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🚨 WHAT WAS REMOVED FROM OKLAHOMA’S APPROVED 2025 SOCIAL STUDIES STANDARDS?

RELIGIOUS & FOUNDING REFERENCES REMOVED

Across multiple grade levels, references to America’s religious foundations were deleted:

• “Under God” (Grade 1 – Pledge explanation removed)
• “In God We Trust” (Grade 2 – removed)
• Natural rights given by the Creator (Grade 4 – removed)
• “Laws of Nature and Nature’s God” (Grade 5 – removed)
• Biblical influence on the Founders (Grades 5, 8, US Government – removed)
• Washington’s warnings about religion & morality (Grades 5 & 8 – removed)
• Religion’s role in Civil Rights movement (U.S. History – removed)
• Religion and morality influencing the Constitution (U.S. Government – removed)
• Judeo-Christian ethics as foundational to American law (Modern World History & U.S. Government – removed)

REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT ROOTS REMOVED

Grade 7 standards deleting:

• Athenian democracy
• Roman Republic contributions
• Magna Carta & English Bill of Rights

U.S. Government deletions include:

• Safeguards against authoritarianism
• Purpose of a written Constitution
• Founders’ concerns about democracy
• Civic virtue & shared American identity
• Civil society (religion, ethics, self-reliance) sustaining limited government

📉 ECONOMIC LITERACY STANDARDS REMOVED

Entire sections removed covering:

• Property rights
• Voluntary exchange
• Comparative advantage
• Trade barriers
• Fiscal vs. monetary policy
• Tax structures (progressive, proportional, regressive)
• Price signals & market distortions
• Monopoly vs. competition
• Role of incentives
• Enforcement of contracts
• Effects of government economic policy

These were not trimmed — they were deleted.

📚 ENTIRE COURSES REMOVED

• Ancient & Medieval World History
• History of 20th Century Totalitarianism

Both courses were previously approved in 2025.

Both are now gone.

✂️ ADDITIONAL CONTENT REMOVED

Examples include:

• Industrial-era immigration concerns
• Alexis de Tocqueville on American exceptionalism
• Immigration Act of 1924 debate
• Eisenhower’s warning about the military-industrial complex
• Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation
• Economic system comparisons (prosperity, freedom, equality)
• Role of law enforcement in development

⚠️ WHAT THIS MEANS

This is not minor editing.

This is structural contraction.

• Religious foundations removed
• Representative government roots reduced
• Economic literacy reduced
• Entire courses deleted

🗣 WHAT YOU CAN DO

1️⃣ Submit public comment
2️⃣ Ask the Board to restore the 2025 approved standards
3️⃣ Demand reinstatement of deleted courses
4️⃣ Use your own words — do NOT copy/paste scripts

Silence will be interpreted as approval.