Oklahoma starts giving tests to teachers from NY and Calif. to weed out ‘woke indoctrinators’

Educators from liberal states like New York and California who want to teach in Oklahoma will now have to take a test to prove they aren’t “woke indoctrinators” before they are allowed in Sooner State classrooms, the state’s school chief said Friday.

Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s superintendent for public instruction, told The Post that arriving teachers will need to pass a multiple-choice quiz that includes questions on the “biological differences between males and females,” Christianity and American history.

“Here in Oklahoma, our academics are going to be grounded in fact,” the school leader declared.  

“We’ve seen states like New York and California go so radical with gender theory and Marxist indoctrination, they are warping the minds of young people … We need our teachers to agree to not be woke indoctrinators in the classroom.”

The 50-question test was developed by conservative media company PragerU and newly minted Oklahomans need to pass it in order to obtain a teaching license, according to CNN.

One question asks applicants which chromosome pairs determine biological sex, according to a sample of questions obtained by The Post.

Other questions ask what the first three words in the Constitution are and why freedom of religion is important to America’s identity.

Additional questions probe how many US senators there are, what the two parts of Congress are, and why some states have more US representatives than others.

“We’re also going to be teaching the foundations of American history… So we can continue to be the greatest country in the world. We want our students to be patriots,” Walter told The Post.

“You’re not gonna lie to kids about the influences Christianity had on American history,” he added. “We want you to teach history appropriately.”

The Sooner State has seen an influx of about 500 new teachers from a signing bonus program that aimed to draw in the “highest quality” educators — but Walters cautioned that any “radical woke gender theory that goes against biology and science” won’t be tolerated.

“We’ve begun to be concerned with what we’re seeing from teachers moving from blue states,” he said.

Only new teachers from New York and California need to take the test so far, CNN reported, but newcomers from up to eight more states might also be assessed.

Walter didn’t know the number of new teachers who had moved from the two coastal states, but an aide told CNN it was a “fairly large” number of applicants seeking teachers’ licenses.

Walters, a staunch conservative, hasn’t been shy about his stances and policies that have been lambasted by critics on the left.

He put in place mandates to teach students the Bible as a “necessary historical document,” which got kudos from President Trump at the time.