It's starting to show itself in really, really ugly ways, and you're one of the people I wanted to get the perspective on, so give us kind of the lowdown here.

Well, you know, this is really interesting because this parent kind survey actually comes out of the UK and it's the largest national major survey for parents.

It surveys over, I think it's 6,000 parents in the UK.

And, you know, a lot of people say, well, that's the UK and that's not America, but it's actually really aligned.

And I'll tell you why.

The parent kind survey, the big takeaway is that fewer than one half of parents surveyed say that they feel involved in their child's education.

Oh, boy.

It was the good parents who actually wanted to know what their kids were learning, not the email stuff.

Did you see that, and what do you think of it?

I did see it, actually.

And it's something that I often talk about on the weekly live stream that I hear have here at PragerU.com. It's called Parent Alert.

And we talk about the state of education.

We talk about parental rights.

We talk about what is actually happening in our public schools and the story that we saw break with the.

Author of the 1619 Project saying, hey, public schools really didn't give my daughter the education that we kind of intended is just another unfortunate illustration of how badly and sadly our public schools have been hijacked by politics, how they have abandoned teaching tried and true knowledge.

How do we get them to fix themselves?

The Admiral Benbow?

Yes, the Admiral Benbow.

And there is a group of pirates that come in and out.

There's this one particular pirate, Billy Bones, who ends up dying at this inn.

And Jim's father also dies at this inn, which is a life-changing moment obviously for him.

But when this pirate Billy Bones dies, Jim finds this treasure map.

And Jim's mother is very encouraging to Jim, saying, we need to get the money that is owed to us from these pirates.

And his conclusion, of course, is, I don't want that life.

What should they do?

Well, a word that we tend to use around the office a lot is inoculate.

We need to inoculate our kids.

And allow them and teach them to appreciate our American values.

Honesty, individual responsibility, hard work, equality under God.

All of those things that make our community and our country great.

The values that I was raised with, my grandmother, mother and sister, all teachers.

So for, give us two, three examples of things we're doing.

How can families, parents get involved?

So here's the thing.

I want to back up just a little bit because the one thing that I really pay attention to these days is what's happening with kids and schools.

And yes, most of us adults, like you just said, we're reasonable people who are happy to be here in America.

But the issue that concerns me and a lot of us at PragerU is that students, particularly young students and high school students, are being still a little, I want to say, apathetic and very ignorant about who we are as Americans and what the intent was to have a free nation with freedom of speech and freedom of expression, all these wonderful things.

And the NAEP, the National Assessment for Educational Progress, said that only 13% of eighth graders in 2024 could name significant historical people, places, or things.

So that's the perspective that I'm coming from.

What changes are you seeing or maybe hoping for when it comes to how history and civics are taught? Because, again, that's kind of what this all stems from.

Garbage

...

but it really was garbage.

And right now, Scott, you know, at America's 250th, listen, we, uh, uh, [laughs] we are a nation divided as they say, as we know, as we all experience, but this is the way we find our way back to each other.

And we start with our youngest kids, and we start with instilling the melodies and the, you know, the shared cultural knowledge and the foundational things that make us American, and that includes our songs.

And we've never done a music show at PragerU Kids before, and we've been around for five years doing kids shows for kindergartners through 12th grade, and we said, "You know what? This is the year.

America's 250th.

Mm

Tell us about the series.

Thank you so much.

I am so glad you said that there's a lot of brain rot out there because that's exactly what is happening.

And listen, my kids are teenagers now, so it's been a long time since I've had toddlers.

But I remember when they were toddlers, it was all about music, music, and we would sing.

And half of the things that a lot of my parent peers were sharing with their kids in terms of music is, It was garbage.

And, you know, I hate to be so frank, but it really was garbage.

I just know it.

Mm

... our emotional, ri- you know, all of those things that, you know, we want our kids to, to develop in a positive way.

But then there's also the educational aspect of it, and I always took it for granted, learning music as a kid, as a teen, even as a young adult.

But now, and, and it's interesting, I didn't learn this until five years ago.

Five years ago, uh, my, my kids are now teenagers, and five years ago I, my husband and I decided to remove them from our renowned public school system, and we put them into a classical education school.

And little did I know that the classical education model, which now so many people are, you know, singing the-

Right

... that nowadays people tend to push to the side as not having value.

... for attorney general.

Okay.

Well, there's someone else who's running for state superintendent at Chino, in Fr- in Chino Valley, uh, Schools.

She's from, she's the president of the Chino Valley Unified School Board.

Sonia Shaw is her name.

Um, uh, she's a personal friend of mine, but she's running for state superintendent of education because California has gone after them so much the past few years-

Yeah.

I don't think any search for truth is racist.

Let's listen.

I would get DMs all the time in my social media accounts from teachers saying, "Thank you for your books about American holidays.

I am reading them in my kindergarten classroom.

Thank you for your videos about, you know, what it means to vote and what capitalism is.

I've been using it in my classrooms because we don't have any materials that teach, um, you know, about the Constitution or the Bill of Rights." And I'll tell you, the process for each state's education department has really been unique.

All of our materials have been standards-aligned, national and statewide educational standards, and that is something that we started doing, you know, quickly when we realized that there really was a hunger for this type of content.

So we, we asked Jill Simonian, PragerU's director of outreach, um, more about this, about presenting whether, whether she thinks PragerU Kids is presenting the kind of biased information that it accuses the left wing of presenting in schools, just from a conservative perspective.

PragerU Kids, in every single one of our videos, whether we're talking about self-reliance through financial literacy, why we celebrate holidays like, uh, Memorial Day, you know, every single thing we do, the overarching theme is to try and remind everyone we're united as Americans.

This is the kickoff, right?

Yes, this is the kickoff.

This is actually the debut of what is actually inside of these trucks, which is an incredible interactive multimedia museum where you can see the timeline of America's founding.

You see George Washington come to life.

You see American heroes.

You could take interactive quizzes about how much you know or how little you know about the revolution.

This is the first time that people have been able to see what's inside.

Do you think enough kids in America are being taught that these days in our schools?