Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Parenting Problem

Episode Date: January 24, 2024

Bill looks at New York's parenting problem and education. Originally only available in the New York City area, Bill’s Empire State O’Reilly commentary addresses local New York issues, but those issues have implications, impact the country, and mirror problems in other states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are following the New Hampshire vote, and tomorrow we will give you the wider picture here. Looks like to me, it's Trump, and that's going to be it. Joe Biden is, I discuss in this program tonight, and I say this might be unfair of me to do so. But I believe the president of the United States has early dementia. And I'll back it up. I'll back it up. Could be wrong. Maybe I shouldn't even do this.

But I think it's a serious situation developing now. Much more serious than it was even six months ago. You know, one of the things about life is that children are brought into the world, and some of them have terrible parents. And we have a tendency to society look away. from that. Because what else can we do? If you know somebody who's an awful parent, you can yell at them or scorn them, but that's not going to help the kid. There's nothing legally you can do unless the poor child is being beaten or, you know, there's something way, way out of

control because authorities don't want to get involved with parenting either. So in New York City, there is an educational problem. The working-class poor children are in the public schools, and they are not doing well academically. Every study, every test score proves that. The bad parents don't care. And some of the reason that students are underperforming is because the parents, don't put any pressure on them at all. All right, the parents are high, or they're not there, or they're doing stuff for them. Man, a kid is like, does exactly what the kid wants to do,

which is in studying. So the kid has to go to public school, walks in, and he goes, I don't care, I'm not going to do anything. I'm going to flunk. So what? That happens. It happens a lot. Now, there's no remedy in New York City for it.

The teachers' unions, they don't want to improve anything, and they dominate the public school system. New Hampshire just passed a law, Pining New Hampshire, that if you are a parent and you don't like your public school, you can send your kid to a private school and the state of New Hampshire will help you with the tuition. That should be done in every state because that's a good, way to give some competition to failing school districts. All right? And we're paying a fortune in New York now for the public to a highest per student spending in the world,

not just in the country, New York. Highest in the world. I don't have the stat right off, but I think it's more than $30,000 a student a year. the Catholic kids, that's half, half. And the Catholic schools do much better academically to public schools. You see what I'm talking about here? Now, there are good parents who are trapped. So they want their kids to learn and move up,

but they can't afford to go to where I went St. Bridget's school. So they're trapped in these terrible schools, where there's violence and mayhem and chaos, and their kid has to go to her every day because the school unions and the cowardly politicians won't get behind school independence. That's what it's about. So the cycle of poverty continues because, believe me, you're a kid who doesn't care about school.

By the time you're 16, you're going to be poor or a criminal or both. That's it. We live in a competitive society. Now, to far left that governs New York, state, and city, they want socialism. They want a guarantee for every kid where the kid's studies are not. Here, here's the money. We'll give it to you. You don't have to work for it.

That's unsustainable. You can't sustain it. It's not enough money. But that's what these loons want. So to me, it's so clear, give the good parents in the poor districts a choice. No, the left will not do it.