Education in Oklahoma

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After Nonbinary Student’s Death, Schools Chief Defends Strict Gender Policies.
The Oklahoma school superintendent, Ryan Walters, said “radical leftists” had created a narrative about the death of 16-year-old Nex Benedict that “hasn’t been true.”

In his three years as state superintendent for Oklahoma’s public schools, Ryan Walters, a former high school history teacher, has transformed himself into one of the most strident culture warriors in a state known for sharp-edged conservative politics.

Following the death earlier this month of a 16-year-old nonbinary student a day after an altercation in a high school girls’ bathroom, gay and transgender advocates accused Mr. Walters of having fomented an atmosphere of dangerous intolerance within public schools.

In his first interview reacting to the death of the student, Nex Benedict, Mr. Walters told The New York Times that the death was a tragedy, but that it did not change his views on how questions of gender should be handled in schools.

“I really see there’s a civil war going on, where the left is really fighting for the soul of our country,” he said. “They are undermining the very principles that made this country great, our Judeo-Christian values and our traditions in this country.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/us/oklahoma-nonbinary-student-superintendent.html

Stitt and Walters have no humanity. I wouldn't let them walk my dog. Walters deserves prison.

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This was a hate crime, pure and simple, regardless of how the fascist right may try to spin it.   And was not even about mixed gender in a bathroom.  Young girl using the girl's restroom, and attacked again as the latest of years of bullying.

And no, I have not forgotten a reply for the miscellaneous thread....

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https://www.examiner-enterprise.com/story/news/education/2024/08/16/oklahoma-mother-says-high-school-assignment-touts-christianity/74826942007/

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https://www.examiner-enterprise.com/story/news/education/2024/08/16/oklahoma-mother-says-high-school-assignment-touts-christianity/74826942007/

Might be time to answer truthfully, get a failing grade, go to court.

Teaching about Christianity is acceptable ONLY if other major religions are treated equally.  Maybe even some "minor" beliefs depending on locality.

Public Schools are not Sunday Schools.