Right-Wing Videos With Titles Like 'The Ferguson Lie' Taught at Ohio High School

[demmiblue]

A public high school in Ohio has been giving students extra credit for watching videos from PragerU, an organization that features such intellectual titans as *checks notes* Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens.

Yeah, that’s gonna be a big “YUCK,” for me, b. Not a normal yuck either, a Pusha-T yuck. A “yuuugh,” if you will.

A report from Huffington Post found that the videos were assigned to a 10th-grade history class at Maumee High School. The assignments included questions on what the videos’ “most important messages” are. Videos assigned to the students included such hits as “Build the Wall,” “Why the Right Was Right,” and of course, “The Left Ruins Everything.” A look at the teacher’s class website reveals that she assigned the videos last year, as well.

Andrea Cutway, the mother of 16-year-old student Avery Lewis, was understandably heated when she realized what her daughter was being taught. She pulled her daughter out of the class, contacted the school principal to see who approved the assignment, and inquired if the students were given any proper context for the videos.

“It’s ALT RIGHT propaganda,” Cutway wrote in an email to the school principal. “If you Google PragerU and spend a few minutes scrolling, you will see that this site is controversial at best.”

https://www.theroot.com/right-wing-videos-with-titles-like-the-ferguson-lie-t-1845428717

[maxsolomon]

1. Holy fuck. 10th grade history is the only required civics class, IIRC.

"US History and Government".

Give extra credit for reading 1619 or Zinn's People's History - it's all true.

That teacher is a RW crank.

[CrispyQ]

2. The right is insidious.

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." ~Karl Rove

Their attack on public education started back in the 80s as they filled positions on Boards of Education across the country with right wingers, while our side was running as fast & as far as they could from the word liberal. The right has been playing the long game & our side has been in reaction mode. I hope this dumpster fire of a mess we're in now has got everyone properly woke. Although I read a few days ago that Biden will consider repub cabinet members? Not sure if the story was current, but really, Biden? Has he learned nothing about the current crop of repubs? I will vote for him no matter what, but this is what I feared, that our side will once again reach across the aisle in an effort to heal the nation. Which will be futile, just like last time, until we address the right wing media machine that spews hate across rural America. Our side has ignored this for 40 years & we still do. The hate's not going away just cuz Trump does.