| THE EDUCATION ADMINISTRATIVE STATE IS ERASING OKLAHOMA’S STANDARDS
NOW IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK
Oklahoma is one of the most conservative states in America. In county after county, voting leans conservative. Voters consistently demand schools that teach real history, civic literacy, and the moral foundations of liberty.
So why do our latest Social Studies standards look like they were written to appease national bureaucracies instead of Oklahoma families?
THE EDUCATION ADMINISTRATIVE STATE NEVER LEFT
In 2025, Oklahoma approved revised Social Studies standards that strengthened chronology, added content-rich electives, civic literacy, and restored civilizational clarity. They weren’t perfect. They had already been watered down through compromise. But they were real progress.
THOSE GAINS ARE BEING QUIETLY ERASED
Two entire high school electives—Ancient & Medieval World History and History of 20th Century Totalitarianism—have been deleted. Nearly 150 specific standards are gone with them. Once a named course disappears, districts are no longer required to plan for it. Structure vanishes. Accountability vanishes.
THE DELETIONS GO BEYOND COURSES
REMOVED Mentions of “In God We Trust” References to “under God” Biblical influence on the Founders
Explicit acknowledgment of religion’s role in shaping Western law and liberty is gone.
No one would demand that India remove the influence of Hinduism from its history curriculum. No one would insist that Saudi Arabia pretend Islam didn’t shape its society. But in Oklahoma, acknowledging Christianity’s role in forming constitutional government is treated as suspect.
THIS IS NOT “NEUTRALITY” IT IS SELECTIVE ERASURE
Economic literacy has also been gutted. Standards on property rights, voluntary exchange, price signals, taxation, fiscal and monetary policy, and trade barriers have been reduced or eliminated. Students cannot defend free markets if they are never taught how they function.
Representative government roots have been trimmed. Athenian democracy, the Roman Republic, Magna Carta, safeguards against authoritarianism—all weakened or reduced.
THIS IS NOT ACCIDENTAL THIS IS INSTITUTIONAL RETRENCHMENT
LENIN | GOEBBELS | MAO| STALIN
History shows us how this works. Lenin said the youth must be captured to secure the revolution. Goebbels insisted that whoever controls the youth controls the future. Mao reorganized education before consolidating power. Stalin rewrote textbooks to reshape national memory.
Totalitarian movements understand something many conservatives forget . . .
EDUCATION DETERMINES CULTURE
If children are detached from their civilizational inheritance—religious, constitutional, economic—they become easier to redirect.
Meanwhile, Oklahoma students rank near the bottom nationally in practically every academic measure. We struggle to produce basic civic competence.
Yet students are encouraged to stage political protests over complex immigration policy while lacking foundational knowledge of constitutional government.
ACTIVISM WITHOUT LITERACY IS NOT EDUCATION . . . IT IS MANIPULATION!
The justification for this reset was procedural. A court ruling addressed meeting requirements. But procedural correction does not require deleting electives or scrubbing religious references. Those were choices.
And those choices reflect a familiar pattern:
BUREAUCRACIES OUTLASTING ELECTED OFFICIALS
NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL FRAMEWORKS SHAPING STATE STANDARDS
ENTRENCHED INSIDERS REWRITING CURRICULUM UNDER THE BANNER OF “NEUTRALITY”
Conservatives win elections. The education administrative state waits them out.
If Oklahoma cannot defend content-rich standards in the one of the most conservative states in America, what message does that send to the rest of the country?
The Oklahoma Department of Education is taking public comments through Tuesday.
Today is your opportunity to communicate your thoughts on these proposed changes to the standards approved last year by the Oklahoma legislature.
If you want to see the restoration of the 2025 approved standards, reinstatement of the deleted electives, restoration of explicit references to America’s religious and constitutional foundations, let them know today.
CENSORSHIP An Executive Summary of what ODE bureaucrats removed here.
CENSORSHIP See the changes and highlights here.
CENSORSHIP See all the changes of the 2024 approved curriculum here.
MAKE YOUR THOUGHTS KNOWN HERE
The education bureaucracy is betting Oklahomans will not notice.
Prove them wrong. | 
