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douglas9

(4,749 posts)
Thu May 1, 2025, 07:43 AM Thursday

New Oklahoma curriculum includes pro-Trump conspiracy theories

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).

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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New Oklahoma curriculum includes pro-Trump conspiracy theories (Original Post) douglas9 Thursday OP
From the Joesph Goebbles Department of Education. Botany Thursday #1
My educated guess would be that one could k_buddy762 Thursday #2
In a few years, a job applicant with a diploma from an Oklahoma high school, 70sEraVet Thursday #3

Botany

(73,979 posts)
1. From the Joesph Goebbles Department of Education.
Thu May 1, 2025, 08:05 AM
Thursday

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”

Trump had 62 cases in front of different courts about his big lie with judges from both
Republican and Democratic backgrounds found against Trump and his big lie in 61 of
the cases and in the 62nd case he won people watching the recount were allowed
to be 18” closer to the counting. Every lawyer from Porter Wright quit the Trump defense
because they wanted to keep their licenses to practice law. Trump wanted them to allow
for perjury by pro Trump people. Put that in Oklahoma’s schools curriculum.

k_buddy762

(94 posts)
2. My educated guess would be that one could
Thu May 1, 2025, 08:50 AM
Thursday

detect "fraud" in every single election humans have done in the entire history of humans.

"Stolen" and "fraud" are not the same thing.

70sEraVet

(4,476 posts)
3. In a few years, a job applicant with a diploma from an Oklahoma high school,
Thu May 1, 2025, 10:18 AM
Thursday

will get passed over by an applicant who dropped out of the same high school -- one is less mis-educated than the other.

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