Matt Walsh Reacts to Public School Insanity

Here's a report from Fox 25 in Oklahoma that I hope you're not eating right now. But if you are, fair warning.
Here it is. It's an event at Deer Creek High School.
Fox 25's David Chazanov has reaction from the district and its parents tonight. David, what are you hearing? Adam Owende, a parent whose child attended the event, calls it deeply disturbing.
And we do want to warn you, the video you're about to see may be graphic to some viewers. And 30, 2, 1, 2, 1.
This video shows Deer Creek High School students licking toes at a fundraising event Thursday. We have blurred their faces to hide their identity.
It was surprising. I didn't think we were going to do all that.
I was just shocked. I didn't really have a feeling.
I was kind of disgusted, but then I'm kind of glad I wasn't over there. He is devouring them! Whatever she told me yesterday that was happening, I had to ask her, like, wait, what? They're licking peanut butter off their toes, what? The Deer Creek School District confirmed the video with Fox 25, saying the the students volun to help raise money durin week.
I am all for fundra fun and silly things. But there just seemed a little Deer Creek schools says e signed up for the games they played ahead of time, and that no faculty or staff were involved during the assembly.
They note that the fundraising week helped raise more than $152,000. It's really great that they raised a lot of money.
I feel like maybe they could have done a little bit more accountability and ownership in that statement for, hey, you know, maybe we didn't fully think this thing through here. So just to review here, this school, Deer Creek High School, decided to have a fundraising event.
And so far, so far, so good. Fundraising event.
Nothing wrong with that. When I was a kid, we did fundraisers all the time in school.
We sold candy bars. We did walk-a-thons.
We had bake sales. We did car washes, that sort of thing.
Where it all goes off the rails is that they decided for their fundraising activity that they were going to have students apparently lick peanut butter off of each other's feet in front of an entire gymnasium.

And... apparently lick peanut butter off of each other's feet in front of an entire gymnasium.

It's one of those things.

It's really, if you're a normal person,

you can't wrap your mind around it exactly

because this was an idea that someone at the school had

and proposed, right? And then it was organized.

It's like multiple people are involved here. I don't know how many, but the involvement,

it goes beyond just one person. And they're organizing this.
And at no point before or

during did anybody stop and say, you know, I don't know if we should do the toe licking thing. I don't know if that, maybe we shouldn't.
That might be a hard, it might actually, that might make us look like sicko pedophiles with foot fetishes if we do that. So maybe we shouldn't.
Nobody said that apparently. And they just charged right ahead.
And then when the video of this event goes viral, as it was destined to, the school district doesn't apologize. They don't accept any responsibility at all.
Don't hold themselves accountable. They don't even admit that it was probably a bad idea.
So that's what you have to understand. The school district is standing behind this.
They're standing behind the toe-sucking video. They will not acknowledge, even in hindsight, they won't acknowledge there was anything wrong with it.
This is from, so they read a little bit of the statement, but it's just, it's so incredible that. Let me read the statement to you.
This afternoon, Deer Creek High School announced a grand total of $152,830 raised for Not Your Average Joe Coffee, an organization created to inspire our community by including students and adults with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities, according to their website. This total was raised through a week of events and activities at both Deer Creek High School and Deer Creek Middle School, all designed to bring our community together for an extremely impactful organization.
On Thursday, February 29th, Deer Creek High School hosted an assembly called the Clash of Classes for students who paid to attend. During this assembly, 9th through 12th grade students volunteered to participate in various student-organized class competitions in the spirit of raising money for NYAJ.
All participants in the assembly were students who signed up for the game that they played ahead of time. No Deer Creek faculty or staff participated in any of the games during this clash of classes assembly.
Many dedicated students gave generously of their personal time to achieve this momentous accomplishment, which will serve communities beyond the boundaries of Deer Creek. That's it.
There's no apology there. Nothing.
They are not convinced yet that the foot fetish festival was a miscalculation. In fact, they defend it on the basis that it raised a lot of money.
This momentous accomplishment of licking peanut butter off of toes was a great achievement.

And they also say,

you know, they also defended by saying that the students weren't,

were not, they volunteered for it.

So they were not held at gunpoint.

Okay, well, that's good news, I guess.

And they have to stipulate

that there were no teachers involved.

So it was not teachers

having their toes sucked by students.

This was a student.

These were all students.

And if that makes this any better, it makes it better by about an inch. However, we're still approximately 95 billion miles away from anything that could be considered appropriate or worthwhile for a school activity.
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It begins earlier this week with students at Mount Nebo Middle School in Utah staging a walkout in protest of all the furries that administrators have allowed to infest the school. It began with a petition, which gained over 500 signatures in a few days, calling for the school to start enforcing its dress codes and stop allowing students to come to class dressed in their furry costumes.
And then came the walkout. Adam Bartholomew, who is a local commentator in Utah, captured footage of the event and of the kids outside the school, talked to them and asked them what their complaints were.
And let's watch a little bit of that. Are they wearing a mask every day? Yes.
Yes. But every time they go, they're always just wearing a mask.
But the principal finally stood up and banned those stuff. But they still wear them every day.
And they don't get in trouble. The principal doesn't make them get in trouble.
Yeah. All the principal says is just be kind, be nice, be nice.
What's the point of dressing up like a furry? I don't know. It's to get attention.
It's to get attention. It's to get a lot of attention if they want attention.
So people can come at them and just look at them and think that they're so cool. Okay.
Are you guys going to be in trouble for walking out of school today? No. Maybe.
If we go back, we will get in trouble. If we go back, we will get suspended.
Hopefully not. We're standing for everybody.
We're standing for what the furries are wrong. This is wrong.
Do your parents know you guys are out here? Yes. They attack us.
If they bite us and we just kick them, we get in trouble.

They attack us. They attack us and we get in trouble.

How else do they attack you guys?

They either bite us, they scratch us, they bark.

They pounce on us.

And then they run on all fours and pounce on people.

So the furries have gone feral, it seems. They're biting and scratching and p pounce on people.
So, um, the furries have gone feral. It seems they're biting and scratching and pouncing on people.
Some of the students have had enough of this behavior. They want to go to school at a school, not at a petting zoo.
And that's why they walked out. Here's a video from a guy named Eric Mautzis with more insight from people who work at the school.
Listen to what he says. Problem is a substitute teacher from Mount Nebo Middle School contact me and said, this has been happening for over a year.
And this one is actually really sad. And this person needs to be reprimanded.
Rebecca Hunsaker Barney said, this is the school I work at. I'm embarrassed for the parents that just believed everything their kids told them, then staged a protest without even contacting the school to find out what is really happening.
The truth is that a few kids dressed as pets stay to themselves. They do not do any of these things these kids are reporting.
However, they are constantly picked on and bullied. So the kids stay to themselves.
What about the video I just got from a concerned parent where this girl acting like a dog is going after these students. This gets even better.
Honestly, we had the most wonderful, peaceful day yesterday because most of the troublemakers were out protesting a lie. Really? Because that doesn't look like a lie.
The halls were quiet and actually cleaner without them there. This is a teacher at the school.
This teacher is supposed to look at these kids in the eye, unbiased, and give them grades. Okay, well, that confirms it then.
The furries being in school is not a rumor. It's not misinformation.
And the left has been denying that this sort of thing is happening for years. They've claimed that this is all the claims of furries at school and kids coming to school dressed as animals.
They've been saying for years that this is a total right-wing myth, completely made up. But here you have a teacher who is on the side of the furries, a teacher who doesn't like the kids who were protesting, admitting publicly that, quote, a few kids dress as pets.
And she says that like it's completely normal, like she sees no problem with it, as if it's normal childhood behavior. I don't know about you, but when I went to school, we had precisely zero kids dressing as pets at school.
What? Well, she acts like she doesn't have a problem with it, and she doesn't, and that is the problem. Now, look, we can have debates over dress codes and how strict they could be or should be, but any halfway sane person should agree that the dress code should at least require that every student dress like a human at a minimum.
Dressing as a pet is not something that a child

of any age should be doing on a regular basis. Okay, if my four-year-old at home was dressing

like an animal every day, I'd be a little concerned even about that. That's an unhealthy

fixation for a child of any age. But a middle school age child during school hours? By the way, the same guy, Eric Mautzes, has also obtained these photos of kids at this school dressed in their animal costumes, which you can see here.
So we've got some kind of velociraptor lion hybrid thing.

And then a bunch of variations of cats, I guess.

I think I see another lizard or maybe there's a dinosaur back there.

Kids are dressing like this at school.

Coming to school in a full-on mask and just walking around the school.

Their parents are letting them leave the house in animal masks.

Well, this is happening.

It has not been debunked.

It is real. I'm sorry.
The school, their parents are letting them leave the house in animal masks.

Well, this is happening.

It has not been debunked.

It is real.

It's a real thing.

But we have not yet gotten to the weirdest part of this story somehow.

The local ABC affiliate decided to provide context by interviewing a furry in costume and referring to the woman as her fictional character's name during this interview. Watch.
This is Strudel, a member of the furry fandom. Though they've been a furry for over a decade, they have their own opinions.
It's crazy that it's escalated to this point where these kids are being so distracting to their peers that their peers want to stage a walkout. To have the next generation kind of muddy our name and not represent it very well, it is kind of disappointing.
Strudel believes there should be some limits. Continue doing things you like, continue dressing up, continue making art, but maybe let's keep it outside of school hours.
Yeah, she doesn't want these kids to muddy the name of furries. They must not sully the reputation of the furries.
They shouldn't do anything that gives the public the impression that people who walk around in animal costumes are, I don't know, weird, bizarre, deranged, mentally unbalanced.