The Data: Just How Bad is School? (Sending a Kid to Public School Has Become a Death Sentence)

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In this eye-opening video, Malcolm and Simone Collins delve into the alarming state of modern education, revealing startling statistics on student mental health and academic performance. They discuss the rise in depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation among students, particularly young women and LGBTQ+ youth. The couple explores how current educational practices may be contributing to these issues and examines the growing trend of homeschooling as a response. They also touch on the controversial topics of gender dynamics in schools, the impact of progressive policies, and the urgent need for educational reform. This comprehensive analysis offers insights into the challenges facing today's students and proposes potential solutions, including the Collins Institute's alternative educational approach.

Malcolm Collilns: [00:00:00] Oh no! Oh my gosh. Almost one in three young women Not over the course of their adolescence, just in the last year has thought about unaliving themselves.

Simone Collins: Oh dear.

Malcolm Collilns: That is how bad the school system is right now. It was young women, 24%. Oh, my

Simone Collins: plan.

Malcolm Collilns: Young women made Alan. To kill themselves this last year. This last year, again, not over the course of their life. This is critically bad at this point. This is we are in the drain cycle right now. Young women, 13% young men, 7%. Whoa. More than 10 are attempting to kill themselves every year. Whoa. what if we are trading our children's childhoods so that they can be played with in some sort of a weird Marxist social experiment that has been Executed by a bunch [00:01:00] of

Would you like to know more?

Malcolm Collilns: Hello, Simone! You and I have done episodes on how bad the public school nightmare is right now. I think a lot of people think it's just like a steady degree difference from when we were kids. is not. We are going to be going into a lot of data, a lot of statistics in this episode.

I knew that when I was doing the research for this, I was like, Oh my God, if I could make enough money to support myself off of our content, and I could just like really do research heavy episodes all the time, I would be. So happy. Like it is such a pleasure to get to dive into statistics and see what is being hidden from the general public at this point.

So what I'm going to start with is just like how bad things are because not in terms of outcomes, but a lot of people, they look at how we're raising our kids and they're like The things you're doing with your kids are going to make them unhappy. Why don't you just do what everyone else does?

Or, taking them out of public school. Oh my God [00:02:00] they'll, all these like horrible fear tactics. And it really has become fear tactics. An article ran in Scientific America recently that showed that, 37 percent of homeschoolers, it was like homeschooling is tied to abuse 37 percent of homeschoolers.

abused their kids, and we know this because CPS was called on 37 percent of families they didn't think to check the base rate. It turns out that actually out of all families 37 percent have had CPS called on them. So I think that actually means that

Simone Collins: homeschoolers have generally lower rates of actual abuse because think about it this way.

Homeschooling families have larger numbers of children. So one child causes some kind of warning that has CPS called. They're much more likely to they're like every child will be seen as being like plausibly subject to abuse. Also, I've just noticed that larger families are more likely to have people be very judgmental of the way that they raise their kids.

So I feel like they're way [00:03:00] more subject to scrutiny. And I think a lot of people just. Think that having more than two kids is abusive. Just like that a parent's attention would be divided that much. is without doing anything else, even if they did everything absolutely right, they were still terrible parents.

So I would say it's impressive that it's not a higher rate.

Malcolm Collilns: No no. I, what I think when you're talking about this 37 percent number, I think it shows just how oppressive the urban monoculture is in trying to take people's kids and that it's becoming more and more so over time. Yeah.

Simone Collins: 30. Yeah. But just on its own, that number is sobering 37%.

Holy.

Malcolm Collilns: But like in terms of the kids aren't all right. So I'm going to read to you some statistics by the CDC. So actually I'll play a little game. I'll have you try to guess what the numbers are before we get to them. Because and I'll even prime you by saying that I think the numbers are going to shock you.

On a survey of experiencing and this survey ends in 2021. experienced persistent feelings of sadness [00:04:00] or hopelessness during the past year in the United States. And we're looking at young men and women. What would you expect?

Simone Collins: Are they above or below the age of adolescence?

Malcolm Collilns: This is adolescence.

Simone Collins: Adolescence. 43. 5%.

Malcolm Collilns: Actually, it's about the average. So with women, it's 57 percent these days and 29 percent with men. So like they are generally unhappy with their lives, more than half of young women. And you can look at all the quote unquote progress that feminism has made for them. And yet this number just keeps rising.

All right. But here's, I think what's really going to see. Shock you. And keep in mind, we're separating young men and women when you're making guesses, okay? Seriously considered attempting suicide during the past year. Not in their life, during the past year.

Simone Collins: Young men, 14%. Young women, 18%.

Malcolm Collilns: You got young men exactly right.

14%. Young women, it's 30%. Oh no! Oh my gosh. Almost [00:05:00] one in three young women Not over the course of their adolescence, just in the last year has thought about unaliving themselves.

Simone Collins: Oh dear.

Malcolm Collilns: That is how bad the school system is right now. You are sending your kids to a meat grinder. But let's get worse. Made a, and I'll use a different word so we don't get banned here, unaliving themself plan during the past year.

Simone Collins: Oh, made a plan. Okay. It's gotta be fairly low with guys. 'cause I feel like they're more likely to follow through and they were at higher rates follow through successfully on these 4% of young men. And because women are more likely to make plans and fantasize, I'm gonna say 12%.

Malcolm Collilns: With young men, it was 12%.

It was young women, 24%. Oh, my

Simone Collins: plan.

Malcolm Collilns: Young women made Alan. To kill themselves this last year. This last year, again, not over the course of their life. This is critically [00:06:00] bad at this point. This is we are in the drain cycle right now. The drain

Simone Collins: cycle.

Malcolm Collilns: Now, I actually went through as a plan, attempted on aliving themselves in the last year. Young women, 13% young men, 7%. Whoa. More than 10 are attempting to kill themselves every year. Whoa. And also put on screen here, were injured in a unli attempt in the past year by demographic breakdown. Oh, yeah.

Simone Collins: What percentage there? I am very curious 'cause I feel like, a lot of it's also, I wanna, I wish we could parse out better performative and re.

You know what I mean though there, there is a social contagion element. There's a glamour element to this. I feel, unfortunately, what

Malcolm Collilns: It's really clear in the data to me, the closer a group is to the urban monoculture, the higher the rate is.

Simone Collins: Yeah, but how much was, I feel like injuries assigned it.

Someone actually meant to do it. [00:07:00]

Malcolm Collilns: Okay. So injured in an attempt for young women, it was 4 percent for young men. It was 2%. Total average is 3%, but it gets really high in some groups and it's determinate on how close you are to the urban monoculture. So if you look at groups that are very low probability of doing this, you're looking at groups like the Asian community or the American Indian or Alaska Native communities when their group was actually less than 1%.

If you look at groups that do it very high did you have sexual contact with somebody of the same sex? 14%, 14 percent of people who are sexually active and gay. And I think that this shows how. Mentally destructive. The groups that have invaded these communities are and it is to me, horrifying what we're seeing here.

And it really pairs with our idea that and I don't know if the episode on this is going to go live before or after this that in some ways a trans identity can be thought of as an alternative to unaliving oneself. Yeah. Because it's like [00:08:00] a chance to start over with a new identity. Um, yeah that also might explain the rise of that given that 14 percent every year are injured from one of these attempts.

Every year are injured by one of these attempts. The urban monoculture is a maelstrom that rips apart your soul. It is bad to an extent that I feel that we often underplay in, in, in this podcast or maybe don't properly elevate. Yeah. If you want to talk about like more stuff here, nearly 60 percent of female students and nearly 70 percent of LGBTQ students experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. And if you look at the 70 percent of the LGBT community in school today and if you as a cultural solution. to same sex attractiveness. I think it is pretty unarguable to, to point out that the gay community of today has many more protections [00:09:00] than the gay community did when we were growing up.

And yet the levels of sadness the community has had have risen dramatically between this period. So this isn't because they're a discriminated group because there's been going up as the discrimination has been going down.

Simone Collins: Yeah.

Malcolm Collilns: And if somebody's actually discrimination for the community has been growing up, why don't we be like, okay, you just live in an alternate dimension.

But two, if you believe that then clearly whatever the community's doing in terms of advocacy is not working. It's making

Simone Collins: it worse. Yeah.

Malcolm Collilns: It's making it worse. So you shouldn't be doing the same type of advocacy that you guys are doing right now. And then they're like I don't want to change any of that.

And I'm like, okay then let's walk things back a bit here and say that things are getting better for the community. And yet the community's mental state is getting worse. So what is changing? It's the dominance of these new mental frameworks entering the community, specifically trauma psychology.

And we're going to go into another study in a different one here that went. into how modern psychological practices when given to [00:10:00] completely mentally healthy students actually decreased outcomes for those students and broke those students relationships with their parents because it is literally developed into cult like tactics.

But if you're talking about attempted suicide, 10 percent of female students, 20 percent of LGBT students. If you're talking about now, let's just go over some other statistics here. Experience, persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. It, and this was a rising trend. So it's almost likely much worse.

Now in 2021, it was 42%. Experienced poor mental health, 29 percent seriously considered attempting unaliving oneself, 22% uh, made an unaliving plan, 18 percent attempted unaliving 10%. And. Yeah, it's just, and they do note in the statistics that there were differences among ethnic groups, but the differences really weren't that big among ethnic groups.

It was just being ultra low in the Asian community. It's just that the one in 10 attempted number, like absolutely gets me. The one in five, 22 percent seriously considered it [00:11:00] absolutely gets me. And,

Simone Collins: It's saying a lot. If Modern world culture has a larger unaliving thinking about rate than, Japan and South Korea are famous for this being a problem among people. And yet now in more, Yeah, but that Asian immigrant cultures here are lower just in general. I don't know

Malcolm Collilns: I think it shows that the strict, like the ideal parenting style, which really fits was what we said historically.

I think the Raven, the rates are so high. In countries like Korea and Japan is because you have a very strict institutional structure and moderately strict parents, whereas in the United States, you have strict parents, but loose institutions. And as we always say, cultures work much better when you allow the culture.

To enforce the restricted rules rather than trying to enforce it through a governmental system. And that's what we're seeing here. I think in these very low rates among Asians in the United States [00:12:00] and keep in mind the, government should realize that this is a problem. So the U. S.

Surge in general has identified mental health challenges as the leading cause of disability and poor life outcomes in young people. And I'll put up the warning here. And yeah, it's just the state that they're in is absolutely horrifying now. And I think that's something we need to remember with school, right?

A lot of people are like I'm sending my kids to school because that's the default. Yeah. And no schools have a cost. We trade , our children's childhoods in exchange for the promise that they will be given the ability to participate in the modern economy. But what if schools aren't doing that?

What if we're trading their childhood to put them with a group that is not intentionally, I think, but basically, Systematically abusing children putting them in these states because what else can you say about a group that's having these sorts of numbers? I can't say anything other than they are in an institutional abuse factory [00:13:00] and

Simone Collins: if anyone looked at this in isolation if this were some form of plastic or food or pollution to which people's children were being exposed, they would Being a huge uproar, there would be legislation to immediately ban this material or pollutant, right?

If this were anything, but essentially modern culture and education and educational systems, which obviously are much harder to. To address or change or deal with people would be up in arms. And of course, many people already are up in arms.

Malcolm Collilns: I think that we need a completely new school model and people are like what about the negative?

And we're working on that. So people are like, why hasn't the Collins Institute gone live yet? It's actually fully functional at this point. We're ready to begin on, this is our alternate to the school system. Begin onboarding people. But we want it really polished when the first group comes in.

And so right now we're doing things like changing the skill level tied to various questions that a student engages with [00:14:00] adding a tutoring system various things like this. But the core product is really impressive and I quite like using it myself even. Yeah it's

Simone Collins: largely my fault.

I keep saying, Oh, it needs to be.

Malcolm Collilns: A

Simone Collins: little bit better so that, yeah, it's my fault. And it's also the fault that we actually have a day job and we're not paying ourselves to do any of this because. That's not how we work.

Malcolm Collilns: Yeah, but I think increasingly what we're going to see is one, you've got to remember the hold that teachers unions have on democratic politics.

They basically cannot go against the teachers unions. They cannot admit that this is a real problem. And if you look at spending, cause people are like they're, you're not spending enough. And I'll put on screen a chart here that shows the amount that we're giving to schools is increasing, but all of the additional money is going to overhead staff, not like the actual teachers.

And that's what happens. Bureaucratic capture and bureaucratic bloat. We need to wipe out that entire class. And you can't do that because that's the class that is most bought into the teachers unions, which basically had the entire Democratic Party in their pocket. And then you have the second problem, which is the core, way that the urban monoculture makes [00:15:00] new members of the urban monoculture is through control over children's media and the school system.

And so as more and more parents wake up, and we're about to get into statistics about this, about how bad the school system is They have to be more aggressive about forcing parents to send kids to assistance. It's clearly not in their best interest. And you get extreme cases in Germany where things like homeschooling are banned.

But you are beginning to see in the more progressive states, more and more restrictions put on homeschooling. And even in some areas like Manhattan, like the most urban monocultury places, Talk of banning private schools in institutions like that which is truly insane for me. It's like, what if we are trading our children's childhoods so that they can be played with in some sort of a weird Marxist social experiment that has been Executed by a bunch of executives.

And I think that's why progressives are so anti organizations like Libs of TikTok, because, a lot of what Libs of TikTok is showing is teachers. And so we are seeing that, yeah, the worst of the [00:16:00] urban monoculture really has infected the school system. And that's what's causing this.

Hey y'all, this is your daily reminder that Dr. Seuss is racist, and you shouldn't use him in your classroom. I get that some of these books are considered classics. I mean, I grew up on them myself. I also get that he was a product of his time. But also, mind you, he's not racist. There are literally so many other books that are more inclusive to all students that you can use instead.

I've heard a lot of people say that gender is complex and sex is simple. As a biology teacher, I highly disagree. Gender is really easy. Gender is how someone identifies. So just listen to them when they tell you if they're male, female, or non binary. This has been my first year in preschool with a class of my own teaching alongside another queer neurodivergent educator and we have been rocking R2's class.

We've been talking about gender and skin color and consent and empathy and our bodies and autonomy. It's been fabulous. But our [00:17:00] teaching team is shifting, and a new person is being onboarded. Someone with many years of experience. So today at the lunch table, when the topic of gender and genitals came up, one of our students plainly looked up and said, Well, I'm a girl today.

But I know that Teacher Co isn't. No, they're Enby. And the look on the incoming teacher's face was priceless. She was shocked in a good way. And she just looked around at the two of us and said, This class is incredible, and I am so impressed.

Let me say it again for those in the back row, CRT is not being taught below law school.

Those of you that are against it are being misled. by the media about what CRT and where and when it is taught. My governor has put into place some [00:18:00] ridiculous legislation that many governors across the country have put into place, such as

 Can't teach critical race theory, so, teachers, in the past,

we've been activists. After this show of last year, we really need to stand up and do what's right for our kids right now. So, this is a call to action, teachers. We've got to stand up and fight for our kids, because this is b******t. Do your students call you by your first name or Mr. or Miss? Great question!

This is actually a classic question. Here's your answer. Currently my students just call me Desmond or Desi, first name. However, I have been at schools that go by last name. Those schools I go by Teacher Fambrini. I am gender fluid, so I don't go by Mr. or Miss. I go by Teacher because I am a teacher. So Desmond, Desi, or Teacher Fambrini.

I'm starting to get a little emotional looking at the new masks I got for a couple reasons. I've had American flags put up in every classroom.

We're going to have to say the Pledge of Allegiance and I'm not going to be able to talk about basically any of the [00:19:00] things that I have on these masks. Hey y'all, let me introduce you to our non binary alpaca. The kids voted on a gender neutral name. Alex was there to help me during the really quiet moments when nobody would talk during virtual learning.

Yes, they were so quiet! But then I also took it as an opportunity to teach my students about how to respect people's pronouns. Did Alex ever get misgendered? Yes. But then it opened up some teachable moments about what to do when that would happen. For example, Hey, Mr. Vuong, did he just wake up from his nap?

Oh, do you mean did they wake up from their nap? Yeah, they just did. I would apologize quickly, make the correction, and move on. I started off modeling how to correct somebody, and then afterwards my students would correct each other whenever somebody would misgender Alex here. Representation in the classroom matters.

My kids were 5th graders, and they still got a kick out of Alex. Oh yes, and here's Alex's friend, Lincoln the Llama, who goes by pronouns he him. At first, my students thought that he had very feminine features, so they thought that he was a girl. And this is why we should never assume somebody's gender just based on what they look like.

Alright Lincoln, say something. [00:20:00] Hello. My students were really surprised how low his voice sounded. Don't assume.

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Malcolm Collilns: [00:22:00] So what are people doing in response? So now I'm going to put a graph on screen. Actually, did you have any more thoughts on, before we go further?

Simone Collins: An argument that I hear from people, cause I was just listening to someone's YouTube essay on alt right parents and how they're against the schooling system.

A very common argument that is presented is, Oh, people are just presenting really extreme cases and this is not how it works for everything, but there is just such a preponderance of cases of people doing egregious things. There's actual. There are actual rules. In some cases, there's actual legislation that is pretty egregious if you just look at it at what it is.

And then these stats, I don't think, can really be denied. Yeah,

Malcolm Collilns: these are coming from the CDC. This is not like some right wing conspiracy theory. Yeah,

Simone Collins: some right wing mommy blog that, get a Twitter poll. This is much more rigorous than that.

Malcolm Collilns: And people will be like, Oh, these are the effects of COVID.

But if you look at the statistics, they'd been going up at a steady rate for a long period of time before this. So no, it's not just [00:23:00] COVID. It was going up for a long period of time. Now let's talk about Homeschooling the alternative. So I'm going to put a graph on screen here right now. And what you're going to see in this graph, since from the Washington post is a lot of people thought that during COVID, a lot of people just took out their kids and then, it was fine after that.

But that's actually not. What happened? Uh, a bunch of people took off their kids.

This graph is titled homeschooling's rise from fringe to fastest growing form of education. Basically what in this graph is it shoots up during the pandemic, but then it barely goes down after the pandemic. And it's the same as private school, shoots up, isn't going down after the pandemic. Whereas the number of kids in homeschool is actually continuing to drop after the pandemic which is just shocking to me.

Um, but, uh, this is, and we have Simone's sister is like an assistant superintendent at a school district. And she was talking about one really scary thing is how quickly the, their class sizes are dropping. So they're now dealing with the problem of demographic [00:24:00] collapse combined with everybody taking their kids out.

And she's year over year, it's 60 kids less. And this is not like a giant school. She was just like in this one school system. She's like there are whole classes that aren't happening anymore. I think, what was it? She said it was like the size of two classrooms. That, no, that, I said that.

Simone Collins: That's

Malcolm Collilns: okay. You said it's the size of two classrooms disappearing. But that's shocking. That we're seeing this but hold on, I'm going to continue to go through here. I'm going to quote something here. What surprises me is how much the additional homeschooling has stuck so far. I would have expected the huge peak in 2020, 2022 to roughly this level with the pandemic making schools a different level of dystopian nightmare than usual than most people throwing in the towel.

That was what we did. Instead, it looks like 80 percent of the increase stuck around from 2022 to 2023. It seems this was a case there being a lot of startup costs and network effects.

Once you learn how to homeschool and you try it, most people decided to keep going and the change was sustainable. And I think that's really [00:25:00] important. This graph is titled homeschooling's rise from fringe to fastest growing form of education. Basically what in this graph is it shoots up during the pandemic, but then it barely goes down after the pandemic. And it's the same as private school, shoots up, isn't going down after the pandemic. Whereas the number of kids in homeschool is actually continuing to drop after the pandemic which is just shocking to me.

So let's continue to go on with other things that are happening, the nihilism explosion, okay? So here we're looking at pessimism among U. S. students. 12th graders specifically at questions hard to have hope for the world and wonders if there is a purpose to life given the world situation.

And within Gen Z, it's just really high 30% for wondering if there is purpose to life given the world situation. And then around 40 percent for hard to have hope. For the world. And I think that this is because the structures of information that they are gaining access to have one been co opted by [00:26:00] these apocalyptic AI cults, even though AI is opening up all of these great opportunities.

It's changing what it means to be human. It's making it easier. Fundamentally possible to maybe live in an economic system where, we can all pursue our dreams, whatever we want, like genuinely a post scarcity environment. And yet they're here freaking out because, apocalypticism grabs you when you're already nihilistic.

 People have begun to lose their hopes, and forget their dreams. So the nothing grows stronger. It's the emptiness that's left. It is like a despair, destroying this world. And I have been trying to help it. But why? Because people who have no hopes are easy to control.

. Because I think that another thing that the urban monoculture has realized is that one of the best ways to grab people, if you're in like a detention center [00:27:00] and they need to brainwash you, you're going to any of these, if you read stories about brainwashing, one way to do it is to completely demoralize an individual.

Malcolm Collilns: And I think that the urban monoculture has learned this when it works to demoralize young people, when it works to ensure that they have no pride in their ethnic or national or religious identity it can break them down. And when they can teach them, the future has no hope. And then it can siphon them out into this completely parasitic and toxic culture and get them to spend all of their time, like partying and being indulgent.

I remember when I said like this whole Miri thing is just a LARP at this point, like it's not serious. And then we learned recently that even Eliezer Yudkowsky he we never posted our EA episode because I thought it was too hard on Eliezer. And I was like, I don't want to be like that negative in one of our episodes.

We might post it if people really asked for it or post it somewhere private. But he ended up basically shutting down most of what Miri was doing shutting down their research departments. And then just effing [00:28:00] off with his girlfriend, basically. And so did the other founder. And to party, right?

Take the money, go out and party. And then they used a little bit to continue with the outreach. Which I think was probably the right thing to do because they weren't achieving that much with the research, but that was like the only real work that we're doing, and I think it shows that once you reach this level of nihilism and I guess I call it fear rot, even the individuals who are purveying these messages, even the preachers of it can't do anything but descend into lives of total hedonism. Do you have any thoughts here before I go further?

Simone Collins: I feel like the consequences of all these things speak for themselves. I

Malcolm Collilns: mean,

You look at like our projects, like our tract project and, trying to help with our school system. People stay within their religious systems and people are like, what's really like the core end goal of all this, the core end goal of perinatalism more broadly, and it's vitalism.

It's

Simone Collins: being human flourishing,

Malcolm Collilns: genuine in this

Simone Collins: system, in this modern school system, and in our modern culture, humans are [00:29:00] not. Flourishing. And I think that I don't, you can't not even argue that people in progressive cultures would say that people are flourishing. They would just point to, I don't know, capitalism or rich people or.

Systemic bias or something else and say that's why everyone's suffering so much because the calls coming from within the house.

Malcolm Collilns: Yeah, the calls coming from within the house. They're using these scapegoats and you can look at the statistics. It's not just my perception that the more progressive someone is, the more mental health problems they have.

The more likely they are to have attempted on aliving themselves and more like it's clear and I'll put some stats on the screen here. The and it appears that when you get to the most extreme iterations of these culture you are completely sacrificing. And this is actually something I've seen was our, for example, like LGBT friends, gay friends.

Like we have some gay friends who are like Republican and have kids and they are completely mentally healthy. They're often, bro y, they're also like really [00:30:00] fit, everything like that. Then when I think about like my progressive, LGBT friends, they're typically in like terrible health.

They don't have long term relationships. They're seeing a psychologist every single week. They are just barely holding it together on a cocktail of drugs. Like it doesn't work. And it's hurting those communities the most. But let's continue here because actually we've had some of our younger users here who are like I'm in school right now and what I see is the LGBT community being treated like a priest caste almost and like they can get caught selling drugs and they don't have to deal with the consequences because they're, for example, gay, right?

Like they, they are treated as a different caste system within the school today. And I'm like, even if that's the case, they are still dealing with more mental hardship in so far it's a buy into the urban monoculture. And then the ones who stand against the urban monoculture, the gay young people who stand against the urban monoculture, they have their identity strip from them.

People say you're not really gay. And they get bullied by the urban monoculture relentlessly. As you can see from any of [00:31:00] these conservative gay influencers online who just get harassed more than anyone else. But it gets worse. Now we're going to talk about like where urban monoculture ideas.

Or just destroying a generation at this point, right? Because in a lot of these statistics, you're like, Oh, I guess guys are getting off easy. And in a way they are because girls are getting coddled and not having to deal with discipline. And that leads to, I think a lot of these downside negative effects, but I'm going to read a Reddit post here by a teacher in the art teacher subreddit.

They got a ton of upvotes. So this is something that other teachers feel is a problem. Is anyone else here seeing the girls crushing the boys right now in literally everything? We just had our first student council meeting. In order to become a part, you had to submit a one to two paragraph explanation for why you wanted to join.

The council handles everything. Tech club, garden club, art club, et cetera. The kids are 11 to 12 years old. There were 46 girls and five boys. Among the five boys, two were very much quote unquote besties with a group of girls. So in a stereotypical description, since [00:32:00] there was three non girl connected boys.

My heart broke to see it a bit. The boy representation has been falling year over year, and we are talking by grade five and keep in mind if you're like I'll just start with my kids in school. And this is something we need to be aware of Simone. This is happening by grade five destroyed your young boys.

Am I just, and then your young girls are going to end up unaliving themselves by the statistics. So just, be aware. Am I just a coincidence case in this data point? Is anyone else seeing the girls absolutely demolish the boys right now? Is this a problem we need to be addressing? This also shouldn't be a debate about people over 18.

I'm literally talking about children who grew up in modern title nine society was working and educated mothers. The boys are straight up Peter panning right now. It's like they are becoming lost. And just so people know that this has. Around 8, 000 upvotes in the teachers subreddit and 4. 7 thousand comments.

So this is absolutely something we're seeing and this is something that other people are [00:33:00] recognizing. And the answer to me is that all of these like progressive intersectionality is what's leading to this very obviously. But I

Simone Collins: think what's also telling here, and I want to emphasize a point that you made a little bit earlier, which is that just because you're advantaged in the school system and you may be doing better within it for a period of time, Doesn't mean that you are ultimately experiencing better real world outcomes.

Keep in mind when it came to those mental health stats that you rattled off, girls were performing worse. They had, higher rates of ideation. That was deadly higher rates of mental health problems. So really winning within this system means you're losing it life. And honestly, if this system makes life hard for you, All the better that you're actually facing some genuine challenges and building some resilience being forced to do that because being robbed of that experience is causing a lot of this lack of

Malcolm Collilns: This is mental health being in this system.

The [00:34:00] more cobbled a group is by the urban monoculture The higher their demographic status is within the urban monoculture, lower their mental health outcomes are. So it's coddling that girls are seeing that is leading to them showing up to these groups in higher numbers, leading to them getting into college at higher rates, leading to all of these systemic discriminations in their favor.

Is leading to worse mental health outcomes. And you even see this among ethnic lines. So for example, the black community had a higher on aliving themselves rate than the white community in schools right now. And it is because. These groups, not by a huge, actually with that group, it was like double, it wasn't as bad as like girls and guys.

It was like a 4 percent to 2 percent or something for attempted not attempted An injury from an attempt. But yeah it's, it shows that what they are doing isn't working. And yet they look at these statistics. They look at, for example, girls facing these larger mental health outcomes and they have, the urban monoculture has no solution to this other than [00:35:00] we need to, i.

e. progressivism more broadly. We need to increase the special status we're giving these groups. We need to increase the ways that they are being coddled in our sort of urban monoculture lens, which is leading to progressively worse outcomes. And here, I'm going to talk about some more progressively worse outcomes that we're seeing here, major depression among teens.

We have seen since 2010, if you're looking at 2020, a 145 percent increase in girls. And in boys here in the increase, you actually see higher, but the absolute number is lower, 161 percent increase among boys. In anxiety, you can see the stats just shooting up among college students. So in anxiety, it's now in 25 percent of students.

College students. 135 percent increase since 2010 and depression has been a 106 percent increase since 2010. This isn't working. The way our culture has changed since 2010 is not working.

Simone Collins: And it's, I think it's, you have to, most people who are adults now and listening [00:36:00] to this have to understand how profoundly different the school system must be.

If these outcomes are so different, how different childhood must be. And also we have to remember, you and I grew up at a time when, at least when we were in middle school or primary school, you like could not use the internet to look up answers to questions. Because we did have internet access, but like literally the answers weren't there.

You would have to go to a library or a refer, To an encyclopedia or dictionary, you could not look these things up. Like life is so profoundly different for these people. And I think a lot of people are when trying to model solutions or trying to diagnose the problem, not understanding how fundamentally foreign life is to, to us as a young person.

Malcolm Collilns: You mean to the young generation, not us as young people?

Simone Collins: It's their experience is foreign to us.

Malcolm Collilns: Yeah, foreign to us. Yeah. But we are not young people yet. Just clarifying.

Simone Collins: Yes, we are not young. We are very

Malcolm Collilns: old. You are absolutely correct about this. And here I, all of this would be worth it if wow, all of these negative [00:37:00] effects were increasing, we were getting increased output from the school system.

Like it was doing better, except the exact opposite is happening. Only 21 percent of us high schoolers are well prepared for college. 2023 ACT data revealed a concerning lack of college preparedness among recent high school graduates. Out of the class of 2023, only 21 percent met the criteria. Only 21 percent met the ACT college readiness benchmarks across all core subjects.

This signals that one in five students are equipped to succeed in introductory college courses. At the other end of the spectrum, over 40 percent of graduates failed to meet a single subject benchmark and students nationwide scored an average of 19. 5 out of 36 on the A. C. T. This year down 0. 3 points from 2022 for a 32 year low.

The decline in math and reading scores among us 13 year olds largest drop since in 1973 recent drop. It's at a lower rate. [00:38:00] Reading scores also declined by four points between 2020 and 2023, with mass scores experiencing a more significant decrease of nine points during the same period.

Despite the impact of remote learning, the decline in scores has been ongoing since 2012. So again, this is all stuff that we've been seeing since the 2010s. You can't blame the pandemic. A Gallup poll conducted in 2022 indicates that 55 percent of Americans expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of K through 12 education, marking the highest level of dissatisfaction since 2000.

Now as this gets worse, something we're seeing because the urban monoculture needs this system to stay operational, it cannot allow it to shut down because again, it's not having kids. And again, this is not historic as we've done in our other video can conservatives outbreed the left? This there was not a difference in fertility rates between progressives and Republicans pre 90s.

This is a completely modern phenomenon of progressives only existing because they are converting other people's children. But they've really doubled down on it. Conservatives have double their fertility rates now. [00:39:00] Now as this gets worse, because it is an existential issue for the survival of the urban monoculture, they have to Hide it.

And so here's some attempts to hide it that we've been seeing. Oregon suspended the requirement for students to demonstrate proficiency in English learning skills to graduate for classes of 2022, 2023, and 2024. And the decision was made through Senate Bill 744, which ordered them. Just don't test them anymore.

And then in 2015, California suspended the California high school exit examination requirement for graduation. Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill SB 172 that eliminated this requirement, which had been in place for about a decade. The suspension was initially set for 2015 to 2016. However the same bill required school districts to retroactively grant diplomas to students who had failed the exam, but met all other graduation requirements.

This applied to the graduating classes as far back as 2006. I think another

Simone Collins: thing that should be emphasized is a lot of the teachers, Even in the public school system where there are a lot of [00:40:00] adverse incentives, and I'm not saying they're all great, but many of them are exceptional, wonderful people who really do care about student outcomes.

They're put in impossible positions, especially because of the system. One thing that I've seen some teachers commenting on when discussing various crises facing students now is they are getting kids let's say that they're teaching seventh grade who are at a fourth grade level.

They, because they've just been passed up, they cannot do anything to bring them up to an eighth grade level in that year when they're starting with something so bad. So because kids just get passed through each class graduated, the problem becomes increasingly intractable. For these teachers, there's no, nothing you can do, no matter how good you are.

As a teacher, if you're receiving students who are so ill prepared, who've been already so ill treated by this system there's really nothing you can do. And they were also talking about I think they called it SEM. So like social emotional learning or something, but basically like

Malcolm Collilns: [00:41:00] exploding, which is basically just a cold.

Yeah.

Simone Collins: And that they. As young teachers who were, very, I would say very progressive the people that I've seen talking about this, they hate it because they know it doesn't work. And they see the effect that it has on students. So I would say this is not even a progressive teachers are insane issue.

This is like you say, some mimetic cults have also taken over even like subsets.

Malcolm Collilns: The school system right now is an incredible bureaucracy, just a giant bureaucracy. And this cult of the ultra left, which is like a sub faction of the urban monoculture, it's like its vanguard, it has embedded itself most deeply and it works really well within bureaucracies.

So even if, 90 percent of teachers don't want to go along with this. If you push back, you lose everything. You lose your job. You lose your pension. You are basically unemployable in other fields. Have you been doing this for a long time? So there is no possibility for pushback by the teachers who want to do what's [00:42:00] right for the students.

And I think the only way to fix this is to completely blow up the education system as it exists right now. We, we just need to shut down public education. And it's SEL,

Simone Collins: social emotional learning. And they, yeah, they hate it,

Malcolm Collilns: but yeah, it's very pervasive that we were doing was leading to one in 10 kids trying to unalive themselves every year.

We'd be like, Oh my God, I don't care what the effects are. This must be shut down. And I feel that way with schools. What would I do if I controlled things more broadly? I would probably move to a system to try to maintain as much of the existing teaching infrastructure as possible. Where the.

Ghouls that exist right now are made public spaces. And then parents bid on being able to send their kids to individual teachers. Yeah. And those teacher salaries are dependent on their demand among parents. And that would allow, if you're a far progressive, you can send your kid to the ultra progressive teacher if they've been showing themselves to be efficacious and all of the teachers have ranked, like how, [00:43:00] The average type of student that's coming into them and how much they're improving those students and students ability to get the teacher they want depends on their grades.

You know There is a reward for good grades and we are not wasting good teachers on low efficacious students And some people are like won't stun students just fall behind and it's like we need to be realistic That's already happening, right? The other study that always gets me is the peter gray study on unschooling which was looking at what if we did literally Nothing for kids But and it showed that kids who are unschooled, like not homeschooled, literally nothing, were getting into college at higher rates than kids who were going to public school and graduating college at higher rates.

And had better emotional health outcomes, obviously, as well. I suppose I should go without saying, but obviously. And then people are like What about the negative social effects of homeschooling? And it's this has been well studied and they don't exist. This is a bad to pay problem that you're dealing with here.

It is just like in the big meta studies that have looked at this. You just don't see much negative effects from homeschooling. And people are waking up to that now that was always a. A con job that people pretend that, but of course, kids who are raised by adults are going to have much better [00:44:00] abilities to deal with the world than kids who are raised in this weird sort of Lord of the Flies scenario we've contrived and it makes perfect sense when people are like I remember growing up the homeschoolers were weird and it's like actually reflect on the way they were weird.

I remember thinking that as a kid too, but now as an adult, when I remember the things that made them weird, I was like, yeah, they were weird because they were really polite and they didn't emotionally manipulate the people around them and they get into histionics over everything. I

Simone Collins: think a lot of it's also that they don't like use the same cultural shibboleths that people use to judge them.

I just heard Ayla get criticized because on a podcast recently she was asked Her favorite beetle. And she said the green ones with the black spots on them, that's classic homeschool. And I think that's, Oh, so weird, but no, that's an honest and good answer.

And why do we all need to, think exactly like the same cultural references and know the same TV shows and [00:45:00] do all this really dumb stuff.

Malcolm Collilns: Yeah, I completely agree. And I think that our system, so just to the final pitch for the Collins Institute feel free to email us. Emails are easy to find on collinsinstitute.

com. If you are interested in signing up for this program, I really hope we can get this out within the next couple months. The big task right now is getting the mentoring system completed. And then I'm going to film a actually one of our audience members is going to be putting together who has a, like a digital animated, like how to use it slash ad thing.

And as soon as that's done we will be releasing it to you. And I am very happy with what we've created. It is. exceeded my personal expectations of what I thought we were going to be able to put together. And the thing that has exceeded my expectations is that it's fun. I wish

Simone Collins: I just had infinite time to dive into it, honestly.

I just want to, I want to explore it. I want to go through all the nodes and learn all the things but. And I do think that it

Malcolm Collilns: will, for my kids, it makes me very, feel [00:46:00] very comfortable allowing them not to go to school. And I should note what we do with our kids in public schools, we give them a choice.

So we'll send our kids to public school. And if they're like, I would rather be at home studying, they can do that. But if they want to go to school, they can go to school.

Simone Collins: They still, all of their education, we're going to assume is

Malcolm Collilns: if they go

Simone Collins: to school, it's because they want to experience that, but that's not where they're going to learn the stuff that gets them ahead in life.

Malcolm Collilns: Yeah.

Simone Collins: They're going to learn about the world.

Malcolm Collilns: Yeah. I just think people because it's being hid from people, how bad the problem is these days. And that we just need to reset the system on unplug and replug. That's the only way it was this giant bureaucracy to really fix things.

Simone Collins: Have you tried turn it on and off and back on again?

Malcolm Collilns: But anyway, I love you to death Simone. You are just this the sun to the stars of my world. I cannot see the stars out there because you shine so bright. As a mother and as a wife, and I am so lucky to have you in my life.

Simone Collins: I love you so much, Malcolm. You're the [00:47:00] best. Thanks for creating the Collins Institute.

I can't wait for our kids to use it.

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