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Nearly 80 laws took effect today in Oklahoma.They include some that have faced a lot of backlash, like House Bill 1775. The legislation bans certain topics about race or gender from being taught. Changes are on the way to Oklahoma schools ahead of the fall semester because of laws going into effect today. One is Senate Bill 658, which stops schools and universities from requiring COVID-19 vaccines for students. It also stops schools from making mask requirements that are just for unvaccinated people. Another law involving schools is the controversial HB 1775. It bans schools from teaching certain topics about race and sex and bans colleges from requiring sexual diversity training. “It’s racist, it’s cowardly, it’s micromanaging,” Meg McElhaney, an Oklahoma City Public Schools board member, said earlier this year of HB 1775.Gov. Kevin Stitt said, “We can and should teach history without labeling a young child as an oppressor or requiring he or she feel guilt or shame
Oklahoman
Members of the Oklahoma City Board of Education unanimously disavowed a new law banning critical race theory from being taught in public schools.
Gov. Kevin Stitt signed the legislation, House Bill 1775, into law Friday.
All eight members of the school board voted to formally denounce the bill during a meeting Monday evening.
Board member Ruth Veales, who is Black and Native American, said the law aims to quiet conversations on race “in order to protect white fragility.”
“As a district that’s over 80% students of color, this is definitely an insult,” Veales said. “It is a situation that is so egregious to me.”
Last Friday, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed into law a bill prohibiting Critical Race Theory or any curriculum that might cause white students “discomfort, guilt, anguish or psychological distress” from being taught in K-12 schools in the state. On Monday, the Oklahoma City Public Schools Board of Education unanimously denounced the new law and called it exactly what it is and what I’ve been calling bills like it that have been pushed by Republicans across the country: They are white fragility bills.