Florida Wants to Add ‘Comprehensive Instruction’ of Communism to Curriculum
“The updated standards seek to highlight many aspects of the ideology, including the ‘suffering of the victims of communism,’ as well as ‘how communist movements … use propaganda to gain and maintain power.’”
The Florida State Board of Education will vote on new standards that would expand teaching about communism.
In other words, there’s no sugar coating the blood-soaked political ideology. From Campus Reform:
The updated standards seek to highlight many aspects of the ideology, including the “suffering of the victims of communism,” as well as “how communist movements … use propaganda to gain and maintain power.” This review aligns with the state’s effort to provide students a fuller understanding of political ideologies and their real-world impact.
“In 2024, Governor DeSantis expanded Florida’s commitment to teaching students the lasting consequences of communism by signing Senate Bill 1264 into law,” Florida State Board of Education Chair Ryan Petty told Campus Reform. “This bill requires comprehensive instruction on the history of communism beginning with the 2026–2027 school year.”
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The bill focuses on many aspects of communism, including the “Atrocities committed in foreign countries under the guidance of communism” as well as “Comparative discussion of political ideologies, such as communism and totalitarianism.”
The bill also put a major focus on the Department of Education “seek[ing] input from any individual who was a victim of communism,” in the creation of their new guidelines.
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One academic standard proposed around the new curriculum point would have students be able to “Identify the factors that led to the decline and fall of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.”
Another standard outlined in the document is that students must be able to “Compare The Communist Manifesto (1848) and the Bill of Rights in their views on individual rights, property, and government.”
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AOC recommends that the course start off with a showing of Marx Brothers films.
Excellent!
first lesson:
kids,,empty your pockets and give us your cell phones as they will be redistributed to other more needy people
that’s a lesson that would sink in
Many K-12 schools do a variation on that theme already. School supplies are – by mandate – all dumped into a communal box. So, the good-quality pencils Mark’s mom bought for him are thrown in with the garbage-quality ones bought by Sally’s mom, and what Mark gets is what the teacher pulls out of the box for him.
I had a teacher send my son’s school supplies back home – we were struggling financially that year and I couldn’t afford new stuff, but we had a lot of school supplies from years past. So I put together everything on the list, cobbled together from what we had available. He was a kindergardener and was upset that his stuff wasn’t wanted in the classroom supply closet. So, yeah. I had no idea that they were going to steal all of the kid;s supplies and put them in a communal closet to be passed out as needed – ostensibly so that the kids who were less financially able didn’t stand out…. I guess there are limits on even that level of “compassion.”
I finished reading the article with a completely different outlook than when I started.
This sounds like a good idea but I’m very skeptical that anyone with a degree in teaching can be trusted to teach the truth about communism.
“Florida Wants to Add ‘Comprehensive Instruction’ of Communism to Curriculum”
Aren’t a lot of professors doing that already?
I can recommend a great source text on Democide.
If we base it on what ideology/regime killed the most people there should be an entire department dedicated to teaching the travesties of communism.
I guess it’s something I thought was still being taught. I know I learned about communism in high school, maybe even junior high. Yes, it should all be taught, the good and the bad, including something the US system is often confused with: Democracy.
It’s the wording that bothers me, “Instruction of”. Perhaps “Exposing the destructiveness of” would be more appropriate?