Current Events > Ohio school assigns PragerU videos to 10th grade students for extra credit

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https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/10/a-school-in-ohio-assigned-youtube-videos-from-fake-right-wing-university-prageru-for-extra-credit/

Theres learning and then theres learning. According to a report in the Huffington Post on Tuesday, students in a 10th-grade history class at Maumee High School in Ohio were offered extra credit to do a little of the latter by watching videos produced by Prager University (PragerU). That is not, in fact, a university, but a right-wing nonprofit and YouTube channel founded by talk show host Dennis Prager.

PragerU videos are often stocked with historical revisionism, xenophobic and anti-Muslim propaganda, rants decrying feminism, climate change denial, and rhetoric asserting the left is a pathology centered around literally destroying the U.S. It also promotes creationism and flirts with far-right rhetoric like decrying the demographic suicide of Europe. (Prager himself has bemoaned that it is idiotic that you cannot say the N-word.) PragerU videos are often littered with factual inaccuracies and tend to hype up a conservative victimization complex.

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According to HuffPo, some of the videos assigned had titles including Build the Wall, Why the Right Was Right, and The Left Ruins Everything. Students were reportedly asked among other things to identify the videos most important messages. News that PragerU was being taught in the classroom comes the same month as its recent push to break into K-12 education (PragerU Educators and Parents, or PREP), though the teacher involved assigned the videos last year.

To give an idea of what kind of stuff PragerU thinks schools across the country should be teaching, course guides offered in the promotional push included sections such as Conservatives Are the Real Environmentalists and The Ferguson Lie, per HuffPo. True-false questions for test preparation offered in PREP materials include nearly all the major 19th- and 20th-century breakthroughs in health care were made by Western Europeans and North Americans and Big Tech with its control of search algorithms, its shadowbanning, and deboosting supports political correctness and the resulting limitations of freedom.

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When I talked to the principal and vice principal, they acted like this was just another assignment, Andrea Cutway, the parent of a Maumee High School student who first drew attention to the courses curriculum, told HuffPo. This really is some scary stuff. I do feel like they have found a way to get into the public school system.

Cutaway told HuffPo that administrators had first offered to introduce liberal content as a counterbalance, though the site reported Maumee High School had stripped PragerU from the curriculum after they reached out. PragerU responded by tweeting, The left is terrified that teachers are using PragerU videos in the classroom.

What the fuck, dude

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Prager U needs to be deplatformed for hate speech.

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Prager U videos make me laugh because they all start the same.

They're like "(Subject) is right...right? LET ME TELL YOU WHY YOU'RE WRONG." I watch until they get to that part then skip. It's always amusing to see where they plan to getcha with the twist.
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Huh

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ovo-XUCtao8&t=

Pennis Drager

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