How did one man go from right-wing talk show host to the head of a popular online education program?
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#Education #School #PragerU
We simply cannot compete here with the education that the Asians and Europeans have. My stepdaughter in Europe(she’s 29 now), speaks fluently 6 different languages and codes A.I. Her education was free in Austria. She went 2 years to S Korea for her A.I. coding education. She works from wherever she wants, her favorite place in the world is Dubai. She travels there constantly for vacation/work. Working pool side. She makes over 6 figures in her 20s. How can our kids here compete against that? But more importantly kids need stable home lives, good nutrition and parents that care. My significant literally spent hours in the evenings and every Sunday for a few hours helping the kids with their math homework. It takes parents that care.
My education was in Europe, all the way through university. Good for basic knowledge, the classics, languages – lots of memorization. You can’t touch the US in terms of critical thinking skills and innovation, investment in research and technology. People in other countries completely agree
If Americans could speak 6 languages then there would be no rednecks anymore
@@katenoke1571 I disagree! Critical thinking is discouraged in American education. So is questioning things.
It is by design… we are not people, we are workers
@@yasmine4754 nonsense
Good clip and reporting. Definitely shows that PragerU has a conservative agenda behind it. If this could incorporate more perspectives, I do think this would be an attainable and effective way on educating children. Just not in its current context of a singular perspective..
This would never be an effective way to teach children.
Prager U are demons who worship only money. They don’t care about America. They don’t care about God. They want to protect the rich from the poor. The strong from the weak.
Open , blatant fraud , and still it’s not shut down
PragerFU since all you want to do is whitewash and misrepresent history!
And regarding the present… Reject false accusations against the current education system as Marxist / Socialist / Communist, it’s not.
And Making America Geat Again is exactly what a certain ex-president has been BS’ing on the stump for years now… fear of foreigners and any change to more equality… via an authoritarian (for the right only) agenda!
As a survivor of Christian Nationalist homeschooling, I can’t even describe how horrifying this is…
Why is this “Premium” YouTube Content! Ugh! PragerU crap shoveled to the masses never comes with a paywall.
The world will get better when Pricker meets his maker.
Lol Well she approached one side open and tough questions and none for the other. Im going to be looking up PragerU now.
NBC is government propaganda.
PragerU is „make america proud cis hetero rich white christian again”.
And the „good” they claim they focus on is solely by white christian people.
It was the black rights movement that had power to end Jim Crow segregation, white people had a minor role in the movement.
you can tell the far woke leftist news anchor just doesnt want this company to exist because its pushing back on the agenda and gaining ground
anchor at 18:42 says that pragerU is pushing a only one perspective. hello? does the far left now not only push one perspective and its their way or nothing else regarding LGBTQ , race and economic/ political theory? If the left are pushing back and bashing this idea that means they are scared and maybe this company is working and on to something. Yes pragerU isnt perfect but id rather have an option of learning both sides then learning just the far left agenda being pushed by teachers now.
Imagine finding a “home” at PragerU. 😂 Their former employers and co-workers must be psyched.
That guy Ryan didn’t really answer any question asked. And what he did submit as a reply was incredibly vague, so much so it seems he was afraid to actually state or define his positions. Which makes me wonder what didn’t he want us to know about his beliefs? Except for at the very end when he tells us he wants a Christian nation.
I wouldn’t want that guy anywhere mear my kid. He’s intellectually devoid.
They’re right. NBC is as bad as fox news with bias. You can feel the vibe.
People like the educator guy spouting off about Marxism & Socialism being pushed on children in schools is A: an ignorant fool or B: Is preying on the millions of ignorant parents that fall for this nonsense, so he has an easier time indoctrinating children with right wing nonsense.
we’ll see in 15 years what those kids think of their parents’ choice to put them in prageru.
I have 3 children in elementary school.
We have already experienced a gender transition celebration in 1st grade (without parental heads up), an in-school (during school hours) drag queen story hour in 4th grade, and our teachers being explicitly trained in Critical Pedagogy and Kendi/DiAngelo’s version of anti-racism. There is one teacher in the entire school that does not have a pride flag on her door, and she gets serious pushback about it on a regular basis from school staff.
To say “it’s not happening” is just sticking your head in the sand.
what elementary school is this
If this really happened, it would be all over conservative news all day, everyday.
@@Magmafire @RT-bg8if I won’t give school names for obvious reasons, but I can tell you that they are two schools Denver Public Schools on the south side of the District.
What curriculum should counter PragerU? This company is trying to make history come alive by praising the promise that is America. These videos are highly engaging and accessible. It should not replace discussion and critical thinking. Instead, it should be a springboard for more analysis and further exploration.
and they are laced with inaccuracies and outright lies
Citing “libs of tiktok” as a source should have been the last straw for shutting the interview down at 20:00
Two cheers for the lady guest!
“The left has made it impossible to say the N word”? Why do you want to LOL what a specific complaint to bring up
Well, technically, America is institutionally racist. If you’re an educator pull the numbers. I would’ve loved to see this woman asked what do you think about the numbers in regards to racism? What do you think about the fact that a black person is more likely to be arrested in America, a black person is more likely to be prosecuted in America. What do you think about these numbers from the Navy Federal credit union where they did denied nearly 50% of African-American loan applicants as opposed to Caucasian applicants. I understand wanting to teach that America is great and sure I’m off for that teach that we are a great country but just because you’re a great country doesn’t mean you didn’t make mistakes and people who do great things learn from their mistakes and have no problems talking about those mistakes that others don’t commit them. The same don’t want their children to grow up to learn to say I’m sorry. The same parents don’t want their children to grow up and understand sympathy. This is a bigger problem. This is really politics. It’s literally left versus right. It’s just another issue where a political group looked up and said we can argue about this. Let’s go fight about this.
I’ll tell you what if America wasn’t so racist have this woman at PragerU explain any of the statistics that highlight the gap for minorities in our society. Don’t tell me about the statistics 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 years ago that’s not even go back that far. Tell me why these statistics exist today. She’s an educator give me an answer. I know they won’t. They immediately change the subject and say America is great. We shouldn’t have to answer these questions. Let’s talk about how great America is but I’m part of America and I want that question answered why is it that today literally today in America. We can pull up statistics that show as a black man face difficulties that someone of a different skin color, my age has a less likely chance of facing. So much so stats statistically it shouldn’t occur but it does which implies that there is something wrong with the system that there is bias in the system. Another word for bias is racism.
The man literally said we shouldn’t bring politics into school. We shouldn’t be teaching political ideology in school, and then literally use the political slogan right afterwards. How can the man argue he’s not for politics in school right wing politics in school when he kept saying Donald Trump’s political slogan, over and over and over again.
Build A Bear selects loveable animation, with some conflicts. The character peluches are security affection. Insiting insulting etc..is a challenge for teachers.
Prager product seems mediocre, but the speed of audio and filmic images may be calming to kids that are ADD or slow starters.
He uses Marxist words, let’s deepen new society thinking. We are subjected to science fiction, utopia vs distopia filmic content. Kids watch Breaking Bad or high speed fear oriented animation. The Superintendent has good intentions but he doesn’t accept that characters who have extra powers have captivating influence. Kansas education.
Attended a private, Christian elementary and middle school in FL and a secular, college prep high school in FL. Graduated in mid-2000s. The curriculum skewed heavily to the right, glossing over complicated aspects of American history. My college education balanced me out, it did not “indoctrinate” me into becoming some radical communist. Today, my wife is a public school teacher (elementary) in “liberal” New England. Never once has she been asked or forced into teaching CRT, talking about preferred pronouns, etc. Conservatives would lead you to believe there’s an epidemic of indoctrination running rampant through our nation’s schools – it’s not true. Talk to actual teachers. What is true is that this political pressure cooker is pushing teachers out of the profession and exacerbating the shortage that actually impacts our kids’ education.
So they can then go on and privatize the system.
Exactly they know their lying the evil greedy pigs just want all of the money 💰 funneled over to their creepy private schools so they have control over the next generations to come 🤬❗️
Yep, they want to abolish the Department of Education, they say so proudly, and privatize the system, which would be an unmitigated disaster and set our country back many decades. Conservatives in this country are unhinged, dangerous and destructive.
I don’t think teachers are quitting just because they see opinions on the news. Most teachers who quit say it’s mostly because they aren’t allowed to discipline the students in any way, so if there are bullies in the classroom, they almost have to surrender the classroom to them. Other reasons are that they lack resources, and there are also those who don’t agree with the school programs.
1930s , when any politician had to have the endorsement of the KKK to even have a chance to be elected. Great.
PragerU’s programming creates doubt and makes history interpretive, not factual.
On Dec 19, NBC News repeatedly used the term “controversial” to characterize Prager, but repeatedly fails to apply the same term to the WOKE agenda that it pushes.
PragerU would be a whole lot better than the bull crap students are “learning” these days
1930’s education. white people could do no wrong and everyone else were savages. that was 1930’s education
Unless you live in Arkansas with our f’ed up governor who is giving private religious schools our tax money, to the detriment of the floundering public school system.
At first i thought this was a spoof because is what SO biased and ridiculous and then i realized… oh ABC agenda. Got it.
Of course NBC world news used a couple seconds of it to dog on PragerU. Trying to brainwash people against PragerU
Dennis Prager is disgusting
Judeo Christian values, hahahaha. What a joke.
How about we teach what slavery became in this country, and teach it honestly?
I watched the first half, but watching Chuck Todd doing an interview with the smacking sounds he’s always making is torture.
Prager university sure seems to have race living rent free inside its collective Head.
Ryan Walters talks all the politically correct right wing checked boxes.
He pushes half truths and 🐂 💩.
No thanks chuck
He’s the new Rush Limbaugh, reincarnated as Dennis Prager, despicable person. Please Pennsylvania stay away from this PragerU trash.
Prager is the real Groomer.
PragerU is horrific. They are not education, they are propaganda. The right realized that their ideas and policies are extremely unpopular and there is no future for them if things continue as they are. The right’s only option is too indoctrinate children.
Catholic schools used to be the bastion of good education, now completely the wrong direction from the teachings of Jesus
It really helps with test scores when a school can deny kids with any learning disabilities.
@@johnsanders561 well special needs children would be the perfect audience for religious beliefs.
Did anyone else think this was Alina Haba and think, yeah, that tracks.
i didn’t take more than a few “lessons” to determine that PragerU has no use for facts or truth. Everything they teach is based on an agenda of ignorance and hostile conspiracy.
PragerU is creepy.
Of course he didn’t…that would require an effort and literacy.
He has someone read it to him.
PragerU: WE JUST WANT TO BE THE ONES WHO INDOCTRINATE YOUR CHILDREN!
1930`s?!?🤣🤣🤣
Prager IS NOT A SCHOOL❗️🤬❗️They put the U there like their a University & they ARE NOT❗️
Dennis Prager: “It’s a tough thing to be a good person.”
How would he know? Prager has no experience trying to be decent. Being good is easy, being a lying weasel is what is hard.
More religious nonsense making its way into every aspects of the American life. There should be push back at every chance. Good and evil do not exists they are man made constructs
Prageru is nothing more than radical right propaganda. Racism, xenophobia and LIES!
No teacher I know in Florida is actually using Praeger. Lawsuits will happen. It’s a U without a ‘niversity’. Which rhymes with diversity.
The government has us all figured out. Give our interest grouo a month with our name on it. And that’s the end of that. Little or no curriculum support for it. We’re so easy.
You have to be living under a rock to not be aware of the Marxist influence on school curricula these days. Ryan Walters is the antidote to that and for that I praise him.
I’ve watched the so-called ‘PragerU’ videos and the omissions / skewed ‘facts’ are horrific. For example: The ‘Is Israel an apartheid country?’ to which they added a black South African as a ‘No no, it’s not’ (She’s a paid spokesperson for Israel…) and neglects to mention that Israeli Arabs are routinely arrested for things Israeli Jews wouldn’t be (Peaceful protests etc) and neglects to mention that in this regards, the ‘apartheid’ designation is about the so-called ‘Occupied Territories’, under which Palestinians are indeed living in under apartheid, by definition of the word.
What!?! Being non-accredited that sounds more woke then accredited schools I’m confused these people are nuts
At 14:10 Prager claims that bad (as in the behaviors of indigenous people) was so ubiquitous (meaning pervasive).
But that’s ALSO untrue. The indigenous populations were NOT savages (like they’re often portrayed). The founders of the US Republic took many of their concepts of a free and just society from the Six Nations – The coalition of Indian tribes that existed PEACEFULLY together along the Eastern seaboard of the continent.
The ‘indians’, the original Americans, therefore INFORMED the European invaders of BETTER WAYS to govern a country. And that’s the country we live in today.
Dropping the one-liner at the end “Nostalgia for education like in the 1930s…when schools were segregated”
Wow, that stuff is garbage.
Finally, a discussion that is holistically equal and respectful. This is the kinds of debate we need across this great nation.
Chuck Todd suuuuucks. I miss Tim Russert
I feel awful for superintendent Johnson. Her job must be a nightmare, working under that conservative wackjob.
A conservative teacher with multiple neck tattoos in Oklahoma?! Dollars to donuts that guy is a white supremacist alt right radical extremist. The simple fact that he’s warping the minds of young children with Prager u is horrifying enough.
There is NO, none at ALL, radical left wing Marxist propaganda in this nation’s schools. That mere idea is psychotic. Conservatives in this country have lost their minds. Or maybe I should say conservative politicians and media figures, because I don’t believe regular people are this ridiculously deluded, by and large. Their leaders do desire them to be though, clearly.
There’s nothing “deep dive” about Prager u. It’s actually the exact opposite. It’s surface level, exclusively.
This obsession with going back to the past is nihilistic. The past suuuucked. Children were taught to be seen not heard. Children were abused as a custom. Let’s look forward and use our best knowledge to teach our kids, which means looking to experts and the people who dedicate their lives to this stuff, objectivity. Let’s reject the ideological politically motivated predatory hacks who are obsessed with money.
Chuck is still a terrible news person. He started by pretending to set up the story when he was just parroting Pragers talking points
Prager u is abhorrent and no school should pretend it’s in any way educational, it’s propaganda pure and simple. It should only be used in schools as an example of propaganda.
i dont think elementary school kids should be learning about CRT…. save that for middle school, and get into the gory details (like historical pictures of lynchings or how some slaves were forced to birth children, only for them to be snatched away) into high school.
the only people that honestly don’t see color are the little ones, so innocent and pure. just let them be kids, they have the 80-100 years to learn how horrible humankind can be.
this is absolutely terrifying. i thought Prager U was some obscure YouTube account i found several years ago. not something shown in schools….
PragerU = Hate, racism, and bullying.
1950’s Texas school taught it just like PragerU without PragerU input,,,gee wiz leaving out the bad
The focus of the article, PragerU being brought into schools is objectionable. We should also be asking why Pearson Publishing has such enormous control over what goes into K-12 textbooks, and PSAT SAT testing. They become the default curriculum architects, and they hold power over school boards across the country. There are other publishers of curriculum materials, McGraw Hill, and Harcourt. But they do not have the same leverage as Pearson.
I don’t know the answer, but I am concerned when teachers lose the opportunity to create a balanced vibrant environment for their students. They are being pressed by parents, administrators, dept. of Ed., and their own students. It’s a job within the job, and educators are (by my observation) overworked, asked too much, and compensated below their worth to the community. In the end our children lose.
Denny P complaining about the N word being “illegal” is all you should need to know about him tbh
These people are evil. I’m grateful to not be a Christian.
No, Ryan, you’ve sacrificed common sense. Prager U says “why can’t we teach the good” well those are not the facts. The fact is is that our country was built on amazing things and horrible things and that’s the truth and if we can’t criticize the past and learn from it, then we’re doomed to repeat it. If you’re afraid to shine a light on the dark, then you have secrets that want to stay in the dark. She killed it and I’m sorry, but Judeo Christian values please! In other words, misogynistic, racist values!
pragerU should not be allowed to be shown in classrooms. they are not approved or accredited content… the U in praegerU doesn’t mean anything….they just added that to try to add credibility…that they don’t actually have…
pedagogical. Does superintendent boy even know that word? lolol
Goebbels would be impressed with PragurU
And I’m surprised that the “liberal” guest was so unprepared… The conservative guest presents so many fallacies, and she corrects none of them
Both dudes went off on unions when talking about education…..nope, couldn’t be an anti union effort payed for by the Koch brothers even though they already pay Mr. Prauger to come up with anti union propaganda.
Minute five see how he smiles saying well we want to teach the curriculum we think they should know how this is taught but they don’t need to know the other history we want to make sure they never learned that how were taught to lie cheat steal manipulate pathetic just systematic pathetic schism
So look at that it was working so good back in the 60s or 70s or 80s of sanitariums that they will just turn all of America into one big sanitarium and then burn it like they did Battle Creek Michigan once they found out there’s no Hope for these mentally ill people once they realize that they turned him mentally ill
Do you think Prager you is influencing daily wire the Mormon church in the seventh day Adventist church those are the questions you should be asking do you know what the biggest medical hospital in California Loma Linda the biggest first aid disaster relief do you not think that they are all working together then you got another thing coming manipulating behind the scenes like a little rat
Well here’s the first thing you need to know they made the number one big Q by actually making it the biggest joke of the name Bruce almighty because they know the historical significance to the Scots against the sellout Jews I said to sell out they sold their king they didn’t wanna listen to now they’re going to come over here and tell us not to listen either I think you were all still out sell you sell SELL sell out you sold out your stupid useless existence because you don’t even have a soul in the first place
Is it not amazing that they would definitely hate an Irish Catholic being a president as well as a Scottish Highlander do you see the game that they’re playing it’s basically their ignorance against real logic understanding and if they keep doing that will definitely lose our patients and our virtual and we won’t care
Well it minute 13 here’s how apropos it is that they talk with such boldness daily wire and with that that other stupid daily show all the other things they do is so bully because they know they can easily say while we’re doing it on the call in the command of the pope he knows that we are not Christians he knows that were slaves to him we’re just not gonna let everybody anybody else know so they can be Christian in name only acting on behalf of the pope of Rome even though they’re not Christians on American Christian soil yet they will act so much like Christians because they are of the father the liars but not one of them which swear to Jesus Christ
All right I guess this guy is sort of blinded in a sense at minute 19 should not they put their hand on the Bible and swear in oath to the land that they’re operating on first and how did they get away with it they say so help me who and then what are they try to do say we have a wrong perspective on who who is well why they all go kiss the butt of good or George Soros who has tried to say when we take over this entire Internet and make it his own little puppet robot that you’re constantly having a fight club with every day of your life still trying to prove your existence as a human where they exist as a liar
Well the real funny question is on minute 20 is how many real private colleges would put their hand on the Bible like the president has to oh yeah wait a minute I think they slipped in the Quran there once right under Obama and but how many would swear in oath to America how many and then how many which swear the truth on the Earth to America against their filthy disgusting lies
And why are not any of these great people running for president because they know the American chessboard and they could not stand they wouldn’t even be able to come close because they don’t like Christmas and they’re afraid of pork have any of them really sore and both on American soil for the American people every professor and teacher should swear that both of the value of the people that they are supposed to be education not the lies from the other lands
Was truly amazing now at minute 23 is how they’re all finally finally now just coming forward like there’s a problem they didn’t see it along time ago isn’t that amazing now they’re going to come in and fix it first they record and they come in like the nice people and fix it first they totally destroy your life and everything you ever worked for then they come back and say it’s OK we always love a person that raises about the flames like a phoenix so we could put in the spotlight again and now make even more money off of you even though we are the ones at wrecked your life the first time first tim
Well do they really see an Dennis Prager a Hallett a Scott ran around and skirts with nothing on underneath that’s how brave we are these guys they’re too afraid because they don’t even have any balls
Minute 26 you know a little thing it wouldn’t take much that makes America great is that the teachers of the one grade talk to the teacher of the last grade to the students or about the students I think my woodshop teacher would’ve had a little bit more understanding if he talked to my architectural drafting teacher of the year before of how well I did in the class drafting I would’ve excelled into designing parts for Boeing engineer drafting architectural drafting yet the teachers don’t talk to the other teachers because they think they’re better than the other teachers can you imagine the mindset when they come to children why don’t you have them all swear in oath of what they’re really there for and then actually have them talk To the individual teachers about their individual students of the year before so they know how to work with them to get them to the next better teacher the year ahead until then you’re all dead and a waste of taxpayer dollars and time and you are not even worth any money and you need to pay for the defense of the billable hours that were prosecuting you under