Current Events > FL Senate revives red scare, passes proposal to teach 5y/os threat of communism

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The Florida Senate on Friday passed a measure that could lead to the history of communism being taught in grades as low as kindergarten.

The proposal (SB 1264) was approved in a 25-7 vote, and would need approval from the House before it could go to the desk of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Under the bill, the state Department of Education would be directed to prepare and offer educational standards related to communism history instruction, and would require certain concepts to be included.

For example, the curriculum would have to include lessons on the increasing threat of communism in the United States and to our allies through the 20th century and the economic, industrial, and political events that have preceded and anticipated communist revolutions.

The educational standards would have to launch in the 2026-27 school year and would have to be age appropriate and developmentally appropriate for students.

Senate bill sponsor Jay Collins, R-Tampa, and other supporters of the bill have warned that young people are increasingly viewing communism in a positive light.

Heres what I know about communism: It doesnt care what race, creed, color, gender, sexual identification, ideology you come from it will destroy your life and your familys life completely the same, Collins said.
Florida students currently can get lessons on communism in high-school social studies courses or in a seventh-grade civics and government course. A high-school U.S. government class required for graduation also includes 45 minutes of instruction on Victims of Communism Day that covers various communist regimes throughout history.

Sen. Geraldine Thompson, a Windermere Democrat who is a former educator, said the measure is duplicative because instruction about communism already exists in public schools.

If we want to have a greater emphasis on communism, lets just infuse it into the curriculum that we have now. And because its duplicative and puts an additional responsibility or burden on already overworked individuals, I cannot support the bill, Thompson said.

Heres what I know about communism: It doesnt care what race, creed, color, gender, sexual identification, ideology you come from it will destroy your life and your familys life completely the same, Collins said.

they should probably be teaching them to swim for when their homes are destroyed by mother nature

they should probably be teaching them to swim for when their homes are destroyed by mother nature

What a wildly and extremely weird thing to say.

What a wildly and extremely weird thing to say.

Shit, I say to go ahead and let them do it. If they're as good at scaring kids away from communism as they are at scaring them away from drugs or teenage pregnancy, then society stands to benefit from this.

After they've taught students about all the people communism has killed, they'll tally capitalism's death count, right?

Tell us again about the liberals indoctrinating children in school.

Tell us again about the liberals indoctrinating children in school.

Truly mindblowing how Republicans are both pro Russian and anti communist.

They should teach them about nazis

They should teach them about nazis

Florida used to make you take an elective class in high school called Americanism vs. Communism.

Gop actively indocrinating children even tho they say dems push dei and crt

the brown scare is way more overblown