The Oklahoma State School Board held its monthly meeting with Ryan Walters yesterday morning. There were many highlights, including the unveiling of new metal detectors!
This past week we learned that 1.4 million dollars in grants to OK schools for safety and security lapsed unspent by the OSDE.
— Rep Melissa Provenzano (@proven4oklahoma) June 27, 2024
In other news, the State Department of Education has installed new metal detector ahead of today's state school board meeting. 1/ pic.twitter.com/DTMHbloCoG
From the national perspective, the big news was that our Christian Nationalist State School Superintendent Ryan Walters issued a mandate for all Oklahoma public school districts to begin teaching lessons from a collection of 2,000-year-old ancient religious texts that contain various Middle East-centered myths, fables, and philosophies.
As long as these texts are taught alongside Beowulf, the Iliad, and other fictional religious-themed epics and “histories” from ancient times, I don’t have a big problem with the Bible being taught in school. Sure, there are plenty of churches that kids across the state may attend to get those lessons, but if it’s an elective course and doesn’t proselytize, why not?
Naturally, Walters was there to quickly provide that “Why Not?” argument.
Always pandering, indoctrinating, and seeking attention, Walters says he wants the Bible to be taught as real-life history to help provide students with a better understanding of the foundation of our country.