New Oklahoma curriculum includes pro-Trump conspiracy theories [View all]

Source: Popular Information (Independent accountability journalism.)

Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. The lesson will not be part of a course on conspiracy theories, but an official component of the new social studies curriculum created by Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters (R).


Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters

The new curriculum includes a section that requires students to "analyze contemporary turning points of 21st-century American society." That requirement includes the following:
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.

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In other words:
"We're tired of students learning about accurate liberal information, so we're hijacking the system to teach our students about conservative propaganda & conspiracy theories."