Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters offered a message for school districts refusing to comply with a directive to integrate the Bible into curriculum on 'Fox & Friends Weekend.'
Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters' directive to integrate the Bible into the public school curriculum isn't meshing well with some districts. At least eight large districts across the Sooner State are pushing back against the requirement, as it continues to receive criticism from some and support from others, reports say. Walters, speaking to 'Fox & Friends Weekend,' offered a message for those districts.
'm going to tell these woke administrators, if they're going to break the law and not teach it, they can go to California because… here in Oklahoma schools, we're going to make sure that history is taught,' he told 'Fox & Friends Weekend' on Sunday. 'What we're doing is making sure teachers have resources in order to teach these concepts that the left has pushed out of our schools.
It will also see that each classroom has a Bible from which to teach. Walters insisted the requirement has support from parents across the state. 'When I ran three years ago, they were crystal clear. Why in the world are we not teaching our kids that our rights came from God? Why in the world are we not referencing all these unbelievable moments in American history where the Bible was cited? It is absolutely part of our history,' he said.
He added, 'Our kids have to understand the history of this country and what made it great in the first place, and we won't allow the ACLU and the teachers unions to attack our schools and say, ‘No reference to God, no reference to the Bible, even when it was one of the most cited books in American history.’' Louisiana garnered similar controversy earlier this year after passing a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom.
Fox News' Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
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