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  I will never understand how US history is indoctrination but church isn’t
context: I'm sorry for the children in Oklahoma. >
  
  I quit teaching in Oklahoma. It's a disaster to teach here. >
  
  Ranked 49th in the country for education. Yikes! >
  
  Dude should have been investigated on receiving over $100,000 a year  and still running a "non-profit" that was funded by groups pushing for charter schools and school vouchers so private companies could make money off schools all while STILL BEING superintendent. >
  
  Isn't that what tax audits are for? >
  
  On MLK Day? Hmmm I wonder what that was about... >
  
  Was someone teaching children facts again? Or even worse, how to actually think for themselves? >
  
  They used to call it, "witchcraft" >
  
  I'm sure that will be next on the agenda. When burning books just isn't satisfying enough. >
  
  "Those who burn books will in the end burn people." >
  
  So books are a kind of gateway kindling? >
  
  If indoctrination is bad, then why do they force kids to say the Pledge of Allegiance? If they are regulating what speech is allowed, then it sounds like a First Amendment issue. >
  
  Good news, Mississippi! >
  
  For real, if the Thunder weren't in Oklahoma, Oklahoma would be Mississippi. >
  
  Yeah, we as OKC fans don't even like Clay Bennett, for different reasons, of course. I am most certainly happy for my state having a team. It sure helps me deal with the suck of my state, with the Murrah Building bombing, Tulsa Race Massacre, Green Corn Massacre, Killers of the Flower Moon, Kevin Stitt, etc.
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  I really hope Seattle gets a team again. It would be a great rivalry. The Thunder and Sonics having a rivalry back would be great for the NBA. >
  
  OKLAHOMA..... where the racism, bigotry, sexism, patriarchy and stupidity comes whistlin' down the plain >
  
  🎵 Oh, what a abyssmal morning!! In Kevin Stitt's state! 🎵 >
  
  As a public school teacher, I will never work in a red state again. I don’t know why any other teachers would either unless they can’t leave. 
  It’s a hard enough job without being a political pawn of the right, and they aren’t slowing down their attacks on education. >
  
  What the hell does that even mean? I taught high school for over 30 years. This guy sounds like a nut job. Teachers are going to quit teaching in Oklahoma. >
  
  Teachers already have quit teaching in Oklahoma. It's a disaster here. I got off the ship before it started to capsize. >
  
  Ryan is another gqp genius. When you damage schools by not letting good teachers teach and scare away the best teachers, even more families will leave and even more will never want to live there. Make America Stupid Again! >
  
  Not only that, but if the state has a reputation for bad schools, businesses will not want to locate there. Because they won't be able to get the highly educated employees they need. And people from outside the state won't want to re-locate there because the schools will be bad for their children. >
  
  These guys always present themselves as the savvy responsible business people - and then pull bonehead crap like this. >
  
  Whole lotta fascists coming to power in the US. >
  
  This is like the Salem Witch Trials. What has happened to our country?? >
  
  Republicans: what’s the big deal? If she floats shes a witch, if she drowns she was innocent 🤷🏻‍♀️ >
  
  I can see why their dead last.  Damn. Id flee the state as a educator. >
  
  I did. >
  
  What many of us call education, they refer to as indoctrination in Okiehoma. >
  
  But having someone tell you that you have to revere some invisible, all-seeing being whose existence can't possibly be proven and that if you dare question their existence you'll suffer incredible pain and misery is not indoctrination. >
  
  So. The new wave in educational policy is to jail all the teachers? >
  
  Then, I'll assume they'll kill all the lawyers, like Henry VI. >
  
  The State investigating teachers for teaching outside the lines of ideological purity is some shit straight out of Nazi Germany and the USSR >
  
  That's about right for the course. Look at how many Christian nationalist groups work together with groups in Russia. They don't hate each other when they can hate on LGBTQIA+ people and minority groups. >
  
  Damn red states, the flag dropped on being publicly batshit, didn’t it?!
  Oklahoma, join the club of states whose Fox News demented elderly have thrown everything in the toilet.  You’re not alone, sadly. >
  
  "He told KOCO 5 that his primary goal is to combat "woke" ideology in schools and to empower parents." >
  
  So he's cool with parents taking their kids to drag shows right? >
  
  I had to double check, I thought this was a post for Florida at first 🤦🏼‍♀️ >
  
  All education is indoctrination. It just depends on what you want to indoctrinate kids with... facts, science, and truth or whitewashed fantasy. >
  
  I always thought of education as "this generation figuring out what skills the next generation will need in order to meet the challenges of the future, and passing those skills along." In my version, it's not about each student becoming "a success" (i.e. rich) or "a failure." It's not a competition. It's so EVERYONE gets a good education. EVERY school is supposed to be good. It's… important. (Not really arguing. Your point is well-taken too.) >
  
  ryan walters is unable too think for himself - zombie >
  
  The future for the next generation in these red states looks grim. A poorly educated cohort, angry about lack of opportunity. Right up the GOP ally for new voters. >
  
  I bet he’s gonna be real bad for Oklahoma. >
  
  That's the safest bet anyone ever made. >
  
  Sadly… >
  
  Indoctrination huh? Damn Reapers at it again. Better call Shephard to investigate. >
  
  Oh, is indoctrination a crime? Don’t forget about the churches. >
  
  Must be one of the religious schools >
  
  He has instructed his staff to immediately investigate Santa for breaking Oklahoma state law by giving gifts to illegal immigrants. >
  
  Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains,
  as it whistles through the cracks in conservative brains.
  This is the state where the former governor declared a statewide day of prayer for the oil and gas industries.
  I'm a refugee from that terrible place, and I'm glad I got out. >
  
  They must teach at the school his girlfriend attended. You wouldn't know her, it's the next town over. >
  
  So… The teachers were teaching? >
  
  As someone who’s only read the Headline so far I cant tell wether the indoctrination was about :
  LGBTQ awareness
  Christian values
  Slavery might have been bad actually
  A drawing of [insert religious figure here]
  A pyramid scheme >
  
  You know what's really stupid is schools are suppose to indoctrinate students. That's what most teaching is.
  Not saying kids shouldn't be taught critical thinking, but we do trust schools to convince kids to take a lot of information at face value. >
  
  Somehow when it’s for-profit school teachers these folks are all in favor of it 🤷‍♂️ >
  
  The race to the new Santos has commenced. >
  
  Not too long before he has to remove qualifications to be a teacher like Florida. They have all those vet's from the Air Force base. The teachers could fix this pretty quick with a little unity. Every district go on strike the same day for like 3 days every week. >
  
  They did. It's basically anyone show up and they will let you teach. The shortages are so extreme, they are asking anyone to show up. However, no one wants to teach. >
  
  Why the heck would anyone want to be a teacher in a red state any more? >
  
  What galls me is the failure to educate Oklahoman kids year after year, always blaming this or that lame reason.  Having spent many years there, and then this past Christmas holiday, it’s clear to see that the state remains little more than a third-rate Texas clone. >
  
  Yup, and judging off the Red River Rivalry game this year, 3rd rate is sufficient. >
  
  Define woke if you are able. >
  
  Handmaids Tale >
  
  What times are these … spiralling down, the vindictive and stupid coming to rule over the ignorant and timid >
  
  Clearly, the reason Oklahoma is consistently in the low to mid forties in the rankings of US states is “indoctrination.”
  Pathetic. 
  Such potential wasted, day in and day out, fighting to stay in the past. >
  
  It’s McCarthyism all over again. >
  
  Super Nintendo Walters. >
  
  Gestapo much? >
  
  Good job Oklahoma you just couldn’t vote for a person who had a “D” next to their name bc “MUH guns” >
  
  Ah, the Great State of Oklahoma.  : | >
  
  You get what you pay for 😳 >
  
  Basically the red scare all over again >
  
  Well yea. He just wanted 2 teachers investigated. Doesn’t matter who… >
  
  "We will not allow the indoctrination of Oklahoma students here in the state of Oklahoma, and I, as the state superintendent and the Department of Education, will do everything within our power to not allow our kids to be indoctrinated by far-left radicals and to hold those accountable who have done so."
  Republicans’ attacks on educators, doctors, free speech and personal freedoms is still full speed ahead.  Anyone catch the story about the election denying Republican domestic terrorist in New Mexico?  
  We have two parties in our country, one Democratic and one very in-Democratic. >
  
  Oklahoma hates freedom. >
  
  I survived high school in oklahoma and I was never going back anyway, well before this as I have my own kids.  The education system there has rapidly deteriorated since my graduation.  A near useless 300k a year superintendents office at every school regardless of size of the school.the  Refusing to consolidate rural schools in towns into bigger regional schools.  You now no longer need any teaching credentials at all to teach k-12,  no college, not even a seminar on how to instruct students.  I don't even think you need to show any expertise/knowledge in the subject you are being hired for.  Florida is going the same route.  They sold the lottery as way to help fund education way back in the day,  I doubt they have provided any additional funds or anywhere near what they were supposed to.  Then they cut state education funding 1-1 for any funding they did provide from the lottery.  Teachers wages are at near poverty levels because they refuse to acknowledge that most teachers these days are single and younger not married older women who are not the sole income earner.   You can literally go to texas and immediately get paid twice as much. >
  
  Seems like Ryan Walters watched the Wire and is pulling a Carcetti >
  
  Someone’s been re-watching The Wire. >
  
  Good ole critical race theory. >
  
  Taught in no public school ever…. >
  
  “We only allow right wing, or religious indoctrination here in Oklahoma.” How are people still buying this political pantomime. Indoctrination is a vague enough term, but to leave out all context what so ever is just dishonest. Oklahomas superintendent seems like a real POS. >
  
  I hate those American fake smiles. >
  
  This word indoctrinate is a sure favorite with these guys. Indoctrination to what? Gayness?