New standards for Oklahoma high schools to promote falsehoods about the 2020 election

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New standards for Oklahoma high schools to promote falsehoods about the 2020 election

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma high school students studying U.S. history learn about the Industrial Revolution, women’s suffrage and America’s expanding role in international affairs.Beginning next school year, they will also learn about false conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 presidential election.Oklahoma’s new social studies standards for K-12 public school students, already infused with references to the Bible and nationalist themes, were revised at the direction of state schools Supt. Ryan Walters. The Republican official has spent much of his first term in office lauding President Trump, feuding with teachers unions and local school superintendents, and trying to end what he describes as “wokeness” ..