Posted on 06/27/2021 8:18:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill into law that will require high schools to cover the “evils of communism and totalitarian ideologies” in government classes.
The Republican governor told reporters this week that three bills — HB 5, HB 233 and SB 1108 — will spotlight the horrors of communist dictatorships for young minds and inform them as to why people “flee across shark-infested waters” for the U.S.
“We have a number of people in Florida, particularly southern Florida, who’ve escaped totalitarian regimes, who escaped communist dictatorships to be able to come to America,” Mr. DeSantis said Tuesday. “We want all students to understand. Why would somebody flee across shark-infested waters, say, leaving Cuba, to come to southern Florida? Why would somebody leave a place like Vietnam? Why would people leave these countries and risk their life to be able to come here?”
The legislation also prompts the creation of a “Portraits and Patriotism” library on “real patriots” who escaped dictatorships prior to becoming U.S. citizens.
Mr. DeSantis‘s press conference at Three Oaks Middle School in Fort Myers included comments by Anna Bouza, a woman from Nicaragua who fled the Sandinistas.
“You have orthodoxies that are promoted, and other viewpoints are shunned or even suppressed,” the governor said, News-4 Jax reported. “We don’t want that in Florida, you need to have a true contest of ideas, students should not be shielded from ideas and we want robust First Amendment speech on our college and university campuses.”
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FL students will learn about patriots who come to America after fleeing communist regimes. Our students will learn from an integrated civic education curriculum that compares our rights & freedoms to places where they don’t exist like China & North Korea. https://t.co/8CCweFQhwD — Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) June 22, 2021
USA 2021: Where do we flee to?
“...fleeing communist regimes...”
What is old is new again. In the 1970s Americanism vs. Communism was a required course for graduation in Dade County High Schools.
Excellent. Children should indeed be taught the horrors of slavery. And Communist regimes have imposed a much more brutal slavery than anything ever seen in the US.
#Truth
Now how about please bringing factories back from China?
That is said to BOTH PARTIES.
The book “The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ought to be required reading in High School.
It is in Russia.
In coastal Oregon, we got a healthy dose of Joe McCarthy BAD, and little mention of communism.
Oh, but you KNOW the libs will be freaking out, saying, “NO! We can’t tell kids ANYTHING BAD about communism!! No one’s ever been able to make it work, but WE haven’t tried! We can make it work!! Give us a shot!!”
All over Fla. we had AVC in Duval Co. as well
They should also be made aware of the horrors of Nazi and Japanese concentration camps.
I read that as an adult...recall it being a tough slog...isn’t there something else?
It is a start. But sending your kids to the public schools is a risky proposition.
Heavy-D will be our POTUS on 12:01 PM January 20, 2025.
Excellent!!
And now comes the law suit/s in 3-2-1
I remember in the 5th grade, I had a teacher who hated communist.
He used Cuba. He ask us this.
If you say something bad about Castro you can go to prison, or be killed.
In the United States, you say something bad about the president. You can walk away free.
Which county would you rather live in?
We learned a lot about the evil communist bring.
What hit home was it wasn’t the past wars. It was a reality
in the present.
Wish all teachers taught that now.
Why do we need a law to show the horrors of communism? I know the answer to that.
Why do we need a law to show the horrors of communism? I know the answer to that.
The left is, unsurprisingly, apoplectic, because this interferes with their ever-widening expansion of their nihilistic indoctrination, not education, which is vital to their deconstruction of our nation.
The hand that rocks the cradle guides the future.
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