According to reports, eight large districts in the Sooner State are against the decision.
Some districts find it difficult to comply with the Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters‘ demand to incorporate the Bible into the curriculum.
According to sources, at least eight large districts in the Sooner State are resisting the rule, which is still being criticized by some and supported by others.
In Walters’s “Fox & Friends Weekend” speech, he offered a message for those districts. “I’m going to tell these woke administrators, if they’re going to break the law and not teach it, they can go to California because… here in Oklahoma schools, we’re going to make sure that history is taught.”
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“What we’re doing is making sure teachers have resources in order to teach these concepts that the left has pushed out of our schools. We’re making sure that the guidelines were given out last week to make sure every individual teacher understands exactly what we’re talking about here, the historical references, where these are located in our standards. Because we need our kids to understand our history. We want our kids here in Oklahoma to understand American history better than any in the country, and we’re laying out a roadmap for every state to follow.”
The mandate requires Oklahoma educators to integrate the Bible into lessons regarding the Bible’s impact on American history and the Founding Fathers.
It will also ensure that a Bible is available as a teaching material in every school.
Walters emphasized that parents throughout the state are in favor of the idea. He stated, “When I ran three years ago, they were crystal clear. Why in the world are we not teaching our kids that our rights came from God? Why in the world are we not referencing all these unbelievable moments in American history where the Bible was cited? It is absolutely part of our history.”
He went further, “Our kids have to understand the history of this country and what made it great in the first place, and we won’t allow the ACLU and the teachers unions to attack our schools and say, ‘No reference to God, no reference to the Bible, even when it was one of the most cited books in American history.'”
A similar controversy emerged earlier this year in Louisiana when a law mandating the Ten Commandments‘ display in every public school classroom was passed.
