How PragerU Hurts Students (and Teachers)

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  • @zoe_bee
    @zoe_bee  Год назад +647

    🎉 Get started with Notion, sign up for free: ntn.so/zoebee

    • @olivervision
      @olivervision Год назад +10

      I remember when kids could grow up to be whatever they wanted.

    • @olivervision
      @olivervision Год назад +16

      I heard the biggest library in Florida just closed.. somebody stole the book.

    • @danielyoutubechannel407
      @danielyoutubechannel407 Год назад +2

      3rd

    • @randomdams9179
      @randomdams9179 Год назад +5

      Wow, I thought PragerU was a good resource.
      Thanks so much for telling us the truth about them.

    • @peppy3519
      @peppy3519 Год назад

      A good alternative to Notion is Obsidian

  • @leo_warren
    @leo_warren Год назад +7050

    The other 'joy' of poor, uninspiring lessons is that classroom management becomes impossible as kids will misbehave if unengaged.

    • @madelinecoven6428
      @madelinecoven6428 Год назад +598

      And, provide excuses to justify harsh school punishment

    • @danatronics9039
      @danatronics9039 Год назад +525

      @@madelinecoven6428Harsh school punishment which will very clearly be enforced on a racial basis.

    • @macaronimagpie
      @macaronimagpie Год назад +347

      Yup, I couldn't imagine trying to make my students watch a twenty-seven minute video. The chaos they would devolve into. Also, what if admin walks in? I don't think they'd be amused by my lesson for the day being showing a video for over half the class. The one where you tell students "we're going to play a game!" and then make them watch a video of someone else playing a game would cause a revolt.

    • @undeniablySomeGuy
      @undeniablySomeGuy Год назад +49

      Not gonna say ive had teachers that are super racially motivated, but ffs it does happen ew

    • @Roxor128
      @Roxor128 Год назад +105

      And Prager Screw-You will probably be advocating for the return of the cane for dealing with misbehaving students.

  • @cadeprater-burgess8566
    @cadeprater-burgess8566 Год назад +5673

    Native Texan here: What happened is that a single State Board of Education member announced that PragerU was coming to classrooms. Immediately afterwards, the rest of the Board of Education leadership said she went rogue, and that there were no plans now or in the immediate future to let public school teachers use it, and that the company hadn't even submitted educational materials to the state for review. So PragerU is staying out of Texas classrooms. For now.

    • @Vakqksb37
      @Vakqksb37 Год назад +461

      Genuinely very happy to hear that

    • @pseudoruu
      @pseudoruu Год назад +232

      frankly, it needs to stay that way

    • @KairiMorin
      @KairiMorin Год назад +134

      Oh THANK THE LORD, BLESSED BE!

    • @oscarguerrero178
      @oscarguerrero178 Год назад +107

      Phew! Let’s hope it stays that way, but it’s Texas so probably not

    • @nightmarefuel3478
      @nightmarefuel3478 Год назад +158

      Unusual Texas W.

  • @Juniper8271
    @Juniper8271 Год назад +1494

    The fact they got people like Ben Shapiro in there is insane. He is not a licensed teacher but a political icon. They just put their own guys from the Prager U corporation into their own lesson plans. It’s like if Elon musk personally gave a lesson about the uses of cars, and ONLY showed Tesla cars in the examples and then proceeded to advertise space X. Then giving them a worksheet on the benefits of buying Tesla stock.

    • @megamangos7408
      @megamangos7408 Год назад +81

      Well, they don't care if the people they support in office have a law degree or even understand the law, so it's not a stretch for them to have the same kind of people as 'teachers.'

    • @thomash.schwed3662
      @thomash.schwed3662 Год назад +42

      @@megamangos7408 And it's even less of a stretch for Dennis Prager to have such people as "students" given the tripe presented in the regular "Prager U" videos. Indeed, Dennis Prager wants people who are completely incompetent and lacking the ability to think and reason for themselves working death-dealing hours in all fields for little-or even no-pay. These lesson plans, falsely so-called, are simply his latest step to achieve that aim.

    • @lucykitsune4619
      @lucykitsune4619 Год назад +3

      Also people can only communicate with Elon over twitter

    • @simunator
      @simunator Год назад

      with that logic, common parents shouldn't be allowed to teach their kids how to wipe their ass or to not rape. try a better argument there bud

    • @KazeShikamaru
      @KazeShikamaru Год назад

      Like Ben Shapiro could be informed on some topics but he is just a political icon.

  • @film9491
    @film9491 Год назад +1457

    “What colors is the Statue of Liberty?” Could be a good question to lead into a chemistry lesson, but it’s pretty clear that’s not what’s happening here,

    • @alexwyatt2911
      @alexwyatt2911 Год назад +165

      That was my precise thought! Learning about the development of patina would be a great tidbit. But no, we both know that wasn’t a consideration.

    • @txkoutdoorfam6911
      @txkoutdoorfam6911 Год назад +57

      Haha I thought the same thing. When she said it, I quickly started scanning the page, to see if it added anything about why its those colors! But nope, I think it was the shortest one. Missed opportunity. But then I started thinking maybe they have to stick to there subject. But I would have to add it, if I were the teacher. I had a teacher that always added a unique fact about our subject for the day. Mr. Brown 7th grade science teacher, annnnnddddd that might be the only teacher I can remember name grade and subject from K-12. Kinda embarrassing….

    • @KirbyKitten
      @KirbyKitten 10 месяцев назад +6

      Rather than a what it would be a why in that scenario tho

    • @RyuKyu.77
      @RyuKyu.77 9 месяцев назад +23

      "Oh you say turquoise? You would be wrong if you were alive 200 years ago!" Missed opportunity smh

    • @tacticallemon7518
      @tacticallemon7518 9 месяцев назад +5

      Seriously, “Teal/Turquoise? but it’s made of copper”

  • @Corium1
    @Corium1 Год назад +1846

    the fact that the lessons plans repeat thing 3 times. As well as including "apperciate" as a grading criteria. Is truly cult like.

    • @Time_Is_Left
      @Time_Is_Left Год назад +162

      @thricegreat7175. Or maybe yours was just especially bad

    • @Matthew.E.Kelly.
      @Matthew.E.Kelly. Год назад

      It just becomes more apparent when you see it decades later, as an adult. The US education system is dismal, & saturated with propaganda. It's very cult-like.

    • @realdragon
      @realdragon Год назад +106

      ​@thricegreat7175 Let's think about why "appreciate" is bad
      How would you feel about kids in Germany to appreciate their history?

    • @Vooblebooble
      @Vooblebooble Год назад +27

      Op your profile pic as Kent Mansley talking distraughtly into the phone adds so much to this comment thank you

    • @TheModdedwarfare3
      @TheModdedwarfare3 Год назад +10

      ​@@realdragonI'm sure there is a lot to appreciate about German history but obviously not everything. Keep in mind Germany is like 10 times older than the usa

  • @8eight104
    @8eight104 Год назад +1316

    I went to a Christian private school for 7th and 8th grade that used PragerU textbooks. You would have had an aneurysm if you read the part where they said child labor wasn't really that bad of a thing during the Industrial Revolution.

    • @williambeisel5686
      @williambeisel5686 Год назад +414

      The children yearn for the mines

    • @8eight104
      @8eight104 Год назад +213

      @@williambeisel5686 no literally that's how it read 😂😂😂

    • @itsjrStudios
      @itsjrStudios Год назад +49

      sometimes they think we yearn for mines. do we?

    • @mmartens3
      @mmartens3 Год назад +182

      @@williambeisel5686i mean, my kid does spend many hours playing Minecraft.

    • @ee-yf3ot
      @ee-yf3ot Год назад

      @@mmartens3They yearn for the mines. *send them back*

  • @IdentityChrist
    @IdentityChrist Год назад +4084

    Watching your brain explode over terrible lesson plans as your cat unendingly showers you with affection is a brand new form of unintentional comedy.

    • @demmybane
      @demmybane Год назад +173

      The cat is just so cute 😭

    • @TheDevilchilly
      @TheDevilchilly Год назад +188

      The cat: Hooman I know you are distressed, I do not understand why, but I shall love you regardless, hooman.

    • @enfysiridescent
      @enfysiridescent Год назад +111

      I just wanted her to pet the cat. PLEASE SOMEBODY PET THE CAT

    • @aronwhar
      @aronwhar Год назад +32

      I love the cat just sitting there 😊

    • @WyvernYT
      @WyvernYT Год назад +49

      @@enfysiridescent At 15:01 the cat is getting petted.

  • @theobservermp4402
    @theobservermp4402 Год назад +678

    Critical thinking is the bane of most logical fallacies, no wonder they don't want to teach it.

    • @bgorg1
      @bgorg1 Год назад +8

      Critical thinking can only go as far as the framework taught.

    • @lastswordfighter
      @lastswordfighter Год назад

      Your lot are the definition of logical fallacy and degeneracy. Zoe is a fraud and a reprobate.

    • @ultravoid5398
      @ultravoid5398 Год назад

      nobody needs critical thinking on the statue of liberty its not that complicated

    • @extraterrestrial8888
      @extraterrestrial8888 10 месяцев назад +40

      ​@ultravoid5398 Actually, they do, specifically to think deeper about what caused people to immigrate, what happened after they immigrated, challenges or barriers to immigration, whether or not the info you've received is biased, the list goes on and on and on.

    • @Apple-om5mr
      @Apple-om5mr 10 месяцев назад +30

      ⁠@@ultravoid5398exhibit a of lack of critical thinking skills

  • @InkyDustMan
    @InkyDustMan Год назад +1647

    "This lesson is for 6th graders."
    If any teacher presented that lesson to 6th graders, they'd be ripped to shreds for treating their students like idiots, BY their students.

    • @aralornwolf3140
      @aralornwolf3140 Год назад +122

      Then the students will be suspended for "back talk"... Sad.

    • @InkyDustMan
      @InkyDustMan Год назад +238

      @@aralornwolf3140 In my experience, there's at least that ONE kid who genuinely doesn't give a **** and will say what everyone is already thinking, it may be the kid that always gets detention, but it's the natural order, if something is stupid, kids will call it out QUICK, at ALL ages.

    • @playernotfound9489
      @playernotfound9489 Год назад +9

      often, (well for me) its true

    • @person.probably
      @person.probably Год назад +42

      I missed this at first and just assumed it was for Kindy kids. I'm assuming sixth grade is like 11? Yeah, ripped to shreds in seconds.

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty Год назад +59

      @@InkyDustMan A toast to the Class Clown and/or the Rebel, eternal and omnipresent and accidentally starting the mutinies.

  • @rosengrenj9
    @rosengrenj9 Год назад +2376

    you mean to tell me they’re more interested in indoctrinating kids with a certain political view than actually giving them a good education like they say they do??

    • @xXRickTrolledXx
      @xXRickTrolledXx Год назад +149

      Shocking, I know.

    • @snex000
      @snex000 Год назад

      Sick projection. Government schooling is literal indoctrination, by definition. The Prussian model was invented by a dictator in order to create obedient soldiers and factory drones.

    • @HistorysRaven
      @HistorysRaven Год назад

      Prager has admitted that his entire goal is to indoctrinate kids at a Mom's for Liberty conference earlier this year.

    • @br1ghts0ng
      @br1ghts0ng Год назад +70

      honestly. no organization with a political agenda should be allowed anywhere near the education system, especially prageru

    • @bath_foam4576
      @bath_foam4576 Год назад +141

      ​@@br1ghts0ng i think you meant teaching shouldn't be involved in the larger political attitudes but this would still be impossible to implement because everything is technically politics. the way you teach, what you teach and who you teach are all internal policies that each teacher upholds.

  • @wyrmoffastring
    @wyrmoffastring Год назад +1077

    Cat events:
    8:10 - eepy cat
    14:21 - usurper cat
    14:27 - headbutt cat
    14:55 - cuddly cat
    15:18 - bean shot followed by more cuddles
    20:39 - jump cat
    23:00 - bean shot #2
    23:28 - omg he wave arms in air oh my god baby

    • @AdamApplebaum
      @AdamApplebaum Год назад +60

      Glad someone pointed out the cat in the room. Orange sherbert colored kitty is ❤.

    • @Novers
      @Novers Год назад +28

      the hero we need

    • @sadakotetsuwan9229
      @sadakotetsuwan9229 Год назад +21

      he reachin for the patreon

    • @dumpsterfire0718
      @dumpsterfire0718 Год назад +62

      I'm sorry to say you forgot to record the 'sneezy cat' event at 19:17

    • @doctorsammy883
      @doctorsammy883 Год назад +28

      Nah bro you gotta change 8:10 to jump scare cat, cause this is my first video and when the cat appears I just went “WOAH! Hold up! When tf did el Gato Grande get there???” And then I backed up the video to see if I’m stupid or not.

  • @EayuProuxm
    @EayuProuxm Год назад +369

    Zoe's cat being her her emotional support as she grows increasingly frustrated with PraegerU's failures of lesson plans is the love we want to see in this world.

  • @RarelyAChump
    @RarelyAChump Год назад +426

    To be fair, they never said they wanted to "change the future of education in America" for the better

  • @august1837
    @august1837 Год назад +613

    Zoe, how dare you suggest that kids should think critically in the classroom? What if they discover that we’re teaching them false biased information. We can’t let that happen

    • @darkstarr984
      @darkstarr984 Год назад +16

      Yup. They also seriously think this is all education is or should be

    • @endTHEhegemony_Today
      @endTHEhegemony_Today Год назад +2

      Oh no, if it isn't the truth
      🖤💜💙💚💙💜🖤
      Much Love!

    • @bloodywilliam3083
      @bloodywilliam3083 Год назад +5

      Like, I say what you will about John and Hank Green, but at least Crash Course encourages kids to think critically and actually has effort put into it.

    • @YaBoiJonesy
      @YaBoiJonesy Год назад +16

      Exactly, Zoe trying to "fix" these lesson plans misses the point. They weren't made to teach kids, they were made to indoctrinate and to prevent any critical thinking.

    • @sandrohernandez4401
      @sandrohernandez4401 Год назад

      ​@seanoneil8137I can feel it coming inside me !

  • @haydenh.3124
    @haydenh.3124 Год назад +2710

    Aside from the learning objectives being total Bs. The fact that they think Kindergarteners are going to sit through a 25 MINUTE video is insane

    • @conorford7852
      @conorford7852 Год назад +251

      My three year old can't sit still long enough to watch a movie that she asks for!

    • @PolitikPolitik-fh2qc
      @PolitikPolitik-fh2qc Год назад +21

      @@conorford7852 you should teach them better. My 4 year olds can watch movies from start to finish since they were three with no issues. Sounds like a parenting diff.

    • @conorford7852
      @conorford7852 Год назад +307

      @PolitikPolitik-fh2qc Kids are wired differently and it's not a matter of teaching differently. My brother and I didn't have that problem when we were little, and we didn't need any coaching to sit still and watch movies or to listen for story time. That she has trouble getting to sleep every night, even when there's no naptime, means that there's a chance that she has ADHD. For most kids it's too early to tell for sure, but it's something we're keeping an eye out for.
      Either way, point stands. Edutainment videos typically suck and almost never keep a kids focus, especially not for that long.

    • @PolitikPolitik-fh2qc
      @PolitikPolitik-fh2qc Год назад +8

      @@conorford7852 I mean I mostly said that because both of you implied it happened to all kids. My son is autistic so he has his moments close to adhd. But it's all about how to handle them. My family has a ton of kids. And has a pretty wide range. But if you treat them right and teach them properly. Most can contain that energy. It also helps to have an outlet for that energy regularly.
      I think videos in education suck a lot. Whether right or left. But there's another point that some probably learn better from them. I wouldn't and don't. But I most likely didn't fit the mold. When in school I would have learned best if everything was taught by applicable methods. But thats probably unreasonable for many subjects and not suitable for everyone for the cost.

    • @Almond.stars666
      @Almond.stars666 Год назад +17

      I think it depends on what their watching because when I was in kindergarten we watched videos all the time and most of the time most of us sat and watched the video quietly.

  • @unlearningeconomics9021
    @unlearningeconomics9021 Год назад +1553

    Zoe: PragerU fails to adhere to basic pedagogical standards.
    Me: yes, I understand completely. Your cat is a fluffy boi.

    • @darkestlight660
      @darkestlight660 Год назад +46

      Omg an unlearning! It's always fun to see other cool RUclipsrs in cool RUclipsrs comment section

    • @Perfect-cell3
      @Perfect-cell3 10 месяцев назад +10

      I agree

    • @Sharpov1997
      @Sharpov1997 Месяц назад +1

      Love your content, thanks

    • @zaaz3930
      @zaaz3930 Месяц назад

      🫥🫥🫥🫥🫥🫥🫥🫥🫥🫥😅​@@Sharpov1997

  • @Blaineworld
    @Blaineworld Год назад +3429

    it’s actually a subtle way to make kids less patriotic by associating patriotism with frustration
    (edit: to be clear this was a joke)

    • @squiddler7731
      @squiddler7731 Год назад +278

      Literally me. Huge part of why I'm left leaning now is how disappointing and frustrating my Texas education was

    • @AJBrook-1017
      @AJBrook-1017 Год назад +182

      ​@@squiddler7731I am also a left leaning Texan. I'm very hurt to see a very beautiful state turn sour just because of these bad apples who are in power. It also hurts because it's made a rift in my family. I used to get along with my family so well but after the pandemic I feel like I lost a part of them because everyone is on opposite sides and everything is political

    • @oliverdowning1543
      @oliverdowning1543 Год назад +68

      That doesn't matter, if all Ur taught is "how great America is and that the entire world is inspired by it and wants to move there" (which we're not U guys are synonymous with Guns, poor public infrastructure and far right politics) then even if patriotism seems frustrating, that just scares you into questioning it more bc if this is the best we have to offer and it's just about survive able god forbid we try anything different.

    • @snex000
      @snex000 Год назад

      @@AJBrook-1017The left made covid political. You forced people to obey useless rules and take experimental medicines.

    • @oliverdowning1543
      @oliverdowning1543 Год назад +47

      @Matthafford yeah I need to update that I took it like 10 years ago. Thanks for the reminder.

  • @GeldarionTFS
    @GeldarionTFS Год назад +1991

    PragerU's tendency to have students describe how they would do something rather than actually do it mirrors how they approach teaching.

    • @darkstarr984
      @darkstarr984 Год назад +86

      Yeah. I always get angry when people insist on that stuff, because some people do. Like, sure, that’s the *first* step… but then you have to actually do things. You also are supposed to redescribe things later to reflect what you actually did instead of what you originally planned if it’s not the same.

    • @Ajia_No_Envy
      @Ajia_No_Envy Год назад +104

      Literally Ben shapiro with the "Hypothetically speaking"

    • @earth88_
      @earth88_ Год назад +70

      ​@@Ajia_No_Envylet's say that I'm right. in this situation, you are wrong.

    • @troublecloud1487
      @troublecloud1487 Год назад +74

      I think part of the problem is that these lessons aren't actually developed for use in public schools. The politics of Prager are also behind the structural problems in their lessons.
      This flavor of conservative doesn't even believe in public schools. These lessons are designed for conservative homeschool parents and to entice conservative public school parents into homeschooling. They are designed to be done with little materials, not needing a large group of kids, and no expertise on the part of the "teacher".
      Putting this into the public school only serves to further that agenda. Whether conservative parents decide to pull their kids to avoid the social influence of the public school, or the liberal parents pull their kids to avoid this garbage curriculum, either way, their objective is met.

    • @bobbafett1849
      @bobbafett1849 Год назад

      ​@@troublecloud1487its called the Dumbing Down of American workers and the Reichwing has been orgasming about it for 40 yrs because its what the Oligarchy WANTS

  • @jloiben12
    @jloiben12 Год назад +1959

    Young kids can think deeply? Hmm… that explains why Avatar is one of the highest rated tv shows ever and that’s all about how genocide, fascism, authoritarianism, and the like, is bad

    • @ZadkeilMercy
      @ZadkeilMercy Год назад +288

      Goated show. Rewatch it all the time and Aang and Uncle Iroh always giving me more and more wisdom even as I grow older.

    • @gavinthecrafter
      @gavinthecrafter Год назад +415

      Kids like it when they're taken seriously. Sometimes they shouldn't be, but in education they should ALWAYS be.

    • @VeraExora
      @VeraExora Год назад +146

      In my own journey to turn away from Right-Wing Extremism, i rewatched ATLA. I loved the show, but the messages didn’t really come across when i was 11. Glad I took the time to rewatch

    • @SH4RP_CH3SEE
      @SH4RP_CH3SEE Год назад +60

      As someone who’s technically still a kid, most of us can actually have opinions and feelings about complicated topics. Shocker, I know. Also, Avatar is one of the best shows of all time.

    • @deltumn5899
      @deltumn5899 Год назад +21

      I been so obsessed with the franchise lately. I just came back from an avatar world building analysis so seeing this comment was funny

  • @sackfu7952
    @sackfu7952 11 месяцев назад +360

    As a Florida resident, it does not surprise me in the slightest that Florida would consider PragerU a perfectly acceptable form of education. Please help us.

    • @elplaceholder
      @elplaceholder 11 месяцев назад +10

      Well, that happens when florida man is in charge

    • @KirbyKitten
      @KirbyKitten 10 месяцев назад +15

      It's Florida, it might as well be the tartarus itself

    • @KirbyKitten
      @KirbyKitten 10 месяцев назад

      Its hot, it has reptiles that eat humans, it has a bunch of right winger pigs

    • @malegria9641
      @malegria9641 8 месяцев назад +12

      I would but old Ronnie has made it so even mentioning my existence is a punishable offense

    • @theresourceroom7961
      @theresourceroom7961 4 месяца назад

      come, join us in canada. it is only slightly better in terms of education. atlest in bc, BC hydro funds lots of the stuff in the material, and just advertises there products. when they talk about energy generation they only talk about, water and wind (there biggest money makers), they push down nuclear (pros: safe, clean, cool af, need degree to mine the materials so no underpaid workers. cons: hard to transport materials, costly) and solor. they also have a complete monopoly in the energy generation in BC

  • @PocketDeerBoy
    @PocketDeerBoy Год назад +280

    I can't help but think about how passive all of these lesson plans are. Like, kids of any age enjoy playing around or thinking about complicated things. All of these lesson plans are just being sat in front of a screen and repeating the information you're told. No new ideas will come from these lessons, I imagine kids will be largely bored out of their minds.

    • @atomatopia1
      @atomatopia1 Год назад +42

      “Bruh sat in front of a screen and repeating what they’re told” is such an accurate and dystopian phrase

    • @aralornwolf3140
      @aralornwolf3140 Год назад +5

      Welcome to PragerU where you get bite sized lessons! For Kids!

    • @echo.1209
      @echo.1209 Год назад +34

      I'm sure "no new ideas" and "repeating the information you're told" is exactly what they want out of these lessons. Can't have people thinking critically now, can we?

    • @thomash.schwed3662
      @thomash.schwed3662 Год назад +4

      @@atomatopia1 I seem to recall George Orwell warning us regarding the likes of Dennis Prager in "1984".

    • @UncleSamsoniteLover69
      @UncleSamsoniteLover69 Год назад

      Honestly I see it as a win. What conservatives don’t understand is human brains aren’t computers. When human brains get bored, they don’t just go along with their programming regardless, they rebel. I imagine the generations suffering through this new wave of alt right education will be even *more* rebellious than the ones before them, and it’ll be a joy to see. It would be amazing to watch all the conservative media outlets collectively scratch their heads in utter confusion when the students they’ve been trying to indoctrinate refuse to retain any of the information they try to force into their skulls.

  • @jamesmiller5039
    @jamesmiller5039 Год назад +1178

    “They don’t care about education. They just care about putting their brand in front of your children”

    • @Earthstar_Review
      @Earthstar_Review Год назад +45

      Reminds me of a university that, by their own making, invalidated the diploma of every graduate by becoming unaccredited.

    • @sophiepooks2174
      @sophiepooks2174 Год назад

      Conformity to their ideals is all they care about, even if their ideas are ridiculous, false and exploitive, they have never cared about what happens to kids after they are born. All about controlling their minds.

    • @cyrussoxlegion
      @cyrussoxlegion Год назад +1

      I think they only care about making kids believe certain things, and putting mechanisms in place so that kids will not question PragerU's bs.

    • @seronimo__7735
      @seronimo__7735 6 месяцев назад +2

      Seriously. Their goal is to familiarize sixth graders with Ben Shapiro and Michael Knowles.

  • @jloiben12
    @jloiben12 Год назад +3605

    I feel so bad for people who will have to treat PragerU like a valid source of education

    • @pavelandreev4727
      @pavelandreev4727 Год назад +209

      The only valid thing in these "lessons" is to show the students and teachers what lessons are NOT supposed to look like.

    • @ominous-omnipresent-they
      @ominous-omnipresent-they Год назад +80

      Don't pity them; criticize them for their utter cowardice.

    • @larkohiya
      @larkohiya Год назад +102

      You DON'T have to Treet it like a valid source of education. If anyone tries to push that on you, simply have examples at the ready and don't give them an inch

    • @theultimatereductionist7592
      @theultimatereductionist7592 Год назад

      I don't give a fuck what so-called "laws" in Florida are. Teachers in Florida have the absolute legal right to not teach pragerU shit and have the absolute freedom of speech to teach truth. And Americans have the absolute freedom of speech right to be Communists and promote Communism and to be Anarchists and to promote Anarchy and to be Separatists and promote Separatism (breaking the country apart) and to be Animal Rights Vegans and to promote Veganism and to be Atheists and to spread Atheism and to be pro-worker unions and to be Alien Believers and to spread UFOlogy.

    • @soapydoap
      @soapydoap Год назад +97

      Prageru becoming an educational vendor in fl and tx just means that educators are *allowed* to use their stuff, not that they have to. Still sucks tho, i can see a good bit of teachers actively using these sources

  • @frostyvoid827
    @frostyvoid827 10 месяцев назад +97

    2:08 - This person literally went:
    "This video is no longer part of PragerU. This video was never part of PragerU."

    • @styx15
      @styx15 8 месяцев назад +10

      Literally 1984, and not even a joke

    • @dcrfgthy6g5fe
      @dcrfgthy6g5fe 5 месяцев назад +2

      ⁠@@styx15BAHAHAHA TRUE

    • @beatricezanoni5582
      @beatricezanoni5582 3 месяца назад +4

      I noticed that too. Like theyre not even smart enough to know the difference between "we deleted it and regret it" and "it never happened".

    • @Dumskalle
      @Dumskalle 3 месяца назад +2

      huh. reminds me of a certain date that china did that china also said never existed... hmmmmm (june 4 1989 to be exact)

  • @RoyaltyInTraining.
    @RoyaltyInTraining. Год назад +12613

    It's low hanging fruit to destroy PragerU from a political angle. Seeing it done from an educational one is so satisfying.

    • @airplanes_aren.t_real
      @airplanes_aren.t_real Год назад +231

      Agreed, very informative too
      Cool pfp btw

    • @lemonboiyoutube
      @lemonboiyoutube Год назад +352

      they're both low hanging fruit lmao
      this one was rlly satisfying and informative tho

    • @probrickgamer
      @probrickgamer Год назад

      Their ideology isn't perfect but the promotion of open borders, cutting off children's penises and abortions all the way up to the moment of birth us definitely worse

    • @itsathing3369
      @itsathing3369 Год назад +47

      @@lemonboiyoutube hell yeah you’re right

    • @dracodragon105
      @dracodragon105 Год назад +158

      "it's not just politically charged it's not even well made" is a very fast way to lose credibility.

  • @pup64hcp
    @pup64hcp Год назад +683

    I've seen many a PragerU takedown, but I'm excited to hear your take on this new "educational" programming.

    • @undeniablySomeGuy
      @undeniablySomeGuy Год назад +3

      Ok, so PragerU has bad takes, but What about this fucking Pedagogy????

    • @vernaiko9536
      @vernaiko9536 Год назад +3

      hello pup :shoebill:

    • @creativerealms
      @creativerealms Год назад +6

      I am glad to see this take. Looking at it from a teaching standard. Most people just attack the content, which is bad, but showing that the problem isn't just the content is important.

  • @BulletWilliam
    @BulletWilliam Год назад +672

    As someone with ADHD having to sit through these types of lessons, videos and having to answer the same questions three different times would have driven me bonkers.

    • @glenn_desert_witch
      @glenn_desert_witch Год назад +59

      Same. Lessons like this would have *killed* me.
      Shit, I had arguments and straight-up walked out of class when teachers didn’t explore the depths of certain subjects I happened to already know something about, at times.
      Kids may require education, but they are not stupid, and will absolutely see through the superficiality and lack of care displayed in these materials.

    • @pyrostoryteller
      @pyrostoryteller Год назад +15

      As someone without ADHD having to sit through these lessons and answer the same paper 3 times, would have driven me bonkers. Like I had a few teachers with this type of lesson plan and I remember arguing with them about how much of a waste of my time they were.

    • @bgorg1
      @bgorg1 Год назад +1

      I would have loved to go through these. Maybe the curriculum works for some but not all

    • @glenn_desert_witch
      @glenn_desert_witch Год назад +3

      @@bgorg1 Yes, that is kind of how education works.
      What happens when you work with videos and pre-made lesson plans is that you don't adapt to the kids in front of you. Our responses mentioned we have ADHD -- which by definition means we don't quite learn like most people -- but we are also a significant part of the population, so lesson plans and educational materials do need to be able to respond to various needs.

    • @ccutehoney
      @ccutehoney Год назад

      I think it has to do with your ADHD interest lol I love history so this would have been my jam. I hyper focused during history class

  • @diogenesrex7847
    @diogenesrex7847 11 месяцев назад +98

    The fact that PragerU materials aren't good for educational use is not unintentional.
    The "lesson" where a video and a worksheet based on it take up the entire class period is so that the "last few minutes of discussion" don't get into anything that could contravene the PragerU dogma.
    These materials are superficial and non-critical specifically because that organization does not want American kids thinking critically about history or the world around them.
    PragerU isn't just trying to make sure that kids hear their worldview, it's trying to make it the default and only "reasonable" worldview by stamping down on critical thinking in classrooms.

  • @XanIndigo
    @XanIndigo Год назад +154

    Gonna change my name to IndigoU so that I too can pretend to be an educational establishment

  • @carolinemcgovern4488
    @carolinemcgovern4488 Год назад +331

    Even as an indoctrination tool, this fails epically because all these kids will do is associate Prauger U with being bored with class and avoid them in the future. Which is the complete opposite of what they want.

    • @TedBilk
      @TedBilk Год назад +42

      they gonna start making right wing false-history hyperpop songs to get them to listen

    • @sophiedowney1077
      @sophiedowney1077 Год назад +33

      My chemsitry teacher had us watch Professor Dave Expalins and other chanels like his as a SUPPLIMENTARY MATERIAL OUTDIDE OF CLASS to help us better understand the material learned in class. I still watch Professor Dave sometimes because I don't associate his videos with frustration and time wasting.
      Kurzgesagt alop has amazing educational videos. I once found one of their videos when I was doing research for a simple English paper that required 2 non-written sources, and now Ive watched all of their videos.
      I don't think these videos will make kids want to learn more on their own like Professor Dave and Kurzgesagt do.

    • @nightrose6116
      @nightrose6116 Год назад +10

      @@TedBilk help not the hyperpop 😭😭😭

    • @kylereyes2337
      @kylereyes2337 Год назад +11

      @@TedBilk I really hope that’s gonna be cringeworthy AF, so them kids will bash it mercilessly.

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty Год назад +17

      @@TedBilk You assume they'd be able to make something catchy and not the cringiest, fakest soulless corporate pop song with 0 choreography skills, which is mighty generous of you.

  • @kevinfancher3512
    @kevinfancher3512 Год назад +611

    This is geared toward "teaching" kids WHAT to think rather than HOW to think, which I believe was the greatest harm done to me until the time came when I was "allowed" to stop attending church and Sunday school at age 18.

    • @PolitikPolitik-fh2qc
      @PolitikPolitik-fh2qc Год назад

      Thats literally the liberal ideology that has been in schools for years.

    • @nts4906
      @nts4906 Год назад

      Religion poisons the mind

    • @USAFORBETTER
      @USAFORBETTER Год назад

      That’s what schools been in every single state since the beginning of the modern education system. She’s just blaming PragerU for it because it got accepted into one state.

    • @kevinfancher3512
      @kevinfancher3512 Год назад +55

      @@USAFORBETTER Uhhh, I stayed after school in fourth grade to catch up on math, and spent two weeks in summer school to finish the bio labs I'd left incomplete. Don't tell me I didn't have the opportunity to learn HOW to think. I don't know what church you went to, but trust me, there was no expectation to figure anything out for myself or to "show my work" in Sunday school. PragerU is garbage indoctrination, and I truly hope you're better than that.

    • @brendanclark1058
      @brendanclark1058 Год назад +27

      @@USAFORBETTERNot at all, and even if it were, that’s even more reason to advocate for better education. Not double down on it being _terrible_

  • @noeramos8675
    @noeramos8675 Год назад +149

    I remember my college professors telling us NOT to use PragerU as a reliable source a couple of years ago yet here we are. 😭

    • @GenX_-um2ct
      @GenX_-um2ct 11 месяцев назад

      That is because education in America has been used as a tool for Marxists. Why would the NEA promote Prager U?

    • @LJCG777
      @LJCG777 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@GenX_-um2ct they would not because they like to lie, a lot.

  • @theclasscalico
    @theclasscalico Год назад +860

    It's very unfortunate that such insufficient learning material is considered okay. Knowing myself as a child, at least, I certainly would not be interested. On a brighter note, it was a delight to see your cat. Please give them a kiss for me.

    • @otto_jk
      @otto_jk Год назад +44

      I remember when I was in middle school and was looking for more intelligent content on RUclips and I found Prager U. Even back then the videos were so bad and uninformative that I could not watch em even though I was much more sympathetic to right wing content than now.

    • @Nota-Skaven
      @Nota-Skaven Год назад +35

      ​@@otto_jk The first time I was introduced to PragerU was the War on Cars video, where they portray replacing parking with green spaces as bad, like directly animate parking transforming into green space,
      my opinion on them hasn't changed since then,
      side note, cat! :3

    • @otto_jk
      @otto_jk Год назад +34

      ​@@Nota-Skavenmy first thought was that they don't really say anything in the videos it's just vibes and posturing. I was like "Where are the studies? Why aren't you referencing studies?"

    • @RichConnerGMN
      @RichConnerGMN Год назад +7

      ​@@Nota-Skaven:3 moment

    • @nicreven
      @nicreven Год назад

      be careful with how you throw around those :3s... you might attract the transfems@@RichConnerGMN

  • @lonesavior
    @lonesavior Год назад +674

    Imagine having to watch a half hour Pragur U video in class in a world where School House Rock exists.

    • @lalita9041
      @lalita9041 Год назад +14

      Some Russian kids were forced to watch Kids against wizards. Its way worse 😂

    • @sandrohernandez4401
      @sandrohernandez4401 Год назад +19

      ​@@lalita9041I don't know what that is. Could you tell me more about this ?

    • @halcyon.x
      @halcyon.x Год назад +15

      School house rock >>>>

    • @filthycasual6118
      @filthycasual6118 Год назад +39

      I STILL have "Just a Bill" and their Declaration of Independence songs stuck in my head. I miss School House Rock. :(

    • @hiimcrazyfordrwho
      @hiimcrazyfordrwho Год назад +10

      I love them, but their history lessons aren't that great. For other topics, go right ahead.

  • @NoPunIncluded
    @NoPunIncluded Год назад +598

    Obviously PragerU is bad, but look at that cat lounging on the sofa

    • @Coolgirl_ig_
      @Coolgirl_ig_ Год назад +11

      Awwwwweeeee

    • @looselytelling
      @looselytelling Год назад +19

      ❗ Goober spotted

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean Год назад +10

      After much contemplation of that cat, I must disagree. PragerU is considerably worse than most domestic cats.

    • @YeetDeletus21
      @YeetDeletus21 Год назад +7

      @@timothymclean i think they were just pointing out the cat being a goofy little goober :3

    • @emax333
      @emax333 Год назад +2

      THE BEAST‼️‼️‼️ i love him :3333

  • @bobathebobtail
    @bobathebobtail Год назад +86

    I have sat through numerous terribly boring lessons at my parents' church when I was 7 and 8, and I can say that they were just like PragerU's lessons. I learned NOTHING from them and gained no respect nor love for my parents' religion-- at the end of the day, it just felt like accidental indoctrination. They had no idea how to teach us children base knowledge to build off of, so when the lesson was over the only thing I learned was that "god is good, love him or else he'll be sad and you'll be deemed as unholy." And no offense to Christians at all, but MAN, this gave me no critical thinking, never gave me room to do anything but absorb information, and just gave me a bad view of Christianity that ultimately made me sick of it.
    That being said, all pragerU's stuff does is shovel nonsense into young people and make them hate schooling more than they likely already do.

    • @thirdwheel9938
      @thirdwheel9938 Год назад +11

      God my step grandparents are trying to do that w my brothers, now they just think religion is boring because they try to sit them down for AN HOUR STRAIGHT to learn about God through online lessons 😐

    • @that_random_phoenix
      @that_random_phoenix 14 дней назад +1

      That’s so strange, like, wouldn’t it be a bit better for the education system to teach everyone that we all have different belief systems rather than just “love god or your unholy”?

  • @kylie_h1978
    @kylie_h1978 Год назад +240

    The thing is that these lesson plans aren't broken, the things you are picking up on are not a bug, they are a feature. PagerU and the Conservatives behind them want to have students who get their opinions from the talking heads on a TV screen and are unable to do more than superficially understand what they are being told to believe. They fear giving kids critical thinking skills because if kids can question what they are being told, then they will start to question their Betters and see through the propaganda that the Right wants to indoctrinate them with. Remember that the Right loves the uneducated because it allows them to use fear and manipulation to control them. These plans are designed to intentionally harm kids' educations.

    • @pierregibson6699
      @pierregibson6699 Год назад

      It’s a De-education program they think the kids are TOO smart for their own good in Dennis/conservatives opinion….

    • @samuelhong4272
      @samuelhong4272 Год назад +1

      It's funny how you're critical instead of constructive. And look at the rhetoric you're using. It's politically charged lmao. Maybe stop using this as a talking point to criticize "the right". Maybe be constructive instead of pushing your own agenda? Maybe the point is education so focus on education and not "the right"?

    • @kylie_h1978
      @kylie_h1978 Год назад

      @@samuelhong4272 I don't have an agenda to push, I'm not American so the systematic destruction of the US Education system by the MAGA, PragerU, and its ilk has zero effect on me. As such I am just calling it as I see it from the outside, and that is that Republicans and Conservative groups have steadily been eroding any part of education that teaches kids to think for themselves or to explore views other than those "approved" by the American Rightwing. The so-called "Parent's Rights" movement is very clearly a "Rights for Parents that believe the right thing" movement as it totally ignores and runs roughshod over the rights of any parents that aren't of the Christian Nationalist viewpoint. People like Besty Devoss have attacked and damaged the Education system, and now the SCotUS is working on it too. Good luck having kids that reach international standards with the current gutting of any teaching that dares to step out of line with the Theology of the White Christian Nationalists.

    • @checkm8964
      @checkm8964 Год назад +75

      ​@samuelhong4272 but this IS a politically charged discussion. Prager U is a right-wing institution. They are not a real university, they are not comprised of real teachers and educational experts. They are all right-wing politicians, debaters and spokespersons. We cannot discuss their implication into Floridian and Texan school curriculums without facing the fact that this is an explicitly right-wing institution masquerading as an educational one. That is utterly immoral on any side of the political spectrum. A right-wing political institution should not have a place in defining education, just as much as a left-wing institution shouldn't. This should all be down to actual educators and teachers, which Prager U are not. Ignoring the obvious attempt at indoctrination and the political motivations behind Prager U's decisions is ignoring the full conversation and the seriously concerning forces at play here.

    • @dinosaysrawr
      @dinosaysrawr Год назад +29

      Exactly.
      Dennis Prager and company are *not* stupid, as evidenced by how effective they've been at disseminating their ideology in a highly systematic and strategic fashion. So, the fact that these lesson plans are lazy, confusing, repetitive, boring, and age-inappropriate actually tells us something, and it's not just that the people doing it are just simple dumb-dumbs.
      I'd say that it at least communicates volumes about how the Right sees children, and how little respect it has for them as beings.

  • @52flyingbicycles
    @52flyingbicycles Год назад +3693

    This is what the privatization of education looks like. Watch a video, do a worksheet, follow a script. That’s what it’ll be for 95% of students. They don’t want students to think or learn, just absorb propaganda.

    • @person.probably
      @person.probably Год назад +97

      Ok so where I live, if you're getting assistance from the government you have to fulfill certain obligations, like applying for 20 jobs a week, and undertaking "training courses", some of the courses were ok, but all to often you would be given a worksheet and then just have to copy whatever the trainer was saying for 6 hours. On several questions we were told, "because of a typo in the worksheet, do not read the question, just write this answer."
      Hardcore same vibes.
      (Edit, the companies which provided these "courses" were privatized and often shut down after a short time only for the exact same staff to show up in a "new" company.)

    • @Tom-rd8dd
      @Tom-rd8dd Год назад +19

      wait private schools are considered a bad thing maybe I just never saw it where I live because the government and government schools suck so private schools are the norm for middle class and international schools for higher classes

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty Год назад

      @@Tom-rd8dd Think "private school" as in real shitty homeschool programs, especially the ones that pop up in fundamentalist religions that are designed by soccer moms with 0 background in education, that don't actually bother to go seek out recommended coursework provided by a plethora of schools' websites or even their country's department of education where possible, usually for free.
      Not the prestigious schools that actively compete with each other for people's money and various grants and sponsorships, because THAT kind of private school is motivated to be hypercompetitive about the students' performance specifically because the better they are, the more money they get. (they're a whole other issue, mostly in corruption scandals and nepotism and bribery and tenured professors that really oughta be booted but aren't because tenure)
      You want to make more workers to make you rich, not smart people to compete with you for the money.

    • @52flyingbicycles
      @52flyingbicycles Год назад +137

      @@Tom-rd8dd usually, private schools are for rich people to avoid dealing with the crappy public schools their politics created. That will be the 5% of Americans who get good schooling from private institutions. Maybe more, but the point stands.
      The goal to privatize all education extends to the poor, and replaces public school. Since public schools are a service, not a commodity, there is no market for it for most of the population. Meaning no money. Whatever convoluted system the state comes up with the pay for it, the result will be ridiculous cost saving measures like PragerU.
      In short, the rich (as they do now) can afford paying enough tuition for good private schools. But most people aren’t rich enough to do that, so if they have to go to private school the school will suck.

    • @Tom-rd8dd
      @Tom-rd8dd Год назад +5

      @@52flyingbicycles ahh So It already happened here then basically? Or am I just dum

  • @Jarimir
    @Jarimir Год назад +475

    Her "teacher's frustration" is as palpable as it is funny, especially considering it is directed at a corporation run by adults instead of a classroom full of kids...

    • @peachesandcream22
      @peachesandcream22 Год назад

      Yeah, the same corporation, whose executives were exposed for financially supporting "volunteer programms" that sexually exploited young women and girls in poor African countries.

    • @thewhitefalcon8539
      @thewhitefalcon8539 Год назад +6

      A corporation run by kids

    • @classroom8290
      @classroom8290 Год назад +33

      @@thewhitefalcon8539 kids are generally better at critical thinking than the people running prager U

    • @HollyAnneThePaganChaosWitch
      @HollyAnneThePaganChaosWitch 10 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@classroom8290 Koalas have better critical thinking skills than Prager U.

    • @extraterrestrial8888
      @extraterrestrial8888 10 месяцев назад

      ​@HollyAnneThePaganChaosWitch please, koalas have higher standards. Let's not compare them to Penis Prager.

  • @עומרשרייבר-ל4ר
    @עומרשרייבר-ל4ר Год назад +262

    So not only it's a straight up propaganda, they couldn't even bother to make those "lessons" even slightly fun to learn. Somehow I'm not suprised.

    • @emma_luce_1123
      @emma_luce_1123 Год назад +4

      How is it propaganda to teach history? 😂

    • @brook_angel
      @brook_angel Год назад +3

      ​@@emma_luce_1123oh that's very easily answered:
      If you teach history in a way that misrepresents it and screws the facts to push a certain narrative.
      I'm PragerU's case this is counter left. Protests? Bad. Racism? Gone. America? Amazing.
      No questioning, no secondary sources, no independent research by students.

    • @awkwardukulele6077
      @awkwardukulele6077 Год назад +69

      @@emma_luce_1123they aren’t teaching history, that’s the problem. The way they talk about history, fundamentally, doesn’t work the way children learn new things. Even if you’re conservative, you’d have to understand there are much better ways to teach kids America’s hostory

    • @carolineknell7606
      @carolineknell7606 Год назад

      @@emma_luce_1123teaching that slaves were happy and natives liked christopher columbus isn’t history it’s propaganda

    • @DolphinsAreWeird
      @DolphinsAreWeird Год назад +11

      @@awkwardukulele6077 Good effort but I don't think the person who put their real name and birthday in as their username was arguing in good faith.

  • @Louie42069
    @Louie42069 Год назад +1782

    “I want mommy, I want milk, I want to be held, i want to be comforted, and if you do not do all of these things immediately, I will ruin your life.” Someone who thinks that about kids should NOT be allowed to influence kids.

    • @panicatthedm873
      @panicatthedm873 Год назад +123

      that clip is amazing

    • @ladyalicent705
      @ladyalicent705 Год назад +177

      To be fair, that’s taken out of context. But I absolutely agree that a rightwing propaganda outlet should not be used in schools!

    • @pinkraven4402
      @pinkraven4402 Год назад +32

      Sounds like lyrics from "The Wall" or something

    • @nahyutarightsactivist
      @nahyutarightsactivist Год назад +351

      @@ladyalicent705the context makes it worse i think. iirc prager is insinuating that babies are selfish creatures for having needs that they can’t fulfill by themselves, and is using that to justify human selfishness. thinking kids are selfish for having needs is a bad look, especially for an educator
      edit: and thinking human selfishness is not a bad thing is a pretty bad look too

    • @longislandicedtea6323
      @longislandicedtea6323 Год назад +157

      Anyone who unironically uses that phrase that is NOT in reference to a hot female anime or animation character, I'm definitely giving them the side eye.

  • @larctrinx8960
    @larctrinx8960 Год назад +938

    This video is hard to watch.
    Not because of the lesson plans, but because of the blatant ignoring of cat who deserves all the pets.

    • @Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper
      @Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper Год назад +12

      Sam and cat

    • @NoxietyPrime
      @NoxietyPrime Год назад +85

      YES! I love the video, but Zoe, PLEASE PET DESMOND HE SO CLEARLY WANTS TO BE PET!!! PET THE BOY!!! PET HIM!!!

    • @radicalbacon
      @radicalbacon Год назад +60

      The best parasocial relationships are with cats on the internet. I unironically love Desmond.

    • @LuckyPigeon1111
      @LuckyPigeon1111 Год назад

      I disagree.

    • @MeemahSN
      @MeemahSN Год назад +30

      @@LuckyPigeon1111 *you monster.*

  • @BlueKeyAnimations
    @BlueKeyAnimations Год назад +72

    No, you misunderstood. "Warp-Up" describes the speedrunning skip where you warp to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Very important and practical skill.

    • @riguor9876
      @riguor9876 Год назад +9

      "But on August 25, 2023, veteran speedrunner D3NN15_PR4G3R_1776 made a discovery that would shake the Education Any% community forever..."

  • @Bagelbusters
    @Bagelbusters 10 месяцев назад +22

    As a student, this pains me so much. Please teachers, some of us do care about our education but we can and will stop caring if you use this shit instead of your own lesson plans.

  • @tallevy
    @tallevy Год назад +147

    Ugh. As a U.S. history nerd myself, PragerU ought to be considered a slap in the face to anyone who truly cares about getting kids to love the subject. That error regarding John Quincy Adams pissed me off too.

    • @irenafarm
      @irenafarm Год назад +12

      One of the lesson videos is on Columbus (ugh). The Columbus character in the cartoon has a (bad) Spanish accent and uses Spanish phrases.
      Literally the reason we have a Columbus Day, is because it was originally like the Italian version of St. Patrick’s Day or Cinco de Mayo. Columbus was ITALIAN.
      RIP Italians I guess lol

    • @pierregibson6699
      @pierregibson6699 Год назад +3

      @@irenafarmI guess the Italians in the US 100 years of whiteness has expired 😂 they are about to try to edit ✍️ them out of American History also

    • @tallevy
      @tallevy Год назад +4

      @@pierregibson6699 As a Jew myself, the discussions surrounding antisemitism in the country are horrible in both our curriculum and our national media. We have got to do better.
      As for Italians, well, I don't think any Italian with common sense wants to claim Christopher Columbus as theirs, unless they're from Genoa. Even then, I still doubt they want him.

  • @kacodemonio
    @kacodemonio Год назад +129

    PragerU sex education worksheet contains a single phrase: "don't do it"

    • @dudono1744
      @dudono1744 Год назад +11

      That's not a valid way to speedrun a sex ed worksheet

    • @halcyon.x
      @halcyon.x Год назад +33

      Then they get mad when teens get pregnant or nobody wants to have sex when they’re older

    • @Crlarl
      @Crlarl Год назад +2

      ​@@dudono1744
      It's not real. It's just a joke. If they did do sex ed, it *would* be terrible.

  • @MarkMark
    @MarkMark Год назад +129

    This is wonderful, thank you so much for exposing quackery and, may I say, fraud in education.

    • @zoe_bee
      @zoe_bee  Год назад +20

      Thank you so much! 💜

  • @PzOwNeD
    @PzOwNeD Год назад +60

    i'm sorry but i love how enthusiastic your cat is about getting attention from you when you're animated. what a great cat.
    video is also fantastic and i appreciate the teaching-deconstruction of low-hanging fruit

  • @frankchavez519
    @frankchavez519 Год назад +2228

    So kids can't get graduation credit for AP African American studies but hey, "lessons" from the Praeger U. propaganda machine are hunky dory. That's just fine.

    • @dog-ez2nu
      @dog-ez2nu Год назад

      Yes. Because the right-wing hate you. There doesn't need to be any logic here, they don't operate using logic. They just really really fucking hate minorities.

    • @moosesandmeese969
      @moosesandmeese969 Год назад +336

      And part of your grade is determined by how much you appreciate their "lessons." Literally trying to tie your grades to your devotion to conservative ideology

    • @Pete_xp
      @Pete_xp Год назад +81

      I was brought up in a ultra Christian Fundamentalist environment, this shit is psychotic

    • @Zucca101
      @Zucca101 Год назад

      It’s because Prager U does actual legwork and AA studies are trash.

    • @athenaclark2567
      @athenaclark2567 Год назад +79

      @@unknown5150variableYeah they went full mask off in that one. They literally framed Lee crushing a slave rebellion as a good thing

  • @oliverdowning1543
    @oliverdowning1543 Год назад +1663

    Ah yes, the "teach young kids why our country's so great so they don't feel they can question it" lesson.

    • @halcyon.x
      @halcyon.x Год назад +133

      That sounds so totalitarian it’s scary

    • @oliverdowning1543
      @oliverdowning1543 Год назад +74

      @@halcyon.x it really does doesn't it?

    • @harharharharharharharharha240
      @harharharharharharharharha240 Год назад

      Sounds like nazi Germany 😳

    • @SoraByers
      @SoraByers Год назад

      yep! It's right out of the fascist handbook. Dividing the nation and indoctrinating children is how evil people take power. It's exactly what the US did with native people and N**is did in Germany.

    • @billyalarie929
      @billyalarie929 Год назад +68

      more direct than ever before! they used to try to be clever about it, and you had to admire the attempt.
      now it's just absolutely DEMANDING you to not think.

  • @DanikaLeighEllis
    @DanikaLeighEllis Год назад +83

    What also jumped out at me is how much the lesson plans just said, "Discuss." Discuss in groups? Discuss as a class? Discuss in pairs and then share out in a class? I assume they mean discuss as a class, which functionally means 1-5 students actually participating/answering questions and the rest of the class staring blankly hoping they don't get called on. Pair that with way too long videos, especially for young students, and you've got a recipe for a class full of restless, bored kids. Oh, and worksheets. How fun and engaging.

  • @mickiemallorie
    @mickiemallorie Год назад +122

    They're actively working to make kids dumber; which is probably the point.

    • @Justagamerhere1
      @Justagamerhere1 Год назад

      Dumb people are more likely to click ads.

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 Год назад +22

      The L in prageru stands for learning

    • @AndaraBledin
      @AndaraBledin 9 месяцев назад +3

      Oh, it's absolutely the point.
      People who think critically are their kryptonite.

  • @aliengeo
    @aliengeo Год назад +154

    As a former Texan public school student, I regret to inform PU that teenagers like watching videos in class for reasons completely unrelated to educational retention. It's a chance to turn their brains off and not care for half an hour. Maybe check their phones.

    • @irenafarm
      @irenafarm Год назад +33

      I was a teenager once also and I can confirm. Maybe someone should create fun, thought provoking content, specifically for students languishing through 27 minute (mins) videos.

    • @harrybudgeiv349
      @harrybudgeiv349 Год назад +4

      Speak for yourself.

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty Год назад +26

      Can confirm, ex-teenager here, the only videos the classes I was in ever paid attention to were:
      1) that time the history teacher had us watch that medieval movie with the "We Will Rock You" jousting tourney spectators (he said the anachronism was bang-on about the vibe, peasants did sing songs they thought were kickass while waiting for the show).
      2) the time for all clearing an exam with 80%+ in the entire class, we got rewarded with the teacher's home videos of her adorable cat being a menace at her husband's ankles and kitty's valliant attempts at ambushing that poor man's ankles.

    • @avishevin3353
      @avishevin3353 Год назад +2

      PU is entirely aware of that. That is exactly the goal they are hoping to achieve.

    • @sacrilegioussasquatch
      @sacrilegioussasquatch Год назад

      @@harrybudgeiv349 i could usually sit through videos if they were nice but my brother in christ, go watch an entire prager u video, in it's entirety without looking away or getting distracted

  • @q.is.tir3d
    @q.is.tir3d Год назад +1064

    as a student, this typa shit makes me so mad lmao. everyone deserves access to a good education, and the way that all these conservatives are tryna turn school into a place of pure obedience and indoctrination instead of a place where students are given opportunities to actually learn is such a grave injustice.

    • @lionwolf7861
      @lionwolf7861 Год назад +44

      this type of thing has already happened to a lesser degree in a good bit a schools teaching the millennial generation...... taught a whole lot of obedience and not much else....

    • @DavidLindes
      @DavidLindes Год назад +68

      Condolences. That said, I’ll add that school has more or less always, to varying extents, been that: a tool to inculcate future workers under capitalism. This view of it is complicated by a lot of the teachers having much more benign ideology about it all. Alas, though, that’s basically what the system is for. :’(

    • @themcchuck8400
      @themcchuck8400 Год назад

      As opposed to the current Leftist indoctrination centers that modern schools have become?

    • @elizabethopoussm
      @elizabethopoussm Год назад +5

      The Prussian system's final form it seems

    • @LoganLS0
      @LoganLS0 Год назад +4

      "Iron Law of Woke Projection never misses."

  • @theeskrungly
    @theeskrungly Год назад +4416

    Would it be offensive to say as an outsider that America is becoming heavily fascist?

    • @carolineholland5841
      @carolineholland5841 Год назад +1823

      Not offensive at all. As an American, I completely agree in many ways. The only thing is that I have a hard time telling how many Americans actually believe what the Right spews, since Right Wing propaganda takes up so much political discourse. They’ve muddied the sociopolitical waters for years now, and I hate it so much here.
      However, I am hopeful that these are actually the (very loud) dying screeches of conservative thought. One day, these fascists and bigots will be right up in the history books along side the people that were pro-segregation. Millennials and the other younger generations are generally more progressive than ever, and society is moving on without those bigoted losers. It’s got them scared (and it’s got Right Wing grifters making bank off of that fear).

    • @nickcovington8005
      @nickcovington8005 Год назад

      I think by any definition of fascism America is becoming heavily fascist.

    • @maromania7
      @maromania7 Год назад

      yes and no. People are increasingly LOUD in thier fascism, but the large majority of the vote is still DEFINITELY not. There's absurd voter suppression with everything from wild gerrymandering to baseless locking people up with minimum charges to remove thier right to vote. And despite that, they're kept in power only by making people so TIRED they don't come out. Even in the heart of red territory like I am, where I could count the blue victories in the last century on my fingers, if everyone actually came out to vote it would still be solidly blue. Amid many anti-trans laws being passed, actual SUPPORT for those laws was lower than ever, with only around a quarter to a third in favor.
      So it's less "Becoming fascist," more "the fascism already present realized it's dying and is trying to recover with increasingly loud desparation." They're gaining more power with thier bold plays, making the law itself more in line with thier ideals, but it's to try and refill thier dwindling numbers.

    • @theeskrungly
      @theeskrungly Год назад +515

      @@carolineholland5841 This response is so well detailed, and I thank you for taking the time to type it.

    • @maddieS117
      @maddieS117 Год назад +401

      @@carolineholland5841 This is such a good way to put _exactly_ how I feel living in America at the moment

  • @adurnafhey
    @adurnafhey Год назад +15

    As a teacher, I was not expecting a great break down of lesson plans and blooms of all things popping up in my “play next” video today. Lovely channel find, thanks!

  • @hclnet
    @hclnet Год назад +155

    They want to expose their brand to kids, but they don't respect children as people enough to do it right. A kid who goes through the lesson will associate PragerU as that company that made that boring video in school when they scroll by it on youtube later that day (or sneaking on the phone while the movie is playing) and avoid it. Kids know brands and remember that stuff. Toymakers have known that for decades now.

  • @JonesCrimson
    @JonesCrimson Год назад +131

    That bit of them saying the previous contents that they scripted, taped, edited, and published "isn't real" and "does not exist" was pretty funny.

    • @SlavGod47
      @SlavGod47 Год назад +40

      Says a lot about them, tbh. Unironically some 1984 type shit. "We got rid of it because it made us look bad therefore it no longer exists"

  • @nediah
    @nediah Год назад +465

    I'm not American, and I'm sure that PragerU will never find its way into my old schools, but this makes me even more thankful that I had teachers that cared about what they were teaching and encouraged discussion and interaction with the content, not this lazy slop that will no doubt continue to be churned out by pragerU.

    • @PolitikPolitik-fh2qc
      @PolitikPolitik-fh2qc Год назад

      Trust me. if it's not prageru it's liberal propaganda. which if your not american you might be fine with. But it's literally ruining kids.

  • @PrettyH8Mach1n3
    @PrettyH8Mach1n3 Год назад +45

    I love watching your little lovebug of a kitty cat. It's almost like he's worried about you ranting to what looks like no one, and he is trying to calm you down with nuzzles, showing his belly, and slow-blinking at you.

  • @Im0nJupiter
    @Im0nJupiter Год назад +64

    The evident lack of effort/research put into their education materials seems to betray exactly what they think of education. It's not actually for education, or to get kids to think, it's to tell them what to think. They think there's just nothing to it, teaching kids is easy, know stuff and tell it to the kids, nothing else needed. They think teaching is trivial. No wonder they disrespect public schools, advocate for cutting funding, and refuse to acknowledge the desperate needs of teachers for A) more compensation B) increased access and materials, and so much more.

    • @Im0nJupiter
      @Im0nJupiter Год назад +15

      You basically just said that in the video. Oops! You are exceptionally good at leading an audience 😉

    • @aralornwolf3140
      @aralornwolf3140 Год назад +4

      @@Im0nJupiter,
      Objection! I already had that bias.. she couldn't lead me to a conclusion I was already had.

  • @LabiLabi777
    @LabiLabi777 Год назад +97

    As someone who works at daycare, Prager U is a The Spot from Across The Spider-verse to me. Something that seems like nothing at first, a silly little joke if you will, and is now gradually becoming a large threat😳. Education and learning should be speaking to children. Prager U makes orders and demands at children.

    • @nafeesanaz
      @nafeesanaz Год назад +13

      LOL, I feel the same way

  • @IshtarNike
    @IshtarNike Год назад +174

    I'm very glad you avoided discussing the politics. Too many people think that criticism of PragerU and conservatives in general is just "both sides are gonna disagree". But honestly people need to understand that these conservatives aren't just giving different opinions, they're providing substandard crap as an educational service. It's one thing to have different political views, it's another to just be crap.

    • @dudono1744
      @dudono1744 Год назад

      Wdym ? PragerU lessons are top tier level of crap, not your average crap.

    • @dinosaysrawr
      @dinosaysrawr Год назад

      The left-wing equivalent, I reckon, would be if you let Ward Churchill or Caleb Maupin design an elementary school curriculum. There's bias, and then there's egregious bias (or outright deception).

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty Год назад

      @@dinosaysrawr Add a few pagan woo "I don't see color" white savior tumblr witches to mirror the Evangelical batshittery I've noticed to round up your metaphor.

    • @patriciapandacoon7162
      @patriciapandacoon7162 Год назад +31

      @@dinosaysrawr I'd argue Caleb Maupin, despite his communist-sounding rhetoric, is actually far right, given his authoritarian and socially-conservative views. He openly praised Donald Trump for chrissakes

    • @diro5910
      @diro5910 Год назад

      Honestly both sides encourage you to turn off your brain to cheer whatever they support.

  • @AD-ov5rt
    @AD-ov5rt Год назад +46

    God, can you imagine if any other brand tried that? Like if there was a Coca-Cola curriculum?

  • @ezraglasman8789
    @ezraglasman8789 Год назад +428

    Another worrying aspect is that showing kids Ben Shapiro and Michael Knowles videos in class will certainly kickstart some of them down the alt-right pipeline by normalizing those personalities.

    • @PokemonRules333
      @PokemonRules333 Год назад +36

      Or they will get bored out of their minds and never want anything to do with PU ever again

    • @FunKayyy
      @FunKayyy Год назад

      I can see it now "Ben Shapiro the Science Hero" and then it just degrades into Air Conditioning solving Climate Change.

    • @irenafarm
      @irenafarm Год назад +25

      I was very alarmed on hearing this news. However, ironically, these lessons seem to be so awful that it will likely have a net negative impact. Teachers who are even slightly competent will give this a pass, and teachers who do use the curriculum will mostly simply poison the well for the content covered.
      This video didn’t go into politics. However, it’s surprisingly unwise timing for the gov of FL. It’s likely this material will be used where parents are paying attention, and aren’t sympathetic to the agenda of PU. Those constituents can make an awful stink for the presidential hopeful there just as we approach the first primaries.
      Not that I’m sympathetic. Let him cook. 😅

    • @thomash.schwed3662
      @thomash.schwed3662 Год назад +16

      @@irenafarm I concur. This is precisely the type of thing Reich DeathKlantis and Greg Abbott would support. Of course, it's no less disturbing.

    • @bwofficial1776
      @bwofficial1776 Год назад +2

      @@thomash.schwed3662 What is Reich DeathKlantis? I've never heard of that. Sounds like a black metal band.

  • @Nukepositive
    @Nukepositive Год назад +255

    Another reason why PragerU might want its material in schools is that it's one less lesson covering anything that could be considered "woke." Their lessons are educational as far as they prevent kids from being "misinformed" by liberal bias, or so they would say.

    • @PokemonRules333
      @PokemonRules333 Год назад +66

      In other words preventing kids from learning that not everyone is born straight and will either realize it and be forced in the closet or come out and most likely be bullied for it

    • @AySz88
      @AySz88 Год назад +36

      Absolutely - the purpose isn't to be a better resource on merit or quality, but to take up attention, space, and time away from better things. "Hey here's a free thing, why do we pay for those other ones?"

    • @dog-ez2nu
      @dog-ez2nu Год назад

      Also if you can make your children as uneducated and unskilled as possible, they can vote Republican.

    • @moosesandmeese969
      @moosesandmeese969 Год назад

      In other words, they are claiming facts and critical thinking are liberal bias.

    • @irenafarm
      @irenafarm Год назад +12

      It’s up to the teachers whether to incorporate these lessons. Teachers who would use this material would already have an anti-progressive agenda.

  • @dannyblanco8544
    @dannyblanco8544 Год назад +246

    Reminds me of pedagogy of the oppressed, in which students are seen as containers that need to be filled by which they are seen as proper students as long as they remain subservient to the teacher / the lesson. It also really bothers me that they use the word appreciate so much, I hate the idea of telling student how they should feel about a topic, we should allow them to engage with the subject and make their own conclusions with it.

    • @peggedyourdad9560
      @peggedyourdad9560 Год назад +31

      But that would be encouraging independent and critical thinking and we know the powers that be don’t want that lol.

    • @gustavomartins7547
      @gustavomartins7547 10 месяцев назад

      Brazil Mentioned?

  • @lordarthur2165
    @lordarthur2165 Год назад +9

    I am also a education major, but it's focused in biology and in Brazil, I love how they started the objectives with the verb "understand" when we are told so many times to not use "understand", because you can't to assess if a student understood something, better verbs would be: define, record, cite, exemplify, enumerate, etc. All verbs that you can see your students doing! I am just in a few minutes in and so much is wrong!
    Edit: oh dear lord, the rest of the lesson is just as bad and the questions don't make any sense!

    • @bassgosh6599
      @bassgosh6599 6 месяцев назад

      Brazil 🔥🔥 sepultura 😈

  • @Irrlichtwinter
    @Irrlichtwinter Год назад +49

    Cat friend sitting there, slightly annoyed - "why are you waving your hands around, use it to pet me already!"
    Cat friend does not approve of PragerU.

  • @LaCafedora
    @LaCafedora Год назад +120

    My guess is that a qualified educator wrote the promotional summary about how this was going to work, but a bunch of entirely unqualified people wrote literally everything else. This feels to me like marketing Snake Oil: the pitch is great, but the product is a scam. However, if the goal is to make a list of things you want kids to believe, then force them to sit and listen to the list, memorize it, and quiz them to make sure they remember (which is the essence of all the high school and college classes I've taken that were essentially a series of boring lectures), then this is the perfect vehicle. You can slot anything into that. It sounds like a propaganda machine for impressionable children that will believe what they're told if adults say it. Thankfully, Florida's government is trying to prevent indoctrination of children, rather than replace it with their own content, because that would be sneaky and wrong.

  • @glenn_desert_witch
    @glenn_desert_witch Год назад +107

    I worked for a huge textbook company for a while as a proofreader. Books went through at least 5 rounds of proofing. The first two were essentially editing: the first one looking for potential mistakes in content, done by an expert in the field; the second by an expert in the English language to check if the language was clear and age-appropriate. After that, two different proofreaders went over the text to find errors (of course many would already have been caught, it’s not like the first two people looking at the text were unable to spot a spelling mistake) like misspellings, capitalizations, punctuation, etc. Another person would do the same thing, this time also checking for layout and pagination (especially after you make changes you may end up with things not fitting on the page quite right). And the last person would do a final check of print proofs, often also comparing to another regional edition (for example, Texas has long wanted to be special and have their own standards) to make sure that things that were supposed to be the same across editions (I did math books, so for example if the same problem was in the Texas and the Minnesota edition, they should match in content - because sometimes different editors will make different changes and then things look unnecessarily inconsistent if one book had a solution that was, say 3.5 or 3.4 because calculations were done to a different decimal before rounding).
    I am sharing this because it is absolutely unacceptable, in my view, to create widely-distributed lesson plans that have spelling errors, inconsistencies, etc… When people use these as learning materials, the quality needs to be above-average and as close to perfect as possible. I will usually find 5 or 6 misspellings in a novel, but I don’t expect to find any in a textbook - I think in my whole career as a student I found 2 or 3, and I not only have a Bachelor’s, but I did a few extra years of College-level studying because I started in Italy, then went to Holland, and ended up in the States, so my work from other countries didn’t transfer.
    One of the things that I find most distasteful about extreme individualism is this idea that every individual or company gets to reinvent the wheel and do things their way. “Oh, these massive educational companies spend thousands of hours editing and proofing books, and it costs tens of thousands of dollar per book! We can easily do it for 10% of that by just hiring one writer and one editor/proofreader who will work for minimum wage!” And they don’t even think about the fact that it isn’t wasteful to spend so much money on making sure to get it right. Ugh.

    • @m4uaha
      @m4uaha Год назад +1

      hi, I know this was commented a while ago but, if I may, I would like to ask you for advice in entering the editing field.

  • @sbushido5547
    @sbushido5547 Год назад +75

    It's extremely charitable of you to give them the benefit of the doubt that they care in the *_slightest_* about the quality if children's education.

    • @Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper
      @Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper Год назад

      if children if children's education if if??

    • @lowhplowhp
      @lowhplowhp 10 месяцев назад +5

      @@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper One typo. You’re acting like the fucking apocalypse is in motion.

    • @seronimo__7735
      @seronimo__7735 6 месяцев назад

      They really just want middle schoolers to have to see Ben Shapiro and Michael Knowles in their classes.

  • @jonesthemoblin1400
    @jonesthemoblin1400 Год назад +312

    It's also important to note that this shows how much Prager U simply doesn't value kids as humans by their own rights.

    • @dinosaysrawr
      @dinosaysrawr Год назад

      Conservatives don't believe children *have* rights, fundamentally. *Parents* are the rights-holders.

    • @Random_dud31
      @Random_dud31 Год назад +13

      They value them more when they are fetuses

    • @Dudenob123
      @Dudenob123 Год назад

      ​@@Random_dud31they don't value fetuses, else they would be for abortion. They stand for oppressing women.

    • @necropolistc6357
      @necropolistc6357 Год назад

      ​@@Random_dud31at least we give them value

    • @ladyalicent705
      @ladyalicent705 Год назад

      ⁠​⁠@@necropolistc6357We value them a lot more than you. Children that is, not fetuses. We value them so much that we don’t want to force a baby to be born to two parents who literally don’t want them! We want them to have good lives!
      Right wingers like you on the other hand would sooner force a rape victim to give birth to a child that she can’t support, doesn’t want and is at risk of harming due to trauma, to you, the quality of life for the child or mother doesn’t matter, as long as they are alive, forgive me but I don’t think that’s giving anybody value, let alone kids.

  • @funtechu
    @funtechu Год назад +183

    It would be indoctrination if it wasn't so boring

    • @maximeteppe7627
      @maximeteppe7627 Год назад

      sadly, bad indoctrination is indoctrination. It's meant to reinforce indoctrination and incuriosity in a home that has OAN running in the background. It's meant to make kids questioning their parent's politics more difficult.

    • @alexanderthegreat6682
      @alexanderthegreat6682 Год назад

      A boring dystopia

  • @thaphreak
    @thaphreak Год назад +814

    I think the biggest problem is looking at PragerU's materials as if they were educational when they are indoctrination

    • @richardtaylor6187
      @richardtaylor6187 Год назад

      No, they are fighting indoctrination.

    • @rayman11
      @rayman11 Год назад +38

      ​@@richardtaylor6187they fight indoctrination with indoctrination? That doesn't make sense

    • @gumbihilt1333
      @gumbihilt1333 Год назад +11

      And modern curriculum hasn't been indoctrination for the last 50+ years? Bless your heart.

    • @rayman11
      @rayman11 Год назад +78

      @@gumbihilt1333 I'm willing to bet you don't know what indoctrination is

    • @gumbihilt1333
      @gumbihilt1333 Год назад +4

      @rayman11 anyone can look up a definition. But I'd be willing to bet you lack the wisdom and critical thinking skills to apply that definition, or recognize it being applied before your very eyes 🤷‍♂️

  • @nextabe1
    @nextabe1 Год назад +9

    As a person who works in education, I love seeing Blooms taxonomy referenced! Great video, thank you

  • @olezaku3469
    @olezaku3469 Год назад +171

    As someone who teaches 7th Grade Social Studies, I would never used PragerU. I'm working a Master's in American Government and History, and their materials are just so historically inaccurate, bending and twisting the truth to serve their own ends instead of an educational end.

  • @thatsdoctorevil
    @thatsdoctorevil Год назад +80

    They don't want any critical questions asked or answered. You hit the nail on the head when you said indoctrination. You can't ignore their politics unfortunately, because that's what they want taught - their opinions, not facts and certainly not critical thinking. Students are going to sit there and absorb and regurgitate what they saw and heard.

  • @rashmirajshekhar8806
    @rashmirajshekhar8806 Год назад +68

    As a new teacher about to start in September, those lesson plans were horrendous! The learning objectives were vague, the formative assessments (checks for understanding) were not described at all, the standards were missing… I could go on! But you summarized it perfectly! All Prager U cares about, it seems, is getting their brand in classrooms. We were all mesmerized by their blatant attempts to indoctrinate kids through their “rewrites” of history that, I for one, overlooked that it was just capitalism all along…

  • @OpenBiolabsGuy
    @OpenBiolabsGuy Год назад +61

    The real question is, “How do we shut down Pager U?”
    Because, let’s be honest, it’s gotten to the point where it needs to be shut down.

    • @jennyanydots2389
      @jennyanydots2389 Год назад +1

      People have been sayin' that about your bee whole for a long time. That it's like a truck stop but strictly for Felching bee whole's and servicing glory hole's in the bathrooms.

    • @NG-cf7zh
      @NG-cf7zh Год назад +3

      @@jennyanydots2389I keep seeing your comments and, honestly, you appear to be mentally ill

    • @MojaveMoron
      @MojaveMoron Год назад +5

      ​@@jennyanydots2389you seem really obsessed with mentioning felching... I'm not judging your weekend plans but maybe find some new insults

    • @jennyanydots2389
      @jennyanydots2389 Год назад +1

      @@MojaveMoron Good one. Too much of a coward to come up with a real insult so you go the tired to death passive-aggressive "i'm not saying but i'm saying...." format. Ha... you basically just made fun of yourself with that lame ass insult attempt. I'm simply trolling in that above comment, not a realy insult... you tried to directly insult me and it just came off as pathetic. Damn... total failure (probably not just here either, wal mart cart wrangler for life I bet!!)

    • @Morly.
      @Morly. Год назад

      @@NG-cf7zhits kinda sad to read through tbh

  • @crystal4o681
    @crystal4o681 Год назад +98

    This actually makes me feel better. My immediate worry was that Florida would be using *effective* far-right indoctrination on grade school kids, but these lesson plans are...not that.

    • @charmingnarcisse
      @charmingnarcisse Год назад +10

      while it migh look bland, its whats said at 26:18, they want children to be obediant, bored and uncurious. that makes an "apolitical" adult that can easily do what theyre told because nationalistic values are normative and "whats best" (to not mention far right bigoted thinking, but its redundant already). so it is dangerous.

    • @Emmariscobar
      @Emmariscobar Год назад +3

      @@charmingnarcisse While it might succeed at making them bored & uncurious, i have a feeling that telling children to watch a nearly half hour video of two people talking will make them the exact opposite of "obedient".

  • @LiveByTheNumbers
    @LiveByTheNumbers Год назад +69

    Illl never forgive pager U for making that poor kitty miss out on pets because mom is so angry about terrible lessons

  • @keiyakins
    @keiyakins Год назад +747

    "in a way that doesn't feel like indoctrination" is where you went wrong. Prager U's idea of education *is* indoctrination.

    • @Ajia_No_Envy
      @Ajia_No_Envy Год назад +16

      Everything is indoctrination, it just depends which values you want your child to have. It is technically indoctrination to tell your child that murder is bad, because that is putting something into their head.
      But in anycase some indoctrination is bad, most is good, PragerU's is probably unethical at the least because why would they need to show political icons to children? Children shouldn't be involved in politics if they can help it.

    • @askolotl
      @askolotl Год назад +94

      ⁠@@Ajia_No_Envy indoctrination is depositing information uncritically. it’s true that a lot of historical education, especially pre critical theory and more modern educational philosophy, does qualify but it’s not nearly as broad or applicable as that

    • @ItHadToBeSaid
      @ItHadToBeSaid Год назад +36

      @@Ajia_No_Envy It's only indoctrination if you teach them not to question it (so all school). But actual education can teach various points of view.

    • @ippanpedrozo1162
      @ippanpedrozo1162 Год назад

      prager literally verbally admits what they do is "indoctrination".

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty Год назад

      @@ItHadToBeSaid I knew American schools were shyte but I didn't know they went "don't question it" instead of "here's more resources, go wild, if you have questions I'm always available between classes".
      Like, in my little bumfuck nowhere bumpkin 300 people village grade school I moved to up here in America's hat, we could always go "why, why, why, what if, what it", even if the answer we got was more of a "this is where you want to look" than an actual explanation (because time).
      The only thing I was "indoctrinated" to have is shit like how to write, read, count, and then basic grammar and those cursed multiplication tables.
      Literally everything else was on the table even if the answer was "look it up in the library we've got a few books on that one".
      It works something like that in the US, right? Right????

  • @karojisatsu6196
    @karojisatsu6196 Год назад +62

    Thank you so much. I taught 7th-8th grade English in rural Utah until I quit to gender transition, something that my school would absolutely have had issue with. It's so nice to see a voice that can use concise language to explain why Prager Kids content makes me so angry even if viewed purely as an educator.

  • @sotpunkkatt158
    @sotpunkkatt158 Год назад +36

    I work as a teacher in sweden. PragerU's lesson plans are not made for teachers, its made for administrators and parents.

    • @courier6960
      @courier6960 Год назад +1

      I mean that is what it has predominately been made for in the past, for right wing “home schooling” lessons for the most insufferable parents you’ve ever met to force upon their kids when they get home from school, and online videos for right wing RUclips. It’s also primarily a “think tank” which is effectively just a fancy way of saying “political tool” for the oil industry and Christian dogma (this isn’t theory, it’s literally a major part of their founding and funding)

  • @HistorysRaven
    @HistorysRaven Год назад +30

    Seeing their lesson on the Federalist Papers is maddening. My master's degree was in US History and I focus specifically on this time period. The fact that they're acting as if the Federalist Papers are official documents, and it's not just PragerU doing this, leaves me with migraines.

    • @jamiesprinkbob
      @jamiesprinkbob Год назад

      i read some of them for my american pop culture class i took and omfg most of them are just rambles i have no idea how they got so popular lmao its just all venting

  • @ThatDangDad
    @ThatDangDad Год назад +382

    Really enjoyed this, I've always been curious what PragerU crapped out for schools since they are so arrogant and dismissive of children's needs and autonomy.

  • @pungoblin9377
    @pungoblin9377 Год назад +68

    Every public speaker should be mandated by law to have a -cat- Public Speaking Pet™ that watches their hand movements and tries to snuggle with them in the middle of work

  • @alexreid1173
    @alexreid1173 Год назад +243

    I’m also surprised at how bad these are given how much money these people have. Like, are all of Florida’s educational materials this bad, or did PragerU just get approved for political reasons???

    • @aralornwolf3140
      @aralornwolf3140 Год назад +64

      Political Reasons ($$$)....

    • @ChristopherSadlowski
      @ChristopherSadlowski Год назад +58

      I spent one year in college in Florida. I noped out and came right back to New Jersey because the stuff that COLLEGE was teaching in Florida was stuff I learned between MIDDLE SCHOOL and HIGH SCHOOL. It was absolutely a waste of time and money. Just avoid Florida...and Texas...basically the whole southern states in general, really.

    • @ItWasSaucerShaped
      @ItWasSaucerShaped Год назад +3

      @@ChristopherSadlowski They call it flyover country for a reason.

    • @JeanieD
      @JeanieD Год назад +13

      @@ItWasSaucerShaped, you should be aware that the term “flyover country” literally means the part of the US that planes fly over when they travel from NYC or DC to LA. Neither FL nor TX are normally on those routes.

    • @soapydoap
      @soapydoap Год назад +3

      @@ChristopherSadlowskijust curious cus im currently attending college in florida, what were some things they taught there that’s middle/high school stuff in nj?

  • @shybard
    @shybard Год назад +59

    As someone who used to work in classrooms and actually ran a literacy program, this hurts my heart and soul. These kids are being deprived, and the teachers are being cheated. This sort of material is basically designed to fail.

  • @ghosted_raven8846
    @ghosted_raven8846 Год назад +13

    When I was in middle school, every year the social studies teachers would do a “Cold War Simulation” where groups of students (across all grades) would be a certain country and “be part of the Cold War”. This was not only very engaging and interesting, it taught us more about what happened during the Cold War than if we had watched videos and taken tests. This is what education should be.

    • @neontangle11
      @neontangle11 Год назад +2

      Did you build pretend nukes?

    • @ghosted_raven8846
      @ghosted_raven8846 Год назад +1

      @@neontangle11 yes actually

    • @neontangle11
      @neontangle11 Год назад +1

      @@ghosted_raven8846 what'd you use to build em?

    • @ghosted_raven8846
      @ghosted_raven8846 Год назад +1

      @@neontangle11 we just bought and had them. we didn’t have to build them or anything.

    • @neontangle11
      @neontangle11 Год назад +2

      @@ghosted_raven8846 ah I see

  • @cameronpearce5943
    @cameronpearce5943 Год назад +57

    PragerU lesson plans in a nutshell: Watch the video... consume... give us that ad revenue

  • @stingspring3168
    @stingspring3168 Год назад +54

    18:06 If I was in six grade and I had to do that lesson, I would be bored to tears. That is just insulting to their intelligence. Like I get it they're 12, but they should still be challenged. It really shows Prageru's inexperience in education and how their content isn't designed for learning but as propaganda. They don't want students to discuss the topic in class and develop critical thinking skills. They just want them to absorb information and not ask questions.

  • @glenn_desert_witch
    @glenn_desert_witch Год назад +130

    I think this kind of education, which favors the uncurious and compliant, does another important job: it washes out the curious, interested, and less pliable. Which then in turn insures that the lower classes are gonna be compliant, because their children who wash out won’t have resources to go to a private school or get engaging homeschooling.

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  • @martinnyberg9295
    @martinnyberg9295 Год назад +83

    In a lesson about the Statue of Liberty, I would include material about why she comes from France, and what the French and American revolutions have in common. But what do I know, I’m just a teacher. 🤷😏

    • @irenafarm
      @irenafarm Год назад +16

      That’s probably in the video. I believe the disconnect between suggested activities, and the lesson objectives, is that they genuinely expect that JUST the video will accomplish the objectives. The teacher is only there to cue up the vid and hit start. That’s some peak disrespect.

    • @sophiedowney1077
      @sophiedowney1077 Год назад +7

      And then you could have an activity where students create their own fictional country that helped the US during the war--or maybe is friends with the us for other reasons--and to create/draw their own gift to the US that represents freedom and the 2 countries' bonds. That would actually be fun and engaging.

    • @sarahelizabeth7638
      @sarahelizabeth7638 Год назад

      Hopefully, those who are indoctrinated by this material will find a way to travel to Paris so they can see another copy of her. Then they might be curious enough to research the truth.

  • @JonathanGreenstone
    @JonathanGreenstone Год назад +434

    "You can't just describe everything that's wrong with PragerU WITHOUT addressing their politics-"
    Zoe: F***ing watch me.

    • @toeitch
      @toeitch Год назад +29

      Key word in that quote is "everything." She criticized them from an educational stand point, put that isn't everything there is to criticize them about.

    • @Magmagan
      @Magmagan Год назад +6

      This is what I love so much about this video. It plays fair. PragerU still being accpeted in Florida is still wild though

    • @victoryjamz
      @victoryjamz Год назад +14

      yeah it really was like
      prageru: you can't attack us because we took our video down!
      zoe: hold my orange cat

  • @lanterns_glow
    @lanterns_glow Год назад +48

    Came for finding out why PragerU is awful.
    Stayed for the orange cat being adorable on your couch. He must be well loved, that purr is LOUD

  • @IntrospectiveCollateral
    @IntrospectiveCollateral 9 месяцев назад +2

    The topic of PragerU needs to be discussed more often. Kudos to you for picking it apart in an engaging and unique way.

  • @Wounded_Asclepius
    @Wounded_Asclepius Год назад +254

    People have already criticized the politics of PragerU, so it's refreshing to see someone tackle down the other aspect of it, while doing so in a calm and respectful way. It's good to know that there are people like you out there who aspire to be real teachers, and I hope you succeed in educating the future generations of your country. 🙌

    • @davidEdwardsTalk
      @davidEdwardsTalk Год назад +2

      Analyzing a lesson plan from decades of failed public education teaching methodologies is always a honest and successful practice. Keep up the good work. A really great teacher would have a student of hers critique these lessons, but....well.. enough said.

    • @Hotdoglover266
      @Hotdoglover266 Год назад

      ​@@davidEdwardsTalkwhat

    • @rosevan7845
      @rosevan7845 Год назад +5

      @@davidEdwardsTalk From someone who knows you never went to public grade school I would like to know when and how you learned how to critique teachers.

    • @davidEdwardsTalk
      @davidEdwardsTalk Год назад +1

      I was a GED tutor, teaching the students that were failed by the one size fits all methodology. I was trained as a trainer and used Instructional Systems Design in a former job.

    • @rosevan7845
      @rosevan7845 Год назад

      @@davidEdwardsTalk I see. As interested as I may be in the methods and reasons for the hows and whys of 5 to 8 yr olds taking GED class, I feel that one of the methods descrbed above could stand some chance of sucess. The other method gives a real hung over substitute teacher on a rainy friday afternoon vibe.