How PragerU Hurts Students (and Teachers)

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  • Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
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    PragerU just became a verified educational vendor in Florida, Texas, and Oklahoma, so I read all of their lesson plans to see what they're offering teachers. (Un)surprisingly, what they're offering is terrible, but maybe not for the reasons you'd think. Join me on a journey through PragerU's awful lesson plans, as we discover exactly what they're trying to teach kids across America.
    00:00 - Part 1
    14:21 - Part 2
    26:21 - Outro & Cat Bloopers
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Комментарии • 7 тыс.

  • @zoe_bee
    @zoe_bee  10 месяцев назад +623

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    • @olivervision
      @olivervision 9 месяцев назад +9

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

    • @olivervision
      @olivervision 9 месяцев назад +16

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

    • @danielyoutubechannel407
      @danielyoutubechannel407 9 месяцев назад +2

      3rd

    • @randomdams9179
      @randomdams9179 9 месяцев назад +5

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

    • @peppy3519
      @peppy3519 9 месяцев назад

      A good alternative to Notion is Obsidian

  • @Dmobley9901
    @Dmobley9901 9 месяцев назад +1271

    "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 9 месяцев назад +109

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

    • @Dmobley9901
      @Dmobley9901 9 месяцев назад +206

      @@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 9 месяцев назад +8

      often, (well for me) its true

    • @person.probably
      @person.probably 9 месяцев назад +36

      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 9 месяцев назад +53

      @@Dmobley9901 A toast to the Class Clown and/or the Rebel, eternal and omnipresent and accidentally starting the mutinies.

  • @RoyaltyInTraining.
    @RoyaltyInTraining. 9 месяцев назад +11991

    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 9 месяцев назад +214

      Agreed, very informative too
      Cool pfp btw

    • @lemonboiyoutube
      @lemonboiyoutube 9 месяцев назад +331

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

    • @probrickgamer
      @probrickgamer 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад +42

      @@lemonboiyoutube hell yeah you’re right

    • @dracodragon105
      @dracodragon105 9 месяцев назад +140

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

  • @film9491
    @film9491 8 месяцев назад +1034

    “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 6 месяцев назад +126

      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 6 месяцев назад +46

      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 4 месяца назад +4

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

    • @RyuKyu.77
      @RyuKyu.77 3 месяца назад +12

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

    • @tacticallemon7518
      @tacticallemon7518 3 месяца назад +3

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

  • @unlearningeconomics9021
    @unlearningeconomics9021 9 месяцев назад +1340

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

    • @darkestlight660
      @darkestlight660 8 месяцев назад +41

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

    • @KingCrimso
      @KingCrimso 4 месяца назад +6

      I agree

  • @cadeprater-burgess8566
    @cadeprater-burgess8566 9 месяцев назад +5246

    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.

    • @kingBing101
      @kingBing101 9 месяцев назад +425

      Genuinely very happy to hear that

    • @pseudoruu
      @pseudoruu 9 месяцев назад +213

      frankly, it needs to stay that way

    • @KairiMorin
      @KairiMorin 9 месяцев назад +118

      Oh THANK THE LORD, BLESSED BE!

    • @oscarguerrero178
      @oscarguerrero178 9 месяцев назад +96

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

    • @nightmarefuel3478
      @nightmarefuel3478 9 месяцев назад +145

      Unusual Texas W.

  • @Juniper8271
    @Juniper8271 9 месяцев назад +1313

    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 9 месяцев назад +77

      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 9 месяцев назад +40

      @@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 9 месяцев назад +3

      Also people can only communicate with Elon over twitter

    • @simunator
      @simunator 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад

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

  • @theobservermp4402
    @theobservermp4402 9 месяцев назад +529

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

    • @bgorg1
      @bgorg1 9 месяцев назад +6

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

    • @lastswordfighter
      @lastswordfighter 8 месяцев назад

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

    • @ultravoid5398
      @ultravoid5398 5 месяцев назад

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

    • @extraterrestrial8888
      @extraterrestrial8888 4 месяца назад +26

      ​@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 4 месяца назад +19

      ⁠@@ultravoid5398exhibit a of lack of critical thinking skills

  • @sackfu7952
    @sackfu7952 5 месяцев назад +241

    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 5 месяцев назад +7

      Well, that happens when florida man is in charge

    • @KirbyKitten
      @KirbyKitten 4 месяца назад +8

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

    • @KirbyKitten
      @KirbyKitten 4 месяца назад

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

    • @malegria9641
      @malegria9641 2 месяца назад +5

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

  • @IdentityChrist
    @IdentityChrist 9 месяцев назад +3794

    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 9 месяцев назад +163

      The cat is just so cute 😭

    • @TheDevilchilly
      @TheDevilchilly 9 месяцев назад +172

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

    • @enfysiridescent
      @enfysiridescent 9 месяцев назад +102

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

    • @aronwhar
      @aronwhar 9 месяцев назад +30

      I love the cat just sitting there 😊

    • @WyvernYT
      @WyvernYT 9 месяцев назад +48

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

  • @GeldarionTFS
    @GeldarionTFS 9 месяцев назад +1909

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

    • @darkstarr984
      @darkstarr984 9 месяцев назад +83

      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 9 месяцев назад +100

      Literally Ben shapiro with the "Hypothetically speaking"

    • @earth88_
      @earth88_ 9 месяцев назад +69

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

    • @troublecloud1487
      @troublecloud1487 9 месяцев назад +68

      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 9 месяцев 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

  • @EayuProuxm
    @EayuProuxm 9 месяцев назад +314

    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.

  • @frostyvoid827
    @frostyvoid827 4 месяца назад +53

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

    • @styx15
      @styx15 2 месяца назад +4

      Literally 1984, and not even a joke

  • @52flyingbicycles
    @52flyingbicycles 9 месяцев назад +3637

    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 9 месяцев назад +95

      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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад +134

      @@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 9 месяцев назад +5

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

  • @jloiben12
    @jloiben12 9 месяцев назад +1861

    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

    • @gauge9100
      @gauge9100 9 месяцев назад +273

      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 9 месяцев назад +397

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

    • @VeraExora
      @VeraExora 9 месяцев назад +139

      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 9 месяцев назад +56

      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 9 месяцев назад +17

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

  • @diogenesrex7847
    @diogenesrex7847 5 месяцев назад +68

    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.

  • @user-hs1xb9tv6e
    @user-hs1xb9tv6e 9 месяцев назад +237

    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_0623
      @emma_luce_0623 9 месяцев назад +4

      How is it propaganda to teach history? 😂

    • @brook_angel
      @brook_angel 9 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@emma_luce_0623oh 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 9 месяцев назад +64

      @@emma_luce_0623they 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 7 месяцев назад

      @@emma_luce_0623teaching that slaves were happy and natives liked christopher columbus isn’t history it’s propaganda

    • @DolphinsAreWeird
      @DolphinsAreWeird 7 месяцев назад +10

      @@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.

  • @jloiben12
    @jloiben12 9 месяцев назад +3577

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

    • @pavelandreev4727
      @pavelandreev4727 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад +80

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

    • @larkohiya
      @larkohiya 9 месяцев назад +101

      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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад +96

      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

  • @leo_warren
    @leo_warren 9 месяцев назад +6877

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

    • @madelinecoven6428
      @madelinecoven6428 9 месяцев назад +586

      And, provide excuses to justify harsh school punishment

    • @danatronics9039
      @danatronics9039 9 месяцев назад +514

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

    • @macaronimagpie1612
      @macaronimagpie1612 9 месяцев назад +336

      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 9 месяцев назад +49

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

    • @Roxor128
      @Roxor128 9 месяцев назад +103

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

  • @noeramos8675
    @noeramos8675 9 месяцев назад +129

    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 4 месяца назад

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

    • @LJCG777
      @LJCG777 4 месяца назад

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

  • @bobathebobtail6050
    @bobathebobtail6050 9 месяцев назад +70

    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.

    • @OdinsSage
      @OdinsSage 8 месяцев назад +9

      Calling it "accidental indoctrination" is very generous and merciful of you.

    • @thirdwheel9938
      @thirdwheel9938 7 месяцев назад +8

      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 😐

  • @wyrmoffastring
    @wyrmoffastring 9 месяцев назад +970

    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 9 месяцев назад +50

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

    • @Novers
      @Novers 9 месяцев назад +21

      the hero we need

    • @sadakotetsuwan9229
      @sadakotetsuwan9229 9 месяцев назад +16

      he reachin for the patreon

    • @dumpsterfire0718
      @dumpsterfire0718 9 месяцев назад +55

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

    • @doctorsammy883
      @doctorsammy883 9 месяцев назад +23

      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.

  • @jamesmiller5039
    @jamesmiller5039 9 месяцев назад +1129

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

    • @Earthstar_Review
      @Earthstar_Review 9 месяцев назад +43

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

    • @sophiepooks2174
      @sophiepooks2174 9 месяцев 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 7 месяцев 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.

  • @mickiemallorie
    @mickiemallorie 9 месяцев назад +108

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

    • @kerred
      @kerred 8 месяцев назад

      Dumb people are more likely to click ads.

    • @eko9554
      @eko9554 8 месяцев назад +20

      The L in prageru stands for learning

    • @AndaraBledin
      @AndaraBledin 3 месяца назад +3

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

  • @The_mrbob
    @The_mrbob 9 месяцев назад +93

    How tf is prageru VERIFIED, it’s literal propaganda 💀💀💀

    • @thecowboy2541
      @thecowboy2541 9 месяцев назад +1

      So is Al Jazeera and yet people praise it

    • @FistoftheSnackBar
      @FistoftheSnackBar 8 месяцев назад +13

      ​@thecowboy2541 does that somehow make it ok?

    • @thecowboy2541
      @thecowboy2541 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@FistoftheSnackBar I never said Al Jazeera messaging was ok

    • @FistoftheSnackBar
      @FistoftheSnackBar 8 месяцев назад +22

      @@thecowboy2541 you know good and damn well what I meant. Don't be coy.

    • @thecowboy2541
      @thecowboy2541 8 месяцев назад

      @@FistoftheSnackBar coy💀

  • @haydenh.3124
    @haydenh.3124 9 месяцев назад +2593

    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 9 месяцев назад +239

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

    • @PolitikPolitik-fh2qc
      @PolitikPolitik-fh2qc 9 месяцев назад +20

      @@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 9 месяцев назад +286

      @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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад +14

      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.

  • @Blaineworld
    @Blaineworld 9 месяцев назад +3354

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

    • @Matthafford
      @Matthafford 9 месяцев назад +117

      I know this is a joke, but not at all.

    • @squiddler7731
      @squiddler7731 9 месяцев назад +275

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

    • @AJBrook-1017
      @AJBrook-1017 9 месяцев назад +180

      ​@@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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад

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

  • @spindlespice197
    @spindlespice197 9 месяцев назад +40

    Is it bad that most of my education middle - high school looked like this? 💀

    • @conorford7852
      @conorford7852 9 месяцев назад +25

      It's unfortunate, yes. It's not your fault though

    • @marleymars2223
      @marleymars2223 5 месяцев назад +6

      YES

    • @RyuKyu.77
      @RyuKyu.77 3 месяца назад +3

      This is proof that college education is needed and should be accessible to everyone, without the internet, I would've been an idiot (still am) as in I would be faaaar more ignorant and dumb, no wonder baby boomers are like this, their perspective is soo limited that they would have to go out of their way to seek the truth back then

  • @AD-ov5rt
    @AD-ov5rt 8 месяцев назад +38

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

  • @Louie42069
    @Louie42069 9 месяцев назад +1751

    “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 9 месяцев назад +121

      that clip is amazing

    • @ladyalicent705
      @ladyalicent705 9 месяцев назад +174

      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 9 месяцев назад +32

      Sounds like lyrics from "The Wall" or something

    • @nahyutarightsactivist
      @nahyutarightsactivist 9 месяцев назад +342

      @@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 9 месяцев назад +153

      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.

  • @Corium1
    @Corium1 9 месяцев назад +1647

    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 9 месяцев назад +161

      @thricegreat7175. Or maybe yours was just especially bad

    • @Matthew.E.Kelly.
      @Matthew.E.Kelly. 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад +103

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

    • @Vooblebooble
      @Vooblebooble 9 месяцев назад +27

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

    • @TheModdedwarfare3
      @TheModdedwarfare3 9 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@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

  • @PzOwNeD
    @PzOwNeD 8 месяцев назад +54

    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

  • @sbushido5547
    @sbushido5547 9 месяцев назад +68

    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 6 месяцев назад

      if children if children's education if if??

    • @jeffryejeffrye
      @jeffryejeffrye 4 месяца назад +4

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

  • @oliverdowning1543
    @oliverdowning1543 9 месяцев назад +1636

    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 9 месяцев назад +132

      That sounds so totalitarian it’s scary

    • @oliverdowning1543
      @oliverdowning1543 9 месяцев назад +74

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

    • @harharharharharharharharha240
      @harharharharharharharharha240 9 месяцев назад

      Sounds like nazi Germany 😳

    • @SoraByers
      @SoraByers 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад +67

      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.

  • @rosengrenj9
    @rosengrenj9 9 месяцев назад +2232

    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 9 месяцев назад +138

      Shocking, I know.

    • @snex000
      @snex000 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @sethcolson7223
      @sethcolson7223 9 месяцев назад +63

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

    • @bath_foam4576
      @bath_foam4576 9 месяцев назад +135

      ​@@sethcolson7223 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.

  • @PrettyH8Mach1n3
    @PrettyH8Mach1n3 9 месяцев назад +42

    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.

  • @OhioMiloPsycho
    @OhioMiloPsycho 4 месяца назад +12

    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.

  • @8eight104
    @8eight104 9 месяцев назад +1104

    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 8 месяцев назад +367

      The children yearn for the mines

    • @8eight104
      @8eight104 8 месяцев назад +184

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

    • @itsjrStudios
      @itsjrStudios 8 месяцев назад +41

      sometimes they think we yearn for mines. do we?

    • @mmartens3
      @mmartens3 8 месяцев назад +155

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

    • @ee-yf3ot
      @ee-yf3ot 8 месяцев назад

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

  • @theeskrungly
    @theeskrungly 10 месяцев назад +4413

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

    • @carolineholland5841
      @carolineholland5841 10 месяцев 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 10 месяцев назад

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

    • @maromania7
      @maromania7 10 месяцев 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 10 месяцев назад +513

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

    • @maddieS117
      @maddieS117 10 месяцев назад +399

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

  • @johnlaudenslager706
    @johnlaudenslager706 8 месяцев назад +47

    I think it would be reasonable to say Prager U is both deeply and shallowly conservative: on the level of do what dad and mom and your priest and boss tell you to do, and don't ever ask why or even think it.

    • @user-qy6dy9st9i
      @user-qy6dy9st9i 5 месяцев назад

      and for the left it is good enough for the government to tell you what to do

  • @frankchavez519
    @frankchavez519 9 месяцев назад +2205

    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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад +332

      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 9 месяцев назад +76

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

    • @Zucca101
      @Zucca101 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @athenaclark2567
      @athenaclark2567 9 месяцев назад +75

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

  • @RarelyAChump
    @RarelyAChump 9 месяцев назад +365

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

    • @endTHEhegemony_Today
      @endTHEhegemony_Today 9 месяцев назад +12

      This is correct
      🖤💜💙💚💙💜🖤
      Much Love!

  • @karojisatsu6196
    @karojisatsu6196 8 месяцев назад +59

    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.

  • @adurnafhey
    @adurnafhey 9 месяцев назад +13

    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!

  • @august1837
    @august1837 9 месяцев назад +555

    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 9 месяцев назад +16

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

    • @endTHEhegemony_Today
      @endTHEhegemony_Today 9 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @bloodywilliam3083
      @bloodywilliam3083 9 месяцев назад +4

      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.

    • @blasterblade02
      @blasterblade02 9 месяцев назад +13

      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.

    • @seanoneil8137
      @seanoneil8137 9 месяцев назад

      The Sarcasm is strong with this one.
      I can FEEEL the Sarcasm swelling in this reply now...
      I watched waaaaaaay too many hours of Star Wars.

  • @larctrinx8960
    @larctrinx8960 9 месяцев назад +928

    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 9 месяцев назад +11

      Sam and cat

    • @NoxietyPrime
      @NoxietyPrime 9 месяцев назад +83

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

    • @faintingheroine
      @faintingheroine 9 месяцев назад +6

      Exactly!

    • @radicalbacon
      @radicalbacon 9 месяцев назад +60

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

    • @Demonetization_Symbol
      @Demonetization_Symbol 9 месяцев назад

      I disagree.

  • @OpenBiolabsGuy
    @OpenBiolabsGuy 9 месяцев назад +59

    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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад +3

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

    • @MojaveMoron
      @MojaveMoron 8 месяцев назад +5

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

    • @jennyanydots2389
      @jennyanydots2389 8 месяцев 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. 8 месяцев назад

      @@NG-cf7zhits kinda sad to read through tbh

  • @SMCwasTaken
    @SMCwasTaken 3 месяца назад +13

    So glad i grew up watching Tim and Moby and Bill Bye the science guy instead of this prageru garbage

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      @bassgosh6599 14 дней назад

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  • @keiyakins
    @keiyakins 9 месяцев назад +746

    "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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty 9 месяцев 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????

  • @carolinemcgovern4488
    @carolinemcgovern4488 9 месяцев назад +316

    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 9 месяцев назад +37

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

    • @sophiedowney1077
      @sophiedowney1077 9 месяцев назад +30

      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 9 месяцев назад +9

      @@TedBilk help not the hyperpop 😭😭😭

    • @kylereyes2337
      @kylereyes2337 9 месяцев назад +10

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

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty 9 месяцев назад +15

      @@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.

  • @lordarthur2165
    @lordarthur2165 6 месяцев назад +7

    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 14 дней назад

      Brazil 🔥🔥 sepultura 😈

  • @ghosted_raven8846
    @ghosted_raven8846 6 месяцев назад +10

    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 5 месяцев назад +2

      Did you build pretend nukes?

    • @ghosted_raven8846
      @ghosted_raven8846 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@neontangle11 yes actually

    • @neontangle11
      @neontangle11 5 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @ghosted_raven8846
      @ghosted_raven8846 5 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @neontangle11
      @neontangle11 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@ghosted_raven8846 ah I see

  • @lonesavior
    @lonesavior 9 месяцев назад +666

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

    • @lalita9041
      @lalita9041 9 месяцев назад +14

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

    • @sandrohernandez4401
      @sandrohernandez4401 9 месяцев назад +19

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

    • @halcyon.x
      @halcyon.x 9 месяцев назад +15

      School house rock >>>>

    • @filthycasual6118
      @filthycasual6118 9 месяцев назад +40

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

    • @hiimcrazyfordrwho
      @hiimcrazyfordrwho 9 месяцев назад +9

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

  • @q.is.tir3d
    @q.is.tir3d 9 месяцев назад +1058

    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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад +67

      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 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @elizabethopoussm
      @elizabethopoussm 9 месяцев назад +5

      The Prussian system's final form it seems

    • @LoganLS0
      @LoganLS0 9 месяцев назад +4

      "Iron Law of Woke Projection never misses."

  • @ethanstyant9704
    @ethanstyant9704 6 месяцев назад +6

    Conservative Americans claiming the US defends freedom will always be funny to me because the country has directly or indirectly intentionally overthrown multiple democratically elected leaders in foreign countries because they dared to suggest their own country should benefit from its natural resources

  • @zen1647
    @zen1647 4 месяца назад +5

    I'm from Australia and have heard of Prager U but didn't know they thought of themselves as a serious education organisation. The material I've seen is very sloppy and poorly thought out.

  • @kevinfancher3512
    @kevinfancher3512 9 месяцев назад +603

    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 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @nts4906
      @nts4906 8 месяцев назад

      Religion poisons the mind

    • @USAFORBETTER
      @USAFORBETTER 7 месяцев 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 7 месяцев назад +54

      @@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 6 месяцев назад +26

      @@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_

  • @NoPunIncluded
    @NoPunIncluded 9 месяцев назад +576

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

    • @Coolgirl_ig_
      @Coolgirl_ig_ 9 месяцев назад +10

      Awwwwweeeee

    • @looselytelling
      @looselytelling 9 месяцев назад +18

      ❗ Goober spotted

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 9 месяцев назад +9

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

    • @ohnotheyatethecookiesrun
      @ohnotheyatethecookiesrun 9 месяцев назад +6

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

    • @emax333
      @emax333 9 месяцев назад +2

      THE BEAST‼️‼️‼️ i love him :3333

  • @adultmoshifan87
    @adultmoshifan87 6 месяцев назад +6

    Greetings from the United Kingdom! Throughout most of my school years, I was an education-hating bad boy but in my adult years, I learned that education is one of the most important things you can get in life! Even so, looking back on what school was like for me, I can tell that my country's education system was, and still is, VERY problematic: making kids gather in large numbers, giving them orders, preparing them for 70 years of misery and so on. A child won't be willing to learn if you bully him or her into it! Things got worse for me in 1999 when I was transferred to a boarding school as the school in question was the "only" one suitable for me to get my secondary education at. The school in question was a special one for those with learning disabilities, but that just made me feel "othered", not because it was a special school, but because I was made to go far out of town and go to one of their boarding houses Monday-Thursday every school week! Within the boarding area, I was shouted at by staff members who refused to accept modern young people for who they are, they acted as if homework and chores were "more important than anything ever" and they generally treated us like criminals, which is the last thing disabled people need! One night in 2004 we were told we'd be made to do even more homework and they even added "It's a 24 hour curriculum!" which sounds EXACTLY like prison! I feel that in order to give our kids a proper well-rounded education, we need to let them get creative, teach them to express themselves, tell them that life is what they make of it (grammar?) but I still feel that math, languages (including English!), science, history and geography are important too, schools should be made to feel inviting and welcoming, homework needs to be abolished completely as it hinders kids and teens from making the most of being young and we need more special schools in the world so no learner, disabled or not, would EVER be made to board again! I am not in a position to give a full analysis of whether or not the books, videos, lesson plans etc used at my schools were the right ones to use and wotnot but I do agree that this PragerU stuff is horrendous! There's so much wrong in it, they clearly make shit up and it's obviously an attempt to make America's already broken school system even worse! I feel that more needs to be done to make the world a more welcoming place. I just hope we can get the message out fast and wide enough! This ongoing right wing takeover of the world MUST be stopped!

    • @dudep504
      @dudep504 2 месяца назад

      I think people who "hates education" (including me) eventually just realizes that the thing that they hate isnt "education", but rather the "educational system"

  • @nextabe1
    @nextabe1 9 месяцев назад +8

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

  • @theclasscalico
    @theclasscalico 9 месяцев назад +850

    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 9 месяцев назад +42

      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 9 месяцев назад +33

      ​@@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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад +7

      ​@@Nota-Skaven:3 moment

    • @nicreven
      @nicreven 9 месяцев назад

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

  • @BulletWilliam
    @BulletWilliam 9 месяцев назад +661

    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 9 месяцев назад +58

      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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев 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 8 месяцев 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

  • @Ashtree29
    @Ashtree29 9 месяцев назад +13

    I'm but a humble trans person who wants to work in ECE and it freakin scares me! Simultaneously I'm always wondering when "PragerU supplementary learning for health and science classes" will start being rolled out smh

    • @lastswordfighter
      @lastswordfighter 8 месяцев назад

      You are mental case and belong in an insane asylum as do all leftwing lunatics. Newsflash America has had enough of your perversions and enabling of riots and mass crime. Since you refuse to clean up the mess your lot has made it will be cleaned up for you and you will cease to have a say. You've whipped the damn mobs and criminals and gangsters and bomb throwing anarchists for over a decade while leaving the bill for everyone else. No more you will pay back every damage your lot did and you will pay for every act of leftwing treachery. What's more you will know suffering, law, order, and orthodoxy. This is your punishment for your evil.

    • @att6484
      @att6484 5 месяцев назад

      Just dont be in a red state and you should be fine

  • @GodWarrior7771
    @GodWarrior7771 5 месяцев назад +4

    I think another criticism that seems evident is that the people behind these lesson plans fundamentally think that teaching is this easy and shallow.

  • @gbeaver57
    @gbeaver57 9 месяцев назад +2003

    When you remember PragerU is rank conservative propaganda requiring children to “appreciate” conservative ideals makes a whole lot of sense.

    • @alyaaearth4755
      @alyaaearth4755 9 месяцев назад +10

      If they r conservatives why they teach abt liberty ?

    • @pc3340
      @pc3340 9 месяцев назад +18

      Eh this is pretty biased. Having opinions that aren’t traditional doesn’t mean it propaganda all the way around. Teachers have been caught sharing bias in class rooms. Doesn’t matter what side it is

    • @pc3340
      @pc3340 9 месяцев назад +44

      @@JD-wu5pfthis is not unique to conservatives. Liberty is a big part of America. The political sides both choose this selectively

    • @gbeaver57
      @gbeaver57 9 месяцев назад

      @@pc3340 prageru doesn’t just have opinions. They lie and distort history and teach it as fact. It’s definitionally propaganda. Their mission is to whitewash history and make little proud conservative Christian Americans. It serve no purpose but to propagandize for the Republican Party.

    • @PolitikPolitik-fh2qc
      @PolitikPolitik-fh2qc 9 месяцев назад +14

      appreciating America used to be an American ideal. Then people got woke. And started fighting for made believe causes.

  • @jonesthemoblin1400
    @jonesthemoblin1400 9 месяцев назад +308

    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 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @Random_dud31
      @Random_dud31 9 месяцев назад +11

      They value them more when they are fetuses

    • @Dudenob123
      @Dudenob123 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @necropolistc6357
      @necropolistc6357 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@Random_dud31at least we give them value

    • @ladyalicent705
      @ladyalicent705 9 месяцев 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.

  • @72carguy
    @72carguy 9 месяцев назад +7

    Identifying issues with these lesson plans…great!
    Explaining how they are flawed and potential short-comings….well-done.
    Fixing these issues, putting them on Patreon and inviting the offending company to join your Patreon (pay you!) to find the repairs….brilliant!!

  • @kray97
    @kray97 9 месяцев назад +7

    8:10 Cat mysteriously materializes and Zoe talks about Bloom's Taxonomy.

  • @PocketDeerBoy
    @PocketDeerBoy 9 месяцев назад +257

    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 9 месяцев назад +42

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

    • @aralornwolf3140
      @aralornwolf3140 9 месяцев назад +5

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

    • @echo.1209
      @echo.1209 9 месяцев назад +35

      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 9 месяцев назад +5

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

    • @kyleinthejar6829
      @kyleinthejar6829 9 месяцев 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.

  • @aliengeo
    @aliengeo 9 месяцев назад +151

    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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад +4

      Speak for yourself.

    • @neoqwerty
      @neoqwerty 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @sacrilegioussasquatch
      @sacrilegioussasquatch 9 месяцев 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

  • @Marconius6
    @Marconius6 5 месяцев назад +4

    Is "why is liberty important" and stuff like that common in American education? Because that doesn't sound like teaching kids historical facts, it just sounds like one-sided indoctrination.

  • @nathanielmonroe3057
    @nathanielmonroe3057 9 месяцев назад +7

    What an utterly phenomenal perspective so critically important to this discussion. Amidst all the outrage it is really refreshing to see an actual breakdown from the real, granular angle like this. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video!

  • @thaphreak
    @thaphreak 9 месяцев назад +818

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

    • @richardtaylor6187
      @richardtaylor6187 9 месяцев назад

      No, they are fighting indoctrination.

    • @rayman11
      @rayman11 9 месяцев назад +38

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

    • @gumbihilt1333
      @gumbihilt1333 9 месяцев назад +11

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

    • @rayman11
      @rayman11 9 месяцев назад +79

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

    • @gumbihilt1333
      @gumbihilt1333 9 месяцев 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 🤷‍♂️

  • @kacodemonio
    @kacodemonio 9 месяцев назад +123

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

    • @rainyykitten
      @rainyykitten 9 месяцев назад +1

      And then a 25 minute long video in which Candace Owens tells kids that gay s-x sends you to hell, birth control k-lls babies, and m-sturb-ting will make your palms grow hair. And then shallow questions about the video, like "How old is Candace Owens?"

    • @dudono1744
      @dudono1744 9 месяцев назад +10

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

    • @halcyon.x
      @halcyon.x 9 месяцев назад +30

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

    • @Crlarl
      @Crlarl 9 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @shorkies13
    @shorkies13 9 месяцев назад +5

    As someone starting my second year of college with ADHD, I really just need to give a massive thank you for making this video the way you did, and heck, for making it at all. PragerU is pretty blatantly awful in so many aspects, and most people focus on the political side of the issues with it. And, yes, while that is the most obvious and important problem with PragerU and their methods, it’s extremely refreshing to see someone criticize them from a different, more educationally-focused standpoint. Obviously, as I said, there is so so much wrong with PragerU with its blatant attempts at political indoctrination of students, but I think it definitely helps in the case against them to be able to look past that and dig into the other issues with the organization, and you explained and analyzed it all in a very, VERY thorough and respectful manner. Much better than I ever could.
    I have a massive amount of respect for you and your message in this video. I seriously hope that this comment helps the RUclips algorithm put this video out there for even more people to see, because everyone knows already how PragerU is repulsive with its political views. Having more aspects of what makes them unfit to be official educational material in this country discussed in detail like this is what we need. Thank you.

  • @IRanOutOfPhrases
    @IRanOutOfPhrases 9 месяцев назад +6

    Well constructed video. I was about to jump into the comments to point out how crazy it is that they have something scripted word for word, but then for the big activity they just leave it as, "Idk, debate or sumthin"
    And yeah, I'm not an educator, but even before you mentioned it, it seemed like such a huge miss to not recommend having kids actually draw their own statues of liberty with their own symbols to represent values they think are important to America.

  • @ezraglasman8789
    @ezraglasman8789 9 месяцев назад +427

    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 9 месяцев назад +36

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

    • @FunKayyy
      @FunKayyy 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @irenafarm
      @irenafarm 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @pup64hcp
    @pup64hcp 9 месяцев назад +676

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

    • @undeniablySomeGuy
      @undeniablySomeGuy 9 месяцев назад +3

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

    • @vernaiko9536
      @vernaiko9536 9 месяцев назад +3

      hello pup :shoebill:

    • @creativerealms
      @creativerealms 9 месяцев 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.

  • @KRobinson-ko1ne
    @KRobinson-ko1ne 26 дней назад +1

    8:11
    This is my favorite part!❤️
    “ For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. She is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroë and Ophir. She is the kin of the jungle’s lords, and heir to the secrets of hoary and sinister Africa. The Sphinx is her cousin, and she speaks her language; but she is more ancient than the Sphinx, and remembers that which she hath forgotten.”

  • @reddyandre
    @reddyandre 6 месяцев назад +3

    It's a babysitting lesson. Babysitting lessons were expected of me in the middle/high school where I taught. And that's the reason I left. I'm afraid that this may be the case in districts everywhere, though especially in rural districts. Thanks for your analysis!

  • @JonathanGreenstone
    @JonathanGreenstone 9 месяцев назад +433

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

    • @toeitch
      @toeitch 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад +14

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

  • @XanIndigo
    @XanIndigo 9 месяцев назад +142

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

  • @golemofflesh3953
    @golemofflesh3953 9 месяцев назад +7

    I have had this video tabbed for days. I do not want to be ignorant of this topic and want to support you, yet I am not sure if I can handle this topic in my current mental state. Thank you for creating this video even if I cannot bear to see it right now.

  • @vipercats1243
    @vipercats1243 9 месяцев назад +5

    The cat wanting pets for half of the video is so cute

    • @jennyanydots2389
      @jennyanydots2389 9 месяцев назад +1

      I know where to put down a cat if you don't wanna pay for a veterinarian to do it. It ain't hard and I can teach you how to do it for free son.

    • @vipercats1243
      @vipercats1243 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@jennyanydots2389 😰😰

    • @jennyanydots2389
      @jennyanydots2389 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@vipercats1243 Does that mean two cats need puttin' down without a vet?

    • @vipercats1243
      @vipercats1243 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@jennyanydots2389 nah I'm honestly shocked you ask that, my cats are healthy and well

    • @jennyanydots2389
      @jennyanydots2389 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@vipercats1243 You can only beet cats for a couple years before you need to put them down fyi. Maybe you should have gotten a dawg? Dawg's take the beetings a lot better. U can beet the teeth right out a dawgs mouf with closed fist punches but a cat won't stand for that

  • @Matt_Fields_29
    @Matt_Fields_29 9 месяцев назад +628

    One disappointing thing about being an atheist is knowing there's no Hell for Dennis Prager to go to.

    • @thatpandaz6094
      @thatpandaz6094 9 месяцев назад +96

      Suddenly I'm religious🙏

    • @amelie5475
      @amelie5475 9 месяцев назад +43

      Don't worry. When Jesus comes back, Prager will be as harshly judged as he judged others and as hated as he hated others. I don't believe it's going to be fun for him, at least for a while

    • @Aaa-vp6ug
      @Aaa-vp6ug 9 месяцев назад

      @@amelie5475Jesus or the shit?

    • @Eosinophyllis
      @Eosinophyllis 9 месяцев назад +28

      Now I may not be religious but I do want to believe there’s some sort of hell just for this sort of people.

    • @redrevyol
      @redrevyol 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@amelie5475 I think he'll call out to anyone who are hypocrites like in Matthew 23.

  • @Jarimir
    @Jarimir 9 месяцев назад +471

    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 8 месяцев 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 8 месяцев назад +6

      A corporation run by kids

    • @classroom8290
      @classroom8290 8 месяцев назад +33

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

    • @HollyAnneThePaganChaosWitch
      @HollyAnneThePaganChaosWitch 4 месяца назад +3

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

    • @extraterrestrial8888
      @extraterrestrial8888 4 месяца назад

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

  • @nyxvia
    @nyxvia 6 месяцев назад +2

    As an introduction to your channel, this was a fantastic video! Interesting (and maddening) to see the deficits in PU's work made for educating our youth. Even more maddening that Texas and Florida greenlit its use. 🤯

  • @fredericnaud6885
    @fredericnaud6885 7 месяцев назад +4

    Who wants to tell PragerU that the Statue of Liberty is actually French? 😂

    • @eforoyal
      @eforoyal 7 месяцев назад +1

      We stan this french lady!

    • @conorford7852
      @conorford7852 7 месяцев назад +1

      Who wants to tell that we had to be bullied into actually getting the money to construct it once it arrived?

  • @funtechu
    @funtechu 9 месяцев назад +184

    It would be indoctrination if it wasn't so boring

    • @maximeteppe7627
      @maximeteppe7627 9 месяцев 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 9 месяцев назад

      A boring dystopia

  • @MCSorry
    @MCSorry 9 месяцев назад +762

    It was kind of refreshing to see Zoe lose her mind for half an hour. (I wholeheartedly agree with the video, it's just we've never seen her so furious before).
    But honestly, PragerU seems to be applying the Banking model of education. It's kind of terrifying. Passive absorption of knowledge seems akin to propaganda.

    • @dklee.01
      @dklee.01 9 месяцев назад +24

      i’m losing my mind, too. going feral at this point.

    • @nicreven
      @nicreven 9 месяцев назад

      submit
      go feral
      tear your neighbours apart with your teeth
      run around on all 4s@@dklee.01

    • @DarkGob
      @DarkGob 9 месяцев назад

      Ding ding ding, we have a winner.
      These so-called "lesson plans" are, in fact, straight-up indoctrination. They refer to actual school curricula as "indoctrination" because that's actually what they want to do, and now they're actually doing it. This is some seriously fucked up stuff and we are in big, big trouble.

    • @moksound19
      @moksound19 9 месяцев назад +12

      It is absolutely gratifying to see Pedagogy of the Oppressed get so popular.

    • @kirrei
      @kirrei 9 месяцев назад +3

      I would also argue that the progressive left has already been doing that in classrooms as of recent with teachings of gender theory to prepubescent kids. while I don’t think politics have a place in primary education, I can agree with PragerU’s approach to supply correct information, such as their video on slavery

  • @qcubic
    @qcubic 5 месяцев назад +2

    As a pursuing mechanical engineer from Texas, hearing that PragerU has infiltrated my home state AND how Gen Alpha are moving slower academically makes me feel dread inside.

    • @AwakenedFromWoke
      @AwakenedFromWoke 4 месяца назад

      Uh, 89% of public school teachers in America are registered Democrats. You’re part of the problem.

    • @SertQuos
      @SertQuos 4 месяца назад +2

      ​@theimposingview teachers aren't to blame. There's so many factors. Teachers in republican States also tend to be republican? Parents have influence. Covid has influence. States mandate what is taught in schools etc.

    • @arcsballss
      @arcsballss 3 месяца назад

      @@AwakenedFromWokewhere did you get that statistic from?

    • @Herobeans
      @Herobeans 10 дней назад

      @@AwakenedFromWoke So what? Republicans are against education and pro-child labour

  • @lightbox617
    @lightbox617 9 месяцев назад +9

    Don't you understand that you are sitting on that cat's couch? You are paying attention to your presentation instead of the cat. The cat finds it unacceptable that that you are not acknowledging his/ownership and dominance of all space, mental and physical. Sorry. I need to end my commentary as one of my cats needs to sit on his computer keyboard

    • @eshuorishas9987
      @eshuorishas9987 9 месяцев назад +4

      Nice try cat pretending to be a human!

    • @lightbox617
      @lightbox617 8 месяцев назад

      My secrets uncovered. Thanks@@eshuorishas9987

  • @nts4906
    @nts4906 8 месяцев назад +16

    You forgot Prager U is supposed to turn kids into idiots. That is the entire point.

  • @jobraket
    @jobraket 9 месяцев назад +610

    As someone studying to be a teacher in Germany, it's really reassuring to hear that I'm better at coming up with lesson plans than some conservative propaganda conglomerate.

    • @jackinzbox.
      @jackinzbox. 9 месяцев назад +17

      I don’t think you should be that reassured lol. PragerU set a remarkably low bar for lesson plans. I’m not studying to be a teacher and I feel like I could have easily made a better lesson plan than this. Although that could be misplaced confidence or some form of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

    • @VishnuQM
      @VishnuQM 9 месяцев назад

      Na ja, wollen Sie als Lehrer arbeiten, ne? PragerU hat gar keine professionellen Lehrern als Mitarbeitern.

    • @Xtroid
      @Xtroid 9 месяцев назад +2

      Slay

    • @thisorthat629
      @thisorthat629 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@jackinzbox.nah, don't think dunning kruger, i believe the underlying idea of having goals and have activities tying into said goals should be clear to everyone. oversimplified, and ignoring practical aspects. and to fail that at the most basic planning lvl is impressive, on prageru's part
      tho personally not a fan of every individual lesson needing to reach said goals and also check in the same lesson, smt kids just need more time, or more freeform formats need a lot more time. that's why im personally more a fan of lesson blocs, but hey

    • @DebatingWombat
      @DebatingWombat 9 месяцев назад +12

      PragerU’s inability to create an actual lesson plan is intimately tied to their ideology. They think that teaching is simply about an authority (ultimate PragerU) handing down “The Truth(TM)” from on high and the learners reproducing that.
      That learning might be a sort of two-way process and not a dictatorial propaganda exercise is wholly alien to PragerU.
      That’s also indicated by the use of “appreciate”, which is a way of saying “learn to be obedient in the face of these authorities and interpretations”.
      Indeed, entities with a fundamentally authoritarian view of education, such as PragerU, always favour rote learning and reproduction over critical skills and analysis, exactly because they see the key role of education as engendering obedience and loyalty, not critical or analytical skills.

  • @michaeljohnson1576
    @michaeljohnson1576 9 месяцев назад +1

    This video was gold...I got to laugh at your humor, I got to laugh at your beautiful cat photo bomb, I got to laugh at PragerU and I got to learn about Bloom's Taxonomy. I am learning programming, have been for almost 2 years and those verbs really encapsulate what learning has been. Thanks for the excellent video!

  • @jonathon5075
    @jonathon5075 3 месяца назад +1

    Wow thanks for this. Its super valuable to know more about the behind-the-scenes with how school works

  • @nediah
    @nediah 9 месяцев назад +467

    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 9 месяцев 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.

  • @nisbahmumtaz909
    @nisbahmumtaz909 9 месяцев назад +968

    And they said they were ACCREDITED? Whoever did the auditing did a TERRIBLE job. This honestly might just be a reflection upon the institution itself.

    • @ayyyyph2797
      @ayyyyph2797 9 месяцев назад +106

      It might not even be a proper accreditor, probably just a thumbs up from your local GOP chapter

    • @NathanWubs
      @NathanWubs 9 месяцев назад +68

      If they said that, they were lying. They still are not accredited. Maybe one of their people was overzealous again which tends to happen.

    • @KairiMorin
      @KairiMorin 9 месяцев назад +1

      They aren't even legally able to send kids to college or university outside of Florida because they don't follow the system to get accredited high schools, so within the next 3-5 years, those students are all screwed.

    • @davidhutchinson5233
      @davidhutchinson5233 9 месяцев назад +14

      Somebody got paid. Plain and simple.

    • @orangenostril
      @orangenostril 9 месяцев назад +4

      It's literally just for political points

  • @jowen001
    @jowen001 9 месяцев назад +4

    Oklahoma approved this as some kind of optional curriculum, but fortunately, Tulsa public schools, where my kids go, has released a statement that it will in no way be included in any instructional materials.

  • @ssj4gogeta130
    @ssj4gogeta130 9 месяцев назад +19

    When you hear someone say “how would you like to learn something in 5 minutes?!” IMMEDIATELY IGNORE IT!

    • @psycher7
      @psycher7 9 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah, it should be a big red flag if someone is trying to sell you history or economics lessons with the exact same pitch as "blasting your abs with this one hot trick!" infomercials.