Teachers to be required to take U.S. Naturalization test
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The Oklahoma Board of Education recently approved a rule requiring teachers to take a test based on the U.S. Naturalization test, the same test used to become U.S. citizens.
“All of our teachers will be required to take the U.S. Naturalization test to ensure that they understand the basics of America, American history, American government and civics,” said State Superintendent Ryan Walters.
The rule would mean, in addition to getting a teaching certification, teachers would also have to take the U.S. Citizenship test.
“And this requirement will help Oklahoma lead the way to ensure in every classroom that understanding, is being given,” said Superintendent Walters.
However, some believe this isn’t the best idea.
“There have been so many efforts in the recent past from the legislature to do things like decrease the number of assessments we have to take to become educators,” said Cari Elledge, the elected President of Oklahoma Education Association.
“All of our teachers will be required to take the U.S. Naturalization test to ensure that they understand the basics of America, American history, American government and civics,” said State Superintendent Ryan Walters.
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The basics of American history are the genocide of the indigenous population of
humans from their lands, slavery, Christian fundamentalism that told the people
that in God’s eyes black and brown people were made inferior to white people and
so mistreating them was OK. And Oklahoma’s history shows just that.
“Between the 1830 Indian Removal Act and 1850, the U.S. government used forced treaties and/or U.S. Army action to move about 100,000 American Indians living east of the Mississippi River, westward to Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.”
The Tulsa race massacre, also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre,[12] was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist[13][14] massacre[15] that took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials,[16] attacked black residents and destroyed homes and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The event is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history.[17][18] The attackers burned and destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the neighborhood—at the time, one of the wealthiest black communities in the United States, colloquially known as "Black Wall Street."[19] Wiki
