Not at all surprising.

For anyone here unaware, individual school superintendents all over the nation are more often than not hostile to the teachers that they manage. It’s pretty much par for the course. They are almost always MBAs with zero education background or training, generally hired into the position by anti-education school board members who they are personal friends of. Their only real training is in cost-cutting. They do not understand or appreciate the idea that public services don’t make money.

The pipeline goes: Candidate board members use money and influence to rile up conservative voters to get them onto school board -> Once on the school board they hire their MBA friend to the superintendent role -> school board member then continues to use bully pulpit to scare away incumbent challenges and demonize the district’s most valuable teachers. Very often there is also an element of retired cops in the PTA lubricating the whole process. That’s what a lot of suburban cops do after they start collecting their pensions, part-time volunteer teacher harassment.

This is like, the CORE Moms for Liberty playbook, and the main reason why it is so incredibly crucial to vote in your local school elections. It’s where democracy starts, it’s where individual votes have the most outsized effect on outcomes. So long as the community can be made aware of the issue and motivated to go to the polling place, the process can always be stopped. But somebody in the community needs to be doing that motivation. Why not you? They are SO WEAK, if only you just push back.

ryan walters is one of the most unhinged individuals in politics. unfortunately, the stage is set for him to rocket into the national spotlight. everyone’s a bigot of some kind now…

Oklahoma state superintendent who ordered schools to teach the Bible resigns

Good

to lead anti-teachers union group

What the fuck? Did a teacher sleep with this guy’s wife or something?

The “indoctrination” that the fascists are worried about is actually the deprogramming of the fear, self-loathing, and hate that they have gotten at home and in their “churches”.

While reading that headline, I was expecting either:

a) resigned after being arrested for blowing coke up other men’s bums in late-night park orgy.
b) resigns after claims of sexual assault on students still learning their ABCs.

It’s usually something like that with these people.

Last summer, a sheriff’s office investigated an alleged incident at a state Board of Education meeting in which board members reported they saw images of naked women on a television screen in Walters’ office, according to The Oklahoman. Walters called the board members’ accounts “desperate lies.” An Oklahoma County prosecutor declined to file criminal charges earlier this month.

Yet another “Christian” GOP hypocrite and since hypocrites don’t get into Heaven, this is how you know they don’t actually believe in their own religion.

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. "