PragerU Kids Director of Outreach and host of PragerU’s NEW short documentary “Miseducated,” Jill Simonian, is joined by Amala Ekpunobi to discuss the decline of public school enrollment in America as homeschooling explodes.
what's up hi everybody it's tuesday jill
simonian here from prageru kids listen i
skipped last week because truth be told
i was taking my children
to a brand new school i pop in here to
talk about schools and the state of the
education system and our kids and what
we're doing at prageru to course correct
and try to rectify all of the
garbage that's happening in our school
so yeah i skipped last week and i'm back
this week and i'm here talking with
amela hi
she's always here i appreciate you so
much she gives you know she gives me uh
youthful energy and brains i like to say
okay so we always like to say welcome
check in remember to check out prageru
kids because we've got all sorts of new
offerings for children k through 12.
become a member of our prep group if
you're concerned about what's happening
in education but amela i want to talk
about this headline that we have here
because this is something now this
article is from
the journal
and
technically it was posted it was posted
a few weeks ago but the headline to me
signifies a serious reckoning
that is happening in our education
system that we at u have been talking
about for a long time
public schools lost 1.1 million students
k through 12
last year
right and we can pull up the article
and now we are truly seeing the effects
of the lockdowns the zoom classrooms
using that word very loosely classrooms
we're seeing the effects of
indoctrination happening on our
children's
computer screens
through their quote unquote classrooms
in real time we're seeing a reckoning
and parents are pulling their children
out of public schools
did you go to public school home school
private school did you went to public
school you went to public school i went
to public school too
this is you know it's it's funny because
i always start these very happy and
smiling and peppy and we're going to
talk about the state of education but
this is actually very very heartbreaking
as a parent
this
is so heartbreaking to me that i
constantly find it difficult to
articulate if there are parents that are
watching us right now leave your
comments many of the parents who are
fans of ours are in fact homeschoolers
and have been homeschoolers for a very
long time and all you all saw this
coming right we all know that you all
most of you saw this coming um in our
prep membership group
our members have seen this coming for
decades i want to skip to the next
article okay from and it's from barry
weiss's sub stack right yeah barry weiss
we're always using barry wise here isn't
she great she is great she's fantastic
okay so this one five
million students now in homeschooling
yeah not surprising at all not the side
of our education system yeah the number
of kids going to school at home has
doubled in 2019 there were 2.5 million
homeschoolers now there's 5 million
homeschoolers homeschool applications
are up in vermont they're up by 75
percent in california the amount of
homeschool applications has tripled this
past year this is because of masks
mandates dei garbage
also a lot of people on the other side
in the article barry describes that a
lot of people have been nervous about
kovid as well so it's sort of a perfect
storm um do we see this as a positive or
negative thing
i see it somewhat as a positive i think
as conservatives we've been talking
about how schools need to function more
on the the free market end of things
with school choice and i think we're
finally seeing it shift that way with
parents actually making the choice to
leave a school that is not serving them
for so long we've just been giving our
money to the government letting them
give us substandard education and now
parents aren't taking it anymore and
they're taking it into their own hands
and i think soon enough the education
system will adjust to that change i
certainly hope you're right from the
bottom of my heart and you know just
like i said i
the last two weeks i
pulled the plug at my children's school
we were in a public school district that
we moved specifically
into the neighborhood to be able to
attend
i mean top of the line public school
district very sought after very you know
great reputation had a wonderful
education experience from when my kids
were in kindergarten through third grade
everything crashed and burned on all
levels and this was a very emotional
thing for me to do personally as a
parent this was
the hardest hardest thing i think i have
ever had to do was to pull my kids out
of public school and say you know what i
have to you know we've heard we're all
fans of candace owensner we've heard
candace owens in our scroll in our
facebook feed we've seen her video
saying take your children out of these
indoctrination camps
and that's what i decided to do and it
was the scariest thing but i tell you i
don't regret it if there are parents who
have pulled their kids from their public
school or private school i want to hear
from you i want to hear if you're okay i
want to hear what you're doing uh i want
to hear how you're feeling about it um
this is something very very real that's
happening are there any comments yeah
we've got a few um parents who've
commented seth taylor says i homeschool
my kids best decision we ever made scott
rhoden says we pulled our six and
seven-year-olds out out and are now
homeschooling pam who's
o-u-z-t-s uh says i live in california
and now homeschool my high school son
tired of all the requirements and
indoctrination that i am not allowed to
see i can see now in home school exactly
exactly and that's where we're all at
and so my point in bringing this up is
i know how scary it is as a mom
and i know what's happening on a deep
level because of my work here with all
of you at prageru
but we're not alone and that's one thing
that we constantly constantly just want
to remind everyone all of our prageru
kids members of prep we are not alone
our membership now is almost to sixteen
thousand guys
okay amazing
all of our we know that all of our kids
videos k through 12 are free on our
website prageru.com kids everything is
free for our children to watch to
celebrate america to learn our history
to course correct the indoctrination
that's happening in our schools on an
entertaining educational level
but we are not alone and and i
can
from the bottom of my heart say that i
got the courage to take back my own
children's education and to pull them
out of school
from our prep group
so if any of you guys are prep members
watching
you have been virtually holding my hand
through this and we are not alone and we
can do this and we can be strong and we
can take back our children's education
um i mentioned
that i
have learned about what's going on a
deeper level we have a new short
documentary coming out yep it's called
miseducated
and many of you may have already seen
this trailer floating on our prageru
social media pages there's a rotten
apple on it
[Laughter]
fair enough
i know i know listen i'm not i'm very
torn about this there's a rotten apple
this i i want to explain this rotten
apple
our documentary reveals many
scary disappointing and unfortunate
truths that are happening in our
education system right now public school
and private schools this is not an
attack on teachers
i want to be very clear we have almost
20 percent of our members in prep our
teachers we love our teachers who are
right-minded and who know what's
important and want to educate our kids
but miseducated really pulls the veil
back and shows us in a nutshell
the critical race theory that's being
injected into our schools the sex
education that is no longer based on
biology or science and also the uh his
the revisionist history that many
teachers are being bullied
into
teaching students have you have you
watched the trailer yes i have okay so
you and i are gonna have a watch party
tomorrow yes we are tell me what we're
doing so we're watching uh the the mini
dock itself live on will and amla live
so you can check that out at 2 30 pst on
prageru's youtube and facebook so come
and join us to actually watch the full
documentary okay can we watch the trail
there's famous people in this in this
mini dock you guys yeah we call it a
mini dock in-house here i know the
technical term is short documentary
there's famous people let's watch the
trailer right now and see if you
recognize any of them okay ideology and
these lessons are poison for all kids
the design of this is to put into the
minds of kids as young as kindergarten
that you are not like him he is not like
her all of these things are designed to
divide you the system set up to where if
you're teaching anything about gender
identity that you don't even have to
notify parents when it's being taught
parents have no idea and they don't know
how radically the sex ed has changed
here in america our kids are taught
divisive racial ideologies skewed
history and a new kind of sex education
that robs them of their innocence
this is the miseducation of our children
[Music]
there we go coming soon okay so name the
famous people chris christopher
and he's actually going to be on our
show today will alive 2 30 pst we're
interviewing him in just a bit let me
tell you he is
so smart fantastic
i
was talking to him uh obviously for this
for this documentary and he went into
the depths of why this is happening in
our schools and we've talked about this
all of us you know on camera and off
camera how everything how all of this is
rooted in marxism and it just seems so
preposterous like why would you do this
at school but he really
he got to the nuts and bolts of why this
is happening in the schools and he talks
about it in this short documentary the
other woman who you saw featured is
brenda lebsack and she is a california
mom she was on the school board in one
of the school boards in southern
california i believe it was the city of
orange she was on the school board and
she has been an advocate for kids
specifically centered around the type of
sex education and dare i say abusive
gender
uh fluidity policies that are are being
forced onto children she's been a child
advocate and she is she's a teacher as
well uh so we talked to her and we
really created a bridge of of why
all of these
far-fetched concepts are being included
in schools and so it's really uh it's
really it's we're really proud of this
short documentary so i'm looking forward
to watching it with you and we'll talk
more about it absolutely because i don't
want to give everything away right now
and we'll talk about it and will will be
here too will we'll be here too
okay so join us join us join us um
that's all i just wanted to say hi i
wanted to pop in i wanted to say we are
not alone look at the reckoning that's
happening in education we want everyone
to watch this miseducated short
documentary share it far and wide know
that
we do as parents and teachers have the
power to take back and course correct
our kids education system
and spread the word join prageru kids
prep membership and become a part of our
army in rectifying what is what has gone
so very very wrong but we're hopeful
that with more eyes open things will
become a little bit more right right
absolutely yay thank you
any comments
yeah we have a few more just a quick
shout out to wjfk says i've been setting
up a list of prageru videos along with
others to show my son who is almost
finished with school and i allowed him
to stay but only if he promised to
listen to the truth
kelly diane says i'm a mom has been
protesting at school boards we have to
have people stand up i don't know how
long my kids will be in public school
rod says i recently got a prager
children's book from my nephew right on
thank you um omni luck says i'm a member
of multiple homeschool groups and
parents are taking back their children
from the establishment so so many
awesome comments and thank you all for
engaging we love hearing your stories
and it's great to see parents rising up
and being involved in their children's
education it really is and for the mom
that said she was the one going to
school board meetings she didn't know
how much longer her kids were going to
be in public
education i'm with you that was me that
was me that was me keep going i'm still
going and i will say even though i
pulled my kids out i will still be going
to the school board meetings in my
district
we can continue to fight but we can also
remove our children from the front lines
because that's how our voices are heard
as well if we're able to do it okay i'm
going to sign off i'm going to say
goodbye join will and amela and moi
tomorrow 2 30 p.m pacific for the watch
party miss educated go to prageru.com
kids and our new episode of autos tales
is up it's called a wolf in sheep's
clothing teaching our youngest learners
that looks can be deceiving a very good
lesson for all of us that some adults
can benefit from too right
yes all right have a great day you all
thank you all maleficent of course bye
guys bye