Parent Alert! Selfish Moms & Ed Tech Disasters

There we go. Today is Wednesday, May 13th, 2026. Our big headlines this week. You don't want to miss. Lots to talk about. For one, when does self-care for moms turn into being selfish? And last week's disastrous ed tech data breach is now spawning a renewed interest and movement for kicking big tech out of classrooms. We can only hope. We're going to be talking about Canvas and iReady. Get ready for it on Parent Alert right now. So people have been telling me for years that I am a bad mom and a lazy one too. So here are a few things that I do that make me a bad mom. My daughter was a baby. I did not know her sleep schedule because I was not getting up in the middle of the night. I always slept through the night. I wasn't sure how many times she woke up, how many hours she stayed asleep. That was not my business. That was her father's business. He got up every single night to get her whenever she cried, to feed her, change her diaper. And I would wake up extremely refreshed in the morning. No idea what happened overnight. No idea. No idea what happened overnight. You had no idea what happened with your baby. Okay. So applause for the dad stepping up. Applause for the dad stepping up. Yes. But for this mom, your baby's habits are none of your business. Come on. I could, you know, somebody shared this clip with me and I couldn't let this week go by, especially since last Sunday was Mother's Day. I couldn't let this clip go by without tackling it in some teeny tiny way for today before we get into our big headlines about EdTech data breaches in schools. Welcome to Parent Alert. I'm Jill Simonian from PragerU Kids here every single Wednesday at 10 30 a.m. Pacific Time live streaming. We are live, if you're watching now, on PragerU's Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and X. And of course, later this afternoon, this episode is going to be on our website over at PragerU.com for you to go back and rewatch over and over again at your convenience. So yeah, drop me a comment right now. If you're watching live, tell me where you're watching from and if you haven't already subscribed, PragerUKids.com. Click the subscribe button for educational and entertaining episodes and lessons for kindergarten through 12th grade, standards aligned with national and state standards, history, civics, good character, and financial literacy. OK, touching back on the quick clip from the handle is the son herself on TikTok that we just shared about how her baby's habits are none of her business. I get from mom to mom. I am a big supporter of moms. I don't think I need to say that. Every mom deserves dignity and respect. We are all doing the best we can. Some days are better than others. Yes, yes. I get that, you know, if you if you watch the clip, I get that she's doing the whole you do you mama thing online for hot takes, for clicks, for engagement. It's you know, it's online. Take it with a grain of salt. Right. I fell into that trap myself a few times when I had my family lifestyle blog several years ago, somewhere between my entertainment reporting television career and my career here. I get it. You feel edgy. You feel assertive. It's fun. You're taking back your power as a woman. You're being you're being proactive as a mom. You're stepping into yourself as a as a mother. Let's I get it. I fell into the trap. Let's take another look now, though, at another post from the son herself on TikTok. She shared this again. Someone shared it with me. I couldn't resist. If you're watching, read the text that is overlaid on the video if you can. Let's just roll the clip right now. OK, very, very short. It was like what? Four seconds. Darling little girl, if you missed the text overlay, producer extraordinaire Adam has wonderfully put the text here in larger font so I myself can read it. The text overlay on that adorable video of the little girl with the bubbles says again, posted by the mom. She doesn't know I'm about to send her to her grandparents house for six weeks while I take four vacations without her. OK, ha ha ha. Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle. Taking your power back as a mom. Well, let's start with the positive time with grandparents. Absolutely good. Wonderful, valuable, meaningful. Absolutely. Time with grandparents is good. Taking a breather as a mom. Totally acceptable and encouraged. I myself do it when needed. Right. You do, too. But I ask at one point, does self-care for moms turn into being selfish? At what point is this online self-care for moms narrative performative for attention, for clicks? Is it possible that a young child at the age of I'm going to guess that darling little girl was like four years old. Is it possible that a young child would feel abandoned or experience trauma if a mom is gone for several weeks? Or maybe this mom really isn't serious and she's just looking for clicks and online engagement with her TikTok account. And if that's the case, is it OK for parents to capitalize on getting attention with their child as the butt of the joke for all to see and for all to get a laugh out of? How do we think this little girl might feel if she sees this post years from now? How is she going to feel if she reads the comments years from now? Is she going to feel like, you know, I hate to use the word violated, but is she going to feel like, oh, gosh, mom was making fun of me or these people are laughing at me? It's very, very tempting in this digital age to just casually include little kids in online content that's designed to be snarky for clicks and laughs. That doesn't mean it's OK, in my humble opinion. The last several years have brought this dangerous trend of moms kind of again, I hate to use the word berating their own children in a backhanded and comedic way. It's not OK. It's not OK. I think we have to be very, you know, kind of like, you know, shake up, wake up and, you know, see things clearly as they are. What about what's going online about how, you know, a lot of these moms are sort of pushing their youngest children at the expense of, you know, just to get clicks and laughs. That is how a parent can ultimately break the trust with their children. Think twice before posting. I say this as a mom of teens who, again, is ashamed to admit that, you know, several years ago I kind of fell into that trap sometimes. And then I very clearly woke up very quickly and was like, hold on, wait a second. Curious to know what you think. I'll address comments at the end of the show. OK, onto our big headline. This is important. You do not want to miss this conversation if you're just turning in This is a need to know for every single parent with school-aged kids across America. You've probably already heard about it. Massive data breach in schools thanks to Big Ed Tech. The Canvas Learning Management System. What happened? Last week it was... I'll catch you all up. I'm obligated to catch you all up in case this is new to anyone. All right, set the scene. Last week it was reported that the Canvas Learning Management System, operated by a company called Instructure, suffered this massive data breach at the end of April by a criminal hacker group called Shiny Hunters. And this data breach affected almost 9,000 educational institutions and about 275 million users worldwide. That's a lot of people. This is kids, minors, and college-age students, and teachers too included. So what is Canvas? Canvas by Instructure, that's the name of the company, is a cloud-based learning management system used by schools, kindergarten through 12th grade. It's used by school districts, used by universities to manage online hybrid and in-person learning. And it serves as sort of this, they call it like a for posting assignments, grades, course materials, and letting teachers and students communicate more easily. The Los Angeles Unified School District, among many others across this great nation, uses Canvas, which basically a student cannot do assignments or fully participate in classes unless they are in this system, the Canvas system. So the breach involved stealing user data, names, email addresses, student ID numbers, private messages, demographic information, performance, student performance information. The main risk is highly targeted phishing or social engineering using the stolen private messages to gain further access to user accounts. So apparently in the last few days there was an agreement that was reached between Canvas's parent company, Instructure, and the hackers to prevent this data from being released, allegedly. This is the biggest educational data breach to date. I spent all last night listening to different podcasts with people who are much more in the rabbit hole of this story, and I learned a lot. I probably, I always say I learn too much, I know too much, and I wish I could unsee and unhear half of the things that I see and hear associated with my role here at Prager U Kids because it's just really a doom and gloom. But we're trying to give hope, okay? So let's bring up right now one of the, you know, if you search online you can find like endless articles about this Canvas breach. We found one here from the Washington Post. It's so funny because the Washington, side note, the Washington Post typically is one of those outlets that has, you know, wielded critiques and attacks on us here at Prager U Kids. I believe they have. Yet I continue to find articles that I'm using their quotes from. So anyways, no hard feelings Washington Post. Let's pull up the quote right now. This is from an article from May 9th, and it says, quote, this data breach, Canvas, is a perfect example of why it is so urgent that schools interrogate their overuse of technology, said Kate Brody, policy director at Schools Beyond Screens, a parent group based in Los Angeles. The local school board recently passed a resolution, and this is Los Angeles Unified, requiring classrooms to limit device usage. The quote continues, every new tech account is an opportunity for infiltration and abuse. Isn't that the truth? The chaos in schools continues with this wrongful obsession to include ed tech companies that are stealing the data from children, which is, I thought it was illegal, by the way. This data breach by Canvas caused all sorts of disruptions with access, finals, notifications across the country. Some schools even had to cancel classes and tests. You can find out more on your own. Tons of coverage on this. My purpose today, again, is to not, not to scare everyone, but to, this is what I tell my kids, I'm not scaring you, I'm just making you aware. My purpose today is to make us aware, to give us a little bit of a pep talk, to try and incite hope. I repeat, I've said this many times, when our classrooms are compromised, kids cannot and will not learn knowledge. This ed tech obsession is one of many, many, many factors that's causing failed proficiency in academic subjects across the country. Parents and teachers, I beg you, I beg you, do not accept the narrative of, oh, ed tech is the way of the world right now. Do not accept that narrative when it comes to schools requiring your child to be part of a privatized organization's data fishing pool in order to participate as a student. That is wrong. We the people still holds true. We the people does not stop at the classroom's door, especially when it comes to our children. Okay. Especially when it comes to the schools that we fund with our taxpayer dollars. Most of these big tech tools fail to improve academic performance and knowledge. And we have evidence of that later on in the show. Don't go anywhere. Stay tuned for that because I brought some receipts. I tell you, I've spent a lot of time on this. The most opposite of worldviews often unite and agree on one of two things. And I do find this very, very interesting. Drop a comment if you agree. The most opposite of worldviews tend to agree on, one, the health and educational value of limiting screens in schools, some limitations in schools, and two, incorporating financial literacy in schools. Even if you have totally opposite perspectives, politics, whatever, people tend to agree on including financial literacy in schools and limiting tech in schools for health and wellness purposes. Okay. So this is a conversation today that will unite all of us. And it actually leads me into me sharing one of our latest Prager U Kids In The Works offerings, right? You knew I was going to segue into sharing something that we're working on with Prager U Kids. Before I get to the evidence citing that this big ed tech is not improving academic performance, I'm going to share with you something that we're working on that I might get into a little bit of trouble for because it's very much a sneak peek. Don't tell my bosses, as I say that live streaming on air. I think we can all laugh. We are working on something brand new with our financial literacy series Cash Course. Roll the clip. Smith observed that prices emerge from supply and demand rather than government decree. Sounds obvious now, but at the time, it was a radical idea. It's not up to the government or even individual merchants to decide on a price. Rather, it's the choices of all the players in the marketplace that determines the price. Each buyer decides what they're willing to pay and each seller what they're willing to accept. And through millions of these voluntary exchanges, a market price emerges. What do you mean? No one group or individual is in charge, then? I know you're getting it. Smith called the process the invisible hand, a metaphor for the spontaneous ongoing cooperation between everyone in the market. Everyone benefits because each person makes economic choices based on self-interest, since only individuals can know what they need or want most. So I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I never really learned much and still don't know that much about Adam Smith's philosophy of the invisible hand. It is never too late for us parents to also learn from some of our PragerU kids content, especially from Cash Course. If you're not familiar with our Cash Course series, there's more than, oh wow, 50 episodes now of Cash Course on our website for tweens and teens. Everything is free to watch PragerUKids.com. I think the link to our Cash Course series page will be dropped in the description of this video. That clip right there is part of something brand new that we are working on. The next incarnation, forthcoming season, we're tentatively naming Economic Game Changers. I hope I do not get in trouble for sharing this right now. But really, I couldn't not share this because this is something we're working on. It's not quite ready yet. It is coming soon. It's an exciting perspective and depth of knowledge about financial systems, how they really work from a historical point of view, the truth about them. This clip was from a working teaching about Adam Smith. Other forthcoming episodes are in discussion. I know that an episode regarding Karl Marx is in discussion. Milton Friedman is in discussion. Friedrich Hayek, the Austrian economist, is in discussion. Thomas Sowell and more. The team is working to create several new episodes not available yet on their way. This is what we are able to do with your generous donations so that all of these episodes can be available for free, can continue to be available for free. This is fascinating, fascinating stuff that really does need to be included in schools, both for a financial literacy subject matter and for a historical subject matter for kids to learn. Of course, every single one of our Cash Course episodes is complete with specific worksheets that accompany each episode so that as a parent or teacher, you can check for understanding, whether it's for your kids or for yourself. It's good for classrooms. It's great for new financial literacy requirements that many states are implementing now. So I just wanted to share that with you. Back to our headlines about edtech in schools. Oh, side note, you might be asking, hey, Jill, why are you so against big edtech in schools, but you guys are touting your PragerU Kids videos to be included in schools? Because, my friends, we don't believe in collecting data from minors. Our PragerU Kids episodes are meant to, indulge me for a moment while I say this, our PragerU Kids episodes are meant to be used in settings where the teacher is administering the video on a shared screen with interactive worksheets and discussions afterwards. Our PragerU Kids videos are meant to be used in ways that are completely opposite of this next program that I am going to discuss with you, this next edtech program called iReady that takes advantage and derails kids' ability to learn through one-to-one Chromebooks where teacher and student interaction is limited. So, with that, let's move on to the second part of our big headline about big edtech in schools. Who here is familiar with the learning system iReady? Drop me a comment if your kid's school uses this. I'm going to continue with this edtech talk. What is iReady? Why is iReady now being sued by parents who need to know information? Apparently, I went online last night and yesterday and I have done deep dives in this. I don't think I'm all the way to the bottom of the rabbit hole yet, but let me tell you, it is disarming. Apparently, students, parents, and teachers can't stand using iReady, generally speaking. They hate it. In one particular article that I read last night from NBC Los Angeles, one middle school student, this young man who is apparently in geometry, which is very impressive to be in geometry as a middle school student. So, this is a smart kid we're talking about. He is quoted to say by NBC Los Angeles regarding iReady, quote, I lose brain cells every time I use it. This student calls iReady a total waste of time, cites how there are all these random animation interstitials between problems. How you, if you miss a problem while doing it, while, you know, doing the problem or the homework on iReady, you cannot, the system prevents you from going back to questions that you struggled with. It prevents you from learning how to actually do the problems correctly that you were challenged with. You know, but the districts, school districts keep buying this system. iReady is another trendy example of addictive and ineffective gamification for education. Here's a news flash. Education is not supposed to be gamified fun all the time. It's just not. Learning is fun. Learning is exciting. But it's not supposed to be like a game at all times, any and all times. I found this very, very revealing and informative write-up from a substack called The Digital Delusion. And it's by Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, who is a cognitive neuroscientist. He's an author of a book called The Digital Delusion. You've probably seen this doctor all over your social media feeds. I believe there was a clip that was going viral of him in the last few weeks regarding tech in schools. Get a load of the title of this particular write-up on The Digital Delusion's substack that I found that I'm going to share with you now. iReady. 13 million students, zero meaningful evidence, the data gap behind one of America's largest ed tech tools. So to sum up this most informative piece, and I encourage you to look this up, iReady is an adaptive tutoring tool that has become one of the most widely used ed tech platforms in U.S. public school classrooms. iReady began in 2011, a long time ago, 15 years. It began in 2011 as an adaptive diagnostic test designed to identify gaps in student reading and math skills. Today, however, it doesn't just diagnose problems. The program, iReady, has sort of evolved, or I would offer devolved, to attempt to fix these problems, assigning students to personalized lessons based on their diagnostic results. So what began as a measurement tool has become this full-service teaching system that teachers are obligated and mandated to use in their classroom. I have also been informed to say that some school districts mandate the amount of minutes that iReady, the amount of minutes that teachers are supposed to use iReady in their classrooms, and it's tied to teacher performance. So that's a whole other rabbit hole I'm not going to get into. According to company reports, iReady is used by over 13 million K-8 students in the United States, representing about one in three elementary and middle schoolers. So very widespread. Here's the worst part in this substat. There is no credible data that proves it's actually helping kids. Zero randomized controlled trials. Zero top-tier peer-reviewed journal articles. Two lower-tier journal articles. Two unlisted journal articles. One of them finding no difference between users and non-users, and the other one not including any form of a control group whatsoever. There is a large volume of what's called gray literature talking about iReady and its, you know, supposed benefits. But gray literature, keep in mind, remember, we always say, go back to the source, gray literature is dissertations, vendor reports, conference posters, paid media, and white papers. There was a study by Johns Hopkins done about iReady, and iReady advocates, you know, those people who were saying, no, it's great, we need this, we need this, often point to these Johns Hopkins School of Education studies, citing why iReady is beneficial. But both of these Johns Hopkins studies were conducted in partnership with Curriculum Associates, which is the parent company of iReady. So it's compromised. And both of the Johns Hopkins studies allegedly touting iReady as beneficial were released as white papers, which means that they were not peer-reviewed. So, you know, we talk about teaching our kids discernment, reminding ourselves as parents to have discernment. We need to look at the foundation of where these, you know, why these ed tech companies are being touted as beneficial and helpful. No, no, no, no, no. Many of the studies in this particular case, Johns Hopkins regarding iReady, were not, they were compromised studies, okay? The researchers concluded, results of this study did not show any statistically significant associations between iReady personalized instruction usage and achievement. In other words, no measurable impact was found. Let's look right now at this chart, which is in this substack, the digital dilution, the write-up. Let's look at this chart of the Johns Hopkins data included in this investigation. Again, I'm sharing this with you here on Parent Alert to equip you with information so that when you go to your school or school board or school district and you make a plea to get iReady out of your classes, you are equipped with this information. So to sum it up, this chart, if you're watching, you could take a look at the numbers for yourself, zoom in, you know, all the good stuff. But to sum it up, across grades, students using iReady improved by 7.8%, while students not using it improved by 7%. So the improvement difference was 0.8 of one percentage point. It was not even one percentage point. Not really a big improvement if you ask me as a mom. In a sample of 7,646 students at roughly $70 per student, the usage of iReady amounts to over $535,000 spent on iReady to achieve a 0.8% difference in mathematics performance with no measurable change in reading. That is what that chart ultimately says. So we've had 15 years of iReady in schools. It was developed in 2011. 13 million students are using it. Millions of dollars spent. Maybe even billions. I haven't done the math. Not one single high-quality independent study showing iReady improves learning. So what are we doing to our children, to our classrooms? And again, the author of this substack, The Digital Delusion, is cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath. And the question that he asks, and I'll pull up the quote that I thought was so... Producer Adam, if we could pull up the quote from Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath in his substack, does this actually help students learn? He said, somewhere along the way, we stopped asking, does this actually help students learn? iReady is another example of a new and trendy toy that's being ramrodded into schools without any evidence that it improves student achievement or closes the gaps. Many have found that it hurts students' attention as well as their privacy with concern for breaches like what we saw with the Canvas breach, which is one of the reasons why iReady is now being sued. So get a load of this. I have to share this too because it's so valuable. April 2026, the maker of iReady, Curriculum Associates, is being sued by a mom and social media marketing executive by the name of Nikki Petrosi of scrollingtodeath.com. I know I am not supposed to send people away to other sites, but I'm going rogue today because this mom is... I appreciate this mom's work so very much to the point where I can get very wonderfully emotional about it. Scrollingtodeath.com has brought this lawsuit against Curriculum Associates, the maker of iReady, to fruition as of April 2026. Details about the lawsuit, the allegations. MC versus Curriculum Associates alleges the platform collects sensitive data, student names, IDs, IP addresses, behavioral responses. Every time a child's mouse moves and clicks somewhere in iReady, that data is allegedly sent to Google, okay? Serious data phishing for minors. Shares it with third parties for commercial purposes. The lawsuit further alleges that the company builds deeply invasive psychological and behavioral profiles on students, profiles that can follow them and potentially harm them. The legal claims. The complaint brings claims under the Federal Wiretap Act, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, and other state privacy laws that are supposed to protect children. The company response, Curriculum Associates, of course, calls the lawsuit legally meritless, saying that they don't sell student data, that they don't use it for advertising, and that they don't build commercial profiles, but the evidence is otherwise. According to Nikki Petrosi of scrollingtodeath.com, she has tons of podcasts on that. I encourage you to listen. iReady is used by millions of K-8 students nationwide, making the lawsuit a major test for student data privacy. And Nikki Petrosi states on her website, millions of parents never consented to this. This is the biggest deal that we need to remind ourselves of. We do not consent. Sending our children, and this is the words of Nikki Petrosi, sending our children to public school is a legal right. We should not be required to expose them to commercial data trafficking just so that they can receive an education. I'm applauding. I'm applauding. What can we do in the meantime? Get equipped with information. Ask questions. Be assertive. Proactive. Opting out is a right that we have as parents. Reminder, our U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment protects fundamental parental rights under the Due Process Clause. Supreme Court precedents interpret this to mean that parents have a fundamental right to direct the care, custody, upbringing, and education of their children. Okay? Maybe most importantly, to protect our children's privacy, the value of privacy, especially for children to grow, to learn, to develop, to live, to live with the right of privacy as an American citizen. Privacy has been violated with the onslaught of social media, but privacy is not dead as an American right. Protect your kids. Out of school, in school, we the people does not stop at the classroom door, and this includes big ed tech in our schools. And in this spirit, I'm going to share with you some questions that you can ask school district admin, board members, teachers, and staff regarding ed tech requirements. I say requirements because the school district will tell you that they're required, but we the people does not stop at the classroom door. Okay? So these school districts and public schools, they're going to try to get you to believe that you have to do these things for your child to get an education in their school. But remember, districts and schools are signing contracts with these ed tech companies, spending a lot of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars, so they're going to try to convince you to use the product that they bought for your children, even if you don't approve of it, and even if it's harmful to the health or privacy of your children. Scrollingtodeath.com has a link on its website that directs to a website called TechSafeLearning.org, and there are a series of questions that I think are incredible, and this is what it means to be equipped and active in your child's education. So let's start bringing up the graphics. They've got a whole litany of questions. I'm just going to share a few of the questions to ask if you're concerned about ed tech compromising your child's attention and or ability to learn effectively, or if you're concerned about massive data breaches, which are happening in real time with big ed tech in our classrooms. So here from TechSafeLearning.org, you can read these questions on your own. We're just going to rotate them. I'm just going to read aloud some of the questions that I think are most valuable to ask your school and administrator. What are the terms of service and privacy policies of these services and products, ed tech, so that I may review and consider whether to consent to my child using these products and services? Another question, if I consent, can I later revoke that consent? Another question, what are the alternatives available to those who decide against their child using digital products and services? Ask these questions. And I would also add, how much responsibility will the district or school assume should my child experience any kind of psychological or physical harm due to the requirement of these ed tech apps and programs? Mental health decline, developing an inability to concentrate due to animation gamification on tutorials. If their sleep is affected because of longevity of screen exposure during the day, how much responsibility is the district going to absorb? Do not get swindled or bullied or shamed or chastised into thinking your child has to use these ed tech programs. Canvas, iReady, there's also iExcel, there's also Prodigy. Ask, ask, ask, ask, opt out. Do not be afraid to opt out. It is a parental fundamental right. Okay, let's go to the comments. Shall we take comments today from YouTube? All right, let's check this out. We figured out a better system to do these comments, so here we go. I'm just going to run through them here. From Captain Vigilante on YouTube, sadly I'm not a parent yet, but definitely looking forward to becoming one someday. All right. Another comment from YouTube, KSchwalbe2020 from Minnesota, while I am not a parent myself, I just needed to hear about the ed tech problem. My generation, Gen Z, was, I think, the guinea pig generation for ed tech. Oh gosh, sorry. I don't know why that just, when, sorry, I'm getting emotional. This is, this is real. When I saw my generation, Gen Z, was the guinea pig generation for ed tech and it didn't go well. Yes, yes, your generation has been the guinea pig for big ed tech in classrooms, and I think it is very clearly evident right now how much that bothers me as a mom. Didn't it? Was it? Crying on the internet was not on my bingo card today. Yeah, that's very true, and it's up to us parents. I mean, this is parent alert. I'm going to say it's up to us parents to protect these kids. I don't care if these kids are in kindergarten or if they're in college. It's on us parents. Protect these kids. Why should any generation of children be guinea pigs for a failed experience that is degrading and destroying their ability to get an education? It's infuriating and it's saddening. From Rolling986 on YouTube, they shouldn't collect info and store it centrally. It's not necessary and doesn't improve learning, reasoning, or logic, but it makes it easy to manipulate, steal, and abuse. Decentralize info. From Joanne Mitts on YouTube, thank you for discussing this. We need to really get this to the forefront. So how do we approach the administrators or teachers? Can you come with us? I would love to come with you. Unfortunately, I can't. I got my own battles to fight, right? I got two teenagers here. Here's what you do. You take the information and the questions that I have shared here from scrollingtodeath.com's informational website. You share the information here that I have shared from the Digital Delusion substack. You arm yourself with facts and evidence. It's very hard, but you take the emotion out of it. You step out of your body, as I like to say. Take the emotion out of it and approach your school administrators with an open and honest mind and heart and say, I have concerns. This is the evidence. This is the receipts. I am bringing this to you to discuss. And we, the people, does not stop at the classroom door. Do not be swindled or fooled or bullied or chastised into thinking that our children are required to take part in these programs. And they're going to make it hard for you. I'm not going to lie. I've heard many stories from parents in school districts in a variety of different areas saying, oh yeah, even when it comes to some of the things like the gender ideology sex ed, there's a lot of things that parents have told me personally. Oh yeah, we tried to opt out and the school made it very, very, very difficult and required all of these extra steps and extra processes and extra projects. And guess what? Do them anyways. Do the extra steps. Do the extra projects. Do the extra processes. It is that important. It is that important to opt out. I'm pouring my heart out to you right here, right now. All right. Finally, Texas 76 on YouTube. Laptops replacing books was the worst thing ever. Applause, standing ovation to that. Yes, it was. And again, to repeat, because the irony is that yes, I am here creating digital educational content at PragerUKids.com. The irony of me saying that removing books from a classroom was the worst thing ever. Absolutely. We all think that removing books from the classroom was the worst thing ever. At PragerUKids, we do not believe in removing books from the classroom. Children should be reading from books. They should be doing math from books. But in this age, we can also, as parents and as teachers in a digital setting, share videos and episodes with them in limited amounts that are not invasive, that are not phishing data. We can share with them additional resources in addition to the books. That's the difference. That's where we're coming from. So anyways, that's it for us today on Parent Alert. I appreciate your comments. I appreciate your engagement, your support. We always appreciate everything that all of you who generously support us at PragerUKids so we can continue to create the content that is helpful, that is educational, that is not invasive, that is not harmful for children so that we can continue to write the books. Some of our chapter books, The Pivot and The Tip-Off, are for middle readers, a brand new launch. The Pivot is our latest chapter book, our newest chapter book for your kids to read this summer. 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