california, we are still wasting kids time -- again with this idea that everyone is a victim in critical race theory when a lot of these kids can't do basic writing. i'm talking high school kids when i'm reading their stuff. i'm sorry, it's terrifying to me that we are graduating kids who cannot write an essay, a decent essay, forget a great essay. >> it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that when graduation rates are going up at the same time that scores are going down, may be a we are getting a little lax on the kiddos. it doesn't take a genius to see that. at the end of the day, what i would say about a lot of these young people is that they've spent the last 18 months that were doing things not to their benefit and i will be real right now, my students admit what they did for 18 months. they were learning behind anonymous black screens, i didn't know what 80% of my students looked like, they were