should not tolerate from anyone, calling our police officers cowards. laura: pastor brooks, during the school closures that are still off and on affecting communities, including chicago, you had a lot of kids with nothing to do. some not having the greatest home life, some okay. but what did that do to this mix of despondency, violence, and the cycle of violence? well, we have already experienced a large dropout rate in chicago with our public schools, with our boys in the first place. now we add to the situation by not having them in classrooms and not having them in school, we leave them to be preyed upon by gangs and other individuals want to commit crimes in our community. we cannot allow our young people to go without education. they are already behind. just in our neighborhood, their reading levels of one of the
public schools in our neighborhoods, 4% reading levels. 6% in math proficiency. that is only going to get worse. and when those educational levels get worse, those individuals become frustrated, they drop out of school, what do they do? they commit crime. so we cannot allow this type of atmosphere to continue or we will see crime accelerate every school day. laura: pastor brooks, you have been on the front lines there in to help families. we really appreciate it. thank you for your words tonight. and up next, i have a little bit of a modest proposal for kate mckinnon and saturday night live. next.
it is child abuse. what is next for him, and how is he doing? i say today was a hard day. not going to put it up to anything more than it was. we were feeling really good and he was very excited to go to school this morning. met up with a group of friends and peers and he was excited to walk into school without a mask on. because he had that right and we were met with resistance at the door and he was asked multiple times. and really in an intimidating way. listen, you can put the mask on and go to class or you can sit here and be bored for the rest of the day. to which he pretty much and after being confined in his principal s office with the door close, he had had enough. and i can t blame him. laura: they are trying to force him to submit against your
view as a parent and his view as a student after the governor issued his executive order. that is correct. laura: this is lunacy. and karen, it is as almost as bad for you. we asked loudoun county if they were in fact separating unmet students from the rest of the school and they responded, our protocol for students that who refused to follow the protocol is to send them to a common area such as the auditorium where they can access the platform to continue their work. separate them, have them sit by themselves. do teachers actually support this madness? absolutely not. actually, my daughter was one of those that was secluded. she went to the academy of loudoun today and the assistant principal called her to the office and secluded hair. we went and picked her up. we figured what was the point.
those that force kids to mask in school. youngkin wanted to give parents the power to make these decisions but northern virginia said no. school of issues there are targeting kids who listen to their parents and go mask list if they want to. in fairfax county, schools have been told to suspend students without masks and in loudoun county, and messed kids removed from classrooms and then confined, almost imprisoned, and the auditorium there. joining me now is megan, loudoun county parent of a fifth grader who has been kicked out of school until he masks up. and karen who is not just a parent but a loudoun county public school teacher. for refusing to wear a mask, she says she was sent home and put on leave without pay. megan, this is a mess. your son is home from school. how is he reacting? i say it is child abuse. i will say it again.