Dennis Prager Show - Dennis Prager Has Some Good News to Share!
Aired: 2021-09-01
Duration: 05:09


=== Why We Send Our Children to School (05:07) ===

[00:00:02]  And I try to catch that just as you hear it, lest you think you're going to get a pre-recorded show.
[00:00:08]  It's a useless message, and this is my daily announcement of its uselessness.
[00:00:14]  Okay, welcome to the show.
[00:00:16]  I'm Dennis Prager.
[00:00:18]  I have good news.
[00:00:19]  What do you think of that?
[00:00:21]  I told it to the living martyr, who, like Oscar the Grouch, does not thrive on good news.
[00:00:32]  By the way, Oscar the Grouch was my favorite Sesame Street character.
[00:00:36]  Do you know that when I was in graduate school, I watched Sesame Street before going to school every day?
[00:00:42]  I can tell you all the characters, even Mr. Snuffleupagus, whom only Big Bird knew.
[00:00:50]  All right?
[00:00:51]  Just for the record, folks, I know that that comes somewhat as a surprise.
[00:00:54]  I thought the program was hilarious.
[00:00:57]  In the best sense, not in a mocking way.
[00:01:01]  At any rate, here it is.
[00:01:03]  It's from the Daily Mail.
[00:01:05]  Number of children being homeschooled doubles to 5 million since beginning of the pandemic, with 11% of families now teaching at home.
[00:01:16]  That is really, really good news.
[00:01:24]  The only excuse you can have...
[00:01:28]  For sending your child to a regular private or public school in most of this country is that you, your family, would enter poverty or quasi-poverty if you did so.
[00:01:53]  There is one other, to be honest, there is one other excuse.
[00:01:56]  You want your child to learn that America is essentially a rotten country.
[00:02:01]  You want your child to learn that there's no such thing as a boy or a girl.
[00:02:06]  Okay, then there's every good reason for you to send your child to school.
[00:02:11]  You don't want your child to learn a damn thing other than left-wing propaganda.
[00:02:19]  Then...
[00:02:19]  You have very reason to send your children to a regular school in this country.
[00:02:24]  The number of U.S. children being homeschooled has doubled since the start of the pandemic, from roughly 2.5 to 5 million, representing 11% of households nationwide now homeschooling their children.
[00:02:37]  The reasons are varied, researchers say, but overall the shift represents a loss of faith in America's public school system.
[00:02:45]  By the way, I don't know why they say that.
[00:02:47]  It's also a private school system.
[00:02:50]  It's an odd thing.
[00:02:53]  People, obviously, if people had faith in private schools, they'd send them to private schools.
[00:03:00]  The elite private schools are at least as bad as the public schools.
[00:03:05]  At least as bad.
[00:03:08]  They're taught by anti-American, anti-truth teachers.
[00:03:14]  Led by anti-truth principles.
[00:03:17]  Did I tell you?
[00:03:18]  Yes, I did.
[00:03:19]  I told you yesterday.
[00:03:21]  Things that the head of the teachers' union in Los Angeles, Cecily Maillard Cruz.
[00:03:32]  And this is from Los Angeles Magazine.
[00:03:34]  What was the precious quote that we got from her from this very, very long article?
[00:03:42]  The woman is essentially...
[00:03:45]  She would not use the term.
[00:03:48]  She would be indistinguishable from what was known in the old days as a communist.
[00:03:55]  The stuff that she advocates teaching...
[00:03:59]  The woman hates this country.
[00:04:04]  The union hates this country.
[00:04:06]  They're ruining your children.
[00:04:09]  And people do it.
[00:04:11]  Oh, that's right.
[00:04:13]  right.
[00:04:13]  This is really something.
[00:04:14]  Oh, God.
[00:04:18]  Our kids didn't lose anything.
[00:04:23]  It's okay that our babies may not have learned all their times tables.
[00:04:27]  They learned resilience.
[00:04:29]  They learned survival.
[00:04:30]  They learned critical thinking skills.
[00:04:33]  They know the difference between a riot and a protest.
[00:04:37]  They know the words insurrection and coup.
[00:04:40]  So that's what they want.
[00:04:41]  They don't care if your child knows a times table.
[00:04:44]  Times table, that's white supremacy, to insist on mathematical, basic math knowledge.
[00:04:51]  But to know the difference between a riot and a protest, and to know the words insurrection and coup, that's what we want your children to know.
[00:05:01]  And you keep sending your children there.
[00:05:06]  Now, I love clarity and honesty.