Parent Alert: Schools Cancel Halloween Fun for "Inclusivity?"

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Inclusivity sounds positive, but does it actually sacrifice unity and wellness in schools? Jill Simonian of PragerU Kids dives into what ''inclusivity" is accomplishing across the nation this week: from a Boston elementary school canceling a Halloween parade to California's Healthy Kids Survey for middle and high schoolers. Plus, Mississippi inches one step closer to banning DEI in education.
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Today is Wednesday, October 28th, 2026.
Trick or treat. Inclusivity tried to cancel an
elementary school's Halloween parade.
California's Healthy Youth Survey force feeds inappropriate
questions to middle and high schoolers without
expressed parental consent. Plus, good news from
the Department of Education in the fight
to free schools from DEI and ethnic studies mandates.
parent alert starts right now. Let's kick it off with this.
Roll the clip. I'm Christine McCarthy
on scene in Falmouth where Halloween parades
at elementary schools have been canceled. While
administrators say the change fosters inclusivity,
hundreds of parents are trying to reverse the
decision. That was my son skipping for the first time,
having a great time amongst peers, and it
was despite a really challenging year for him.
Pamela Waite's seven-year-old son Gannon has
been planning his Halloween costume since August.
The second grader at T-Ticket Elementary in
Falmouth has special needs
and celebrations like the Halloween parade are what make school
inviting for him.
He has a hard time kind of expressing who he is to the world and a day
like this is kind of a day that he can break out of his shell.
But to their family and others
disappointment. The Halloween parades that have
been tradition at their town's elementary
schools for decades will be canceled.
A school letter to families states this decision reflects
our continued commitment to creating
an inclusive school environment in which all students can
participate comfortably.
Additionally, increased student absences connected to school-based
Halloween celebrations
and maintaining strong student attendance remains an important priority
for us. This is a tradition.
It's a great thing that we have here in our community that
everyone looks forward
to and to just take it away I just wanted to voice my
opinion on that Nick Haney a North Falmouth alum and dad says his kids
would be heartbroken to miss
the parade he created a petition asking school
administrators to reverse
their decision more than 600 people had signed by
Tuesday night and I think we'll get it I think it
was a decision made by very few
with little input by all
and they did get it they did get that Halloween
parade restored.
Just another example of how inclusivity kills tradition.
Happy Halloween,
everybody. Kicking off today with that headline
from Falmouth Public School District in
Massachusetts. There is a happy ending to that story.
But first, of course, the logistics.
Welcome to Parent Alert. I'm Jill Simonian from Prager.
You kids, drop me a comment where you're
watching from Prager. Excuse me.
Parent Alert happens every single Wednesday at 1030 a.m.
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episode is going to be on PragerU.com for all
y'all to watch at your leisure. Okay, so back to
the news piece that we kicked off with just a few moments ago.
To back it up, towards the end of
September, parents and students
at the Falmouth Elementary Schools were notified that that
Halloween parade that was tradition for decades
and decades was going to be canceled for this
year. Parents were not happy, voiced their opinion,
as you saw in the news package. And by September
30th, so a few weeks ago, Falmouth Public Schools reversed
their decision because of parent outcry
and action. And they said that for this year,
the Halloween parades will continue. So yay for that.
The district's traditional Halloween parade
was restored for the elementary school kids.
Now, here's the thing. Listen, I know that, you know,
first of all, Halloween, unbeknownst to me, a few years ago,
apparently Halloween is a very touchy subject among many people.
I myself enjoy the pumpkins and the spiders and the cats and the candy
and the communities getting together and all of that good stuff.
I do not enjoy the gore. I do not enjoy the demonic.
This is me personally speaking.
I do not enjoy a lot of what Halloween has, you know, really exploded
into with younger and younger kids being gory and scary.
I don't agree with any of that.
But the Innocent Elementary School Halloween Parade for kids
and community to come together, I think, is a part of American culture.
And I think as long as you keep it age appropriate
and innocent and focus on the fun part,
the unifying part as American students together, I think it's good.
So here's the thing, according backing up
to this whole Halloween parade cancellation, because I really want
to get to how this, you know, DEI inclusion stuff is really killing
the stuff that used to bind us together as American schools.
So according to an article on MSN.com, I know,
listen, we pull articles from everywhere, okay?
The superintendent of Falmouth Public Schools in Massachusetts,
according to this article on MSN.com,
Superintendent Doerr, I hope I'm pronouncing her name correctly,
acknowledged when canceling that parade.
We missed the mark on this one.
The district leadership had been discussing
this change apparently for years, saying that inclusivity,
which I'm guessing that the Falmouth public schools
were rallying around, this whole like inclusivity obsession,
means that more than a single culture or religion would be represented.
Also, the superintendent said that many students have behavioral
or emotional issues on Halloween for various reasons.
I'm not going to dispute that.
the number of absences during the celebrations had spiked over
the past three years. Superintendent
Doerr said that the last school year they had 109 students absent across
the four elementary schools,
135 and 114 absences happened during
that Halloween day in the prior two years. So
she did admit that there's no real way to know why
the students actually missed school. Was it
because of Halloween? Was it because of another reason?
Was it because maybe in past years,
Halloween fell on a Friday
and parents ended up taking their kids on a vacation or a family
activity? You don't know.
But apparently, Halloween is very triggering in Massachusetts.
Reportedly, Northborough Elementary Schools
in Massachusetts previously prohibited costumes,
Okay. And they reversed that decision in 2023. In 2021,
Melrose Elementary Schools kind of ditched the whole Halloween thing
and shifted towards fall celebrations back in 2021.
Their reason was to cite equity and inclusion.
I'm not really understanding. Please drop me a comment.
We are live. So if you haven't already,
drop me a comment where you're watching from.
But now, please, I ask you,
please drop me a comment and say, is it really that deep?
Answer my question.
Is it really that deep?
Can we just all, you know, listen,
I realize I am on the Gen X millennial cusp of,
you know, my age demo.
But is it too much to ask that we can't just all return to a common
sense place of don't do any gory or obscene costumes and let's
as a community enjoy some of these American traditions like Halloween
and Thanksgiving and Christmas and Valentine's Day every once
in a while together without some triggering thing to cite equity
and inclusion as a reason for canceling it.
And, you know, I shared this story with you today
because this is yet another example
of the ludicrous stupidity for why inclusion
and DEI is breaking apart our school communities.
This is another example of how the last few years' obsession
and twisting of what the word inclusivity actually means, it continues
to kill American childhood traditions that used to unify us.
It continues to kill opportunities for community gathering
for fear that someone will be triggered or unincluded.
It continues to kill school spirit.
It continues to kill parental involvement.
I would bet a lot of money that for that Halloween parade,
the parents come to the campus, the teachers are on the campus,
the parents and the teachers can intermingle,
forge relationships, friendships.
It kills common sense.
Is it too much to ask?
Okay, to our next scary headline, if you will.
California's healthy youth survey is alive.
It's alive this Halloween season in middle and high schools near you.
If you're in California, yes, of course,
this only applies to California.
But cautionary tale, what happens in California always
is a preview for the rest of the nation.
So eyes awake, eyes alert, eyes up on this one.
What I'm about to share with you is the actual California Healthy
Youth Survey that parents received a preview from via email
from California's number one public high school in the state.
And I'm going to let you look up
which high school in California was recently ranked number one
in the state of California for the top public high school by Niche.com.
I'm going to let you look that up because this Healthy Youth Survey
that I'm about to share with you, mostly in its entirety,
was created for students grades 6th through 12th.
So, there were 144 questions in the first sample of the survey that
was sent to parents at California's number one top-ranked high school.
There were 35 questions on the second sample survey.
Allegedly, this survey takes about 30 to 45 minutes.
The administration who sent this survey for review to parents
in California's number one public high school noted
that parents could opt out, but the opt-in was automatic.
So if parents were busy, working ill, traveling,
missed the email because they get 10,000 emails a day,
then their child was automatically opted into this.
And if they missed the opportunity to click the link in the email to
opt out, their children, grades 7th through 12th, would in fact receive
this survey inside the classroom without parental consent or knowledge.
Is this a violation?
of the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment?
I'm not a lawyer, but that's a good question to ask.
Let's jump into the questions.
You be the judge of whether these are useful for in-classroom use
without a parent's knowledge
or consent if they happen to miss the email and did not get to
clicking the link to opt their child out.
Oh good, we have the first graphic pulled up. I'm just
going to blaze through these and I'm going to touch on them
and you can read them on the screen.
How wrong, here's one of the questions,
how wrong would your close friends feel if you did the
following? Alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, vape, prescription drugs.
Next slide. How wrong do you
think your parents or guardians would feel if you did the following?
Listing all the drugs. Next
slide. During your life,
how many times have you used the following appetite suppressants?
Dyctrel, Dexedrine, Xenadrine, Skittles, or M&Ms.
Okay, hold, I am going to pause on this one for
the commentary. So say the child
who maybe is in the seventh grade or the ninth grade or the
eleventh grade gets this survey
and sees the question about appetite suppressants with a few
of the drugs listed, such as Xenadrine,
and then sees the words Skittles and M&Ms. I don't know
anything, but to me, Skittles and M&Ms are candy.
If these are street names for some drugs that I
am not aware of as a mother, please drop me a comment and tell me.
But I would guarantee if
my ninth grader saw that question during your life,
how many times have you used the following
and got to number eight,
where it listed appetite suppressants and included Skittles and M&Ms,
my ninth grader would probably mark seven or more times
because she saw the Skittles and M&Ms and
thought, yeah, I've had Skittles and M&Ms a million times in my life.
And I ask, as a mom,
what kind of category does then that answer of seven times or more,
because she saw Skittles
and M&Ms, put my child into in the eyes of the state?
This is data mining at its worst. It is
subversive. It is nefarious.
They say that these surveys are anonymous, but I ask you with
sincerity if the kids are taking these surveys
on their school issued Chromebooks and they have to
log into their Chromebooks with their school ID
and email address and then they fill out this
survey that goes straight to the state
of California's public education department and
they're answering questions that might not be valid
or confusing or might be very confusing to
them. What kind of data mining is that?
Next slide. Next question.
I want to make sure I am on the
correct question. Oh, next we would like some
background information about you. Sixth grade to
twelfth grade. So technically this survey is for sixth graders then.
Asking about transgenderism,
asking about sexuality, asking about their gender.
Next slide. What is the highest level of education
your parents or guardians completed.
What does that have to do with anything? Data mining. Next
slide. What time did you go to bed last night?
What does that have to do with anything? Next
slide. Ah, questions about whether the child thinks teachers
or some other adult at their
school cares about them.
Plus questions about how much power and authority the teens perceive to
have at school regarding classes and rules.
Strange, but I'm just a mom. Next slide. More
questions about drug use, oh, this time on school property,
alcohol, vapes, pills. Next slide.
Questions about whether the teen is satisfied with their family life
and where they live. Catch
almost any teen after a morning squabble with their parent
or their sibling, and I would bet
that that answer that they answer on this question might,
in fact, be a compromised one. 144 questions
long. And as you see, that was the end of the test.
144 questions long. And I didn't even share
with you the majority of the questions.
I just plucked a smattering of random questions for you
to get an idea about what the California Healthy Youth Survey means
and the type of invasive
questions it's asking from perhaps your children
if you're in California. 144 questions long to
data mine underage minors without expressed parental consent,
unless you were quick enough
to read the lengthy email that came
from the school district offering you an opt-out.
I just want to ask,
can we stop with the education admins who continue to overreach
and violate parental rights,
who invade family privacy, and who force, yes force,
unhealthy rumination onto minors about topics
that they might not even be informed about
because they're in the sixth or seventh grade or ninth grade.
Shame on every single California
school district who thinks that those type
of data mining questions serve to minors in classroom
settings without expressed parental knowledge or consent.
Shame on those educators who think
that that is acceptable to force feed to students at school.
How about we make opt-ins the norm?
Oh, but that would lose their customer base.
That would lose their customer base. Take that to your
school boards and admin.
Okay, whatever happened to asking kids about activities and sports?
Anybody? Anybody? We are. We like to talk about activities and sports.
You guessed it. It's time
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of this nonsensical garbage that is breaking
the brains of kids in schools, whether it be by
healthy youth surveys, as they're called, or by corrupted curriculum.
One moment. I don't want to
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Drop me a comment. Tell me where you're watching from
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Okay, speaking of good, we're ready for the good news in education.
Oh, we need another drum roll for this.
Good news in education.
Mississippi Miracle, DEI getting dumped.
That's right. DEI is getting dumped
from our mouths to God's ears in Mississippi.
As of October 22nd, 2026, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court
of Appeals cleared the way for Mississippi's DEI ban,
which was in that state House Bill 1193.
It was passed in April of 2025 to be enforced across
the state's public education system.
So we're talking K-12 schools,
community colleges, and public universities.
This law blocks institutional DEI programming
and the endorsement of divisive concepts.
It does not prohibit the general classroom discussions
or teaching of subjects like race,
sex, and civil rights.
So when this law first passed,
a lot of woke folks started screaming that civil rights
were going to be violated, that freedom of speech
was going to be violated, that no one was going to
be able to discuss civil rights,
the civil rights movement or or no, no, no, no, no. That is that
is incorrect. I'm here to clarify the facts.
Here are the facts of what this DEI ban in Mississippi
public schools upholds. Let's bring up the first graphic.
There we go. Bam. Mississippi's DEI ban
for public K through 12 schools includes
the prohibition of DEI offices and staff. So we're
talking how, you know, for a few years there,
school districts and institutions used to hire
these DEI consultants to pay hundreds of thousands
of dollars to keep on staff as consultants. Yeah,
That's what we're talking about here.
Prohibition of that type of staff.
A ban on it does include a ban on mandatory diversity training,
which I happen to frankly call training to be a racist.
I mean, we're just speaking quite frankly here.
It does include the elimination of diversity statements.
And when we talk about diversity statements many times,
and this also happened in some of the people I'm most closest to,
families and students, received at the beginning of the year
DEI statements saying this class is dedicated to diversity, equity,
and inclusion for math classes, English classes, science classes,
PE classes, history classes. I kid you not.
So it bans diversity statements.
It includes restrictions on divisive concepts,
hiring and admissions mandates. So it's a return
to merit-based standards,
not hiring someone only because they happen to be black or only because
they happen to be Latino, hiring on merit.
The DEI ban in Mississippi schools also includes the
enforcement and funding penalties.
So the ban targets administrative operations, mandatory
training, and funding mechanisms rather than student-led activities.
So again, discussions
about race and civil rights and the unjust practices of segregation,
etc., etc., are still
allowed in Mississippi.
Freedom of speech is still valid in Mississippi.
Another step towards
returning to the fundamental basics in education.
This is a great stride in returning to the
fundamental basics in education.
Return to academics, return to core subjects. You might
remember what was headlined as the Mississippi miracle
in K-12 schools last year. Mississippi
had major reform since 2013 that lifted the state,
get this, from the bottom 10 of K through 12th
grade proficiently levels to the top 10
in the nation in fourth grade reading and overall
composite achievement. So Mississippi,
applause for Mississippi doing good things. How did they
achieve this Mississippi miracle? Let's review.
Bring up the next graphic. We're showing Mississippi
some love today and appreciation of all that you're doing.
So Mississippi's education miracle
reformed since 2013.
They returned to the science of reading and phonics.
The state overhauled its
approach to literacy towards evidence-based phonics instruction.
They ditched the trendy
stuff that everyone said, oh yeah,
let's try this because it turned out all that stuff didn't work
and it tanked Mississippi's reading proficiencies to the bottom.
So Mississippi had the common sense
to say, we're not going to do what's not working anymore.
We're going back to phonics, elevated
them to the top 10 in the nation. Good work.
The reform also included teacher training investments.
The state legislator invested millions
in programs like Language Essentials for Teaching,
Reading, and Spelling to train kindergarten
through third grade teachers thoroughly in the
science of reading. So you have well-trained teachers.
They invested in literacy coaches.
Mississippi Department
of Education deployed specialized literary coaches
into elementary schools to mentor teachers for classroom instruction.
They returned to literacy based promotion act,
which was a law that mandated three times a year student
literacy screening early notification letters sent to parents.
so parent-teacher partnerships, we love those,
if a child was falling behind and they maintained
strict criteria for third grade reading proficiency before advancing
that child to the fourth grade.
Good work. Mississippi dedicated itself to accountability
and transparency. The state
introduced an A through F grading system for schools in 2012
and tied accountability metrics
to the academic growth of the bottom 25% of struggling students.
And the schools took
initiative to intervene directly in underperforming districts.
So a lot of educators rightfully called
Mississippi's turnaround a marathon rather than a miracle
because they have been focused on this
since 2013. So what is that? Somebody do math in my head.
That's 13 years, right? 13 years,
Mississippi has been dedicated to reversing the stuff that didn't work
and putting in the stuff
that did work, like phonics and accountability.
It was a deliberate, sustained statewide policy
overhaul rather than just throwing money
at random problems to try to achieve a quick fix.
So again, applause for Mississippi.
Drop me a comment if you are from Mississippi. Sending you love.
Okay, meanwhile, in California,
I do have some high hopes because guess what's happening?
If you saw the headline this week,
the U.S. Department of Education announced this week that it
is investigating three California school districts who
are violating parental rights due to DEI and ethnic studies mandates.
Only three? There are factually much more than
three California school districts who are
violating parental rights. I speak from experience.
But the ones included in the U.S. Department of
Education are North Monterey County Unified School District,
Palo Alto Unified School District,
San Francisco Unified School District.
Listen, despite my giggling and giddy delivery of this,
I find no pleasure in this. I find no joy in this.
I think this is tragic. This is a degradation of
what public education should be.
This is very sad and I'm not happy about it at all. But in order
to course correct, sometimes we got to go through these things.
So those three school districts are
reportedly requiring students
to reveal intimate details about themselves and their families
without parental consent or knowledge.
The investigations will determine whether the
districts violated the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment,
which requires schools to notify
parents and obtain their written consent before surveying students
on topics that would reveal
protected information.
Let's bring up the wheel of power, shall we?
From ed.gov, behold the wheel
of power that North Monterey County Unified,
Palo Alto Unified, and San Francisco Unified
in California are reportedly instructing students
with despite the lack of parental knowledge and
consent. And let's leave this up here
because I want to go through it. According to public
reporting, those districts require students
to participate in this wheel of power privilege
and or mapping my identities activities as part
of a California mandated ethnic studies curricula.
Invasive questionnaires require students
to identify personal information.
And these are the types of things, if you're watching right now,
these are the types of things that kids and teens, minors,
are being questioned on in California's taxpayer-funded public schools
without informed and expressed parental consent.
In a classroom setting, they're being asked about skin color,
neurodiversity, gender, housing, body size, wealth, sexuality.
as you can see in this wheel of power, if you
are closer to the center by ranking yourself with all
of the categories, if you identify as being close to the center,
it means, so, you know, for instance,
heterosexual, it means you're privileged.
If you identify with the outer tier near the outside of
the circle, it means you're marginalized.
So this is coercion into trying to get kids to believe
that they're some kind of victim.
Parents in these districts also allege that the districts were not
responsive to requests to review these ethnic studies curriculum
or that they only allowed
parents to review parts of it.
Let's go to the comments, shall we? I'm going to leave this with
you. Let's go to the comments.
Oh, I hope we have comments on this one. I hope we have comments on
this one. Here we go. I should have brought my glasses today.
Pardon me as I lean over.
You know we're live. Okay, starting from the top of the comments.
Oh, at the top of the show,
we were discussing Halloween from YouTube.
My church still celebrates Halloween. Another
comment. I am all for Halloween as long as it
is not celebrating the devil or gore. I'm with you,
elephant. I can't read the handle there.
Another comment from YouTube. I feel like Halloween is
only demonic if you make it demonic,
kind of like the people who take the Christ out of Christmas.
Yes, yes, yes. Okay, moving on to comments from Instagram.
They use that inclusion, in quotation
marks word to make it sound nice.
Sounds like a form of communism to me. It's a way of control.
Don't fall for it. I agree. I agree.
Listen, when I first started working here at PragerU Kids,
I learned very, very quickly, and this was around 2021,
how the twisting of the meaning of words
is how is one of the tools that Marxists
and communists depend on to foster this group think
mentality to get everyone thinking the same.
Moving on to the comments. Another one from
YouTube. The surveys should be opt in and not opt out.
Hallelujah. In talking about the California
youth survey, which, again, is not only in California,
but is in the rest of the nation.
And in fact, I believe it was, I'm just remembering now,
back in, it was either 2024 or 2025,
there was a nationwide story about a middle school in Burlington,
Massachusetts, that gave children without parental knowledge or consent
a very explicit survey about gender and sex and sexual orientation.
And I remember it made headlines.
And in fact, I brought it on to Parent Alert. I did.
I brought it on to Parent Alert. It's in past episodes.
It's a survey from Burlington, Massachusetts schools.
I shared the questions here.
They were asking middle schoolers very explicit questions
and the parents had no idea that the survey was going on.
So school districts in California and beyond,
admin, do not fall victim to being accomplice
to violating parental rights.
And then the admin wonders why parents are asking questions or up in
arms or angry about something. We can solve this.
We can solve this together, gang. Okay.
Next question. Next questions. Awful to have to opt in or out.
Oh, heck, no way I would accept
it. That's a, that's a comment from YouTube.
Again, probably regarding the surveys from
Instagram. We need to get rid of these people
that don't have any respect for our children
and their families.
Voting them out of the school boards, voting them out of public office.
I thoroughly agree, but here's the reality
that far too many of us have lived. When it comes to
pushing back against the policies
or the administrators or the mandates that are
really dividing parents from participating
and consenting to what their children are
learning in school. If parents do not show up in numbers,
in numbers, via email, via phone calls,
at the school board meetings in person,
requesting meetings with the admins. If parents don't show up
in numbers, nothing's going to change.
Nothing's going to change. One more question. The survey
is anonymous. So answering one way
or the other does not do anything to your child.
Here's, I get what you're saying, but I'm also going to present this.
What happens in these
surveys. They allege that they're anonymous.
However, when the surveys are taken on the
Chromebook, the child takes, or the teen,
takes the survey on their issued Chromebook that is
personalized to them, that is attached to their email address.
So if they're filling out the
survey that is attached to their email address,
then it really isn't anonymous, is it? And what
happens is when the data goes to the state.
First of all, who knows if how the kids are answering
is even truthful, if the kids even understand the questions,
if the kid was in a random mood that
day, if the kid is confused by some of the things they're asking
and just marks random things to get
through it so that they can do something else during
the 45 minutes that was allotted during
class time and turn it into free time.
Who even knows if the data is even valid? You're talking
about 13 year or 12 year olds in some cases to 18 year olds.
I am going to wager that a 12 year
old and an 18 year old,
most of them might not take those type of surveys seriously and might
not understand them. So when they do answer the questions,
is the data even valid? And what does
the state do with that data?
Does it then use it and weaponize it to create policies that might,
in fact, affect my family and my child?
Questions to be asked, questions to discuss,
things to be answered, hopefully in time.
Okay, before we say goodbye, I do want to share with
you something that is very special and near and dear to my heart.
And I thought that we could do
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I know that many people, millions, according to our
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created in 2021 and 2022,
and they might not get a lot of traction now that we're in 2026
because the series are very old, and they're still up on the website.
So I'm going to start sharing with you here
and there some vintage PragerU Kids episodes
that really set the foundation back in 2020
for what we aim to teach in every single one of our
hundreds of episodes.
Now, if you know this show, you are a true fan. Hit it.
Wait, what was that word that you just said?
I didn't quite catch it.
Yeah, what does it mean?
Ah, I had a feeling you would ask that. You mean E Pluribus Unum? Yes,
E Pluribus Unum is not English, it's Latin,
which is a very old language that not many
people know how to speak anymore.
E Pluribus Unum means, out of many, one.
This saying was first created in 1776
when our 13 colonies became a nation, and it was
one of America's very first mottos.
Now today, it means
that America doesn't care how different we all might be or where our
families come from because we
are all here together as one united. Isn't that
awesome? I'm going to focus on the red white
and blue today shake shake shake
shake shake what you can
also do is very lightly trace it in pencil on the
platter so that you know where you're going
to put your words. Okay so there you go
crafts plus history is craftery that was one
of our very first series there's
there's nothing more humbling than watching
a video of yourself from five years ago to see how
much you've aged. We do a craft. We teach a little bit of history.
That is craftery. E pluribus unum,
out of many, one of our American mottos
that every single child should learn,
also on every single American coin.
Dennis Prager, God bless him, includes this phrase,
e pluribus unum in his American Trinity philosophy,
which is, of course, in God we trust,
liberty and e pluribus unum. And what would happen?
What would happen? I wonder if every
single American student beginning in kindergarten learned
that Americans are, in fact, out of many
One, unity through our differences.
It sure beats the separatist ideas of DEI that is killing
tradition and unity in our schools and communities.
So we've got more than 50 episodes of Craftery.
Each episode is about 10 minutes each
for kindergarten through fifth graders on
PragerUKids.com for free for you to watch
in their entirety for your kids to enjoy learning
more about America's history, holidays, cultural touch points.
And with that, we are out of time,
my friends. Thank you for being here as always on Parent Alert today.
I hope you learned something.
I hope you got an idea. I hope you were alerted
for something that maybe you want to ask about
in your school district.
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links to the PragerU Kids releases that I shared with you.
Again, our chapter books,
Jonathan Spencer, and our PragerU Kids videos.
The links to those that I shared with you today
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