GO OKLAHOMA...SOONERS- RATHER THAN LATER!
The article speaks for itself but several salient factors are worth pausing to consider and ask what action by the ordinary citizen can have an impact on promulgation of the abuses and their resolution.
I am in the Blue State of Connecticut. I will endeavor to notify and encourage others to become involved.
Oklahoma’s America First certification test is a model.
The dilemma is another consequence of the autopen President.
We must not submit to threats of loss of funding by DOE. And DOA. I suspect that initiative is well underway. Support it wherever we are.
Read and learn from the California example that preaches that math is racist.
Oklahoma's weeding out woke teachers—other red states should too. Object to and expose the proliferation of their textbooks.
Support a national curriculum. Encourage and implement critical thinking.
Fight DEI in every nook and cranny.
Oklahoma is the first state to add this kind of America First certification test—but it shouldn't be the last.
by: Libby Emmons
08/07/2025Oklahoma has implemented a teachers' test for new educators coming into the state, saying that while they want more teachers, they don't want their students to be indoctrinated into critical race and gender ideology or hatred of America, as is taught by schools in many blue states. Oklahoma is the first state to add this kind of America First certification test—but it shouldn't be the last.
"We offered the largest signing bonuses for teachers in the country," said state education superintendent Ryan Walters. "If you’re in the top 10 percent of teachers in the country, we give you $50,000 in Oklahoma. So, we’ve seen teachers come from blue states, red states all over to come to Oklahoma. They especially are fleeing the teachers unions, the grip that they’ve had on them in these blue states."
Oklahoma has engaged with Prager U to put the test together and it will ask teachers simple questions, like "what is a woman," as well as other questions about American history and civics. Perhaps teachers will have to cite the year of America's founding, 1776, and anyone who says 1619 will be denied a position in the state.
In America, we have no national curriculum. There's been guidance from the Department of Education, but there's no set-in-stone course of study. That guidance from the DOE has been in the form of funding. For all of our talk about standards of excellence, we don't have any when it comes to education. But that doesn't stop the DOE from enforcing guidance by using threats of funding.
Under the Biden administration, schools that refused to comply with the implementation of gender ideology, who did not allow boys to use girls' sex-segregated facilities, for example, were threatened with a loss of federal funds. That threat came not just from the DOE but from the Department of Agriculture, which threatened to withhold free lunch aid for poor students.
More de facto guidance, however, has come from California. California has the most K-12 students, with nearly 7 million, and so the guidelines their legislatures impose for curriculum are adopted by textbook publishers that want to sell to those states. Once textbooks are published for sale in those states, they are picked up across the country.
So, what is Oklahoma fighting against? California adopted new educational guidelines that say math is racist. The state Department of Education requires that students are instructed "about gender, gender expression, gender identity and explore the harm of negative gender stereotypes." Those schools are also required to "teach about all sexual orientations and what being LGBTQ means."
This is not what Oklahoma is looking for in education. In fact, Walters said "We put the Bible back in our history standards." That is likely not what California wants, nor what New York or Illinois want, but there are no national curriculum standards and if California is going to skew textbook publishing by having insane lesson requirements that, for example, deny the existence of women, then Oklahoma is perfectly within its rights to make up their own.
California is not the only state teaching absurdities to students and calling it education. Oregon, also, promoted critical race theory in mathematics. Disney has taken an active role in perpetrating LGBTQ curriculum, putting funds behind GLSEN (pronounced 'glisten') to help teachers incorporate gender identity and trans advocacy into lessons not just in the US but globally.
In California, a major history textbook in use downplays jihad and Sharia law while being highly critical of Judaism. The textbook, called "History Alive: The Medieval World and Beyond," comes from the Teachers' Curriculum Institute, which creates and publishes texts for all of the core disciplines. The texts are also in use in Oregon, Michigan, Illinois, and Ohio. And that's just one example.
In Brooklyn, NY, when my son was going to school, he was taught that he was racist, and so were his parents, and so were his grandparents. None of this was true, but he was white, so this is what he learned about himself. These schools are the same ones that taught our kids’ education wasn't important when they kept shutting schools down over a cold. Oklahoma may be on to something.
For sure, those teachers probably had the best intentions when they sought to teach a revised history that included all America's problems as well as America's wins. But since that initial good impulse, the curriculum has been flooded with anti-Christian sentiment, antisemitic ideas, and has come to focus far more on America's flaws than the good sides—and I think we can all agree that the good stuff far outweighs the bad.
American students should not be force-fed lies and it's time that more states buck these trends set by the wokest states in the union. There's no reason for states that want to instill good values, as well as good lessons, to buy the textbooks with lessons set by California, and there's no reason teachers should think that they can bring that nonsense across state lines.