Hello, young readers. This is Mayor Steve Benjamin and today we're going to read Oh the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss. Congratulations. Today is your day.    You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own and you know what you know. And you are the guy who decides where to go or girl. You'll look up and down streets, look them over with care. About some of you will say, I don't choose to go there.  And you may not find any you'll want to go down. In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town. It's opener there in the wide open air. Out there things can happen and frequently do. The people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along. You'll start happening too. The places you'll go. You'll be on your way up. You'll be seeing great sights. You'll join the high flyers who soar to high heights. You won't lag behind because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be the best of the best. Wherever you go, you'll top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because sometimes you won't. I'm sorry to say, but sadly it's true that bang-ups and hang-ups can happen to you. You can get all hung up in a prickly perch.  You'll be left in a lurch. You'll come down from the lurch with an unpleasant bump. And the chances are then that you'll be in a slump. And when you're in a slump, you're not in for much fun. Unslumping yourself is not easily done. You'll come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted, but mostly they're dark. A place you could spring both your elbow and chin. Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win? And if you go in, should you turn left or right, or right in three-quarters, or maybe not quite, or go around back and sneak in from behind, simple it's not. I'm afraid you will find. For a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind, you can get so confused that you're starting to race down long wiggle roads at a break-necking pace. And grind on for miles across weirdest wild space headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The waiting place. For people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go, or a bus to come, or a plane to go, or the mail to come, or the rain to go, or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow, or waiting around for a yes or no, or waiting for their hair to grow, everyone is just waiting. Waiting for the fish to bite, or waiting for wind to fly kite, or waiting around for Friday night, or waiting perhaps for the Uncle Jake, or a pot to boil, or a better break, or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants, or a wig with curls, or another chance, everyone is just waiting. No, that's not for you. Somehow you'll escape all that waiting and staying. You'll find the bright places where boom bands are playing, with banner flip flapping once more you'll ride high, ready for anything under the sky, ready because you're that kind of guy or girl. Oh, the places you'll go. There's fun to be done, there are points to be scored, there are games to be won, and the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winningest winner of all. Fame, you'll be famous as famous can be with the whole wide world watching you win on TV, except when they don't, because sometimes they won't. No, I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too, games you can't win, because you're playing against you. Whether you like it or not, alone will be something you'll be quite a lot. And when you're alone, there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some down the road between hithering you that can scare you so much you won't want to go on, but on you will go. Though the weather be foul, on you will go. Though your enemies prowl, on you will go. Through the hack and cracks howl, onward up many a frightening creak, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak.  You'll get mixed up of course, as you already know, you'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step up, step with care and great tact, and remember that life's a great balancing act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft, and never mix up your right foot with your left. And you will succeed, yes you will indeed. 98 and 3 fourths percent guaranteed. Kid, you'll move mountains. So be your name Bucksbaum, or Bixby, or Bray. Or Mordecai, Ollie Van Allen O'Shea.  Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.


And if you don't want to do this, you don't have to, because it really doesn't get an over 20 rating. Actually, hold on here. Let me look at it. Nope. It still doesn't. But this is going to work. So I think this works. It's going to drop. We'll do it today. If you want to do half size, fine. I think the setup might be hard. So I might be a little. It's just going here without us. And here it goes. Look at this. Well, we're done today. We're at the market. Tomorrow is going to be the big day with the banks, earnings season starting, and we'll be happy. I'm happy of anything here. Actually, let's look at the market quick. I don't know what we do today. We rallied yesterday. We even held on the cues. So we're shorting STX today. If you're here in the open house, just observe. If you don't want to do this, because it's not a highly rated gap, you can sit on the sidelines today, or do half size. So weird look here for the spy, big econ out tomorrow. Look for a gap up in the market tomorrow morning. Oh, we could be going long tomorrow. Yeah. I'm just thinking that now out loud. We could be going long tomorrow. The banks report, and I bet they gap up. We'll look at those when we're done. Here. Pay attention. STX. This already is at the first target right here. I put it in the room. So 37 is the next number. I said, look, 37.50 there, it's there. So actually, all the resistance levels I have are completely skewed now. Just follow me here if you want to do this today. I need coffee. I don't have time to go downstairs and get any ore or make it. Busy morning. It's a little spready in here. Just let it situate itself. All right. Here it goes. There's no entry in here yet, because we're not shorting something on the open, but this is going to work. This is going to be a way bigger stop than I thought. Okay. I'm not calling anything in this yet. No one should be in it yet. There's no entry yet. Just wait. This is going to be a big stop, people. 29 by 20. Gosh, do we want to do that here? Don't do that. Let's wait and see if we can find something better. It's a buck. Just wait and see if we can find a better entry. No one should be in this yet. And what I just said, don't do, because it's just too big. And also, this is thinning out. So I did say this is probably going to work with setup hard. Okay. No one should be in it yet. And I don't know if it's going to set up, but it hasn't set up yet, and no one should be in it yet. If this doesn't set up, then we don't have anything, did I? Okay. Just wait.  We are going to do, I don't have the entry yet, let's do 74 by 20 if it hits. And if that doesn't hit, I'll give you something else. If it flies over the high, then we may not be able to do it. No. Just wait. This is why you do not get in a stock in the open. You don't take it on the first bar. Here, wait. Okay. We're going to do 79 by 40, 79 by 40. And don't ask me why right now, 79 by 40. It's just not going to be, here, 79 by 40 if it hits, STX, get the stop in. Get it in. That was it. That was it. Wow. 3840. 3840 is a stop. Be in it right there. And we're going to get it down and see if it goes down to 37 and then we're all out of it. Here. Be in it.  In fact, if it gets down to the low and doesn't break it, we're out. Let's double check the stop. I could still do it here. I don't want to give it any more room. 3840. It's boom or bust with this. If this doesn't work, it's not going to work at all. But actually, that was a good entry. And if you didn't do it, you could do it. Here. You could do it right here if you didn't do it. If you didn't do it, you could still do it right here. It looked like it was going to collapse right there. It did actually have a big bar. But here, if you did not do it, you could do it here. Make sure you get the stop in at 3840. We're not giving it any more room. And if this doesn't work, there's nothing else to do today. So I hope that it does. You know, let's give it 10 more cents. I don't think it's going to matter here, but let's give it 3850. I'm going to give it 10 more cents here just because this is a little bit wild. If you don't want to, you don't have to. It's only because the spread's changing so much. From 2 cents to 5 cents to 10 cents. I moved it to 3850, but this really has to hold. And if you didn't do it, I'll give you another entry. Actually, it would be the same one. Or very close to it. Here, you can do 89 by 50 if you didn't take it. 89 by 50, if you didn't take it at all, STX. It's been a long time since I've traded this stock. I forgot how wild it is. I'll just have the stock trades. All right, here's the market. Here's the market. The market looks higher. Wow. If we rally on the placement of the gap today, we are so strong. And I really didn't think we'd do it until tomorrow. I guess we're going to find out here if STX is going to hold. But I preferred the market to be lower today with this. So let's see where we bounced. 3732. I think that's anything. Okay. If you're in it, I move this stop. Not more room, but it's do or die now, 3850 for STX. If he did not do it, if it sets up again, it will call it. It's the only thing we had to watch today. And actually, if it doesn't work, it's because it went to the target in the pre-market, which kind of sucks, but still worth doing. I think it's going to work, but it's going to be hard. What did I say this morning? This is probably going to work, but it's going to set up hard. That's exactly what I said. I said this is probably going to work, but it's going to be tough to get the entry. It's going to set up hard. It's exactly what I said. It's probably going to work, but it's going to be tough to get. It's going to set up hard. I can't look at anything else right now, Paula Bear, because this is too wild. If you did something else, you're on your own. And I honestly don't want to do anything else today anyways, because if this stops me, I'll take a loss today. I'll just stop. I guess we're going to find out any second. I do not want to do any other trades today. You don't do a lot of trades normally, A. And B, when there's not a lot to do, why would you keep trading? If you did T and it worked, get out with profit. And I took a chance doing this today, because it really rated only 18. If you did not do STX, you can do in here, stop 3850. If you didn't do it, here's another entry right in here. You could wait for the break of 38. So actually looking at this here now, our first target will be the 3750 number, if this holds. I don't know if it's going to get all the way down and break the low. Very strong market. Here, STX. If you didn't do it, you could do it right here. Stops 3850. The better entry than I did. Here, I'll take a T quick. T had one quick move. If you did it, I'd be out. Actually, this really, we didn't miss anything here. This is only 10 cents. We didn't miss anything there. I just want this to work. Okay, STX under 38 should be good. If you did not do it, you could do it. Stops 3850. If you're in it with me, I actually held the original stop within two cents. But the spread was changing so much there. I think this does break the low now. This is just taking a while. So here, let's go over this. We're going to talk it through as we're in the trade. And if you didn't do it, you could do it right here. This gap did not rate over 20 points today. Here it is. STX at an 1819 has a 5050 chance of working or not working. So what do I know? I know it's either going to work for quick move and bounce and we have to take it right out or it's going to set up later or it's going to be hard to get the entry. It was all of the above with this today. Okay, so knew the direction was down but going to be hard to get the entry. And sometimes I usually I don't like dealing with it. But I guess I feel like I've been doing really well lately and decided to do it. And if I'm confident, we'll have a good day tomorrow. But you could have done this half size today or not done it at all. Gave it a white stop. It's got to set up now in the five minute. And it's just going to take a little bit. But the first target will be 3750. Not 37. So it's up to you if you want to get out there or not. Here we go. Five minute triggered on STX. If you wanted it, you're in it. Don't worry about T that only moved 10 cents. This stock can move. It just was a crappy gap today. But I knew there was no way this thing would be able to support itself and rally despite the market. And the only reason it's probably rallied here, here. STX is because of the market. Probably the only reason that this even did this at all is because A, fell the first target in the pre-market and B, the market rallied into the open. Here, STX got to be in it. Set up on every time frame. Here, pay attention now. Anywhere into a drop here, here, here, here, here. I'm not tempting fate today. This is working now. I'm going to get out for a quick trade. Do whatever you want. 37 is a real number. Just again, don't know the time it gets there. So the market is weird looking today. I don't know. I would be surprised if we hold this here and rally and go somewhere like over the high today in this gap. But we're not falling. I'd rather us just fall hard today into support and then gap up tomorrow. But I don't know if we're going to do it. So if we don't fall, we don't rally, we're just going to sit here. So here we go. Under 80 again should be confirmed. I would not lower the stop because where are you going to put it? I mean, you could have put it at the first place I said 3840. What happened to doll? Let's look. This had a little move. Looks like this was a big stop too. It wasn't that bad. Doll had a small move in here. I just don't know if this goes anywhere really even. The airlines weren't enough today. They just weren't enough. That was the problem. I had a higher level of conviction in the weakness of the sell-off and STX today than any of the airlines, even though I saw them gapping down. And actually everything really rated the same. This is just a better chart here. Much better chart. So now we got to stick it through and we got to wait it out. I don't think anyone buys this today, but we're waiting for it to drop. In order for it to drop, it's got to have selling. So we're waiting for the selling to come into it. Where do I think this really starts to happen? Probably under 3750 and under 37. Big target in this if it really would do that. But we're waiting, waiting, waiting. No one's going to buy this today. Except for traders that do gap fills, which is not anything that we play and doesn't make any sense and doesn't work. So here, STX. Be in it if you want it. Here we go. STX. We're trading what the institutions are doing, not what other traders are doing, which is gap fills. So this isn't going anywhere up today. But we got to get more selling into it for it to drop or it's going to stay stuck here. I guess that's why I liked it. I knew no one would buy it. So I think we got that rally because it had a bounce because it hit the target and market. Here, STX under 60 should get right down to 3750 and then we'll see how it acts. Here, STX. Small trade here today, better than nothing. Really was nothing good today and nothing rated over 20. Here STX. Hope everybody got it. Let's just see how it acts when I hit that number. Here's the 3750. Now 45 times a day still early. I don't really think the market really has a big move higher today. I think it's going to wait till tomorrow, but it's definitely trying. Wow, nice call I made here in the Google option. Who did it? Write it in the room. I hope someone is doing these. Did anyone do the Google option? This is going to be a big one, people. I hope some of you did it. Dubads, please tell me you did it. Wow, that is going to be a big trade. And I gave the date wrong and the first one I sent out and then I saw it, then I sent a correction, but you people need to look at a calendar.  I gave the right date as far as the day, not the month, the month. You'll learn that you need to read my mind and that's the best thing that you can do. Here, STX. Green Maverick is in it. Google and Baba, Dubads is in it. Here we go, STX. Do, do, do, here we go. STX under 60. You should get out of 50. Whether we take it out or not, we're going to have to see how it acts. I might get out. This did not rate well today. We're lucky we're making any money at all.  The market's very strong. Dubads says, sometimes it's hard to do to read my mind, but you do try to read it. You do a very good job of that, Dubads. You get the award. You do. You probably do closer than any student I have. Although Rashawn, who works for me, definitely reads my mind more than anyone.  So if there's two people on the planet that can read my mind, it's better than none. Maybe that's why I'm not married yet, because I haven't met a man that can read my mind. When that happens, boom. It'll be instantaneous. Love at first sight. I'll be married in a day in 24 hours. Here, under 60. We're having too much fun. Focus. This has to wait for the 15 minute now. Let's look at the 30. Paula Bear, did you do it? You did this who didn't do it. No one should be down. You either did nothing today, or actually, if you did this up in here, you could have gotten out. I did not do it up in here. I did it over here. But actually, if you did this here, I mean, you could have just taken it. Made 50 cents, called it a day. In fact, if I had done that there, I would have actually gotten out, actually. Susanna did it. Paula Bear did it. Galahad said everyone could read my mind. Galahad, if you could read my mind, you'd be making millions and millions of dollars. So no, you can't read my mind. Galahad, are you in Google? Yes or no? Seven streams into anything today? That was fine, because you're new. Green Maverick's in it. Smooth Trader at a bad end. That's okay.  Park Wubble's in it. Journey Woman's in it. Galahad's in it too. Good. Barry, did you do it today? Barry's had a rough month. Platform not working, can't get the shorts. Miss Monday, Miss Tuesday. I think Barry jinxed us having a really, really good one today, because he said last night, you better do good tomorrow, Melissa. I'm like, okay, there's no pressure. I try to do good every day. I haven't traded in two weeks. You better do good. In the future, do not tell me that. I just didn't do anything today, because of Barry. But actually, this is working. Oh, Barry's in it. Barry's in it, and he's up. You're 61. I see what it's doing here. Kind of want to move the stop, but every time we do that, it jinxed it. Let me just look at something here. No, just leave it for now. If you did the entry at 38, though, you could have been out there. If you did the entry at 10, whatever it was, up and when it did the rally. If you did the one with me, we're trying to get it down, but I'm not giving this a lot of time. Here, here, here, here. It did not break 60 yet, and it needs to. I mean, it did on the open, but then after that, it did not. Here we go. Well, the real target in this is 37, if you want to try to hold it. I think if it gets down to the low, we'll get there. Here, let's not talk. Maybe we're all jinxed in it. Wow, this market is incredible. Just seriously? Wow, I mean, I can't believe if we hold in this gap today. And look, this still looks as dead as a door nail. I know everybody got out of it. Well, did anybody get out of it that the second trade I called? This is really going to have another big move, too. Let's go. We didn't do this. Look, it flipped. This probably had that one moving out. This looks like it might have another small thing here, the T. You did it. You were completely on your own. T was definitely easier than this. This was not easy today, which I knew didn't have to tackle this. Here, STX under 60. We should break 3750 and get down to the low. Let's see if it does it. Right in the next seven minutes plus, you're glad you did nothing because you had trouble following today. Well, today, the really, really, really today, the rating was not 20. Here, I'll just talk out loud while we're watching this, though. I felt that no one would buy this today. And in an 1819 rating, it's a 50-50 chance of working or failing. So based on my read of the chart, that I didn't think anyone at all would buy the stock today. I didn't think it would not work to the downside. But I thought the entry would be difficult. Why? Because of the rating. Part of the rating tells you that you're going to have a clean entry and a clean setup. And that's got to be over 20. So crappy entry today in this, which is why we took it and then it rallying. I widened our stop. It wouldn't have mattered. It still had held 40. And then we're also waiting now, you know, almost half an hour for it to drop and break. Everyone's up in it. But here, here, here, here. STX. But we want to make more. Here it goes. Let's see if it breaks 50. Oh, Barry took it out. Barry got out. Barry just had to have a good day, no matter what. Here, STX. Here. 50 is the number. Do you see it right now? If you looked at the chart, if you looked at it, you would not buy this. You would not buy it. Here, STX just broke 50. See, if you looked at this today, if you were scanning, scanning, scanning, which we do not scan late. But if you let these say, oh gosh, that's not a buy, you would never buy this. Now let's see if it just comes up over here, actually. I don't see it. I don't see it anywhere. It's got to get more red in it. But you wouldn't, you wouldn't buy that there. It's not on any scanner though yet. It's got to, it's not red enough on the day. I'm still in it, but I'm really going to bar by bar it. I'm bar by bar by barring it.  It's got to keep going. 48. Here, here, here, it is continuing to go. 48. Here, STX. This is it. If it doesn't break the low, I'm all out of the low. It's heading down there. Here we go. Nice trade, everybody. Did a good job today. Yay. STX. Susanna's out with 900 bucks. Trade Alexi's out. That's fine. Very good. I know Mark's all out too. Maverick's out too. Three. I could have gotten out too, but I really think it breaks the low. I mean, let's just give it one more little bit here. Here, who's still in this with me? I literally, this has to keep going. What I want to see is this go completely make a big red on the 15 minute, which it's got some time left. Chief's still in it, Kuala Bear's still in it, Jerniwa's still in it, Gallahad's still in it. Here we go. This is really a though, people. If it doesn't break the low, I am going to take it. Shower singer's out. All right. Here, 43-42.  I know it's going to go to 37 now because it looks great, but I don't want this to bounce at 10 though. Literally, my hand is on the button because I don't want a 10 o'clock bounce. So at 10 o'clock, it could break the low and fall hard, which would be good for me, or it could bounce. And that I do not want. Here, STX. Here it goes, yay. Here it goes. I don't think I'm going to let this get over 45. Here it goes, come on. I know this is a good call today. I need a nap. This was hard today. I didn't have to do this to myself. Here, I'm out. I took it. I took it, took it, took it. I don't want to let it get over 45. If you're still in it, I'm going to tell you where to put the stop. It looks great. It didn't touch 45, but I thought it might bounce over it. I didn't want it to go bounce right in here at 10. Here, it just did bounce over 45. Alright, nice trade though, people. We made money today. It was so hard. There was nothing to do. If you're still in this, what you can do is, if you are still in it, I would lower the stop to 38.20. 38.25. You can't really lower it that much. It's better than nothing. You could lower it down to 38.25, 38.20. I took it, but I got to be honest with you. I think it breaks a low. I think it goes to 37. No one's going to buy this, which is why I did it. But again, at 10 o'clock, this could bounce. So two things are going to happen in the next one minute. It's going to break the low and fall hard or it's going to bounce. And the way this has been trading this morning, which was very hard, it could have a big bounce and then bounce all the way up in the 70s and then be back up, break even. I took a chance doing this today. I wouldn't have done this if I hadn't directed you. But we did a good job. All right, let's look at everything. Pyro made 38.25. Good. If this rallies back and resets it, again, you can retake it. Absolutely. I don't know what time that would be. This still is very close to the low and looks great. If the gap would have rated better or if we had the market with us today, then I would have held this on down. But to be honest, I believe we have a good solid day tomorrow. We might be going long. And so why chance it? This didn't get the rating today really over 20. But I really, we really did this today because I felt that no one would buy it and I was right. I think you should hit the exit on Google today. Let's review it. Okay. Right in the room. Quickly, quickly, quickly. What's everybody up? Here I'm going to look it up. Wow, this is another nice call. Getting back into the groove. The groove aroma. Here. So everyone did this trade. In fact, every time that I call Google, you should do it. Google and me are like thickest thieves. Let's look this up in here. Every time I call an option in Google, do it, do it, do it, do it. Let's look it up. What do you people up in this? Okay. What do you people up in this? For those of you, this is good. Here, let me look at the chart. We'll go back and go over that in a minute, smooth trader. No, I didn't have the chart up. Galahad's up $1,000. You're very excited about the class, smooth trader? Yes. You're signed up already? Shatter singers up 100%. Do you want me to give you the conservative answer or the non-conservative answer? What we should do is Galahad should put earplugs in his ears and cotton. Then I'll give you the answer.  So there's two answers. One for Galahad, which is a conservative answer. And one for everybody else. Call a bear said both. Call a bear. You're not on the option letter, are you? I don't think you are. You want the real answer? Hold it. It's going to be a big one.  But I think it goes way more than that. So here's the next target, 960. I call the 950 strikes. This would be a place that it could haul today. In fact, this is the target today, 960 in Google. But if we have a good positive economic stuff tomorrow and the market holds tomorrow rallies, this literally could go all the way up here in 970. It could go 20 points with the strength. I think when all is said and done, you've got a week out in this or a little bit one in today. I think this goes 20 points over the number. This has barely begun to be going. So I called it yesterday to be up this much in this so quickly. It's fantastic. But people are going to see here. Really listen to me. People are going to see this today and buy it. I called it beforehand. I'm so good at reading stuff. People are going to see this today and say Google is a good buy now. They're going to say it's over the resistance and it's trading higher and the market is at the highs and there was also news out in Google today, I think. So, you know, yeah, there was, there was this morning I saw it.  So this is why it's power trending today as well. So I can't fault you for getting out of this today. You're going to make more than what you risk by 100%. But I'm telling you, if you want to hold it through for the big trade, I think it runs, I think it runs. I think it runs now after today. So, you know, it's up to you. This could go 20 points through the strike. That would be an insane trade. Shower singer, how much money would you make if this went 20 points through the strike? You could have the guts to hold it to 9.70. And Gala had you too. Would you make 20 grand? How many contracts do you have? Who can afford Google other than institutions? You do them as options. You didn't do it able? You could do one contract. Trader Lexi usually does one. Trader Lexi, did you do this? Koala Bear said he wants the truth even if he can't handle the truth. He cannot handle the truth. What is that movie? I forget. That was just on a couple of weeks ago. They had a Tom Cruise marathon. Trader Lexi didn't do it either. A few good men. That's what it was. This is a really nice call. Look, this is... Could any chart be any more perfect than this? This is even better than Amazon. Stock out top here in their earnings. Scapped down. Rally. Made new highs. Did not get up to the number in fact. In fact, this situation... In fact, I don't even want to say. Hold on. Let's look and see exactly. I think the 27... That's good. I didn't give a date out for other than that. Now that I'm looking at it because the 7th... Now the 27th, I think, is earnings for this. Hold on. Hold your horses. Oh, there was news. The news was they didn't have to pay taxes in France. Not that it matters. Doopadoo. No. July 24th. Wow. July 24th. Oh, here. Let's just look at something even though I can't possibly call this. I just... I can't make predictions where things gap anymore. I have to wait till they gap and then predict it. But I bet that this goes over 1,000 points on the earnings. I would be shocked if it doesn't. Let me just look at something here. Let's just see what... Let's just see to laugh at ourselves. What the Google 1000s cost out past the earnings date, which is July 28th. They're not cheap. Actually, 1,250 isn't half bad. I would be so shocked if this does not get over 1,000 on the earnings. I would be as shocked as a person could be. But you never know. So what are you going to do, Shower Singer? Are you going to get out of it if the money you're up or not? This is still lower. This is taking a rest. This had a move yesterday still looks higher, but you could have gotten out of this yesterday. And this. Okay. Is anyone still on the STX at all? Very happy. What a good day today. Let's look at what's out for tonight. Let's get situated for tonight. Or for tomorrow. Do anyone still in it? Okay. Tomorrow is Friday. PNC, WFC, JPM, MFI. C. Here they are. I'll stay to sign up for the classes tomorrow. And I have a lunch meeting tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon. So I wouldn't wait. I wouldn't wait till tomorrow. CWFC, JPM, MFI. It's like in all these. Every time I called Google, I would do it. Every time. I would never not do any option trade that I call in that stock. I would do every one that I call for the rest of your life as long as you're subscribed to the option letter. All right. C is just sitting here. Let me just look at all these things. So I don't know for sure, but I would love these things to gap down so we could short them. It would be amazing. I don't think that's what's going to happen. I think they're going to gap up. Whether or not the buys are not, I don't know. I'd love them to gap down. But just looking at the charts here, my bias is they all gap up together. I haven't looked at Wells Fargo since that horrible news a couple of months ago. What happened to Cors? Go look at that today. I think that should follow through. We can do this if this works out in our favor tomorrow. Hopefully, I'd like to get it short. Here, Cors. What is this doing? Good. Glad we got out. This is still going, but I don't want to stick around on this today. All right. Market looks higher. And so does everything. Questions from anyone about anything at all. What's everyone doing in Google? A, are you getting out right now? B, are you holding it? C, did you not do it? Some of you didn't do it, which I'm sure you regret. What else? Shower Singer is going to hold it. Of all the people that could be able to take risk in this, Shower Singer, I think you should hold it. Yes. Why not? Green Maverick's going to hold it. Green Maverick's doing all the trades I put out there. Green Maverick did the CMG. Did anyone get out of the second one in this? The second one that had the big drop yesterday, did anyone get out of it? Zana didn't do options, but she wished she did. Some day. Yes, seven streams, but it was just this week. They're on the list. Email me. Mark Mulbull didn't get any emails in the last week either. But he said he didn't. But then I checked and he was on the list. If that happens, then you need to give me a different email. There's some reason I think certain email things tend to go to spams where they bounce, because everybody's on the list, but sometimes and they don't get them. I think that the email servers may be blocking anything with stock in it. Stock is anything with the stock domain name is considered spammy, but there's nothing I can do about it. I thought about changing it, but then no one would recognize my emails. So what am I going to do? Anything with trading, anything with stock? Stock market, trading, trades, money. All of those things are problematic for all the domains. For email delivery. Any questions from anyone about anything? Good job today, everyone. Classes this weekend. If you want to sign up, email me. I will be around today. I'm here. I've got a lot to do. Tomorrow I have stuff to do. So call me or email me today. It's 10.15. We had a good, solid day. Let's have a big day tomorrow if we can, which I hope. And then that's it. Stocks, I did. I just didn't go over the stocks to watch for tomorrow. These are all tomorrow morning. Nothing's tonight. I don't like anything tonight. It's all the banks. C, JPM, WFC. I think they're going to gap up, but I don't know. You don't do trades based on me saying that. Although I really believe this ends up going over 1,000 of the earnings. If this doesn't, I'd be shocked, shocked, shocked. I'm sure I'm not the only one that thinks that. There's nothing you can do until you wait. I wouldn't love these to gap down, but I don't think they're going to. We might be shorting everything. Or we might be going along the banks. Yes, they would be alongs then if they weren't good enough. Oh, what happened to the one the journey woman looked at today that was along? And I didn't like it. No, it was Cayman Dude. Cayman Dude liked it. No, it didn't work. I didn't like it. That swishy, swishy for swishy? What? What do you? Now you're making up more words. I am making up even more words here. Good job, everyone. And I didn't have a good night sleep last night. I'm thrilled that I did so good today. I did not sleep well. Too much on my mind. Did a good job. You're welcome, doggie. Okay, have a good day, everyone. Call me or email me if you want to sign up for the class. And I will see you all tomorrow morning. Last night's recording for the webinar is on YouTube. Yes. Yes, it is. You should go to YouTube and just subscribe. Okay, have a good day. You're welcome.


Today reports are that the Taliban is in the outskirts of Kabul the capital just yesterday American intelligence was reassuring us That the Taliban would not take Kabul for 30 to 90 days. They were nowhere near Just a few months ago And this is this should be an impeachable offense or of well, you don't impeach a general this should be a firing offense the general in charge of the u.s army general Miley who Has lots of problems, but among the many problems maybe you should stop focusing on on the teaching of of critical race theory at west point and start focusing on actually military stuff like intelligence general Miley just a few months ago reasserted his confidence That the Afghan military trained by the United States at a cost of tens and tens and tens Maybe hundreds of billions of dollars Was more than capable of Standing its own Against the Taliban this is the top general in the United States getting it completely wrong Shocking, right and of course they've been doing this for 20 years 20 years. They've been lying to us 20 years they have had no clue what they're doing 20 years They're being distorting pervading Putting the lives of American troops at risk 20 years They've been seeing American young kids killed and dying on the battlefield For 20 years they've been pouring 100s of billions of dollars into the Military of Afghanistan all arms that are going to fall into the Taliban's hands, right? Into the military of Iraq and Insurgent groups in Syria all groups that have turned their backs On the United States of America for 20 years They pretended that they're making America safer Yeah, they haven't been any major terrorist attacks in the United States since then. I'll give them that at what cost what price? And how many lies How many distortions how many perversions? Yes, we're finally leaving Afghanistan good rhythms But we're leaving as a defeated superpower We're leaving with the tail between our legs We're leaving and at the same time emboldening our biggest enemy in the world today The one that is committed to killing Americans. Ah, maybe it's only in small scale, but to killing Americans Committed ultimately the destruction of the west and the united states And they've discovered where they knew this already They have nothing to fear from us because we are nothing but a paper tiger and I've been saying we're paper tiger Since before 9 11 and suddenly post 9 11 when everybody thought judge bush was too tough A Wimp and the president's following him have been even greater wimps What a disaster afghanistan is I can't even imagine what the parents of soldiers that have in spouses and children of the soldiers Who have died in afghanistan for what for nothing? So that the Taliban could retake it so that our worst enemies could Be based there So al-qaeda could we Recreate the training camps What we need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason By the intellect not by feelings wishes wins or mystic revelations Any man or woman who values his life and who does not Want to give in to today's cult of despair cynicism and impotence And does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist roads All right before we go on reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now 30 likes That should be at least 100. I figure at least 100 of you actually like the show Maybe they're like 60 of the matthews out there who hate it But but at least the people who like it, you know, I want to see I want to see a thumbs up. There you go Start liking it. I want to see that go to 100 All it takes is a click of a click of a thing whether you're looking at this And and you know the likes matter. It's not an issue of my ego It's an issue of the algorithm the more you like something the more the algorithm likes it So, you know, and if you don't like the show, give it a thumbs down Let's see your actual views being reflected in the likes But uh, if you like it, don't just sit there Help get the show promoted. Of course, you should also share And uh, you can support the show at your own book show dot com slash support on patreon or subscribe star or locals Uh and and show you support for all for for the work for the value.  So, uh, yes, like share subscribe support Like share subscribe support. There you go easy Do one or all of those please


Welcome to The Advocate, where thought-provoking topics are discussed with no-holds-bad here on Plus TV Africa. We basically call a spade by its name. Today, all the advocates are in one voice against bullying. Famous American actress Madeline Pesh said, �The people who are bullying you, they're insecure about who they are, and that's why they're bullying you. It never has to do with the person they're bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they're not alone. I am talking about the duty of care within the educational system. Helen focuses on the responsibilities of parents, schools and the government. Elijah is looking at correcting a failed system through the educational environment. Benetton is asking if the child has any rights, and Tolu is calling for home training and social security of the children. Sit back, and after this break, we'll be here to dissect it all. Stay with us. Bullying and the duty of care within the education system. This past week has been one of tragedy upon tragedy in relation to the care of our children within the educational system. Two particular cases have summed up my fears about my own children and what could happen to them in school. First is the alleged murder of Sylvester O'Romany at during college. Who had been the victim of ongoing bullying until he was eventually brutalized resulting in his death? The second of a school which supposedly carries out inclusive education yet keeps its special needs students in a separate room using actual physical restraints and electroshock treatment on them. These are just two cases and what we know must be many more. Having two children, one a boy who looks mixed race, has a gentle and kind spirit as well as a daughter with Down syndrome. I worry about the possibility of them being bullied. At home I do my part to teach my son to stand up for himself and always to inform his teacher or grown up in school if any incident happens and most importantly to always tell me. That if anyone threatens him if he speaks up that still he should immediately tell a member of staff at school and me as soon as he gets home. Even if they threaten him, his sister or myself with physical harm. For the daughter who has learning delays it is harder to do. We place scenarios and teach her to shout, run and defend herself. But the comprehension for something like this just isn't there yet. So I do the work at home. But what happens at school? When we hand over our precious ones the school is responsible for them at all times during those school hours. If something happens there should be immediate protocols to follow. But who is monitoring and regulating the schools? Honestly if private schools are left to regulate themselves as they currently are there is very little hope of anything changing. If governments are not willing to regulate fees exploitation something I believe is a lot easier to tackle why would they regulate duty of care protocols? I especially worry for my special needs daughter because students with disabilities are two to three times more likely to be bullied and up to six times more likely to experience physical violence than their neurotypical peers. Children with learning disabilities are two and a half times more likely to suffer sexual abuse and sexually based violence than their peers without learning disabilities. In my eye it is past time of talking.  We must push our elected officials and those in government to tighten existing laws and create better ones to tackle regulation as our children are not safe in schools. This is a human rights issue. It goes beyond posting on social media. We must petition state and federal legislature. We must make our physical presence known about this issue and we must make sure of regulation and enforcement of education institutions and those who work within them. We must act. And we must act now. Yeah. So I'll say two things. The first thing is, you know, I think it's a good time to give a minute of silence for Sylvester, you know, because if you think about it, second is throughout history there are people who have started a revolution. Think about Rosa Parks. I said no. Think about Martin Luther King, right? Think about George Floyd. Okay. And I think Sylvester was without George Floyd, you know. This issue didn't start today, it didn't start last week, you know, but at some points one person would say no. Unfortunately Sylvester had to give his life for it. But I think this is a time that the revolution starts and it begins with me and you, you know. We shouldn't have to wait until someone dies, you know. But we must act now. Parents have to start being more responsible with their children. Schools have to put systems in place that make bullying unacceptable on any count. But my thing is that aren't there existing things in place? There are existing things in place, but it seems that there's a very kind of lax attitude. Yeah, they're not enforced.  I mean, there are laws. But if it's not properly enforced, until someone starts to have it, it's just the way we're designed as humans, until there's punitive measures and there's actual enforcement and there's, you know, there's consequences for those actions. People don't take them seriously. This issue of bullying didn't start now, just like you said. When our parents were in school, I'm sure they experienced it. It's always a common expectation that when you get into secondary school, they'll tell you when you get there, your seniors will ask you to sweep their classroom or ask you to buy something and they won't give you money or they won't give you enough money and they demand more than what they give you. So they expect you to add your own money. All these things are, I remember when I was in secondary school, I myself, I experienced one. I think I was in J.S.3 and there was this particular guy in S.S.3 that asked me to do something and I told him I was going to, I was going somewhere I was not to find. The next night, just so I got a slap on my face, I guess what I, I went home, I told my mom, my mom followed me to school and reported to one soldier and the moment the soldier asked for me, because I went to military school, this guy saw me later. I started apologizing, had to apologize to my mom. So I had to not tell my mom that, okay, she let him go since he has apologized. Ever since that time, he became my friend. The next time when he sees me, he just became my friend. But my point is, most people don't get lucky like myself, you know. Students, they pass through this as like an expectation, like a common mindset. We need to change. I can understand that. I can understand that there's a certain protocol, right? There's certain hazing or something that most school, just the nature of the younger ones.  That's what it was called in our boarding school. It wasn't a sexual thing, but that's what it was called. So the younger boys would be the servant of the older boys. They would take their laundry, tidy up the room, make their beds, all that kind of stuff. So you are assigned your, your senior. And you literally had to serve that senior. But it's really proper, that's the question. It isn't, it isn't, it isn't. He's not proper. But it seems like a natural thing that happens. My issue is that it isn't Lord of the Flies because they're not abandoned alone on some desert island. There are adults there. There are people who are in charge. And you cannot tell me that absolutely no one, no one knew what was going on or knows the environment that exists in that school. The problem is with that, regarding that school, is that it's a wealthy school. So the people who attend there have money. And that means that one, the school, wants to make sure to be taken that money. And two, that they will adhere and bend to the will of those parents. But rather than what is right, sorry, any good, sorry, I'm firing today. No, I think, I mean, I understand what you're saying. But I'm also trying to be conscious of the fact that, yes, this one school may be the one that is in the spotlight today. But it's a crisis. It's a crisis across the board. So is it just about the fact that the schools are like looking to take the money or even parents are complicit? Or even where do we draw the line? Because as we've all said from different experiences, I mean, everybody experienced some sort of seniority, you know, that kind of there's a right of passage, sort of, so to speak. But isn't it, because one of the things I kept on thinking was, where he said, enough is enough. So what are we supposed to be doing next? What are we pushing for? What are we actually fighting for? What exactly is the next level for this kind of crisis? Before I say what I think is next. Let's hear from Helen. Let's hear from Helen, are you there? Yes. Well, unfortunately, I never experienced bullying. And that's maybe because I was a kind of a bully myself. But, you know, I went to a military school and whatever was a punishment was a punishment because one did something wrong. But the unfortunate thing we have here now is that it's not actually the seniors being the bullies. It's actually your mates bullying you. That's a whole new dimension. I can't imagine my classmates bullying me, or beating me, or whatever the case may be. So I say, we really need to look at this thing critically and find out where is it actually coming from? Why are these children becoming mini-monsters? What is responsible for this mini-monster facade? And look at it deeper and not look at it from the point of, if the senior that is doing the bullying, or the teacher doing the bullying, let's look at it from the classmate point of view. What gives the classmate the audacity to bully his fellow colleague or fellow classmate to the extent that he has a mind to commit murder? Yeah. So I think that kind of, I really like that Helen has a technique from. I think that, at this point in time, with what Tonya has raised as her advocacy, the audacity is one of the things that I have seen when it comes to children, and I'm not a child expert. The only part I can talk about with this is that, I mean, I'm a certified children's etiquette coach. I was interested when I was doing my certification. There was an area on bullying, and I found it interesting. I was like, why bullying? But then I know that things are coming out. I realize that issues around self-esteem, peer pressure, what makes it, and then when you, the quote that said, oh, it's not about the victim, but the person who is bullying. So what gives another child the audacity to look at his peer or happy and say, I want to put you down? It's where, at that point in time, the duty of care within the education system, where you have adults who are supposed to regulate how interaction goes on amongst children. And I think that's where the failure is happening in this particular case, as with this particular case. They even have the training to identify such things, a thorough training to identify such things, because literally, the schools are doing anything they want. That's a problem. You cannot leave the perpetrator to regulate themselves. And I think those parents actually have, I mean, you know what? So I think that, yes, I think it starts from the parent. Yes, but that's into your portion. Yeah, let's leave it at that. Let's not do that, because we're going to start entering everybody else's territory. Yeah, but I mean, you're talking about rules and rights. I mean, there are rules already in place in those schools. I mean, bullying is not, if it's not acceptable, it's not. If you have to put signs everywhere, if you have to hold weekly sessions to remind, because I mean, children can be programmed. So intention matters. Yes, absolutely. After the break, Helen is next. After the break, stay with us. Bullying, responsibility of the parent and the school. Bullying is the use of force, coercion, harmful teasing, threats, and abuse that is always dominated on the individual. There are many warning signs that are indicated that someone is affected by bullying, either being bullied or bullies themselves. Recognizing the warning signs is an important first step when you're taking action against bullying. No more children who are bullied or who are being bullied ask for help. A child has a right to be educated in a clean, safe environment without any obstacles that are going to be obstructive to the learning. The school has a duty of care to provide it and the parents have a duty of care to pay for the services that the school is actually rendering. First, let's examine what makes bullying such a trend? Why are children indulging in it? Most students that actually enjoy bullying are actually a product of a bullying environment. It is important to understand that your environment makes 90% of your character. And when you're subjected to bullying in that environment, the tendency is that you will continue in another environment. Those are just statistics. It doesn't mean it actually applies in all cases. There are certain things that parents don't consider as bullying and they consider it as their child standing up for their rights. So we have to look at critically what do we understand by bullying in each and every environment as well as in each culture? What is the way forward? It should be no tolerance, no tolerance, zero tolerance, no child should be subjected to bullying and we really do need to stand up and make sure that that is the case. Where's the research that there's been bullying, especially Nigerian schools? We hardly have many cases because most parents or most children don't come out and say they're being bullied because they're still in the target environment. What does the constitution have? What does the constitution say? And it is clear that the constitution says that a child has the right to be educated and that education should be quality education. But however, our public schools and federal schools have led us down. We are seeking respect in private schools. The act of collective school fees, acceptance fees and all ridiculous penalties have driven the issue of no accountability of private schools to the government. We can't do it alone, definitely, but we can do it together. And we don't have to wait for another child to die and we don't have to wait to know that these children have the rights under our constitution. In my opinion, we have let these children down as citizens of Nigeria, but more so, the government has also let them down. We can look at the notable case of the Chibok girls. What's happened, we don't know, Sylvester now has come and this is a situation we find ourselves. Most schools have not been monitored since inception and in every state, there is a department of quality and assurance who are supposed to monitor schools, but most of them have not had that inspection since they had inaugurated their schools years ago. What are we saying now? The monetary team in the ministry, they've all become elephants in the room. I think, very interesting comments by Helen, but I really think that one of the things that's going on here is a case of when you build high walls and fences to protect yourself against intruders and you don't care about what is the actual cost and eventually your walls get climbed upon by those people outside you. I remember many years ago while doing a lot of advocacy around issues in Lagos state. And I went to the office of the then attorney general and he said one thing, said that he's very, very worried. This was almost about what's going to happen in Lagos over the next couple of years. And because those things are, so what is happening here, which is what Helen is pointing out, we have had all those schools. We've all left the public school system because we felt they were not good enough. But they did it many times, they've been carrying cries from different angles for all of us to actually put an eye and ask questions as to what exactly is going on in there. Who's advocating for teaching training? Who's pushing for standards? And so now the private schools that we all ran to are paid through our nostrils and felt that they were good and now letting us down. So maybe really, as Helen's advocates say, responsibility of parents and schools be your parents who have children in schools, responsibility of adults to say, we want the education system to actually be looked into. We want to call on the ministry of education across all the states. What are the standards? What are the monitoring boards? And like when Helen said about QM evaluation, monitoring evaluation, I think that, I mean, I may have a slight, I don't know because I have worked in the education space for a bit and interestingly, yes, it does go all the way after well, but they do come to the schools and one of the challenges that school owners have is that, of course, when they finally come, there's a lot of the other requests that come into play and so you literally can do the Nigerian and go and get away with some things. Exactly. So which is what I was going to say? Just corrupt again. Yeah, that's, someone needs to monitor the monitor. That's another dimension. This is a question that is going to monitor the monitor. Because if you think it can cause direct debt, but indirectly it causes debt. If somebody is not doing that, you actually think you have to, right? The truth is, like I said, there are laws in place. There are rules. If you look at the system, there's actually a system in place that is enforcing it and then who is making sure that the enforcer is enforcing it. So it's levels and levels of irresponsibility and in discipline and corruption, that is just... You need to enforce the enforcer to enforce the rule. Absolutely. Yeah. So what is our solution? We know we have to regulate, we know we have to monitor. How? Because me, I'm ready with placard to start somebody. Placards are not ready. I think we need to start. But then, really, I don't know how much that is going to do. No, you see, I start holding accountable. So we need, first of all, there's need to, there's the need for research. What is the person obtained? Who's responsible for what? Then there's no need to ask, where does the box stop? And then when you now start going, okay, say what? Look, you know that in any system in a society, you have the three tiers of government, you have the media, you have civil society. And the reality is that those last two arms, the informal arms of government, the media and civil society are fairly society. Because at the end of the day, you need galvanized movement. Yeah, galvanized movement. If they're going to have kill, so you're going to have riots and then the government comes back again to say, we're keeping the peace. So you're going to have to say, okay, so this is what it is. What are the things that they're supposed to enforce? And how do we ensure that this goes on? Because it has to happen. Do we have to start making demands? We've said that we have to start demanding for accountability, right? I believe in process as well. One is yours. I mean, so that's how it starts. It starts as an echo. But if we know it is a resounding explosion that they can't stop but be accountable to. So I kind of see it three ways. And I think Helen, you kind of touched on these things. One is the actual physical movement, right? Two is that you actually have to come up with sincere regulation. Something that actually works. And I was on a podcast with our fellow advocate, Kunle and Helen a couple of days ago. And Kunle made a great point in that there are laws that exist, but they're so vague. You know, to uphold the rights of a child. What does that mean? What are the human rights? It's so vague that it's just left to a wide amount of interpretation. So we also need the law makers to go back and actually make laws that are enforceable before you can even enforce. Very clear.  Yeah. My thoughts really is the fact that how do I put this that it doesn't sound funny? Just say it, go for it. Just say it. Go for it. We really, at this point, really need to have a physical action. You know, we've been having actions against government days. Government didn't do that. Nobody has really come out and stood the ground for education. We need to come out at least maybe go to the governor in a group and let him know that we are tired of our children. When I was in school, if you were in a private school, that means that you were so dull that you could not pass any federal school. That was where we were. Now, private schools, whether you pass or you don't, you're in there. We need to go back. We really need to go back. And my personal opinion is that let us, for the first time ever, come together, march to the government office or minister of education, if not for anything, for the children who have died. For the children who have died and go there and let them know our hearts. And then we leave it like that and then we continue on the Bonson burner and push in like we're doing as it is now. Absolutely, I agree with you. Absolutely, I agree with you. Thank you very much. Good way forward. So we have Elijah up and it's a very, very interesting topic. So please stay with us after the break. Educational and learning environment towards correcting the field system. Educational facilities are supposed to not only equip children in cognitive development but also behavioral development. However, some authorities are filled in their leadership responsibility to inculcate discipline in their words. Given recent e-fated death of Sylvester Oronomi, a plethora of complaints have been filed on social media about the negligence of schools in monitoring the activities of their words and going as far as politicizing their system in favor of the fittest. On the other end of the spectrum, parents are also being blamed for not paying much attention to their children's development process, thereby unleashing both abuse and the victim in an unchecked and unforgiving system. However, these occurrences are avoidable only if some school authorities and parents can form a synergy to put this anomaly in check, to prevent future fatalities through the following. The parents-teacher association is an essential part of the learning process of a child, so it must not be eliminated. Unusual behaviors from students or pupils must be duly reported and addressed. Boding school facilities must be structured with an intent to curb bullying and unacceptable behaviors. There must be school disciplinary and correctional committee for bullies and victims. Parents should not be negligent to their children or world. If these steps are put in place, the school system will be less of a torture zone and more of a learning and development environment. Let's ponder on these words by Katkura, a world-class auto and chief. Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids. And the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain. Let us save our children from the menace of bullying. Rest in peace, Sylvester Aronomi, and other victims of this evil. I like... I mean, it sounds nice when you say that both children are in pain. Unfortunately, only one set of children are dying. You know, more often than not. So I understand the empathy and the understanding for the child that is bullying the perpetrator. Because most times, like we've said, the environment, like Helen said, has 90% to do with the child's development of formation, character, you know, formation. You understand that. However, we must also understand that more often than not, while that child has issues, is the child that is being bullied that gets the wrong idea of the stick more often than not. That's a child that turns out sometimes a bigger bully because they need to fight back. Sometimes that child that turns up timid for the rest of their lives. Or dead. Or dead in some cases. Well, there's a case of the girl in the U.S. 12-year-old with autism who committed suicide as a result of ongoing bullying. She was being bullied so bad that she took her own life at the age of 12. Imagine that. What about the one that happens on Mounts-Bak in South Africa? Is student killed or safe because of bullying, too? I don't know that you follow that news. That was on Mounts-Bak in South Africa. You see? See, I kind of think that, I mean, yes, I might try to take a slight outlier position. It's really to lose stance as to, yes, the bullied actually suffers some more. And yes, maybe apparently and obviously, the bullied may suffer some more. But then we do need to understand something that in reality, when you start to delve deeper into behavioral patterns and working with children, every action has their psychological undertones to this. So see, a person who is bullied, I'm not saying that, I'm not justifying because truly, I was not exactly a bully. Are you sure? No, I'm not. Are you sure?  I'm not sure.  So I was assertive, yet I was also very timid. So I'm timid and I stay in my space, but you push at me, I kind of assert myself. So I feel that we need to realize and deeply focus on the fact that there's a valid set of points that Elijah is raising. The bullied and the bullied. But that brings me to something that somebody said when this conversation was going on. And that in a lot of schools, most schools have just, if you look at it like one counselor. In fact, the guidance and counseling system in school is almost more important. There are no intention. More schools look at, you know, intentionality is the last leg of this conversation, in fact. Most schools focus on teacher certification, education, the principal and things like that. But let's look at a step, let's take it as one step back when he was talking and we're talking. I remember that a lot of our parents, or at least two generations, and the immediate past generation, had parents who, whether or not we look at parents, and we talk about parenting, parenting intentional, parenting is really important.  So I feel that in this case, when Elijah was talking about, how do you correct a failed system? The system is failed, right? That we're talking about the educational system. And in this situation here, little things that when he spoke about it, what kind of the undergirding of it, that behavior, that was those issues. It's a behavior. Yeah. What is the cause of that behavior? What is the cause of how to deal with it? So we have someone here called Helen, who is an advocate. Helen. And there's something that happens, there's applied behavioral analysis in the special needs, you know, when we're thinking about special needs and you are working on behaviors of children and you try and find the cause of the root behavior, ABA, ABC, you know what happened before that behavior? So you immediately are looking for the root cause, the behavior that happened and then the consequence of that behavior. Now we're dealing with the consequences of all these things and we haven't dealt with the antecedent. What is the root cause? So I think Helen is a really good one to just let's get her opinion on this. Well, I guess now I'm talking from the point of a behavior analyst. So yes, you have the antecedents, you have the behavior, you have the consequence. We are dealing with the consequence. That's what we seem to be doing here, but we need to look at what happened before. But as you guys, as Elijah was talking, I said to myself, we have so many social workers who are redundant. Yes. We have so many counselors who are redundant. Why can't we have a system that every school must have one social worker. Those are the challenges. And one guiding and counselor. And it will be done according to the population of the school. So if your school is, you have 1,000 children in your school, you would have at least two or three to service these children. This is what I feel should be the immediate stop gap, because it's going to take a while for us to get to that point. But as you rightfully said, those disciplines are totally non-existent in most of the schools. Why can't they, why can't we advocate for them to come back? Exactly, absolutely. Well, I'm going to tell you one, Helen. Those that think they are guiding and counselors needed to be guided and counseled. Those that teach needed to be taught. When I was in secondary school, I told you I went to military school. That's why we had the soldiers to instill discipline in us. And sometimes punish us via the normal military means, even lock you up in that room, if need be. We had guided and counselor. Most of the G&C were mostly women, matured women. When I mean mature, I'm not talking of young teachers. I mean women in their 50s.  They will advise you. Now when I got to, when I was in GS3, having passed through some nasty nonsense in school, when I got to SS1, SS2, and eventually I became a prefect, I remember I had meetings with other prefects like myself. We said this is our gym will be different. We're not going to punish junior students. GS1 to GS3, we feel they are too small. We don't punish them. If you do wrong from SS1 to SS3, you'll be punished. So that idea of asking, hey, you come and sweep our class. If any of our classmates does that, we disappear. They don't like us for that.  Why is your own case different? We said, no, us will be different. We like discipline, but not to beat or punish innocent children. That's what I was thinking. Yeah, so I understand that. Because sometimes, again, unless you can empathize with what someone is going through, no matter how many degrees or certifications you have, sometimes it's just education. Sometimes it's just empathy. Being able to understand what this person has been through. I mean, for a long time I was a bully. For natural reasons, I have four older brothers. I was bullied all my life, more or less. But not to, it's the hurtful teasing. Did you say you were?  Were? Yeah. Exactly, I'm still bullied by my older brothers. Because they are way older than me. So you get those things, they still bully you. But what it does for you sometimes, it toughens your, but in some other cases, the negative consequences of that. And you have to now personally check yourself and see the tendencies that you have. And then, like you said, go to the root cause and say, where did this thing come from? And then start to address those things. Well, thank you very much everyone. The question of the child rights plagues a lot of Nigerians. And it breaks it down after the break. Okay, so my question today is, does the child have any rights? And obviously it's clear that I have a passion for children in a very funny way that's different from a lot of people here. But I will start with what the UNICEF website has to say. Your child has a right to a safe, nurturing school environment that respects their dignity. I'm particularly talking about the rights of the child today because questions around what child rights have come up a lot. And maybe parents and schools are not even fully aware of the rights that are clearly enunciated that all children have. The Convention on the Rights of the Child states that all children have the right to an education and protection from all forms of physical, or mental violence, injury, or abuse. And interestingly, bullying is no exception. Although designed for the safety and protection of children have to be provided for by adults and the government. Making a clear responsibility lie on the parents' school as well as the government. Although children and young people are covered under the Human Rights Act 1998, their rights are more clearly specified under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, known as UNCRC. Now people usually ask the question, how do those kind of conventions play out in Nigeria? Nigeria has ratified most of this international treaties and once you have ratified the treaty, it's applicable in your country. Although neither specifically mentions bullying, bullying behavior does breach a number of the articles in both. So I'm saying alongside this, both outline the responsibilities of adults to protect and safeguard children and young people from bullying behavior. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has 54 articles setting standards in healthcare, education, and legal, civil, and social services which cover four broad areas. And these areas are survival rights, development rights, protection rights, participation rights. And what is a right? A right is simply a basic need. It's not an entitlement or an expectation. It's a basic need that is expected children need to be protected from bullying behavior so that they can survive, so they can develop and participate in a fulfilling life. And therefore, we're declaring today that bullying is a bridge of children's rights. So how do we showcase this? Apart from the other rights stated, we also have survival rights. What are survival rights? That's a right to survive and develop healthily. The impact of bullying behavior must be addressed in a way that meets the needs of those young people affected and involved. And once again, I say that adults share a responsibility to address any behavior that can harm the development of children. We need, what do you need to be happy and healthy? The positive impact of healthy relationships, supportive role models, inclusion, love, and respect, and all these are things that can be undermined by bullying behavior. So what is it that society, we all need to do? And what are we advocating for today? We need to teach our children how to value and promote a healthy sense of respect for themselves and others in order to reduce the risk of bullying behavior. One other right that children also have is development rights. They have the right to relax and play. An excluded child by bullying behavior has a harmful impact on development, on their health and well-being. Once again, as adults, remember that rights of children can only be upheld by adults within them. We are responsible for shaping an inclusive culture where children or children can participate. Bullying and its impact can be detrimental to a child's capacity to learn. And this right also highlights an adult's responsibility to take young people's views into account when making decisions that affect them. A child's right to education can be denied if they refuse to attend or are removed from school because of bullying behavior. Staff and parents have a responsibility to change behavior that is making a child feel unsafe. It's upon us to develop children's talents fully. The impact of bullying or self-esteem and aspirations can prevent young people from reaching their full potential. Children need to be heard and they have a right to be heard. And so it's time today to call on all adults and more especially parents and adults with the duty of custody over children to listen to them and uphold their fundamental rights. And I think that maybe we have found those points and ways that we're going to use for advocacy with the Lagos state government as suggested by Helen and the other advocate here. And we have a point, how many points are agenda to them? We have agenda.  So there was something she said that caught my interest. It's not about value system. You know I've said this thing before, enforcing the right values. It's charity begins from the home. The person being bullied most times, no the person bullying, the bully, most times the product of his home. What check out their home? Many of these children, perhaps from broken home or from home where their parents don't pay attention to them or don't show good example or see how their parents talk down on house made or whatever and they grow up with this attitude and when they get to school, if it's okay to inflate plain and look superior to others to them too, it all boils down to values. We have to be careful about what we do around our children. Yes, why I agree with that and I think it's really true. I still think that there's a part that is usually under emphasized. The fact that when you talk to people over time, people always say they feel unheard. People really don't. So when we're growing up, it was constant children are seen and not heard. And so when people say when the kind of classifications you put about how people that turn out to be bullies. Some of the people that are bullies that were bullied us or grew up in regular good homes, sometimes not knowing or knowing how to behave, not knowing social skills because some people don't even realize that I'm bullying you, you just feel that like there was an advocate dimension that I said, but it was Helen that said, some parents see that as a child studying up for himself. And that's what we mean. The education, the orientation is deep, really. And I'm glad that the behavioral, at least the behavior is important, it's deep. So the thing about rights that you've said, what caught my attention is the fact that if Nigeria has ratified these rights, then why aren't we enforcing them? So the fact that policemen can go into a school and with live ammunition and just start shooting students. Yeah. I mean, that's all we need to say. Apparently rights are trampled on on this part of the world. So at some point, we need to be start advocating for people's rights to be of help. She said, because if you just go by just the rights that people, humans have, that alone would set a lot of boundaries and a lot of standards in place. All right, Helen, I'm sure. I would just bring it to your notice that, do you know that there is actually a psychometric test that is used in the UK currently to determine the bully and the bully are? I'll ask you. Please, we need it. Yes. I like to see the link. But remember, I remember when I was trying to, there's a particular school in GRE that is quite known for the students being bullies. And they called me in. I spoke to the council and said, look, you know what? We can solve this problem. We can just administer this particular test. Oh, yes, great. Wow, ooh, ooh, ooh. And within the next, you know, the next time, oh, we don't think we should administer it. It's very sensitive at the moment, blah, blah, blah, and this and that. So that died. And it died because the parents were not ready to accept. If the results came out, if my child is the bully here, how am I going to take it? So we're not looking at it from the point of, this can help your system. And you know, the problem is that, I'm not saying that schools are not doing the right thing. Some of them are really doing wonderful things. Sometimes it's actually the parents that make a lot of these schools do what they do. Absolutely. I know that some schools, they want the best for the children, they do health checks, they do this. These are the same parents in their school that will go and petition them for doing the right thing for their children. So I know that this whole semester thing has become a very, very big issue. But what I also don't want us to do is, I don't want us to lump all the schools in the same category that we're lumping during college because there are some schools that are actually doing it love. Oh yeah, absolutely, absolutely, I agree with you. You know, I think there's something that we can do in terms of, you know, when we're petitioning, when we're going forward, it has to take parents' involvement, school involvement, government involvement. But Heaven's hit something where if we can identify the schools that are doing it right, we can learn from how they're doing it right and apply it on a wider, yeah, across board. So if there are people already in this space doing it right, then let's learn from them. Yeah, which is what, you know, I was going to say about Helen that, you know, it's that thing you say about, he'll pay you the pipe and it takes the tune. So until schools are ready to say, no, we do not accept this kind of behavior, please take your children away. Exactly. Until schools are able to make that stand. That's it. This thing will not stop. That's it. You know, the educational system will be beyond the school fees. Yes. And say that this is ours. That's it, yes. And they are prone to re-enter. No, so you see, all these are not going to change if the educational system, the owners of the system, say no. Yes. And that also now brings to the father, okay, how do you actually diversify your offerings and touch it with that? Parents will hold you to rise up. Yes. Yes, absolutely. How do you push the educational system? Anyway, Terlu wraps the conversation up after the break. Charity begins at home. Justice begins next door. Charity has left the home. She left the home when she decided that the critical task of raising your child to be a decent human is someone who has his responsibility. Charity has left the home because we are now raising children without discipline, without instruction, without direction, without boundaries, and ultimately without the conscience. Charity left the home the day you chose that meeting, that appointment, that event, that friend, that similar or gendered line over your child.    Badly behaved parents. Listen, badly behaved children, more often than not, are the ones who become criminals, drug addicts, rapists and murderers.  Child on child crime and abuse has carried on over the past 20 years to as much as half the percentage of adult crime. Let me put that in context for you. For every two adults and there's a criminal, there is one juvenile child. I should add where that statistic will be in another 20 years if we do not take drastic actions starting today. As you hear my parents' words as early as I remember saying, remember the son of whom you are. That phrase as simple as it was carried weight, carried weight because they were not just referring to themselves as parents. By saying those words, they were opening a whole set of instruction, discipline, direction and yes, home training. I mean, it's called home training for a reason. Many parents today look at their children in the eye. Many, sorry, let me say that again. Many parents today cannot look at their children in the eye and say, remember the child of whom you are because there is nothing to remember. They haven't done the hard work. Many children today are bad boys and bad girls and are celebrated for it. We must start to reprogram our kids to respect plain old decency in a world where good, bad, moral and immoral have been heavily subjectivised. Without taking responsibility away from schools, the task of raising a decent human is the primary responsibility of the parent. I repeat, the critical task of raising a decent and responsible human is the primary responsibility of the parent because if you don't raise your children right, somebody else will. In some cases, that's awarding in prison facility or other inmates. Social security is what I advocate for. Criminal legions must be truly criminalised. Parents must be held fully responsible for neglecting their roles and let's bring charity back home. At that point, just drop the mic and walk. Hi, hi, hi. I mean, I don't know. I really think that what you have said is so true. You've hit the nail on the head. And the question that comes to mind immediately is where did we get it wrong? What is happening in the home?  At what point? Yes, and I really think that maybe when we look at it, when you see the situation, is when they crush the desire for the final things of life and how I don't want my children to suffer the way I suffered and how I want to give them a good life, all that stuff becoming the norm. But because when you talk to some parents and you're trying to tell them that, oh, this doesn't make sense or this shouldn't have done it, look at you like, what are you talking about? I mean, there was a time when I was in love etiquette classes and at some point, every time we almost got that sense of, oh, really? Hey, do they really need it? Well, maybe they need to learn how to use their fork and knife and I'm thinking, do you think that etiquette about fork and knife alone really was about behavior or social skills? And so do we, the parents don't think it's that important? So let me tell you something. So I left Nigeria at six years old. I went to boarding school at the age of six to the age of 18. My parents never relocated, they were here. I can tell you every day of boarding school my father was in my head. He had done that walk at six years old. At six years old. To this day, the man is still inside my head. So it's really important in those initial, we call it the early intervention years in the special needs community, those first six years, especially those first two to three, that you really impress the values on children because that is the time the brain is the most spongious to understand, to absorb and to be able to become part of their DNA. So it's really, really important that parents clue into this. You cannot leave your child for the nanny. Yes, absolutely right. What I'm going to say is I was just thinking about something. You call the rema, it came to my mind. There are two things here. Parents should think about the future of their children. What kind of child do you want? What kind of adult do you want to try to grow into? If you go to America, George Bush, George H.W. Bush, Bethe, George W. Bush, do you know the amount of work he impacted in the life of his children that he had one of his son, a governor and a president, another one a governor, right? Senator. Do you think it was just because he was a president? That's why he became president? No, that was intentional parenting. And then the other aspect from, away from parenting, the school, those that go into education and want to be a teacher, many at times they don't go for the glory of teaching and impacting life. They go because, oh, that's the work I'm doing. I just want to do it. I don't care. I want to just collect my money and leave. Please, we need Helen to talk. You hit an issue. And I know Helen was sitting there wanting to say something, particularly on this point. Helen, yes. In fact, I think I love all of you. That's what I'm saying. Because we love you too. You're all speaking my language. I think it's really, really, really, I'm always one for charity begins at home. And I concur with Tonya because I also went to school in the UK. And every time I wanted to make a wrong move, I would just remember my father.  That was his words.  So I sit down in my quiet moment and I'm thinking, the parents of these young boys who have now been identified as the suspects of killing this young man, what would those parents be going through? You see, it's a tragedy all around. It's a tragedy all around. And I'm very, very sure that if you look at it holistically, we have to mourn for both parties. Sylvester's parents have lost a child and five to six other parents are more or less going to lose their children as well. But Tolu hit on something towards the end of his intro, which kind of hinted at, do you prosecute the parents? I kind of got that thing in terms of the ramifications for the parents. Social security abroad.  In Nigeria, that might be a bit of a relief for them. You know, just take them. We should probably have those kind of things in place. So I think it's a good time to have a moment of silence for the daily part of children over the last couple of years or whenever that's having victims of bullying or physical abuse. I mean, their souls rest in perfect peace. Amen. Well, time is never a friend on this program. However, the Advocacy Continues on our social media platforms on Facebook, Plus TV Africa, hashtag The Advocate NG, and on Instagram at Plus TV Africa, hashtag The Advocate NG. 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