Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Bill O'Reilly on the New York City Public School System

Episode Date: March 14, 2025

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My parents moved to Levittown when I was almost two years old. They got a GI mortgage, $8,000 house. I still have a deed. And we had a very modest upbringing. I went to kindergarten at Bowling Green School, a public school, and then I went to St. Bridgett's. which is in a heart of Westbury, I'd take the bus, Catholic school, stayed with the same 60 kids, 6-0, for eight years.

Can you imagine that? And lasting friendships. Then I went to Shamanaut High School. No cupcake over there, but I got a great education. Then Maris College at Poughkeepsie, New York. And then for my graduate degrees, I went to Boston U and Harvard. So I did not want to go to Catholic high school. I wanted to go to Trasper Clark, which was the public high school closest to me.

And all my friends went there because their parents didn't want to pay the Catholic school tuition. And I wanted to be with my friends. Okay. How many of you have heard that story before? And Shamanah was rough academically, very tough place, whereas Clark was not. You could skate it. and a lot of my friends did. But when I got out of Shamanide,

I had a very easy time in college because I knew it all. My freshman year at Maris, I had taken all those courses in high school. So I was playing football, I made the team as a freshman, and doing a whole bunch of other stuff, but I wasn't taxed academically. Anyway, the reason I'm telling you all of this is because there's a report out about truancy in New York City public schools, and it's horrifying. So this is from the Manhattan Institute, a very, very good analyst organization. And chronic absenteeism, which is missing 10% of more school days in an academic year,

is about 35% of public school kids. in New York City are chronically absent. And it's worse in the little kid area, 41% kindergarten, 36% first grade, 33% second grade. Now, why should we care? If kids are missing school at that young age, they're falling way behind. They're never going to catch up most of them.

And their parents are responsible because your kindergarten first and second grade, you don't know where your kid is? Why isn't your kid in school? What are you doing? It's the parents' fault. Now, there is no mechanism in New York City, none at all, are forced these kids to go to school. None. There used to be truancy laws, things like that, suspensions, not anymore. You don't want to go, you don't have to go. Nobody's going to do anything to you, which is why I tell everybody, and I mean everybody, if you can send your kid to a private school, it doesn't have to be Catholic. Do so because the public schools are a mess. There is no

discipline in most of them. And you have students who don't know anything and don't care to know anything with derelict abusive parents who are causing all kinds of mayhem and your kid is subjected to that every day. You want that? Is that good for you? Scrape together the money and send a kid to private school, do anything. I would. I send my kids to Catholic school all the way through because there's a huge difference in accountability. So my son goes to Salvei Regina, Catholic school in Newport, Rhode Island. My daughter graduated Fordham and St. John's law. It was all Catholic. And it's not the they're holy rollers my kids, but the discipline that is in those schools is far beyond the

public school system, even at the university level. When I went to Boston U and Harvard, I was self-motivated, so I did well, but you didn't have to do anything. I mean, they boot you out at Harvard if you didn't maintain a grade level. Boston U. was a little hard to get kicked out of, But they boot you, but when you're a little kid, I mean, these parents, there should be child neglect laws on the book. If you don't send your kid to school, then you should get visited by social services. And if you're a neglectful parent, you should be punished. That's my opinion on it, because these kids are going to be doomed.