Public schools are largely failing and ineffective, and the system should be dismantled in favor of student vouchers.

“this year absolutely sucks and needs to be dismantled down to the studs completely gone”

Charter schools and the privatization of education are detrimental to the public school system and should be opposed.

“trying to undermine public education or completely abolish it basically by destroying the federal structure and the funding mechanisms that already exist that are already being mismanaged through multiple Decades of austerity and charter schools and privatization is insane”

Josh Cowen advocates that effectively defending public schools requires a dual approach of protecting them from privatization while simultaneously working to improve them.

“I think sort of that but happily there is it's it's fairly straightforward for folks to have conversations with legislatures legislators writing opinion editorials about this kind of thing and also just being being um being supportive like listen one of the reasons that that vouchers have landed the”

The hiring of the school superintendent by the school board shows systemic failure and the dangers of using outside consulting firms.

“So, they hired a consultant firm to do their leg work for them to to vet this guy. They don't you don't have somebody inside the school district that vets new hires. you have to go to an outside consulting firm, which to me al immediately sounds like a scam.”

The speaker believes that American public education curricula should include the study of the Bible to ensure students possess basic cultural and literary literacy.

“Also, by the way, you are just not a literate Western citizen if you don't know the Bible. You are not literate. That is not opinion, that is fact.”

Civics or government should be a mandatory course in high school to ensure citizens understand the function of the government.

“I think that civics or government should have been like a required class in um it should have been a required class for every high school student”

He believes the introduction of PragerU videos into public school classrooms is harmful and negative.

“well unfortunately it's a right-wing media Outlet founded by conservative talk show host Dennis Prager and what's their ankle well I'll I'll leave it to Oklahoma's superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters to sum it up”

Dave Rubin believes the Department of Education has failed and that transferring functions back to the states will improve American education.

“The federal government has been running our education system into the ground, but we are going to turn it all around by giving the power back to the people. America's students will be the best, brightest, and most highly educated anywhere in the world.”