Florida approves conservative group PragerU’s content for classroom use
Florida approves conservative group PragerU’s content for classroom use
Controversial conservative nonprofit PragerU sparks debate as it becomes the first state-approved educational vendor in Florida, raising concerns about its impact on students' education.
Not surprised. Prager U has been gunning for their propaganda becoming official school curricula for years. It was obvious from the start with their bad info-graphics style and the fact they have been pushing their channel on children for years with the help of YouTube's algorithm. Fascists aren't satisfied with keeping their politics to themselves, they want to forcefully indoctrinate your children behind your back in the classroom.
It's time parents push back. Teachers need to strike. Students need to strike. Parents need to demand en-masse that this be removed from the curriculum or they will remove their children from the school. This is unacceptable.
Over the next 10 years it will be increasingly difficult for young Floridians to qualify for hire in jobs outside of Florida as their lack of educational qualifications become apparent.
Just for the record - I feel I have to mention that the history "education" I received under the fucking Apartheid-regime managed to be marginally better than the garbage you get from PragerU.
whatever happened to a parents choice over what their kid is taught? oh right they were being hypocritical once again.
DeSantis also signed a huge voucher expansion, so parents can choose to take their kids somewhere else if they don't like what's taught at their local school. Here's more info about school choice in Florida.
I don't live there, so I can't give any practical experience with it, but I do send my kid to a tax-funded charter school because our local school sucked at the time (has since improved, probably because so many in my area opted out of the local school and they changed the leadership).
If I lived in Florida, I would strongly consider moving my kids to a different school if I disagreed with the curriculum. But I'd need to inspect the curriculum first.
I've watched one of their videos before on why all of Israel rightfully belonged to the Jews and almost had to vomit that they deign to call themselves a university at all.
I feel like that is too on the nose. Prague U and related media is just propaganda and alternative history. I suppose some of it is close to what is already being taught for some parts of US history.
Sad. You could just get rid of schools instead of this farce.
That serves the fascists' interests, too!
Are you fuckin' kidding me Florida?
Clown world.
I just got a place in Florida in order to have something to do after work when the weather sucks in Wyoming. It's naturally nice here and I hope liberals don't give up and let the fascists have it without a fight. At the moment this place is hostile to people with a uterus, people who aren't CIS-gender, black people (latin seems to be fine), and children. In fact, the state is most hostile to children.
Maybe move to Canada, it should have Georgias weather in the few years 😔