APUSH: What you can still do

It seems we’ve come a long way since Monday. National press has been brutal. If anything that happened in the House Common Education Committee Monday made you lose faith in the people of Oklahoma, the response since then should have calmed you. In spite of the people we elect sometimes, this is a great state. We are smarter than we act.

As evidence, I show you survey results from four questions asked by Norman Public Schools about the APUSH debacle.

Over 6,600 people responded to their 24 hour survey, and 96% basically said, Make this go away.

Oklahomans get it. Our legislators will get it too. One thing you can still do to help with this is remain vocal, yet polite. Much of what will happen now is to be determined by the House Speaker, Jeff Hickman. Reach out to him. I suggest a simple message, much like the following.

Mr. Speaker, kill HB 1380. It is bad public policy. Oklahomans (and now the rest of the country) know this! And tell the senate that SB 650 will not be heard.

Feel free to craft your own message. I’m not some out-of-state think tank ready to impose discipline should you not stick to the script.

jwhickman@okhouse.gov

Jeff Hickman (405) 557-7339