Porn fan Ryan Walters
After a public backlash for pushing Bibles endorsed by President Donald Trump on Oklahoma students, Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters is now mired in scandal for an entirely different reason — images of nude women on his office television.
Two members of the Oklahoma State Board of Education are accusing Walters — who was on Trump’s shortlist of education secretary candidates last year — of screening graphic images on a television connected to his computer Thursday during a closed-door meeting focused on teaching credentials and student attendance.
Board members Ryan Deatherage and Becky Carson allege that, in Walters’ office last week, they saw full-frontal nudity on the TV. Carson told The Oklahoman that she confronted Walters about what she’d seen, demanding he turn off the television at once, and he complied. Deatherage said he witnessed the exchange between Carson and Walters. A third board member, who said he did not see the confrontation, described the superintendent as “shook up” and “obviously a little flustered or embarrassed” during the executive session.
Now the state’s Republican leaders, including Gov. Kevin Stitt, say they support a probe into the conduct of the conservative superintendent who has called teachers “perverts” and backed bans of books he claims contain pornography. Walters has also faced criticism from LGBTQ+ groups for his policies and rhetoric, which came under scrutiny last year when a nonbinary Oklahoma teenager named Nex Benedict died after a physical altercation with classmates.
FYI-- Oklahoma was recently ranked 50th in the nation in a new study on school quality by personal finance company Wallet Hub.
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