Student walkouts in Oklahoma have drawn public attention, as students across school districts are leaaving classes to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal immigration policies. According to news reports, students at East Central High School (Tulsa, OK) and Charles Page High School (Sand Springs, OK) staged demonstrations, carrying protest signs and chanting against “ICE” and actions associated with President Trump’s administration.

A former agriculture teacher at Drumright Public Schools in Oklahoma, Bobby Pruitt, aged 63, was arrested on February 1, 2026, following an investigation into allegations of sexual and physical abuse of students. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) assisted the Drumright Police Department after reports surfaced on October 7, 2025, revealing inappropriate contact with two students across multiple incidents. Pruitt, who had taught for 38 years in various Oklahoma districts, faces serious felony charges stemming from these accusations.

Owasso Police Department initiated an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and lewd acts involving students at Owasso High School's East Campus. The incident allegedly occurred on school grounds during a weekend sports event and involved two suspects and two victims, all students.

An Oklahoma City metro teacher is under investigation after claims of abuse toward a student were reported to police.

Body cam footage from the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office shows deputies confronting and arresting Roderick Kohl, a Special Education teacher at Council Grove Elementary in the Western Heights School District.

A former Tupelo Public Schools cafeteria worker, Lyndsay Hamer, 30, of Coalgate, Oklahoma, has been arrested on multiple child sexual abuse charges following an investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI). Authorities allege that Hamer sent sexually explicit photos and videos to a student. The Coal County Sheriff’s Office initiated the investigation in April before requesting assistance from OSBI.

Samuel Melton, a former choir teacher at Choctaw High School in the Choctaw-Nicoma Park School District, was sentenced to 42 years—17 years in prison followed by 25 years of probation—after pleading guilty to 15 counts of sex crimes against a student. The charges included four counts of first-degree rape by instrumentation, three counts of second-degree rape, four counts of sexual battery, and four counts of forcible oral sodomy. The abusive relationship began when the victim was 16 years old, and she has since graduated from the school.

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for Andrew James McGann, an elementary school teacher who was arrested for the stabbing death two people who were hiking with their children at Devil’s Den State Park on Saturday, according to a preliminary probable cause affidavit released Thursday.

“McGann, 28, of Pinecrest Street in Springdale was arrested by Arkansas State Police on Wednesday in connection with two counts of capital murder. McGann is being held at the Washington County Detention Center with no bond set.”

36 seconds has never felt so long, that's the length of the video of a 13-year-old girl getting attacked on the playground at Bixby Middle School, a video which has since gone viral.” In the video, it appears that at least two male staff members fail to intervene, as two female students viscously beat another female student, including dragging her by the hair and kicking her while she is already on the ground.

Read today's news stories on Oklahoma school abuse.

Ryan England, 28, a teacher at Panama High School, was arrested July 8 after an investigation spanning several months finally concluded, according to an arrest affidavit.

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