#prageru kids

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Horrible bad no good shitpost that popped into my head today.

#the coffin of andy and leyley #prageru #prageru kids #Leo and layla's history adventures #approved for the florida curriculum

[silvermoon424]

I've been watching Youtubers clown on stuff like PragerU Kids and The Tuttle Twins since those have been in the news lately (if you don't know, they're conservative curriculums/media aimed at children). And like

I love how conservative/libertarian children's media is so obsessed with owning the libs or whatever that they almost always end up spurning lessons that are universally taught to children regardless of political/religious/etc background. So you end up with lessons like "sharing is bad," "you should be suspicious of people who are different than you," "some people are more equal than others," etc.

It's really telling, but I feel so sorry for the poor kids who are being spoon-fed this bullshit.

#hopefully they grow up to be good people and make their parents see the light #fuck conservatives #politics #us politics #prageru kids #leftism

[fizzyeggg]

they really went full mask off huh

#prageru #prageru kids #antisemitism tw

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Florida schools have approved the use of “supplemental curriculum” created by PragerU, an unaccredited right-wing advocacy group that seeks to offer an alternative to “dominant left-wing ideologies,” in classrooms days after the state Department of Education approved new, controversial academic standards for Black history curriculum.

PragerU CEO Marissa Streit announced that Florida approved the nonprofit as an official vendor, allowing teachers to incorporate its educational entertainment videos, self-described as “edutainment,” as supplemental materials in classrooms.

“We have seen that our schools have been hijacked by the left. They have been politicized, they have been used by union bosses, they have been doing everything under the sun not for our children,” Streit said.

“And so we have launched PragerU Kids and we started providing great 'edutainment,' educational entertainment for children across America. But we didn’t just stop there. Now we’re actually making turnkey curriculum. Content for your schools. And the state of Florida just announced that we are now becoming an official vendor. This means that if you are a teacher in Florida, you cannot be fired for using PragerU content.”

The Miami New Times confirmed that the Florida Board of Education approved the materials, saying that it aligned with the state's revised civics and government standards.

WHAT IS PRAGERU?

Prager University Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that creates educational videos that it says promote American values. PragerU’s website says that it “offers a free alternative to dominant left-wing ideology in culture, media and education.”

The driving force behind much of PragerU’s growing popularity stems from its series title “5-Minute Videos,” which boils down everything from economic and political science topics to life lessons and cultural topics into bite-sized, 5-minute videos.

Many of the most popular videos tackle controversial topics. As of this writing, the five videos showcased under the “Most Popular 5-Minute Videos” tag include “Do You Understand the Electoral College,” “Was the Civil War About Slavery,” “The Inconvenient Truth About the Democratic Party,” “Why I Left the Left” and “War on Boys.”

WHO FOUNDED PRAGERU? PragerU was founded in 2009 by Allen Estrin and conservative radio talk show host Dennis Prager.

WHAT DOES PRAGERU’S CURRICULUM TEACH?

PragerU believes that American schools are “indoctrinating” students who are being taught “radical ideas” about critical race theory, systemic racism, gender fluidity, anti-Americanism and that math is racist. It says it has designed its curriculum to provide “both sides of the argument” and help kids understand history, economics, foreign affairs and philosophy.

PragerU’s website provides users with access to its educational videos but does little to shed light on what specific key concepts it hopes to instill through its curriculum.

Examples of lesson plans can also be found on the website, but they only provide basic, surface-level views of what will be taught. A lesson plan regarding the Federalist Papers only has four learning objectives:

• Identify who wrote the Federalist Papers • Explain why the Federalist Papers were written • Recognize why the framers of the Constitution created a federal government with checks and balances • Appreciate the system of government established by the Founding Fathers

The full lesson can be learned in about 50 minutes, according to the site.

WHY CRITICS PUSH BACK AGAINST PRAGERU CURRICULUM

PragerU has a long history of experts rebuking ideas presented in many of its videos.

Joseph McCarthy of The Weather Channel in 2016 wrote an entire feature on PragerU’s video called "Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Energy," which had garnered 1.5 million views at that time. McCarthy wrote that the video was presented by a proponent of fossil fuel, Alex Epstein, and that the video “flubs a major date and soberly transitions between obvious inaccuracies and out-of-context claims."

Paul Gottfried in 2017 wrote pinned a story in The American Conservative lambasting PragerU presenter Dinesh D’Souza for claiming that fascism was a left-wing idea. D’Souza claimed that it could be proven that it was a “leftist” idea by examining the political writings of Mussolini’s court philosopher Giovanni Gentile.

Gottfried, a paleoconservative scholar, wrote that “their judgment also clashes with that of almost all scholars of Gentile’s work, from across the political spectrum, who view him, as I do in my study of fascism, as the most distinguished intellectual of the revolutionary right.”

These are just the tip of the iceberg, however. The Daily Beast points out that PragerU videos have claimed there’s no wage gap between men and women and that it has praised Confederate General Robert E. Lee for crushing an attempted slave rebellion.

And others have noted inaccuracies in videos claiming that Europe is “committing suicide” by allowing mass migration, that “whiteness and conservatism” are under attack and more.

Civic groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League have also criticized PragerU’s videos, describing some as a “dog whistle to the extreme right” and “filled with anti-immigration and anti-Muslim rhetoric.”

#us politics #news #Pensacola News Journal #2023 #florida #republicans #conservatives #gov. ron desantis #florida department of education #dennis prager #prager u #Marissa Streit #PragerU Kids #Miami New Times #Allen Estrin #alt right #alt right jihad #Federalist Papers #Joseph McCarthy #the weather channel #Paul Gottfried #The American Conservative #Dinesh D’Souza #Giovanni Gentile #Southern Poverty Law Center #Anti-Defamation League

[match-your-steps]

in my senior year of high school I took ap government and we did this 2-person group project thing and we decided to do it on bias in prageru kids youtube channel videos (for which we watched all their videos and judged them on vibes and citations of specific instances within the videos) and, by chance, my partner person who i barely knew saw my youtube recommendations, which contained some utau stuff and then she was like "by the way I saw your recommended videos and utaus are so underrated" and we never talked about it again and I don't even like utaus that much (although I have no bias against them. one of my favorite producers only uses utaus I think so that's a thing) so I think that was the weirdest niche music experience I've ever had so far in my life

#also in case my roommate happens to see this rn (bc sometimes that happens) #first of all go to sleep #and second of all dont even worry I'll be home by uh. 8 at the latest? #which yeah i know i know that is not a good time #but lets be honest is it better to walk home at 4am #like really is it actually #anyways #high school #school #group project #prageru #prageru kids #youtube #utau #vocaloid #music #human interaction #youtube recommendations

[cadavidson]

Veterans Day: PragerU helps Teach Your Children Love of Country, Military History Heroes

Veterans Day: PragerU helps Teach Your Children Love of Country, Military History Heroes

Veterans Day: PragerU helps Teach Your Children Love of Country, Military History Heroes Do Your Kids Respect the U.S. Military?   What do your children do when they see an armed service member dressed in uniform?  Do they say, “Thank you for your service”?  Do they understand the respect and gratitude that the U.S. military deserves? A terrible trend of anti-American sentiment and disrespect…

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#love of country #military history #prageru kids #teach your children #veterans day

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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW.

#PRAGERU **KIDS**????

[skeleton-monarch]

Aldo Buttazzoni is a part of PragerU. PragerU is authorized for use as supplemental material in k-6 in Florida and New Hampshire while Oklahoma has partnered with PragerU to make a specific Oklahoma specific history curriculum! Listen to teachers when we scream about needing to save public education and needing to save it now. It was never hyperbole when we said they want to take all books. Don’t let them take another step further.

#also if you don’t know abt prageru look it up and then call your fucking reps and demand that it not be included as any part of curriculum #their kid catered history series includes columbus (who is painted at correct) saying that slavery is as old as time and it’s better to #enslave people than it is to kill them! #so! not great! #please please please please please pay attention to school board elections #one of the most important phonecalls you can make is to your education department because nobody realizes that they are held to public #representation so no one but prageru dumbasses call them

[thefoxlady]

Attention teachers, parents, and everyone else!

PragerU Kids is being shown in Floridan schools and being used indoctrinate children into beliefs like "Slavery wasn't that bad", "Climate Change isn't real", while also demonizing Native Americans, the Civil Rights Movement, and BLM. They also distort history to make their stance on what they believe in. PragerU is a conservative organization that cherry picks data, makes misleading and inaccurate claims on history, racism, immigration, slavery, and fascism. They also support anti-LGBTQ politics and said there's no human rights being abused in Israel.

If you want kids to learn something while also learning history, show them Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum and read them the Ordinary People Change the World books by Brad Meltzer and illustrated by Chris Eliopoulos. These will be a better option than PragerU Kids' propaganda.

Share this and spread the word! Make Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum and Ordinary People Change the World books be shared in classrooms for a better world, to teach kids a better lesson than what PragerU Kids is indoctrinating onto these kids. Share this on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, any social media platform to tell teachers and parents that Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum and the Ordinary People Change the World books are better for their children. Make memes about it, I don't care! We must spread the word and promote the truth and love, not false information and hate!

Make hashtags that'll catch people's attention and spread the good word of Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum!

#xavier riddle and the secret museum #xratsm #stop PragerU Kids #reblogging this post to spread it around #spread it around the internet

[dragpinkman]

just watched a not for snowflakes family guy compilation & im in tears, im so triggered liberal pronoun right now.. i wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy

#kidding but it was in my rec like 🤨 who am i to you #mr. youtube gives me prageru ads all the time now u guys know a free ad blocker

[stubbornvulpixquotes]

Here's the thing: it's different when Nazis do it.

-Big Joel, PragerU for Kids: A Horrible YouTube Channel

#quotes #youtube quotes #big joel #prageru for kids a horrible youtube channel

[actual-nobody]

I don’t think this would change any of y’all’s opinions but I don’t have a Xitter yet.

#youtube #not mine #zoe bee #prageru #good ol pu #florida #texas #other states probably #education #lesson plans #imagine being so incompetent you can't even apply to your own low-bar standards #imagine being so incompetent you don't even verify that an organization with publicly available plans lives up to their own standards #imagine caring about kids' education

[xxxsimplyhookedxxx]

#Sad when the kids grow up and leave their home base #but don't worry she'll be just fine out in the world #you have taught her well #PragerU #Amala Ekpunobi leaving PragerU to go off on her own two little wings #Amala Ekpunobi #Marissa Streit

[mbenguin]

Where were you when PragerU started dropping videos about historical figures and how did your sanity do upon viewing

#morbid curiosity is a terrifying thing #mfw an educational history video for kids no.195478 is focused more on twisting history to fit an ideology rather than presenting facts #I only watched the Columbus one I truly hope the rest of the series isn't this bad (cope) #each “caramba” that man lets out I could feel my soul being crushed #ohhh those poor Floridian kids #I would go into more details about everything wrong with that video but I think I'd save the essay writing for a later date #(I said as I am typing a Tumblr tags equivalent of one) #I'm not crazy invested into American history (nor am I American myself) but can someone tell me why Columbus Day is such a big deal in US? #I'm genuinely curious #iirc Columbus fucked around in the West Indies and a little bit around Central+Northern South America #(technically North America yes but not *specifically* the US) #(I also see some sources claiming he's been to Florida but only for a bit? Not too sure) #and opened a floodgate for European colonists...That's about it? #he had virtually nothing to do with the founding or unification of what makes America well. America? #or is this a “founding mythology” type stuff? lmao #prageru #history #benny's chatterings

[lesvegas]

jesus christ every time i open youtube not signed in its fucking nothing but sssniperwolf reacts to stolen tiktoks mrbeast squidgame fake commercial challenge top 10 weirdest foods in fortnite nine billion dollar car bright red arrows and circles and thumbnails that never match the titles ableist-looking shorts making fun of ‘weird’ kids prageru asking dumb college kids about cultural appropriation chill lofi beats to relax and study to world without end

[dazzling-dollyz]

I can't stop thinking about the fact that that meme audio that goes like "I want Mommy, I want milk, I want to be held" comes from a video of a bitter ass, boomer aged PragerU guy unironically calling all babies "narcissists' who "manipulate" their parents into getting whatever they want

#manipulative #like sir #it's a baby??? #do you expect it to walk up and get whatever it needs by itself??? #if you're one of those people who talks about how and terrible kids are unironically I do not trust you #because there are way too many adults who will call their kids 'greedy' simply for wanting proper love and care #and imo unironically thinking giving your kids care is 'a waste' bc they need to 'get up and go do it themselves' is more selfish #than literally anything a child could do #also PragerU is a plague on the internet