Secondary school students in Oklahoma would be asked to identify “inconsistencies” in the elections by 2020 as part of the class of American history, according to new standards of social studies recently approved by the Oklahoma Education Council.
The proposed standards It seems to reflect the false claims of President Trump about his defeat by 2020. They ask students to explore factors such as “sudden stopping the number of votes in selected cities in the key states of the battlefield” and “security risks of voting in Postal.”
Now they are heading towards a Republican legislator with a Republican who could take this problem before his term of term ends at the end of May, or this matter to disrupt the Governor’s table.
Standards supported by the state A hard charging Republican superintendentThey have already received pushback, even from the government of Kevin Stitt, also a Republican whose office characterized changes as “distraction”. The spokesperson said the governor had not yet seen standards in full and it was not clear whether they would support them.
The additions to the elections by 2020 are among several changes that have been accommodating a strong conservative view of the state depiction of modern American politics and Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly denied the results of elections by 2020, an opinion that some Republicans have widely accepted, Despite lack of evidence.
And earlier version From the new standards – which were published for public commentary in December – they simply asked students to explore “problems related to the choice of 2020 and its result”. New changes have been made to the public and last month approved the Council of Education. Were first reported NonocNon -profit intelligence outlet in Oklahoma.
The state superintendent, Ryan Walters, said that standards do not aim to “support or negate a specific result” and that “a well -rounded student should be able to draw their own conclusions using publicly available data and details”.
In his statement, he said, “We believe that we give the next generation the ability to think of ourselves rather than accepting radical positions on the outcome of the elections, as the media states.”
Mr. Walters, a former history teacher and Trump Ally, became a warrior of combat culture in education and national politics. Its pressure on the placement of bibles in each class Oklahoma He is fought in court and he was briefly floated as a candidate for US Minister of Education before Mr. Trump nominated the former pro-restling manager Linda McMahon.
But in his own state, Mr. Walters encountered his party members, including the Governor Stitt, who was ally. The last two went before the plan of Mr. Walters to gather the status of citizenship of public schools that Governor Stitt promised to fight.
In the middle of his dispute with Mr. Walters and after the new national test scores, Oklahoma remained near the bottom of reading and mathematics, Mr. Stitt last month replaced half of the State Council for Education. The Board consists of five denominators of Governor and Mr. Walter, who was elected. At least one of the new members said he was not informed of the changes According to the standards of social studies, which were approved two weeks after the new members were connected.
Governor’s spokesman Abegail Cave said that Oklahom has transformed the Governor’s priority into “best education”.
“He thinks much of what has happened over the past few months and has been a distraction for the past few years,” Mrs. Cave said. New standards of social studies, said, “followed by a formula of being distracted.”
Standards for academic areas are rewritten every six years in Oklahoma According to state law. They include lengthy outlines about what is expected to teach public schools and what students should know at different levels.
For example, students of the history of American history in Oklahoma will learn about the Civil Rights Movement, including key judicial cases, tactics such as Montgomery Bus Boycott and violent reactions to the movement, including the bombing of the Birmingham church and the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The changes focused on newer history. While examining major events during the first term of office, Mr. Trump asked the earlier versions of the Standards Students to “explain the answers and impact of George Floyd’s death, including the Black Lives Matter.
In the latest version, this standard was removed.
Another change included the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic. Students would be asked to identify a pandemic source as a Chinese laboratory. This theory has been discussed for a long time but is increasingly accepted by Republicans and more and more Favorite CIA officials.
The earlier version was less pointed to: “Evaluate the federal and private response to the Covid epidemic, as well as its lasting impact on global health and American society.”
Mr. Walters said that various changes “give students the best opportunity to learn about history without left -wing activists”.
His office did not answer questions about why modifications were made after a period of public review.
Prosecutor John Waldron, a former social studies teacher, who is now deputy chairman of House Democratic Kauses, said he would oppose changes and accused Mr. Walter of the subversion of the typical process to deposit his own political beliefs.
“The state superintendent led the campaign for ending indoctrination in our schools, but what he does with these new standards instead, promotes his own indoctrination brand,” Mr. Waldron said.
The modifications also made finer changes of the unit for the “challenges and achievements” of the administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr.
As a result of pandemic and signature, they removed bullets to the Earth’s economic recovery Infrastructure Proposal of $ 1 trillion.
The remaining points were bullets on the “border crisis of the United States” and foreign policy Mr. Biden in questions like Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war of Israel Hamas.
