'Deplorable' professor creates 'anti-indoctrination mill' with new education startup

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'Deplorable' professor creates 'anti-indoctrination mill' with new education startup

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Michael Rectenwald riled NYU with his tweets. Now he's recruiting academics to teach courses that push back on critical race theory.

trigger warnings, safe spaces and bias reporting under the pseudonym "Deplorable NYU Prof."
The professor left two years ago with a golden parachute — the result of a legal settlement with the private university that included a retirement package.

He's not content anymore with just writing polemical books and fiction in retirement. Now Rectenwald is scouting for academics to join an educational startup, American Scholars, that is launching this summer.

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Matthew Pohl, the startup's Austin-based founder and CEO, told Just the News he was baffled that so few companies are interested in making education cheaper and more attainable. "The market is yearning for this," he said.

"I've had a front row seat" to watch students increasingly lose their "grasp on reality" while racking up immense student-loan debt, Pohl told Just the News. "I was essentially responsible for that as a gatekeeper."

Too few students graduate knowing how to invest, own property and "navigate the world with constitutional rights on their mind." There's too much focus on getting into college and too little on "being mindful about the investment" — choosing majors with a good return and not paying for bloated bureaucracies that peddle divisive ideologies, he said.

Targeting families who "feel trapped, angered and confused" by CRT in schools

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It's a great idea ......that's probably wacis and hateful
 

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