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New standards for Oklahoma high school students promote misinformation about the 2020 election (www.nbcnews.com)

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Leaders in the Republican-led Oklahoma Legislature introduced a resolution to reject the standards, but there wasn’t enough GOP support to pass it.

Oklahoma high school students studying U.S. history learn about the Industrial Revolution, women’s suffrage and America’s expanding role in international affairs.

Beginning next school year, they will add conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.

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 the direction of state School Superintendent Ryan Walters. The Republican official has spent much of his first term in office lauding President Donald Trump, feuding with teachers unions and local school superintendents, and trying to end what he describes as “wokeness” in public schools.

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

So… no Oklahoma-based entry-level hires for the next few years. Got it.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Oklahoma can have all of their grads.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I mean, it's always been Oklahoma. They don't export a lot of intellectual capital.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I think you're wrong about that. As someone who left I can say with some amount of certainty that most of the smart ones do leave and that's part of why it remains shitty.

To be clear I'm referring to smart people I know who grew up there. The vast majority don't live there anymore. This isn't just a roundabout way of calling myself smart.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.”

"Identify discrepancies" is very leading implying that they did exist.

Then everything that follows imply they happened, it lends credence by being discussed even if they didn't happen.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Man, so glad my kid is out of school now, he'd make their lives hell and rightly so! Then I'd roll up and go "And... he's right, this is complete bullshit and it should be illegal to force feed kids propaganda like this, who's your legal team? Let's get them on the phone..."

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