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Ryan Walters: “What you don't do is just not teach them any of the history…”

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 01:13

Benjamin Franklin said, it's republic if you can keep it. The founders talked about an engaged citizenry. So you encourage them to be engaged. But What you don't do is just not teach them any of the history, not teach them any facts, give them no context, just give them a left wing perspective and then activate them. So I think that again, when you hear terms like a lot of times that gets bannered around, action, civics. Well, we need to understand history and our government, the way it functions, why it was designed that way. (01:13–01:25)

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Asserts that students are not taught history or facts but are given a left-wing perspective.

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