Red State Schools Reluctant To Follow Mandate Requiring Bibles Be Taught In Classrooms

Oklahoma school districts have not changed their curriculum despite a mandate requiring the Bible to be taught during the 2024-2025 school year, according to the New York Times.

Oklahoma 🎓Education Superintendent Ryan Walters mandated in June that all schools are required to teach the Bible, including the Ten Commandments, in the upcoming school year. The school districts in Oklahoma have been slow implementing the mandate, as some teachers stated that there has been no direction, the NYT reported.

“We have not heard of one district saying publicly they’ll do what Superintendent Walters has said he’s mandating they do,” Katherine Bishop, president of the Oklahoma 🎓Education Association told the NYT.

Walters noted during a church service shortly after he announced the mandate in June that he was “incredibly proud to be the first state in the country to put the Bible back in the classrooms,” the NYT reported.

Oklahoma teachers noted that the districts have not given any direction on how to address implementing the mandate, according to the NYT. Some teachers and school districts announced over the summer that they had no plans to change the curriculum around the mandate, with some publicly opposing it.