How PragerU Infiltrated Public Schools

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As a teacher I can say: I'm so overworked and strung out during the school year that there's no way in hell I would've reviewed the PragerU curriculum and given feedback in four days. I mean, we already do so much unpaid labor just as part of the job as it is. They knew this and they counted on it.

“We aren’t political, we just want to teach Judeo-Christian values.”

Cash Course? Do they just try to prey on dyslexic people looking for Crash Course videos?

Anytime someone says “Judeo-Christian” my eyes roll out of my head.

"Ethical self-interest" is like when a parent puts on the oxygen mask first to make sure they're able to help the kids. It's not "exploiting others for my own personal profit is good, actually!". PragerU is fucking awful.

I was in my 30s before I understood the purpose of school wasn't to have an informed populace, it was to have a complaint workforce.

PragerU is for education what lead pipes are for drinking water.

I hate how this was used to be like "pragerU is trying to get its way into schools" and now it's "how pragerU is in schools"

I'm so glad our state governments are handing the keys of our schools to think tanks disguised as educators. Surely this will have no repercussions for how future generations will navigate the increasingly interconnected world.

"Freedom week" where teachers are only allowed to show students state-approved materials. These idiots couldn't make something funnier if they tried. The US is so fucked.

Huh. Last I knew, PragerU was pretty open about the fact that they actually aren't an educational facility. I guess they've changed their mind.

These “courses” sound like those mandatory training courses at corporate jobs.

Way back in Junior High, I was taking one of many low-level math courses. I have a learning disability and as a result math was always difficult and stressful for me, especially when I had to "show my work". When I could barely understand polynomials, how am I meant to describe my thought processes. It's hard to remember the specifics (this was almost 20 years ago), but I was working on a problem in class and came to a realization, figuring out a way to calculate the solution that was MUCH easier for me. And despite finding the solution, these problems were still being marked wrong on tests. I showed the teacher how I did it and why, and she told me that it was wrong. When I asked why, she answered, "Because that's not the way we do it" and refused to expound further. If the original way had a specific application and couldn't be changed, I would have understood. But if it did, she never told me. Those weren't guardrails she was putting up, it was fencing. I think that was the first moment I came to understand that the American school system wasn't designed for learning.

This actually gives me hope. I'm so happy to hear so many parents are fighting so hard to keep this crap out of their children's schools.

13:30 "Judeo-Christian" should have disqualified Prager "U" as an educational supplement right then and there. The process how they passed sounds similar to how Michigan became a "right to work" state during a lame duck legislative session in 2014. (The 2023-2024 state legislature repealed right-to-work) Prager U knows that their materials would not pass when the actual procedures are used, so they found some loopholes and exploited them for fast-tracking.

Dennis Prager monologue "Mommy gimmie milk or ill ruin your life."

New Hampshire has fallen Texas has fallen Florida has fallen Montana has fallen Oklahoma has fallen Arizona has fallen Louisiana has fallen

"Debt is good." "You chose to be poor." Oh no... 😓😓

I like how pregerU despises academia in their videos yet promotes everything wrong with it through their actions.