Statehouse Democrat argues new standards will ‘insert an extremist political agenda into our public education system that will only cost Oklahomans more taxpayer money’

The Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ryan Walters, announced a new education policy for the state on Thursday, which includes the allegation that there were “discrepancies” in the 2020 election, which Donald Trump baselessly claims was stolen from him.

The new academic standards for social studies for the coming school year state that students should “identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs and other information, 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 ‘bellweather county’ trends.”

This comes after the Oklahoma Senate declined to take action on a resolution that would reject the election denial language in the social studies standards, The Oklahomannoted earlier this week.

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    What’s worse than defunding education, forcing teachers to live on poverty wages and to buy class materials out of pocket? Making them train a generation of kids to be crackpot conspiracy theorists.