Reclaim Oklahoma Parent Empowerment

Michael and Jenni will will talk to our friend Linda Murphy. This will be an especially interesting podcast as we're going to cover the often-contentious subject of Church and State. Is there a separation? Should we have prayer in public schools? Should we send public tax dollars to ANY private organization or school? You won't want to miss this!

Get ready for another great report from our Substack blogger, V1SUT. She'll be with us to discuss her newest research, which includes her blog from the first week in January, where she continues to dig into the 'drag queen' culture that seems to pervade the Western Heights Public School district. Make sure to tune in and see what she has for us on Wednesday!

ROPE Report Regular, Sherrie Conley, will be with us to tell us what she sees on her radar screen for this, her last session as an Oklahoma Representative. We'll talk about the Speaker's race, the legislative process and the legislative calendar - what happens when! Make sure to tune in because if you have any questions about what happens during session, Sherrie will absolutely answer any and all questions she can! If you watch on Facebook or YouTube, type in your questions in the comments and we'll see them. We'll follow along on our Rumble page for any of you wanting to ask questions there!

Mrs. Romanello is a mother of 4 and an independent scholar whose academic research interests include the life and writings of Eric Voegelin, Plato, and Kierkegaard. She has taught at several colleges and universities near her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Recently, her research has focused on the corporate takeover of higher education and the development of the "P20 pipeline" in order to advance the globalist agenda of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. She will be with us to talk about all this and how Oklahoma's private school tax credit is advancing Globalist goals.

Alex Newman has a B.S. degree in journalism from the University of Florida with an emphasis on economics and international relations, as well as an A.A. degree in foreign languages from Miami-Dade College. He also studied international relations and geopolitics at the Institute Français des Alpes in France. He is a prolific writer who has written for many publications, a nationally-known speaker, a book author, a podcaster AND MUCH MORE. He talked with us about a wide range of topics including TAX CREDITS and the ways in which schools INDOCTRINATE children daily.

ROPE has been fighting 'school choice' educational tax credits as long as the powers that be in Oklahoma have been trying to push them (over a decade). Unfortunately, last year's legislature seemed unclear the difference between a tax CREDIT and a voucher and bought the 'voucher disguised as a tax credit' scheme, hook, line and sinker. Now, rumor has it, that the people pushing the tax credit lie have been the sameones at the Oklahoma Tax Commission writing the rules for the tax credit. That seemed odd to us, so more investigation was required. We'll go through the research we have so that everyone can be informed enough to tell the tax credit the rules won't work because the public was sold a bill of goods!

Reed Downey is a long-time education activist in this state who has always had a heart for children and always wanted the best education possible for them. The recent issues with school boards not listening to parents - and the fact that few people vote in School Board Elections - prompted Reed to act. He began an organization called, "School Boards 4 Kids", where members work together to find, train and help members of the community run - and win - their open school board seats. He has also been very involved with the effort to get the legislature to pass legislation allowing school board elections to be held on the same day as general elections. Reed will be with us to talk about his efforts and what we can do to help. Please tune in!

We've had the writer of the Substack, V1SUT, on once already, to talk about drag queen performances in Bartlesville, Oklahoma public spaces and the apparently complicit City Council allowing that to happen. On Friday, we'll talk with her about the story she broke about Shawn Murnan, the Principal in Western Heights PS who is a Principal by day and a drag queen at night. And not only a drag queen - a drag queen arrested for child porn and multiple motor vehicle infractions - including operating a motor vehicle at 3x the legal limit of alcohol in his system. How does this happen and what now? We'll talk with V1SUT and see, but in the meantime, read her Substack! https://v1sut.substack.com/

TS Smith has lived through a nightmare in more ways than one. First, her middle-school-aged child had a mental health crisis. Then, when she attempted to get treatment for her child, the state usurped her parental rights, pulled her child into the state's mental health system and provided gender affirming care for her minor child though TS did not want those 'services' to be a part of her treatment. Fortunately, after good, solid counseling, her daughter is well, however, what TS learned DURING this crisis, she wants to share with other parents so they can know what she didn't know at the time.

Denise is a parent who's children were enrolled in Kansas Public Schools following a move from Oklahoma. Quickly, she found that not only were the schools not caring for her children the way she would as a parent, but were actively hurting her middle child - who Denise found was being called into the school counselor's office to be counseled without her consent. Today, Denise's children no longer attend public school and she has become the parent education advocate/activist most of us can only dream of becoming.

A recent doctoral candidate turned Ph.D., Dr. Harrell talked with us about math education in Oklahoma. What works, what doesn't work - what are we actually expecting our students to do? Are our standards even high enough for what we're expecting students to do? Why so many students in Oklahoma below 30% proficiency in math? What can be done? Sandy answers these questions and even talks briefly about the Oklahoma math standards. This program should be watched if you have any interest in math education at all. Very informative!

One of our most successful ROPE Reports to date (this video was recorded 6/21/23), we took the time to talk to the authors of "Traditional Math; An Effective Strategy That Teachers Feel Guilty Using" about their book - why did they write it? What does that mean; 'traditional math'? Both men were long-time math instructors, with Garelick entering the teaching field after a successful career as an environmental engineer. If you've EVER struggled with math - or has a kid who does - the book is for you and THIS PROGRAM IS A MUST WATCH!

Canadian County Sheriff’s Department Major Adam Flowers stalks online predators and is very good at it. He will talk with us about his job and the fact that he often arrests people who write things and send them online to children under 18 which are similar in nature to the language used in some of the books available to children in public schools, libraries and book fairs today.

Monica Cline left a 10-year, successful job as a Comprehensive Sex Educator (CSE) and Family Planner trained by the LGBT community and Planned Parenthood to expose the truth behind CSE and the secular ideas harming our children, families and culture. She’ll talk with us a bit about her journey and the danger our kids and families are in today from this ideology.

Yvette Hampton and her husband, sold their home in California, bought an RV and drove cross-country with their two girls, creating a movie along the way. A recent convert to homeschooling, Yvette wanted to let everyone know that, not only was it a fabulous way to get closer to your kids, but to provide them the best education possible. Consequently, a full-length motion picture took shape - Schoolhouse Rocked. Check out their website at https://schoolhouserocked.com/.

Previously Recorded 6.7.23 Today, former Hollywood (the Sorbos are now Florida residents) actress Sam Sorbo joins us to talk about the translation from successful fulltime Hollywood actress to successful homeschooling mom of three and writer and producer...! How did this happen? What are her secrets to helping YOU reach your personal goals while first and foremost assuring an excellent homeschool experience for your kids. It might be easier than you think! Check out her website at https://www.samsorbo.com/

Sam Sorbo was with us earlier this year for a great podcast that touched on topics relating to how she began to home educate her three kids and how she 'did it all' - acting, writing - AND educating her own kids her own way!

ROPE REPORT Re-Play: Edmond Parents Win Lawsuit Against Edmond Public Schools. (Previously Recorded 4/28/23) With us today is ROPE Board member (and EPS parent) Michael Grande and EPS parent, Emilie Garrelts. They will talk about the lawsuit filed by themselves and other EPS parents to stop EPS from discriminating against students based on their COVID vaccination status. Fortunately, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the EPS policy regarding vaccination violated state law and declaratory judgement found for the parents.

PREVIOUSLY RECORDED 4/26/23 May 4th of last year, ROPE and Stillwater, Oklahoma father and community member, Brice Chaffin, sued Stillwater Public Schools for forcibly removing Chaffin from the microphone at an SPS public board meeting after reading scripture as a way of expressing his objection to the SPS policy of allowing boys who identify as girls to use the girl's restroom. ROPE/Chaffin are not asking for any monetary compensation as a result of the lawsuit, but a simple public APOLOGY to be made to Chaffin and Stillwater taxpayers. Instead, SPS has used taxpayer funded attorneys to fight us in court on four separate occasions. As of today (11/23) ROPE and Chaffin are still fighting for his right to speak freely using scripture - according to the Oklahoma Religious Freedom Act - this time as an appeal to the Oklahoma Supreme Court. No response from Oklahoma's highest court has been received at the time of this replay. https://rope2.org/2022/05/31/press-statements-and-filed-overwatch-petition-against-stillwater-public-schools-on-behalf-of-stillwater-community-member-brice-chaffin/# Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/6236986205667328

Maria Seidler, Tulsa-based attorney and the attorney representing Brice Chaffin and ROPE against the Stillwater Public Schools for violating Brice's First Amendment rights during a school board meeting, talks about activist judges destroying the rule of law in America.

This month ROPE Rebular, Karmin Grider will talk more about the information we can find on her website. Last time she was with us, Karmin took us on a really great tour, but this time, we'll hone in on several of our legislators and find out a bit more about them, like where they get their money and what bills they sponsor. We might even have time to talk a bit about state judges, who get very little press and whom most voters know very little about when they go into the voting booth, yet they are the arbiters of justice in our state and decide court cases, the outcomes of which, can fly in the face of our Constitutional Republic. DISCLAIMER: Information about the four House Representatives reported to have over 1 million dollars in their campaign accounts - THIS IS REFLECTIVE OF THE TOTAL THAT HAS BEEN DONATED TO THEIR CANDIDATE ACCOUNTS OVER THE LIFE OF THEIR CAREER IN THE HOUSE - NOT IN ONE YEAR OR CURRENTLY.

ROPE fought HB3374 - a bill to allow the state government to help fund Community Schools in Oklahoma. We did research and wrote an informative 1-pager, which we sent out to other Senators on the Senate Education Committee (https://www.scribd.com/document/59667.... Senator Pemberton took exception to our efforts - even though we spoke with him privately first, before sending any information out to his collogues. Former Senator Jake Merrick (R) spoke against the bill and Senator Carrie Hicks (D) spoke for it.

ROPE fought HB3374 - a bill to allow the state government to help fund Community Schools in Oklahoma. We did research and wrote an informative 1-pager, which we sent out to other Senators on the Senate Education Committee (https://www.scribd.com/document/596673785/What-Are-Some-Concerns-With-Community-Schools). Senator Pemberton took exception to our efforts - even though we spoke with him privately first, before sending any information out to his collogues. Former Senator Jake Merrick (R) spoke against the bill and Senator Carrie Hicks (D) spoke for it.

Friday, 11/10/23, ROPE Regular Sherrie Conley joined us to talk about Community Schools - federal subsidized schools that provide all services any student might need - particularly in health care. This is a dangerous precedent to set in ANY community and here, we give reasons as to why. To access the full video spoken of in the clip, see here: https://youtu.be/6vjMiEf8NK0 For the clip pertaining specifically to Senator Pemberton's snarky comment about Karl Marx, please see here: https://youtu.be/Eu3_Sd2-oG4

This month, Sherrie will talk about Community Schools. Julia and Jenni worked hard to stop HB3374 by Tammy West and Dwayne Pemberton authorizing Community Schools in 2022, but Tammy West authored HB1367 establishing a Community Schools pilot program again this year. Thankfully, it wasn't heard, but we clearly need to know more about this topic as there are legislators who are focused on getting this model of school into law!