Hosts analyze education and public policy in Texas (Part 2)

Live with it. Wow. You know, you want the schools up, updated, and you want. You. You got to create a good atmosphere for kids to want to go in and learn. And. And maybe those. Maybe that's a mistake of not getting passed. It surprises me, though, because you talked a lot about how educators, you know, that you knew. Yeah. Left. And I know educators who voted left. And so you would think that these same people that just ushered in everything blue would have voted for something. That's what I thought, too. That's why I thought it didn't quite. No, it doesn't. No. But I think people look at those propositions and it says, this is a tax increase. And they probably didn't read past that first sentence. Right. Forget it. Yep. But every one of them, every single one of them voted down for new facilities and teachers and just whatever they needed. That is shocking. That's surprising. I think it's a conspiracy. Let's make one up. Okay. Yeah. That's what they're doing on X right now. Exactly. The thing is, I think a lot of people who vote, quote, against education, and I think that's very broad term. Yeah. I don't think they're voting against education. I think they're not happy with public school education in Texas right now. Yeah. Graduation rates and SAT scores, all that sort of thing has been lower and lower and lower. And that's why hundreds of thousands of families across Texas are homeschooling right now. All right, here's a question now, and I think this is an important one. Republicans have been in power for 30 years. And, Brad, as you were saying, education quality has gone down and down and down. Yeah. Proof is in the pudding. How come nobody did anything? I wouldn't blame Texas Board education has been under the thumb of the federal government since the mid-70s. The Department of Education calls a lot of the shots and awards a lot of the money. So I don't think you have. You've had local control of the schools. And a lot of our schools, if you remember up until just maybe a decade ago, were arranged around court orders from Judge Barefoot Sanders in Dallas on desegregation. Barefoot Sanders under federal court orders for, I don't know, maybe 20 years. Forced integration. Yeah. Yeah. People unhappy with everything. Do we still do no pass, no play? Is that still. Still a thing? I don't think so. I don't know. Question. That's a great question. I'm just looking back at all the great educational steps that we've taken. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. But.