Oklahoma Public Schools May Soon Have Daily Prayers

June 23, 2023 Christianists, Education

Tulsa World reports:

Faith advisers want State Superintendent Ryan Walters to “enforce” a daily full minute of silence in schools, mandate the posting of the Ten Commandments in every classroom and add a Western Civilization course to high school graduation requirements. The recommendations echo Walters’ own headline-making campaign call in 2022 for every Oklahoma history teacher to be trained in the patriotic education curriculum of the controversial Hillsdale College, a private conservative Christian liberal arts college in Michigan.

Walters began his public comments on the matter Thursday by saying he believes a landmark 1962 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on prayer in public schools was wrong. “I am therefore making the recommendation that all schools in Oklahoma faithfully observe the one minute of silence every day. And school districts must also tell students that they can pray at the beginning of the one minute and they should be fully informed of how they can utilize their minute of silence.”

Walters writes in a separate Tulsa World op-ed:

Our Founders believed in a Godly nation. In recent history, we’ve drastically changed the Founders’ hopes and beliefs in a nation under God. Yet, this is the discussion we are having right now, today, in Oklahoma, that returns sensibility and faith back as an option in the classroom.

Currently, the liberal left has infiltrated Oklahoma’s classrooms and have anchored themselves in promoting atheism as the state-run religion. They hold onto the argument of separation of church and state in order to exclude any reference or demonstration of faith at any level in schools.

Hence, this obsession to destroy all religiosity in schools has created atheism as the state-sponsored religion of choice. If you look at the left’s rationale, they never once point to the line in the U.S. Constitution that says that separation of church and state — that is because no such line exists.

Walters, who was appointed state secretary of education by Christianist Gov. Kevin Stitt in 2020, faced calls to resign in 2022 after it was revealed that a Koch-funded group that advocates for privatizing public schools was paying him $120,000/year.

Stitt rejected calls for Walters’ resignation and attempted to reappoint him again earlier this year, but the state Senate refused to allow him to hold the elected superintendent and appointed secretary of education posts at the same time.



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