[guest post by Dana]

Controversial item wanted for new social studies standards in Oklahoma:

The new version of one section of the standards says high school students should “Identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs and other information, including the sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states, the security risks of mail-in balloting, sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters, and the unprecedented contradiction of ‘bellwether county’ trends.”

According to the report, state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters, obviously a Republican, slipped the item in right before the standards were to be approved by the Board of Education.

This is not the only controversial thing to do with the curriculum standards in Oklahoma:

The proposed standards were already controversial because of the dozens of mentions of the Bible and Christianity within them, as well as the membership of the executive review committee that oversaw the process. That committee included the co-founder of the conservative nonprofit PragerU, a representative from the conservative American Enterprise Institute and the president of another conservative group, the Heritage Foundation, along with multiple other conservative voices. Only three of the people on the executive committee have ever lived in Oklahoma.

—Dana