Oklahoma.i Home – Oklahoma High school students are studying the United States history Learn about the industrial revolution, women’s sting and roles of the expansion of women in international affairs.
Since the beginning of the next school year, they will add conspiracy theories about 2020 Presidential Elections.
Oklahomine standards for social studies for students in public schools K-12, which have already been invested in the Bible and national pride, are revised in the direction of the State School Supervisor Ryan Walters. The Republic Officer spent most of its first term in the office President Donald Trumpfeuding with trade unions and local school surveillance and trying to break what he describes as “sealability” in public schools.
“Leva pushed left indoctrination in the classroom,” Walters said. “We start him back in actually understanding history … and I’m impossible about it.”
Previous Standard to study elections 2020. He just said: “Examine the questions related to the 2020 elections. And its outcome.” The new version is more expansive: “Identify the differences in 2020. Exclosure Greenings and other information, including the volatile ballots in voting countries, an unseener number of voters, and unprecedented” trends “belwether” trend “.
The new standard raised the red flags even among Walters co-minors, including governors and legislative leaders. They were worried that several last minute changes, including the language of the elections from 2020. year and the provision of Covid-19 virus was a Chinese laboratory, only hours before the State School Committee voted on them.
A group of parents and teachers has filed a lawsuit As refer to the judge to reject standards, claiming that they did not review properly and “represent a distorted view of social studies that deliberately conducive to an outdated and sharp biased perspective.”
Although many teachers of Oklahoma have expressed outrage standards, others say they leave a lot of space for the efficient teacher to inherit the results of the elections 2020. years, and the results of the elections 2020. years would not take them.
Aaron Baker, who taught us the Government in Oklahoma County, was most concerned about teachers in rural, conservative parts of the state that could be encouraged to abolish their own assurances about students.
“If someone is welcome the influence of these end organizations in our standards is interested in inserating more Christianity in our practice as teachers and then became reduced,” Baker said. “It’s a major concern for me.”
Leaders in the Republic Legislation of Oklahoma introduced the resolution to refuse standards, but there was not enough GOP support to convey it.
Part of that hesitation was probably derived from a barrel of last minute opposition that organized pro-trump conservative groups such as Moms for freedomwhich has a large presence in Oklahoma and threatened with representatives that refuse standards with the primary opponent.
“In the last few election cycles, conservative organizations turned over Oklahoma, holding weak Republicans responsible,” a group in the letter signed by several other Conservative Groups and GOP activists. “If you decide on the side of the liberal media and make back banks with Democrats to block conservative reform, you will be next.”
After a group of parents, teachers and other school officials worked on the development of new social studies, Walters compiled the Executive Board consisting of the external formwork from conservative thoughts to revise them. He said he wanted to focus more on American extremely and Install the Bible as a instructive resource.
Among these Walters appointed for the audit are Kevin Roberts, the President of the Heritage Foundation and a key character in his project in his project, a conservative non-profit language for children that some critics say that some critics are not accurate or objective.
In a statement for the Associated Stom, Walters defended students about “unseen and historical significant” elements of the elements of the Presidential elections 2020. years.
“Standards don’t point to what to believe; rather encourage critical thinking by calling students to examine real events, review publicly available information,” he said.
Recount, Reviews and audits in States in battle countries Are Trumps challenged by his loss that all confirmed Win Democrat Joe BidenA Trump They lost dozens of court cases Causing results.
Critics say that Walters is a new standard filled with incorrect phrasing that seeks to manage the discussion in a certain direction.
Democrats characterized him as another political playful walters, widely speaking as a potential Governor’s candidate in 2026. years, to the detriment of school children.
“It is a harmful gradual and political theater that our children should not be subjected,” said the Senar Mark Mann, Democrat from the city of Oklahoma who previously served on the school board for one of the largest state committees.
National educational standards experts have expressed an alarm, noting that Oklahoma historically ranked high Among States for their standards.
Brendan Gillis, director of teaching and learning in the American Historical Association, who has analyzed the standards in all 50 countries, said Oklahomi’s social studies are “pretty good” to the latest version.
In addition to concerns about election desinctions, Gillis added: “There were also a lot of biblical content that was the kind of exploitation during existing standards.”
He said many references to Christianity and the Bible misinterpreted the history of the country’s founding and lacking historical shades.
David Griffith, research director at Think-Tank Institute, Conservatively weakened Think-Tank, said that no other countries attempted to promote electoral disinformation in their curriculum standards.
He called the new standards of “unhappy” departure from the Oklahoma framework traditionally strong standards of social studies.
“It’s just inappropriate to promote the tutor’s theories about the standards elections,” he said.
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Associated Press Writer Christina A. Cassidy in Atlanta contributed to this report.
2025-05-17 12:54:00
