Posted on 08/25/2023 6:45:36 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Deborah Gist’s surprise announcement this week that she was resigning as superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools appeared to ward off a threat by Oklahoma’s top education official to take over the district — at least temporarily.
At an Oklahoma Board of Education meeting Thursday, Ryan Walters, the state’s superintendent of public instruction, stopped short of following through on his previous suggestions that the district should lose its accreditation — effectively shutting it down — or that the state should take control.
Instead, the board, which Walters chairs, voted to require more reports and plans from the Tulsa district, the state’s largest, and to revisit its accreditation in four months.
“I would advise Tulsa Public Schools and their leadership: Do not test me,” Walters said. “I’m willing to do whatever it takes for these kids.”
Walters, a firebrand Republican official who has leaned heavily into the culture wars in his seven months in office, had spent weeks attacking Gist and arguing that the district she leads, where a majority of students are Black and Latino and more than three-quarters are economically disadvantaged, was “uniquely bad.” He pilloried the district for low academic achievement scores and accused it of financial mismanagement. One of his key demands was that it get rid of Gist.
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More of this. A lot more.
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Agreed. Culture wars are not for the faint of heart, either - they take it seriously, so should we.
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“You are a slow learner, Winston.”
“How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.”
“Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Orwell certainly called it.
George Orwell was a genius at political perception and human psychology. From what I understand, he learned it the hard way.
Surprised Biden and ilk haven’t arrested the republican fella and thrown him in prison yet for daring to stand up agaisnt liberal tyranny
I like this Walters guy.
Only bad thing is the white people are fleeing Tulsa.
They are moving to the surrounding counties with their big city ideas.
Dictators have to dictate.
They can’t help themselves.
Quite a stink here in Tulsy Town, yes quite a stink. Time for Walters to shit or get off the pot.
Orwell’s account of the time he spent as a soldier in the Spanish Revolution is a good read.
I admit not knowing much about Oklahoma - but I assumed much of Tulsa was white and middle class. I suspected that there were rough or minority neighborhoods - but I didn’t realize to what extent it was.
Walters is headed in the right direction but is just postponing the inevitable.
These lefty/marxist indoctrinating government schools have got to be closed down and fumigated of socialist teachers and curriculums.
Agree! This Lefty Socialist agenda and the teachers who push it are robbing our kids of their innocence and their opportunity to learn and grow into mentally and physically healthy members of society. They are damning millions of kids to a permanently ignorant underclass forever dependent upon government care to survive. It’s inhumane and criminal.
See 1984 Page 183.
Horrible! Better think of something besides sports.
Another school official that likes to scare people with tests. I say “drop it, I got my pencil right here!”
well said........
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