Oklahoma High Schoolers Are Getting a Dangerous Lesson Plan
The state’s superintendent of public instruction wants teachers to present unfounded conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and Covid.
This is not really about academics.
Photographer: Frederick Florin/AFPBeginning this fall, teachers in all 462 Oklahoma public high schools will be required to teach students that the result of the 2020 presidential election is still in doubt — when the opposite has been proven. They also will be expected to make claims of scientific fact about the origins of the Covid pandemic when there is no certainty.
Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters quietly injected new academic standards into a proposal approved by the state Board of Education in February.
While the guidelines don’t say outright that the 2020 election was stolen, they urge teachers to present students with unfounded conspiracy theories.