Oklahoma officials make education look like ‘The Twilight Zone,’ and no one wants to see the twist

Every time it seems like our public school policies can’t get any more bizarre, our education officials manage to up the ante.

In the past month alone, they’ve announced that:

• Bibles must be used in public school classrooms. Not as a dust collector or doorstop, but as a historical text.

• Rather than relying on traditional social studies experts to draft our new academic standards, we’re tapping political pundits and right-wing advocates, including one who creates offensive videos that ...