Posted on 05/09/2022 7:28:19 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Public school teachers in Florida will soon be required to dedicate at least 45 minutes of instruction on “Victims of Communism Day” to teach students about communist leaders around the world and how people suffered under those regimes.
Speaking at Miami’s Freedom Tower before a crowd of local lawmakers and supporters, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 395, which designates Nov. 7 as the state’s official “Victims of Communism Day,” making Florida one of a handful of states to adopt the designation.
It is, however, the first state to mandate school instruction on that day, as Florida Republicans continue to seize on education policy while placing school curriculum at the forefront of their political priorities ahead of the 2022 midterms.
The bill, which DeSantis signed along with two street designations in honor of Cuban exiles, would require the instruction to begin in the 2023-2024 school year. It would require teaching of Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro, as well as “poverty, starvation, migration, systemic lethal violence, and suppression of speech” endured under those regimes.
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How to spin a headline 101.
Pretty sad a law has to be passed to teach history.
Will the left take the bait.........?
Didn’t the crt people say we have to teach raw history? And collectivism has a history.
about freaking time!
I have been appalled my whole life and how nearly NOTHING is taught in school about the atrocities of communism!
When I was in the 10th grade in 1967 Florida, there was a mandatory civics class for all sophomores (could have been freshmen - I can’t recall) called “Americanism vs Communism”.
No one thought anything unusual about it. No liberals complained. Now we are castigated for teaching students that there is anything good about this country.
Of course 1967 liberals would be called right wing extremists by today’s Democrats. Can you imagine how Hubert Humphrey’s statements on 2A and gun rights would be received by Democrats now? There were actually some liberals then who loved this country.
Around that time, Hubert Humphrey, a Democrat, suggested we outlaw the Communist party. Imagine how different Dems are today.
DeSantis is cooking a BBQ and it tastes good. He is also in a band and hitting all the right notes. More please.
It was still required 10 yrs later, as part of American History.
In florida, back in the 1960’s all seniors were required to take “Americanism Verses Communism”. Disappeared from the curriculum around 1972.
I doubt the headline was an accident.
Did this name come from this unheralded group and its monument?
https://victimsofcommunism.org/about/memorial/
Anyway, I hope Desantis doesn’t go too far. Pushing what to and not to discuss in class in every minutia May start to look exactly like what he wants to fight.
How is it spun?
“bill mandating communism lessons” sounds like the lessons will be procommunist, when the opposite is really the case.
A more accurate headline would read:
“bill mandating anti-communism lessons” or “bill mandating lessons on the evils and failures of communism”.
Ah. Well, I don’t think anyone views it that way. Pro- or anti-commie.
This is an interesting observation. I have observed this phenomenon all over the world.
History is not taught. And when it is, it’s polished.
My theory is, there are really two classes. The predator and the prey.
The prey is stupid and CRS. The predator just wipes out history then does it again... learning from the last mistake and getting it better next time.
This whole life is a lot like being on a farm. An animal farm.
It’s quite depressing.
When I was in the 10th grade in 1967 Florida, there was a mandatory civics class for all sophomores (could have been freshmen - I can’t recall) called “Americanism vs Communism”.
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8th. grade 1958, we had to pass a test on the U.S Constitution as well as the Missouri Constitution to graduate to high school and they weren’t easy tests either.
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