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Emile

(33,758 posts) Tue Feb 11, 2025, 06:32 AM Feb 11

Oklahoma lawmakers oppose schools teaching on evils of communism

Members of a House subcommittee have voted to kill legislation that would require Oklahoma schools to teach children about the evils of communism.

House Bill 1094, by state Rep. Gabe Woolley, R-Broken Arrow, would have required that children in grades six through 12 be taught about “the atrocities of communism” in accordance with existing Oklahoma Academic Standards by integrating the material into one or more existing courses of study.

Woolley taught school for nine years and noted that some units do not get taught in schools when officials feel pressed for time at the end of a school year. As a result, he said the evils of communism may not always be taught to Oklahoma students even though aspects of that topic are included in state academic standards.

Read more at: https://ocpathink.org/post/independent-journalism/oklahoma-lawmakers-oppose-schools-teaching-on-evils-of-communism

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Oklahoma lawmakers oppose schools teaching on evils of communism (Original Post) Emile Feb 11 OP

Hey Rep. Wooley! How about THIS radical idea? no_hypocrisy Feb 11 #1

How enlightened NJCher Feb 11 #2

How about a course called "Stalin was a shit" which enumerates the various evils of jls4561 Feb 11 #3

odd thoughts rampartd Feb 11 #4

And add fascism to the list. The Madcap Feb 11 #5

Oh my. Don't let "atrocities of Communism" be taught back-to-back with "New Testament Christianity" Seinan Sensei Feb 11 #6

no_hypocrisy

(50,951 posts)

1. Hey Rep. Wooley! How about THIS radical idea?

Reply to Emile (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 06:41 AM

Feb 11

Try teaching American Civics from Kindergarten to Grade 12? How American Government is SUPPOSED TO work.

Forget Communism. Embrace American Democracy.

NJCher

(39,531 posts)

2. How enlightened

Reply to Emile (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 06:42 AM

Feb 11

Republicans finally catch up with life.

Damn, some days I ask myself what I’m even doing on this earth.

jls4561

(2,152 posts)

3. How about a course called "Stalin was a shit" which enumerates the various evils of

Reply to Emile (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 06:49 AM

Feb 11

the Communist dictator with parallels to similar actions today.

rampartd

(1,803 posts)

4. odd thoughts

Reply to Emile (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 08:19 AM

Feb 11

when american women are lined up in the snow for cabbages where will the cabbages come from?

in the 1960s we were taught that the evil of the communists stemmed from their surveillance and arbitrary legal system, which are pretty much the hallmarks of trumpist america. the text for that high school class, by the way, was "masters of deceit" by j edgar hoover.

there was also something about "human nature" being oppositional to socialism but i have seen that when people have little is when they share the most

The Madcap

(1,074 posts)

5. And add fascism to the list.

Reply to Emile (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 08:28 AM

Feb 11

Wait...Dear Leader might not like that.

Seinan Sensei

(926 posts)

6. Oh my. Don't let "atrocities of Communism" be taught back-to-back with "New Testament Christianity"

Reply to Emile (Original post)

Tue Feb 11, 2025, 10:25 AM

Feb 11

Acts 2: 44-45
All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need.

Acts 4:34-35
There was not a needy person among them, for as many as owned lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold. They laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.

Marx
"From each according to ability, to each according to need"

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