School Choice Means Educational Equality For Our Kids | Clips | Dad Saves America

0:01 - In my situation, I couldn't read. Why should I be forced to go to low performing schools that's not gonna actually help me to read. I failed the third grade twice because I couldn't read. By all accounts I was supposed to be in prison. They counted my bed, you know, in prison, that's when we determine how many prison beds we need in this country based on third grade reading scores. - Wait, wait, what? Hold on. What? (laughs) - That's true.

0:30 - What does that mean? So what does that mean? Explain that to me. That's a crazy thing to, that's really deeply upsetting for me to hear. - It is deeply upsetting and it's sad. Our criminal justice system, they determine the amount of prison beds that's needed based on third grade reading scores. - So does that mean there are actually people that work in prison administration who are looking at scores of third grade and saying, okay, well here's how many beds we're gonna need X number of years from now.

1:02 - [Danisha] Yeah. - Wow, talk about school to prison pipeline. - Interject public school to prison pipeline. I've had numerous conversations with folks who are on the other end who are working in the criminal justice system and have said that the average reading proficiency for their inmates third and fourth grade reading levels, that's how well, - Yeah. - their average inmate can read. And so that's how we get this system of determining the number of prison beds.

1:34 And it is pretty sad. And like I said, I should have been in prison. My bed, my space was already accounted for and I was forced based on where I lived, zip code and many kids across the country, still to this day are forced to be in schools because of where they live that are not meeting their needs and they're gonna end up in prison. They're gonna end up on the street. It's a sad tale. And so we need education freedom for all students and we need on the other end more elected officials to stand up and represent their constituents.

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