An American Education | 2. Testing Teachers for Wokeness

美国教育 | 2. 对教师进行觉醒意识测试

Radio Atlantic

2025-09-18

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Hanna Rosin sits down with Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters to ask him about a purity test for teachers and a nearly scandalous incident that happened days before the interview. And two Oklahoma high-school teachers take very different paths. This is the second episode of a two-part series from Radio Atlantic. --- Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/listener.
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  • Pornography.

  • Pornography should not be in our schools.

  • No parent should send their child to school and their child have access to graphic pornography.

  • In our first episode about Oklahoma Public Schools,

  • we talked about the rise of State Superintendent Ryan Walters and all the changes he's making.

  • In this year's new curriculum, he added dozens of references to Christianity,

  • an instruction to high school history students to identify discrepancies in the 2020 election,

  • although those standards have just been paused for now by the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

  • Walters announced an ideological purity test for some teachers coming in from out of state.

  • And he tried to make sure that certain books were not on the shelves.

  • Hey, when we send our kids to school, you know,

  • we are not expecting them to be able to check out a book from the library that's got explicit pornography in it.

  • And unfortunately, this is a tactic we've seen of the far left.

  • We also talked to a pair of former students of Coach Walters.

  • That's what they called him, who described him as an exceedingly Cool History Teacher,

  • a secret Democrat one of them had guessed.