Oklahoma Public Schools Superintendent Proposes Teaching That 2020 Election Was Stolen From Trump

The Washington Post reports:

Teachers in Oklahoma would be instructed to have high school students “identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results” under new academic standards for social studies approved by the state education board last month.

They stipulate that students should review information relating to the election, 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.”

Oklahoma’s top education official, Superintendent Ryan Walters, said in a statement to The Washington Post that the new standard “empowers students to investigate and understand the electoral process.” “The purpose of the standard is simple: we want students to think for themselves, not be spoon-fed left wing propaganda,” Walters’s statement reads.

NonDoc reports:

“In the spirit of full transparency, I question why this was done in the 11th hour and why no mention of this was made during the presentation at the board meeting,” new State Board of Education member Ryan Deatherage told NonDoc on Wednesday.

House Common Education Committee Chairman Dick Lowe (R-Amber) said the standards were already “on the edge” because of their insertion of teachings from the Bible, but he said the new Trump-related standards are too much.

“I’m not gonna say [the standards’ references to Christianity are] horrible, I’m just saying, ‘Why? Why?’ I know the answer why, you know the answer why, but, you know, I just thought that those were on the edge then,” Lowe said. “But you put stuff like this in, and it’s quite obvious what this was for them.”

There’s much more at both links above. Walters appeared here earlier this week when he launched a money beg to buy $3 million in Trump bibles for classrooms after the state Senate denied his funding request. Walters is widely expected to run for Oklahoma governor. Fellow Christian nationalist Gov. Kevin Stitt is term-limited.

Revised OSDE social studies standards tell students to ‘identify discrepancies in 2020 election results’
nondoc.com/2025/03/12/r…

#Oklahoma #OKEd #oklaed

[image or embed]

— Blog Oklahoma (@blogoklahoma.bsky.social) March 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM

Here we go: the rewriting of history has formally begun

“Oklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’”

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20…

[image or embed]

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) March 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM