Posted on 05/18/2025 9:08:57 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
As part of the latest Republican push in red states to promote ideologies sympathetic to Donald Trump, Oklahoma’s new social studies curriculum will ask high school students to identify “discrepancies” in the 2020 election results.
The previous standard for studying the 2020 election merely said: “Examine issues related to the election of 2020 and its outcome.” The new version is more expansive: “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 ‘bellwether county’ trends.”
The revised curriculum standard comes at the behest of Ryan Walters, the state school superintendent, who has publicly voiced his support for Trump. In October, Walters lauded Trump in an interview, saying that “Trump’s won the argument on education”.
Walters, who has also advocated for ending “wokeness” in public schools, went on to say: “We have education bureaucrats that are left-wing, elitist, that think they know best for families, and they have become so radicalized that our families are going: ‘What is going on here?’”
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 Walters’ direction.
The Republican official has spent much of his first term in office not only lauding Trump but also feuding with teachers’ unions and local school superintendents.
“The left has been pushing left-wing indoctrination in the classroom,” Walters said. “We’re moving it back to actually understanding history … and I’m unapologetic about that.”
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TRUTH in Oklahoma!
Asking the students to find factual discrepancies is not the same thing as teaching conspiracy theories "as fact".
“Asking the students to find factual discrepancies is not the same thing as teaching conspiracy theories “as fact”.”
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Exactly. What teachers, both liberal and conservative, do with this stuff is going to be interesting.
Why not show the absolute facts: not one incumbent Republican lost a House race. Trump won 19 out of 20 bellwether counties.
And then show the massive crowds at Trump rallies, and ten people at Joe’s shindigs.
And footage of the vote total going up for Biden after 2:00 a.m. and let the students decide for themselves.
There’s nothing controversial about teaching facts.
The Guardian is a global joke. A leftist comic book
Exactly.
And video footage and data tag tracking of mules making multiple drops in mail in votes.
Only a moron would refer to facts as being “conspiracy theories.”
Goodness. The way they worded the title I thought they were talking about theories like “Biden actually won” and “It was the most free and fair election in American history.”
You know, theories like that, instead of the truth.
Of course this makes sense. People need to realize this can and will happen in every election by the marxist, communist democrats without diligent observation by those opposed.
Teaching 2020 election conspiracies as fact.
Why not, every other conspiracy theory has been shown to be fact.
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