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Emile

(43,271 posts)
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 06:01 AM Sep 2025

Oklahoma superintendent who put Trump Bibles in classrooms resigns

Ryan Walters, who has led Oklahoma public schools since 2022, is quitting to run a conservative education non-profit
Oklahoma’s superintendent, who has attracted national attention as he sought to install religion and rightwing viewpoints in Oklahoma schools, will resign to run a conservative education non-profit.

Ryan Walters, who has led public schools in Oklahoma since 2022, has put Donald Trump-endorsed Bibles into classrooms and required teaching 2020 election conspiracies.

He is leaving the post to lead the Teacher Freedom Alliance (TFA), which says its mission is to help teachers develop “free, moral, and upright American citizens”. On its website, the group is touting Walters as its new leader.

“Walters fearlessly fights the woke liberal union mob. TFA will take the fight straight to the unions and we will not stop,” the website says. “Together, we will build a national movement that is centered on freedom and common sense, not on bullying and intimidation. Educators will now be able to break free.”

Read more at: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/25/oklahoma-superintendent-resigns-ryan-walters

What a POS!
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Oklahoma superintendent who put Trump Bibles in classrooms resigns (Original Post) Emile Sep 2025 OP
To start the new Brown Shirt Brigade sunflowerseed Sep 2025 #1
Any educator who falls for "freedom from the union" idiocy Scrivener7 Sep 2025 #2
He required teaching 2020 election conspiracies. Emile Sep 2025 #3

Scrivener7

(60,074 posts)
2. Any educator who falls for "freedom from the union" idiocy
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 08:38 AM
Sep 2025

is too dumb to be educating anybody.

Emile

(43,271 posts)
3. He required teaching 2020 election conspiracies.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 08:46 AM
Sep 2025

in Oklahoma schools. Oklahoma will be screwed up for years.

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