Florida approves new teaching standards
on communism
The Center Square,
by
Merrilee Gasser
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
11/16/2025 4:21:20 PM
Florida public school students will learn the “brutal realities” of communism under new standards the State Board of Education adopted Thursday, the state’s education chief said. The “History of Communism” will be integrated into the state’s social studies standards and implemented in the 2026-2027 school year. It’s the result of a 2024 law signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that mandates students be taught the “consequences of communism” and to prepare them to “withstand indoctrination on communism at colleges and universities.”
“With the resurgence of communist ideologies across the United States and throughout the world, it is more important than ever for students to understand the catastrophic failures and human
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Venturer 11/16/2025 4:24:59 PM (No. 2030679)
This guy DeSantis has some really good ideas.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
dcbroome 11/16/2025 4:26:14 PM (No. 2030680)
I've lived in Florida since I was 3 y/o. When I was in HS here in the 70's, we were required to take AvC class- Americanism vs Communism.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mc squared 11/16/2025 4:28:15 PM (No. 2030683)
Note who objected: the teacher's union. Says a lot don't it?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Catherine 11/16/2025 4:59:41 PM (No. 2030696)
I think this is an excellent idea. And they need to drop all the sicko sex lessons on gays and trans. I have a sibling who teaches in Florida. If she were a guy she'd have been charged with rape.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/16/2025 4:59:43 PM (No. 2030697)
In spring 1966, I was in eighth grade. The principal of our elementary school in Lake County Illinois, Mr. Kroll, conducted a one-week long class just before our graduation to high school titled, "Propaganda and Communism". Mr. Kroll was a WWII survivor from the European theatre. He set out to teach us kids the evil of socialism and communism because he saw these with his own eyes. At one point near the end of the course, he looked each of us kids straight in the eye and said that WWII is not over, it is only a pause and that new communists in America will eventually emerge. And as we see, they are here now. I rather doubt that school principals who followed him were that passionate about the future for America. I will never forget his devotion to our Constitutional Republic.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chumley 11/16/2025 5:23:05 PM (No. 2030704)
Sad that this was necessary. At one time pretty much everyone knew communism was bad. Then those 60's hippies got into academia and began the damage, which continues to this day.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 11/16/2025 5:39:34 PM (No. 2030707)
I attended HS in a small city in central Florida. In the late 1960s a required course for ALL HS students was "Americanism versus Communism". It was an excellent course, and should be revived today.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 11/16/2025 5:41:01 PM (No. 2030708)
I see #2 had the same course that I took in a Florida HS. Let's bring it back. Same exact course.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
padiva 11/16/2025 6:15:39 PM (No. 2030719)
Since there are so many former Cubans in FL, it would be most interesting to get their slant on the evils of communism.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 11/16/2025 6:18:45 PM (No. 2030722)
Why doesn't any school in America teach capitalism? Why doesn't any university teach economics other than Keynesian? We need to privatize everything. Everything the government oversees turns to ruin.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 11/16/2025 6:40:59 PM (No. 2030729)
Re #10, remember the term "capitalism" was created by Marxists as a pejorative. For far too many, it is still a dirty word.
We want to use the term "Free market economics" rather than using our enemy's term 'capitalism'.
People are actually generally quite supportive of free markets.
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New teaching standards on communism? How bout not teaching it at all?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 11/16/2025 8:22:01 PM (No. 2030751)
Where are they going to find a public school teacher to teach that communism is bad?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 11/16/2025 9:58:50 PM (No. 2030767)
It’s about time the American education system returned to teaching actual history instead of anti-American propaganda, leftist indoctrination and flat out godlessness. It should be mandatory in every state, and history books aren’t the only ones in need of reform.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MickTurn 11/16/2025 10:56:18 PM (No. 2030772)
To Fix all this Commie BS Trump needs to DELETE the Teachers Unions, and charge all the Union Leadership and Administrators with CHILD ABUSE!
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#2, alas, by the time I was in high school in the '70s, the name of the course had been changed to "Problems of American Democracy" or PAD. My teacher was a far-left lib. On day one he asked for a show of hands for who in the room considered themselves a Republican. I was the only one who raised a hand and my life was hell for the rest of the year. Most of what he taught in the class was economics, with a left slant.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 11/17/2025 4:41:49 AM (No. 2030799)
Hey kids, it doesn’t work. You know the old saying, “If it seems too good to be true…”
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