State school

So.

You know, living in New York, one of the cities that banned AI in public schools up until high school, I understand the issues that parents have regarding integrating AI in too quickly, especially since there was no oversight.

So emotionally, I can understand why Google would say, okay, here are you people.

But we'll rein it back.

Affordability is a key issue for teachers around compensation, et cetera, but it's also for all families because they need to send their kids off to school.

So you need the public school to work.

And frankly, you know, the gutting of federal support for Medicare and, you know, And, you know, that bill that they like.

We don't even know what the effects of that trillion dollar hole in state budgets are going to look like because they were held for after the midterms.

Well, I should mention that public and private school students can benefit from the federal scholarship tax credit.

It can be used for tuition, but also for tutoring, for transportation, for technology, for special education services.

And the public school districts can benefit from this.

If you're saying like a homeschool student who needs to take a driver's ed class, they can use that scholarship to pay for that.

So by the time those formative years and going to school, where did you start school,

Ian? Oh, I started at Casterton State School.

I still remember the numbers, 2058 was the school.

And my first teacher was a mislaid L-A-I-D and with an E on the end for French.

And this is my co-host, Ian Oxnevett, who is a Senior Fellow for Security Studies and International Affairs.

Today, we are going to talk about school choice and public education in West Virginia.

And I let Ian to introduce our guest today.

Thank you, Lila, for the intro.

So our guest today is Delegate Elias Coop-Gonzalez, who represents District 67 in West Virginia's House of Delegates.

He serves part of Pendleton and Randolph counties and is on the Committee for Education, Higher Education, and Public Education.

Let's bring in our guest.

Elias, welcome to Café Berlin.

And so there was a little bit of reluctancy there just because we had gotten so used to it.

But we put our, both of our kids in public school this year.

and yesterday was parent teacher

oh right interview a little different from homeschooling when it's parent teacher and you just sit down in front of your parents

My husband and I just got married, so we've been talking about, you know, kids in the future and schooling for them.

What are your thoughts on public school versus homeschooling?

What we are discipled by, we are shaped into.

And public education is never going to give your child a Christian education.

And if you say, well, I know all of our public school teachers.

They're not teaching the woke stuff.

They're not teaching gender.

But are they teaching John 3.16? Are they teaching the Apostles' Creed? Can your child tell you what the gospel is, not only because you told it to them, which you should be the primary disciple of your child, but because they keep learning about it every day in school? Is your child learning in school that two plus two equals four because God authored truth and is the creator of the universe? If they're going to public school, the answer is no.