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Charlie Kirk Reveals the Fundamental Crisis Destroying American Education and How to Fight Back
Charlie Kirk exposes the root problem plaguing American education for over a century: a complete misunderstanding of what education actually means. Speaking at the AmericaFest Educators Summit, Kirk explains how modern schools have abandoned the classical model of leading students toward truth, beauty, and virtue, replacing it with a system that promotes self-esteem over self-control and ingratitude over gratitude. From John Dewey to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Kirk traces the philosophical corruption that now teaches children they're inherently good while America is inherently bad. He announces that Turning Point Academy will unapologetically teach the truth about American founding, reject all forms of woke ideology, and restore what has been stolen from an entire generation suffering from historical amnesia.
The Foundation: Understanding What Education Really Means
Charlie Kirk opened his address at the AmericaFest Educators Summit by identifying what he believes is the most critical issue facing American education today. Those who have controlled the education system for the past century, starting with John Dewey and Woodrow Wilson, fundamentally misunderstand what education is supposed to be.
According to Kirk, the current educational establishment believes education means allowing students to choose their own direction, presenting them with options to liberate them from a broken world, and helping young people find themselves. Kirk calls this approach not just misguided, but evil and immoral, particularly when applied to young children.
Education, Kirk explained, comes from a Latin word meaning "to lead forth." The essential question then becomes: toward what are you leading them? The answer, he argues, must be truth, beauty, goodness, and virtue. Teachers must know the end goal before beginning the education process.
Kirk illustrated his point by criticizing the common practice of teachers asking elementary students for their opinions on controversial news topics. He stated bluntly that a fifth grader's opinion on the news cycle is completely irrelevant. Education is not about soliciting votes from children, but about correcting them when they're wrong and setting them on the right path.
Turning Point Academy's Uncompromising Standards
Kirk announced that Turning Point Academy will maintain firm positions on what will and will not be taught. There will be no critical race theory, no wokism, and no transgender or gender ideology. He characterized these as "insidious mind poison" that will not be tolerated anywhere Turning Point Academy operates.
Addressing potential concerns about freedom of speech and diverse viewpoints, Kirk clarified that while he supports constitutional free speech, the classroom is not a place for all ideas to receive equal footing. He used examples like flat earth theory, bloodletting, and eugenics to illustrate that parents don't actually want their children exposed to every viewpoint—only those rooted in truth.
Kirk pointed out the irony that current educators claim not to believe in absolute truth while simultaneously insisting their version of truth be taught to children. He sees this in the widespread teaching that men and women are basically the same, that white privilege exists everywhere, and that racism is embedded in every corner of American society.
The Crisis of Ingratitude
One of the most significant problems Kirk identified is that an entire generation is being taught ingratitude. Scripture repeatedly commands thankfulness, he noted, because gratitude is not automatic to human nature. The raw material of human nature makes people very ungrateful.
Teaching children to say thank you is one of the first lessons parents attempt, Kirk observed, and if human nature were naturally grateful, this lesson would only need to be taught once. Instead, people are inherently programmed through original sin to be ungrateful. An ungrateful people, Kirk warned, is a deeply unhappy people.
The education system, particularly at the college level, actively teaches ingratitude. Students don't just become ungrateful, Kirk said—they become increasingly bitter toward the world. This represents a fundamental shift from teaching children to appreciate what they have to teaching them to resent what they don't have and what has been done before them.
Rejecting the Myth of Inherent Human Goodness
Kirk stated clearly that Turning Point Academy does not believe children are basically good. This belief, he noted, should not be controversial for Christians, yet many pastors fail to communicate it. While acknowledging he personally believes humans are inherently bad, Kirk said at minimum, people are not inherently good. We have an inclination toward a nature that is not admirable or virtuous.
Therefore, any goodness in the world must be taught. It won't happen automatically. Kirk traced this opposing view to Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the 1700s, who started the Romantic Movement and believed humans were born good but corrupted as they aged—corrupted by capitalism, patriarchy, Western values, and Christianity. Rousseau believed in the primitive over the civilized, the infant over the adult.
Almost every government school funded with taxpayer dollars, Kirk argued, teaches this Romantic view. They tell children that nothing is wrong with them that needs improvement; instead, everything wrong exists in the external world—capitalism, America, Western civilization. This creates narcissistic activists who believe there's nothing wrong with themselves but everything wrong with the world around them.
The Self-Esteem Movement's Damaging Legacy
Kirk shared a personal story from his high school years at a government school where a sign read "You're perfect the way you are." This troubled him, and one day he asked his teacher why he needed to attend school, do homework, or receive grades if he was already perfect.
The self-esteem movement, Kirk argued, is neither biblical nor moral, and it produces the opposite of its intended effect—people with no self-esteem. Citing Dennis Prager, Kirk said we need to teach children self-control, not self-esteem. Self-esteem actually creates more self-harm because it makes people think something is wrong with them when they don't feel perfect.
Instead, children should be told they have potential but aren't there yet. They need to put in work, sacrifice, diligence, wake up early, and maybe then they can fulfill the potential God has placed before them. This approach, Kirk believes, would reduce depression rates and improve mental health far more than telling children they're already perfect.
Creating Activists Instead of Thinkers
The entire educational system is designed to create raw material for activists, Kirk contended. When you ask an average high schooler about the biggest problems facing society, they cite climate change, racism, sexism, and anti-trans beliefs. What should they say instead? According to Kirk, they should say the biggest problem is themselves—that they're the biggest threat to society and need to figure themselves out before tackling other issues.
We are being terrorized, Kirk said, by people who tell us our world is awful but who never make their bed or even shower regularly. The biggest battle we should teach—and this is biblical—is the battle against your own nature. It's you against you. Through the Christian lens, we realize we can never win that battle alone; only Jesus can win it for us. Yet most children are never exposed to this teaching.
Teaching the Truth About America
This philosophical foundation leads directly to the rise of anti-Americanism in the country. Kirk explained that structural anti-Americanism exists because students are not taught to be appreciative, grateful, or thankful for America. They're taught nothing but complaints about what happened before them.
Turning Point Academy will teach the beauty of the American founding, the significance of 1776, and how the Founding Fathers quoted Deuteronomy more than any other book when creating what Kirk called the freest, best country ever to exist in world history.
The curriculum will teach the truth about slavery—that America was the first country to actually do something about abolishing this sin that pre-existed America and still exists in the world today. Kirk noted that the first anti-slavery convention ever hosted was in Philadelphia in 1775 by Benjamin Franklin. Vermont independently abolished slavery in 1776. By the time the Constitution was ratified, nine of the thirteen states had already independently abolished slavery. George Washington said it was a matter of when, not if, America would abolish slavery.
Kirk challenged his audience to name another nation with that kind of introspection, heroism, and courage to eliminate a moral evil. Are children being taught this? Of course not. They're being taught that because something evil happened, the entire country must be discarded.
What Makes America Unique
Kirk offered a powerful framework: the negatives about American history are universal; the positives are unique. Every country that has ever existed has struggled with the same issues America struggled with. But America is the only country that accomplished what it did. No other country comes even close.
Robbing a generation of excitement about their nation is evil, Kirk stated. He believes this is biblical, citing Jeremiah 29:7, which instructs people to pray for or seek the welfare of the nation in which they live, because their welfare is tied to their nation's welfare. We are called to fast and pray for our leaders. It's a good thing to want what's best for your country, yet we're teaching children the exact opposite.
This creates deeply unhappy people. People are happier when they can say their country has done something heroic or significant. Turning Point Academy aims to fix this through its educator network, resources, curriculum, teacher trainings, and partnerships with schools.
A Nation Suffering From Historical Alzheimer's
Kirk warned that America faces a crisis where an entire generation suffers from historical amnesia. The nation is experiencing collective Alzheimer's—we don't know where we came from, who we are, or where we're going. Turning Point Academy's mission is to restore the memory of the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
The Moral Danger of Wokism
Kirk made clear that Turning Point Academy will not dance around edges or be politically correct about wokism. The organization will state unequivocally that wokism comes from the pit of hell, because it does.
He defined wokism simply: if it's so insane it requires a PhD to explain it, it's wokism. If you have to write five thousand pages to argue that men can become pregnant, that borders don't matter, or that white people need to atone for something they didn't do because they look like someone who was evil hundreds of years ago—you are woke.
Kirk expressed frustration with people who say he needs to hear out woke ideas. He's read the books—Introduction to Critical Race Theory, Foucault, Derrida, Derrick Bell, Angela Davis. He's studied the material so others don't have to. Turning Point Academy will work with leading anti-woke theorists like James Lindsay to precisely and tenaciously inform people about the danger these ideas pose.
Kirk believes this set of ideas now permeating the military, corporate America, and every corner of society will destroy everything Americans love if there isn't an ambitious and bold counter-offensive. It will destroy the banking system, the economy, education, and most importantly, its number one goal: the family—the backbone of any functioning society.
Wokism, Kirk warned, is a virus that will last longer than COVID and do more damage. Far too often, churches, schools, and businesses accommodate this evil set of ideas.
Protecting the Innocence of Children
Kirk didn't mince words about what he sees happening in schools. Teaching an eleven-year-old that they can take drugs that will chemically castrate them in the name of liberation is evil, period. This includes everyone in the system who administers the drugs or allows it to happen.
He referenced Francis Parker School in downtown Chicago, where the dean of students distributed extremely graphic materials to fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen-year-olds in class—not as an extracurricular activity, but during regular school instruction.
This raised a fundamental question for Kirk: not only must we answer what a human being is (made in the image of God with mind, body, and soul), but also what a child is. He praised the Jewish tradition of bar and bat mitzvahs for clearly marking the transition from childhood to adulthood. In Jewish culture, the parent prays, thanking God that they are no longer responsible for their child's sins.
Kirk wished Christianity took coming of age as seriously. The point of these traditions, when done correctly with Torah study and ceremony, is that up until that moment, a child's innocence must be protected by adults. The protection of the innocence of children is the mark of a moral or immoral society.
The left doesn't believe in protecting childhood innocence, Kirk argued. They believe children should be sexualized. This is not an exaggeration—drag queens are being brought into churches and schools. Kirk believes that one day, people will be judged based on whether they stood up against this widespread, unspeakable immorality.
The Biblical Command to Hate Evil
Kirk cited one of his favorite verses, Psalm 97:10: those who love God are commanded to hate evil. If you love God, you must hate evil. He asked how many pastors who talk about loving God also tell their congregations they must hate evil. It's a harsh teaching, but it's true. And there's plenty of evil to hate right now, without looking very far.
A Movement of Light and Revival
Turning Point Academy is positioned as more than just a school—it's a movement. Kirk expressed excitement about its potential to bring revival, though he admits uncertainty about where it will go except up and outward. He believes it will be a blessing to many people and represents the next most significant development for Turning Point USA beyond all their other programming.
Questions and Answers
Getting Rid of the Department of Education
When asked about eliminating the Department of Education as unconstitutional, Kirk agreed wholeheartedly that it should happen, though he doubted it would occur in the near term. Instead, he advocated following Ron DeSantis's model and working on the state level to remove critical race theory and wokism on a state-by-state, county-by-county, school board-by-school board basis.
At the federal level, Kirk wants to see a special committee investigate Merrick Garland to find out why moms and dads were put on a domestic terror list for showing up at school board meetings. People should go to jail for that, he said. Parents asking questions about sexually charged curriculum should never be put on terror lists by their own government.
Kirk emphasized his belief in local action. He's less interested in federal solutions than ever before, seeing an almost untouchable praetorian guard of the administrative state. Local, state, county, and municipal action is where the real change can happen. He cited Pastor Tim Thompson, whose church helped take over a school board in Temecula, California, and banned critical race theory in their first meeting.
School Choice and Teachers
Addressing the question of how to get teachers to support school choice, Kirk noted that Arizona has the best school choice laws in the country, where money follows the child. The challenge is getting teachers willing to leave the comfort and safety of government jobs with government pensions to trust in the Lord and work in pod schools or private schools.
Many in the American teaching profession are too comfortable with their tenured pension jobs. While Kirk doesn't blame them—human beings are designed to seek comfort—that comfort won't change or save the country. There are many good government school teachers, but Kirk believes there are more not-so-good than good ones.
He acknowledged having both fabulous and awful government school teachers himself. The problem is that awful teachers earn just as much as fabulous ones. Kirk believes we should fire ten percent of all American teachers and pay the top ten percent ten percent more. While easier said than done, school choice makes this kind of performance-based system possible, whereas it's nearly impossible within the government school model.
Twitter Files and Free Speech
When asked about the significance of the Twitter Files revelations, Kirk called Elon Musk liberating Twitter a bigger deal than Republicans controlling the U.S. Senate. For eighteen months, Kirk's account was labeled with a "do not amplify" tag. Since that tag was removed, he's reaching tens of millions more people per month, making this a very substantial development.
Teachers Unions and Alternatives
Regarding California teachers who feel hamstrung by teachers unions, Kirk suggested that effort would be better spent leaving the government school system altogether and building alternatives. However, for government school teachers who want immediate action, they can leave the union right now thanks to the Supreme Court's Janus decision. They should stop paying dues immediately—the unions don't represent them and are simply taking their money.
Kirk expressed increasing cynicism about the future of government schooling in America, which is why building alternatives is so critical.
The Danger of TikTok and Smartphones
A Christian Academy teacher asked how to address the influence of TikTok on students who have access to it, noting these are often the most defiant and disrespectful children. Kirk's response was emphatic: if there's only one thing people remember from his talk, it should be that anyone they love should stay far away from TikTok. There is no reason for it whatsoever.
TikTok will destroy children's lives and make them depressed and anxious. It is neurologically designed to make children hate themselves—it's digital heroin and opium. It was designed by a military firm in China with the explicit intent to make the American population depressed, anxious, and dependent on psychiatric drugs. Kirk urged people to research what's behind TikTok. It's also a conduit for transgender ideology and other harmful content.
As a teacher, Kirk suggested hosting a special evening to educate parents on exactly what this technology does to children. He praised God that he grew up without smartphones and pleaded with parents not to give children smartphones, as they will ruin their lives. There is no redeemable value for a smartphone until age eighteen, in his view.
Kirk sees children with smartphones becoming anxious and ending up on benzodiazepines, Zoloft, and Prozac. Six million teenagers in the last two years have been newly prescribed psychiatric drugs, and the trend has accelerated since smartphones became ubiquitous. He noted that suicide is now a leading cause of death among young people, which he attributes to smartphones being portals to every worst impulse a human being can have.
While acknowledging some parents say they need to communicate with their children, Kirk pointed out he grew up without this technology just fine. If communication is truly necessary, a Jitterbug phone—which only makes calls—is sufficient. In Kirk's personal opinion, smartphones have no redeemable value until someone is actually running a business, and even then it's questionable.
The Mission Ahead
Kirk closed by encouraging attendees to visit the Turning Point Academy booth, sign up for information, and access available materials. The organization is eager to partner with educators, parents, and anyone concerned about the direction of American education. The goal is to create immersion experiences at events like AmericaFest and the Educators Summit that challenge people to be bold and courageous—whether that means homeschooling, starting a Turning Point Academy, enrolling children at Dream City Christian Turning Point Academy, or standing up as a student against problematic teaching in local schools.
The vision is clear: restore what has been stolen, teach truth without apology, protect childhood innocence, celebrate American greatness, and raise a generation that understands the battle is first within themselves before it's with the world around them.
Video Transcript
[Music] all right thank you Hutz that was that's great hello everybody Welcome to amfest and more importantly Welcome to our Educators Summit um I just want to brag on Huts uh he's real special uh I've got to know Huts well and we're going to keep on working together on lots of different things and from kind of idea of Turning Point Academy in the heat of a phoenix summer to really now where we are it's incredible and I want to welcome all of you I hope these couple days at both the Educators Summit and America Fest are life-changing that is our goal to create immersion experiences uh that make you really challenge yourself to want to be bold and courageous maybe to take a stand to homeschool your kids maybe to start a turning point Academy maybe to send them to the Dream City Christian Turning Point Academy right down the street maybe to hey I'm going to as a student I'm going to stand up against the nonsense that is being taught in my local school whatever it might be we try to create that experience for you and Turning Point Academy is just getting started it's going to be incredible to see what God does through Turning Point Academy in the coming years and Huts are doing a wonderful job and the whole team has worked really hard so I'm going to talk just about one very basic thing and then we could do some questions I think truly the issue with American education and there's plenty but the one that is most important for us to focus on is the people that have run our education system over the last 100 years started with John Dewey Woodrow Wilson played a big role is they fundamentally do not understand what education is uh we have a completely different opinion of what education is and what it should be and so if you walk into any government School here in Phoenix or across the country they believe that education is allowing students to choose what direction they want to go presenting them with a bunch of options to liberate them from a very broken world and really having young people find themselves that's a really bad idea in fact it's an evil one it's immoral to say to a fourth grader you've got to start to figure out stuff for your you know figure out your own path instead education comes from a Latin word which means to lead forth and the next question is what are you leading them forth towards to truth you're leading them forth towards a fulfilling life towards Beauty towards truth towards goodness towards virtue and so therefore you must know with the end in goal is the end goal is before we even begin the education process far too often teachers will get their their fourth or fifth graders kind of sitting around the room and they'll ask them their opinions on the news cycle a controversial thing that shouldn't be controversial to say is it's completely irrelevant with a fifth grader opinion is on the news cycle that's not what education is it's not it's not about the votes of A fifth or a sixth grade you can get their perspectives and guess what you need to correct them when they're wrong that's what a teacher is supposed to do a teacher needs to know the path to put a student on that's not to say you have to get a student to agree with everything that you know how you see the world but there is a right and a wrong way to educate a child for example at Turning Point Academy we proudly say there will be no critical race Theory there will be no wokism there will be no transgender or genderqueer ideology there will be none of this Insidious mind poison that exists in our country anywhere that Turning Point Academy operates we are not going to tolerate it we're not going to allow it period whatsoever and thank you and some people ask then and they say well Charlie what about freedom of speech and what about allowing different opinions I'm all for that obviously from a constitutional perspective the classroom is not a place for all ideas to get equal footing this is something that most parents don't wrap their heads around they say well I want my kid to be exposed to all viewpoints no you don't you don't want your kid to be exposed to the Flat Earth theory or to bloodletting as a way to try to solve diseases you don't want your child to be exposed to Eugenics maybe that they might be aware and it's a silly idea no education needs to be rooted in truth it needs to be rooted in and this this is one of the reasons why our education system has gone so so incredibly wrong and what's interesting is that it's not that the Educators that are currently running our system don't believe in that it's they say they don't believe in it but then they want their version of the truth to be taught to children we are seeing a crisis in American Education unlike anything this nation has ever experienced where children are being taught that men and women are basically the same they are being taught the awful ideas that there's white privilege and that there is this you know racism embedded at every single Corner in our country and more than anything else they are being taught in gratitude it is an entire generation that is being taught to view the world through a lens of not being grateful the Scriptures it tells us time and time again be thankful be thankful be thankful you know why because being thankful is not automatic the raw material of human nature makes us very ungrateful it's easy to take things for granted you must teach children to say thank you it's one of the first things you teach them and guess what if our nature was to say thank you you'd have to teach them once and they would do it automatically from that point forward no we are inherently programmed through our broken nature original sin to not want to be grateful guess what an ungrateful people is a deeply unhappy people and so we teach that when you go to college you get a degree in ingratitude better yet when you go to elementary school or in high school in America they are not just ungrateful but they become increasingly bitter towards the world now you're going to hear from Dennis Prager in a little bit but there's a couple things that at Turning Point Academy we are going to communicate very clearly that not even most private schools communicate that almost no Public Schools communicate I should call them government schools not Public Schools They don't serve the public school they're good they're government schools is very very simple we at Turning Point Academy believe that a child is not basically good we do not believe in inherent human goodness and by the way if you find that belief to be controversial then you certainly are not a Christian and this is something I wish every Pastor would communicate and they're not I'm not saying you're inherently bad I actually do believe we're inherently bad but I'm just saying you're not inherently good that at least at the very least you have an inclination towards nature that is not something that is admirable or virtuous therefore any goodness in the world must be taught therefore anything that is good means it must be taught to the child it's not going to happen automatically so there was a thinker that did a lot of damage in the 1700s his name was Jean Jacques Rousseau he started what we know as the Romantic Movement also as a thinker in the enlightenment he believed the exact opposite he believed that humans were good he believed that human nature the child starts perfect and is corrupted as it gets older that the child then gets corrupted through capitalism through the patriarchy through Western values through Christianity he believed in the Primitive over the Civilized the infant over the adult this is a romantic view of human nature and almost every single government school that we fund with our taxpayer dollars is teaching children exactly that they believe it they say anything that is wrong with the world is not because the seven-year-old has something wrong with them that they need to improve no it's because of all the evil of capitalism or the evils of America and they teach that to the children you know what that does to kids it turns them into narcissistic activists who believe there's nothing wrong with me but there's a lot wrong with stuff around me and it should be the exact opposite I'll never forget I stumbled into this accidentally probably because of my education at Christian Heritage Academy when when I was in high school there was this sign that always bothered me and one day I was just rather upset and I just decided to ask my teacher about it and the sign says you're perfect the way you are and I decided to ask my teacher excuse me if we're perfect the way we are why am I going to school why do I do homework why do you grade me if I'm perfect the way you are the self-esteem movement has done more garbage the self-esteem movement is not biblical it's not moral it does the opposite it actually creates people with no self-esteem as Dennis Prager will tell you and I learned this from him we need to be teaching children self-control not self-esteem in fact it and people say well Charlie people are hurting themselves and getting bullied I think that self-esteem only creates more self-harm because it makes people think well I don't feel perfect and why maybe there's something wrong with me instead you should tell a child hey you got a lot of potential but you are not there yet you got to put a lot of work a lot of sacrifice a lot of diligence you got to wake up early and maybe you can get close to fulfilling that potential that God has in front of you that's a way to make sure depression rates go down and to make sure mental health is in a better Direction not telling children they're perfect and instead the entire educational system is rigged in the exact opposite direction and it's because I believe there is a political purpose for this more than not and I think there's a spiritual purpose as well but it does create the raw material for activists if you talk to an average high schooler and you ask them what are the biggest problems facing Society they will say environmental is you know the climate change environmentalism racism sexism you know anti-trans beliefs and do you know what they should say the biggest problem with Society is me that's what they should that's what they should say is that I'm the biggest threat to society and I got to figure myself out before I try to tackle all these other isms we are being terrorized by a group of people that are telling us our world is awful that never make their bed they don't even do that I mean they don't shower either but the very basic stuff the point is the biggest battle that we should teach this is biblical by the way is it's a battle against your own nature is that it's you against you and through the Christian lens we realize we're never going to be able to win that battle only Jesus can win that battle for us and guess what most children are never even exposed to this teaching whatsoever and this leads perfectly into the the rise of anti-americanism in our country you want to know why there's so much anti-americanism structural anti-americanism in our country it's because we do not teach the students young people that there is something to be appreciative of grateful for thankful for and instead nothing but complaining for what happened before them but we're going to do a turning point Academy is we are going to teach the beauty of the American founding we're going to talk about the magic of 1776. we're going to talk about how the founding fathers quoted Deuteronomy more than any other book in creating the freest best country ever to exist in the history of the world we're going to teach the truth about slavery that we were the first country to actually do something about abolishing the sin of slavery that pre-existed America and guess what still exists in the world today it's a tragedy human beings only owning human beings has been around for a long time the question is who did something to actually stop it the first anti-slavery convention ever hosted was in Philadelphia in 1775 by Benjamin Franklin Vermont independently abolished slavery in 1776. by the time the Constitution was ratified nine out of the 13 states had already independently abolished slavery George Washington said it's a matter of when not if we abolish slavery in the United States of America it's our country that wrote extensively that this is wrong and we have to get rid of this show me another nation that was able to have that kind of introspection heroism and courage to be to be able to get rid of a moral sin are children being taught that of course not they're being taught the opposite that oh something bad happened and because of that not just something bad something evil I don't want to minimize it it was evil period and therefore the whole country must be thrown out here's a good line about America the negatives about American history are Universal the positives are unique every country ever to exist has struggled with the same stuff that America struggled with okay but we're the only country that did the stuff that we did no other country comes even close and we are robbing a generation of being excited about their Nation that is evil in our soul I believe this I believe it's biblical Jeremiah 29 7. you know pray for the nation of which you are in or badrash it's which is the Hebrew word demand or to um seek the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare we are called to fast and pray for our leaders said differently I believe it's a good thing to want what's best for your country and we are teaching our children the exact opposite and honestly I think it creates deeply unhappy people I think people are happier when they're able to say I have a country that's that has done something pretty cool that has done something heroic or Epic and what we're going to try to do at Turning Point Academy is try to fix that but it's going to take all of you through our Educators Network through our resources through our curriculum through our teacher trainings through our Partnerships that we're doing with so many of our schools it's going to be in all of the above approach and there's so many great educational opportunities out there that already exist but here's the one thing I could tell you it's not enough more is more we are at a crisis right now in America where if we do not do something bold and dramatic we're going to have an entire generation that suffers from historical Alzheimer's that's exactly where we are right now our nation is suffering from Alzheimer's we don't know where we came from who we are or where we're going it's very sad I'm not trying to trivialize alzheimer's have you ever dealt with somebody in that condition that's exactly where we are as a country we can't remember our history Turning Point Academy will restore the memory of the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world [Applause] let me finish by saying this and then we'll do some questions in the time I have remaining I cannot emphasize enough the moral danger that woke is imposes to our entire Society we are not going to dance around the edges we will not be politically correct we are not going to say there's two sides to the story we are going to say unequivocally that wokism is from the pit of Hell because it is wokism as defined as this if it's so insane it requires a PhD to explain it it is wokeism no offense Huts I know you have a PhD I mean no offense as you well know meaning this if you have to write 5 000 pages that men can become pregnant you are woke if you have to write thousands of pages to say that borders do not matter or that white people need to atone for something they didn't do because they looked like someone who was evil hundreds of years ago you are woke if all of a sudden you have to apologize for something you did not do you are woke we're not going to put up with it I'm so sick of people saying well Charlie you have to hear them out I'm not going to hear them out I know their ideas I've read their books I've read intro to critical race Theory I've read Foucault of red dareda of red Derrick Bell of red Angela Davis I read it so you don't have to and by the way we're going to be working with some of the best anti-woke theorist James Lindsay many other people to just with precision and with Incredible tenacity make sure you're informed to know how much of a danger this is I believe this set of ideas that we are now teaching our children that is in our military in Corporate America is in every corner every corner of society if we do not do the most ambitious and bold counter-offensive of this it will destroy everything that we love it will destroy our banking system it'll it'll destroy our economy it'll destroy our education and guess what their number one goal is to destroy the backbone of any functioning Society the family wokism is the virus that will last a lot longer than covid and dare I say do more damage and far too often churches schools and businesses tap dance with this evil and I will say it again this evil set of ideas if you teach an 11 year old that you could take a set of drugs that will chemically castrate you and that will liberate you you are an evil human being period including the people that put up with it that administer the drugs the entire system if all of a sudden you go into a I mean you go to Francis Parker's school I'm going to excuse you the details okay it is so graphic it is so terrible 14 15 and 16 year olds are being distributed let me just say this um incredibly graphic sex toys to 14 15 and 16 year olds in class not extracurricular by the dean of students at Francis Parker School in downtown Chicago but this is another important thing not only should we need to answer the question of what is a human being made in the image of God Mind Body Soul but it's also what is a child I got to give credit to my Jewish brothers and sisters they really get this idea of protecting child innocence there's a moment where you are a child no longer bar and Bat Mitzvahs I actually think that Christians need to have some form of equivalent not necessarily in a religious context just as a ceremony like hey you are now an adult like now you are responsible in fact in Jewish culture the prayer that the parent says is in Hebrew thank you God I am no longer responsible for my child's sins that's pretty cool isn't it I I think the bar and Batman's book tradition is one of the most awesome things in the Jewish faith I wish we in Christianity took coming of age as seriously I mean that they have to stay done correctly at the study the Torah and all that what's the point of that it's that up until that moment of the crossing of the line of where the parent says thank God I no longer responsible it's that child's innocence must be protected by adults the protection of the Innocence of children is the mark of a moral or an immoral Society the left doesn't believe that they believe that children should be sexualized that is not an exaggeration they're bringing drag queens into churches they're bringing drag queens into schools you can see the material you see the videos you see all of it and it goes back to a theorist Rousseau but also a thinker who is an evil person Dr Kinsey who believed in the widespread sexual manipulation of children I truly believe one day we will be judged as to whether or not we stand up against this widespread unspeakable immorality I really do as I said yesterday at the Jewish Summit one of my favorite verse which is kind of my life verse Psalm 97 10 who here loves God raise your hand well if you love God you're commanded to hate evil so if you love God you must hate evil that's Psalm 97 10. my question as to how many pastors who talk about saying good that you love God do you also tell your congregation you must hate evil that is a harsh teaching guess what it's true and there's a lot of evil to hate right now and we don't have to look too far Turning Point Academy is going to be a light it's a movement I'm so excited about it I pray it brings a Revival I have no idea where this is going to go except up and wide and just be able to be a blessing to many people and it really is I think the next and most exciting development that we have at Turning Point USA and all the other programming we have and so I'm going to take some questions but I encourage you if I have just piqued your curiosity at all talk to Huts talk to Francine talk to Jennifer come to the booth the Turning Point Academy booth sign up for information get our materials and we're super thrilled and excited to work with you okay let's do some questions everybody great thank you is that okay if I do questions okay thank you thank you so much Charlie we're going to take some questions I have a mic on this side Ryan is over here just raise your hand and we will come to you as quickly as we can excuse me can you hear me okay so Charlie because I believe that the Bible teaches that there is no such thing as a separation between education and religion the two are synonymous they're you can't divorce the two and I believe woke and Communists and Dewey and all those people all said the same thing they spoke in terms of religious uh education therefore I believe government controlled education is unconstitutional certainly we need to get rid of the Department of Education but can you just ask your question I'm so sorry we're tight on time so I apologize what can we do now that we control Congress to push that agenda to remove the Department of Education well I wholeheartedly agree with that that's never going to happen but I totally agree it should and we should aim high and maybe my lifetime that will happen but let me tell you what we can do is we have to be more in the mold and the model of Ron DeSantis and do this on a state level and kick out CRT and wokism on a state by state county by county school board by School Board level that I think is a great use of time federal government here's what I would like to see the new Congress do I want to see a special committee to investigate Merrick Garland to find out why moms and dads were put on the domestic Terror list for showing up at school board meetings that I want our new Congress to do immediately and people should go to jail for that they should parents who show up to ask questions about sexually charged curriculum should not be put on terror lists on their own government we should never forget that everybody it is so awful what happened there so look I'm a big believer one of my one of my beliefs that I have right now is local local I am less interested in the federal than I ever have been I'm not totally cynical about it but there's a lot wrong it feels as if there's like this praetorian guard of the administrative state that is almost untouchable I have some ideas on how long term to solve that but the local the state the county the municipal just right now there's a pastor Tim Thompson who's amazing who just his church helped take over a school board in Temecula California and within their first meeting they banned critical race Theory from all of their schools that is a church with involvement that won with action that is the way it's very very exciting so thank you sir all right yes next question um Charlie how are you I'm good how are you I thank you so much for having me speak real quick I just have a quick question um the schoolhouse is on fire we need media access to get the children out of the schoolhouse before we could put these fires out that's why I'm a huge supporter of school choice but one of the biggest hurdles that I see in that movement is Teachers how can we get teachers to understand and support the school choice movement because it is very beneficial to them incentivizing the the private sector and giving them more opportunities um to use their god-given talents yeah that's a great question so at least here in Arizona uh there's been a fair amount of momentum to pass school choice legislation here Arizona has the best school choice laws in the country it does and uh it's a huge win the Money Follows the child in this state more than any other state here's my argument is and this is why we're doing the Educators teacher Summit right here is that we need teachers who are willing to leave the comfort and the safety you have a government job with a government pension trust in the Lord and Trust in faith to go maybe go into a pod school or a private school to not necessarily even earn less money but to have less certainty that's the and a lot of people in the American teaching profession are too comfortable with their tenured pension job and I'm not that I don't blame them Comfort we as human beings are designed to go towards Comfort right but that Comfort is not going in my opinion going to change or save the country right and so look I could tell you this that the there are so many good government School teachers out there I know we have some in the audience right now I think there's more not so good than good but that's my own personal opinion right um but look I'll say this I had teachers that I went to a government so I went to Christian Heritage Academy then I went to government school and I had some fabulous government School teachers and I had some awful government School teachers and this is you're going to hear this over and over again the awful government School teachers earned just as much as the fabulous ones the idea that we pay bad teachers that they're still employed I think we should fire 10 of All American teachers and then pay the top 10 10 more now you don't have to overthink that right um unfortunately it's easier said than done that's why I'm a big fan of school choice where you can actually do that within the public government School model it's so difficult yes hi uh Drew here if I don't come off clear let me know uh with the Twitter uh files being released and all these things going on specifically what do you think will change like on a scale zero being nothing business as usual a hundred being like it would reverse everything that Twitter did or government Twitter all the stuff what do you think I think it's very significant and substantial um I'm gonna answer it super quick because I do want to keep the questions focused on education but um I have said this and I will say it again Elon Musk liberating Twitter is a bigger deal than Republicans control in the U.S Senate it's that big of a deal so you can kind of put a number figure on that but I for 18 months was labeled by Twitter with a do not amplify tag and I no longer have that on there and we are reaching tens of millions of more people a month just my account alone and so I could say that's a that's substantial very much so thank you for the question I didn't mean to be short but I just want to get to as many education ones as well Charlie your people are saying you need to wrap here all right we'll take two more okay two more hey Charlie how you doing good today again my friend um you mentioned that it's going off the question to mention about teachers and um do you suggest we have something in California called the California parents Union that just started but it's smaller and I talked to a lot of teachers they feel hamstrung by the teachers union would a suggestion be also in the local level getting individuals to organize their own kind of Union to be able to um to be able to go up to Sacramento or whatever your state capital is and and and and advocate for them so that those teachers then also have a place to go and a place to actually that's a good idea I think that effort is better set spent just leaving the government school system all together and building an alternative but it could be look if you are a government school teacher and you're here welcome we love you guys thank you you could leave the union immediately thanks to the Supreme Court Janice decision do not pay your dues anymore leave the union they do not represent you they are robbing your money and you'd have more money in your own pocket everybody okay um so that would just be an immediate kind of uh takeaway there that I would I would encourage but I um increasingly uh cynical unfortunately about the future of government schooling in America that's why we got to build Alternatives the final question hi Charlie my name is Tracy and I am a middle school teacher at a Christian Academy locally here in Chandler thank you and although we don't have woke ideology as an issue or CRT you know we have some other Insidious things as I'm sure many of you can identify with as far as the social media access that a lot of our kids have Tick Tock in particular and I know that many of my students have access to that and of course I don't have direct ability to maybe speak into that with the parents but I've noticed that those are the most defiant children that I encounter they're the most disrespectful super quick I'm sorry sorry yes what can I do to help maybe partner with turning point to fill in those holes thank you for being here that's a beautiful question um first on Tick Tock if there's only one thing you remember me saying anyone you love should stay far away from Tick Tock there is no reason for it whatsoever it will destroy your child's life it'll make them depressed anxious it is neurologically rigged to make your children hate themselves it is digital heroin and opium it was designed by a military firm in China for the exact intent to make the American population depressed anxious on psychiatric drugs if you think I'm kidding go into the research of what is behind Tick Tock and also it is a feeder of the most incredibly awful uh and just just unspeakable transgender ideas and all that other stuff so as a teacher I'd first I would do a special night where you bring parents together and you try to educate them on what exactly is this stuff I praise God that I grew up in a time without smartphones I look I could go on a whole different speech of this parents please don't give your kids smartphones it will ruin their life there is there is no redeemable value for a smartphone until they're 18 period I stand by it I grew up in a life without them and boy was I lucky and blessed and I see children now with them and they are anxious and they're on benzodiazepans and they're on Zoloft and they're on Prozac and we have six million teenagers in the last two years six million new teenagers that are now on psychiatric drugs and it's gone like this ever since we've decided to you know give everyone a smartphone we wonder why kids are killing themselves more than any other cause of death well it's because it's a portal into every worse impulse a human being can have you might say well Charlie I need to communicate with my child yeah not really you don't I grew up without it but if you do give them a jitterbug it's just fine which is the phone where all you could do is call smartphones um no redeemable value whatsoever until you're actually running a business in my personal opinion and even then it's questionable
