PragerU Kids videos include titles like “How To Be a Rational Patriot,” and “How To Be a Victor & Not a Victim.” And in the coming school year, Florida grade school students could be assigned to watch PragerU Kids videos
on the extent of fossil fuels' contribution to climate change. Historian Kevin Kruse went viral on Twitter for fact-checking a PragerU video about why the South predominantly votes Republican , accusing it of"cherry-picking" info. “It’s very important to recognize that these are not educational videos,”
Despite the controversies—or perhaps become of them—the company has significant clout: According to its latestIts sources of funding include 300,000 small donors, according to Streit, who give an average of $45 per year. Children in public schools"are taught to be ashamed of America," claims Jill Simonian, PragerU’s Director of Outreach and a host of several PragerU Kids videos, expressing a commonly held idea among those who argue that curricula focus too much on the worst aspects of the country's past. Simonian recently
PragerU has more than 100 employees and maintains offices in Los Angeles and Florida. Among the staffers producing PragerU Kids videos are former educators turned off by what they perceive as a leftist turn in schools. When asked who comes up with ideas for videos and whether any subject-matter experts are consulted, Simonian declined to provide names.
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