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An Ohio public school has been giving students extra credit for watching videos from PragerU, a right-wing website that produces clips of talking heads such as Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro discussing conservative viewpoints, HuffPost has learned.
The PragerU videos — with titles such as “Build the Wall,” “Why the Right Was Right” and “The Left Ruins Everything” — were assigned to a 10th-grade history class at Maumee High School, along with a series of questions about the videos’ “most important messages.”
The assignment came at the same time that the website has tried to gain further influence in K-12 classrooms. Earlier this month, the organization launched a program directly aimed at parents and educators, complete with study guides with sections such as “Conservatives Are the Real Environmentalists” and “The Ferguson Lie,” based on a HuffPost review of the materials.
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The homework assignment appeared unrelated to PragerU’s latest venture, called PragerU Educators and Parents, or PREP, which launched several weeks ago. The inception of such a program suggested that these types of assignments may become more prevalent in schools.
Already, “2,000 parents and educators have already signed up for PREP,” Craig Strazzeri, chief marketing officer of PragerU, said in an email to HuffPost.
“We constantly hear from educators and teachers who use our videos in the classroom,” Strazzeri said. He declined to disclose how many public school teachers specifically joined the new program. “Ideally, every school in America would show PragerU videos in the classroom on a regular basis to help educate the next generation.
”PragerU started the PREP program in response to COVID-19-related school shutdowns, which “forced us to take a closer look at what is being taught and not taught across the country,” said Adrienne Johnson, PragerU’s chief of staff and lead of the PREP platform, in a video interview with conservative news channel One America News Network. “America is not being fairly portrayed.
If your teacher seriously assigns you a PragerU video please dunk of their ass so hard
Hi, social studies teacher here: if your teacher assigns you one of these videos in any context except for the following, drag them to hell. Call your principal, sure, but also. Ruin them on twitter. Make it a big public stink the whole district has to scramble to hush up. Complain to your local news if you have to. Complain to the ACLU– they have a whooooole department on education. Make that teacher a liability to the school. See how fast their shit changes.
Now, exceptions include:
- you are studying propaganda and these videos are an example of such
- you are studying conservatism (alone or as compared to other ideology) and the videos are a case study in alt right thought
- you’re studying things like media literacy and critical media consumption and this is one of the examples you have to deconstruct
- you’re making comparisons between the message of the videos and other messages in history and whether they’re coming from the same root
- basically ask “am I being given this video to inform me or have I been given this video to analyze?” and if the answer is inform, as in your teacher is using this shit as part of introducing new info, FUCK that. Drag them to hell. This shit cannot be used as direct instruction. But if the answer is “critically analyze the video” or “the video is an example of something really happening that we are learning about” then that’s actually very useful to you to learn because it will help you identify this thinking when you see it and understand how conservatives you’re up against are coming to their conclusions.
Basically, videos like this are only good for studying the alt right like the wacked out, neurotic, inbred lab rats that they are at heart. Teachers trying to use them as factual direct instruction need to get as fucked as possible as soon as possible.
Don’t forget, public school teachers are *~*strictly prohibited*~* from anything that might be deemed political indoctrination. If your teacher tries to use PragerU as a legitimate, credible source that you should parrot all your opinions from, DRAG. THEM. AND. THE. DISTRICT. THROUGH. THE. MUD.
i wholeheartedly support anyone who, should their school do this or they find out of any other school that does, decides to drag any offending staff into the attention of any and all ethics boards and courts that apply therye already facing some legal action and im in favor of them having to face more, as many as possible, preferably untill their wallet bleeds to death
because theyre VERY open about saying greed is good and should be as unregulated as possible, college education ‘reduces diversity’ by teaching people to consider cultures outside their own, is openly islamiphobic and claims thats the only way to be logical and free thinking is to hate muslums and keep overtly racist depictions of all minorities in all media, is openly in favor of fascism not even hiding it as patriotism just openly trying to say nationalism is good, and says that yes cops should be gunning down brown people for being ‘suspicious’
its that blend of propaganda brainrot while being an open fraud because its masquerading as an educational medium while pulling ‘facts’ out of its ass in the most shameless and blatant ways possible
thinking about my optometrist who was treating my eye infection and said “if it hurts, you can rinse your eye with boiled water. look at me - look at me. i want you to understand that i mean water that has been boiled and has since cooled down. not boiling water. do you understand?” like i’m so grateful for this man ensuring that I wouldn’t destroy my eyes by pouring boiling water in it, because it is an adequate assessment of my intelligence
"I loved her to the point of invention" is extremely fucking raw and I adore it.
I remember in my Arabic class we were going over the alphabet and the teacher was like there’s no ‘P’ etc and this white girl was like wait what but my names Paige and my teacher was like lol then we’d pronounce it as beige and she was so offended I’m crying thinking about it
One of my mom’s friends, Hugh, went to France and they had a lot of trouble pronouncing his name because the entire thing was silent.
salut je m'appelle [REDACTED]
lol when I lived in France my host family had a friend names Hugh. We saw him and his family a lot.
They pronounced it “oog” and I didn’t know until the day before I left France that his name was Hugh. I just thought he had some weird caveman nickname 😭
that is hands down the funniest addition to this post
thinking of taking this even if i havent lost mine yet but im so scared to feel attacked by the result that will probably say “never”
This was right on the money for me 😲
I’m terrified they got it right
Dang that was cool
I don’t like that this was right. What the heck
I was skeptical, but it was right.
it was right…. I’m-
It was way wrong
“Deleted my weather app because there’s a guy in my office that always tells me anyway and the app never asks me how my weekend was. Shout out Bill, my weekend was awesome man thanks for asking.”
I lost my shit over a pen today like holy shit
You don't understand. It was a 7 function pen!
Someone stole my fucking 7 function pen.
7 FUNCTION PEN HAS RETURNED
@fanotastic what are the functions?
1. It's a pen
2. A mini ruler
3. A level
4. A stylus
5. A FLATHEAD
6. A PHILLIPS HEAD
okay i will bite what is the seventh
7. The backbone of society
hi first I love your blog and second I'm just wondering if you have any gift ideas? its for my boyfriend but nothing expensive please thank you
PSA!!
so i got this keychain from them awhile back and i totally recommend the quality
and as avengers and game of thrones is approaching i thought ill definitely buy more
and THEY’RE OFFERING FREE SHIPPING
not sure how long it’ll be tho but im definitely buying groot and drogon
So like the links are fake.
y’all i’m impulsively looking at houses I could reasonably afford and like look at this thing
it’s so fuckin??? small??
and then it’s got this weird deck
and it is???? very green inside???
i don’t even know what kind of room this is meant to be
I think this may be the kitchen but like… why are both the ceiling and walls bulging mysteriously
CURSED VERY RED NARROW ROOM WITH SINGLE CHEST HIGH OUTLET SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER
and it’s got a lovely view of…
INDUSTRIAL WASTELAND
Throwback to my favorite house in Pittsburgh
Everyone commenting on this house like “omg I love it I want to live there” every other house in Pittsburgh looks like this just move here idk
i'm losing my mind @ this thread......historie......
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abusive parents will go off about how expensive it is to keep you around and how they have no money and what a fucking burden you are and they don’t see the irony?
dude. you MADE me. what the fuck were you thinking. stupid idiot loser. go back to that moment and don’t have sex. problem fucking solved. what the fuck do you expect me to do, die now that you decided having kids is inconvenient? wow. maybe you should have thought this thru.
when my mom says this shit to me i typically reply “well if kids are so expensive then you should have had an abortion” to which she replies “but i wanted you” and i say “then you made this choice, you did this to yourself. its not my fault you made a bad financial decision” and then she gets so mad that she refuses to speak to me for a while. she hasnt brought this up in over 2 months now.
in the same vein: don’t fuck your kids up and then complain about all the money you’re spending on therapy
Still blows my mind how quickly capitalism self-destructed streaming tv
Like netflix rejuvenated a dying market and made it way more afforadable and accessible, and then... everyone needed a slice of the pie and fucked the whole thing up
Incredible
An actual genius: What if we made television convenient and inexpensive again?
Corporations: What if we milked this money cow until it fucking DIED
must have been easier to be alive before news traveled so fast and you were only ever aware of a handful of tragedies instead of thousands and thousands of them being delivered to you on a daily basis. why is there even a question of why our generation is so depressed and anxious like I’ll tell you why?? everything i read breaks my heart and my capacity to empathize and be outraged is absolutely maxed out. yeah i’m sad bitch! we’re all sad! there’s no relief!
Derek Venturi proposed to Casey McDonald 3 times.
The first time was after finals the first year of college, Casey had helped him study. He could have lost his hockey scholarship without her help. He got 80% or high on all of his exams. Except english, he got a 79%. In his excitement he spun Casey in a hug and said “marry me, woman! I need you in my life!” - they awkwardly brushed it off.
The second time was Junior year at Queens. They had been living together in their own apartment since the summer after freshman year. There was a snow storm and they couldn’t make it home for the holidays. Casey made a feast while Derek shoveling the sidewalk (he volunteered because he was stir crazy). He came in to the smell of ham, mac and cheese, steam veggies, Christmas cookies, and fudge. And to the sight do Casey in a cute dress setting the table. She turned to him and said “Happy Derekus!” With that big smile of hers. “Marry me.” He whispered. She heard and smiled. She gave him a hug around the neck and kissed his cheek.
The third time was at the end of senior year. They were are the Blue Heron Lodge. It was a warm summer night they were stargazing by the lake nearby the cabin their family was in. Laying next to each other. Holding hands.
“Beautiful.” Derek half whispered, staring at Casey’s profile as she looked at the sky.
“It is isn’t it. We don’t get this view in the city.” Casey lamented, sighing contently.
“I wasn’t talking about the sky.”
Derek propped himself up on his elbow and leaned over to kiss Casey. Then he sat her up, and got on his knee. He reached into his jacket pocket.
Derek pulled out a small box. He opened it.
“Casey McDonald, will you marry me?”
Tears welled up in her eyes and Derek panicked “no! Don’t cry! I’m sorry! Don’t feel pressured! No tears please!”
“Derek you idiot! These are happy tears! Yes! Yes I’ll marry you! I love you!”
