Over the past couple of weeks, the legitimate local media has been paying special attention to the mass exodus of employees who have fled and / or been catapulted out of the Oklahoma Department of Education by State School Premiere Ryan Walters and his gang of Texas gentlemen.
According to a recent story by The "new and improved!" Oklahoman, over 130 people have departed the agency since Walters took over in 2023. During that same timeframe, only 33 people have been brought aboard. This includes Walters' communications chief, Dan Putzit.
Here’s what he said when The Oklahoman asked him about the biblical-esque employee exodus:
"The Oklahoman is fake news. They continue to lie about SDE and throw a fit that Supt. Walters has brought accountability to a dumpster fire of an agency led by their darling Democrat, Joy Hofmeister."
I’m not going to give Putzit too hard of a time for that canned, lame, totally unoriginal response. I can only imagine what it’s like to have your PR career fall so low to the ground that you have to report to a guy like Ryan Walters for a living. I guess we can’t blame him for giving up.
Anyway, I know I’m a product of Oklahoma public schools and everything, but I’m pretty sure 130 minus 33 is close to 100, so that's a lot of people who aren't working at the Oklahoma Department of Education since Ryan took over.