What cause is MLK Jr. best known for? "Advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion" is not the right answer, apparently.
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If you're an Oklahoma parent, does it matter to you if your kid's 2nd grade teacher can correctly identify what PragerU says is how the Cold War ended? I have to keep reminding myself this is a test for prospective teachers that's supposed to say something about Oklahoma values? But what?
aug 30, 2025, 12:36 pm • 87 8 • view
I'm really just bored and irritated by how this test started off as a culture war barometer and turned into the history questions from Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? *This is a test for classroom teachers in Oklahoma*
aug 30, 2025, 12:38 pm • 103 10 • view
Of course, once you finish the exam (and have my results send to no@no.com), you are prompted to donate to PragerU for a matched gift (don't do this):
aug 30, 2025, 12:40 pm • 80 10 • view
Why did this take a partnership between a multi-million dollar propaganda organization and *the State of Oklahoma*? I've been in 45 minute PLC meetings that have produced better designed assessments. This is just an artifact of deeply weird & insulated people, there's no other way to describe it.
aug 30, 2025, 12:48 pm • 122 14 • view
I can't stop thinking about how there are ZERO questions about Oklahoma on this test for OK educators. Not even: When did OK become a state? Who is the current governor? What % of land is legally tribal land? What is the largest industry in OK? All more relevant than any of the 34 Qs they chose.
aug 30, 2025, 1:14 pm • 110 11 • view
You can only conclude that this was not designed by or for actual Oklahomans but rather for a national audience primarily concerned with selling a divisive culture war and furthering Walters' reactionary bona fides. 🤷
aug 30, 2025, 1:14 pm • 112 8 • view
Power and money. Promotion of a fake "university"...
aug 31, 2025, 10:58 am • 0 0 • view
Reactionary bona fides that don’t even make him popular with republicans because they all hate his weird ass
aug 30, 2025, 7:08 pm • 13 0 • view
Who wrote the music and lyrics to the Broadway musical and film “Oklahoma” ?
aug 30, 2025, 2:46 pm • 5 1 • view
It wouldn't ask that. Have you seen South Pacific? They're too woke!
aug 30, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Still, more relevant than the other questions
aug 30, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Take this “test” or you can’t teach. Oh, but it’s created by this group who wants your money. If I were a taxpayer in OK, I’d be LIVID.
aug 30, 2025, 7:47 pm • 2 0 • view
You'd think that for the certification test for educators there'd be some questions about pedagogy...
aug 31, 2025, 10:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Feels like they put in their ideological screening questions & then cribbed the rest from a US citizenship exam to try to hide it.
aug 30, 2025, 1:12 pm • 20 0 • view
What strikes me about these is that they aren't ideological. What does he think teachers in blue states teach? The gov't questions are dumb but they dont teach the constitution different in NY
aug 30, 2025, 1:04 pm • 14 1 • view
Exactly. It's just...very weird?
aug 30, 2025, 1:05 pm • 4 0 • view
More performative dumbassery from the culture war crowd.
aug 30, 2025, 1:08 pm • 2 1 • view
That would likely be an acceptable answer on the US citizenship test - “fought for civil rights” and “worked for equality for all Americans” are given as model answers.
aug 30, 2025, 1:58 pm • 7 0 • view
It was literally equality before the law. That was his cause. DEI followed on from that basic, fundamental human right.
aug 30, 2025, 10:27 pm • 3 0 • view
If inclusion is "the practice or policy of providing equal access to opportunities & resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized, such as those who have physical or intellectual disabilities & members of other minority groups," I'm not sure there is a difference. 😅
aug 30, 2025, 10:35 pm • 5 0 • view
The whole point of the question is to divide MLK's advocacy from current civil rights language framed through "DEI" when there is not a material difference between the two. PragerU would've hated King in his own time even as they uplift his caricature in the present.
aug 30, 2025, 10:35 pm • 5 0 • view
I'm merely pointing out that the (objectively) correct answer to the question is 'to preserve the Union'. I'm not at all disputing that this whole thing is a heap of steaming bullshit designed to identify people with decent values and exclude them from the academic faculty of Oklahoma.
aug 30, 2025, 10:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Check out “All Labor Has Dignity” sometime. Might still be available in public libraries?
aug 31, 2025, 1:01 pm • 1 0 • view
This is such a shocking development to the eyes of a European ! Echoes of 'The Handmaid's Tale' ...
aug 31, 2025, 1:16 pm • 1 0 • view
💯 this is gen ai made
aug 30, 2025, 12:35 pm • 5 0 • view
That's my guess too, but I wonder why the hell it took them so long?
aug 30, 2025, 1:05 pm • 7 0 • view
Probably to get the tenders out to vendors and then to check it vaguely to ensure it met the facism criteria. And so fifty people could click through and say “ok with me”. I’ve made training for business and it can take months for one cyber training to be approved.
aug 30, 2025, 1:08 pm • 3 1 • view
THEY likely want 'segregation'...
aug 30, 2025, 8:43 pm • 1 0 • view