Oklahoma schools ordered to teach Trump's 2020 election lies in new MAGA curriculum
Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters. (Official photo)
May 06, 2025
Oklahoma high schools will be required starting in August to teach President Donald Trump's debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 election loss.
The new curriculum written by Trump-loving state superintendent Ryan Walters will analyze turning points of 21st-Century American society, including what is described as “discrepancies in 2020 elections results" and match baseless claims made by Trump afterward, reported Heartland Signal.
"The purpose of the standard is simple: we want students to think for themselves, not be spoon-fed left wing propaganda," Walters told the Washington Post in March. "Students deserve to examine every aspect of our elections, including the legitimate concerns raised by millions of Americans in 2020."
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The curriculum also directs teachers to ensure that students can "identify the source of the COVID-19 pandemic from a Chinese lab," and "explain the effects of the Trump tax cuts, child tax credit, border enforcement efforts," which Walters announced would establish "the most unapologetically conservative, pro-America social studies standards in the nation."
The MAGA ally has been publicly praised by the president on multiple occasions and drawn criticism by ordering Oklahoma schools to show a video of him railing against the “woke teacher’s unions” and mandating last June that all state public schools had to teach Bible lessons.
Nearly two dozen GOP legislators sent a letter to Republican House speaker Charles McCall calling for an investigation into budget concerns and alleged neglect of duty, and Walters reportedly had to pay $18,000 in penalties and attorney fees but kept his job.
Democratic lawmakers called for his impeachment for allegedly ignoring bomb threats at a public school that was linked to his sharing an edited video of a school librarian posted by the far-right influencer Chaya Raichik, who manages the Libs of TikTok account, and he later appointed her to be an adviser to a state library committee.