Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters on Tuesday announced a plan to establish chapters of the conservative organization Turning Point USA at all state high schools.
“I am very excited to announce a partnership with @TPUSA to establish chapters in ALL Oklahoma high schools. Radical leftist teachers’ unions have dominated classrooms for far too long, and we are taking them back,” Walters said Tuesday in a post on the social platform X.
Walters’s announcement comes after the deadly shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a founder of Turning Point USA. The Oklahoma education official’s post was also reposted by Turning Point.
The founder of a right-wing social media account named “Libs of TikTok” last year was appointed to the state library panel in Oklahoma. Walters announced at the time that the founder, Chaya Raichik, would be joining the state Department of Education Library Media Advisory Committee.
“Chaya is on the front lines showing the world exactly what the radical left is all about — lowering standards, porn in schools, and pushing woke indoctrination on our kids,” Walters said last year.
In the wake of Kirk’s shooting earlier this month, there have been intense debates about Kirk’s legacy and the limits of free speech, with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel being suspended by ABC after making controversial comments about the Turning Point founder’s assassination.
“Charlie Kirk’s assassination has just birthed a new era of Christian conservative leaders. There will be new faces and leaders emerge all across the country,” Walters said in a post on X last Wednesday.
“The radical left celebrates his death, but they do not understand the movement that has been created,” Walters added.
