Retired teachers Melanie Dewey and Jane Martinsen had planned to attend the Oklahoma State Board of Education scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 28. They weren’t going to let the fact that the meeting was canceled stop them from showing up.

Dewey, from Tulsa, and Martinsen, from Norman, were among about 25 people who gathered at the state Capitol to spend the time they had planned to be attending the board meeting instead discussing their frustrations about state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters. The group brainstormed ways to fight back against Walters' far-right policies that they opposed.

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