Leaders in the Republican-led Oklahoma Legislature introduced a resolution to reject the standards, but there wasn’t enough GOP support to pass it.
Oklahoma high school students studying U.S. history learn about the Industrial Revolution, women’s suffrage and America’s expanding role in international affairs.
Beginning next school year, they will add conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.
Oklahoma’s new social studies standards for K-12 public school students, already infused with references to the Bible and national pride, were revised at the direction of state School Superintendent Ryan Walters. The Republican official has spent much of his first term in office lauding President Donald Trump, feuding with teachers unions and local school superintendents, and trying to end what he describes as “wokeness” in public schools.
So… no Oklahoma-based entry-level hires for the next few years. Got it.
Oklahoma can have all of their grads.
I mean, it’s always been Oklahoma. They don’t export a lot of intellectual capital.
I think you’re wrong about that. As someone who left I can say with some amount of certainty that most of the smart ones do leave and that’s part of why it remains shitty.
To be clear I’m referring to smart people I know who grew up there. The vast majority don’t live there anymore. This isn’t just a roundabout way of calling myself smart.