Trust the Experts: I see a theme here

On Wednesday, the Arizona Superintendent of Education, Tom Horne, announced an agreement with PragerU that will allow teachers to use PragerU videos in their teaching if they want to do so. No one is required to do so. It is an option. Marissa Streit, CEO of PragerU, and Tom Horne held a press conference on Wednesday at the Arizona State Senate. Can you anticipate the kinds of questions that “reporters” asked? Let me share some examples.

One reporter asked Superintendent Horne if he had vetted all the PragerU videos. Of course, Tom Horne said he had not. This reporter has been trying to make something of this point since then. But compare this with a company the same reporter supports, like Scholastic Corporation (take a look at the Scholastic web page, and you will see the many books it offers for the LBGTQ ideology). Has Tom Horne vetted every single book or resource offered by Scholastic? No. And yet Scholastic is permitted to hold book fairs at public schools in order to make money. Ms. Streit said that it is the parents who vet the material. This reporter interviewed an ASU professor who said that parents aren’t smart enough to choose their children’s curriculum.

This same reporter then asked if PragerU is making money from this cooperation. Ms. Streit pointed out that PragerU is a non-profit. The reporter did not understand how this works and said, “But it's not a charity.” Ms Streit had to correct him that, indeed, a non-profit is a charity. Again, compare this to Scholastic, which is a for-profit corporation that is allowed to sell its resources to public school children on public school grounds in order to make money.

Later, one of the news networks in Phoenix tried to shame Ms Streit for her CEO level salary. Keep in mind that these are people who say they believe that there is income inequality between men and women and that women are not paid enough. They also say that there needs to be more women CEOs. More women CEOs who hold the approved beliefs, that is. Ms. Streit does not count in their eyes.

This same network interviewed an ASU professor who said that parents do not know enough to decide what curriculum their children should learn and they need to trust experts to make those decisions. And this is after two ASU administrators published an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education saying that intellectual diversity at public schools is a right-wing conspiracy. Do you see a theme here? Trust the “experts” who happen to be pushing a left-wing agenda.

So we see that feminist values and the desire for diversity only count when it is not conservatives we are talking about. For-profit corporations like Scholastic can sell their materials on public school campuses, but conservative non-profit curricula cannot be given as an option to be freely used or not used as a teacher sees fit.

Parents, it is important for you to hear how such professors think about you. They know what is best for your children; you are expected to listen and obey. But the truth is that you have the freedom to avoid schools and professors who force their opinions on students. Find a school with professors who respect you and your children.