rightwingers trying to get garbage PragerU into Arizona classrooms

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

A member of the Chandler Unified School District Governing Board is pushing for materials from the conservative PragerU Kids to be available for use in CUSD classrooms.

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“I would probably prefer, in schools, we try to stay away from political issues as much as we can,” Kurt Rohrs said. “But it does come up, and if it does come up and there’s a discussion in class, my view is that there has to be equal weight given to both sides, because we’re trying to teach our kids to think critically.”

PragerU Kids was started by conservative radio host Dennis Prager as part of Prager University. It has been adopted for use in at least five states.

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Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne placed videos from PragerU Kids on the state Department of Education’s website. He said because Arizona is a local control state, he can’t force school districts to use them. However, he is urging them to do so.

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Rohrs has asked district officials to place a debate on using PragerU Kids materials in classrooms on a future agenda. He said it would balance out some left-leaning teaching he claims is already in schools.

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“PragerU is not an approved supplementary resource in the Chandler Unified School District.”

Rohrs, who identifies with the parental rights movement in school boards, is often in the minority of CUSD Governing Board’s votes and it may not be possible for him to get his colleagues to approve allowing PragerU Kids materials in CUSD schools this year.

However, it is an election year and there are three seats available in November’s election. Parental rights candidates would only need to win two of those three to take the majority. At least three parental rights candidates have filed a statement of interest in running.

https://www.chandlernews.com/arizonan/citynews/chandler-unified-board-member-pushes-prager-u-videos/article_62a70866-ee08-11ee-8248-ab0311d704f5.html

[keithbvadu2]

1. The Prager folks want to get into the classrooms.

The PragerU goal: "Indoctrinate kids at a young age into a far-right belief system"
"far-right belief system"

Christian moral lessons from Dennis Prager... Masturbating To Animated Child Porn

Dennis Prager: What's Wrong With Masturbating To Child Porn?

This is the guy providing “educational resources” to Florida’s children.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218172133

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017854024

Apparently, a pedophiliac is A-OK at PragerU, so long as you’re a conservative. Good to know.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/dennis-prager-whats-wrong-masturbating

[Midnight Writer]

2. Heard a bit of Prager on the radio the other day explaining how God created men

to be stronger than women and created women to be the men's "helper".

A worthy message to teach our children in taxpayer funded public schools. Worthy, that is, if you are a loon who uses religion to justify his bigotry and ignorance.

You can learn the entire Prager science curriculum in 10 seconds. Spoiler Alert: it is "Because God Says So!"

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. he's got a thing about women. says women are disportionately the cause of bad stuff.

does a lot of shows about how it's more important for women to be attractive. Doesn't like women focusing on their careers. Doesn't like women having multiple sex partners. Practically every life venue... anti woman. because "its our nature!!".

Lots of religious justification for keeping women down.. "god is male, blah blah". He's cut back on his radio hours.. I think we'll soon be rid of his misogyny.