President Trump will never recant his baloney about how the 2020 election was stolen, but given his decisive victory in 2024, the GOP could now at least let his falsehoods fade into obscurity. Oklahoma is keeping them alive by echoing Mr. Trump’s fantasy in its new standards for high-school social studies classes.
Starting with the next academic year, Oklahoma students in U.S. history classes will be asked to “identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs and other information,” including on “sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters, and the unprecedented contradiction of ‘bellwether county’ trends.”
Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s elected superintendent of public instruction, defended this language recently to the Associated Press. “The standards,” he argued, “do not instruct students on what to believe; rather, they encourage critical thinking by inviting students to examine real events, review publicly available information, and come to their own conclusions.”
Remember that the same people crying about this also teach that America is a fascist country build on racism and slavery and has no redeeming features to its history and that woman can be men and the reverse if they say so.
ReplyDeleteThe school boards are scared because of the words "critical thinking" which is something they've tried to abolish.