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Ryan Walters: “The second component is what the unions have driven in…”

Featuring: Ryan Walters, Republican | Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction

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'Students Don't Know the Facts' - Walters Emphasizes the Need for Better Civics Education

Published | Video Starts at 00:44

The students haven't been diving into primary sources. The students haven't been reading directly from the history makers themselves. So that's the first component. The second component is what the unions have driven in schools, which is we're going to help activate you towards this cause rather than the simple encouragement of here's our history, here's our facts. It is important for you to be engaged whatever way you want to be engaged, left, right, center, whatever it may be. Benjamin Franklin said, it's republic if you can keep it. (00:44–00:58)

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Asserts that unions in schools focus on activism over teaching history and facts.

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