Below are posts associated with the “Oklahoma” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Oklahoma education standards say students must identify 2020 election 'discrepancies'
Ryan Walters continues to be shameful.
🔗 linkblog: State Education Department Seeks Bids for 55,000 Classroom Bibles - Oklahoma Watch'
This makes a bad story even worse. What a joke.
🔗 linkblog: Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Bible'
I’m not necessarily opposed to teaching the Bible in public schools, but if you’re going to do it, you should do it right: Compare and contrast the creation accounts, discuss different authors’ conflicting takes on issues, and treat it as literature. That’s clearly not what Walters is advocating for, and his approach is indefensible.
🔗 linkblog: Oklahoma Threatens Librarians: ‘Don’t Use the Word Abortion’'
Libraries are a key part of a democratic society, and this is a very worrying development.