Live from Music Row, Wednesday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio for another edition of Crom’s Crommentary.
CROM CARMICHAEL:
Michael, I did not watch the Oz-Fetterman debate, but I did get up this morning and watch some clips from it. And so I assume that the clips were on the issues that were more contentious than the other issues in the debate.
What I did not see, and perhaps they did have a discussion about it and a debate about it, is how our educational system in the country is just collapsing. It was terrible before COVID, it became much worse during COVID, and it’s not recovering at all.
The teachers’ unions are destroying any chance for the bottom third of the students in our country to get an education to be successful in life. And if you’re not financially successful in life it’s very difficult to be a happy person in life.
And if you’re a miserable person in life then that leads to terrible outcomes for society as a whole. But I’m looking at some articles here: the schools’ lockdown catastrophe, and it goes over all of these terrible things that happened to our educational system during COVID, and the Left still defends what they did.
If somebody points out that you made a terrible mistake – if you’re a golfer and you slice the ball out of bounds, and somebody is trying to help you correct your golf swing, and you say “that was a perfect swing, I have no idea why the ball went so far to the right.”
That is essentially what the Democrats are doing with education, and it’s a shame that there wasn’t more discussion about it during the debate last night, because that would actually require Fetterman and Oz, both of them to articulate what they think about our educational system.
Then I look at the White House – the National Assessment on Education came out two days ago, and then the White House is spinning that, claiming it’s all Republicans’ fault because they didn’t fund more spending.
I will tell you this: If you have a football coach who is zero and 12, doubling that coach’s salary and those of the assistants is not going to make the football team perform better. If you’ve got a bad coach and a bad group of assistant coaches, the only way to fix that is to have new coaches.
The White House’s go-to blame is the Republicans didn’t spend enough money. And that’s just a very sad response. And then you have Biden claiming that he got the student loan forgiveness program, and I actually think he believed it when he said it because his mind is gone.
Now, even before his mind was gone he was a grifter and a terrible person. And I mean that. He was a terrible person. What he did to Clarence Thomas is unforgivable, unless he admits what he did, which he never has. He’s always been a terrible person.
He’s always been a grifter, and now he can’t even remember what’s happened and he claimed that he got his loan forgiveness program, I guess, through Congress, by two or three votes. And it wasn’t even a vote. They didn’t even go before Congress.
What we have, and as we come closer to this election, I’m assuming that in other states, because we’re not that contested here, we don’t know if Governor Lee intends to do anything more aggressively to improve our educational system than he has in his first four years.
Because in his first four years, he’s made some very tiny steps to try to improve it, but nothing great. And we just heard the data from the guest that was here prior to me that our educational system in Tennessee needs tremendous improvement, not just tiny steps.
And this is true across the country. And it is my great hope that in the next two years, that education is the top issue that is discussed, of a domestic nature, because if we don’t fix our education system, our country is going to continue to spiral downward.
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