Of freedom. what do you say to somebody who might be watching who says, this guy doesn t have kids in school. why is he taking part in a school board meeting? because i love the kids even though i don t know them. i just want to see them have happy lives. do you as a superintendent wish the passions were elsewhere? i do. i think that what has happened is it s taken our eye off of what we re really hired to do, and that s educate our students and provide a great learning environment for them. there s a lot of misinformation out there from people who have never been in any of our schools, who have never talked to any of our teachers and they hear things and make assumptions. reporter: kyung lah, cnn, douglas county, nevada. great reporting. thank you, kyung, for that. appreciate it. what is it about critical race theory that s made it a boogeyman for politics? linguist and author john america wh john mcwhorter is here. he s going to talk about it next.
do you have children in the school district? i do not. i m retired. then why do you keep coming? i m concerned about our loss of freedom. what do you say to somebody who might be watching that says, this guy doesn t have kids in school. why is he taking part in the school board meeting? because i love the kids even though i don t know them. i just want to see them have happy lives. do you as a superintendent wish the passions were elsewhere? i do. i think what has happened is it has taken our eye off what we work really hard to do. to provide a great learning environment for them. there is a lot of misinformation out there from people who have never been in our schools, they ve never talked to our teachers and they hear things and they make assumptions. cnn, douglas county. thank you for that. appreciate it. what is it about critical race theory that has made it a bogey man for politics?
we were spreading ourselves far too thin. facing a $50 million deficit. and if we didn t do something to take our school district off that trajectory, we could ve easily gone into bankruptcy. i m really sad. it s a great school, my son has had a lot of success here. it s a great learning environment. in many districts, their obsession with keeping every school open despite the declining population results in educational services being delivered in a much more inefficient manner. if your population has dropped 30% to 40%, at some point you ve got to consolidate schools. aided and abetted in the economic demise of the urban core. you will be remembered. employees of the schools are not speaking up. we re in a dire financial situation. and they re going to need to be some significant cuts. families don t count, children do. it is just as scandalous if