Sex, Drugs, and Illiteracy — What He Saw in Public Schools

Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg

In this episode of Spotlight, IFI’s David Smith sits down with Geno Young to discuss his book, Sex, Drugs and Illiteracy: The Death of Education in America, and to examine why he believes the academic and cultural collapse in government schools is both deliberate and nationwide.

Young shares the firsthand experiences he witnessed while working as a substitute teacher in Illinois public high schools, including Hillcrest, Tinley Park, Oak Forest, Thornridge, Thornwood, and Thornton. He exposes the chronic lack of discipline, lowered standards, and shocking conduct that have become routine in the classroom. Young argues that the current system is beyond repair, crippled by institutional rot, ideological indoctrination, and an absolute abandonment of accountability.

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Background

Young’s book pulls back the curtain on disturbing classroom realities, documenting unchecked violence, pervasive illiteracy, and rampant hyper-sexualization, including students attempting to distribute illicit recordings on school grounds. He contends that administrators and staff routinely turn a blind eye, choosing to suppress the truth and conceal failures rather than enforce standards or remove disruptive students.

The reality is that most parents remain unaware of what their children truly encounter each day in public classrooms. The environment is far more corrosive than many realize. Young urges families to rescue their children from the government school system altogether, pointing to homeschooling and local Christian learning cooperatives as necessary alternatives, while calling for the total abolition of the federal Department of Education to break the monopoly of state-run schooling.

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