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Good morning. This one stood out to me on the Washington Post. You've heard about children's savings account programs, more of them popping up in disadvantaged school districts. They pointed out the Bradbury Heights Elementary School over in Maryland. It's a Title I school. So parents went to the back to school night. They were told that their kids will be eligible for at least $13,000 to cover the cost of college, vocational training, build up their wealth once they graduated, any one of those things. So it's kids from the classes of 2037, 2038, $1,000 each year from kindergarten through senior year of high school if they stay in the school system and graduate. So the parents are really happy they say it's going to give their kids this help this kind of jumpstart in life. So I thought it was a really really good story because more you're seeing this more often nowadays. Where does that money come from? This one is a greater Washington Community Foundation. They have this brilliant futures program. So they get the funding for it. And then it goes into it started back in June this particular program and now 400 students that are in it. I'm

seeing a new sense of desperation. I mean, across the rich people in the middle. Paul, there's a whole new sense of, this is just insane. I

mean, the cost of higher education is crazy. It's called into, I mean, some of these, you know, you go into the trades. That is, for a lot of people, a way better opportunity. Yeah, there's a whole debate there. Than kind of pursuing a college track. Good

morning, listening in the evening of Australia where they get it right. Or just all they do. You go to school, you get out and they take a teen sweetened sum out of your paycheck forever. I mean, I don't know the details. Uwe Reinhart, the giant at Princeton once told me that Australia gets it right. America does it. Next.

Uh, more states are requiring students at publicly funded colleges to complete a civics course. So they get it in high school. They're saying they're when the Schiller made you do this. No, she did not. This is the Associated Press. Here's the thing. So studies show that a third of American adults, they can't name the three branches of the federal government. No. There's another study that shows 10% of college graduates thinks that TV's Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court. So this goes to show you. So now you have these colleges that want to do it. So they spoke with this professor at University of South Carolina, Buford. He said that he gives out the citizenship test to his students and 35% them will pass it. So it just goes to show you that this is the reasoning behind why more publicly funded colleges want to bring back civics to their curriculum.

As Jeff Sachs said years ago in his seminal book on the dumbing down America, great book, he said we're now at the point where the kids are dumb, the parents are dumb, even the grandparents are dumb. I mean we are so far from civics of our youth is to be like if I said right now to a hundred people who's Andrew Johnson, you know, they'd have no clue. I mean you know first president of the page coming off of Lincoln and all that. Richard Haas has the book on this, folks. I'm not gonna mince words. The Bill of Obligations, Read It, Throw It at Child, Hit Him on the Head, the Smart Mouth College. Not that there's any Smart Mouth College kids. It leases house, but the Bill of Obligations. What are you at next?