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New Oklahoma standards teach kids how to be conspiracy theorists

Ellsworth Toohey
May 14, 2025
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Oklahoma's education department just announced they're teaching kids how to put on tinfoil hats as part of their new curriculum.

As reported by NPR, state superintendent Ryan Walters has decreed that high school students must learn about nonexistent "discrepancies" in the 2020 election.

Students must investigate such scholarl…

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