From Billion-Dollar Mess to MEGA Fixes: A Dad’s Plan for Anchorage Schools
- Alex Rosales
- Feb 21
- 34 min read
Updated: Mar 5
I sat down with Marcus Moore on Alaskan Rants to tackle Anchorage School District’s chaos; waste, safety gaps, parents ignored. Below, I answer his 12 questions as a Dad, 20 Year Veteran, and teacher... not a politician. Watch the video HERE to hear it unedited and unscripted and all on the first take, then see why I’m running April 1st. I believe in transparency, it does not get much more transparent than this.
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I’ve taught in the military, was named Instructor of the Year for all Air Combat Command, coached CYSA soccer, served as PTA VP, and earned an MBA plus several medals.
America was built on grit and truth. ASD’s lost that... $20,000 per kid, 49th in results. The misinformation has been spread far too wide. I’m here to fix it. I’m here to cut the fat, protect our kids, and give parents a voice. Let’s Make Education Great Again #MEGA, Anchorage. 1. Who I Am: A Dad Fighting for Your Kids
“You want to tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started and why you're running?”
I’m Alexander Rosales Dad, Veteran, no suit or tie (until elected). I fixed planes all around the world as a crew chief, saved the Air Force $2.6 million by slashing waste, was an award winning teacher, and community leader, and now I’m raising girls who love sports. This fight started in Juneau last year: a trans-in-sports debate. Rep. CJ McCormick’s stance clashed with my gut, sent me down to Juneau and looking into the Bible for the first time looking for answers. I opened to 1 Kings 18: Elijah calling out truth on Mount Carmel. We all get tied into the extras in life and we forget what is truly important. That fire lit me up and sent me on a path. George Washington, in his Farewell Address, tied Proverbs 14:34... “Righteousness exalts a nation”... to a strong America. He led with virtue, not bureaucracy. I’ve seen waste cripple systems; I’ve fixed it before. My girls deserve fair play, your kids deserve safety and real learning, not a failing mess. I’m no politician, I’m a Dad with a wrench, here to rebuild our schools with parents in charge. 2. Transgender Spark: Just the Beginning
“So the transgender stuff made you run for school board?”
Not the whole story, just the start. Jamie Alaards girls-in-sports bill got me moving, my CYSA soccer girls demanded fairness. I flew down after I saw saw Riley Gaines in the fight, and felt as a Dad I had to stand up. I was only aware of the bad communication I was experiening with the district, ASD’s mess is now bigger, seeing a $900 Million budget with several key areas being cut, kids shortchanged. Benjamin Franklin’s relation to Proverbs 9:10... “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”... pushed his schools for real smarts. I taught in the military, received Instructor of the Year, I know education’s about results, not agendas. I’m not chasing culture wars, I’m cutting waste, boosting safety. Franklin built for kids; I’ll fight for ours. Moms for Liberty: I Stand by Kids
“You want to just sort of explain what happened there [with the Moms for Liberty controversy]?”
At Moms for Liberty, I was confronted about saying parents pushing kids to transition should face heat. Matthew 18:6: “protect the little ones.” Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration echoed this, guarding innocence as a right. I’m no politician, the backlash threw me since it was someone whom I had spoken with multiple times online. I stand firm: harm kids in any way, I will gladly be a mandatory reporter. I taught in a SPED classroom for a year, got teacher recommendations for UAF’s program, kids matter to me. My fight’s not with someone who has a perceived hate for me, it’s ASD’s $20,000-per-kid failure at 49th in results. Moms wanted drama; I want fixes, safety officers, admin cuts. Thomas Jefferson fought for rights; I’m fighting for results. Our views do not align. 4. Budget Cuts: We’re Bleeding Out
“Want to elaborate on what those [budget] cuts look like and are they necessary?”
ASD’s $900 million budget is at 7th highest in the nation. Cuts are a must. Maintenance contracts waste millions, labor deals and bonds hit our PFDs. Admin bloat, extra principals, assistant directors all pile on. I cut $2.6 million in the Air Force almost overnight when arriving in Germany, earned three Commendation Medals. Waste is my enemy, I can find Fraud with ease, and please do not even try any Abuse. I’d slash bad contracts, cut admin fat, save millions, not touch teachers. As PTA VP, I saw misspent funds all over the district. We’re in a deficit; kids need justice, not suits. 5. Admin Bloat: Too Many Suits
“Can you explain that to me [why there are so many principals and administrators]?”
Why three principals per school? Unions push fake jobs, assistant directors, extra principals, etc. to allow for career advancement. The district leaves them open to be able to shuffle funds around. Some get tenured and choose where they work as well. I taught in special ed, was Alpenglow’s lunch lady, saw bloated rules firsthand. I’d cut to one principal, one VP, nix gigs that do not directly improve childrens lives, save $5 million. Teachers first, my UAF recommendations prove I’m with them. I would like to implement All Pro Dads instead: fathers in schools, breakfasts with kids. Instead of Admin... Dad-in. 6. Spending vs. Failure: 49th Place Shame
“Where does Alaska stand… most money per capita per student?”
Alaska’s 49th in the U.S. in results, seventh in spending, $20,000 per kid, $2,500 federal infusion per child. Charters schools hit top 10 in the nation as a standalone school for half of that amount. ASD’s a disgrace.
I taught in ASD schools. Saw cash vanish into special projects, contracts, 'priorities', and unkept promises, not kids. My MBA says this fails any test; 49th proves it. I’d cut assistant directors, bad deals, fund classrooms. Benjamin Franklin built results; I’ll demand them. 7. Beyond BSA: Real Fixes, Not Checks
“If they don’t pass BSA… what’s our options… direction we could go?”
BSA hikes mean $30,000 per kid, $1.5 billion blank check for ASD. There is no way that is going to be an option. I saved millions in the Air Force, earned three Achievement Medals, cut admin, maintenance rip-offs here: $900,000 Rilke rent, extra principals. Push charter efficiency of top 10 product, at half our cost. We need to listen to parents more often and be more transparent while reducing the spending. We are in the drivers seat. My Professional Management Certificate works well here. 8. Transparency: Parents Run It
“As a school board member, what can you do… more transparent, more accountability?”
ASD silenced me last year, now parents talk till midnight. I’d lock it in: every dollar online, open meetings, my phone on 24/7. I coached CYSA, volunteered, I’m in the trenches. All Pro Dads in every school: fathers checking in, hosting breakfasts... community over suits. Compare transparency between myself, and my opponent www.margobellamy.com 9. Sanctuary Schools: Safety, Not Games
“What’s your thoughts on sanctuary schools, bro?”
Bryant’s “sanctuary” talk? Hype... no ICE raids will hit schools. If there is a felon there? Ok, sure, if the SROs are there that day. Peyton’s Clark beating showed gaps in communication and proper safety protocol for children. I asked ASD: undocumented kids? They don’t track. https://x.com/alaskalandmine/status/1892444810679623866
10. Translators: English Unites
“Why is that a problem [not enough translators]… what’s the solution?”
ASD’s 100 languages... translators cost big, slow kids' learning. $2,500 federal per kid shouldn’t fund chaos, O’Malley’s immersion fights prove it. I taught in the military, structure and English works. Fix: early English immersion, teach it, then core subjects. Cuts waste, unites us, kids start to read first. 12. Vote M.E.G.A.: April 1st Change
“Anything you want to send off with before we wrap up?”
See AlexForSchoolBoardAK.com. Jennifer Gracey gracey4journey (@Jennifer_Gracey) / X completely captured who I am as a Dad and candidate for Anchorage School Board. She is setting the standard for what we should expect from every politician from Alaska going forward. Margo Bellamy’s 10 years got us 49th in results, she is done. That’s me, unfiltered on Alaskan Rants. A Dad, Veteran, teacher, six deployments, PTA VP, FWA Fighter, fixing ASD’s mess. I’m bringing it home. Vote April 1st... let’s roll Dad's. Let’s Make Education Great Again. Full transcript: 0:00
hey heyy
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welcome back to another episode of Alaskan rants I'm your host Marcus Moore and like always we're here giving you
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the entertainment educational the uncomfortable conversations that people
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don't want to have in Alaska today we're going to introduce uh some education into the mix and I have Alex Rosella
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Rosales Rosales man I'm horrible with name it's okay yeah uh he's running for
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Schoolboard CA and um we're going to have a conversation to see what you're about yep appreciate it cool awesome
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well first off you want to tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started and while you're running for the school board yeah so Alexander
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Rosales and uh my middle name is actually Jesus I'm named after my dad it
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is spelled like Jesus and he is my homeboy so word I I walk with that man now so um I kind of got started on this
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journey going to Juno last year I saw the girls in sports Bill CJ McCormack
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from bethl said trans women were women and I didn't agree with that so flew to Juno didn't know what I was going to do
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and my mom always told me to just look at look in the the drawer where whatever
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Hotel you're in and there's always a Bible so I opened it up to Kings 1118 or
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1 Kings 18 uh and that talks about Ezekiel one about Carmel talking about
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either you're either believing in God or ball so one of the two and that kind of
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set me in motion to to bring everybody to the truth and then judgment will come
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so here we are well I figured um so so what so the Trinity gender stuff made
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you run for uh School Board in not directly at all it was that was just one
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thing to get involved I just saw you know uh Jamie all was was pushing that bill and then I saw Riley Gaines on on
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there speaking on behalf of women in sports I was like this is something I need to get involved with with my girls
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uh being in sports as well so it was near dear into my heart so it was easy for me yeah I respect Jamie a for
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putting up that uh uh you know two gender bill I don't know what the name of the bill was but um girls in sports
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bill I think girls and scort yeah Sports bill but I mean that's important okay there's two genders okay um I believe
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that if you helped your child transition you created an act of child abuse okay and you should be punished for it that's
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literally you just assaulted a child okay and you stole their future from them right and to me there's no greater
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punishment than stealing the Innocence from a child right right so this brings me into a you know uncomfortable
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conversation we'll get in real quick before we hit our top issues that I really want to discussed which is the budget budget deficit and the proposal
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cuts the state funding debate um the public reaction and engagement that You' probably heard or seen about with
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families school closures called right sizing we have a lot of buildings outdated uh or or desperately need and
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repair buildings that are sort of phasing out you got the charter school issue right like we'll get into that and
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then uh student safety concerns you know I've heard that the uh what do they call them the resource officers yes have been
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cut back in the high schools right and that they've actually found like a Mac 10 and other guns at schools where the
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prin I had to with no resource officers go confront a student and this happened
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I think at Bartlett High School if I can remember that correctly not 100% sure but I think that it did it did come from
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Bartlett so um those will be the topics that I I want to get into but we were at
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uh a mom's for Liberty meeting a couple uh what a week ago right and uh you had
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posted earlier that uh transgender kids right if their parents do it you should
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castrate their parents right right um there's a little uh controversy about
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like you sort of backing down in that original video right versus you know uh standing up for you your beliefs and
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stuff so yeah you want to just sort of explain what happened there like uh you know like why you were sort of caught
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off guard cuz you're not a politician I was about to say that the same exact thing I am not a politician I am a dad
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my dad who went through the military you know as a crew chief I've deployed overseas I've been around a lot of
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people but I I wasn't ready for that specifically so um I said what I said
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and if you look in Matthew 18:6 Jesus talked about you know if somebody hurt a child they should put a millstone around
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their neck and throw into the sea and drown so the post is actually more pro-life
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and that's what I am as well so it shouldn't shouldn't catch me off guard anymore but I'm I'm here for the kids
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like y nobody should come and between a parent and their child unless that parent is harming that child yep that's
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the difference mhm nobody cares about what you do in your home life keep it there send the kid to school school
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board and the teachers will educate them all will be fine yeah like it doesn't have to be it should all all the rights
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uh should come back to the parents and so biggest issue facing us this year budget cuts uh proposal Cuts yep right
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want to elaborate on what those cuts look like and are they necessary so right now what they're looking at is a
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$900 million budget for the Anchorage School District billion dollars almost
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almost a billion dollars yeah billion a billion dollars billion crazy that's a lot of money um but the number that
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they're throwing out there is only $5,000 for the BSA right you guys have probably heard that um and then doing an
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increase of $11,000 this year and then $400 each year after that so was that
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$1800 within the next 3 years what that's going to actually do is take the
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BSA from 5,000 up to almost 7,000 and it'll
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um work with inflation is what they're saying but they're not talking about how that spending is creating the
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inflation so I think we're spending too much right now because um there are the
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things that go into the BSA after um you go with that Baseline like uh school
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size is one of them so I believe if this if the school size is below a certain
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population then the school district gets more money so that's why they want to keep more schools open and that's why
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they want more students in those specific schools correct all right yeah it's a numbers game so if you look at
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Eagle River and Chugiak they could combine the two into one at Chugiak but then the district wouldn't get as much
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money so it's a game in that aspect when you start talking school
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closures it's a it's a numbers game that way because they're spending so much money in just Capital alone on the
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actual property just on the property the buildings the maintenance all maintenance the lighting the power all the utilities yeah and that's expensive
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you know it's a it's probably the second biggest cost after Personnel cost now so to me understanding you know
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the school administration is just over blooded over bloed right right um they
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have so many principles super attendance two three sometimes four in some schools
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um why can't we just have like one principal one vice principal for every
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school district and one superintendent like for the entire State the state seem to me seems pretty small and why we have
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to have all these micromanagers all across the state
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right I don't understand it can you can you explain that me way the way it feels
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like to me is that they're just creating jobs for positions um it's probably a union thing where they're bargaining for
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more positions and allowing for teachers to move up in position because if you're
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just a let's say an elementary school teacher you want to move up to be a middle school and high school teacher
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but those teachers are there for a very long time and if you know it's kind of like Congress if they don't die then
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you're stuck there's no room for advancement so the district creates opportunities at the assistant director
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director level uh to work in between and they oversee the schools now it is
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important however I don't think it's uh I don't think we're getting the return on investment that we should with those
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positions um with what what uh we're ranked 40th in the US okay out of the
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list of school education just for the us around the entire plane you know we were
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40th okay out of a list of only 40 countries they keep track of we pay the
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most I got you per student okay by country by country okay where does
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Alaska stand in our nation if we're the 4th nation in the world for education
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and we spend the most money per capita per student yeah where does Alaska sit
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on the end of that list oh gosh that's bad because I mean we're sitting at 49th in the nation and we're spending seventh
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most uh so all right so let me get this right we're we're 40th in the country
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out of a list of 40 countries C yes then we're out of the 50 states we have in
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the unit I think we're better than New Mexico and then we spend what was it seven times seventh highest in the
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nation seven highest do you know what that number is by chance per student uh in Anchorage roughly 177,000 per student
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state of Alaska 20,000 per student with roughly 2500 per student federal dollars so it's
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that's what goes back into the school district for the school schools the buildings the teachers and the teaching of the student correct correct yeah so
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$20,000 per student is the number that the school district is not throwing out there they're just staying at that
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$55,000 BSA number so if they increase like what I said before to that 1,800
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per student that actually jumps us from 20,000 per student to 30,000 per student
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that takes us from a 9 million $900 million budget to $1.5 billion
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just for the Anchorage School District and 44,000 students see and this is where I'm caught up to this whole
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conversation now right because I'm looking at the budget and I'm like okay there you go uh the budget is 68%
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federally funded correct okay 20% comes out of our dividend not our savings not
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our dividend right and then to make up the deficit they break into the div dividend so you're looking at even if
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they break into the dividend at 75 25% this year that's a conservative number right
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that conservative number right and that means that we don't get a paycheck folks okay we're not going to get a dividend
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because all of your dividend money is going to go to two things this year the BSA allow me that we're talking about
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right now for the child allocation right Bas student allocation Bas student allocations and uh the defined benefits
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package now these are kind of two bills that are wrapped into one because they kind of affect teachers also yes right
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so we're going to go ahead in my opinion we're going to give teachers a pay raise right the administration is going to get
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a raise okay I would doubt they don't get a raise okay and if this does you know they come in through so here here's
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the thing the the BSA increase it's a blank check it's saying to every dist District across the state yes we will
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give you x amount more dollars per student and then you can use your multipliers as necessary in the
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Anchorage School District it's much higher than everywhere else so just a ton of money is just going to funnel
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into the district and they can do whatever they want with it so if you look at how many um job openings there
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are in the district uh that's millions of dollars they can just kind of move wherever they need to
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so hasn't the Joba openings though in the school district like like there are
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hundreds of them yeah thousands yes of job openings in Anchorage school they can't fill them they can't fill them
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okay why can't they fill them uh so one of the reasons is so I went through uaf
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to get my teaching certificate to get certified through them to become a teacher uh it's a process you got to go
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through classes and then do a year of uh student teaching so you don't get paid um right now uaf was the only I say
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right now I don't know for sure about UAA now but two two years ago University of Alaska Anchorage lost
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their accreditation to certifi teachers and I believe that my opponent
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works with UAA in that department how does that work if you lose your creditation to certifi
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teachers what is I mean that kind of looks bad to yeah on UAA that's like I'm
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going to use the example for Eagle River and chuak high schools right that's like losing a full high school but then not
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letting any other uh students go to the other high school so then you're you're
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only producing half of what you could before because you screwed up yep so they're sort of shooting themselves in
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the foot they dead bad because I would have went to UAA I would have been in class would have talked to people
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connected better and I probably would be a teacher right now so
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if they don't have passed BSA in the student allowance what's our what our options if we didn't have to go this
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route with the BSA what are some options that the state should have gone or do you think as a school board you would have helped recommend the direction of
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of where we could go to you know not have a billion plus dollar budget for the school
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system responsible spending across the board there's going to be some tough Cuts everywhere um but I think listening
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to the parents is key I did appreciate last night that the school board stayed there until almost midnight uh listening
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to parents they allowed every single person to speak um that is a huge turn of what Happ what would happen last year
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um so it's it needs to be an understanding between parents and or the community at at large really because we
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have a lot of business owners that are tied into the school district that I feel that they're not being listened to either um but they're here and we're all
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invested so I kind of forgot where you're going that question or where I was going so yeah
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yeah forgot all right so lost my train of thought there the Schoolboard meeting
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is opening up a bunch of you know they're actually having public comment I seen the photo that you post I actually posted that on our our uh X face this
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morning and I was like I wonder if they how many parents actually got to talk so I'm glad that I'm going to go reedit
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that post to say everyone got to speak and that's a a hands down a different
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school board than what you've seen last year yes cuz I I signed up to speak and I was I was the last one on the list and
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you know after hearing every single parent speak I just got up there and thanked them because um you know last
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year when I tried to speak on behalf of uh school or yeah school safety uh
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Payton gun3 was was beat up at Clark Middle School last year she was bullied for months and the school district
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didn't respond um I was having not similar issues but just communication
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issues with the district myself uh so when I saw that happened to pton you
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know I I wanted to go to the school board and know say something um but I didn't follow their procedures and
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didn't WR on the the list that I wanted to speak uh and I tried to make a point
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of order at the end of the public session and the response was no sir you
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will not speak today so uh a few months later rules yeah about 10 months later
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here I am and I'm speaking on behalf of all the kids so it's time for change
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yeah and I I I appreciate a dad standing up okay right because I pushed you know
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the the threepiece you know uh provide protect produce I like that you know and
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uh the first thing a dad needs to do is provide for his family second thing he needs to do is protect his family you
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know yeah um because you can't protect your family if you can't provide for him and then you need to produce value right
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right and those are good morals good living standards a few an education of a mentorship you're
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going to build out a good future for your children that's on you that's not on the school district that's not on my neighbor that's not on anybody else
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that's for you to step up and and take that responsibility to build a better
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you know Community a better future for people we have to have build better kids and that all comes down to the parents
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yep and I'm not going to say this is all on the school district because I could push a lot of this onto parents real
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talk oh yeah a lot of it needs to be parents need to be more involved they do need to be more involved especially dads
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um especially especially dads you know I I love the fact that the moms go out and talk okay but I really want to see more
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Alaskan men Alaskan dads American first Patriots okay standing up and taking
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back our country stepping up for our country speaking for our country you know if we don't we're just going to get
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shoved all these marxists all these Communists all these socialist ideas and
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where what does that future look like it's horrible future it's unamerican it's unamerican that's all it is yeah um
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so I guess you know number two is going to what we were talking about public reaction and engagement and I guess we
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see a difference and a change coming right right as a school board member what can you do to make you know what
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they the the direction they're headed to better more transparent more accountability yeah I was thinking about
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that on the drive over here um and so I caught pieces of musk Elon Musk and
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Trump last night oh yeah there are interview yeah
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um and just being engaged being focused on American values right uh but they're
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going in a certain direction uh that's going to change the whole department of education's going to change we see that
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already with their Dei initiative uh completely being eliminated at this
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point so change is coming so that's why I'm here as well um I feel like I can
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adapt a lot better because I don't have those same um relationships holding me
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back um into the old ways there's not a single person that can control
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me God is the only one I'd love to hear that I don't I children right God God
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God man children yeah you know the Constitution says it clearly sir God gave man the rights
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100% you brought up something about Trump dropping Dei and CRT and they're not going to start funding schools for
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any of that woke [ __ ] right um uh what's his name Jared Bryant the
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superintendent right he came out with this thing a couple weeks ago called Sanctuary schools yeah right what's your
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thoughts on Sanctuary schools bro so I immediately called my principal at the middle school and asked him what he
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thought uh oh sorry sent him an email asked him what he thought he got back to me within a couple days I knew it would take him some time they got to go
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through the processes and like the legalities of it so I heard Dr Jared on
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a podcast right afterwards he said he got no notification personally from the
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FBI that that was coming down so he put out his own statement preemptively
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saying hey this is this is the policy in the school district this is just what it is we're not just going to hand kids
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over to a federal agent that's not going to happen like that's stupid like anybody can agree with that right yeah
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well I don't see I think I to me it'd be really hard for me to see ice agents go into a school right they're not going to
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right now if a felon escaped illegal immigrant broke into the school okay I
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hope the cops come and grab him out of the school bro if the c or SRO are there that day yeah if they're there that day
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that's another topic we're going to get on at the end because I think that is the most dangerous thing facing our kids
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right so that's that's the question I asked was can the school district tell me how many kids are in the school
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district that are here illegally they wouldn't track that that as soon as I said it I was like that's
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dumb question they don't know they're not going to track it they're not going to ask no why would they should we ask I don't know we
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have the lake and Riley act but that's an adult right blame the Lincoln Riley act so essentially um preventing illegal
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immigrants from being in the country and attacking somebody that is not yep so we
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have to get like the the whole drawn out uh speak of it but
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essentially that's it it's protect the lak and Riley who was killed by somebody who shouldn't been in the US
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yep that should translate into our school district because it's either dads
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that are protecting him or our kids or the district which one I kind to
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uh I kind of think it's kind of crazy uh one I don't know if it's a cultural issue up here or if it's an illegal
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immigration up here with the kids being in school but I heard through the Great Vine you can correct me if I'm wrong cuz
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this is all that we can't actually teach enough of the kids up here because we don't have enough
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translators translate different cultures up here uh
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why is that a problem do you know that's a problem and what's the solution CU to me being an American right I know we
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don't have an official American language English isn't is just a a sort of a a
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byproduct of the nation we have never set a standard for what you know uh
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language we're going to speak but I kind of feel like every other country's already done that so why doesn't America
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just set English in charge and say you're going to come to our country you need to speak English you need to
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assimilate to our values right pretty simple we did that for hundreds and hundreds of years people immigrated over
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to be Americans in the same fashion right not the same fashion that they're coming to America today and some of them
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don't even want to uh you know speak English to have no concern or want to
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learn English and to me that's epic failure or assume to be an epic failure
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for society how can we have business or comerce any of these things if we can't
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all speak together either way uh any business is going to cater their community and every school is going to
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cater to their Community as well so the Anchorage school district has over 100 languages that is spoken within our our
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schools and that's really hard um om's or om Ali Ali School uh was in full
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force yesterday talking about their immersion programs uh trying to keep those programs alive and those they're
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on the chopping block as well uh so if we're just going to erase any kind of
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other um communication mode then we're going to have to force English and that
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infringes on the rights of any individual who is an American citizen you know it is their right to learn the
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language or not because if it makes them happy or not so I'm not sure if the the
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school district is the right place to do that but yes if you're going to be taught with American dollars you should
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be able to read what's on the dollar bill or the Constitution one of the two yeah wherever you fall mind because
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either either you're throwing money at things or you actually well that's sort of where my mindset it is if we simplified it down and taught right and
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you taught everybody English all these kids English yeah okay you would take away the barrier yeah that is grown
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through second third fourth fifth kindergarten High School right like whatever grade you're in once they learn
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English now everybody else can just you don't have to go find 100 special right you're right with the kids specialty uh
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teachers you don't have to go find all these translators like that to me is wasted cost when we could just get the
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translator to teach the English class okay and now everything out of that and that could be a whole separate thing
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until they learn English they're just in their own classroom right they're not learning math or you know reading or
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history or any of that they're literally learning the language so they can go now learn the class material the course
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material I think they have something like that down there but I haven't talked to everybody at the district building yet I just saw their offices in
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there yesterday but I I'll look into that for sure that was just that was a question because I'm like we're trying to make Common Sense solutions to fix
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the budget right I'm not trying to to to downgrade anybody's culture right okay
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or anybody's ability to speak a second language I think you should learn a second third fourth fifth language if you really have the mindset to do that
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you're wasting out on life if you don't do that okay no it completely changes the the Pathways in your brain to be
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able to learn better it connects the right cures and understand a bunch of uh you know like America's a bunch of
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different cultures I get it you know so if you want to go look Russian Taiwan Japanese you know Arabic whatever right
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you should be able to do that Spanish Mex you know like whatever okay but I don't feel like we should be catering to
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them throughout the entire school well especially if it's taxpayer money um that's the way I look at it if we're
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getting over $2,000 per child Federal money then everybody else in the United States should have a say in what we're
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teaching our kids as well and I I agree with you English should be and I'm just that's just like me thinking Common
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Sense solution you know if they taught English then they could get rid of the translators eventually right because now
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you're not having to dual language teach everything and and if they're not dual language teaching and just teaching all
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the curriculums in Spanish or Russian or whatever and they're not promoting English that to me is another problem
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right because that's not the education that I was taught or you were taught or right uh anybody in our our founding
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history was ever taught you know you came over with a second language you learned right okay you came over with
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another education well you got taught American educ now saying that's not saying a lot because we're at the 40 at
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the bottom of the list in the countries but you take out our public school
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system and just our charter schools now we're in top
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10 yeah and number one in the nation all right so you know you know a lot about
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the private schools and Charter Schools correct y all right so you said something earlier we were talking about
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like the $20,000 price tag8 $15,000 price tag right now yeah what's that
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equivalate over into like private cuz do they still have that same
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cost no do you see what I'm saying right if you just they're in the top 10 right and then we're paying this much and the
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kids are in the bottom and we're 49th what is that number for the private schools Charter Schools remember the BSA
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number yes the 5,000 it's that just that yeah there I I believe there's a a 4%
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just that there's a 4% admin fee that's taken off for ASD because they control
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that's it yeah so less than half so if you want your
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kids to get a good education for a cheap price you're hearing it here now okay public school systems are not the answer
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are not the solution and everybody that wants to do Public Schools kind of missing out on a brighter future for
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your kid because you're not getting the same education for your dollar right and
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I don't say that for everybody to just leave the school system and then go into the public school or private schools and Charter Schools um what it means is our
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Public Schools need to get better so we need to cut that spending down that's the logic to me so if the charter
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schools can produce a much better product for our children in our future at much less of a cost and I'm just
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wondering what they would do if we gave that number and flipped it around you know what I mean where 18,000 went over
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here you know what they would do they would waste it oh that you think they would waste it yeah okay yeah money just
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follows the greed it does man everywhere you probably seen it you've been around I know it yeah you know I just like
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hearing it from other people especially one that's running from Office you I saw it in the military for 20 years and I called it out constantly I saved the Air
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Force $2.6 million almost overnight when I got to Germany and and they probably gave you a smack on the back and then
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they were like they sent me out on like flying around Africa and Europe they're like hey go hang out with these dudes
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with guns I'm like sweet let's do it let's let's do it I love it all right uh we kind of touched on it but we really
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didn't touch on it in depth school closures and what they call right sizing
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right want to break that down uh it's a fancy term of saying uh we're spending too much money on let's just say we have
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too big of a house and we need to cut some of it off we can't afford it anymore we need downsize it's not right
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siiz down was sort of like closing schools what they're talking about um and everybody got pissed off about that
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of course right you yeah I I grew up in Scottdale Arizona walking distance to my elementary school like I remember you
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know running through the they would flood the you know the field so there'd be like dooos floating around in there
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you know safe stuff back in in the day um but I remember when it closed and the
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whole neighborhood was up in arms about it because that's our school that's our community but things have to change with
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where we want to spend our money so we started seeing you know kids like me growing up out of that age range and
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we're seeing that across the district as well with our low declining population
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right there has to be cut somewhere it's going to come some from somewhere uh but
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like let's say firelake Elementary Eagle River was slaughtered to be closed down
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uh the Eagle Academy was going to move into that the Eagle Academy is the number one um School in the nation was
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going to move into that building and be able to produce a much better product in
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our community but the parents stood up and said no we need our school we need to save it and our legislators like no
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we need to save our school our parents want it but nobody listened to Common Sense it was going to transition to a
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better product and I feel like that message is not getting out because of bureaucracy I was
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at a community council meeting and they were talking about know closing down one of the schools and the biggest debate I
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heard back or complaint wasn't that um it was like a common sense thing it's
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that the liberal Democrats the Socialists the Communist marxists in our
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state in Anchorage specifically right okay I'm talking to every everyone in my community council right now okay all of
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you are are are socialist liberal Democrat thugs okay and their only
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reason and and I'm saying this because I heard it firsthand okay is that they
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don't want these schools to leave the public school district because the first person under the charter that gets
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access to them is you know who Family Partnership I don't know Charter School
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right so when they close down charter school all right that's how disconnected
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they are for success is that they'd rather burn a building down to the ground and rebuild it okay and rebuild
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it for themselves on a bond for 5 years tax mend it okay yes okay instead of
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giving these buildings up for auction to save money to put it in the cost of
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somebody else that wants to do a better job than you right okay they can't
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they can't go to sleep at night okay and be like oh man this charter school is going to come in oh no oh no man we're
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going to they're going to fire all all the all the wasteful teachers and all the ad men and the the 19 principles we
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have like they don't want that [ __ ] no okay at all right now the r Kula the
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German Immersion School is in a building and they're spending $900,000 in rent
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it's like almost their whole budget think of what they could do with that much money for our kids
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if ASD would just let them into a building that's not being used if you look at every building not
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being used see that's like there are every building is being used just not
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efficiently correct yeah the space is not being properly utilized so you're putting like
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10 people in this building over here that fits a thousand and right yeah to make it look good keep the lights on
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yeah keep the light yeah to get to get more money per building today yeah all right that's it's all falling into place
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right um do you know about how much the school district owns in buildings or properties I I actually don't at all I I
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don't know that number uh cuz it was crazy I was just wondering cuz I was looking on a totally separate thing with the Alaska State Troopers and you
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wouldn't leave the amount of money dear or the amount of properties that these estate Troopers just own sporadically
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and then you start looking into the city okay they got some conexes some places too I'm just saying
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sporadically okay like the most random locations you'll be like oh state troopers own this or oh the city owns
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this what are we doing with all this money I have no idea uh Someday I'm hoping doge is going to come in here not
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Alaska Doge not any other state Doge but real Doge okay third party yeah
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uh you know system to come in here and just Smash down everyone education economics energy just come clean up the
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state we're we're kind of a dumpster fire are uh to me it's kind of an embarrassment and I don't know how these
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legislators aren't embarrassed with where we're at at a state a nation and I don't understand where they don't
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think there's a disconnect because I feel whether you're a parent right or on the school there's a disconnect in every
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one of these legislations from the from the legislation Branch to the the executive brand to the judicial branch I
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feel like no matter where you go on the three branches of government okay we don't get a say we don't get a voice
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they don't want us talking about anything okay and when you do talk about it they want to come attack you the
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second that you're getting movement and and we're making a difference and you're actually educating people on the facts
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okay they have nothing better to do to come attack you oh you're misinformation cuz you don't know all the numbers you
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weren't in the back room you didn't hear our private conversations okay well [ __ ] man to me that's you not being
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accountable that's you not showing transparency right and um I hope that if
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you do win and you get in and win that we can continue to have transparent accountable conversations okay because I
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think that's what it's all about yeah cuz I would say maybe the two of us
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aren't the smartest in this room cuz Aiden's Aiden's over there you know but shout out to my producer yeah any room
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that we go into though both of us know we're not the smartest in the room like there are some smart parents out there
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that has some great ideas they just don't have the time y so they just need to convey the message at whatever time
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of day it doesn't matter like the school board is not a 9 to5 to me like I've been living this for a year trying to to
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make improvements to the district and this is just where I ended up so I'm jumping in this like feet head first
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everything throwing it out there if a parent has an issue at 3: in the morning and it means that much to their kid text
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me if I'm sleeping I'll get it when I wake up y I love that yeah you know
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reach back Outreach if you're not on X you're not on Facebook make sure you get them Alex uh is Alex r for
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schoolboard.com r Alex for Schoolboard ak.com
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Alex for Schoolboard ak.com okay we're going to do that one more time folks Alex for Schoolboard ak.com and that's
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where you can go look and and see his whole mission statement his values uh what he's planning on doing for for the
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the Anchorage Schoolboard seat um and the election is in what uh it's on April
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1 April 1 yep April Fool's Day April Fool can now folks this is how easy this election is okay you don't even got to
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tune up show up you got to do n that all you got to do is when you receive your ballot in the mail open it
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up fill out all the little dots make sure that you fill in
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Alex look up the names like you'll see a big difference big difference in the two
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big difference and who's look at the websites who's your who's your opponent Margo Bellamy Margo Bellamy yeah she was
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a previous um School Board president she's been in the seat for about 10 years time for a change I hey I'm I'm
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I'm not supporting anybody in office anymore really if you've been in 10 years okay and you're proud of where
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we're at in this state they can't be proud get out of here okay if you're out here saying we're going to make a change
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you had 10 years you never made a change don't trust Margot at all facts okay I
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don't care who you are don't trust any of these people tell your friends about Alex tell your friends about Anthony Cox
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all right and vote Anthony TOs and Alex for school board uh if you can it helps
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make a post repost uh share his name share his photo share his information
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out all right and uh if you want real facts from you know a conservative a Christian not uh some liberals with an
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attack agenda you know what I mean you got you got to pay attention you got to follow us you got a you know across platforms Alex is very um uh active on
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social medias all right you can find them all over social media he'll text you back he'll comment on your stuff
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please leave him comments leave him he loves DMs loves text messages he loves emails okay hit him up contact him find
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out what he's about and uh maybe you know you want to have a conversation to see if he's a real person give him a
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shout give him a holler yeah yeah that's a big thing is that actually reach out don't just assume because I mean I'll
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talk to anybody as long as you don't come with hate first like and don't be stupid about it because why yeah
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honestly I mean it's it's you know that whole you know mom's for Liberty thing
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really just it kind of irked me because um they had no intention on asking a
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question or getting to the bottom or having a conversation nothing to do with Schoolboard whatsoever nothing and um it
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kind of blows my mind that every one of these libtards come at you with the fact that they have to throw a name at you
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and Idol out you know put these specific titles on you because they can't have a conversation they can't understand where
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we're headed to and all we want to do and all I want to help you do is successfully help save the children
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right okay let's cut let's let's say taxpayers some money okay let's put the power back into the parents okay and
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let's make you know education education not indoctrination correct I mean that was a good way of saying American values
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in our school district yeah we'll Mega the [ __ ] out of it make education great again I love it well Alex uh I think
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this was a great show you want anything you want to uh send off with before we uh we wrap up uh biggest thing as I kind
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of touched on it look at the website uh compare the two of us uh if you like what you see on the website hit up
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Gracie she did a phenomenal job capturing who I am as a person and
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putting it on a website so it's a work of art she is setting the standard for
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what we need to expect from candidates in Alaska I love it well thank you for
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your time and uh this has been another episode of Alaska rants with Alex Rosal
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School Board CA C and we will catch you next time peace out
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