, I think on a whole,

7:31 this does reflect the values of your school,

7:34 the values that maybe are not actually teaching your students.

7:37 And guys, this is where it gets even crazier if this is possible for this story,

7:40 because I went online and I pulled this school,

7:42 which is called a Charter Prep School of Philadelphia.

7:45 I pulled their Ready PA index,

7:46 which is the way that the state reviews all of its schools,

7:50 understands, you know, whether they're falling behind proficiency rates,

7:51 all of that sort of thing.

7:52 And the report on this school was shocking.

7:55 And remember, this is a charter college prep

7:57 STEM high school that we are dealing with today.

7:59 So all over their website, the charter website, everything about the school,

8:04 they promote the fact that they have a high level of high school graduates.

8:07 They have 92.3%, which is higher than the state average of 88%.

8:11 So they're like, woo, look at us.

8:12 Everybody's going to college, everybody's graduating.

8:15 And apparently 86% of those high school graduates

8:17 will move on to some sort of higher education at being either a two or four

8:21 year education certificate programme, whatever it is.

8:23 They go on and they continue their education.

8:24 Now, I feel like, and this is just my assumption,

8:27 reading between the lines a little bit,

8:29 I feel like the school highlights these numbers because

8:31 they're the only positive numbers they have going for them.

8:34 But I actually think that they have even that part of it wrong,

8:37 because in my personal opinion, it is more damning for a school if they

8:40 are passing and graduating these high numbers of students,

8:43 setting them off to university, a community college, whatever it is,

8:46 when they're not proficient in English or math,

8:49 which is exactly what is happening at this prep school.

8:52 And so, I'm sorry, prep Charter of Philadelphia,

8:54 it wasn't that students were caught off guard,

8:56 that they were a little nervous being on camera,

8:58 that the title of the TikTok was misleading.

9:01 It's actually that they are not meeting the benchmarks that you,

9:04 because you are responsible for them in their education,

9:06 that you are failing them, that you are failing them.

9:09 Yet ironically, passing them and letting them graduate,

9:12 setting them out into the real world with no proficient education.

9:15 And in reviewing their Ready PA index,

9:17 this is exactly what I found to look at these numbers at this school,

9:20 only 18.8% of their students are proficient

9:23 in math compared to more than 40% statewide.

9:26 And not that that is any number two right home about,

9:28 obviously we should work on that as well.

9:29 But 18.8% compared to 40% statewide, that is not good.

9:33 Now moving on from algebra, their English language proficiency at the school

9:36 is notably better than the 18.8%.

9:39 It is sitting at 46.5% as you can see here,

9:42 but it is still lower than again, the already sad 49.9 statewide proficiency.

9:47 And then also, this is where it just, it just continues to get crazier, crazier.

9:51 The English language growth at the school is abysmal.

9:53 So these are students that are learning the English language.

9:55 The state average for becoming proficient at your high school,

9:58 learning the English language being able to speak it is 32%.

10:00 They have a 2033 goal of being at a 70% proficiency.

10:04 And this school only had 7% of their students progressing adequately, 7%.

10:12 Now, I also looked at another document.

10:14 This is their annual charter evaluation.

10:15 This is what the state does every single year to keep giving the school funding

10:19 to re-up their certification as a charter

10:21 school to allow them to stay in business.

10:23 And honestly, I do not know how this charter prep

10:26 school is operating because they were in the red on everything.

10:29 They were under the state level,

10:30 under the district level, under the similar schools level.

10:33 They literally in the red on every single subject metric.

10:37 But sure, but sure, no,

10:38 it is the student's fault for making the TikTok and putting

10:41 a misleading headline that that goes against the values of school.

10:44 What values do you have?

10:46 I mean, it seems like making tiktoks might be the only value.

10:49 'cause obviously there's no learning happening.

10:50 I'm just asking questions because I'm sorry.

10:52 But being camera shy does not excuse

10:54 you from not knowing the word extraordinary.

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13:21 Now, back to the story.

13:22 I hate to break it to you guys

13:23 and just continue spiralling in this Fearmongering Black Pill episode.

13:28 But this young man, this student,

13:29 he did not just expose what is happening at his school.

13:31 He also inadvertently exposed what is happening all across America.

13:34 And you might say, Brett, we don't need this to be exposed.

13:36 We already know that the education system is just abysmal and terrible.

13:39 That's why we need to destroy it and rebuild it.

13:41 While a lot of people dunno that they don't get it.

13:43 And so this video has been very

13:45 helpful in bringing people along on this journey.

13:47 So take Philadelphia for example.

13:48 This is where this school is located, obviously.

13:50 And in an article published actually today

13:52 in the Philadelphia citizen, they wrote this.

13:54 This is how they started the article.

13:55 A majority of the Philadelphia students receiving diplomas cannot

13:58 read or do math at grade level in 2025.

14:00 Barely one quarter of 11th graders are proficient

14:03 in math and only about a third in reading.

14:06 Yet thousands of students are told that they

14:08 are ready for life beyond high school.

14:10 And so then obviously we have to ask the question,

14:12 what happens when these students graduate,

14:13 when they are passed and shot out into the real world?

14:16 Because illiteracy reduces workforce productivity,

14:18 it restricts earning potential, it also increases welfare costs.

14:21 So now it is becoming a greater burden on our society, on our country.

14:25 And in fact, a 2020 Gallup study found that the United States

14:28 could lose up to $2.2 trillion annually due to low adult literacy rates.

14:34 So this impacts everything.

14:35 It's not just about one individual's life, their future family.

14:38 It impacts all of us.

14:39 The taxpayer burden, it impacts the growth of our country,

14:42 our ability to flourish and continue innovating and growing.

14:45 All of that stems back to literacy and a proficient education.

14:49 And now I know that we have been talking about Philadelphia,

14:51 but we do need to expand this to the rest

14:53 of the country because across the board, things are not looking greater.

14:55 It is just grim.

14:56 And across the board,

14:57 senior reading and math scores have dropped to their lowest in two decades.

15:02 This is in America, lowest proficiency rate in two decades.

15:06 This headline for the Guardian reads, these results are sobering.

15:08 US high school seniors reading and math scores plummet.

15:11 Now what is interesting, when I was looking at all of these new

15:13 numbers and all these new articles about this fact,

15:15 is that the experts do not immediately cite COVID as the start of this problem.

15:18 Which honestly, COVID has been the rightful scapegoat for a lot

15:21 of issues over the last five, six years or so.

15:23 Mental health, you know, education, socialisation,

15:26 all of that, and obviously COVID the lockdown specifically,

15:29 let's be clear here, it was not the virus, it was the response to the virus.

15:32 It was the lockdowns.

15:33 They did have an extreme negative impact on all of our lives,

15:36 the lives of young people.

15:37 But these problems go way back, way beyond COVID and just blaming them on COVID

15:41 and using that as a scapegoat is honestly dishonest.

15:43 And most of the data here shows that scores have been on the decline since 2015.

15:46 Some of it even shows a decline since the nineties in this country.

15:49 And two interesting things happened in the last 20, 30 years or so.

15:53 So by 2015, most teenagers had a smartphone

15:55 that they were bringing into class with them.

15:57 And starting in 2014 schools rapidly rolled out

16:00 screen-based learning like this was so crazy to me.

16:02 I did, you know, one year in public high school, I think that that was,

16:06 gosh, 20 15, 20 16, I remember

16:08 still filling out Scantrons for my standardised tests.

16:11 I was writing essays by hand every single day, submitting them.

16:15 I had one online class where I would

16:16 type it in, but everything in person was handwritten.

16:19 There was very minimal screen-based learning.

16:20 Today I saw TikTok recently, young people do not even know what a scantron is.

16:24 They have tablets, they have laptops, they are writing everything online.

16:27 Obviously they are using ai.

16:28 They have Grammarly to update their spelling and their grammar.

16:31 Everything is happening digitally.

16:33 There are so many different studies reports that talk about how

16:35 when you are cognitively trying to understand a subject retain information,

16:39 writing by hand is so much more beneficial

16:40 for actually retaining information versus just typing on a screen.

16:43 So all of this is happening at once.

16:45 On top of that, a recent study found that nine

16:47 to 13 year olds with rising levels of social media

16:49 exposure performed poorer on reading memory and vocabulary tests compared

16:52 with their peers who used little to no social media.

16:55 So if you need any more,

16:56 any more encouragement to keep your children off of social media,

16:59 to not give them devices, let it be this.

17:01 It's not just mental health, it's not just socialisation,

17:03 it is also their academics jock.

17:05 I know that social media would have that impact.

17:07 Where experts do think that COVID stepped in and played a role is

17:10 in regards to how much time students

17:11 are actually spending in the classroom these days.

17:13 One article reads, students are spending less time

17:15 learning since Thomas Cannon Education Economics at Harvard.

17:18 And when they are present, instruction is less efficient because

17:20 teachers are constantly reteaching material.

17:22 Another professor at Johns Hopkins University School

17:24 of Education said that easy access to information online

17:26 and the use of online assignments may also be

17:28 leading some students to treat in-person school attendance as optional.

17:31 In their minds, they tell their parents, look, all my assignments are online.

17:33 I can do them even if I am not at school.

17:35 And I wonder if maybe some of this is

17:37 happening at the prep charter school in Philadelphia,

17:39 because their attendance is also abysmal

17:42 and under the average rate for the state.

17:44 Just saying.

17:45 So now let's just put all these pieces together.

17:46 It gets worse here because now let's

17:48 look at the response from these administrators,

17:49 from the government and from the schools.

17:51 Now considering these absolutely abysmal proficiency rates across the board,

17:55 you would think or maybe just hope, if you are a positive, joyful person,

18:00 you would hope that these school districts

18:01 are actively trying to help the students learn.

18:03 Maybe they are suggesting overhauling the system.

18:05 They are going to broadly ban phones like so many schools are doing,

18:08 but they're gonna try anything to help

18:10 bring these students up to a proficiency level.

18:12 But no, they're actually doing something that unfortunately has become

18:15 very common in American culture and something that across the board,

18:18 I think is really harming our extraordinary abilities,

18:21 our innovation, our confidence,

18:22 all of the things they're lowering the standards to allow people to pass,

18:27 rather than encouraging people to rise to the standards,

18:29 they're just saying, oh, we'll just make it easier on you instead.

18:32 So listen to this from that same Philadelphia citizen article,

18:34 this is in regards to those thousands

18:36 of students graduating being shot out into the workforce.

18:38 So they're graduating, not because academic achievement has improved,

18:41 it's because the system has changed what it means to graduate.

18:45 Instead of passing keystone exams, measuring basic reading and math skills,

18:48 students can graduate by submitting evidence from a state approved list.

18:52 In practise that often means completing

18:54 short low rigour online credential programmes,

18:56 one of the most popular, a two hour online video about ladder safety.

19:02 So you don't know how to do algebra.

19:03 You can't read a sentence about a lazy dog

19:05 not wanting to get off the couch, but oh, you watched a two hour video,

19:08 like an OSHA inspired video about ladder safety and, okay,

19:12 Philadelphia is going to allow you to graduate.

19:14 Goodbye.

19:15 You did it.

19:17 92.3% graduation rate.

19:19 Woo, this is retarded.

19:21 Like objectively, that is retarded.

19:23 Now they go on and they say,

19:24 this is intended to be an alternative for students who panic

19:26 at taking tests or pursuing trading or a career in the trades.

19:29 This has become the default to cover over the district's

19:32 horrific track record of underperformance and lack of accountability.

19:36 This is what I mean where I think that this is harming

19:38 American culture at large because we

19:40 are catering to the lowest common denominator.

19:42 If you are falling behind, if you can't read, if you cannot do math,

19:46 if you panic at taking tests, we will bring everybody else down to cater to you.

19:50 We will literally dumb our society down to make

19:53 sure that on paper you pass and why do they

19:56 want you to pass so that they can keep

19:58 making money so that they can keep lining their pockets.

20:01 That is the only thing they care about.

20:03 And this is not just happening in high school proficiency.

20:05 I mean, think about the American Academy of Paediatrics.

20:08 I'm thinking about this a lot.

20:09 Now that I have a child of my own

20:10 and I have a little app that sends me, you know,

20:12 monthly developmental milestones that my son should be reaching,

20:14 like he should be starting to crawl at this point, doing this with his hands.

20:17 You know, his eyes are developing at this point.

20:19 Those developmental milestones have been slowly increasing over

20:23 the last 20 years because for whatever reasons,

20:26 there are a lot of, you know, speculations about what is causing this.

20:29 But young babies are not reaching those milestones as quickly as they once did.

20:33 So rather than thinking, why is this happening?

20:34 What can we, as doctors, as speech pathologists, whatever it is,

20:38 how can we help these young children and these families?

20:40 They're saying, oh, don't worry.

20:41 We'll just move the milestones up.

20:43 Don't feel bad about your child not crawling yet, being behind whatever it is.

20:46 We don't want you to feel uncomfortable.

20:47 We'll just move them ahead rather than actually helping.

20:50 And it's the same thing that is happening with these high school students.

20:53 And so, so back to this story.

20:55 Obviously, I kind of hinted at this already when I was ranting,

20:57 but after they pass all of these students,

20:59 they allow them to do their two hour video on, you know, ladder safety.

21:03 They have the goal to ask us for more money.

21:05 So specifically in regards to Philadelphia,

21:07 the Philadelphia school district's budget has increased 78% since 2016.

21:11 They spend $9,000 more per student than the rest of the entire state,

21:16 and the results are abysmal.

21:18 I don't know why people have not realised

21:19 that or why they are choosing to ignore it,

21:21 but more money per student does not equal better outcomes.

21:24 Now, student enrollment is also plummeting.

21:25 It has decreased 12% over the last few years,

21:28 and yet somehow the district has been

21:29 able to hire more and more school administrators.

21:31 It has actually increased 56% while interestingly,

21:34 teacher employment has only increased 4%.

21:37 The student enrollment is declining, proficiency is plummeting.

21:40 Nobody is passing.

21:41 I mean, they're passing them, and their response is not to hire more teachers,

21:45 change their curricula, do something.

21:47 It's to hire more administrators because they are truly going to fix the system.

21:51 I mean, make it make sense.

21:52 This is not a student based, student focused system.

21:56 It's not about the students at all.

21:57 Again, it is just about lining their pockets.

21:59 And this system will continue to have a dire

22:01 ripple effect on our society for decades and decades, even generations to come,

22:04 because students who cannot read and comprehend a simple sentence

22:08 who are graduating because they're watching two hour videos about ladders,

22:12 they become illiterate, unproductive, unemployable adults.

22:16 Adults who then become stuck in a cycle of poverty,

22:19 that then increases the welfare burden on the rest of the country.

22:21 Then we have these job openings that need to be filled by intelligent adults.

22:24 Now we're importing them from other countries.

22:26 Now that our country becomes more and more foreign by the day,

22:29 we have a lack of stable families, which are often tied back to literacy rates.

22:33 And again, the only people who benefit from this mess, honestly,

22:36 mess is too light of a word from this, this exploitative,

22:40 chaotic cycle are the school district employees who continue to rake

22:43 in more and more money at the expense of our children,

22:46 our society and our country.

22:48 That is what this viral TikTok just exposed.