The Oklahoma Supreme Court is putting on hold proposed new social studies standards for K-12 public school students that include conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court temporarily put on hold proposed new social studies standards for K-12 public school students that include conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

The state’s high court issued a temporary stay on Monday while a lawsuit challenging the new standards is being litigated. The court’s order directs the State Department of Education to keep the previous social studies standards in place while the case is being decided.

At the direction of state Superintendent Ryan Walters, the standards were revised to include new language about the 2020 election and that the source of the COVID-19 virus was a Chinese lab, among other changes.

A group of parents and educators filed lawsuit in May, asking a judge to reject the standards, arguing they were not reviewed properly and that they “represent a distorted view of social studies that intentionally favors an outdated and blatantly biased perspective.”

  • limer@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 days ago

    The reason this will simply not go away is because there is no proof of any winners since the 1990s.

    Now, that might be simply outrageous to some, or more; but that is what happens without either paper ballots or recounts, using closed source solutions run by literally unknown people.

    I once met a guy whose job it was to test these in the field. Nice person. But all he did was press buttons. He did not know much about the workings or integrity either. Or who were all the admins

    Most likely Trump would have lost all three times. But again, the only proof of that is extrapolation of exit polls

      • limer@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 day ago

        The election boards in most states do not oversee the election machine inner workings, or understand them. There is a disconnect between what people imagine they do and their passiveness.

        Some boards might have agents who are sworn to secrecy about a set of software and hardware. But given the layers of trade secrets it’s difficult to know what these people understand.

        There is no chain of oversight that is publicly known that would satisfy the average tech person