About

ROPE was founded in 2009 by Jenni White and Julie McKenzie, two women who found, through a little common sense research, that the historical Founding and Civics of our nation were not being taught rigorously or honestly through the Oklahoma PASS curriculum.

ROPE does not take money from organizations or candidates. While we endorse candidates, our endorsements are verbal in nature, posted on our website, Facebook account and through emails to our email list. We help candidates we endorse in their campaigns through simple "boots on the ground" initiatives. Our organization does not provide monetary campaign contributions to any candidate we choose to endorse.

ROPE is a simple LLC. We have chosen not to become a 501(C)3 organization because we do not want to be censured in our writings or actions by the IRS. Neither are we a PAC. Since we do not donate money to candidates, we have chosen not to file as a PAC. As an organization providing information and education to tax payers, it seems somehow incongruent to us to file as a PAC when we might - even accidentally - support an organization or candidate with which we might at some point fundamentally disagree.

We do take donations, but any monies collected are from individuals willing to provide money to pay for expenses such as travel, printing, conference fees, room rentals and office supplies.

OUR MISSION is to educate tax-paying citizens and parent stakeholders on the ways in which the methods and philosophies used in public education affect them today. From budgetary allotments to curricula, ROPE attempts to make Oklahomans aware of how every dollar spent and every idea taught can actively influence the future voters enrolled in Oklahoma Public Education today.

OUR VISION is to return our Oklahoma public education system to the ideal construed by that of the Founders of our country who believed that the precepts of education contain the teaching of ethics, morality and faith in order to provide the cornerstones of a free government.

Our schools should be locally managed, free from the fetters of Federal Government monies, programs and control. Parents, local communities and school boards should be the ultimate factors influencing the teachers, curriculum and atmosphere of schools, whether elementary, mid, or high.

Oklahoma public schools should be strongholds for Constitutional teaching and knowledge in order to bring about a population of youth able to use their considerable wisdom to maintain a Free Republic.

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