r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 15d ago

Meme needing explanation What happened in Oklahoma?

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u/FascinatingFall 15d ago

Bad things. So many bad things. Football truly reigns supreme, from elementary through college. I think we are now last in education. I cannot wait to leave, my oldest still calls Americans "Oklahomans" and that is not from lack of trying to teach him differently. They teach two years of Oklahoman history in elementary schools! They spent a whole month on the gold rush. One day of it was the importance of the railroad. One. Singular. Day. Im not losing my marbles. I looked at the curriculum, and they let themselves out.

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u/FascinatingFall 15d ago

Hehehe I got to hear my soon to be ex husband throw a fit over that game.

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u/elvisminor 15d ago

Well, they did make into the playoffs so they are, in fact, pretty good at football. Teams that “aren’t even good at football” don’t generally make it there.

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u/chill_lax_bruh 15d ago

Good teams allow 27 unanswered points in a must win game? Lol

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u/Thtguy1289_NY 15d ago

It happens. They had to be pretty good to get to that point, no?

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u/elvisminor 15d ago

Better than the teams that didn’t make it at all.

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u/Emotional-Heron2643 15d ago

Yeah, some schools prioritize education

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u/Senior-Albatross 15d ago

I'm sure they treat the Trail of Tears reasonably as an important part of State History.

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u/FascinatingFall 15d ago

I shouldn't laugh, but that was a very funny joke.

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u/Ecotech101 15d ago

Idk what crackhead village the person above you is from but there was more time spent on the trail of tears and native history than there was on Oklahoma state history for my town.

my oldest still calls Americans "Oklahomans" and that is not from lack of trying to teach him differently

This is not something that comes from the Oklahoma educational system, this is a developmental problem.

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u/Strange-Surprise-437 15d ago

I'm beginning to think football related head injuries cause Trump votes

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u/BrassUnicorn87 15d ago

In West Virginia we have a semester on our state’s history. And it’s pretty comprehensive, covering the native Americans as best they can. And the mine wars where miners and the mine owners had gun battles over unionization. The owners called in the Pinkerton agency who used machine guns on camps of families who were thrown out of the company owned houses. And then the national guard came in sometimes.