'Very concerned': Oklahoma lawmakers allow new social studies standards to take effect
'Very concerned': Oklahoma lawmakers allow new social studies standards to take effect
Oklahoma’s students will now be taught that the 2020 election was stolen, and that COVID-19 was created in a Chinese lab.
Oklahoma’s Senate refused to even vote on this.
Imagine having the second biggest terrorist attack in the country and then slowly over time using and adopting the same ideas as McVeigh
Probably half of OKCPD agreed with McVeigh. Must have upset Terrence Yeakey so much that he slit his own wrists and shot himself in the back.
My days of never going to Oklahoma sure are coming to a middle
That was a beautiful, poetic sentence.
Priorities:
The state issued a new all-time high of 4,676 emergency certifications from June through December, representing teaching hires for the 2023-24 school year. The previous record was set last school year with 4,574.
The certificates permit a person with at least a bachelor’s degree to work in public schools without having any teacher training in the grade level or subject area they want to teach.
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About 30,000 teachers left Oklahoma’s public school system between 2012 and 2018. Meanwhile, the number of people studying to become teachers fell nationwide since 2010, most steeply in Oklahoma.
Those are just the statistics on emergency certified teachers, who must have a degree. There are adjunct positions where a high school diploma lets you teach high school.
I remember during a teacher meeting one of our e-certs telling us that one of his students had told him that she had been raped the night before. He had no idea that he was a mandatory reporter
As the younger generations shrink it will become harder and harder to economically support public education. I am pro public education. This is an issue we need to figure out.
Oklahoma does not allow abortion, except to save the life of the mother - definitely trying their best to stop any demographic decline. (This also does nothing to stop people from protesting at Planned Parenthood 🙄)
Sex Ed isn’t great either - the big focus is HIV/AIDs, which state statute lists something like “homosexual behavior” next to IV drug use as a risk factor.
If they were better educated they might've known that being 50th out of 50 in education means they're the worst.
50/50=#1!!
Idiocracy has arrived in full. If only we had as good a president as Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in office.
New Oklahoma History
The Godly American citizens of Tulsa peacefully objected to criminal mobs of African thugs stealing their jobs and robbing them of the wealth that was ordained to be rightfully theirs by The Lord Almighty. These brave Patriots gently restored the Greenwood District to its White Christian Glory on May 31 and June 1, 1921. Hallelujah!
No reparations for the rioters of course.
It’s not like this was intentionally done because Greenwood was economically successful to the point of being called the “Black Wall Street.” It’s not like Oklahoma has a history of black homesteaders setting up all black communities, then having their land taken by various contrivances.
I remember a couple of years ago talking to people using LIDAR (I think?) to see if there were any more mass graves still undiscovered…
Ahhhh...
The most backwards parts of a backwards country...
Determined to keep digging deeper to plumb depths of wilful ignorance and stupidity that nobody could have imagined would happen by design
I'm so glad I don't live in 'Murica
It’s not just the education system here either:
And what about child welfare? The Fed’s just stopped overseeing DHS, surely things are better now?
I can’t share too much - but I can say that when I brought up the fact that DHS LOST(!) the kid I was working with pretty routinely, they started to suggest that I might be sexually abusing her. It fucking sucks that I had to quit that role, but as a tranny I’m not risking anything.
You have to fit your own oxygen mask first
You will help others. You can't help everyone
I tried that, and all I got was a bunch of loose screws, a handful of broken hearts, and a liver that you can use when you want new soles for your shoes
You are the first trans person I've ever seen using that slur to describe themselves. Is it a reclaimed word thing?
Oklahoma is ranked 49th out of 50 for education. So it's not like things can get much worse.
The largest district in the state is a virtual charter school. “Attendance” is a five question quiz at most - they’ll drop you if you don’t “attend” for 14 days straight. So most families game the system - have the kid check in every 5 days or so. There’s a “learning fund” - where parents get around $1000 to shop around on Amazon for “school supplies” - strange how difficult it is to find all of the articles about people using it during the pandemic to buy Christmas trees and television.
Epic has teachers teach all subjects and grades - your child’s high school geometry class will be taught by someone who probably can’t add fractions. The grading workload is impossible, because you are grading across all subjects and grades. Read a paper about the Civil War, look through some material on art history - the reality is that kids are just submitting AI garbage which is never read by anyone.
There is a huge literacy and numeracy crisis in Oklahoma. It’s disgusting.
Pretty big difference between being poorly educated and being intentionally taught lies
Oklahoma's doing both.
Oh, they can, even if the ranking doesn't change much.