Credit: The Oklahoman
Educators in Oklahoma are refusing a state order to incorporate the Bible into their lesson plans, setting up an inevitable showdown with the start of the school year just weeks away.
Ryan Walters, the state superintendent of public instruction, last week released guidelines to schools for how they should be integrating the Bible into classrooms, saying educators who are against the initiative “will comply, and I will use every means to make sure of it.”
The message from some schools in the state: Bring it on.
“I suspect that the first thing that will happen is he will target a specific school district or multiple school districts who he believes are not complying with his directive, those school districts will then have to make a choice as to whether to bend [to] his whim or to sue,” said Rob Miller, superintendent of Bixby Public Schools.
“And I can tell you that if Bixby was one of those schools that he selected to come after, we would file a lawsuit,” Miller told The Hill.
Walters’s guidance, which follows a […]
The idea that the Bible should be taught in Oklahoma schools shows Americans just how far this Republican fascist party has worked to overtake normal democratic, Constitutional principles that have maintained our democracy for over 200 years. It is now time to elect Kamala Harris and have a majority of senators and representatives in both houses of Congress! Nothing less can be done to protect what we have. And this doesn’t even speak to all the fascist plots in Project 2025 that awaits us with a Trump win (even though he says he knows nothing about it)!.
The Republicans who are really not Republicans but truly MAGA have just gone too far and must be removed from any political part of the US just as the Tea Party was removed. We must undo a number of the rulings by the conservatives on SCOTUS who have gone against every democratic principle on which this country is based. It’s now or never!!!