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RandySF

(86,306 posts)
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 08:50 PM Aug 2025

Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters to force out-of-state teachers to take 'America First' test

The Oklahoma Department of Education will begin testing teachers who come from New York and California to prove they share conservative political views.

State Superintendent Ryan Walters, a vocal proponent of President Donald Trump’s MAGA ideology, told USA Today that the test will be used to make sure teachers from the largest Democratic-led states are not “indoctrinating kids” or “teaching things that are antithetical to our standards.”

Those standards include a curriculum that forces children to read the Bible and teaches high schoolers Trump’s lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, which Walters said was to avoid students being “spoon-fed left wing propaganda.” That curriculum, as well as Walters’ new “America First” test, was partially developed by the conservative media organization Prager U, which is known for its hyper-partisan video content.

Oklahoma teachers will reportedly have access to the test starting Monday, and all teachers from New York and California must complete it regardless of the subject they teach.



https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/08/18/oklahoma-superintendent-ryan-walters-to-force-out-of-state-teachers-to-take-america-first-test/

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Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters to force out-of-state teachers to take 'America First' test (Original Post) RandySF Aug 2025 OP
First question.... Do you support a convicted sexual abuser in the WH? Norrrm Aug 2025 #1
What type of teacher wants to teach rubes? Squaredeal Aug 2025 #2
Well that's the way JustAnotherGen Aug 2025 #3
Prager is a deeply distrubed and perverted man Johonny Aug 2025 #4

Squaredeal

(745 posts)
2. What type of teacher wants to teach rubes?
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 09:06 PM
Aug 2025

In Oklahoma of all places? You would have to be desperate.

Johonny

(26,618 posts)
4. Prager is a deeply distrubed and perverted man
Tue Aug 19, 2025, 12:35 PM
Aug 2025

And anyone teaching Prager U should be sued by the parents for child endangerment.

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