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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Right Curriculum? How PragerU Infiltrates Schools.
https://prospect.org/api/amp/education/right-curriculum-how-prageru-infiltrates-schools/The right-wing nonprofit, known for viral videos like The Left Ruins Everything, launched a program specifically designed for teachers last fall. But according to students, its content has been in public schools for years.
Robyn Ellis was a high school sophomore in a rural town in Kern County, California, when their government teacher started showing a string of videos from a media organization that Ellis had previously seen criticized online for being conservative propaganda. In one of the first weeks of school, Elliss teacher plugged in a Chromebook to the classrooms TV and screened the first of what would become many videos created by Prager University.
Caroline Lannes, now 18, knew her economics teacher was right-leaning even before he started showing the class PragerU videos. In a Northern California high school, the teacher talked about Ronald Reagan with a particularly nostalgic cadence and had a poster of Margaret Thatcher pinned to the classroom wall. But for Lannes, showing PragerU content crossed a line.
I knew it was BS. It was clearly misinformation, she said. But the teacher never said anything like that. And it made me mad. As a self-described liberal, Lannes knew that the content was only egging on her already right-leaning classmates. It was totally fuel to the fire, she added.
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The Right Curriculum? How PragerU Infiltrates Schools. (Original Post)
alwaysinasnit
Apr 2021
OP
Me, too. Not just conservative, but factual nonsense as well. Alternative history crap.
Midnight Writer
Apr 2021
#3
"And now your Prager and Trump University credits transfer to Fugg U!"
struggle4progress
Apr 2021
#9
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)1. I've been seeing their screeds pop up on YouTube.
I could tell they were creepy in the first few words, but never got any further before muting/skipping.
Midnight Writer
(21,769 posts)3. Me, too. Not just conservative, but factual nonsense as well. Alternative history crap.
SouthBayDem
(32,034 posts)2. original non amp link
blm
(113,067 posts)4. PropagandaPrager
Always use his full name.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)6. Or "PrickPrager" for short.
blm
(113,067 posts)8. Well, I was trying to make another point.
Yours is accurate,too.
dalton99a
(81,526 posts)5. Kick
cynical_idealist
(360 posts)7. this makes me sad and mad
but I can't cry anymore...
warping young minds with lies.
struggle4progress
(118,298 posts)9. "And now your Prager and Trump University credits transfer to Fugg U!"