Posted on 08/30/2026 4:49:02 PM PDT by T Ruth
Florida’s middle and high schools are expanding instruction on communism for students in grades 6 through 12. Last November, Florida’s Board of Education approved new History of Communism standards to be implemented during the 2026-2027 school year.
In 2024, the Florida legislature passed, and Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law, measures requiring schools to teach about the “evils and dangers of Communism.” DeSantis started this process back in 2021. One goal of the law and new standards is to prepare middle school and high school students to “withstand indoctrination on Communism at colleges and universities.” Every state in the country should follow Florida’s lead ...
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Florida’s anti-communist curriculum is expanding just as increasing numbers of young Americans are viewing socialism favorably — a development at least partly due to their ignorance of the history of socialism in power. And that ignorance is a manifestation of the failure of our educational system.
If our educational system [were] working better, Alexander Solzhenitsyn would be a household name in every town and city in America; of the early 1930s (known as Holodomor), the Soviet Gulag Archipelago, and of the late 1950s-early 1960s (known as the Great Leap Forward) would be as well known as the Nazi Holocaust; students would know that when Lenin seized power in Russia in 1917 he told his comrades that they would now be constructing the “socialist order,” and would also know that the Second World War in Europe was started by Hitler and Stalin; the and Whittaker Chambers’ would be on bookshelves throughout the country; the Venona Papers would be more widely known than the Hollywood 10; the Victims of Communism Museum would be visited more than the Smithsonian Museum in Washington; and Marxism would have the same evil connotations as Fascism.
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Despite DeSantis’s relative lack of charisma, he is looking good to me as a Presidential candidate.
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God.bless the great free state of Florida.
Now do one on Islam.
When I was a senior in high school back in 68-69, we had to take a course in Communism. Every senior had to take it.
Disasters like hurricanes and covid. That settles it for me. He’s good with the details of government. Unfortunately democrats go for the flash. GOP women too. All it takes is a few of them to turn the election over to the left. I say nominate him and go for broke. Marco should stay at state and not resign to run. He’s very good and the whole of South America is turning in our direction. JD?-SCOTUS. DeSantis as POTUS can take his anti-communism curriculum national while they accuse him of McCarthyism.
Gonna be awesome.
**When I was a senior in high school back in 68-69, we had to take a course in Communism. Every senior had to take it.**
I’d present both sides just to be fair. Let the 18 year olds minds evolve in their 20’s. When they’re 30 they’ll know who they are and who they’ll be comfortable with themselves. I’m confident. The 3rd side would be the MSM. Teach them to be skeptical of the teacher to start out b4 starting on the media..
Same, but in the latter 70’s for me. It was called Americanism vs. Communism…AVC when I was in HS.
It had every kind of -ism besides just the two, at least when I was in HS.
Yup! It seems a growing issue, maybe because many confuse it with religious belief.
It was a Communism versus Capitalism course and you couldn’t graduate without it.
I guess Israel is ok with that. FYI 254 FL gubmint scum took aipac $ in the last election.
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