Teachers aren’t ‘trying to push an agenda.’ They’re ‘trying to survive,’ sociologist says

[@davidlickiss1609]

He's actually advocating for lying. He wants to leave all the painful parts of history out of his poor little mind

[@kevinhay7073]

Walters is a total nut.He's one of the guys claiming that there were catboxes in schools because of woke teachers.

[@jeffreysiegel8890]

Yes. He is a nut. But he’s dangerous because he seems to be sincere in his beliefs while completely blind to the ramifications of the actions he has taken.

[@mlester3001]

Ryan Walters is opposed to exposing grade school students to pornographic literature. If that is "nuts", then I and half the nation is nuts too, and proud of it, I might add.

[@amandadexter1689]

​@@mlester3001 I do not know a single case where an elementary school library has provided or pushed pornographic material onto young students. It just doesn't happen.

[@TheRobinbentley1]

Obviously, 2 of these people have NO IDEA what REALLY goes on in the public schools and colleges!! → PragerU or No Prager... They are clueless! 🙄 The lady isn't being honest with anyone.

[@kevinhay7073]

@@GinaRuth That is a flat out lie.They keep buckets of cat litter incase of a lock down that might last for hours.You nitwits will believe anything as long as it's stupid and/or is insane.

[@ziziroberts8041]

Teachers aren't pushing the agenda. They're leaving the profession. Good night and good luck, USA.

[@charlesphoenix4383]

As an urban middle school history teacher. I don't spend my time trying to push an agenda. Most of the kids I teach are still sorting out their lives. 6th grade is what I teach. I work in one of the largest school districts in the country. It is no cakewalk. I spend more time dealing with the lack of communication and consistency from the administration. The lack of parental participation, child classroom engagement, and behavior. Oh, don't forget the parent. Many parents barely help the kids with their work. I call, call, and call. I can't get a response, but please don't let Little Darren get into a fight, which he started. All of a sudden, they are on campus stating that the teacher and administration are problem. Then, there are physical threats that we must contend with. I can go on. Agenda??? Agenda... make sure they learn what they can,prepare them for the future, that they are in a welcome environment, 504, IEP, for the special needs kids are met. That's our agenda. Keep building relationships. Never give up on any young soul. We exhaust ourselves trying to be the best for our kids and the community, yet somehow we are caught in the cross hairs of these people.

[@VivekSmith]

How about PragerU? Any opinion on the topic of Chuck Todd's interview?

[@skylark1250]

I think teachers deserve respect. Republicans hate teachers because they get summers off. But I’ve never met a teacher who didn’t work summers too preparing lessons for the fall. Teachers aren’t “indoctrinating” Young people. They are helping them develop critical thinking and that’s what scares Republican parents. When you figure out what’s true and what’s a lie you invariably become more liberal. That’s what Republicans hate, becoming irrelevant. Which they already are.

[@mikekidwell7831]

I see you REALLY care about the lives of TEACHERS and STUDENTS and PARENTS. That is why you ask about a business PRAGERU first. Seek first to understand!

[@charlesphoenix4383]

@mikekidwell7831 I will do so. I actually stopped listening prior to that part of the segment. Thank you Sir.

[@ShawnPatton-rm2hv]

Thank you for doing the hard work and for the sacrifices that you’ve made.

[@billmiller9145]

That male guest had not one example. He literally quoted tik tok as his source of proof. Tells you all you need to know

[@AuntyEm]

The dude is as incompetent and phony as they come. He came into office last year and has only used his position to elevate his image and gain legitimacy with conservatives. Has not done one productive thing. I hate him so much.

[@ChandraShaw]

And yet these folks have put him in a position of power! 🥲

[@hkandm4s23]

Yep. He literally hired an out of state Twitter troll with no experience to determine what books should be in our libraries. I'm homeschooling my kids until he's gone.

[@nuriko455]

She has so many educated and well said point to conter all his basic and very one view points

[@lorettanericcio-bohlman567]

Separating church and state was SUCH a good idea. Not going back to the Handmaids Tale. Curriculum already coming out of Texas for the entire country. That’s right wing enough

[@Phoenix-in-flight]

Faith is a belief and has no place in scientific governance or factual school education.

[@rush4120]

Didn't they have it in the beginning of the institution

[@maxpayne7419]

PragerU sounds like poison.

[@matthewsuleski6565]

The videos are great

[@Sampson-w3n]

It's for dumb people.

[@jimcates4114]

With the very first words out of his mouth, it quickly became clear he was an extremist. This is why I don’t live in Oklahoma, I guess.

[@margaretmcnamee6411]

This Superintendent is a right wing propagandist. The goal should be supporting teachers to teach kids how to think . Most teachers are just trying to get the kids to read, write and develop math skills.

[@MahsaAmini-vc3de]

At the same time parents have a right their kids not hear the gibberish such as "women can have penises" These are the type of the left-wing propaganda our sociologist lady doesnt care to address.

[@AlbertGuilmont]

Correction: he is an *Arian* right wing propagandist.

[@HanzouTooRi]

It is evident who is educated in this contrast by their words. The dude here wreaks of conspiracy theories without evidence, and the lady is more constructive with her response and encourages critical thinking.

[@rickmeyers3241]

nostalgia for a past that never really existed...

[@kensheck2049]

Bingo.

[@lenrey4376]

How about supporting teachers instead of making them political boogiemen?

[@Mike-or3ry]

Randy is why.

[@spankyssurprise1361]

How about teachers stay out of politics then.

[@L._Diaz]

​​@@spankyssurprise1361 Teachers don't teach their students their own personal "politics."😂 There freakin isn't any time for that!!😂

[@spankyssurprise1361]

@@L._Diaz Lol...my brother and sister in law are both teachers...yes they do and they have plenty of time.

[@TheNesbittExperience]

The gender stuff behaves as a religion and I had to get out. Taught in hartford with no union so I lost it all. Systems broken. Turn it over to military.

[@HikerBiker]

One reason for the teachers shortage is due to the lack of respect in schools anymore.

[@kenlandon6130]

Sure, but its mostly the money. Doctors have to deal with drug seeking patients, violent patients, and disrespectful patients all the time, yet the shortage of doctors is not nearly as bad as the teacher shortage.

[@ABDULAHAD-ol5lb]

Parents are the only teachers in children's lives. Those you call teacher we call them 'Educational Worker '. Thank you

[@Will-wb6nk]

In most cases it's the school board limiting disciplinary action of their schools, not the government. Ffs it's still legal to paddle in my state, yet the schools in Colorado Springs ASD20 doesn't allow teachers to discipline students for nonviolent offenses, such as disrespectful and disruptive conduct in class. That's your problem right there! Coming from Texas, teachers could send anybody to the principal's office for really any reason. Here it's a fight to get disciplinary action when it's actually necessary. And I'd like to clarify this is just ASD20 of Colorado Springs, not all Colorado schools are like this

[@Eniral441]

​@@Will-wb6nkthis is what makes teaching impossible. It starts slowly until you have entire classrooms of disruptive kids. This can eventually turn violent. I've had students think it was hillarious going after other students and myself with super sharpened pencils. I've been beaten in the halls by a student who got in trouble in my class (concussion front and back). The parent said it wasn't her kid's fault and that the teacher, me, shouldn't have provoked him by enforcing discipline in the classroom because "she ain't the boss of my child".

[@coopie8806]

America was founded on human values… not Judeo-Christian values… that’s the whole point of the enlightenment period that shaped the minds of our Founding Fathers… secular civil government. When every other nation still had a priest as head of state, the Founding Fathers chose to separate religion from statehood. That’s not what these politicians are trying to teach our children.

[@NopeUghUghAbsolutelyNot]

I waited the whole segment for him to claim the founding fathers formed this place around Christianity. I thought we were gonna make it

[@jonathandufern7421]

Me too HAHA@@NopeUghUghAbsolutelyNot

[@cheechwizard6541]

America was founded on theft, genocide, and slavery. That’s it.

[@karenm7857]

​@@NopeUghUghAbsolutelyNot He generally says that every time he speaks.

[@danielt63]

Where is the PragerU video about the Tulsa race riots? I'd like to see that...

[@TyrantsAlwaysPerish]

You know it's not ever gonna be made ... anything that make the white male patriarchal structure look bad is facts they don't want focused on

[@Eniral441]

As a historian I have a problem with most of their videos... particularly the one on slavery. I thought the Southern curriculums created by the United Daughters of the Confederacy were bad, this was so much worse. They are full of people picking and choosing the factual details that support their bias. And many of those details aren't correct either. If there is anyone trying to indoctrinate students, it Prager U.

[@ray1dad]

As a society we pay are teacher very little yet they spend six hour or more hours a day with our children. Yet we are willing to pay sports stars entertainment stars millions if not hundreds of millions of dollars. This is the choice we have made as a society.

[@cboyer7]

As a college instructor myself, I keep wondering if there will come a day when we hit a tipping point and educators walk out en masse and simply refuse to put up with all the crap anymore. They certainly are not paid enough.

[@Pdf258]

I left teaching because of this BS!

[@Buttercup697]

I left last year! 🥂

[@smkh2890]

No worries, you can just draft in the military : MIAMI, Sept 13 (Reuters) - "So many Florida teachers have abandoned their profession in recent years that the state is inviting military veterans with no prior teaching experience to lead classrooms while they earn education credentials"

[@Pdf258]

Earning a degree while teaching? What a joke.

[@AlejandroRamos-kn5cd]

Haha lmaof Good for you

[@GeorgeK520]

Smart lady!

[@meatlast]

He keeps saying the teachers unions are saying that they are teaching a left wing agenda, but he never says what that is

[@dennismorris7573]

Exactly.

[@singinlow72]

CRT, systemic racism, gender identity. All left wing.

[@d.ingram6264]

And we AREN'T saying that

[@singinlow72]

@@meatlast many school systems do teach a left wing agenda. Gender identity, CRT, etc. Those are left wing ideals

[@ChandraShaw]

@@singinlow72Teaching kids to not treat people badly because of their gender identify isn’t a bad thing. Teaching students the good of our country’s history and also the bad like racist systems and policies isn’t bad. CRT isn’t taught in public schools. Most of the people who talk about it can’t even define it, just like this man couldn’t accurately define Marxism.

[@jdlrockford]

And another thing; The Orange One wouldn’t know a Judeo-Christian value if it bit him on his spray tan.

[@stuartsmith8155]

WOW can you say cult? That guy would drink the cool aid for sure.

[@kirkwagner461]

What I've learned from this conversation: Whenever someone doesn't want you to think, they say "Its just common sense."

[@UprisingConsulting]

This guy sounds like a pull string doll. America great. Columbus was based. Marxist bad. We’ve gotta get back to parents who have zero experience making all the decisions in the field of scholarly curriculum. 😂😂😂

[@mira-qi5kb]

This guy sounds so political and him saying make America great again makes me nauseated.

[@lorrainekopp6504]

3:30 I've seen their videos. We are not all under the religious opinions spell. The right is unconstitutionally passing laws based on their religious opinions. You can't gaslight me, but you can ruin children with it.

[@Gandalf51]

When it comes to history, tell the entire story, warts and all, and let the students make up their own minds about it. The USA's history is peppered with errors in judgement and policy.

[@d.ingram6264]

Amen to that. When I couldn't do that any more here in the South I left a profession I loved.

[@susanne9602]

Okay, she says 'Teachers go to school to become educators".....so why are so many school boards insisting that PARENTS decide the curriculum? Seven years ago, as a teacher, I walked out of a public school board meeting where they were discussing curriculum when the head of the school board declared "All these children need is some JESUS!" Yep, it was Alabama.

[@groovytunes2]

Because the kids Belong to the parents and the school system works for the tax payers.

[@Buttercup697]

Depends on the state.

[@RichardFranklin-t1z]

@@groovytunes2 Generally, public schools are funded with tax dollars. Teachers are employed by school districts to teach the curriculum as established by the government. School administrators supervise the teachers to ensure the curriculum established by the government is being adhered to. Generally, private schools are directly funded by parents snd may receive partial funding from the government. Most teachers work very hard to deliver the approved curriculum. On some rare occasions, a teacher forgets their obligation to follow the curriculum, and this is grounds for disciplinary action.

[@groovytunes2]

@@Buttercup697 so what state thinks they have control of others parents children. Good example of why everyone deserves school choices

[@groovytunes2]

@@RichardFranklin-t1z sorry I just totally Disagree with how you put it. This is exactly why I say everyone deserves choices. I really don't blame most Teachers. I Blame the Union they have. It Has put teachers ahead of the children. So choose the best place you believe is right for your own children 🙏

[@TheCalicohorse]

Every time I listen to American discussions about the schooling system, I become more grateful that I teach high school in Canada. There is no way something like PragerU would be condoned in the public school system here. I doubt any of our private schools would use it either.

[@IMGreg..]

Absurdity and single mindedness should never be accepted. My teachers prepared me with skills to live in a world that exists and evolves, to strive to better it through progress not regression. But yeah, being a Canadian comes with a multitude of benefits Americans will not understand for another 30 years.

[@JesseSauveandfamily]

Southerner Americans are quite racist and believe in magic, religion and the such. So they want to push their outdated ideals onto the youth to get payback on the woke society as they call it. Our country under Republican and maga would be racist, evil, and no longer a free land. The lower educated need to go back to school but won't sadly.

[@Mike-or3ry]

YOU'RE A STATIST.

[@JesseSauveandfamily]

@@Mike-or3ry Do you people just spew words to feel mentally sound? It's just irrelevant noise sadly.

[@portiawilcox3120]

@@JesseSauveandfamily😂😂😂Freak show is over!! Nobody’s buying a word out of you freaks of nature’s mouths!! It’s over!!🎉🎉🎉

[@Sherry-v2r]

Politics have no business in schools, period. Teaches have a difficult job as it is, many children in schools today have parents who have no idea how to parent, many are drug users or have done so in the past. People who live in medium to upper class environments have no idea how the poor live. The majority of people in this country are living paycheck to paycheck and are under tremendous stress. There are many children that are victims of poverty and lack of educated, or caring parents. Something needs to be done to support the teachers who are not getting the respect or the pay they deserve. They cannot be parents, school teaches, and nannies at the same time. Teachers need a break! Almost all teachers are over worked and under paid, that's why many are leaving and many are not choosing teaching as a career.

[@undertow2142]

NBC getting real good at not caring where it’s money comes from.

[@georgerobinson9275]

I know for a fact if Teachers unionized and go on strike, the parents would do anything not to have to deal with their children! They are under appreciated and under paid.

[@OBGynKenobi]

I never had a teacher pushing any political agenda. If you don't like what a school is teaching, home school.

[@Mike-or3ry]

Boy are you gullible.

[@NopeUghUghAbsolutelyNot]

Right, for the most part, discussion broke out from another student saying something and the teacher letting us explore the idea/s.

[@Pdf258]

Or move!!

[@clayoreilly4553]

I suspect that Home Schooling is a large part of the problem. Was the clown in the interview (the State Superintendent) home schooled? Hmmmmm ...

[@NopeUghUghAbsolutelyNot]

@@clayoreilly4553 It kinda is and if studied was prolly even worse in the past. How does someone who never made it past 8th grade teach someone else yrs later? They didnt need education for work and lively hood back then

[@maxpayne7419]

This superintendents political bias is dangerous. He wants to teach kids what to think.

[@dennismorris7573]

However well-intentioned, that will be the likely result.

[@karenm7857]

Actually, he wants to destroy public schools. In Oklahoma, he is succeeding.

[@pageek3487]

OMG, I would never put my child in a public school in that state.

[@allanhwhite.kineticmobiles]

American Exceptionalism? Why not teach the exceptionalism of all humanity?

[@Mike-or3ry]

Reason,freedom and science are OBJEVTIVELY better in the WEST.

[@davidlickiss1609]

Literally the more I watch this the more furious I'm becoming. Anyone who insists that their private money making scheme is the only way forward just wants your money

[@lenoreanderson9514]

She nailed it!

[@kellykramer7629]

That lady was great

[@sailexw6414]

This idea of teaching kids "how to think, and not what to think" sounds good but I have seen it have serious consequences over the last 15 years in my career teaching high school science. It has led to an influx in non-specialized teachers that can create a perfect lesson plan but wouldn't be able to solve a 9th grade math problem.... In Math, Science, History, and English students need to know the FACTS and we need to install subject matter experts if we are going to dig ourselves out of this gigantic academic hole we dug during Covid...

[@daveburrows9876]

Covid didn't help, but this started long, long before Covid. This is just one of the areas Evangelicals are trying to take over because they're loosing ground and support for their ideas. This is about destroying Democracy to make space for the theocracy they really want.

[@sharinaross1865]

It was masking tape before covid.

[@JaneGregory-id4ux]

The idea of teaching kids how to think and not what to think is crucial to the future of humanity. This old-school talking point of kids nowadays can't add 4 and 5, or recite their times tables, or learn the names of presidents is so antiquated, that I say you need to go back to school. We need critical thinkers, not mindless parrots who can regurgitate information. It's 2023. We have computers and smartphones for that. We need critical thinkers to solve society's complex problems

[@amielder]

Don’t blame teachers for the appalling lack of consequences - that is an admin thing.

[@amielder]

And Administrators aren’t connected to teacher’s unions….

[@emmcubed1973]

"I taught that they weren't racist because of the color of their skin. They chose to be racist." Someone put this person in charge of the education of an entire state of children.

[@e.d.3729]

"I want schools to teach American exceptionalism" yet he also claims there's no political agenda. The clearest possible political agenda I've ever heard. He doesn't even know enough to try to conceal that position. Dumb. He's dumb. She unfortunately did not mount a great counter-argument. Good topic. Dumb conversation.

[@FG-hw5ep]

This guy is insinuating that there are no right wing teachers in public schools which is laughable.

[@jgcelliott1]

There were a couple of scandals in recent years alleging that schools were filtering applicants for particular socio-political beliefs. .

[@KPVFarmer]

Teachers and their unions are definitely not pushing a narrative in our WI schools. None of the craziness that is highlighted in the news is actually happening. Teachers sometimes have to tiptoe in handling and teaching the headlines in current events that are brought into the schools based on what they are seeing and hearing outside the school. Teachers are doing a great job teaching how to think and dissect the “news” to pull out facts and get the students back on track to what their lessons are. I’m very proud of our teachers and administrators keeping the arguments that PRAGER U, Moms for America, and other right or left wing groups from making it into the classroom despite the nonsense that is gaslighted and made to seem they are being taught. We are producing critical thinkers for the next generation. Teachers are among the lowest paid while charged with developing our nation’s future!!! 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸

[@Mike-or3ry]

Boy are you gullible.

[@lorrainekopp6504]

Thank goodness someone else sees Prager for what it is.

[@intherockies]

Exactly, the same for my state. Some on the right are just making things up to suit their agenda.

[@johnywhat8601]

So who does the Teacher's Union choose to donate money to?

[@AmericanTeacher-USA]

​@@johnywhat8601 Not every state has a "union" !

[@SB-iy9vn]

As a teacher I will fight against the woke agenda

[@CTRAMSEUR]

I'm a truck driver who has been listening to Dennis Prager for years. Dennis Prager has good points of view,but Dennis at the root is a diehard racists

[@Mike-or3ry]

The KKK is an extension of the DEMOCRATIC party .

[@1962LIBBY]

The zealot is out of his gourd. An Amway salesman at best.

[@QuyenNguyen-s2k]

If you don’t like public schools, go to private school or homeschool.

[@davidolson8537]

Ryan Walters sounds like a Christian Nationalist. Respectful, but a bit embarrassing for a state Superintendent of Schools.

[@sarahdzeima5102]

If I *ever* heard that they're showing my kid PragerU vids at school, I'd pull him out so fast and switch to home schooling so I can make sure he gets a real education instead of their white supremacist agenda.

[@Eniral441]

I had a colleague show one of their videos. The lesson was to write a research paper using reliable and primary sources to show how the video went wrong. Although it was a history class, these same students were also taking statistics and learning about bias in that class.

[@maxpayne7419]

I fully agree teachers should be teaching kids how to think, not what to think. Politics should not be involved in the education system. Educators should stick to the facts, and avoid political ideology and opinion.

[@sorejack]

polotics should in fact be involved in the education system. it should be used to show a wide range of ideas both sane and insane. they should be taught how to get past propaganda and to the truth, and how to make choices that support their values. you cannot do that by putting your head in the sand.

[@Omni0404]

Life isn't that simple. If no politics are allowed can we even teach US history? If school is supposed to prepare kids to be adults they need to learn about these things.

[@teensymarie]

They do teach them how to think, not what to think. The best of our high school students are out there participating in debates competitions where they have to defend whichever side they are given. How do you think they learn to do that?

[@andrewcazarez1308]

Where are all of these parents that are involved in their child’s education? Here in the hood, we can’t even get parents to visit the school much less care about the politics. A major problem is that a lot of parents don’t care. We invite parents to participate with the curriculum! They should be apart of the process, but it’s always a few of the same parents.

[@relicofthesoul]

They want control of education ideas, and money.

[@roots1458]

It's not looking good for the US.

[@JaneGregory-id4ux]

American exeptionlism maintains an ideology that the USA has never done wrong. Until the USA accepts the atrocities executed under the American constitution and flag, there will never be healing. It seems hypocritical to keep maintaining exceptionalism while at the same time denying wrongdoings.

[@Eniral441]

Denial lets us forget. Forgetting increases the chances of rhyming with history to 100%.

[@emilycoley8200]

Well, now you know there's definitely an agenda.

[@daveburrows9876]

Right. Theocracy is the agenda.

[@JohnnyPeacenic]

Kids should be learning all thats wrong with the United States. Kids must participate in making America a better country

[@joshx9746]

The reporter made a mistake when he said Prager u has far right views. They have right leaning views. Which we used to call common sense.

[@ohkay7418]

When i worked at an educational publisher texas had a different edition then was sold everywhere else. That was 50 years ago. And here we r

[@born2bwildne744]

This guy is a lost cause. He influences the school system in Oklahoma? Good grief…. Oklahoma is a state to be avoided…..

[@lisapoynter1814]

I'm a democrat. How is this guy lumping us all as "radical leftists? You can tell this guy needs some diversity lessons! Frightening that he's a superintendent... Yikes!

[@RebeccaJackson-e9h]

He said he wanted to teach the kids how to think not what to think, but then when he described how he taught the Tulsa Massacre, he said he told his kids these were evil people doing evil things. I find, when I talk about these sorts of painful incidents, I don't have to tell my kids who is good and bad. We can explore who did what and what their motivations were and what it felt like to live through the incident, and the kids have their own deep-seated sense of fairness and empathy that lets them draw their own conclusions about what they'd like to do more of or differently in their own time. I often argue with kids to challenge the position the child has taken in order to make them consider the opposing viewpoint (even when I agree with the kid) so they can articulate and defend why they believe what they believe. In 30+ years teaching, have yet to witness a classroom where the teacher pushed either Marxist/ socialist economics as the system our kids should want or work for, or the (Marxist?) policy that you should reject your family and the love and authority of your parents. My work goes best when kids and parents and I are all on the same side in a quest for knowledge and self-confidence.

[@maxpayne7419]

PragerU MAGA dude embarrassed himself.

[@neilifill4819]

The country has done great things! It has also done really terrible things. If we start with “American Exceptionalism” and form lessons on that baseline, the instinct will always be to ignore (and sometimes change) the unexceptional things.

[@mikkitanoel5227]

Just listen to what this trio,,this guy is pure unadulterated trump

[@peterharris8471]

That guy's working toward an army of baby brown shirts.

[@bavery6957]

Trump and "the Conservatives" LOVE the uneducated. Prager U: "Here, hold my beer..."

[@anewleaf6847]

Biden and democrats love pedophiles....I'll stay on the rite side .

[@rt-420]

@@anewleaf6847 If you believe that nonsense, please stay there!

[@anewleaf6847]

@@rt-420 it's called reality, I don't expect you to see it threw your blue hair

[@user-qr7ee2cp4y]

Truth hurts

[@edwardhoover3727]

I have seen enough PU to understand that the kids being exposed would come out more stupid than they started. The simple solution to education systems is do what works--and that would beyond question be whatever they are doing in Finland.

[@dionnegreenwood957]

Where is the black history because America is not America without Black people or Indians?

[@karenm7857]

They got rid of any history except white men's history. Tossed out anything about women, Native Americans, Black Americans, any type of "other." It's sickening. Oklahoma House Bill 1775.

[@louisesumrell6331]

Micro management is what frightened, ignorant people do.

[@marktaylor4496]

My parents never participated in school and we were just fine.

[@johnbrowneyes7534]

“GIVE ME ONE THING!” - Rep. Chip Roy GOP: “Ok. Women are now property of the state.”

[@td152]

My problem with this Ryan Walters guy is that his answers to questions are him TELLING YOU a description of what you've seen or heard. How does he know what anyone else has seen or heard? He doesn't present EVIDENCE backing up his statements. It's HIM deciding that whatever is said by the teachers' unions is "left-wing" or "Marxist", yet he gives no examples. Even still, had he given an example, he's unable to demonstrate a wide-spread effort toward an extreme left agenda in the schools. He's also being deliberate using dog-whistle wording in order to shut down the critical thinking ability of any possible far-right listener/viewer. I also find it interesting that he repeatedly says that we should be teaching kids "what makes America great." It's pretty apparent to me why he's using that phrasing, but I could be wrong. What I do know is...the good/great should be taught, but so should the not-so-good/bad. It is the lack of knowledge about events, laws and circumstances that cause people from different environments in America to lack empathy and dehumanize those who don't look like or act like them.

[@warriorscholar41]

Asking the question "what makes America great?" presupposes that America IS great. Let's start by asking IS America great? We rank in the middle on most metrics in the western world. We're 1 of like 3 countries on earth that have the death penalty. We rank 1st in confidence, number of incarcerated citizens, guns owned per capita, and GDP. Does that make us great?

[@maryloue.888]

Input “I hear it from parents all the time” to drive a point. Lol He prefers conservative way of teaching. “Getting back to the basics” is the motto. Liberal Perspective is ALL parts of history. Conservative is only some parts that avoid the tough conversations such as racism.

[@alanking6240]

Most teachers DO have an agenda and they push hard until there is an objection. Liberal teachers are a threat to our children's learning the basic's such as math, reading and writing and science. History is being twisted and I refused to teach this agenda, I wanted to teach true history. I taught history and wanted the students to understand our history, use common sense and critical thinking. You can not teach history without politics because that is what history is But critical thinking is extremely important on this subject. The biggest thing I objected to in school was teaching student's how to protest.

[@nickt.7305]

Agree

[@karenm7857]

Why? Everyone has the right to protest. Shouldn't they know that?

[@jayh1391]

Students should learn how to think but the PragerU teach students what to think. The PragerU follows similar method as communist China.

[@williambarnebee40]

Define "Far left maxist propaganda" cuz it's just teaching history.

[@stupidduck3200]

@@williambarnebee40 You right likes to leave a lot of things out of history, for instance did you MLK was a socialist?

[@williambarnebee40]

@@stupidduck3200 can you define socialist or socialism?

[@meganann3876]

Thank you for having an open, respectful discussion. Fearful for Oklahoma students because bringing parents back to the classroom is homeschooling. Every parent has that right but this superintendent needs to reflect on Unitarian, Benjamin Franklin table talks, … the man even mentions Thomas Jefferson who was not even sworn into Presidency using the Bible. Jefferson even rewrote his own version of the Bible! Lol

[@ericanderson8795]

The tests scores in math have been dropping consistently over the last 20 years. What’s your solution to that? At least this guy is offering an idea instead of just criticism

[@meganann3876]

@@ericanderson8795 Not on mathematicians *edit He never offered any regarding solving a solution. That is critical in mathematics , science, basic engineering. The process of elimination means your presented with ALL possible solutions. Then (my former teachers would be giggling now), and only then can you prove a solution is true. That’s the absolute value. Two solutions should be considered, or three, or whatever exponential value you choose but without all of them you wouldn’t come to a strong conclusion.

[@ericanderson8795]

@@meganann3876 my only point is the previous way mathematics was taught yielded better test scores. Change doesn’t always lead to better results. I was surprised she mentioned that aspect about the math, because the evidence isn’t on her side with regards to how that turned out

[@noelhausler2911]

And Jefferson was living in sin with Sally Hemmings one of his slaves and she was actually a half-sister to Jefferson's white wife Martha. Jefferson's father-in-law slept with Sally's mother.

[@L._Diaz]

​@@ericanderson8795 They changed the way it was taught BECAUSE the test scores were low. Not saying this is working either, bur that is why.

[@stevewilliams3594]

Look to this guys State Oklahoma and their policies. Why are you giving him a platform 😐

[@nickt.7305]

Chuck Todd was antagonistic toward Ryan Walters from Prager U in this discussion while claiming to be open to the viewpoints from both guests. @9:45 He asks Ryan Walters, “So you believe there should be a biased education in this country.” Ryan said nothing to suggest that prior to Chuck’s question. In fact, everything Ryan said suggested that he desired for a more balanced education. The strongest bias in this discussion was found in Chuck’s disingenuous question.

[@4dogs999]

my kids are half Jewish they were raised on the Torah. They won’t be learning the Bible in the school. Do you want unless you want to teach every religion in the school separation of church and state see you at the Supreme Court

[@johncox2589]

I have never hear much Marxism being proposed. Left wing his his boogieman.

[@teensymarie]

America was founded on democracy. That's what made it exceptional. We need to keep our eyes on that ball at all times, if we want to remain exceptional. "American Exceptionalism," the right-wing concept that what makes America exceptional is that we were founded on Judeo-Christian values, is just a fiction used to justify atrocities after the fact. "It's okay because God blessed this country especially." It's outrageous. It couldn't be more obvious that Jesus wants us to face our racism with faith and humility, not with fragility.

[@Sunflowers-Pumpkins]

I’m impressed at the civil discourse between three people who completely disagree with each other.

[@davidhughes254]

Sad. All this superintendent has to offer are right-wing, fear-mongering talking points. It riles up the base but has no actual facts to back it up.

[@pakpala1]

This man using Make America Great Again and What makes America exception is a turn off..

[@louisesumrell6331]

The only constant in life is change. That includes society, forms of government, even language.

[@marvink7969]

This is more than just about perspective. This is about striving to get as close to the truth as possible. This is about seeing the good and the bad in this country, of which there is a lot on both sides, and learning lessons from both. If we only look at the positive accomplishments and ignore or down play the negative we cannot grow as a people and there is little hope for improvement. America adopted the ideals of the enlightenment but at first many of those benefits were restricted and not universally available to all. Over the centuries and with great pain and difficulty we have, to some extent, faced our deficiencies and failures and have made improvements. But in order to fulfill the promise of our founding ideals we have to learn and study our deficiencies along with our successes and only through open debate and discussion can we hope to emerge a better people and a more just society.

[@JesseSauveandfamily]

Agreed 👍

[@rolewis13]

💯

[@Lola-mt1ne]

and...

[@lisapoynter1814]

What does Prager U. Guy even mean by a "left-wing ideology?" He speaks in generalities. What are the specifics that he's talking about?

[@j.e.9017]

This makes me wanna check out pragerU 🥳 🎊 🎉 thanks nbc

[@Gary_Le_Strange]

see, hack "journalists" like Todd have a small amount of usefulness after all.

[@christineshirley4169]

Please,Stop these insane idiots! VOTE blue💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@ivannano]

The problem with Walters' position is in almost every category except military spending, the US is not exceptional.

[@inthevault9603]

If teachers could brainwash and indoctrinate students they wouldn’t waste their time with focusing on CRT or gender identity issues. It would be to get students to be respectful and do their work. 😂

[@Poloprodemocracy]

Do not trust Dennis Praguer!

[@Mike-or3ry]

Trust JOEY B. who SHOWERED with his daughter and sniffs young girls.

[@sandrahildebrand4283]

Ryan Walters seems more politician than educator to me, and a small amount of surfing bears this out.

[@nick87nd]

Everything that guy said is super concerning

[@pmclaughlin4111]

I personally love primary source (and I too have read the Federalist papers..some repeatedly) and I scream at the BS that are PragerU propaganda videos...

[@AlbertMark-nb9zo]

Prager U. Didn't know what it was. Then I saw some videos, especially about the US civil war. Mind numbingly simplistic one sided tripe.

[@marciabradley7660]

I believe people from a different generation are uncomfortable with the amount of information being imparted to children. More doesn’t mean bad, but future generations will evolve differently than my grandparents. The commercials on tv today would horrify my parents. I work closely with youth and I don’t have the luxury of being stagnant and sheltered. My political ideology is concern for the welfare, compassion and safety of all people. As adults we are who children look to for a reality check.

[@Poloprodemocracy]

Counter argue all things Praguer U propaganda

[@jdlrockford]

“The founders believed in a Jude’s-Cristian value set….” What is that: morality based on mysticism? That ignores the basis for America’s true greatness; the establishment of property rights that empowered any citizen to own the land on which they work and live. This gentleman’s claim that he is an educator is like an astrologist claiming to be competent at brain surgery.