Great to have you on, my friend! Keep up the great work with your students.

If I still had school-age kids, you are exactly the type of teacher I would hope they had. I imagine that you are an excellent role model for many things in addition to the curriculum taught.

Not only America, lads. What you are doing helps towards saving the West, in a positive sense of the term. On a side note, "Pronouns are Rohypnol" - by Barra Kerr. Well worth a read.

@@GreggGiblin-sy5og I'll second that !

Thanks for going beyond the curriculum with these kids. You're a great teacher,the way you're talking now without stepping on your nda is still effective, and the honesty in the gaps you don't want to speak is transparent and builds trust. And do look on the bright side, your public dismissal let's it be obvious that you weren't in the worst kind of school scandal. We need more guys teaching, you're almost convincing me to go get licensed. You might not put much weight on that, but I was expelled by my media broadcast teacher in my senior year. In my four years, I had six years of math, six of English, fi years of chem through physics, and in my senior year I was teacher's aide for two classes and the only elective I took was broadcast. This class was the opposite of yours. Videos with worksheets were 80% of the work, there were a couple booths with equipment from the eighties, half of the time in class was literally socializing with the other kids in there while the teacher was detached. I had talked to him about the lack of direction one on one and he gave me the impression he would help bridge the gap. That just meant I was assigned to make programs in the one of the booths and help as much as I could with questions the other kids had. I didn't mind, I spent my lunches aiding my former favorite teachers and had taught a lot of the freshmen in my senior year so it wasn't the responsibility I had a problem with. What I really didn't like was his near total absence from class. I wrote a letter to him in the next essay test we had about... I don't even know, I can't remember a single thing from that class beyond 'office politics" because this was the only teacher that I had a problem with or had a problem with me. Either way, he gave me a zero on that test, maybe deservedly. However, the work I turned in after that had very low grades for the same level of work as I had put in before. Having been relegated to staying in the booth, I had a couple guys come in who were just skating on an easy a class who were happy to let me take over their video presentation to make a hit piece on the teacher, and I did. I gave them full technical credit and took only the script and on camera role for myself and making it look like they didn't know what was going on until we were at the deadline to record. I recorded a news story on "Coach Bennett, the man who can't teach and can't get a victory for the girls volleyball team." He was displeased to say the least, once he started paying attention to what was playing. Over the next couple days he had put together enough to get me expelled, he still had a copy of the letter I wrote him, which was no longer asking to teach but just a criticism about him not teaching and how he would get especially angry with some of the girls in class, and I had said they were the hottest girls in class which didn't work in my favor. The video was truly scathing, and I understand how I got expelled with whatever backstory he gave. I was very resentful, did a bunch of drugs (the irresponsible kind, not the ruin your life ones), became irreverent at work and went from the top salesman to not being noticed and on to having terrible numbers and going above my bosses head and asking for control of the outlet I was in and quit when they refused, I sold my El Dorado and got a souped up early nineties sports car and moved in with my girlfriend, and then was irresponsible for a decade. Basically I knew I wasn't going to a decent school after expulsion and just let go. Two years after I left school, I did get the satisfaction of finding out that he was caught with two female students, with a bunch of former allegations. To be fair, I had been part of a well organized drug ring at school. I was involved from plant and fungus to end user, we had an informant in the principal's office who was just as clean and well preforming as I was, she would let us know when dogs were going to come and who was going to be shaken down and have their lockers searched. We only sold to kids who asked, if you didn't know, you would have no idea who we were, aside from being popular with every clique. The highlight is how I found out about the scandal, I had a roommate who also sold and one of his customers came to out house one day and it was my senior math teacher who I would cut up with in class. We played a bunch of madden and tiger woods and he was there pretty often before I moved in to a new place with my girlfriend. So hold your head up high. You did the right thing and you helped more kids than you think. A good teacher can change someone's whole life, and I can tell you were changing how a lot of people would go into the world. Sorry about the novel, hopefully it gives a bit of perspective. BTW I'm a tradesman doing well and living comfortably with plenty of spare time and a good clean income, plus a couple retail stores that I sold off. I have friends who are _still_ paying off college loans. I've basically retired before many of my friends have committed to a career.

This is the challenge. Many private school are great, but some are even more woke and twisted than the zip-code government school. Why? They're hiring from these poisonous universities and the marxism factory that is a degree in "education". It took 50+ years to destroy our entire education system. We won't fix it overnight.

guess he's lucky they didn't offer him a drink...

I can. The nature of our educational system Being what it is, I would be surprised if they DIDN'T.

You can't? Did you miss the last 50 years of US education?

He led at least one student away from the popular narrative....

It's called Maoism.

​@@wheel-man5319 Exactly! I'm saddened by the miniscule proportion of people in these comments aware of that narrative being pushed with great gobs of Money. Tell them WHICH narrative: The tr@nsg3nder agenda has been pushed with a wealth of propaganda, for the last decade, by the med/tech/pharma industry. In the last three years or so, they've destroyed Title IX, allowed men in women's public toilets and locker rooms and prisons, in the US. They've been invading women's sports for much longer. JKRowling has become a sort of spokesperson for honesty in language and other things they call "-phobic". Actually, the g3nderist agenda is very homophobic and misogynistic.

Teaching students how to think!! No wonder he was fired!!

Right? Totally!!

Sorry to disappoint… 😉(just kidding) I agree!

its not even the powers that be. Its the rigged game rules.

Great analogy.

Such an amazing book. I read it on my bus trips into NYC from Jersey in 2008 early in my political awakening. The HBO series was pretty good too. Check it out after you’re done with read it.

@@DadSavesAmerica I will do that! Thank you! And Happy Independence Day to you. 🎆

allows but does not try to guide them.

allows but does not try to lead them.

blasphemy!

I'm still confused about the whole firing, and I've heard him talk about this elsewhere. The parts of the video I saw, I mean, that could have been me when I was a teacher (not in content creation but equally involving criticial thinking and analysis, mostly of international affairs/politics). I also used to be a head instructor and had to observe teachers and write reviews, and I would have given that section of the class a positive write-up.

@@redneckcoder That's crazy. I taught in the US for a few years decades ago, and then I was a teacher for over a decade in South Korea (but not clapping ABCs to kids, haha... very much akin to what he was doing), and I was very good and feel confident in assessing the bit of his teaching I saw, and I thought it was very good. It's a sad state of affairs.

@@brek5You may not realize how badly U.S. schools have been ‘captured’ by leftist ideology. One being the idea of the gender construct. This teacher debunked Leftist thought concerning J.K. Rowling and her ideas on that and the school could just not let that stand!

I really appreciate that. Thank you! Happy 4th!

Sounds to me like maybe you would benefit from Warren walking through the exact same Socratic discourse with you about whether J K Rowling is “bigoted”. Go watch the the video. It’s linked in the pinned comment.

@@DadSavesAmerica oh, I have.

Let's not use the term "cys". It is ugly and divisive. Thank you.

​@@jimmoses6617 It is that, However explaining the situation in the very terms they would use is NOT the same thing.

@@MultipleGrievance Exactly. The teacher was labeled and constantly referred to using derogatory terms, which generated the same response in readers here as it did with the teacher. It was a grinding and constant irritation, but the teacher focused on the students first. Until it was no longer safe to continue in that environment. So all the feelings felt when reading this true account is merely a minuscule fraction of what it was like on a daily basis for the teacher for nearly a year. Taking offense at reading only one of the numerous terms assigned by the administrators to this teacher demonstrates how little the general population knows about the reality in our school systems across the country.

@@jimmoses6617 Agree with the way you’ve described these terms, to the point that I’ve shared them here as a way of letting others get a sense for just how low the CRT teams will go to expunge anyone who does not have the same skin tone. It’s really quite shocking to many, but it is considered normal and imperative by those who believe in / advocate vigorously for things like ‘reparations’.

@@anthonybarnhart4910Amen!

They did....?

Perhaps, though, for not letting this teacher go sooner? Just a thought.

Already a thing it's called the Michaela School of London and has the highest test scores of all non privet schools in all of the UK(it's similar to an American charter school). Staffed with Christian and conservative values first teachers and the students who profess their great fullness for a structured and safe school that teaches ethics and values in an age where single mothers don't even realize having kid is more than feeding a small humans 3 times a day.

⁠@@CoperliteConsumerHowever, at Michaela school, teachers “teach.” They give students knowledge about the world they need to succeed. Think E.D. Hirsch’s philosophy of education. Teachers are not the ‘guide on the side’ type teachers we have nowadays who let students “discover” knowledge for themselves.

Very good! It’s the lunacy we have going on now.

I think he's doing his best to respect the school here. Also, Richard, I don't think the school was in an easy situation in that the viral internet world is a scary mess and having someone who attracts lots of attention to the students is a difficult challenge to manage. I'm not defending the school administration, but I do understand the challenge they face in this case. I'd say the same if it were a government school. I enjoyed having Warren on because I think the more important part is highlighting what a great teacher can do for students.

Right. This thing is not cut and dried but still you used highly provocative lede "Warren Smith Went Viral for Teaching Critical Thinking, So His School Fired Him".

@@DadSavesAmerica And yet you use this phrase "Warren Smith Went Viral for Teaching Critical Thinking, So His School Fired Him". Except, as even Smith himself acknowledges, kinda sorta ("I didn't check a box"), he WASN'T fired for the viral episode.

@@richardthurston2171 I'm sure that the lack of box checking was the proximal reason, and that the teaching of wrongthink was the ultimate reason.

@@richardthurston2171😮😮I think it wasn’t just one video, it was the viral public exposure that he was not woke.

In a just world we would have our education system rely on the same process that delivers our miraculous technology so effective: competitive enterprise. Instead 80%+ of K-12 is operated using the model of 1960s Ukrainian prisons. And too many of the private alternatives are only marginally better (because they’re staffed largely by people trained in the same 60s Soviet mindset).

It is a sad state of affairs, but thanks to those who speak out like yourself the tide is turning. Some states like Texas and Florida will hold the line, and financial institutions are moving there. Many thanks for what you do! Have seen most of your interviews and commentaries and love them all. Great reference material for teaching the next generation.

In the Long March Through the Institutions, the very 1st institution was education.

Cardona, who has a “trans” nephew at UHartt, is responsible for the erosion of women’s rights, spaces and dignity. Levine needs to go too.

Thanks for subscribing and the VERY wise criticism. I couldn’t agree with you more!!! I actually have been spending a few months building and testing a budgeting tool that I’m going to walk through in a video along with thoughts on financial management. The tool will be available for all of my viewers for free via our Substack.

@@DadSavesAmerica Doesn't Dave Ramsey have something for kids?

I was told that I was talented and should attend an inner city magnet school, so I did. That same school employed me as an educator, and then lowered my pay every year until I finally lost my home in the city I taught in. The magnet school never told me that in the future they were going to be the reason I loose it all, I would never have attended in the first place. I should have studied the economy around arts education, but they conveniently left that part out. The org and state also made it impossible to become certified. Education is beyond broken, it’s downright harmful.

I’m surprised they waited till the end of the year.

Yes, they do. I have two teenagers and they debate often and regard the woke nonsense as silly and stupid, if they regard it at all.

@@jimmoses6617 Great, keep up the good work.

@@jimmoses6617 Let me rephrase ... public schools don't actively try to encourage it.

At a public school he’d just go to the rubber room to not teach with pay… at the community’s taxpayer expense. Or get hacked for lack of seniority as he already experienced. Hardly a better deal.

@@DadSavesAmerica. Because public school teachers get due process

He had permission all around. The video didn’t expose the student’s identity at all. That’s not what happened in this case.

@@DadSavesAmerica. Obviously, he did not have admin permission. His work and the students product is not owned by him, it’s all owned by the school district. Teachers cannot publish on social media as a rule and even being on social media is usually discouraged bc the teacher represents their school and reflects on the admin.

Well said.

It’s a slower one.

Mike, I really appreciate this comment. It means I’m doing something right if you can appreciate what I’m doing even while disagreeing. Thank you! And for what it’s worth, if I were king for a day, you’d be left along… because everyone would. I’d spend the day tearing down barriers to opportunity for people to exercise their freedom peacefully and honestly.

@@DadSavesAmerica thanks for the response, wasn't expecting that. I appreciate you not being a MAGA guy and criticizing obvious logical fallacies across political lines. I personally believe you have too much faith in the free market without restrictions. I think history has proven how bad corporations can get without any restrictions. Many of these labor laws are "Socialist" and are good. I could go on and on about where we differ but I agree that socially especially in many schools there are so many leftist sacred cows. I also think focusing too much on politics is pointless unless you're going to run.

The states require certification for public schools, not unions. You confused these two things. Private schools do not necessarily require certification but they seek qualified candidates for teaching. There isn’t much difference.

Please don’t spam the comments. These could all be one comment.

I've added it to the pinned comment. Thanks for the reminder!!

This comment is incomprehensible, but it would behoove you to check the timestamps. Namely the one that says "why he got fired" 🙄

There are these things called NDA's He's probably under an agreement to not disclose certain particulars.

Warren is clearly trying to respect his former colleagues and students. Frankly, the firing is less important than the powerful lesson of what real teaching should look like.

@@DadSavesAmerica though I don't necessarily always agree with his point of view I think he's an excellent teacher, and an expert practitioner of the Socratic method but much has been made of his "firing" as another example of "woke" gone crazy where I think that more likely schools are wary of having teachers/students on social media and it had nothing to do with his point of view

I think you're the one who doesn't get it.

@@lorblauh I get it. It was a skit made to express his position, which I don’t disagree with. I’m not clear on why he was fired. I’m a high school teacher. I’m not permitted to teach outside of school as a condition of my employment. Was his dismissal related to his point of view or that he took up teaching online as a side gig. What exactly was the reason for his dismissal? That I don’t get.

Wait, you’re not permitted to teach outside of school? That’s pretty strange to me. It wasn’t a “skit” the view is a genuine exchange with one of his students. As to the reasons for his dismissal, as he said, the school didn’t give a clear reason, other than to point to a minor procedural approval hoop he failed to jump through. It’s private at-will employment, so there’s no reason needed, and in many cases employers will avoid giving much information. Lawyers instruct employers to avoid given more details than necessary because it just creates surface area for wrongful termination claims.

@@DadSavesAmerica well edited, planned and staged exchange…a skit

@@gordonbgrahamPerhaps “I did Piers Morgan…” had something to do with it.