A Teacher of the Year Getting 30 Years in Jail: Another cover-up case at Lakota Schools

It should be shocking, but it isn’t, as news of the San Diego Teacher of the Year Jacqueline Ma pleading guilty to sexually grooming two of her students, one 11 and the other 12 for an extended period, that Lakota schools had another incident, which was quietly wiped away from the news cycle. Where is Karin Johnson from Channel 5? And with that, San Diego teacher, what gave her away as a young 36-year-old prototype that was given their highest honor? She was the kind of teacher they wanted to say to the world that she was the best, and that parents could feel safe sending their kids to her with all their trust. Was it the nose rings? At Lakota, about a month before Jacqueline Ma cried like a baby in front of the judge, throwing all her guilt on the table, Lakota schools had plain clothed police officers escorting out a male teacher from the East Freshman building because the mother of a young girl caught the guy watching porn with her daughter. And previously, that same teacher had a series of complaints trying to get into the girls’ locker room, to the point that they had to move him somewhere else once people knew what he was up to. But to keep the story out of the news and to protect the school’s image, especially with this recent lawsuit in Columbus, where Lakota, along with 300 other plaintiffs who have joined the EdChoice lawsuit, want to pretend that they are something they aren’t. So they can keep the trust of tax-paying parents, instead of admitting what they really are, a breeding ground for Democrat politics with serious sexual deviancy issues. The media never reports on the issue until there is a confession, which is rare. And before action is ever taken, as in the case of the Lakota case and the San Diego case, it takes a nosy parent to ask questions and insist on an investigation, which then turns up diabolical behavior discovered too late.

It should be evident by now what is going on; these public schools only care about their reputations so they can continue to steal money from taxpayers to fund their monstrous meat factories of sexual molestation and disastrous grooming of innocent kids. These cases are so common that, statistically speaking, if you look at those who aren’t getting caught, it’s an astonishingly high number, so much so that all students would be able to report some creepy teacher they have to interact with who has boundary problems. The schools cannot detect it through their teacher union contracts because they don’t ask for or tell about concealment policies. Jacqueline Ma was given everything and had an incredibly bright future if only she could keep her shirt on. Yet she had such bad judgment that she was taking her clothes off in class to show the young boys her boobies and was sending them text messages with all kinds of incriminating content because when people, any people, get into authority positions, it is very difficult not to abuse that relationship. Obviously, for teachers of the year like Jacqueline Ma, it was tough to keep her clothes on, and her mind out of the gutter when she had a class full of students under her power, not to abuse it. And back to the EdChoice case in Ohio, or Trump’s position to strengthen School Choice and eliminate centralized education methods, favoring more competitive approaches, it’s because of these stories that no public schools in the country can say that they are efficiently teaching children. Instead, they are abusing them sexually and ruining them for the rest of their lives, in many cases.

I pick on Karin Johnson because I have a history with her. She’s always there too late and supports the public school experience with blinders on. I know her from my WLW days, when she was friends with Scott Sloan, the radio host. I talked a lot about public school problems on his show until Scott got in trouble with his wife, a real estate agent, and those segments on a big radio station were what she thought was damaging to the real estate value of the school districts where she was selling. So things went south, and Karin Johnson showed herself as a former cheerleader using the news as a pro-school advocate. Only when a story completely collapses does she do a story on these dangerous public schools. Instead of digging up the problems, they turn their attention to the people trying to bring all this to the surface, to protect the public schools for many of the reasons that were behind WLW radio getting out of that business. The advertisers want to think well of these schools, whether they are good or not. And now people hear too many of these stories that they want to pull their kids out of the schools and send them somewhere private. And they want choices in education because the public option is far from reform-worthy. Many people who have pushed these terrible stories under the radar want the public option to work for one reason or another, psychological or financial, and it’s hard for them to face the facts. However, parents are sick of having to do all the work, and if it were not for them, the school would never admit to these transgressions. And everything would continue to be swept under the rug.

It’s a problem in every workplace: the abuse of power by those who have authority over others, whether students or employees. You cannot have a system of efficient teaching when a school system in San Diego gives a teacher like Jacqueline Ma a Teacher of the Year award, because they are measuring all the wrong values. I would have told them that the nose ring should have been a disqualifying attribute. You can’t be Teacher of the Year with a nose ring. And if you take your clothes off in front of your students and send them pictures of you in sexual conditions, you can’t work as an authority figure in the school. Or like in Lakota, where these cases are pretty much daily, if you watch porn with your students, grooming them, you are fired. And if this young girl’s mom didn’t stick her nose into the situation, that teacher would still be employed, even though the other teachers know all about the problems. They don’t say anything because they care more about the school’s reputation. Not in actually being good and performing well. The public school experience is inefficient, expensive, and corrosive because it has bad teachers instructing students in vulnerable positions, doing all the wrong things. And it’s out of control because the checks on that power are more interested in keeping the stories from the public to hide it, because of some financial or emotional interest, that they have made the problem far worse. It’s so bad that whistleblowers, like that girl’s mom at Lakota, are viewed as troublemakers, instead of the teachers caught doing the dirty deeds. The assumption from the public school supporters is that we should all keep in mind the greater good of public education, even if that good is only in bad teachers continuing to get a paycheck stolen from property owners for a service that is horrible in general to an entire generation of kids. And when it comes down to it, nobody but a few parents who care are looking out for the kids. Not the news, not our politicians, not our business world, nobody. Not even our churches. Nobody cares because the evil under the rug is so vast and horrible that people would rather not find out about it until some tenacious parent catches someone guilty, and they cry like a baby, hoping to get a plea deal to cut 30 years of jail down to a lesser sentence. By that time, their lives are already ruined.

Rich Hoffman

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The Mothman Monster: One of the most myterious places on Earth

So, what do I think the Mothman Monster is? I believe it is Stolis from The Lesser Keys of Solomon, or one of the 26 legions of demons that he commands, likely conjured up by the occult rituals of some maniacal lunatic in the region of Point Pleasant, West Virginia during the years 1966 to 1967. Hundreds of people saw the Mothman Monster during that year, leading up to a bridge collapse that killed a lot of people transporting themselves over to Ohio from Point Pleasant. Of course, demons and spiritual monsters are not regional to the Near East, nor are they concerned about what time they are in, as they seem to exist outside of our dimensional limitations. Many described the Mothman as it appeared over seven feet tall with glowing red eyes and wings that allowed it to fly and harass innocent people. I think the case with a lot of elements of cryptozoology is that these creatures are timeless and have been captured in classic literature, the mythologies of the world, particularly Greek and Roman myths, and of course the demonology of Europe exported to the world as the Bible grew in popularity and people wanted to figure out what the heck Paul was talking about in Ephesians. I certainly believe in the cryptids that are reported. I have been to many sites where they have been found, particularly Sasquatches, which are again chronicled in books like the Lesser Keys and evoked through occult practices. I think someone in the Point Pleasant region called on a monster from the Stolis family tree, and the thing ran around haunting people in a truly terrifying way. I enjoy these topics a lot, so when my family asked me how I wanted to spend my birthday, we discussed a ghost hunt at Moonville, which I have spoken of. But my main thing was that I wanted to go to the Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

I’ve been there before, and so have some of my kids at different times, but I wanted to go again and spend some time there with my family all in one place, and we had a great day. The Mothman story is genuinely creepy; all those people weren’t conspiring to lie about what they saw, the entire town was substantially haunted, even to this day. The latest Mothman sighting in Point Pleasant was as recent as 2016. It also shows up in Chicago now and then. And that’s not all. I think this Stolis character is the same one that the people of the pyramid of Cahokia worshipped, just outside of St. Louis, at the giant mound works there. And it’s what the Indians called the Thunderbird. I love the topic. We spent over 1,000 dollars in the gift shop there, part of the cool museum I wanted to visit so badly. It’s cheesy, and very pulpy, but that is because the truly terrifying aspect of this giant creature that flies around foretelling doom to people so mysteriously has to have some psychological means of dealing with the crises. And it’s a kind of wet blanket hanging over all of eastern Ohio, even the ghost hunt at Moonville I was talking about. We’re dealing with a very ancient civilization in that precise location with all the mounds of West Virginia and Ohio up and down the Ohio River that have a very creepy vibe to them even if you didn’t know the stories of the various monsters that appear often to many people, even now.

Truth be told, that day at the Mothman Museum was one of the happiest days I’ve ever had in my life. Trump was in office doing good things. And I had my family to myself living out of our RVs and visiting places like the Mothman Museum, thinking about the kinds of things I like to think about, the politics of demons and spiritual manipulators who plot and scheme against humanity with terror and temptations. Even better, the Mothman sightings, well documented at the museum, were accompanied by Men in Black visits, a CIA and FBI kind of conspiracy theory. Only the reports were that these guys were never quite human who visited people at their homes after Mothman sightings to tell them they weren’t seeing what they were seeing. There were also UFOs all over the place abducting people and doing experiments on them, so we are dealing with a lot more than just the haunting of a monster upon innocent people along the Ohio River. But we are touching on a phenomenon that traces back to why so many mounds were built by ancient people in the region in the first place. Those kinds of fears are always buzzing in the background of how a conscious society builds itself, and in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, there is something to these strange occurrences. As we were there, I thought of the mound complexes up in Marietta, Ohio, and down the river at Portsmouth. Then, up the road to Newark, where I discussed discovering the Ten Commandments in America inside a giant mound. Then there are the graves of all the various giants found in the area, chronicled as evidence by early newspaper reports and a kind of Men in Black conspiracy to tell people that they never existed. Something was going on, and it was fun to think about, and that was how I spent my birthday this year. Giving myself fun things to think about that are likely significant to the human condition.

Outside the museum, right in the middle of town, is the Mothman statue; of course, we had to get a family picture by it. I think The Mothman Prophecy is one of the scariest books I’ve ever read about these events, written by John Keel, a reasonable journalist who didn’t intend to uncover some of the greatest mysteries of modern times. After his experiences at Point Pleasant he went on to write several books, all of which I have read many times and I do not doubt that there is a lot more to the story of which he was reporting, that there is a political rule over humanity by creatures from beyond time and space that causes us a lot of trouble. The story of King Solomon commanding these creatures with a ring given to him by God is just one example that has been attempted to be understood by the mind of humanity over the terrors of roaming spirits intent on evil designs. And sometimes occultists make deals with these demons for benefits that can’t be obtained through some supernatural trade. And most of us deal with that pressure by just ignoring the problem. But not me, I want to know all about it. We had a great day at the Mothman Museum and spent significant time in the area thinking about Mothman Monsters and other cryptids who terrorize people worldwide. Most of them were captured by the writers of The Lesser Keys of Solomon, which lists many similar characters. There is a lot for us to learn about these creatures, but to say they don’t exist is only a means of avoiding the problem with rationality, because it wasn’t just the Mothman sightings in that region during a particular period, 1966-67. But it has always been with us, especially along the length of the Ohio River, from Pittsburgh to St. Louis, in what I think is one of the most mysterious places on earth. And the monsters still roam the night to terrorize the innocent.

Rich Hoffman

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The Great Serpent Mound in Ohio Needs Money: One of the great sites in the world has fallen into disrepair

The thing about the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio is that it’s our version of Stonehenge, and that it has fallen into a state of ridiculous disrepair, and it shouldn’t be. When you look at the great historic sites around the world, like the Pyramids, Göbekli Tepe, and Stonehenge, they all have significant commitments to tourism dollars that inspire people to visit, instead of trying to frustrate them from doing so. I have talked about it before. I like what they did to Stonehenge to make it a positive visitor experience, and at least that level of investment should be applied to the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio because, in many ways, it’s more mysterious. It may not be as technical in its construction, but the mathematical logic that went into the Great Serpent Mound, just an hour or so east of Cincinnati, is equally impressive. Given what we do know about it, I would say that Serpent Mound is one of the most mysterious sites in the world, and Ohio should be showing it off a lot more than they do. I recently made it part of a grand paranormal tour that I took with my family, and we made a point to stop by and see it. It was good to see again, I’ve seen it a lot over the years. But each time it has fallen into disrepair more and more, instead of anybody giving it a fresh coat of paint and advancing it. The Great Serpent Mound has recently received much attention because of Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse show on Netflix, which deserves a lot of respect. Graham also discusses the site in the opening chapters of his popular and well-researched book, Before America. I read it and think that Graham is onto something about ancient cultures in North America, way before dates proposed by modern archaeology. And sadly, they have dug in on their previous assumptions because they don’t want to admit that what they put forth regarding the history of Serpent Mound was lazy and needed significant updates.

There is a lot of mystery going on these days with archeoastronomy that dates Serpent Mound to the Draco constellation between 3000 and 5000 BC, similar to what we see with the Great Boar at Fortified Hill just outside of Hamilton, Ohio. Or Fort Hill, just to the north of Serpent Mound. As well as the many other ancient sites built all over Ohio. None have survived as well as Serpent Mound, but they are much more complicated than we have assumed of Native American cultures. We are looking at the remains of a very ancient and sophisticated culture and it is more likely that the Adena and Hopewell Indians lived in these locations more as squatters than as architects, following a well-known Vico Cycle that is inconvenient to historic knowledge that has already broadcast to the world a lazy explanation that is now very much refuted. Ross Hamilton has done a lot of good work at Serpent Mound that offers much older dates and sophistication for the building and use of the mound complex, and the archaeology community has only dug in deeper, almost wishing the site would just go away so they could stop answering questions. There is now a policy that drones can’t be flown over the site because the caretakers of Serpent Mound don’t want their complex to be shown all over the world, as it has been, so they are frustrating efforts to do research in the area rather than embracing a continued understanding. I understand why, but it’s not a good reason.

My interest in these kinds of things is the next level of political discussion for me, which is the root cause behind many of the troubles in our world. I am personally tired of the lazy approach to everything that has permeated all our institutions, this little shell game where it is said, “there is no evidence to support wild accusations,” but at the same time being too lazy to look for the evidence because you are afraid of what you’ll find. To call such an approach a massive conspiracy is an understatement. I do not hate archaeologists by any stretch of the imagination. It takes a lot of hard work to dig in the dirt, discover things long buried, and figure out what they mean. Serpent Mound is well known to have had reports of giant skeletons of people seven to eight feet tall coming out of the mounds at that site, and like the other sites I have pointed out, the reaction to this news has been to dig less. They excavated at the site when I was a kid to understand it better. But over the years, like the Miamisburg Mound they have stopped looking for evidence so that they could then say that any proposal of giants in those burial mounds is not proof because they don’t want to find it and what they have discovered is shoved into the corners of museums and private collections, not released to the public for all kinds of political reasons. If these are wild theories, well then, let’s prove it. Let’s dig and learn the truth. However, keeping away from the questions is not a good strategy.

I remember in 2003 when a crop circle of great sophistication was made into a soybean field across the street from the Serpent Mound complex. It was far too complicated to be a hoax by some deranged teenage kids, and it was very similar to the kind of designs that are common outside of Stonehenge in England, which has many of the same types of sites there as well. We are looking at a global culture of Mound Builders who were not just surviving hunters and gatherers. I think that the growing understanding points to the remnants of the Atlantean culture that had migrants fleeing the well-known island that was overcome by water somewhere off the coast of Britain and north of the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. Former island dwellers dedicated to the God Poseidon, who ruled Atlantis, took with them their knowledge of astronomy and duplicated it all over the earth, as well as many of the ancient sites we talk about today. A lot was going on from the time of Göbekli Tepe to the proposed construction dates of the Great Serpent Mound, or the Great Pyramids and archaeologists, being a young science, got it wrong from the start and its time to revise our previous assumptions with the many new facts that have been discovered over recent years. And why Poseidon? Well, he had an attraction to Medusa and her hair of snakes, which makes a lot more sense for the snake worship of the constellation Draco than the explanations we have received so far. And while that may sound wild and unbelievable, it makes more sense than saying that a bunch of hunters and gatherers had all this advanced mathematics and built all these mounds, but they struggled to catch a rabbit for food. We need a lot more research and understanding, and all that starts with the preservation of that historic site with fresh funding, and I would even propose a tourist model to pay for it, similar to what they do at Stonehenge under the care of English Heritage. We should be making Serpent Mound a big part of our state identity, because people worldwide fly to Ohio to visit Serpent Mound. We need to treat it with that level of care because it is incredibly unique and requires much more research and debate.

I’m prepared to stake my claim with what I think is significant evidence, that a culture, like Atlantis, and even cultures older than that but have been lost because there wasn’t a Plato to record it in a way that survived, populated the entire world and that they were very tall people obsessed with worship of planets and their power, which still exists to this day in cults of magic and occult astrology attached to many secret societies who wish to rule mankind from the shadows gaining control of our political, educational, and financial institutions so they could set policies that would maintain their concealment. And from 9000 BC to around 3000 AD, they ruled the world until a rebellion of ideas came along and toppled their empire, for which Yahweh played his part. I propose that Serpent Mound is the remains of this very ancient cult that was preserved and restored by many generations of inhabitants, of which the Adena and Hopewell Indians did just as Egyptian society did and that was to build their empires around the structures that were already there for many thousands of years. Not much remains of this ancient culture because time tends to wipe them all out if something is over 3000 years old. But Göbekli Tepi and other sites around the world dating back to 10,000 years ago show that there were already very advanced cultures on Earth with a high understanding of mathematics. And Ohio has a big piece of that puzzle, which should be preserved. As I explained to my kids on this trip, there should be nice, paved trails, a nice restaurant, and an admission price to raise money for the preservation at the Serpent Mound complex. But this whole native American sacred site stuff needs to go. Science needs more evidence and a bigger picture to consider in the schemes of the universe as captured in sites like the Great Serpent Mound. And I dare everyone who snickers at this claim to prove me wrong. Because I don’t think they can.

Rich Hoffman

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I Missed the Lincoln Day Dinner for a Ghost Hunt: Strange creatures from beyond time and space

I didn’t make the Lincoln Day Dinner for the Butler County GOP this year because my family and I have been traveling all over the place, particularly in Eastern Ohio and West Virginia going to paranormal sites in a research project for my new book, The Politics of Heaven, and it’s all coming along very well. I wanted to go to the dinner and do appreciate the offers to attend with people I know. But almost to the moment, I was on a ghost hunt with my kids and grandkids that turned out to be pretty interesting, so I’m sharing it here for more than a bit of fun. Both of my daughters are tuned in to ghostly encounters, and one is so interested in it that she makes a living painting about it, for which she travels all over the country, appearing at conventions, selling her art. And my wife has had contact with all kinds of paranormal activity all her life; they chase her around like hungry cats looking to be fed after a hard night outside in the rain. She’s kind, and disembodied spirits in whatever form they exist look for her, and she never fails to attract their attention. So for my birthday this year, as research for the new book, I thought it might be fun to go to one of the most haunted places on planet Earth, the Moonville Tunnel in Vinton County, and do a ghost hunt. The kids would get a kick out of it, and I was curious about several things that worked exactly as I thought they would. So we went there during the day to warm the kids up to it. Then we went back at night. And while we were filming, we didn’t get much. But after I turned off all the equipment, a green orb appeared, which was more than a little strange. Made even more that way by the very remote location that Moonville is.

The Moonville Tunnel, one of the most haunted places on Earth

I tend to approach these subjects from the point of view of disproving paranormal activity. We had gone to several locations during the past week, but I knew that the Moonville Tunnel was a prime location since something always happened every time we went over the years. And that was the case when we walked back to the car after a reasonably detailed investigation. When we turned off our ghost hunting equipment, my wife felt something next to her and told my grandson about it. He took several flash photos with an iPhone, and sure enough, he was pretty freaked out by the green orb that appeared and was headed away from us back down a hill to Raccoon Creek. I saw the image from the screen as I looked at those spots in real time, and there was nothing we could see there physically. And I was ensuring there was no lens flair with our flashlights causing problems on the camera lens, or that light was bouncing off some bug. It was as black as black night with no other light sources but our flashlights for many miles. There were no homes nearby and indeed no porch lights. The Moonville Tunnel is as far from other people as possible in Zeleski National Forest. These kinds of woods are so remote that they have frequent bigfoot sightings, and other things, just because of the area’s nature. The spirit world always spooked the Indians from the region. The place feels haunted because of its lack of other human beings. It stays that way because there is a single-lane gravel road that provides the only access to the area for miles and miles that runs deep into the hills.

Green orbs are supposed to indicate a healing nature of the ghostly encounter, so who knows what kind of lifeform it was trying to emerge and interact with us? I have seen this kind of thing before, so I wasn’t surprised as much as I was a little shocked at the repeatability of it. Almost the same thing has happened to us several times over the years we have been to Moonville. We do a ghost hunt, thinking that nothing happened. We might have felt uncomfortable feeling that other people were around us, but we could see nothing we could physically see. Sometimes, shadow people appear in the corners of our eyes, but disappear when we focus hard on them. But later, especially when using cameras with a flash, because digital cameras mess up the color palette of the visual spectrum, things appear just outside the visual range of human eyes, and the cameras pick it up. Because of this, I avoid flying bugs and light tricks while we are filming. Or even moisture from breathing, so they don’t taint our experiments. I would have been happy to do that ghost hunt with my kids and grandkids for my birthday and family time. But what showed up in our photos was pretty good, especially since I was trying not to have anything like that happen. But sure enough, my wife could feel something next to her. We took a picture. And something was there and leaving, which, given that area, was more than a little spooky and made for a long walk back to the car, knowing that these things were all around us but we couldn’t see them with our physical eyes.

Needless to say, I did get good material for my book. I explained to everyone that the spirit, whatever it was, should be looked at as a stray cat that once you pet it, it won’t go away. If you think about the nature of spirits living in such a place, lost in time and space, having us there was an extraordinary occurrence. We were talking to it and giving it attention, which was probably the highlight of its existence, and you can start to feel sorry for these things when viewed that way. I don’t think ghosts like that can do any harm; likely, they are stuck and probably aren’t very smart. What makes them interesting is that they exist, but not in a way we understand, and the need to communicate with elements outside our perceived reality cuts through the limitations. And I was happy that something like that happened while introducing my grandchildren to ghosts and the spirit world. They see and hear so much on television and the internet, it was good for them to have their own experience and to approach the subject logically. It was a long way to go to come back with nothing, and like I said, I gave up a chance to go to the Lincoln Day Dinner for the Republican Party of Butler County because of it. And I was glad that something happened that deserved a lot of talk after. I thought overcoming the fear of such a scary place would be good for my family, and I would have been happy if nothing happened. But it did, leaving me scratching my head even more, but in a good way. The spirit world is real; some creatures live in it, want to interact with us, and do much more than we’d like to admit. But that doesn’t mean they have more power because they exist in a way that hides them from our knowing eyes. They only have the power of concealment. They don’t have the power of superior intelligence.

Rich Hoffman

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If Trump or Any Politician Supports Pot Legalization: Smoke shops produce stringy haired losers and depreciated value

To answer a question that should be obvious at this point, but it needs an updated clarification, I am more than 100% against pot, or any marijuana support, and I will not endorse or support in any way a politician who is in support of marijuana legalization. This came up in a recent discussion about political endorsements, and I had to explain to several people that just because pot was legal in Ohio, I did not recognize it as such and that I am more against pot sales and use than I ever was. For me, it’s a Jesus in the temple against the money changers kind of thing. I do not see marijuana as anything good for anybody, and it’s certainly not a free market right. And to go to that next step, which evolved out of the question, would I feel the same about President Trump if he proved to be supportive of a federal policy on marijuana legalization? The answer is that if Trump became pro-pot, that would be the day I work against him. Everyone knows how supportive of Trump I have been over these last eight years, but the line in the sand would be pot legalization from his administration. On that day, I would never be supportive of Trump again and would actively work against him. That’s how serious I am about the matter, and life would go on if that turns out to be the case. I know there are lots of discussions, especially from the Roger Stone crowd, to bend Trump’s ear to federal legalization. If he did that, in my opinion, he would become the enemy, and I would actively look for his replacement. That might be good news for people looking to drive a wedge between Trump and his base. But because of all the talk in the background, I have to say it before it’s too late.

I don’t think Trump would do something so stupid. He’s a states’ rights guy, and federal legalization would go against that position. If states are that stupid to legalize pot, that’s their problem. Now, Ohio just legalized pot, but not without some progressive gymnastics on constitutional technicalities that were very disingenuous. There was a significant amount of outside money and influence that needed to be removed from the system, and I will certainly apply my efforts in that direction. Just because radical leftist losers slid the issue under the door in Ohio, it does not mean I accept it. And yes, there are a lot of Republicans who think that being pro-pot is being pro-business. They tell me that the former Speaker of the House, John Boehner, supports the legalization of pot as a lobbyist. My response is that I don’t like John Boehner; he cries too much and has smoked like a train chugging up a long hill for way too long. Even though we share mutual friends, that does not mean I like what everyone does, nor do I endorse it. I am not a libertarian. I do not believe in the ‘live and let live’ philosophy, where you do whatever you want as long as it doesn’t impact me. I believe in free markets, but I also think that we need rules in society that can make for a civilized nation, such as people shouldn’t have sex with kids under 18. People shouldn’t drink until they are 21. If I had it my way, people would never drink. Kids shouldn’t drive a car until they are 16. And people shouldn’t do drugs. Any drugs. I’m even against marijuana for medical use. I hate the stuff and see it as the gateway drug to a weak society poised to collapse on itself. Nothing good comes from pot legalization.

As far as it being a pro-business stance, since pot was legalized in Ohio, we have all these embarrassing smoke shops everywhere. They always have beat-up cars and stringy-haired losers coming and going from them. Sure, plaza owners love them because they don’t want to see part of their buildings empty of a paying tenant. However, the quality of those tenants is detrimental to a community. Smoke shops and dispensaries are no different than porn shops like the Hustler Store in Monroe are. Nobody of any quality wants those reminders of human garbage around their homes. They are bad businesses that lower the quality of our society; they certainly don’t enhance it. To the short-sighted, smoke shops and pot sales might represent an expanding economy, but at the cost of other profitable aspects of society. You might sell more pot to a bunch of losers, but those losers aren’t going to be inventing the next great thing, so in the long run, you cost business opportunities by having a pro-pot society of lazy slugs who adopt political socialism to feed their entitled personalities. The billions of dollars of revenue that keep being passed around regarding the legalization of pot come at a cost of much more than that, primarily in the hard-to-define opportunity cost of a society that spends its recreational activity pursuing intoxication. The same type of people pushing pot legalization are also advocates of a 40-hour work week, so they can stop work as soon as possible and hit the bottle or smoke more pot sooner, and the way I think about things, if they worked more and worked harder, they’d be intoxicated less. And that is probably good for them, rather than giving them more leisure time that they will waste anyway.

Would I throw away all that time I spent investing in Trump over just one issue of pot legalization? Yes. That’s how strongly I feel about it. Pot is a nonstarter for me; there is nothing good to come out of it but short-sighted gains built on the backs of stupidity. Strategically speaking, this is, of course, what the enemies want: to put Trump in a corner, make these tariffs a chopping block where he seeks an approval rating spike by pandering to the pot heads. And if they can separate Trump from people like me, they would love it. But it’s not too late, and I don’t think Trump will do it. But there are politicians I like quite a lot who have embraced the legalization of pot in Ohio, and support a nationwide deregulation of it. They compare it to the prohibition period against liquor and want to think that the two are the same, that if you have a society of alcohol abuse, then pot consumption is the next logical step. But I say you have to draw a line somewhere, and for me, that is between alcohol and pot. Ultimately, we shouldn’t have a society that embraces drug abuse no matter when or where. That this is an issue at all says a great deal about our culture, which needs significant reform. And there are a lot of people in the world that I have alienated just over the consumption of pot. And I’ve always been this way, and I’ve no intention of ever changing my position on it. I dislike the substance and the people who use it. And in most cases, once I find out about it, I never speak to those people again. So needless to say, when it comes to endorsements, if a politician, even if it’s Trump, supports the legalization of pot in any way, our relationship will literally go up in smoke.

Rich Hoffman

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What is Required for a New Lakota School Board Member: Its a system that needs to die

Coming up in the Lakota schools soon is an opportunity to elect three more conservative school board members, and to answer the question I have been asked regularly: am I running for one of them? Because many people want me to. Not to give a politically worthless answer, but in my opinion, people who genuinely appreciate the system should be the ones to run it. I do not like the system, and I have no interest in working with people like that. I view education as a reform effort, and I believe the amount of time required to fulfill a school board role exceeds 70 hours per week. It’s not a helicopter position as it’s now for many people who are currently in it. So I would advise people who want to help fix the system and are willing to do that level of work to let us know, and we’ll help you connect the dots. But as far as one of those people being me, that wouldn’t be a good idea for those wanting to save the system in some regard. I’m accustomed to being entirely in charge of the things I do; I’m not a very good consensus player. I don’t even think the design of school boards in public education is correct; it needs a strong CEO-type to oversee these radical superintendents. I don’t like the lawyers. I don’t like the teacher’s unions. I don’t like the way they are funded. I don’t like what they teach. I don’t think they work long enough hours, regardless of the level of employees, administrative, or the teachers themselves. I support scrapping the whole thing and starting over. However, there are many parents with school-age children who want to make the best of a difficult situation, and these are the types of individuals who should be leading the school.

As far as holding on to the way things were in the past? There is no chance of that. I was watching the protests this weekend at the Statehouse against Trump and Elon Musk over their fears that Social Security will be cut, which isn’t even on the table. However, the level of stupidity exhibited by some of those participants is genuinely overwhelming. There is no talking to people like that with reason. They can’t understand anything that needs to be changed, so, in my opinion, they should all be scrapped. They are not prepared for what needs to be done. I would argue that they aren’t even qualified to be parents. I feel sorry for the children born into families with the kind of parents who go to these anti-Trump protests. It’s not their fault their parents are idiots. But I see no hope in any of those people; they are the result of a society that has experimented with Marxism, and they accepted those thoughts as a new reality. And that is not the future of education. There is only one way things are going, and no amount of crying like a baby is going to change anything. The funding of public schools needs to change; it will change. The government funding of schools, with unmanaged money moving from the federal government back to the local level, is not a future prospect. It can’t be, and it never should have been. People have seen what that system gave them, and they aren’t willing to continue with that method. The per-pupil costs of educating students should be at least half what they currently are. When I talk to people who are out there carrying signs in favor of preserving that system, they don’t understand it, and they never will. Education has to be competitive; we need competition with other teachers, with other districts, and with other states. The teacher’s union model of everyone getting a collective bargaining agreement for subpar work is over.

And as I say that, people will tell me tomorrow, and the day after that, and the week after that—that’s why I should be on the school board. Consider what you’re saying and think about what you know about me. Yes, I can speak very politically, and I work very well with people who hate me and plot against me with everything they can come up with. My life is far more complicated than the most ostentatious Shakespeare play. There isn’t any way for my life to be reflected in art because nobody would believe it, including the most conspiratorial of Shakespeare’s works. My idea of the perfect school board member was and is Darbi Boddy. She genuinely cared about making the school a great one, and she represented a sizeable demographic group within the Lakota school system. And people from all political sides conspired to get rid of her. Who in their right mind thinks I would put up with that? Darby handled things very well and played by the rules, paying her legal fees to defend herself in ridiculous ways. She never should have had to do that. And I can say, I wouldn’t. I would burn the whole system down from the inside out, along with all the people associated with it. So be careful what you wish for. I want what’s best for the people of my community. However, what’s best for me is what people who deal with me receive, and I’m not sure people can see past the results they want, which are undoubtedly attainable. But what would they do with the wreckage in the aftermath? That’s where the real trick is.

I think there is a way to do it, but as I mentioned, I believe the job of a school board member at Lakota schools requires at least 70 hours a week. It takes that long to read everything you need to read and speak with all the people you need to talk to. The school board meetings need to be more prolonged, more frequent, and include more detailed information. And the people working together need to build a team, not to resemble a Shakespearean drama. And when I say that, we need three school board members who will work together, not against each other, and merge into the political faction of the teacher unions. I have a very dominant personality in personal conduct, and I excel when I can give orders. But consensus building is not my thing, and it never will be. I’m the one you call to take the head shot. Not the one who cleans up the mess. And Lakota schools are a mess, and there is a lot to clean up. And the people doing that need to like each other and to represent the community in the best way possible. But there will be a lot of hard talks and times in the next two to three years. Really, until Vivek Ramaswamy is governor of Ohio, we won’t be able to truly fix public education for good with competitive models and funding tied to the child, not the uncompetitive local school. The property tax racket has to come to an end. It has given us a garbage product taught by garbage people who are worthless in every category, and it’s time to put all that to an end. As those protesters increasingly do in places like the Ohio Statehouse, they aren’t in the realm of reality, and that isn’t the fault of the rest of the world. It is their social dysfunction to think that a school system can continue to get unlimited funds to sponsor a poor work ethic and to teach Marxism to the next generation isn’t even a consideration for the future. I will not say everyone but me should do such a hard job. But when it comes to delivery, be careful what you wish for. My bedside manner on this topic does not come with any handholding. I’ve been ready to pull the plug on the patient for a long time. It’s a system that needs to die.

Rich Hoffman

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Dismantaling the Department of Education: Our current system values all the wrong things

It doesn’t matter what kind of technicality some opposition to the Trump executive order that dismantles the Department of Education hides behind; the reality is that education in the United States needs to change. And no amount of foot-dragging will change the minds of people tired of a losing product. When Trump issued his order to initiate the process of eliminating the Department of Education and returning policy to the states, he did something that no Republican had the courage to do since it was created in the first place. Reagan was supposed to eliminate the DOE in early 1981 or 1982. Then he was almost killed by an assassin’s bullet and was never quite the same. And the George Bushes were part of the problem, and made things worse. So, until Trump came along, nobody had the guts to undo what Jimmy Carter had started, a big government approach to a very intimate concept of education and how society approaches it. Knowing what we do now, competition is the best and really only method of reform, and the way teacher unions have embedded themselves into the education profession, they have done to the minds of children what unions typically do to everything they touch, whether its steel, car manufacture, or even food production and movie making. Unions only benefit the losers at the expense of the good, and that brings down the quality of the entire effort. So, it’s no wonder America is not even in the top ten on most education charts, despite being the wealthiest country. Public education was a noble concept, but the government’s funding of a subpar product has diminished its appeal and has not served our society well. When you examine the literacy rate among graduating students, it’s clear that if we continue on our current path, our society will crumble into dust. And we can’t have that.

And I don’t say what I do in a vacuum. Even as I write this, people are urging me to run for the school board in my community, because the schools there have received a significant amount of funding, yet they are failing in detrimental ways. And I know what needs to be done, but I don’t want to help facilitate a failed system. Joining a five-person school board that defends a system I am ready to scrap isn’t a good way to spend my time. I think a society should have an education system, but I think Dewey was way off in the means of delivery. I would be in favor of a highly competitive model that is more merit-based, similar to the one Vivek Ramaswamy is proposing in Ohio as a future governor. Currently, school boards act like a moderator for government money allocation, and that entire system, in my thinking, needs to be scrapped. And for context, I work with many people who hold PhDs and have multiple advanced degrees, and I do not see them offering a solution for the future. In my opinion, academia has not been very effective and has never been in the history of the human race. While specific knowledge is honorable, it often comes at the expense of general knowledge, which is far more useful. I don’t see people with advanced degrees as any different from the geeks at Comic Con who gain particular knowledge about a topic and then build their lives around that specificity at the expense of logic. No matter what it is, when people lose touch with reality and seek to prop themselves up in a social context with the merit of group acceptance, the results are never positive. And doing that very thing is the goal of our current education system, so in its current form, I see no hope for it.

And Trump doesn’t have the answer either, nor does Vivek Ramaswamy, nor does Mike DeWine; people who are currently in the midst of redefining what public education means in America, and specifically in Ohio. Achieving a high academic honor only benefits the system that created that honor. For instance, receiving an Academy Award for a movie used to be considered an outstanding achievement, but woke politics have undermined the entire enterprise. Now, after years of witnessing Hollywood failure and Democrat political positions, the concept of an Academy Award means nothing to anybody. And the same has happened in all fields, especially the sciences. I was on a phone call just a few days ago with the head of the EPA and a panel of experts who were trying to explain the rules of conduct for a future project. And there were reasonable people involved until there was that one guy who wanted to make sure everyone knew how smart he was and how he had built his entire life around making rules and then explaining to people how to live their lives around those rules, rather than dealing with the grim reality that the world didn’t want to deal with his dumb rules. I am not mad at the guy because he was essentially getting in the way of something I needed to do. But because he was uselessly in the way of things that needed to be done, which he thought had value and merit, when in reality he was the kind of guy who likely had a mom who put a bicycle helmet on him one too many times. And his wife and kids were probably miserable with his views about life. They were built on a bad foundation that the rest of the world could have cared less for. It’s the same kind of people who are always encountered at the patent office. Or with a new scientific discovery, especially with this new news about what’s under the Giza plateau in the form of tunnels and a Hall of Records potentially at the feet of the Sphinx. Academia has become a public validation for individuals who rise in these fields, as they protect their status through stonewalling and bureaucratic rules, believing their social standing is respected. And they are terrified of that status ever changing because, as people, they are timid at the prospect of competition and have built their lives around that insulation, hoping that nobody ever discovers how worthless they are.

The first thing that people think who build their lives around such a social enterprise is that Trump is acting in an anti-educational way, and they are agitated and even hostile to the idea of removing the Department of Education which sets social policy for the bench marks of education achievement in the far away land of Washington D.C. And people who have spent their lives chasing those made up standards want that system to continue because they are personally terrified of competition. As I’ve experienced with high-degree personalities, they are often shocked in a competitive discussion to discover that they are not the most intelligent people in the room. They have a paper that shows that someone told them they were. However, reality has other opinions, and those become apparent in a competitive environment. Every child in America needs a unique set of educational goals to achieve, as the current benchmarks are mainly ineffective. If our schools were producing students like Elon Musk, I would have a different opinion. But what we get are kids who think going to a Tayler Swift concert is a great thing and they grow up to become terrors of the world dropping their kids off at child care while they pursue a life on a second marriage and run like bats out of hell to pay their next car payment and achieve a social status to other people who mean absolutely nothing as well. I want to see an education system that inspires more people to achieve great things in the world at all levels of society. Because what has been produced so far has not been very good, and it needs to change dramatically in the years to come. There is nothing anyone in the world can do to make public education work under the current Department of Education priorities. It can’t be saved, and the sooner everyone realizes that, the sooner we can have an intelligent discussion about what comes next. But saving garbage is not it.

Rich Hoffman

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The Michael Ryan Solution: Why its great that he is running for Butler County Commissioner

Out of my most recent articles, the one that has received the most attention is the one I did on sky taxis, specifically the products that Joby Aviation, right up the road in Dayton, Ohio, has ready to go straight from the concept of the Jetsons to practical applications now in 2025. There are places in the world right now, within a few months of this writing, that will take delivery of these sky cars and make them part of their expanding economy as a new transportation option. This is not science fiction, but indeed the next generation in personal transportation, and I have proposed that it should be Butler County, Ohio, the home of perhaps two future presidents very shortly, that should be leading the way on this exciting new technology, because honestly, someone in the United States is going to do it, and do it soon leaving everyone else to catch up later. It is much better to be a leader in something new than to be a come-lately, especially in the way that Butler County, Ohio, is evolving as one of the tremendous technical centers of the world. I talked to Vivek Ramaswamy recently about his plans as governor, and these eVTOL aircraft concepts will be a natural extension of what he wants to do in the state. New economies form around new technology, and probably there is nothing newer than these air taxis. Soon, they will be everywhere; most people will use them just as commonly as people use cell phones, and the world will be much more interesting and faster. At the State of the State speech from Governor Mike DeWine this year, 2025, even he mentioned what Joby Aviation was doing in Dayton, so this is very much a technical reality waiting for some bold people to be the first, and I have been trying to encourage people in Butler County to be those first bold people.

While I was at a recent fundraiser for Nancy Nix, I was carrying around a plate of food, looking for somewhere to sit down. I had been talking too much and didn’t have a place to sit as Nancy was trying to prepare everyone for some entertainment she had for the evening. My wife couldn’t attend that event, so I was alone and didn’t consider taking a seat. So I was in a pickle now that everyone was sitting down. So there I was with my plate full of food, needing a seat when Vice Mayor of Hamilton Michael Ryan and his very nice wife Amanda encouraged me to sit with them. So, I did, and for dinner conversation, we had an excellent talk where I learned that he was planning to run for commissioner of Butler County, which is good because recently, Cindy Carpenter had been caught campaigning for Democrats in Middletown, leaving many people very angry. So, for the upcoming Republican primary ahead of the 2026 election cycle, people were looking for alternatives, and it sounded like Michael Ryan could be it. I have come to know him somewhat well; we pass each other at many events, and he has enjoyed my social media over the years. I have seen him stand tough in the pocket on more than one occasion, even for a pretty young person, young to my eyes. He’s over 40 now, but I have a habit of referring to people in his age group as young, which I do to many people I deal with who are his exact age. But when it comes to some of these new political positions, I would love to see someone with a good 20 years of work history in front of them, with lots of fresh ideas and ambition to do them. So it didn’t take me long to get interested in his statement about running for county commissioner.

But he wanted me to sit with them mainly because he was interested in my articles on new transportation methods like Elon Musk’s Hyperloop system, which I proposed should be built in Monroe, Ohio. Then, this Joby Aviation alliance I was talking about for West Chester, Ohio. While Michael has been on the Hamilton City Council and has been doing a great job there, which has plenty of challenges, running for commissioner of one of the three seats requires a much larger vision for a community like Butler County, which comes with some lofty expectations. We have had pretty good commissioners, and I had been thinking for a while that there is great potential if only we could get T.C. Rogers a second vote. T.C. is a free market advocate, thinks right about many things, and could use a good partner as a commissioner. Don Dixon has been pretty good, too. They know how to make the spaghetti in the kitchen but could benefit from a fresh, youthful vibrancy. Cindy Carpenter is listed as a Republican with the other two, but she behaves like a Democrat and has for a long time, leaving people hungry for an option. So, Michael Ryan came across to me during this discussion as someone who might fit perfectly into the needs of Butler County. So, given all the elements, it seemed like an opportunity to talk about some of the exciting things that could be possible if we put someone like Michael Ryan onto the seat of Butler County commissioner.

Michael and I met at a spot I think is the perfect property for a Joby air taxi service port. There are lots of places in Butler County for something like this as a hub, where people visiting at CVG downtown could fly straight to Butler County to shop at Ikea for the day or to conduct business and stay at one of the many hotels that are within walking distance to this proposed location. However, even within Butler County’s 400,000 residents, it is a quick way to get to Miami University, downtown Hamilton, and even Butler Regional and Middletown airports. An air taxi service would see immediate good business and be economically viable right out of the box. So Michael Ryan and I talked, and I filmed it so people could listen in and get to know him a bit. It would take investors with vision to make anything happen. It would take technical expertise to set it all up. There are plenty of achievable challenges. However, the most important thing to me is setting up the political infrastructure to achieve it. Given where the Trump administration is on these kinds of things, I am confident that there would be lots of encouragement at the federal level. This economic boon could help Middletown a lot, and J.D. Vance would like to see that happen. His personal friend, Vivek Ramaswamy, will be the next governor of Ohio, and I know he’s excited about it. The proposed location of Butler County, Ohio is mainly in Senator George Lang’s district, the current Majority Whip at the Statehouse. I know a friendly trustee in Mark Welch in West Chester who could get on board with something like this. What was missing was a county commissioner who could connect all the dots and remove the barriers so the business people could make the investments. And after the talk Michael Ryan and I had, it should be obvious why I’m endorsing him and why I was so happy that he invited me to sit with him and his wife at the Nancy Nix fundraiser. We had a great discussion that could grow into something truly special, which is very exciting.

Rich Hoffman

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George Lang Tried to Tell Them: Woke politics is why Lakota is losing money

To answer the question that was asked at the March 12^th special meeting of the Lakota school board, why were they losing around 9 million dollars out of their quarter of a billion dollar budget to Ed Choice vouchers and could they sue the state for money they assumed was guaranteed to them, a little fog has to be removed from the subject. I was in Columbus for Governor DeWine’s State of the State speech, and there were education protesters in the rotunda making a lot of noise and looking horrible doing it. Legislators were working on the new budget, and the fear was that public schools would lose money, which is the trend across the country. Now, I warned everyone this day was coming, that Jimmy Carter’s Department of Education would be dismantled, and education funding would be built in a more competitive direction. What we have been doing has not been working. People worried about the future should be happy that Vivek Ramaswamy, who will be the next governor of Ohio, wants to pay teachers more. He is a lot nicer on the issue than I am. And for that matter, my personal friend Senator George Lang is too. They believe that public education can be saved in some way, whereas I do not. I think institutional learning is beyond help, but that’s why there are debates in government and education. Employees should at least be happy that Vivek and Lang are of like mind and want to preserve public education somehow. Yet the protesters at the Statehouse were not the kind of people that made you want to dig deep into your pockets and give them more money. They all looked pretty ragged and as though they needed to skip a few meals. They sounded like entitled losers demanding more money in the budget from Ohio taxpayers who have not been given a good product that makes society better.

So I was outside the Representative’s Chamber talking to several of our area politicians of Butler County and they were asking me if I was going to the emergency Lakota meeting where the plan was for them to join the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding lawsuit against the state because Lakota was losing funding due to parents choosing to use the voucher programs already in place to give education options to their children. When they asked me, I was already thinking about it; my phone had been lighting up for the previous 24 hours from people asking me to go because it was an emergency. Lakota was already trying to build the foundations for a tax increase to pay for a facility project they were planning to vote for soon, for many millions of dollars for what was turning out to be a pretty crappy product. And the kind of people who plan to work against that tax increase wanted me to see for myself just how ridiculous Lakota schools had become. I was reluctant; I have not paid much attention to Lakota schools since they ran off just the latest conservative school board member the previous year. I have worked to give Lakota a school board of reasonable people to deal with the coming education challenges, and their reaction was more radicalism like the idiots I saw in the rotunda, so I wasn’t too keen on the idea. I was talking to Representative Jennifer Gross and Thomas Hall, among other people who were equally concerned about the invite they had to join in this special meeting. And as we discussed in Columbus, my comment was that it was a hit job by the school board to set up our representatives so they could have an excuse to blame them for why they had to join the lawsuit. I will credit them: Senator George Lang, Representative Thomas Hall, and Representative Jennifer Gross all attended the meeting by phone because they were either still in Columbus or, in George’s case, out of the state. But they lent their voices in surprisingly effective ways. I decided to return from Columbus and attend the meeting in person because it seemed like a good chance to see the new school board and administrators. After all the mess over the former superintendent, Matt Miller and a purge of personnel since then my attitude toward public funding of schools was that Trump was going to be re-elected, he was going to dismantled the Department of Education and all education issues were going back to the states where people like Vivek Ramaswamy was going to have to figure out how to compete against other states. The teacher’s union-run public education system was a thing of the past. I tried to warn everyone, but they didn’t listen.

And I was right about the meeting. Our area representatives did a nice job providing comments about whether or not school vouchers were here to stay in public education or whether it was a fad that would fade away. After the remarks were given, the school board did what they went there to do: they voted to join the lawsuit to get money from taxpayers they had not earned. It’s the case that will lose in court a few years down the road because people can’t be compelled to purchase a bad product, and public education has shown itself to be deficient in every way it is measured. The school board’s plan was to blame the politicians who had not secured funding for their bottomless pit approach to school budgets. However, the representatives did so well that it wasn’t easy to blame them for the existence of school vouchers such as the Ed Choice program.

George Lang told them that the cause of parents wanting to leave Lakota schools through a voucher was the fault of the school itself for accepting woke politics that those parents didn’t want their kids exposed to. It was a blunt statement, but it was given with as much love as could be provided in that circumstance. And the large audience attending, representing the teacher’s union mentality, the same kind of people protesting at the Statehouse rotunda earlier that day laughed and heckled George with boisterous sentiment. As Doug Horton wanted to put on a show to fight George, as did another school board member and the new superintendent, the comment was the truth behind the matter. Increasingly, Lakota schools would have to compete for every kid enrolled there, and their funding approach was dependent on their ability to be an education destination instead of funding attached to the zip code. And the bottom line was that people who wanted to take their kids out of Lakota schools and drive them across town to another school was because more and more parents didn’t want to share space or time with the kind of people who were giggling at George Lang. We just watched that same school board run off Darbi Bobby, the previous school board member representing a percentage of the Lakota population. And she was just the recent. This has been the practice of Lakota’s school board, to control the message by eliminating dissenting opinions because the system isn’t designed to deal with actual management. And if only 4 to 12% of the total Lakota population found they didn’t want to deal with transgender politics, or essentially the Democrat party platform which comes with just about all public education enterprises, then given a choice, which is only going to expand under President Trump and future governor Vivek Ramaswamy, parents would take their kids out of Lakota so not to deal with people like Doug Horton and the rest of the school board. Their desire to fight George Lang over the truth that he tried to give them, bluntly, was the same thing driving away the dollars they thought they were entitled to have in the form of a budget. Just a preview of that court case: the courts will not favor these collective schools joined under the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding lawsuit because you can’t compel people, such as taxpayers, to buy a bad product. And public education has become a lousy product over time with gross mismanagement everywhere. We also saw examples of bad management at that Lakota school board meeting with clueless people and their very liberal politics. Parents don’t want to share space with people who don’t share their values, and they are picking up and moving to other options because of woke politics. The blame for that falls on the people who dug in and retained that system, which never worked—and instead insisted on throwing more money at a failed approach. Rather than looking in the mirror and taking responsibility for the issue, they tried to blame everyone else for why they were being rejected under a competitive approach. And that of course, won’t solve the school funding problem. You can’t pave over the problem with more money. You have to actually solve the problem, which are the people in public education themselves. Parents want to reject having to deal with people who don’t share their values. And if Lakota wants to survive into the future, it is going to have to make itself more competitive in attracting dollars, like everyone else in the world has to.

If you listen to the school board meeting from March 12, 2025, included here, you will hear the audience get into an uproar whenever George Lang spoke, as he became the target of the teacher union types due to his opening statements about wokeness in Lakota schools. George was speaking his opinion on the matter, and those people in the audience, and some of the school board members themselves, fed into that communication. So for Doug Horton and the rest of the mystified cast of characters at Lakota schools, that is your answer as to why parents are looking for School Choice options. Think of the soccer mom who voted for Trump at a Friday night football game. Or a Republican is at an art show for their child at school, and they are interacting with these liberal radicals advocating for transgender bathrooms. Do you think they want to be made fun of like that audience did to George Lang? Senator Lang is a professional who is used to that kind of thing and likes it. But does the average family attending schools at Lakota want to deal with people like this? Of course not. Do they want to fight with people like that? They saw what they did, including that school board, to Darbi Boddy and other conservative school board members from the past. Rather than fight those people, they look for a school voucher and take their kid to a school they think is nicer and better for them and their children. That is why people are fleeing the Lakota district, and George was trying very nicely to tell the Lakota school board that to survive in the future, they need to make it so people want to attend Lakota. But not that people who have different ideas about things are going to be beat over the head with Democrat politics and that they have to take it because there are no other education options. Parents want options and don’t want to deal with political radicals who do not share their fundamental social values. That’s why Lakota lost that 9 million dollars out of their budget and why they are projected to lose a lot more than that. It’s because they have mismanaged the district with the assumption that the children were theirs and not managed by the parents who want the best opportunity for their children. And by choice, parents have reasoned that Lakota is not it for them. It’s Lakota’s job to convince them otherwise. Not to sue for money they did not earn.

The trend of today, with D.O.G.E. and the massive cuts to the Department of Education, and the election of Trump and others to office positions, George Lang included, as well as the future of Vivek Ramaswamy, are because the employees of government, such as Lakota schools, failed. Protesting against voters’ choices will not solve the problem of how people came to feel the way they did. Government employees, including school teachers and administrators, did not provide a good product, and people have come to admit that their service was not worth the money. That is the environment in which Lakota schools and many other school districts find themselves. And it won’t get better for them. They thought that the politics of guilt would last forever and the entire levy structure of using children to acquire more tax revenue to feed greedy, liberal unions would always continue. But the truth is, as we know it today, public education is a thing of the past, and it’s never coming back. People, if given a choice, will not choose to spend their time around people who are hostile to them. The way these radicals shut down opposition at school board meetings in general is why the Trump administration is opening up School Choice options and sending their management back to the states. The radicals had five decades to figure it out, and what they gave us is embarrassing at best and certainly not worth the money we’ve spent on it. So, who is to blame? Attend a school board meeting and witness the quality of the people screaming for more money, and the answer will quickly become apparent. The current school structure, where money is attached to a zip code rather than the child, is like the Berlin Wall trying to kill people attempting to escape to the West. The mentality is the same, and the more the teachers’ unions dig in, the more people want to be as far away from them as possible. And the people they vote for in office are those who will give them options away from those radical government employees.

Rich Hoffman

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DeWine’s State of the State Speech: Lakota schools plots their own demise

Oddly enough, while I was in Columbus to attend the Governor’s State of the State speech, it was Lakota schools that everyone was talking about, and they wanted to join the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding lawsuit. But in many ways, that wasn’t surprising, and it was confirmed again in Mike DeWine’s speech that day. Years and years of kicking the can down the road in all these public schools were catching up to them, and the bill was due, and nobody knew what to do about it. Governors like DeWine have done for decades what they were now doing at Lakota schools around 91 miles to the south in Butler County, Ohio, they were writing tax payer checks for a product and service that fewer and fewer people wanted, and now with Trump in the White House, the warnings I have been giving everyone about what was going to happen are coming true. Instead of getting out in front of these funding problems, Lakota schools dug in and became more woke. Senator Lang tried to tell them on a call later that day after the Governor’s speech, but the school system had dug in the opposite direction. Others and I have tried to give Lakota conservative board members a chance to deal with this issue, and their response as a school board was to run them all off, and that extends beyond Darbi Boddy, the most recent that they found some way to push out of management. And like things are where liberal types run things, everything costs too much money, and now Trump was cutting back the Department of Education and gubernatorial candidates like Vivek Ramaswamy was talking about significant reforms in education with merit pay, leaving schools like Lakota to join lawsuits with other schools having the same problem, hoping that some sixties flowerchild protest might recover for them a silly little 9 million dollar loss that has come out of their budget due to students utilizing Ed Choice vouchers that are now expanding under the Trump administration and flowing down through the states. For perspective, Lakota schools in Butler County, Ohio, has a quarter of a billion dollar budget, and that’s still not enough money to fund education the way they want to.

And you know what makes me the angriest about all this? I didn’t get any of Fran’s cookies this year. Fran is Mike DeWine’s long-time and very dedicated wife, who typically gives them out to attendees of her husband’s speech in the rotunda. This year, activists were there chanting for more money as they felt the pinch from a social disconnect from the standard old traditional funding model of public education. To avoid the activists, DeWine was ushered away underground to safety, leaving the rest of us to watch their bizarre and out-of-touch rituals with curiosity. The Lakota situation was the topic of conversation because they are one of the largest districts in Ohio, and so went them, so went everyone. And that was kind of a proper metaphor for DeWine’s State of the State speech. A do-gooder Governor tosses money at public education and hopes that everything will work well for the kids. But its these crazy labor unions with woke politics that have screwed up the funding model because people don’t like the product. And school vouchers, much less restricted these days and growing more so, are giving parents the choice away from their zip code schools where they pay enormous property taxes to fund a political movement they hate essentially. And Lakota schools were right in the middle of the spectacle leaving DeWine to give just another empty speech about the value of education, and sending books in the mail to students to help with literacy, when the real problem was significant and ominous, and far beyond at this point just passing out cookies in the Statehouse Rotunda to ease tempers. Legislators were in the middle of the budgeting process for public education at the time of this speech, but the government unions want to cry and protest for money that just isn’t there and aren’t willing to deal with the reality of the coming changes. And those legislators were mad at what Lakota was thinking of doing then, which they did later that evening. So it wasn’t a good move by the Lakota School Board. But I tried to warn everyone, and they didn’t listen. Much more on that to come.

The main thing in DeWine’s speech was that the Governor came to the speech like an old grandpa that went out to dinner the night before to eat barbeque ribs and still had on a bib from that experience the next day when he thought he was showing up for dinner in a nice suit and tie. DeWine was out of step and slightly behind the rest of the world for his sixth year in office, most of which had not been very good, especially during the COVID-19 years. But watching him speak, I thought of him as a nice guy who has been constantly suckered by the same kind of losers who protest education funding, like the people who greeted him upon leaving the State of the State peech. The old flowerchild strategy of crying like some baby bird until mother government drops a worm in its mouth has long been exhausted, and DeWine never understood it. He’s a good man from a political generation that caused all these problems and doesn’t know what to do about it. We have to wait another year or so before we get Vivek Ramaswamy and tackle some of these key issues because just throwing money at problems is not what voters will do in the future.

The best thing about DeWine’s State of the State speech was the expansion of business enterprise in Ohio, specifically the Andruil factory just south of Columbus and the Intel facility to the north. There was a lot to talk about, and for DeWine’s credit, many people have been working in the background to make Ohio a much more business-friendly state. At least DeWine hasn’t stood in the way of those efforts; he’s been willing to tag along. We’ll get a lot more with Vivek Ramaswamy as Governor, but since DeWine was able to part ways with Amy Acton, the stringy haired hippie who used to be the Health Director during Covid, Ohio has grown more business friendly to make up for their position of lockdown politics that so crippled just about everyone. Over the last couple of years, DeWine has at least not shut the door to companies like Intel, even though it has largely been members of the Senate that paved the way. That’s how government works, and it’s very fascinating. But once the good news was talked about regarding Ohio and DeWine’s speech, the topic went back to the tired old view of the world, and the chants outside could be heard in the chamber, and the reality of places like Lakota schools was coming to fruition. The days of easy money stolen from taxpayers to fund woke causes were over. And many people at the State of the State speech in the Ohio Statehouse were struggling with the ramifications of decades of trying to appease the screams of the teacher union types. But reality has a lot more in store for them than they realize. The result will be more anger at the people running public education and politicians like Mike DeWine ending their terms dismayed while much more innovative people replace them with reforms that will change all the rules. The Lakota School Board, in its current form, is just not prepared to deal with it.

Rich Hoffman

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