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Posted on 08/21/2026 6:23:47 PM PDT by chickenlips
Florida is doing what no blue-state classroom dares: forcing students to confront the actual body count of communism instead of romanticizing it.
Starting this fall, every public school student from sixth grade onward will receive mandatory instruction on the history and evils of communism under standards signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The curriculum covers the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communist Revolution, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, and the recent capture of Nicolás Maduro.
It details the mass deaths under Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Castro, the failure of collectivism, and the superiority of free enterprise and private property. Education leaders have been blunt: too many young Americans romanticize socialism because they were never taught its real-world toll.
The requirement builds on Florida’s existing Victims of Communism Day, which already mandated at least 45 minutes of annual instruction on those same regimes.
The fuller standards, approved by the State Board of Education in November 2025 and updated this year to include Maduro’s autocratic rule and subsequent fall, take effect for the 2026-2027 school year. DeSantis has been consistent. “The truth will set us free,” he said when signing the underlying bill, adding “We will not allow our students to live in ignorance, nor be indoctrinated by Communist apologists in schools.”
“To the contrary, we will ensure students in Florida are taught the truth about the evils and dangers of Communism,” DeSantis further urged.
In a more recent post he added, “The DSA may try to make Castro out to be a HERO — but FLORIDA students know better!”
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I know those with Type 2 TDS will convulse at this, but Ron DeSantis is the GOAT!
I absolutely love having DeSantis as my governor. After living most of my life in a deep blue state it is such a treat to live in Florida.
#AmericasGovrenor
America needs this kind of leadership nationally.
I just sent this article to the Superintendent of Public Instruction Debbie Crutchfield and asked her “Why isn’t Idaho leading on this?”
Thanks for posting, CL.
Too bad this site is so laden with junk it takes forever to load and is jerky to scroll throughout. Brave loaded it without all the crap and “Reader” view blocked all the junk in Safari.
when i went to High School in Florida during the early 80S, a course called Americanism vs Communism was required by law. It was usually taught in History class. When did this end?
“Starting this fall, every public school student from sixth grade onward will receive mandatory instruction on the history and evils of communism under standards signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis.”
Excellent! Of all the potential presidential candidates DeSantis is easily my favorite. Being governor is the closest thing to being president and he has done an excellent job of it.
He beats the left at every turn
No more. Nowadays they are dilatory, wimply, doubletalking dweebs.
The other side is moving fast toward acting out with violence.
You could make the case that they already have done so enough to justify a response on our part.
If we are waiting for the GOP to respond, we may be waiting until the Rat trucks come to pick us up.
Yep, Republicans have a VERY derp bench of potential presidential candidates.
The DemocRATS have Bupkis.
derp = deep!
repeat: Ron DeSantis is the GOAT!
Florida rocks!
Now do the same thing with Islam. It’s a national security issue.
Me too 👍👍👍👍
This is excellent. For years, I've urged states to teach in school how horrible communism is.
Communism should be hated worse than Nazism, because it has killed far more people, and ruined far more of people's lives than Nazism ever did.
"Derp" usually means foolish, clumsy or silly.
For a minute there I thought you were making a joke.
“The DSA may try to make Castro out to be a HERO “
Fidel’s daughter was interviewed on Newsmax tonight. She is an interesting person. Said she knew her father and communism were wrong when she was very young.
Seems like it’s been at least 40 years since schools taught this subject matter truthfully.
Another good reason to live in Florida.
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