Oklahoma Education Commissar Ryan Walters announces new academic standards for the coming school year. Among other things, all students will be required to learn Trump's version of the 2020 election.
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It strikes me that “examining discrepancies” means that they have to exist in order to be examined. That’s a potential way out/around for responsible, truth-oriented teacher. Obviously depends upon amount it teacher, school, district autonomy or lack thereof, but a tiny bit of hope (such idiocy).
Also, hell would have to freeze over before I allow any child in my sphere of influence be exposed to such dangerous garbage. I teach children to look for truth. Trump’s big lie certainly isn’t it.
I know it’s not easy. But if we want to save Oklahoma’s children from fascist lies, something needs to be done. This is straight out of playbook used by Hitler’s Germany and now Putin’s Russia.
I replied to someone else that I'll happily make a Venmo account so people can pay my and my kids' moving expenses. Are you willing to contribute $5000?
The last firewall against this was the Republican-dominated state house of representatives, who, on Tuesday, refused to stop Ryan Walters from ruining the educations of my and the other hundreds of thousands of Oklahoma public school students.
Ryan Walters shoved his face far into the taint of Donald Trump in the hopes of being chosen as Education Secretary. Donald picked the wrestling lady, but Walters is still using our kids as a stepping stone to higher office.
A new generational long Reconstruction will absolutely be necessary after the smoke has cleared and these fucks have been removed from power… a new generation will need to learn why the Tolerance Paradox is a thing
This is beyond horrific. As a former history teacher, if I’d been handed that standard, I’d have thrown a complete fit and maybe gotten fired or quit. I always encouraged my students to think for themselves and seek truth.
I looked Oklahoma up, and turns out it is not in Asia, it's a white settler state in the West, onr of the 50 so-called United states of America as it is.
*Someone compares unusually authoritarian actions to an infamously authoritarian state*
"What are you, racist against Asian people?"
I'll take it back if someone says this about Japan, or Vietnam, or Laos, or any of the other Asian countries that haven't been dictatorships for half a century
Do you consider it absolving Trump of blame if we compare him to Mussolini? I'm very comfortable saying there are "Fascist Italian-style" elements of his rule.
The point is this was, is and will continue to be what America does and the way to fix that starts at not pointing at it and going "just like those wacky Asians"
Oregon is also a capitalist state, and we didn't have this dear leader propaganda shit in school. He's talking about authoritarianism, not socialism. You don't have to defend Kim John Un, he's not going to fuck you
I hated that shit, but a vague pledge that takes a minute is a whole lot less crazy than this. They're building a whole lesson plan around partisan political talking points, with the clear expectation that they're going to be propagandized with blatant lies. Even by red state standards, that's bad
It's not even generically conservative ideological talking points, it's specifically pro-Trump culture war BS, a lot of which is just flat out wrong. It reads like the goal is to kiss up to one particular authoritarian leader. So yes, it's much more like North Korea than normal American politics
Yes. It’s what they’ve been falsely accusing teachers of for ages. Precisely because they want to implement it. It’s called “Accusation in a mirror” and it’s a well know abusive behavior.
Sorry, but I am thoroughly disinterested. What in the fuck would anyone want to be born into a regressive, anti intellectual shit-hole like Oklahoma for?
My kid had to go to school in OK for two years. It was a nightmare for us both. We left so she could be in a good public school system, and thank goddess, it didn’t hurt her. Walters is the worst thing to happen to OK schools. Gov. Schitt is the second. Senators Mullin and Lankford tie for 4th.
It feels like if I was a teacher there, I would rather teach my students nothing at all than this tripe. Oh nooo the Civil Rights unit ran over again! Guess we don't have time for more current affairs.
Can someone help me better understand where in the process this text is? Is this a proposal of standards that's likely to undergo changes further review, or is this a finalized version that will officially be on the books? Just looking for more info to contextualize when sharing.
The Republican majority Oklahoma state house of representatives refused to take these standards up on Tuesday of this week. This means the standards will go into effect, and Ryan Walters can keep jerking it to Dear Leader's portrait.
Oklahoma schools are ranked #49 among the 50 states. But, sure, its students are going to show great expertise in understanding and explaining statistical graphs that "demonstrate" a false narrative of a stolen election.
This, right here, is why I no longer see a path forward for the "United" States. When we cannot agree on basic facts, there can be no common ground from which to operate.
When we take power back I DEMAND we go just as hard at reversing this madness and making sure this can NEVER happen again. I mean i demand executive orders every 5 min dismantling the republicans agenda.
What happens when the kids doing research and using AI for research find no such examples, learn mail in ballots are safe, ask how you can think a record number of voters is bad and that no one stopped counting ballots? What then?
Problem for them is if you ask Grok about those things, it tells the truth. Lots of published stories about Grok making Elon and Trump out to be the liars they are.
Mr. Walters, if the Dems could rig an election against Trump while he was in the White House, why couldn't they have done it when he wasn't in the White House?
All of it is propaganda to praise Dear Leader. Hope some kids are smart enough to to describe the WH felon's tax scam as the give-away to his wealthy donors it is & NAFTA 2.0 as not much more than ego stroking & that he just wanted to slap his name on the existing deal.
What the "just leave" people also don't understand is: why should you have? You shouldn't have to abandon a place you've established yourself. You should be able to live wherever you want and fascists shouldn't be able to make you leave. It's victim blaming.
Yah sure but the fact that it's an unjust situation doesn't change what an individual should do to minimize their risk. Eg: Trans people should be able to get diagnoses/meds from healthcare providers and trust the government won't abuse this, but they can no longer trust that, so they shouldn't
Sure. If you're in physical harm's ways I'm not telling you to stay and get killed. We're not discussing openly hostile trans violence.
I'm talking about a specific type of person who is like "If you don't like it, leave." Which misses the point that this is my home too and I want to stay here.
Okay, my bad for misinterpreting. You were replying to someone who was talking about their personal decision to stay or leave and I read it in that context
Tangential to your post but i DO think this type of hostile nonsense law is to get left leaning people to concentrate themselves into a handful of blue states. Then the right has ensured electoral and senate dominance forever + enough states for constitutional convention. They want you to leave.
This song from Rogers and Hammerstein‘s “South Pacific” leaps to mind every time I hear the hateful rhetoric of Stephen Miller about children and education. The dishonor, cruelty and damage done by POTUS,VP and their minions will ripple for generations!
#ProtectTheConstitution https://youtu.be/VPf6ITsjsgk
I would make my kids fail that unit if I lived in OK, but I would NEVER live in OK, and I lived in AL by choice, so I guess I am not really one to throw stones.
As Oklahomans, that's why we homeschool. The school system here is a failure and if you want your kids to get any education you are unfortunately going to have to do it yourself. (We hate it here someone rescue us lol)
Both states keep voting for the people who brought them these respective results. I guess they like what they’re seeing. Maybe they’re shootings for rock bottom.
No one should send their child to a school willing to lie to them. Just no. Who knows what else they are teaching. Better to try to move as soon as you can to a school with ethics.
Holy shit, the teachers would learn to fear my kids if we lived in Oklahoma. They're already argumentative AF and I can arm them with way more statistics knowledge than the OK educational requirements.
the really nefarious problem with this, is if you're a student, it then calls into question everything else they're teaching you. So really it works well at discrediting public education as a whole
...great way to move from 49th to 50th in US education ranking...the continued miseducation of Oklahoma children...someone call Child Protective Services...
This is actually an important question. I have considered that if I still had small kids, I would do just that and ensure that the school understand that my child would not suffer by missing that material or on a test, at risk of suit.
There is a not 0% chance that Ryan Walters' phone and computer hard drives are chock full of child p*rn. Experience has shown that folks that go so hard for religion and "protecting the children" are themselves sexual predators that use religion as a shield. It's just a waiting game at this point.
Even if we survive this presidency as a nation, we’re going to be dealing with these cultists for the rest of our lives. This is going to be a very long, very ugly struggle.
Ryan Walters isn’t required to have sex with men, but the impulse is strong, and the dumb fuck orc is weak, so you figure out the odds of homosexual activity in Ryan’s hidden world.
Actually, that’s pretty vague criteria. It doesn’t tell you what to conclude after analyzing that information. I could easily fulfill that requirement while also showing how it’s hogwash.
So...NOT teaching that all the election lawsuits were lost and claims of pervasive election fraud were groundless bullshit that melted like rancid butter when perjury was on the line.
It's going to make it easier for employers during job interviews.
"Who won the 2020 election?"
"Donald Trump"
"OK, thanks for coming in. Bye"
It will be (accurately) assumed that if they were educated in OK, they don't have basic competencies/factual knowledge for employment in most industries.
I'm trying to find a source for this, but all that comes up is Walters' settlement to pay $18k for ethics violations.
Additionally (and unrelated to that?), half of his own party in state congress wants him investigated.
Yikes...That kind of education will make those kids way less competitive for admissions at colleges in states that don't believe in rewriting history. I'm horrified and yet, it seemed inevitable someone would try this.
Sounds familiar
"Mao Zedong used various methods, including education and propaganda, to indoctrinate the Chinese population, particularly during the Cultural Revolution. He sought to instill his "Mao Zedong Thought" into all aspects of life, starting at a young age."
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Y'all in the rest of the US need to pay attention
It's disgusting and our kids don't deserve this.
i wasnt there
"What are you, racist against Asian people?"
I'll take it back if someone says this about Japan, or Vietnam, or Laos, or any of the other Asian countries that haven't been dictatorships for half a century
Unquestionably fascist. But then if that's true, why do we supposedly non-fascists keep inviting fascists over for BBQs?
We keep asking the wrong people, Trumpers where the bottom is.
https://bsky.app/profile/statesongxprt.bsky.social/post/3l62d4btywt2x
ALL of this was predictable once you politely let the bad guys in.
Top 5: OK/NEB/TX/IA/ID
Sorry, but I am thoroughly disinterested. What in the fuck would anyone want to be born into a regressive, anti intellectual shit-hole like Oklahoma for?
https://bsky.app/profile/auntmarilee.bsky.social/post/3lnxpbbwvdk2p
Surely the right of each child to an education incorporates the requirement that the education be accurate & fact-based.
Fucking ass-licking idiot.
Propaganda
The GOP should be declared a terrorist org.
When the teachers speak,
The falsehoods reek,
Worse than any rotten piece of meat!
He looks like he's asleep
It's a shame that he won't keep
But it's summer and we're running out of ice
And as for those Communards
I'm talking about a specific type of person who is like "If you don't like it, leave." Which misses the point that this is my home too and I want to stay here.
#ProtectTheConstitution
https://youtu.be/VPf6ITsjsgk
https://www.fox23.com/news/effort-at-state-capitol-aims-to-stop-revised-social-studies-standards-for-ok-public-schools/article_a305d024-a62c-41c7-adac-61a69bac2d1c.html
There’s some interesting fuel for discussion, but the expectations are clear, and in direct opposition to the rational interpretation.
If one has school aged kids, they should enroll them in a school that is NOT in OK.
Hopefully this doesn't really happen.
It’s seditious support for & spreading of Russian propaganda that incited a terror attack on our capital in coup attempt.
Darn these over excited thumbs!
and yet...
Health class: analyze link between vaccines and autism
Review COVID-19 vaccine harm data. Discuss effectiveness of Ivermectin treatment.
American History:
Review and discuss Jan 6th 2021 as a patriotic protest. Analyze role played by FBI.
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"Who won the 2020 election?"
"Donald Trump"
"OK, thanks for coming in. Bye"
It will be (accurately) assumed that if they were educated in OK, they don't have basic competencies/factual knowledge for employment in most industries.
Additionally (and unrelated to that?), half of his own party in state congress wants him investigated.
Students will also be learning lies on the origins of COVID, (Chinese lab) and Roe v Wade.
"Mao Zedong used various methods, including education and propaganda, to indoctrinate the Chinese population, particularly during the Cultural Revolution. He sought to instill his "Mao Zedong Thought" into all aspects of life, starting at a young age."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02596-2