According to US News and World Report, the state of Oklahoma ranks 48th in the United States for its pre-K to 12th grade education system. But the current hot-button issue consuming the Oklahoma State Board of Education isn’t about improving this position; it’s about whether someone was streaming video of nude women gathered around a “chiropractic table” to a TV visible during a Board of Education meeting last week.
Indeed, so serious has the issue become that it has already progressed from a media complaint to a state probe to an Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office investigation in just a few days.
State House Speaker Kyle Hilbert (R) is already suggesting that Superintendent Ryan Walters, the state’s hard-right head of education—the man who wants to put Bibles in every classroom—”unlock and turn over all relevant devices and fully cooperate with an investigation.”