Former Choctaw-Nicoma Park High School teacher Samuel Melton has pleaded guilty to sexual crimes against a young student, receiving a 42-year sentence—the longest ever for an Oklahoma sexual predator in the classroom according to a release from OK Attorney General Genter Drummond.
Melton pleaded guilty to multiple counts of rape by instrumentation, second-degree rape, sexual battery and sodomy as an adult employed by a school district.
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs President Jonathan Small yesterday criticized the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association (OSSAA) for arbitrarily banning four teenagers from playing basketball for Glencoe High School. The four youth used the state’s open-transfer process to attend the Glencoe district in the 2025-2026 school year.
Glencoe is located in northern Payne County, Oklahoma. The population was 601 at the 2010 census, an increase of 3.1 percent from the figure of 583 in 2000.
Editor’s Note: This story has expanded from when we first published it in June of this year. Additional warnings have been included. Parental concerns have grown as the school systems in Oklahoma hide information and presume even more authority over the precious young lives in their part-time care. Leftists hate the sovereign family.
Parents, please proceed with caution when the Oklahoma K-12 schools reconvene for the 2025-2026 school year in August. In June 2025, the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Instruction Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), and the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) completed the unlawful expansion of school-based services, into Medicaid healthcare clinics, for ALL students. Public School based primary healthcare is not education. This merging of public schools with healthcare circumvents parental supervision and potentially puts big pharma solutions on behavioral issues and alternative lifestyle choices in the hands of government bureaucrats with parents clueless.
Opinion: “There is no reason a child cannot read before they are in third grade,” former State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister said in 2019. “But our teachers have to teach based on the science of reading, and that is not happening across this state. It is happening in pockets.”
While I disagreed with Hofmeister on many issues, I give her credit where credit is due: She spoke a hard truth about the severity of Oklahoma’s reading crisis.
The problem persists. And it is unacceptable.
Yesterday in a memorandum to the Secretary of Education, President Donald J. Trump has officially directed adherence to the Supreme Court of the United States that “has definitively held that consideration of race in higher education admissions violates students’ civil rights.”
Further, “the persistent lack of available data — paired with the rampant use of ‘diversity statements’ and other overt and hidden racial proxies — continues to raise concerns about whether race is actually used in practice. Greater transparency is essential to exposing unlawful practices and ultimately ridding society of shameful, dangerous racial hierarchies.“
