>Teachers in Oklahoma would be instructed to have high school students “identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results” under new academic standards for social studies approved by the state education board last month.
>They stipulate that students should review information relating to the election, including “the sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states, the security risks of mail-in balloting, sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters, and the unprecedented contradiction of ‘bellwether county’ trends.”
>Oklahoma’s top education official, Superintendent Ryan Walters, is a Trump ally whose national profile has been raised by his push to distribute Trump-endorsed Bibles in classrooms; his backing of an attempt to create a publicly funded Catholic charter school in a case to be considered by the Supreme Court; and his appointing of conservative activist Chaya Raichik, best known for running the social media account “Libs of TikTok,” to a library advisory committee amid a crackdown on books deemed “harmful” in red states.
>“The purpose of the standard is simple: we want students to think for themselves, not be spoon-fed left wing propaganda,” Walters’s statement reads. “Students deserve to examine every aspect of our elections, including the legitimate concerns raised by millions of Americans in 2020.”
Obamna08 on
This will be standard history teaching in red states, unfortunately
boardatwork1111 on
Pretty sure they still call the civil war the “war of northern aggression”, so that sounds right in line with Oklahomas educational standards
gritsal on
Most kids universally think their teachers are idiots. I went to school in Alabama and I think these types of efforts are much less effective than they realize
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>Teachers in Oklahoma would be instructed to have high school students “identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results” under new academic standards for social studies approved by the state education board last month.
>They stipulate that students should review information relating to the election, including “the sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states, the security risks of mail-in balloting, sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters, and the unprecedented contradiction of ‘bellwether county’ trends.”
>Oklahoma’s top education official, Superintendent Ryan Walters, is a Trump ally whose national profile has been raised by his push to distribute Trump-endorsed Bibles in classrooms; his backing of an attempt to create a publicly funded Catholic charter school in a case to be considered by the Supreme Court; and his appointing of conservative activist Chaya Raichik, best known for running the social media account “Libs of TikTok,” to a library advisory committee amid a crackdown on books deemed “harmful” in red states.
>“The purpose of the standard is simple: we want students to think for themselves, not be spoon-fed left wing propaganda,” Walters’s statement reads. “Students deserve to examine every aspect of our elections, including the legitimate concerns raised by millions of Americans in 2020.”
This will be standard history teaching in red states, unfortunately
Pretty sure they still call the civil war the “war of northern aggression”, so that sounds right in line with Oklahomas educational standards
Most kids universally think their teachers are idiots. I went to school in Alabama and I think these types of efforts are much less effective than they realize
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Fascism almost always needs to rewrite history. This will keep happening.
Your kid in 2035: “Daddy, where were you when the Democrats stole the election in 2020?”
You: “I was- wait….wtf?”