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"Fourth grader at and then you also have a senior in high school at the very wanted hills you're talking about. So you're you're really seeing this from, you know, really different angles. And you're seeing. You know how how you're a zero years your students. Your kids are handling this. Yes, It's an interesting perspective. My senior. It's funny. I will share this with you. Um She's been really stoic about through the whole year, and it's kind of said I don't really care. And she was actually with us today at the rally, and, um there was another woman there who was very emotional. She is 1/7 grade daughter, it woman, and I think it's much harder for the younger kids that wanted who have never And we were in seventh grade. You're finding your people. You're finding your tribe to never be able to be in the school and to interact socially with with your high school, I think is So so difficult, And so this mother became very emotional. She was crying and On guy was in the car with my daughter and I said, You know, I think it's just been really hard on them. It's been really hard on our daughter and my daughter said to me, It's been really hard on all of us, and I looked over my daughter. I'm going to get a little bit emotional and she was crying. And that was the first time I think she just let it all out. It's It's you know, school is not just academic. It's um it's their social. You know, it's it's social. It Z interacting. It's all those little moments in life that we have interacting with their teachers. I mean, It breaks my heart to think that my daughter may graduate never getting to go back into the school and to see those teachers, you know that she had In seventh grade. She had this amazing history teacher hollered, terrorist. He's a He's kind of a legend at Walnut, and he talked her into doing mock trial and in seventh grade, and she did it, and now she's going to go on to approve our program in college and I think you know the thought that this child will leave that school and never have that opportunity, possibly to go back in and thank those teachers and see them in person. It's it's really It's it's hard. I mean, it's really hard to go. That was Quintana. Since I public schools parents it has two students in the school system. And Alex you you talk, Tomo? Yeah, there was a couple quotes and my colleague this insane choirs inside dot com. Matty Mitchell. I'm gonna read here you're quoted in Matty story on. You guys haven't your rally today, they said it's very frustrating for parents that the curfew has been lifted. People can go to bars, restaurants, salons, but our kids aren't in school and you continue on Quote Our Children are losing so much by not being in school five days a week. It's not just instruction time. It impacts their mental health and impacts their social development. Yes, I don't think you could have said it any better at me being a parent as well. I was really seeing When you talk about that mental health and that social development aspect I really concerns me. Uh, you know, when we get two years down the road here we have five years down the road, 10 years down the road. We look back on this. And like, what in the heck did we do? And I just I cannot commend you enough for what you're doing. What do you feel like? How many? How many folks do you did You have it? The rally and I know there was a different rally to for a different group of folks who want to stay all virtual. Uh, how many folks we're kind of behind you? Do you feel like this is a powerful movement is going to really, um, is being paid attention to. And how are you going to crack through? Well, I mean, today we had I would say I think we had over 50 people there, and this was probably get a last minute. Very last minute. We weigh very much outnumber the other. Protest there. That was there the protest that was there. Um, I think we do have a lot of people. But I also understand. You know, I think this is something really important for people to think about. Two million women have left the work force since the pandemic started. And I think a big driving force is the fact that their Children are not in school. This isn't just a Cincinnati problem. This is a national crisis. And I liked that you said. I I see you brought up a really good point, which is, you know, as a country we sort of opted to to re open are the aspect of our economy, which of the restaurants bars? And we've kept our schools shut right. We've kind of put that burden on the school to remain shot. But we re opened other aspects and of course, when you see restaurants and small businesses closed, there's this immediate impact People lose their jobs. That restaurant that used to be on the corner is now gone, and I do understand that. I think the unfortunate with our Children there is going to be a tremendous impact. We just don't see it yet. We don't see and it's it's gonna be years from now, but it's going to be A very big impact. They did a study in cut after Katrina. In New Orleans. Children were out of school for six months, and they and they weren't even remote. You know, they were totally out of school. And they looked at the seven year olds 10 years later, so they were 17 and the percentages of kids who didn't graduate or unemployed or even incarcerated were tremendous. And you know, we have kids right now. And since I public school who are not logging on? Um they said it one of the last, um, board meetings. I think I don't remember which board member itwas. But she said that 10 to 15% of the wallet hold students were failing and walnut hills of the high performing schools. Imagine what those percentages could be at the other. Yeah, This is a national crisis. With Alison Taba. She's a parent of two students and since I published school District has organized a rally today in the movement. You know, encourage parents to to encourage The school board to open schools back up five days a week in person. I can't I cannot have you on and not address the elephant. The room and that's the teachers union. The teachers union is Um, I've been very critical of it in my columns. Um and I have a lot of concerns there. Have you gotten pushback from the teacher's Union? Have you had any kind of interaction with the teacher's union? And you know what's your take on that? Um, I personally have not. Um, but I have certainly sat on punny of board. Um, you know, since I board of education meetings where Ms Sellers has called in, and she's certainly taken certain board members. The task you know, I want to say huge kudos to Melanie Bates and Bolton and, um, you know, Ben Lindy, really, for Fighting the good fight and and really believing that our kids need to be back. Um, they've really been advocates to get our kids back, and they have certainly been called out to some degree by Ms Sellers. Um, I think you know one of the things I think I wanted to. I do want to bring this up. I think this is a very interesting, um, one of the arguments that Ms Sellers has about Um, Cincinnati Public versus you know you, You look around and I look around at my neighbors and I have one neighbor whose son is it say next I have other neighbors and have kids at, um Heaven Hills and sing Ursula Villa and their Children have been back. And so and to some degree, Ms Sellers does have a point. Those are private schools, and those kids are coming to school in private transportation. They're living in single family homes. So the Children Um it's CPS. Many of them do not have that same Um, life style. They're they're living in. Ah, congregate, you know, congregate, setting communal home. They are taking public public transit. The school But I think 11 thing I would like to point out of the fight schools, which is the Catholic inner city schools. There are 2307 students, but a 10 10. Elementary schools here in Cincinnati. 94% of those Children living in poverty and 85% of those Children are minority Children. They have been back in school since. I think all the schools in the back pretty much five days in September. They have had 24 students test positive for coveted and 19 teachers in that time, so those Children are going to school every single day. They're getting an education. We're getting any type of service. Help meals, the support that they need. Well, Art it is e. I'm sorry. I gotta I gotta get to a break here, But I'd like to. I'm gonna have you come back on, but I wanna real quickly be able to share or have you share. Is there any other opportunities coming up? And if somebody wants to connect with you anywhere, How can they do that? And sorry. Sorry to have to ggo here. No, that's not a problem. Is there Is there anywhere like is their Facebook page or anywhere that folks can connect with you tow to see what you have going on. Um, we have a Facebook page..
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"Guy works hard. Vance McAllister puts in time for each show, and he generally does a pretty good job. And by the way, we might have two or three inches of measurable snow On Saturday night into Sunday, Frank Marcelo will be covering that for you as much as he can, along with Steve Raleigh. So it don't get no better than that. Let's you and I get after it. Just heard a mentor Nicole Frederick, who has worked for years with Children at risk, and CPS. And insanity is doing the same thing anticipating different results. Can anyone seriously maintain At the half a billion dollars we spend on public school systems and Cincinnati payoff. But it actually his money well spent. We have to keep doing more of it. Over 19 is has made a parent the fraud that is public education. The city Cincinnati. It is a fraud. If you would take wanted Hills High School out of the mix is about 2400 kids that wanted hills. There's about 33,000, not at one and hills and grade school, middle school and high school. The depth of the problem is incredible. We have Jack Crumley is coming in. Jack. What is the latest, if any Hi. How, you know, Thank you. One of the passing word on. We're seeing some reports out of West Chester right now. Karen Johnson of Channel five is reporting right now about the bomb squad is on scene, reportedly over a report of a bomb threat at AstraZeneca in West Chester. There's a Walgreens nearby that apparently that's been evacuated and also some Nearby businesses, all in that area right around Union Center Boulevard and 7 47. There's crews responding right now against the threat of some kind of bomb at the AstraZeneca this nearby It's got a lot of the businesses in the area that are being evacuated and cleared out as the police are on the scene. There's there's a Esther price in the area. Quite a few evacuations going on right now in West Chester, as police respond again to reports of some kind of bomb threat at AstraZeneca. We will pursue that with your permission. I'm a call a couple of people on sight. You will have my full permission, including my good friend George Lang, who lives there, But as you know, he said, the state Senate now, but he lives in Westchester. He knows everything. He was a trustee there for, like, 14 years. He sounds like exactly the sort of person we need to check in with. I'm gonna call him with your permission. Thank you very much. But I'll do it off the air because I don't know if he's there and I know if you want to talk, obviously. Karen Johnson. All right, We're going to find more about that. But if you're in that area for Warren is forearmed. AstraZeneca, of course, is one of the so called English companies that, he said measured success. Not a lot. Some of the English think the vaccines that doesn't work as well as Fizer. It's always Madonna J. J came out this morning with the results that indicate About 66% effectiveness for one shot, as opposed to 92 95% with two for for the other two, So we'll see how this develops. But during the next break, I'll call George Lang, who controls Westchester with an iron grip, and also Karen Johnson to see if they can come on a little bit after one o'clock to see what's going on, exactly. Let me say this. You and I know is functioning adults. I have more functioning adults. So listen to me than any radio talk show in the tri state. If you take time to listen to this sacred signal, and we've done it for many years, you're functioning by that. I mean, you take care of your own business. You take care of your own expenses. You have a family formation. Whatever that family. Maybe you're involved in a family. You're connected to your mom. Your dad, Your brothers, Your sisters, your Children, your grandchildren. You pay taxes and try to play by the rules. The entire success of one human life. Putting faith for the moment to the side. Depends on one's educational experience. If one gets to the age of 15, 16 and 17, and you're flunking out of school. You can't read anywhere close to the great level. You can't read books that are the ladders that get you out of the hole in which you find yourself. The odds of you having a less than successful life for probably about 99% every now and then someone without a high school education who can't read actually succeeds in life. It's possible. I've known many because they get into the trades. Nobody is, Ah, Maura, advocate and greater greater understanding what's happening the trades than Scott Sloan. You don't need a college degree in astrophysics to become many a trade occupation, which by proper training after a year or two is complicated, but nonetheless, you can learn it. The great majority of people have got to have a fundamental understanding of how to read how to think, cogently. How to think objectively to know where we are, where we came from where we're going to have a little bit of math, a little bit of social studies. Little bit of English literature. Little bit of American history, little bit of social studies little bit of economics, little bit of political science. You have to kind of know a little bit about what's going on your life. If you're raised by the street. When you're raised by social media and YouTube videos. The odds of you. Making it in life by your own definition is slight to none. And the fraud of public education and CPS has been for years that the more money is spent. The better results we're going to get when just the inverse is occurred. More money's being spent now. Than any time in American history. CPS with absolutely the worst results imaginable, because the worst generation of parents that ever existed exists right now and secondly, Instead of demanding excellence, academic performance excuses or given and manufactured when failures proliferate. Over 19 will be used as an excuse for the failure of urban public education for the next 5 to 10 years. And I guarantee you there'll be a school levy coming up quite soon, in which the excuse for the relative lack of performance and attendants will be covert 19 and Trump. Trump will be used for a generation, much as the Democrats used Hoover for a generation, and Obama used Bush 43 for a generation, and now it's happening again. Trump was in office for 48 months and others 48 months. 47 of those months were damn good. The last month is another issue, but I'll take that kind of president over Joe Biden anytime. So he just had a mentor on the cold, Frightened to explain what's happening, which is thousands don't even bother to turn on their computer. The other several 1000 received no education whatsoever. Parents or not configured to become teachers of academic subjects there the critical element in the first five or six years of a child's life, But after that the streets are raising the Children. In greater Cincinnati. And so the school board whether it's Ryan Messer Broschi or Melanie Bates, who I had on yesterday. Need to take a leadership role and say, How is it possible that 150,000 students and their spices of Cincinnati are performing and performing quite well and we can't get a school open? How is that possible? Chicago? Push come to shove. Lori Lightfoot, who's the liberal left wing mayor of the city of Chicago, is saying the schools must open on Monday, and she's more in charge here than Cranley would be in Cincinnati and the school union said We're not showing up. We're not working. I would refer to Ronald Reagan and Patco fire them all discharge them all. There's no education anyway. Quit paying him. I guarantee you that the teachers in Cincinnati public schools were not paid if they didn't show up to work, most would show up for work. Because they're paid for not working. You incentivize wrong behavior. You get more of it. You give pain for good behavior. You get less of it in Cincinnati. Paid whether they work or not, So as a consequence, many prefer not to work. And lastly, for those of us Who frequent restaurants, supermarkets and other establishments. The workers at Kroger. And best buy. The workers in the trades. The electrician's the plumbers, the dry Wallers. I talked to Johnny Craft to craft electric. There is busy as they can be. You talk to other individuals, a car dealerships like Joseph Chevrolet. They can't be busier..
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"16 year old with no structure at home. You know we were treating him like college kids They're not logging on. They're probably, you know, staying up late doing different things because it just ends up being that way. They're they're great. They're suffering across the district across the state. For that matter, Any district that is not in person. Those grates and those test scores are going down because they don't have the emotional I Q too. Make this a priority. That is why having them accountable and in a structured environment, It's part of that development that is so critical of this age. What? Why is it fundamentally difficult in an environment in which everyone agrees Those kids need education more than the kids in Lebanon, the home of the Golden Lab, the kids in 11 and largely function, but they show up. Generally they know how to behave. They follow the rules. They take the test. They go home. Those kids from Avondale, Evanston, Western Hills need it more than anyone else. But they're the only school district that largely has been out for the past year. And so you go to some of the meetings. What is the justification that the 35,000 kids there are different than the 150,000 kids who go to school every day and an Archdiocese of Cincinnati, the archdiocese, says 150,000 Children. And various schools grade school, No Middle school's great schools and icicles 150,005 times the number of CPS that have been in school playing sports handling the problem without outbreaks. How does somebody look at that agenda and CPS and say that sounds good to us? Let's go back sometime in February, when the thing is in complete collapse and then Catholic school parents are not only paying for private school education, which is 5 6000. Five or 6000 at Saint Ex Iraqi tells me is like $15,000 a year and in addition to their property taxes, how can they look at themselves and really play the game and act as if they're doing what's right for the kids when they know where they live? It's awful. It's terrible. It's not working as a pawn in their own agendas. Whatever that agenda is the political agenda. Is it A Hey, I loved staying at home and phoning it in agenda. I mean, they're using the Children as a pawn. And the students that I have direct interaction with and on a pretty much a daily basis. Um, they want to be in school They like you know, at first. I think it sounded like a giant, You know, vacation. Oh, yeah. This will be great. But the more it went on there like Actually want to come because I get food at school. I get structured school. I get interpersonal interaction. School school was safe school is safe in many ways, emotionally safe. It is physically safe. Um, So these kids want T dude, Because clearly in person, you can ask the questions of the teacher. The teacher can see your body language that you may or may not be getting the concept that's going on. You know, it's more heat hands on If you're liking chemistry, you know, how do you learn Chemistry virtually with sometimes without actually Turning on the Bunsen burner. You know what I mean? And the remote is you're just staring at a screen or you may or may not be on it and and the burden on the parents and the parents want to get back to work because our society whether we like it or not, it's structured if you have young Children You accept the position of a job or a particular shift based on Hey, my Children will be in school from 83. So I can work lot of Ah, And these these parents now, especially the younger kids are having to stay home or juggle, possibly losing lots of lots of income, not to mention the stress that they did not go to school to teach their kids. No, they don't know about, you know, dangling modifiers and you know complete, You know, Timeline of World War two. They're not equipped to do that. They need these these teachers to be there for their their their students. Yeah, I don't understand why we're using the most vulnerable of our population as a pawn and making these things of death truck, But it's crazy. It's not that hard because all you have to do Look at the position like he said of a restaurant person. When you go into a restaurant as a patron, your mask is off. So these thieves, waitresses and waiters and servers are walking around a restaurant with Potentially 50 people. With their mouths off and they're not getting. We're not seeing major outbreaks in restaurants, A dentist, he's in your mouth. A hairdresser is standing with you, potentially for an hour, right in your space touching you. It's not happening. Yeah, you're going to hear? Yeah. There were a couple of outbreaks or hate that word. A nowt break. What is that? I don't know. And outbreak is two people. Three? Yeah. I mean, come on. You know if it was, I gave you the perfect laboratory. 150,000 Catholic boys and girls in school every day this afternoon as we speak, they're actually in school at LaSalle, a cub calf there. Our Lady of victory. They're all saints and Saint George is doing exactly the same stuff that happens in CPS. And they've been in school since the end of August and the majority of public school students whether it's my dear 11 or Deer Park. They've also been in school in buildings, doing exactly the same stuff that happens that at a cane and use and this is exactly the same stuff without an outbreak without cotton. Now there are a few kids get sick Every year. They do the flu, whatever, but it's amazing to me while what is in the school board? The man months ago. Theo operate their schools the way other public slash private schools have done since August. Why didn't Mike Murat Ski Ryan Messer? Melanie Bates? Why didn't they stand up? Stand up? Wait a minute. This is October for the past six weeks. 150,000 kids are in the Catholic school system 11 in Madeira Deer Park that they have in person. Why can't we do it? Why is it taking this long? Exactly. Well, here's the thing and I've heard this argument. Oh, well, they're cry that they have more money for the peopie eat. No, no, and no, they have effectively said. Master Ahn? Yes, they have up their hand sanitizer. Well, guess what? CPS can get their hands on some hand sanitizer. I feel very confident about that. They have the peopie in place. Right now. I know it's available to them, and Lord knows we have money because all these sports stuff with no fans and they won't let any of the field be rented, for instance, like us. We're entering in spring soccer and lacrosse season. Well, many of the clubs your Cincinnati you're united your King's hammer all these rent since a public school field. For games on the weekend. So that's an income stream for sensei public. Well, they just said no, we're not renting fields anymore. So good question because each one of those clubs carries their own insurance. It's not..
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"Bye, Billy. Coming into Great America. Welcome this Friday afternoon in the tri state. We made it through the weekend, one peso and were alive when the weather seems to have similar going on a little bit better over the weekend, but not much. Yesterday. Melanie Bates has been on the scoreboard in Cincinnati about 20 years came on to talk about her perspective of what should happen, which is which is great to have her on. Mike Marassi also comes on with slowly now and then. And I'm reading in the U. S. A Today addition this morning online that Chicago public school teachers dominated by the union refused to report to work on Monday, having been ordered to do so by the Chicago Board of Education and also indirectly by the mayor Lori Lightfoot. Here in Cincinnati, largely since the end of August. There should have been no learning hybrid learning, and that's about it. And Cincinnati and last night I'm watching this story on Channel Channel nine were nine stands for news. 11 in 11 in school board. I watched the superintendent speak. They've been fighting this thing since the third week in August, and generally they're 95% in person learning. If something occurs, they reacted with the teachers are on board. Many of the schools there are using the gymnasium as a makeshift cafeteria. The screens air up, everyone is masked. Their stations where you wash your hands in between classes. You wash your hands. They're on it and their education is proceeding and all the Catholics goes the programs, schools and northern Kentucky Greater Cincinnati. Largely, they've been in person since the end of August. In fact, many didn't go out last March. Simply got after it. Whatever the obstacles were, they overcame them. That is not the case and urban public education, whether it's Columbus or Cleveland or Toledo or Dayton or whether it's Philadelphia or Chicago. The teachers unions dominate. They get to school board members elected by donating shoe leather and money, volunteerism to get him elected. And once they get elected there in the pockets of the union. And it's upsetting when I see Ah, lot of people fighting toe work, whether you're on an oil rig or you're you're a garbage man. You work behind the counter somewhere or you're in the restaurant, business fighting toe work. Men and women are selling pharmaceuticals. People are act actively trying to actually get out of the butcher's the bakers that Candlestick makers all want to work. There's a part of our society that does not want to work and they use is a shield as a mass, the safety of the Children. As a reason not to go to work among those of the teachers joining you and I now is cold Frederick, who is a volunteer plus and a mentor and CPS and Nicole Frederick, Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show and Nicole, How are you? I'm doing great. How are you, Bill? I'm doing well, a little bit angry about what's happening in Cincinnati because CPS students are always falling behind by any objective measurement, And this is an excuse in the future. To hear more arguments as to why Achievement cannot occur. So for those who are not paying much attention to the 35,000 students and CPS, can you kind of walk us through since the middle of March of the first of April of last year? And all the way through today Friday afternoon to talk about what is the status of education at CPS. Well, just like you touched on. You know any time you have a large school district, urban they inherently have obstacles anyway, so the education gap is already kind of Established anyway. So when we started this passed down in March, and we reacted with the information that we had in March. Everyone was super super cautious because that's all we knew as it evolved. And as we learned more and things that we found out about how this spread and our Children vulnerable are the older people want more stuff change. We found out that Children in schools is not the spread of this virus. In fact, many organizations from your CDC to the American Academy of Pediatrics even doctor fast approaching this past week, has said that schools are steaks. Why are they safe? Because the protocols are in place, and it's up to that individual teacher to make sure that her classroom or his classroom is safe. It's not that difficult. You wear your math. You can stay 3 ft. Apart from one another, you wipe down your surfaces. You stay home. If you're not feeling well, it is a safe environment cause the teachers can make it safe. And for whatever reason, Well, which we all know why Um, since a public has has put the labels of a fear based of it's a death trap to send these Children's active school. No, it's not Look around you CPS. Rules all around. You have effectively mitigated this virus. Um, since August, and they've been in school five days or they will be in school for with one day blended learning or online learning. Toe white down the school and different things like that, which is fine. But to keep the students out, their education is suffering. Humongous. I mean, it's it's awful. And at this point, especially if you have a special needs child or someone that really lives in a horrible circumstance that the last year is a time that's non recoverable, and I talk about Many of the studies indicate that by the time a child is five years old The first five years of a child's life are critical to the learning process to turn the light switches on in each room is you go through your life because their foundation is there, and those first five years are critical. They have all the rooms of your life filled maybe the light switches and on but there's wiring in the wall. You kind of know how to read. You kind of know how to catch. You know how to behave, You know, acceptable behavior. And and I, as I understand it. The worst gold district in the tri state by any objective measurement academically is Cincinnati public schools and among the most expensive or Cincinnati public schools. And so the teachers are saying at this point for a long time, we're not going to report to work. And then on Monday, coming up on Monday, is there unlike Chicago, is there. Is there a feeling the teachers rock actually show up for work on Monday? This is my opinion from from the teachers that I be, too. And the tools that I work with people already. People are ready to come back now. You're always gonna have your teachers that loved to phone it in. They like being able to wake up. Put on a little Maschera. Throw on the zoom call from their PJs at desk and then send the document up. Say, hey, students, So look at this document, and I'll check in with you tomorrow and then they go back and they're doing Whatever it is that they're your off their offer getting paid not to work. There are off. But then you've got other teachers who are really trying to make this work because they genuinely care about their students, and they recognize that we're doing our society a great Injustice if we don't educate our students because an educated society is a successful society, and like you said, we are missing out on a whole year that we can't get back. I mean these students whether they're little, especially up into the high school, they need structure and like these high school kids You're telling me That 15 and 16 year old with no structure at home. You know we were treating him like college kids They're not logging on. They're probably,.
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"And I often say, Andre, this is this is my perspective. And maybe it Z my snow globe but the economy Rests on the education system because of Children are home. Parents can't work or they're paying extra to have their their Children put into different situations. S O Right. Cincinnati public another school district's moving towards a ah model of in school and eventually fully in school. Hopefully, we'll be able Tomo make A positive inroads in the sad situation. And lastly, there was some superintendents I save the text said to me how come Cincinnati public schools have a teacher's getting vaccinated? Going on now as we speak, But my teachers in my school district have fought through this thing since the end of August. We've not closed down. We've not gonna hybrid models and we're not prioritized because we're a suburban district. That is open. I had the governor on yesterday and he talked about you can't get the shots unless you agree to open. You Gotta open your schools. And so there's one superintendent said to me, we've been open for the last four or five months. We've fought through it. We've had to fill a lot of gaps in the teaching model. Wait. We have the get donations from from noted citizens in our community toe extra cost of the shielding that we have in place. We've changed the lunchroom. We've changed all this stuff. My teachers are not prioritized and we fought through it and CPS gave up to use his term. And now they get priority over us. How would you respond to that Superintendent Well, and I I also have a daughter with asthma. In a suburban district teaching five days a week. Who told me this morning, I get it, but I want one too. Okay, So, uh, we're honored and excited that we're leading the way and it wasn't You know, we're not in a position to weigh in when other districts get the vaccine, but I know one thing that weighed heavily in this. Is that we had the infrastructure in place. You know, we have the partnerships with Children's and the health department. We have nurses and every school we have over 32 health clinics and all of our schools. On and we were. We were in a position and ready to go. We also just received a grant for rapid tests for teachers and all of our schools s O You know, we're honored that you know, Governor DeWine gave us the the That scenes are a lot of the vaccines to our health department for our teachers, But hopefully we can follow up and make this a huge success. So that all these other districts quickly get this in place using our model. You know, it's not your fault. I mean, but some of the suburban district say what we did. We fought through it, and now we're being punished. But you bring up a great point that the school is not just educational center. It is the medical center. You have clinic set up and most of the schools in which nurses air physically present it's also restaurants. You take on the responsibility of feeding Children when I think the parents had to be responsible to feed their own Children and not put it on the backs of the taxpayer, and but nonetheless, the system we have now today, I don't blame a seven year old for not being fed, so therefore you have to feed him. It's a restaurant and medical care is not always provided. Well, so therefore the school becomes AH hospital or an emergency clinic. And that also is the education center and for psychological. Another medical services is the public school system, which is what it wasn't intended to be, but it's what it's become. When Melanie Bates, good luck to you, and I guess it starts today, and I'm I'm sorry on Mondays when school starts and unless we have some new variant, a new strain coming down the pike, God knows what's gonna happen next. That you pretend to be open. And you may extend into June and July, But Melanie Bates, Good luck to you. And thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham show. Thank you. Well, thank you for having me Melanie Bates. Thank you very much. I let's continue with more. She's the leader down there because she's been there for 20. Some years when you think about the traditional role. Of our school. It's not a restaurant. It's up to Mom and dad to pack the lunch, you know and then, But now it's become the restaurant and as far as medical care, I used to go to Dr Elmore Sluiter, and now there's all these tax payer funded clinics in this goal. So, she said, When you look at an easy system to put needles in arms, CPS his position to do that, when other districts or not, I think the kids of Beachwood are probably not thinking about well. I got to go to school to have a meal. The parents take responsibility for that. So let's see. Let's get your reaction. The squeaky wheel gets the grease the line becomes available. 513749 7000 bill cutting him the Great American Live. It's room of the Reds news radio 700 wlw. The following is a test.
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"Cutting in the Great American and Melanie Bates has been on the school board in Cincinnati for about 20 years. She knows where the bodies are buried all over town. He also served on the state Board of Education cares deeply about education, especially about CPS and Melanie Bates and fellow Xavier graduate. Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. Melanie How you doing? I'm doing great. How are you doing, Belle? I'm frozen. It's cold. But nonetheless, right now, as we sit here this afternoon, Can you tell the American people the status of education at CPS in person or remote? And and then we'll talk about the vaccination program. But as we sit in this afternoon, what's happening at CPS? Right now. We are still in remote learning District wide on February 1st. We are beginning our phase in of a blended learning model, which means that Children will be in school. Two days on in person two days in remote and one day off one day for planning and sanitation That will be a safety in between February 1st and March the first and then is the goal to stay more less hybrid through the end of the school year into May. Is that the plan based upon whatever else happens. The goal is to move into four day week school now are preschoolers will begin at four days. A week on day kindergarten through 12 will be two days a week. In school and then two days remote, But the goal is to go. We're talking four days with a day in between four for cleaning. Can you relate to the American people? The idea that many Catholic appropriate schools and other public school district in the Hamilton County area and outside Hammond County have been able to see themselves through Without being simply a hybrid model or simply being remote. Many urges open completely, and they have gymnasiums that have been converted to lunch rooms. They have screens up. They have glass. They have mask wearing requirements, etcetera. How come CPS is not performed as far as in person learning as much as the other public school districts, much less the Catholic ones? Well, our issue as of November What staffing we did not have. Because of the quarantines and the positives of covert in our with our staff. We did not have enough people enough. License teachers to man the buildings and that's why we went remote. It was staffing, not safety. Since then, the quarantines have been relaxed, according to CDC guidelines. Student research. We have an all out campaign to recruit subs. I'm not I'm not sure what's going on in the public and the other public and private schools that they have an ample supply of subs because I'm sure they're seeing quarantines and cove. It's like we are, but they may be better prepared. They may have a different method of staffing, so I can't speak to that. But for us, it was It was staffing that put us back in remote in November. You know, W Kerry. See TV did a story And it's on their website about the number of bad results from Children, especially in an urban environments that are not in school. The Las Vegas Clark County superintendent has demanded the kids come back to school beginning this coming Monday because they've had 13 suicides. That the drug use the causes. Suicide hotlines are kind of off the charts as far as kids not being able to do well, if you're a 1st 2nd or third or fourth grader is going to take you a long time to get up to snuff because you've been out of school many times almost a year. And the environment many times you live in is not the best conducive to learning anyway. And so on the school board. Do you have discussions with Ryan, Messer and Murat Ski and others about? We have to weigh the impact on the Children by shutting down and also the impact by keeping open that somehow. More weights given to the teachers and administrative staff. But the students themselves are like dying on the vine. Wkrc TV did the story that was said Look, what's happening to Children who are left in their environment, much less the fact moms and dads can't go to work. And they run the streets. Whatever it might be when you have your meetings at CPS Lauren Mitchell etcetera, the superintendent, How much weight is given T the negative consequences of not being in school. Well, that's a constant discussion and is that that's a huge concern of mine. Personally, I mean it Z very unfair to our students to not have the same level of availability of education as other kids, Theo and we know abuse cases erupt. I'm not sure of the suicide ideations in our district. I just don't have that number. Way had the highest number of homicides in this city and 2020. I mean, wear Lachlan. We had a 15 year old murdered yesterday. It, Zaveri said. What's going on with our students? Uh, that that are, you know that. Are suffering because because of this whole situation, so yes, it Z something of concern to us. It's a matter of equity and I am 100% behind a safe return to school. And I do have a sense. This is going to be a assuming we resolve this thing in the next six months. Most say that by the summer time everyone who wants to be vaccinated will be vaccinated. School starts again The end of August 1st of September. Do you have some sense? How far behind the 36,000 Children are gonna be compared to school districts like Beechwood or Are Lakota or Mason or Madeira Deer Park. How far behind educationally those kids are gonna be? It's really kind of hard to say, because you know, we I don't have the numbers on how many kids are actually logging in and harmony on not I know that it's that it's declining. I know that for sure. Uh, our teachers are trained to bring students. You know, to bridge the gap. But we've not been through this before, so we really don't know how long it's going to take. I know that there's already discussions about extending the school year. All right, four students so they can go and we always do have school almost through July, the fourth but making that more extensive so kids can continue and try to catch up. Really, Since we haven't been through this, It's really hard to say by the it definitely is a matter of equity. I kind of look at this Melanie Bates and everywhere I look, I see anger and broken. The economy has broken the governor. Yesterday said Okay, we're gonna have the 11 o'clock and we're going to stay open toe 11 o'clock now supposed to 10 o'clock, Ah lot of men and women can't find work that the economy is in a very tough position. I look around and you have the right wingers invading the capital. Then I have the left wingers breaking out Starbucks Windows and Portland, Chicago and Seattle and Denver. There's this anger everywhere, cops or anger. We had 92 murders in the city 500 people shot and and by the way, we have a higher homicide rate in the city, Cincinnati, then in the city of Chicago. I had on a a guest. The other Sunday night that talked about ran the numbers. Chicago's about seven times larger than Cincinnati and Cincinnati has more homicides and more shootings in the city of Chicago. And everywhere I look, I see nothing but Oh, my gosh, Look at that. There's nobody happy Trump was in office. Everybody was really pissed off at him. And now Biden's in office is hard to get mad at because it seems to me like a nice old guy, but his policies anger a bunch of people. There's a bunch of energy workers being laid off, and we're making $110,000 a year. Now they're going toe lineup for government benefits everywhere I look, there's problems in education. If you're in the suburbs has problems. If you're in the city, there's problems. There's teachers I just had on shot. Sergeant Dan Hell, CPD. He talked about the fact that cops cannot get vaccinations. They're not prioritized at all. And Richard K. Jones on sheriff, he said. Our guys have nothing. In fact, Now I'm told by Joe Deters and others that there's no trials in Hamilton County until March or April. So we have people being arrested for crimes being committed victims cases are not being heard. And everywhere I look, I see problems and then in your world, which is the city of Cincinnati. It cost I don't know 17 $18,000 per academic year to educate a child. The school. But but budgets over a half a billion dollars 35,000 kids, largely not in school, and did you sense these are difficult times. These are terribly difficult times You just laid it out..
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"Off the air from a funeral director. He says. One will morticians get their vaccines and the dead. Give off respiratory droplets. I don't know. When will radio talk show host and producers get ours? I mean, the fact that matters everybody wants. The same thing is kind of like everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. At this point. We have a very limited number of vaccines. Unlimited number of people. So this issue with Dan Hills and Law enforcement began when they looked at their brothers and sisters in the fire department's getting it and they were not prioritized. In fact, they didn't they want even thought about. In fact, when I called Sergeant Dan Hills of a couple hours ago to say, Can you come on and talk about it said Well, what's going on? I said, we have the covert 19 situation happening. And how about cops getting and he said, Well, we're not getting it. Said, are the cops knocking down your door saying, Why aren't we And honestly is that not really And so it looks to me like the picking, and choosing has got to be based upon scientific fact is supposed to opinion. God knows we all have belly buttons will have opinions. And at this point if you're the officeholder, you're the guy in charge. It is up to you to make that decision. Critics and the pundits on left and the right can say, Well, you should have given it to cops. Then they'll be large numbers of those who work in nursing homes among the frail and elderly that would not get it. We have approximately now about 2.5 million Ohioans fitting categories. 2.5 million to get the vaccine, according to the one A and one B category, and the one see starts on Monday. At this point, we're gonna have 2.5 million Ohioans and wind reports He's getting about 100,000 vaccines per week and the need is well over two million and that does not include All the cops. Corrections officers. Deputy sheriffs doesn't include those who work in grocery stores. So those who come in contact with the public The fact of the matter is all of us who wanted out to get it. But then, secondly, you and I've dealt with this About half the American people what refused to get the vaccine and if required to do so. Many was still would not get it. And so if if that's true, and anecdotally I believe it is true. Governor, DeWine said that 60% of workers in nursing homes will not get it. And that half of the police department the fire fighters offered it will not get it. So to get to like, quote, herd immunity getting to 65 75%. We may never get to that point because too many of us refused to take the vaccine. I would take it as soon as it's available. I think most of my callers would say yes but by thin margin I had a call on the other day. From Adam's County. Forget the guy's name appeared bright and loose it, he said The great majority of people and Adams County in rural America would not take the vaccine if it's offered, anyway. And so well, it'll be months and months and a year or two. If that's true before we come out of this pandemic because you can't have half the population inoculated against it. And the other half. Refusing to take in, in which case is able to be spread. And I would anticipate Webvan 1918 1919 situation more than 100 years ago with the Spanish flu in which it really ravaged American society. Resulting in today's numbers about 600,000 deaths. At this point we're about 430,000 aren't away to 500,000 deaths, so we have to get to 600,000 to get the same number 100 years ago. And by today's numbers You do the do the math. It would equate to 2.2 million dead Americans today If the same number of 600,000 is acceptable and around the world. It was 50 million deaths coming out Award War one, and it went on and on for like a year or two. Because they weren't vaccines, of course, and the treatment did not include monoclonal antibodies and didn't include room desert here. They didn't have any sense they were masked, and that's about it. And it was not a political issue whatsoever when political Woodrow Wilson was not held to account for it. And the next president, who I think was Calvin Coolidge. Uh, it wasn't a campaign issue was simply a flu, and so we have a limited number. And then we have unlimited to man and we have large numbers of teachers and schools that want to get back. Melanie Bates is coming up later, and I spoke with her off the air about what's happening in CPS. And she told me off the air that they have clinics in each of the schools, health clinics, and they also have AH large restaurant operations where Children are being fed. Etcetera, and they're not in school, So the school in Cincinnati is a hospital. It's a restaurant and it's a school. What terrible awful results. Traditionally, school was not perceived as a place you go eat in a restaurant, and it went perceived as being Ah hospital or health care clinic. It was where you went to get educated. And parents used to send a brown bag to school with their child. And sometimes they would offer shall I say, hot meals most of time. They did not you simply it was up to each parent, too. To give a brown bagged your kid. You had some time to sit down and eat. That was lunch and the idea of of a health clinic being in a school that didn't happen. So now the schools because of the breakdown in the American family, we do have the worst generation of parents in American history Now living right now, the worst generation is today. That they take on the roles of families to care for Children that in the past would not have occurred. And so another reason to get the kids back in school, which they should have been since September is the fact that not getting properly fed more being abused? Educational achievement is not existent, and they're not getting their shots appropriately. So when Dwyane looked around and said the urban school districts in Ohio are largely shut down. In fact, most urban districts in America are shut down while suburban districts are wide open and Catholic schools and procure all schools are wide open. How is that possible? How can you be our lady of victory in the West Side? How can you be a cub Calf or Covington, Latin or LaSalle? And you're functioning. Because you have parents and kids that desire to be there and will fight through to make it happen. In urban areas education, which ought to be a prime responsibility of a parent. Get the kid out of the hole. The ditch in which the child finds him or herself is not in a sense, prioritized. And when I watch Laura Mitchell is the superintendent of Cincinnati and watch some of the school board meetings, which I do. You're gonna line them up out the door of pissed off parents who don't think they're kids should be in school. And they're paying almost confiscatory real estate taxes, and still, the kids are not in school. So It's a terrible situation and everywhere I look as the great American I can't recall a time. Uh, certainly since the 19 sixties, when America was more angry at itself. People are just pissed off about everything. For example, the right wingers or pissed off at the election that their guy Trump lost, and they firmly believe the election was stolen. It was rigged. That's what those on the far right believe. So they thought it was somehow justified because they're angry at the outcome of an election. The storm the United States Capitol, the hold it for several hours, resulting in five deaths, including at least one murder. And then you'd feel justified that what they did was OK, That's OK to take the U. S. Capitol, the United States Capitol and hold it for a period of time on the far right. That was okay. Look on the far left and it's justified in acceptable. The burn, loot trash and vandalized 100 American cities. If someone gets pissed off about an individual cops behavior, it's okay to break out Windows vandalized doors to loot to kill. And 100 American cities that somehow okay waiting for the next event to transpire, which will cause the left wing mobs toe once again March and destroyed downtown areas, whether it's Seattle or Los Angeles, Chicago, Cincinnati, whatever it might be, New York Just last week about 28 cops or injured in a fight with right wing Antifa activist..
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"No question about that. But 92 murders 500 people shot Ah, there aren't a lot of traffic tickets being written. When I talked to my friends in the courthouse, There's no trials being conducted. Everything stopped until sometime in March. Witnesses aren't showing up. The grand jury is proceeding just barely. The federal court system is largely shut down. So even if you arrest somebody, they're going to get out immediately. And if they get out time is waived because of covert 19, which means it can't be a trial. It just looks to me like all hell's breaking loose. Well, really, That's probably good for your business. When hell is breaking loose people turn into the big point. No question. I will. Good luck to you, Sergeant Dan Hills. We'll see what happens. But with your permission, I'm gonna quiz the mayor. And then he's got to get ahold of Health Department is the white cops or ignored when it comes to shots, because whether it's Butler County or Kenton County or Harmony County or Switzerland, County cops aren't getting the shots and there's no there's no anger and the cops themselves aren't saying, Hey, wait a minute, Sergeant Dan, you got to give me the shot. And they just accept the inevitable, But we got really. I think there's a phenomenon there counselor kind of getting a little used to be indeed, non by the public, So maybe that's one of the things that's happened yet. But please quiz They're currently he's an elected official. And that Z job is the answer to us the public Well, I will tell him the cops are very can I tell him on your behalf? The cops demand action. Man action. Yes, sir. It sounds like a good way to go. Sergeant Dan Hills. Thank you very much. You see that? Let's continue with more later on with scheduled the mayor. Let's see what occurs. I'm gonna ask him that question. I was when I When I heard Sheriff Jones the other day talk about the hiss CEOs and deputy sheriff dealing with individuals. And then I asked the mayor, I asked the governor of the question. How come Cops or not prioritized was about 65,000 cops of one type or another and the state of Ohio. And the answer is well. There's not much of a death rate among those officers and therefore I have a very limited supply unlimited demand. I have to target it. But he said, he's essentially we give the shots to the counties or to the health department and they can do what they want. The only way a cop gets a shot is that at the end of the day, someone says, Hey, we got two doses left us look around anybody else and then you call the police department. They come in. Is that the way things should be I don't know, but it's the way things are. So let's continue with more of a line becomes available. 513749 £7000.700 new 18 T also lay down his Melanie Bates from the school board to talk about what's happening. The city of Cincinnati. Things getting better things getting worse. Why don't teachers go back to work? I want to go back to work in the city, one of the suburbs and in Catholic schools. It's been that way since September and in March when all hell broke loose about Almost a year ago, most of the Catholic parochial school stayed in business and found a way to get through it. And the public schools in Cincinnati did not. And why is that? And Cincinnati look a little bit too. You like the city of Chicago, which is a disaster. Those continue with more of the great American. Your comments of any 513749 7000. Plus tomorrow we've scheduled on Nicole Frederick Was an advocate for the students in the city, Cincinnati as to what's happening there, and more bill cutting him the great American lives at your home of the Reds, Hopefully, playing baseball beginning of April 1st on NewsRadio, 700 wlw. It's how we express our thoughts now. Concerns and our feelings. Talkie.