'I might even quit on the spot:' Oklahoma educators react to Ryan Walters' primary win

[Behind the Aegis]

Many Oklahoma educators say they’re worried for what’s ahead after Oklahoma State Secretary of Education Ryan Walters defeated his opponent, Shawnee Public Schools Superintendent April Grace, in Monday night’s Republican primary runoff for State Superintendent.

At his victory party Tuesday night, Walters declared his win over Grace was a definitive statement by the people of Oklahoma about the direction they want to see public education head.
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“Oklahomans have spoke loudly and clearly tonight,” Walters said. “Oklahomans repeat that they want a better education for their kids and they’re concerned that they’re not getting that.”

But it was a different set of emotions for Tulsa Classroom Teachers Association President Shawna Mott-Wright and her fellow teachers.

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This is how more republicans are created! Destroy education and you have a pliable, ignorant base to rule.

[Elessar Zappa]

1. I wish good people wouldn't quit.

I definitely understand their reasoning but damn, all that’s going to be left are the Christo-fascists.

[calguy]

2. Some of the folks who stayed with trump for that same were criticized for doing so.

[Elessar Zappa]

4. It depends on who you're talking about but I

was glad, for instance, that Dr. Fauci stayed with the Trump administration to do what he could regarding the pandemic.

[Taylor Picker]

3. "Oklahomans have spoke loudly and clearly tonight," Walters said, making a grammaticical error

in his prepared victory speech.

Fixed that for KOKI-TV.

[sarcasmo]

5. The GOP position is to end the education department and public schooling. Google Betsy Devos.

[brush]

6. Repubs want to keep voters ignorant and easily fooled...

by repub talking points and wedge issues...also they of course want to keep women barefoot and pregnant.

[EnergizedLib]

7. Biting the hand that fed him

I spent time in his town, I met him. He used to be an assistant basketball coach. He graduated, get this, from the local public high school where he came from and taught history at said high school.

He’s a traitor.