Offering zero relative to a positive, caring environment for children. He will be filled with hate. That is what sustains him. Waking up every morning lashing out at whomever or whatever. Hoisting up the likes of Kirk who was killed by a conservative is all the example we need. Nothing can change from this Anti American, Anti Freedom Lunacy.

Corrected headline.....

Or are all of us Radicals now?

And before you think I'm being ridiculous, consider this:

Anybody to the left of Sean Hannity is a radical left fascist communist marxist baby killer and probably a vegetarian, too.

...this asshole wants to get elected to higher office, & being a hateful sack of fecal matter is how he plans to do it.

So imaginary radical left wing indoctrination is bad but radical right wing indoctrination is okay? "Teacher, why was the 1964 Civil Rights Act bad?" "Are black women really unintelligent?" Yeah, lets go on Youtube and play Charlie Kirk speeches when this comes up for a vote in the legislature.

A general theme among the age group is rebellious behavior.

I look forward to seeing how this shakes out.

I have an idea that it may become another case of "be careful what you wish for" for these radical MAGA idiots who can't see past the bills on their ugly red hats.

Guaranteed, sure fire way to turn everyone off is to shove it down their throats, which is what this is.

They'll have to add yet another extension on the right plank lest they fall off

maybe as soon as Friday. It's thought he has another job. Turning Point, maybe?

Note that the news is coming from a "digital news outlet" in DC....

Ryan Walters could step down as State Superintendent, report says

Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters is considering resigning from his role, according to sources with NOTUS, a digital news outlet based in Washington, D.C.

Walters’ resignation could come as soon as this week, according to NOTUS.

Sources told NOTUS that Walters is believed to have another job lined up.

Griffin Media has reached out to Ryan Walters, but has not heard back.

Well, Katya, your reply is the deepest rabbit hole I've been down lately and boy did I get an EDUCATION!
Ryan Walters MO is: "to erase the line between church & state.

He is the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Schools that we have been hearing about the last few years.
Now that he has the Ten Commandments & Bibles in every school in the state, he's going full hog on the far right wing's drive
to turn every school in the state into institutions of Christian Nationalism.

The famous "Prager U" is an NGO (supposedly, I'd like to read it's mission statement) that $ells it's conservative school curriculum to
Schools. in the United States, The article I read said (some) schools in Alaska, Idaho, South Carolina, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Montana, Texas, Florida and Arizona have already adopted their religious curriculum.

What's different is that the curriculum will be in EVERY school in Oklahoma. American tax dollars are going to pay for Christian Nationalist K-12 schools in Oklahoma.

ALSO, (if all that isn't enough) all teachers will have to take a 50-question test in which they will fail if they don't answer every question right. Let me repeat: in order to teach in any school in OK, one must pass this test in order to get an OK teaching certificate.

Having accomplished his mission to erase the line between church and state in all of OK schools, Walters has resigned his OK schools post. He's either going to run for governor or (get this) might be edging into some kind of position with Charlie Kirk's Turning Points USA. Don't know if the TPA position is state or national.

That's what I learned down in that rabbit hole. Whew. I feel sick.

this zealot state ranks 50th, bottom of the barrel in education!

2-15% of any state education budget. He can't require courses or even extra curricula "chapters." States run their school systems, not the federal government, so no. What's more likely is that TPUSA won't fit in with legally established state curricula, so it ain't gonna happen.

And if the school allows other extra curricular clubs, they have to allow it.

And I can tell you, those two things do not determine how extra curricular activities get "allowed."

If enough students ask for it, find the sponsor, do all things that a school would require them to do (not talking forced by the state here, talking about students forming it), then I hope the school system has the money to fight the lawsuits if they deny it.

You "hope" schools fight to allow them to "force" them to adopt such "chapters" and that schools that reject TPUSA face "repercussions"??

What do you think the GOP really mean when they say the chapters will have kids "engaged in a process that understands free speech, open engagement, dialog about American greatness, a dialog around American values” when they already come from the position that schools are "“Radical leftist teachers’ unions"? Really? Seriously?

I'm endorsing public schools following federal law if they're receiving federal dollars.

I don't have to like what is being said in order to support the right to say it.

As you know, these are voluntary and before or after school hours, not being taught in the classrooms by the teachers.

-- aligned with the christian right and christian nationalists
-- funded by conservative donors and foundations,
-- that in the last 8 yrs has raised well over over US$85 million

-- whose donors include Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus, former IL Governor Bruce Rauner,
billionaire Richard Uihlein, Charles Koch and his oligarch network at Donors Trust
-- whose chief creative officer published a conspiracy theory about Barack Obama
-- whose 850 campus "club" workers are paid to register students to vote to meet a quota of at least 1,500 student per semester.

-- which supports the NRA and the use of fossil fuels,
-- which opposes political movements such as Black Lives Matter
-- which promotes the conspiracy theory of "Cultural Marxism" and says it works to "combat it" in universities
-- which calls universities "islands of totalitarianism" --

If your free speech stance is that it's okay for the above right wing funded political groups to offer children -- mere non-voting age children -- a choice from the state curricula taught by what TPUSA calls "radical leftist unions" of teaching professionals, and/or...

If you're for a child facing organization at the level of "clubs for children" -- then you are wittingly or unwittingly for the free speech paid for and used by the private Koch oligarch network funds to groom children against the very governments that provide them with public education, then

You either haven't thought this through, or don't know the ramifications of what your simple "free speech for TPUSA clubs in schools are, or if you have, then in the context of public schools, you are using the very similar defense of "free speech" that oligarchs used to win Citizens United -- the SCOTUS ruling that "money is free speech" -- which got us trump, maga, and a right wing 1% trying to privatize the whole of government.
It's the same free speech stealth project that brought Project 2025 to the U.S.

I support Democrats. And Democrats do NOT support Turning Point USA's alleged goal of "free speech" that promotes the goals of right wing oligarchs.

I'm pretty distrusting of any Democrat who, by now, hasn't figured out what Democratic Socialist Bernie has told millions of us time and again:

-- that the Right's free speech is all of a piece -- divisive, in order to establish minority dominance by the 1%,
-- that Right Wing oligarch's "Free speech" projects are both a) cover for right wing hate speech and
b) the promotion of privatization against "socialist" government, legal under the First Amendment; and lastly,
-- that what is legal right isn't always right.

... and get all my long haired hippy freak friends* into it also. Just to cause some unease, consternation, and maybe a little bit of trouble. Since it's a public school, they couldn't pick and choose who could and could not join.

*An indication of when I actually was in HS.

Yet he was obviously homeschooled by a pigeon.

Trump Bible in schools, 10 Commandments every classroom, and now this shit.

Note: What bugs me with articles like this is the lede: “GOP Official Plans To….”

Why not, simply: “OK Republican, Ryan Walters, Plans To…”

iot lead a RW teacher group.

They got really cute uniforms and got cool haircuts called the undercut and girls would wear braids.

They win cases like this all the time.

...if they allow other extra-curricular clubs.

TP would have to follow all of the same procedures and policies to request that a TP chapter be permitted, but they can't stop them simply because it's a religious organization.

Forget it, Jake; it's Oklahoma...