The Data: Just How Bad is School? (Sending a Kid to Public School Has Become a Death Sentence)

This episode examines the severe psychological impacts of modern school systems on students, based on various data and statistics.

1. The mental health crisis in schools is escalating, with significant percentages of students experiencing persistent sadness, hopelessness, and suicidal thoughts.
2. The hosts critique the influence of progressive ideologies in schools, linking them to worsening mental health outcomes among students.
3. They propose homeschooling and other educational alternatives as more viable options for ensuring children's well-being and educational success.
4. The Collins Institute is introduced as an alternative educational model designed to address the failures of the public school system.
5. The episode emphasizes the urgent need for systemic educational reform to prevent further harm to students.

1. Introduction to the Crisis

Overview of the dire mental health statistics among students, emphasizing the urgency of addressing these issues. Simone Collins: "Almost one in three young women... had thought about unaliving themselves."

2. Analyzing the Causes

Discussion on how school environments and societal expectations contribute to student distress. Malcolm Collins: "What if we are trading our children's childhoods for a failed educational experiment?"

3. Solutions and Alternatives

Exploration of alternatives to traditional schooling, including homeschooling and the newly formed Collins Institute. Simone Collins: "We're ready to begin onboarding people to a new kind of school system."

1. Consider Alternative Education Models: Explore homeschooling or other innovative educational methods that may offer safer and more nurturing environments for children.
2. Engage with Children's Education: Actively participate in your children’s education to ensure it aligns with their needs and mental well-being.
3. Support Educational Reforms: Advocate for changes in the public education system that focus on mental health and holistic development.
4. Monitor Mental Health: Keep a close watch on children's mental health, especially if they are in the public school system, and seek professional help if needed.
5. Educational Resources Evaluation: Evaluate educational content and teaching methods for potential stressors and advocate for healthier alternatives.

In this eye-opening video, Malcolm and Simone Collins delve into the alarming state of modern education, revealing startling statistics on student mental health and academic performance. They discuss the rise in depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation among students, particularly young women and LGBTQ+ youth. The couple explores how current educational practices may be contributing to these issues and examines the growing trend of homeschooling as a response. They also touch on the controversial topics of gender dynamics in schools, the impact of progressive policies, and the urgent need for educational reform. This comprehensive analysis offers insights into the challenges facing today's students and proposes potential solutions, including the Collins Institute's alternative educational approach.

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Simone Collins, Malcolm Collins

Content Warnings:

Discussions of suicide and mental health crises

Speaker A
Oh, no. Oh, my gosh. Almost one in three young women, not over the course of their adolescence just in the last year, had thought about unaliving themselves. Oh, dear. That is how bad the school system is right now with young women, 24%.

Speaker B
One young women made a plan to kill themselves this last year. This last year, again, not over the course of their life. This is critically bad at this point. This is. We are in the drain cycle right now.

Young women 13%, young men 7%. Whoa. One in ten are attempting to kill themselves every year. Whoa. What if we are trading our children's childhoods so that they can be played with in some sort of a weird marxist social experiment that has been executed by a bunch of.

Speaker D
Would you like to know more? Hello, Simone. You and I have done episodes on how bad the public school nightmare is right now. I think a lot of people think it's just, like, a steady degree difference from when we were kids. It is not.

Speaker B
We are going to be going into a lot of data, a lot of statistics in this episode. I know our fans love that. When I was doing the research for this, I was like, oh, my God. If I could make enough money to support myself off of our content and I could just, like, really do research heavy episodes all the time, I would be so happy. Like, it is such a pleasure to get to dive into statistics and see what is being hidden from the general public at this point.

So what I'm going to start with is just, like, how bad things are, because not even in terms of outcomes, but a lot of people, they look at how we're raising our kids, and they're like, the things you're doing with your kids are going to make them unhappy. Why don't you just do what everyone else does or taking them out of public school? Oh, my God. They'll all these, like, horrible fear tactics. And it really has become fear tactics.

An article ran in Scientific America recently that showed that 37% of homeschoolers, it was like, homeschooling is tied to abuse. 37% of homeschoolers abused their kids. And we know this because CPS was called on 37% of families. They didn't think to check the base rate. It turns out that actually, out of all families, 37% have had CPS called on them.

Speaker A
So I think that actually means that homeschoolers have generally lower rates of actual abuse. Because think about it this way, homeschooling families have larger numbers of children. So if one child causes some kind of warning that has CPS called, they're much more likely to. They're like, every child will be seen as being, like, plausibly subject to abuse. Also, I've just noticed that larger families are more likely to have people be very judgmental of the way that they raise their kids.

So I feel like they're way more subject to scrutiny. And I think a lot of people just think that having more than two kids is abusive. Just like that, a parent's attention would be divided. That much is without doing anything else. Even if they did everything absolutely right, they were still terrible parents.

So I would say it's impressive that it's not a higher rate. No, no. What I think when you're talking about this 37% number, I think it shows just how oppressive the urban monoculture is in trying to take people's kids, and that it's becoming more and more so over time. Just on that's own, that number is sobering. 37%.

Holy smoke. Smokes. But, like, in terms of the kids aren't. All right, so I'm gonna read to you some statistics by the CDC. So, actually, I'll play a little game.

Speaker B
I'll have you try to guess what the numbers are before we get to them, because. And I'll even prime you by saying that I think the numbers are gonna shock you. On a survey of experiencing. And this survey ends in 2021. Experience persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness during the past year in the United States.

And we're looking at young men and women. What would you expect? Are they above or below the age of adolescents? This is adolescents. Adolescents, 45%.

Is about the average. So with women, it's 57% these days and 29%. So, like, they are generally unhappy with their lives. More than half of young women. And you can look at all the quote, unquote, progress that feminism has made for them, and yet this number just keeps rising.

All right, but here's, I think, what's really going to shock you. And keep in mind, we're separating young men and women when you're making guesses. Okay, seriously. Considered attempting suicide during the past year? Not in their life during the past year.

Speaker A
Young men, 14%. Young women, 18%. You got young men. Exactly right. 14%.

Speaker B
Young women, it's 30%. Oh, no. Oh, my gosh. Almost one in three young women, not over the course of their adolescence, just in the last year, had thought about unaliving themselves. Oh, dear.

That is how bad the school system is right now. You are sending your kids to a meat grinder. But let's get worse. Made a and I'll use a different word so we don't get banned here. Unaliving themselves.

Plantainous. During the past year. Oh, made a plan. Okay. It's gotta be fairly low with guys.

Speaker A
Cause I feel like they're more likely to follow through and they were at higher rates. Follow through successfully on these 4% of young men. And because women are more likely to make plans and fantasize. I'm gonna say 12%. With young men, it was 12%.

Speaker B
With young women, 24%. Oh, my God. One main plan. Young women to kill themselves. This last year.

This last year, again, not over the course of their life. This is critically bad at this point. This is. We are in the drain cycle right now. The drain cycle now actually went through with the plan.

Sorry. Attempted on aliving themselves in the last year. Young women, 13%. Young men, 7%. Whoa.

One in ten are attempting to kill themselves every year. Whoa. And also put on screen here. Were injured in a unaliving attempt in the past year by demographic breakdowns. Oh, yeah.

Speaker A
What percentage there? I'm very curious because I feel like a lot of. It's also I want. I wish we could parse out better performative and re. You know what I mean, though.

There. There is a social contagion element. There's a glamour element to this. I feel. Unfortunately, it's really clear in the data.

Speaker B
To me, the closer a group is to the urban monoculture, the higher the rate is. Yeah. How much was. I feel like injury is a sign that someone actually meant to do injured. Okay, so injured in an attempt.

For young women, it was 4%. For young men, it was 2%. Total average is 3%. But it gets really high in some groups. And it's determinant on how close you are to the urban monoculture.

So if you look at groups that are very low probability of doing this, you're looking at groups like the asian community or the american indian or Alaska native communities when their group is actually less than 1%. If you look at groups that do it, very high. Did you have sexual contact with somebody of the same sex? 14%. 14% of people who are sexually active and gay.

And I think that this shows how mentally destructive the groups that have invaded these communities are. And it is, to me, horrifying what we're seeing here. And it really pairs with our idea that. And I don't know if the episode on this is going to go live before or after this. That in some ways, a trans identity can be thought of as an alternative to unaliving oneself.

Because it's like a chance to start over with a new identity. Yeah. That also might explain the rise of that, given that 14% every year are injured from one of these attempts. Every year are injured by one of these attempts. The urban monoculture is maelstrom that rips apart your soul.

It is bad to an extent that I feel that we often underplay in this podcast or maybe don't properly elevate. If you want to talk about more stuff here. Nearly 60% of female students and nearly 70% of LGBTQ students experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. And if you look at 70% of the lgbt community in school today, and if you. As a cultural solution to same sex attractiveness, I think it is pretty unarguable to point out that the gay community of today has many more protections than the gay community did when we were growing up.

And yet the levels of sadness the community has had have risen dramatically between this period. So this isn't because they're a discriminated group, because it's been going up as the discrimination has been going down. Yeah. And if somebody's actually discrimination for the community has been growing up, one of them would be like, okay, you just live in an alternate dimension. But two, if you believe that, then clearly whatever the community is doing in terms of advocacy is not working.

Speaker A
It's making it worse. Yeah, making it worse. So you shouldn't be doing the same type of advocacy that you guys are doing right now. And then they're like, I don't want to change any of that. But I'm like, okay, Lynn, let's walk things back a bit here and say that things are getting better for the community, and yet the community's mental state is getting worse.

Speaker B
So what is changing? It's the dominance of these new mental frameworks entering the community, specifically trauma psychology. And we're gonna go into another study and a different one here that went into how modern psychological practices, when given to completely mentally healthy students, actually decreased outcomes for those students and broke those students relationships with their parents because it is literally developed into cult like tactics. But if you're talking about attempted suicide, 10% of female students, 20% of lgbt students. If you're talking about.

Now, let's just go over some other statistics here. Experience persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. And this was a rising trend, so it's almost likely much worse now. In 2021, it was 42% experience poor mental health, 29% seriously considered attempting unaliving oneself. 22% made an unaliving plan, 18% attempted unaliving 10%.

And, yeah, it's just, and they do note in the statistics that there were differences among ethnic groups, but the differences really weren't that big among ethnic groups, was just being ultra low in the asian community. It's just that the one in ten attempted number, like, absolutely gets me. The one in 522 percent seriously considered. It absolutely gets me on. It's saying a lot.

Speaker A
If modern culture has a larger unaliving thinking about rate, then Japan and South Korea are famous for this being a problem among people. And yet now in more than asian immigrant. Yeah, but that asian immigrant cultures here are lower just in general. I don't know. I think it shows that the strict, like the ideal parenting style, which really fits with what we said historically.

Speaker B
I think the reason the rates are so high in countries like Korea and Japan is because you have a very strict institutional structure and moderately strict parents, whereas in the United States, you have strict parents but loose institutions. And as we always say, cultures work much better when you allow the culture to enforce the restricted rules rather than trying to enforce it through a governmental system. And that's what we're seeing here, I think, in these very low rates among Asians in the united states. And keep in mind, the government should realize that this is a problem. So the us surgeon general has identified mental health challenges as the leading cause of disability and poor life outcomes in young people.

And I'll put up the warning here. And, yeah, it's just the, the state that they're in is absolutely horrifying now. And I think that's something we need to remember with school. Right? A lot of people are like, well, I'm sending my kids to school because that's the default and no schools have a cost.

We trade our children's childhoods in exchange for the promise that they will be given the ability to participate in the modern economy. But what if schools aren't doing that? What if we're trading their childhood to put them with a group that is not intentionally, I think, but basically systematically abusing children, putting them in these states? Because what else can you say about a group that's having these sorts of numbers? I can't say anything other than they are in an institutional abuse factory.

Speaker A
And if anyone looked at this in isolation, if this were some form of plastic or food or pollution to which people's children were being exposed, they would be in a huge uproar. There would be legislation to immediately ban this material or pollutant if this were anything but essentially modern culture and education and educational systems which obviously are much harder to address or change or deal with. People would be up in armst and of course, many people already are up in arms. I think that we need a completely new school model. And people are like, what about negative?

Speaker B
And we're working on that. So people are like, why hasn't the Collins Institute gone live yet? It's actually fully functional at this point. We're ready to begin on, this is our alternate to the school system, begin onboarding people. But we want it really polished when the first group comes in.

And so right now we're doing things like changing the skill level tied to various questions that a student engages with, adding a tutoring system, various things like this. But the core product is really impressive and I quite like using it myself, even. Yeah, it's largely my fault. I keep saying, well, it needs to be a little bit better so that, yeah, it's my fault. And it's also the fault that we actually have a day job and we're not paying ourselves to do any of this because that's not how we work.

Yeah, but I think increasingly what we're going to see is one, you've got to remember the hold that teachers unions have on democratic politics. They basically cannot go against the teachers unions. They cannot admit that this is a real problem. But if you look at spending because people are like, you're not spending enough. And I'll put on screen a chart here that shows the amount that we're giving to schools is increasing, but all of the additional money is going to overhead staff, not like the actual teachers.

And that's what happens. Bureaucratic capture and bureaucratic bloat. We need to wipe out that entire class. And you can't do that because that's the class that is most bought into the teachers unions, which basically have the entire democratic party in their pocket. And then you have the second problem, which is the core way that the urban monoculture makes new members of the urban monoculture is through control over children's media and the school system.

And so as more and more parents wake up and we're about to get into statistics about this, about how bad the school system is, they have to be more aggressive about forcing parents to send kids to a system that's clearly not in their best interest. And you get extreme cases in Germany where things like homeschooling are banned. But you are beginning to see in the more progressive states, more and more restrictions put on homeschooling. And even in some areas like Manhattan, like the most urban monoculture places, talk of banning private schools and institutions like that, which is truly insane for me. It's like, what if we are trading our children, children's childhoods, so that they can be played with in some sort of a weird marxist social experiment that has been executed by a bunch of experts?

And I think that's why progressives are so anti organizations like libs of TikTok. Because a lot of what libs of TikTok is showing is teachers. And so we are seeing that, yeah, the worst of the urban monoculture really has infected the school system, and that's what's causing this. This is your daily reminder that doctor Seuss is racist and you shouldn't use him in your classroom. I get that some of these books are considered classics.

Speaker E
I mean, I grew up on them myself. I also get that he was a product of his time. But also, mind you, this is 2021. There are literally so many other books that are more inclusive to all students that you can use instead. I've heard a lot of people say that gender is complex and sex is simple.

Speaker F
As a biology teacher, I highly disagree. Gender is really easy. Gender is how someone identifies. So just listen to them when they tell you if they're male, female, or non binary.

Speaker C
This has been my first year in preschool with a class of my own teaching alongside another queer, neurodivergent educator. And we have been rocking our two's class. We've been talking about gender and skin color and consent and empathy and our bodies and autonomy. It's been fabulous. But our teaching team is shifting and a new person is being onboarded, someone with many years of experience.

So today at the lunch table, when the topic of gender and genitals came up, one of our students plainly looked up and said, well, I'm a girl today, but I know that teacher co isn't. No, they're enby. And the look on the incoming teachers, her face was priceless. She was shocked in a good way. And she just looked around at the two of us and said, this class is incredible and I am so impressed.

Speaker G
Let me say it again for those in the back row. CRT is not being taught below law school. Those of you that are against it are being misled by the media about what CRT and where and when it is taught. My governor has put into place some ridiculous legislation that many governors across the country have put into place, such as, I can't teach critical race theory. So teachers in the past, we've been activists.

After this show of last year, we really need to stand up and do what's right for our kids right now. So this is a call to action teachers, we gotta stand up and fight for our kids because this is bull. Do your students call you by your first name or mister or miss? Great question. This is actually a classic question.

Speaker F
Here's your answer. Currently my students just call me Desmond or Desi, first name. However, I have been at schools that go by last name. Those schools I go by teacher Fambrini. I am gender fluid so I don't go by mister or miss.

I go by teacher because I am a teacher. So Desmond, Desi or teacher Fambrini. I'm starting to get a little emotional looking at the new masks I got. For a couple reasons. Flags put up in every classroom.

Speaker G
We're gonna have to say the pledge of allegiance and I'm not gonna be able to talk about basically any of the things that I have on these masks. Hey y'all, let me introduce you to our non binary alpaca. The kids voted on a gender neutral name, Alex, for them. Alex was there to help me during the really quiet moments when nobody would talk during virtual learning. Yes, they were so quiet.

Speaker E
But then I also took it as an opportunity to teach my students about how to respect people's pronouns. Did Alex ever get misgendered? Yes, but then it opened up some teachable moments about what to do when that would happen. For example, hey, mister Vuong, did he just wake up from his nap? Oh, do you mean did they wake up from their nap?

Yeah, they just did. Who would apologize quickly, make the correction and move on. I started off modeling how to correct somebody and then afterwards my students would correct each other whenever somebody would misgender. Alex. Here, representation in the classroom matters.

My kids were fifth graders and they still got a kick out of Alex. Oh yes. And here's Alex's friend, Lincoln Delama, who goes by pronouns. He, him. At first my students thought that he had very feminine features, so they thought that he was a girl.

And this is why we should never assume somebody's gender just based on what they look like. Alright, Lincoln, say something. Hello. My students were really surprised how low his voice sounded. Don't assume clear from the data that the closer a kid is to this type of language and to these types of ideas, the more likely they are to unalive themselves.

Speaker B
These people are killing kids at astronomical numbers. This needs to be stopped. We need to understand that what these people are pushing is bigotry and it is not helping the same sex attracted community. It is not even helping people who are actually, transgender. This is some sort of weird, bizarre, sex pest marxist cult that is taking over our school system, and it is disproportionately hurting the kids who are actually same sex attracted.

For example. As we can see in the data, this stuff needs to be fought tooth and nail. I love it. They're like, no, no, no, no. Actually, you see, when we teach kids to hate their identities and their countries and their history, it saves their lives.

Affirming, affirming language affirming practices save lives. And it's like, okay, well, then why is it that the people who buy into this the most are the ones unaliving themselves at astronomical rates? Why is it that as this language penetrates our school system more, this problem gets worse? You should see an inverse correlation. If you were right about this, are you open.

Are you even open to the possibility that your group is wrong? And I don't think you are because it's a religion for you? This is moved past the point of data, and you don't care how many children you have to sacrifice so that you can feel like you were the good guy. It's sickening. So what are people doing in response?

So now I'm going to put a graph on screen. Actually, did you have any more thoughts on, before we go further, an argument. That I hear from people because I was just listening to someone's YouTube essay on alt right parents and how they're against the schooling system. A very common argument that is presented is, oh, people are just presenting really extreme cases, and this is not how it works for everything. But there is just such a preponderance of cases of people doing egregious things.

Speaker A
There's actual. There are actual rules in some cases. There's actual legislation that is pretty egregious. If you just look at it, at what it is, and then these stats, I don't think can really be denied. They're coming from the CDC.

Speaker B
This is not like right wing conspiracy. Some right wing mommy blog that did a Twitter poll. This is much more rigorous than that. And people will be like, oh, these are the effects of COVID But if you look at the statistics, they've been going up at a steady rate for a long period of time before this. So, no, it's not just Covid.

It was going up for a long period of time. Now, let's talk about homeschooling the alternative. So I'm going to put a graph on screen here right now, and what you're going to see in this graph, that's from the Washington Post is a lot of people thought that during COVID a lot of people just took out their kids, and then it was fine after that. But that's actually not what happened. A bunch of people took off their kids.

This graph is titled homeschoolings rise from fringe to fastest growing form of education. Basically, what in this graph is it shoots up during the pandemic, but then it barely goes down after the pandemic. And it's the same as private school shoots up, isn't going down after the pandemic, whereas the number of kids in school is actually continuing to drop after the pandemic, which is just shocking to me. But this is, and we have. Simone's sister is like an assistant superintendent at a school district.

And she was talking about one really scary thing is how quickly their class sizes are dropping. So they're now dealing with the problem of demographic collapse combined with everybody taking their kids out. And she's year over, year, 60 kids less. This is not like a giant school. She was just like, in this one school system, she's like, there are whole classes that aren't happening anymore, I think.

What was it? She said it was like the size of two classrooms. No, I said that. Okay, you said it's the size of two classrooms disappearing. But that's shocking that we're seeing this.

But hold on. I'm going to continue to go through here. I'm going to quote something here. What surprises me is how much the additional homeschooling has stuck so far. I would have expected the huge peak in 2020, 2022 to roughly this level, with the pandemic making schools a different level of dystopian nightmare than usual than most people throwing in the towel.

That was what we did. Instead, it looks like 80% of the increase stuck around from 2022 to 2023. It seems this was the case, there being a lot of startup costs and network effects. Once you learn how to homeschool and you try it, most people decided to keep going and the change was sustainable, and I think that's really important. This graph is titled Homeschooling's rise from fringe to fastest growing form of education.

Basically, what in this graph is it shoots up during the pandemic, but then it barely goes down after the pandemic. And it's the same with private school. Shoots up isn't going down after the pandemic, whereas the number of kids in homeschool is actually continuing to drop after the pandemic, which is just shocking to me. So let's continue to go on with other things that are happening. The nihilism explosion.

Okay, so here we're looking at pessimism among us 12th graders, specifically at questions hard to have hope for the world and wonders if there is a purpose to life given the world situation. And within Gen Z, it's just really high. 34 wonder if there is purpose to life given the world situation. And then around 40% for hard to have hope for the world. And I think that this is because the structures of information that they are gaining access to have one been co opted by these apocalyptic AI cults.

Even though AI is opening up all of these great opportunities. It's changing what it means to be human. It's making it fundamentally possible to maybe live in an economic system where we can all pursue our dreams whenever we want, like genuinely a post scarcity environment. And yet they're here freaking out because apocalypticism grabs you when you're already nihilistic. People have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams so that nothing grows stronger.

Speaker D
It's the emptiness that's left. It is like a despair destroying this world. And I have been trying to help it. But why? Because people who have no hopes are easy to control.

Speaker B
Because I think that another thing that the urban monoculture has realized is that one of the best ways to grab people, if you're in like a detention center and they need to brainwash you, you're going to any of these. If you read stories about brainwashing, one way to do it is to completely demoralize an individual. And I think that urban monoculture has learned this. When it works to demoralize young people, when it works to ensure that they have no pride in their ethnic or national or religious identity, it can break them down. And when they can teach them the future has no hope, and then it can siphon them out into this completely parasitic and toxic culture and get them to spend all of their time, like, partying and being indulgent.

I remember when I said, like, this whole Mary thing is just a Larp at this point. Like, it's not serious. And then we learned recently that even Eliezer Ukowski, he. We never posted our EA episode because we thought it was too hard on Eliezer. And I was like, I don't want to be like that negative.

In one of our episodes, we might post it if people really asked for it, or post it somewhere private. But he ended up basically shutting down most of what Miria was doing, shutting down their research departments and then just effing off with his girlfriend, basically. And so did the other founder. And to party, right? Take the money, go out and party.

And then they used a little bit to continue with the outreach, which I think was probably the right thing to do because they weren't achieving that much with the research. But that was, like, the only real work they were doing. And I think it shows that once you reach this level of nihilism, and I guess I call it fear rot, even the individuals who are purveying these messages, even the preachers of it, can't do anything but descend into lives of total hedonism. Do you have any thoughts here before I go further? I feel like the consequences of all these things speak for themselves.

I mean, you look at, like, our projects, like, our tracked project, and trying to help with our school system. People stay within their religious systems, and people are like, what's really, like, the core end goalable? It's the core end goal of prenatalism more broadly, and it's vitalism. It's being. Human flourishing.

Yeah, human flourishing. Genuine. In this system, in this modern school system, and in our modern culture, humans are not flourishing. And I think that I don't. You can't not even argue that people in progressive cultures would say that people are flourishing.

Speaker A
They would just point to, I don't know, capitalism or rich people or systemic bias or something else and say, that's why everyone's suffering so much. Yeah, because the call is coming from within the house. Yeah, the call is coming from within the house. They're using these scapegoats, and you can look at the statistics. It's not just my perception that the more progressive someone is, the more mental health problems they have, the more likely they are to have attempted unaliving themselves, the more, like, it's clear.

Speaker B
And I'll put some stats on the screen here. And it appears that when you get to the most extreme iterations of this culture, you are completely sacrificing. And this is actually something I've seen with our, for example, like, lgbt friends, gay friends. Like, we have some gay friends who are, like, republican and have kids, and they are completely mentally healthy. They're often growing.

They're also, like, really fit, everything like that. Then when I think about, like, my progressive friends, they're typically in, like, terrible health. They don't have long term relationships. They're seeing a psychologist every single week. They are just barely holding it together on this cocktail of drugs.

Like, it doesn't work, and it's hurting those communities the most. But let's continue here, because actually, we've had some of our younger users here who are like, I'm in school right now, and what I see is the lgbt community being treated like a priest cast almost. And, like, they get caught selling drugs and they don't have to deal with the consequences because they're, for example, gay, right? Like, they are treated as a different caste system within the school today. And I'm like, even if that's the case, they are still dealing with more mental hardship insofar it's a buy into the urban monoculture.

And then the ones who stand against the urban monoculture, the gay young people who stand against the urban monoculture, they have their identity stripped from them. People say, you're not really gay. And they get bullied by the urban monoculture relentlessly, as you can see from any of these conservative gay influences online, who just get harassed more than anyone else. But it gets worse. Now we're going to talk about, like, where urban monoculture ideas are just destroying a generation at this point, right?

Because in a lot of these statistics, you're like, oh, I guess guys are getting off easy. And in a way they are, because girls are getting coddled and not having to deal with discipline. And that leads to, I think, a lot of these downside negative effects. But I'm going to read a Reddit post here by a teacher in the art teacher subreddit. They got a ton of upvotes.

This is something that other teachers feel is a problem. Is anyone else here seeing the girls crushing the boys right now? In literally everything? We just had our first student council meeting. In order to become a part, you had to submit a one to two paragraph explanation for why you wanted to join the council.

Handles tech Club, garden club, art club, etcetera. The kids are eleven to twelve years old. There were 46 girls and five boys. Among the five boys, two were very much quote unquote besties was a group of girls. So in a stereotypical description sense, there was three non girl connected boys.

My heart broke to see it a bit. The boy representation has been falling year over year, and we are talking by grade five. And keep in mind, if you're like, I'll just start with my kids in school. And this is something we need to be aware of, Simone. This is happening by grade five, destroyed your young boys.

Am I just. And then your young girls are going to end up unaliving themselves by the statistics. So just be aware. Am I just a coincidence case in this data point? Is anyone else seeing the girls absolutely demolish the boys?

Right? Now is this a problem we need to be addressing? This also shouldn't be a debate about people over 18. I'm literally talking about children who grew up in modern title nine society was working and educated mothers. The boys are straight up Peter panning right now.

It's like they are becoming lost. And just so people don't know, this is around 8000 upvotes in the teacher's subreddit and 4.7 thousand comments. So this is absolutely something we're seeing and this is something that other people are recognizing. And the answer to me is that all of these like progressive intersectionality is what's leading to this, very obviously. But I think what's also telling here, and I want to emphasize a point that you made a little bit earlier, which is that just because you're advantaged in the school system and you may be doing better within it for a period of time, doesn't mean that you are ultimately experiencing better real world outcomes.

Speaker A
Keep in mind, when it came to those mental health stats that you rattled off, girls were performing worse. They had higher rates of ideation. That was deadly higher rates of mental health problems. So really winning within this system means you're losing it life. And honestly, if this system makes life hard for you, all the better that you're actually facing some genuine challenges and building some resilience.

Being forced to do that because being robbed of that experience is causing a lot of this lack of this is mental health. This is what we're seeing in this system. The more coddled a group is by the urban monoculture, the higher their demographic status is within the urban monoculture, the lower their mental health outcomes are. So it's coddling that girls are seeing that is leading to them showing up to these groups in higher numbers, leading to them getting into college at higher rates, leading to all of these systemic discriminations in their favor, is leading to worse mental health outcomes. And you even see this among ethnic lines.

Speaker B
So for example, the black community had a higher unaliving themselves rate than the white community in schools right now. And it is because these groups, not by a huge, actually with that group, it was like double, it wasn't as bad as like girls and guys. It was like a 4% to 2% or something for attempted, not attempted an injury from an attempt. But yeah, it shows that what they are doing isn't working. And yet they look at these statistics, they look at for example, girls facing these larger mental health outcomes, and they have.

The urban monoculture has no solution to this other than we need to that is progressivism. More broadly, we need to increase the special status we're giving these groups. We need to increase the ways that they are being coddled in our sort of urban monoculture lens, which is leading to progressively worse outcomes. And here I'm going to talk about some more progressively worse outcomes that we're seeing here. Major depression among teens we have seen since 2010, if you're looking at 2020, a 145% increase in girls and in boys.

Here in the increase, you actually higher, but the absolute number is lower. 161% increase among boys in anxiety. You can see the stats just shooting up among college students. So in anxiety, it's now in 25% of college students, 135% increase since 2010. And depression has been a 106% increase since 2010.

This isn't working. The way our culture has changed since 2010 is not working. And it's. I think it's. You have to.

Speaker A
Most people who are adults now and listening to this have to understand how profoundly different the school system must be if these outcomes are so different, how different childhood must be. And also, we have to remember, you and I grew up at a time when, at least when we were in middle school or primary school, you, like, could not use the Internet to look up answers to questions because we did have Internet access. But, like, literally the answers weren't there. You would have to go to a library or refer to an encyclopedia or a dictionary. You could not look these things up.

Life is so profoundly different for these people, and I think a lot of people are, when trying to model solutions or trying to diagnose the problem, not understanding how fundamentally foreign life is to. To us as a young person. You mean to the young generation, not us as young. Their experience is foreign to us. Yeah, foreign to us.

Speaker B
Yeah. But we are not young people. Yeah. Just clarify. Yes, we are not young.

Speaker A
We are very old. You are absolutely correct about this. And here, all of this would be worth it if, while all of these negative effects were increasing, we were getting increased output from the school system like it was doing better. Except the exact opposite is happening. Only 21% of us high schoolers are well prepared for college 2023 act data revealed a concerning lack of college preparedness among recent high school graduates.

Speaker B
Out of the class of 2023, only 21% met. Only 21% met the act college readiness benchmarks across all core subjects. This signals that one in five students are equipped to succeed in introductory college courses. At the other end of the spectrum, over 40% of graduates failed to meet a single subject benchmark, and students nationwide scored an average of 19.5 out of 36 on the act this year, down 0.3 points from 2022 for a 32 year low. The decline in math and reading scores among us 13 year olds largest drop since 1973 and drop is at a lower rate.

Reading scores also declined by four points between 2020 and 2020, with mask scores experiencing a more significant decrease of nine points during the same period. Despite the impact of remote learning, the decline in scores has been ongoing since 2012. So again, this is all stuff we've been seeing since the 2010s in line. I can't blame the pandemic. A Gallup poll conducted in 2022 indicates that 55% of Americans expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of k through twelve education, marking the highest level of dissatisfaction since 2000.

Now, as this gets worse, something we're seeing because the urban monoculture needs this system to stay operational. It cannot allow it to shut down because again, it's not having kids. And again, this is not historic as we've done in our other video can conservatives outbreed the left? There was not a difference in fertility rates between progressives and Republicans pre 90. This is a completely modern phenomenon of progressives only existing because they are converting other people's children, but they've really doubled down on it.

Conservatives have double their fertility rates now. Now, as this gets worse because it is an existential issue for the survival of the urban monoculture, they have to hide it. And so here are some attempts to hide it that we've been seeing. Oregon suspended the requirement for students to demonstrate proficiency and english learning skills to graduate for classes of 2022, 2023, and 2024. And the decision was made through Senate Bill 744, which ordered just don't test them anymore.

And then in 2015, California suspended the California high School exit examination requirement for graduation. Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill, SB 172, that eliminated this requirement, which had been in place for about a decade. The suspension was initially set for 2015 to 2016. However, the same bill required school districts to retroactively grant diplomas to students who had failed the examined but met all other graduation requirements. This applied to the graduating classes as far back as two seven s.

I. Think another thing that should be emphasized is a lot of the teachers, even in the public school system, where there are a lot of adverse incentives, and I'm not saying they're all great, but many of them are exceptional, wonderful people who really do care about student outcomes. They're put in impossible positions, especially because of the system. One thing that I've seen some teachers commenting on when discussing the the various crises facing students now is they are getting kids, let's say that they're teaching 7th grade, who are at a fourth grade level because they've just been passed up. They cannot do anything to bring them up to an 8th grade level in that year when they're starting with something so bad.

Speaker A
So because kids just get passed through each class, graduated, the problem becomes increasingly intractable for these teachers. There's nothing you can do, no matter how good you are as a teacher. If you're receiving students who are so ill prepared, who've been already so ill treated by this system, there's really nothing you can do. And they were also talking about, I think they called it SEM. So, like, social emotional learning or something.

Speaker B
But basically, like, exploding, which is basically just a cult. Yeah. And that they, as young teachers who were very, I would say, very progressive, the people that I've seen talking about this, they hate it because they know it doesn't work and they see the effect that it has on students. So I would say this is not even a progressive teachers or insane issue. This is, like you say, some memetic cults have also taken over bureaucracy, bureaucracies.

The school system right now is an incredible bureaucracy, just a giant bureaucracy. Yeah. And this cult of the ultra left, which is like a sub faction of the urban monoculture, it's like it's vanguard. It has embedded itself most deeply, and it works really well within bureaucracy. So even if 90% of teachers don't want to go along with this, if you push back, you lose everything, you lose your job, you lose your pension.

You are basically unemployable in other fields. Have you been doing this for a long time? So there is no possibility for pushback by the teachers who want to do what's right for the students. And I think the only way to fix this is to complete, completely blow up the education system as it exists right now. We just need to shut down public.

Speaker A
Education, and it's sel, social emotional learning. And they. Yeah, they hate it. It's very pervasive that we were doing with leading to one in ten kids trying to analyze themselves every year. We'd be like, oh, my God, I don't care what the effects are.

Speaker B
This must be shut down. And I feel that way with school. What would I do if I controlled things more broadly? I would probably move to a system to try to maintain as much of the existing teaching infrastructure as possible, where the schools that exist right now are made public spaces. And then parents bid on being able to send their kids to individual teachers those teachers salaries are dependent on their demand among parents.

And that would allow, if you're a far progressive, you can send your kid to the ultra progressive e teacher if they've been showing themselves to be efficacious. And all of the teachers have ranked, like how the average type of student that's coming into them and how much they're improving those students and students ability to get the teacher they want depends on their grades. You know, there is a reward for good grades, and we are not wasting good teachers on low efficacious students. And some people are like, won't stun students just fall behind? And it's like, we need to be realistic.

That's already happening. Right. The other study that always gets me is the Peter Gray study on unschooling, which was looking at what if we did literally nothing for kids, and it showed that kids who are unschooled, like not homeschooled, literally nothing, were getting into college at higher rates than kids who are going to public school and graduating college at higher rates and had better emotional health outcomes, obviously as well. Without saying, well, obviously. And then people are like, what about the negative social effects of homeschooling?

And this has been well studied and they dont exist. This is a bad to pay problem that youre dealing with here. It is just like in the big meta studies that have looked at this, you just, just don't see much negative effects from homeschooling. And people are waking up to that now. That was always a con job, that people pretend that, but of course, kids who are raised by adults are going to have much better abilities to deal with the world than kids who are raised in this weird sort of lord of the flies scenario we've contrived.

And it makes perfect sense when people are like, I remember growing up, the homeschoolers were weird. It's like actually reflect on the way they were weird. I remember thinking that as a kid, too, but now as an adult, when I remember the things that made them weird, I was like, yeah, they were weird because they were really polite and they didn't emotionally manipulate the people around them. And they get into histionics over everything. I think a lot of it's also that they don't, like, use the same cultural shibboleths that people use to judge them.

Speaker A
I just heard Ayla get criticized because on a podcast recently, she was asked her favorite beetle, and she said, the green ones with the black spots on them, that's classic homeschool. And I think that's, oh, so weird. But no, that's an honest and good answer. And why do we all need to think exactly like the same cultural references and know the same tv shows and do all this really dumb stuff? Yeah, I completely agree.

Speaker B
And I think that our system. So just as the final pitch for the Collins Institute, feel free to email us emails. Are you defined@collinsinstitute.com? if you are interested in signing up for this program, I really hope we can get this out within the next couple months. The big task right now is getting the mentoring system completed.

And then I'm going to film a actually, one of our audience members is going to be putting together who has a, like a digital animated. Animated, like how to use it slash ad thing. And as soon as that's done, we will be releasing it to you. And I am very happy with what we've created. It is exceeded my personal expectations of what I thought we were going to be able to put together.

And the thing that has exceeded my expectations is that it's fun. I wish I just had infinite time to dive into it. Honestly, I just, I want to explore it. I want to go through all the nodes and learn all the things, but we do not. And I do think that it will for my kids.

It makes me very feel very comfortable allowing them not to go to school. And I should note what we do with our kids in public schools. We give them a choice. So we'll send our kids to public school and if they're like, I would rather be at home studying, they can do that. But if they want to go to school, they can go to school.

Speaker A
They still, all of their education, we're going to assume is our responsibility. I assume if they go to school. It'S because they want to experience that. But that's not where they're going to learn the stuff that gets them ahead in life. Yeah.

Where they're going to learn about the world. Yeah. I just think people, because it's being hid from people how bad the problem is these days. And that we just need to reset the system, unplug and replug. That's the only way was this giant bureaucracy to really fix things.

Have you tried turn it off and back on again? But anyway, I love you. To Desmond, you are just this, the sun to the stars of my world. I cannot see the stars out there because you shine so bright as a mother and as a wife. And I am so lucky to have you in my life.

I love you so much, Malcolm. You're the best. Thanks for creating the Collins Institute. I can't wait for our kids to use it.