{"id":1468774,"date":"2022-05-09T11:44:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T15:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468774"},"modified":"2022-05-09T11:44:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T15:44:41","slug":"desantis-signs-bill-requiring-public-high-schools-to-observe-victims-of-communism-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-signs-bill-requiring-public-high-schools-to-observe-victims-of-communism-day\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Signs Bill Requiring Public High Schools To Observe \u2018Victims Of Communism Day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-signs-bill-requiring-public-high-schools-to-observe-victims-of-communism-day%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468774&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Ron-DeSantis-scaled-e1652108530265.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WFLANewsChannel8\/videos\/746592859670368\"><span>signed<\/span><\/a><span> a bill Monday morning at Miami\u2019s Freedom Tower that will require \u201cVictims of Communism Day\u201d to be observed in the state\u2019s public high schools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The bill, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2022\/395\/BillText\/er\/PDF\"><span>HB 395<\/span><\/a><span>, mandates that public schools instruct students on the horrors of communism each year on November 7 or a preceding school day. The \u201cVictims of Communism Day\u201d legislation passed the Florida House and Senate unanimously earlier this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe want to make sure that every year folks in Florida, but particularly our students, will learn about the evils of communism, the dictators that have led communist regimes, and the hundreds of millions of individuals who suffered and continue to suffer under the weight of this discredited ideology,\u201d DeSantis said at a press conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Miami Young Republicans President Armando Ibarra and his group helped <\/span><span>launch<\/span><span> the \u201cVictims of Communism Day\u201d bill. Ibarra told The Daily Wire that his father was a political prisoner in Cuba and endured \u201cincredible cruelty,\u201d so this bill means more to him than simply another piece of legislation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>When we <\/span><span>brought the idea<\/span><span> for the [Victims of Communism] bill to Rep. David Borrero we wanted to honor the people in our community that had suffered and the people that were lost to the evils of communism,\u201d Ibarra said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the bill, high school students will be required to receive 45 minutes of instruction on \u201cVictims of Communism Day\u201d beginning in the 2023-2024 school year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The instruction will include \u201ctopics such as Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet System, Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Revolution, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, and Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and the Chavismo movement, and how victims suffered under these regimes through poverty, starvation, migration, systemic lethal violence, and suppression of speech.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>DeSantis\u2019 signature on the bill also means the State Board of Education will revise social studies standards to include the classroom instruction that aligns with \u201cVictims of Communism Day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The legislation comes after DeSantis <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-signs-law-requiring-students-to-learn-evils-of-communism-real-patriots-who-escaped-it\"><span>signed<\/span><\/a><span> a bill last June requiring students to learn about the \u201cevils of communism.\u201d DeSantis told the press at the time that the bill would require students in high school government class to learn about communism and totalitarianism. <\/span><span>\u201cWe have a number of people in Florida, particularly southern Florida, who\u2019ve escaped totalitarian regimes, who\u2019ve escaped communist dictatorships to be able to come to America,\u201d the governor said at the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The conservative governor has consistently signed legislation regarding education in the Sunshine State. Most notably, he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-signs-parental-notification-bill-shrugs-off-dont-say-gay-uproar\"><span>signed<\/span><\/a><span> the \u201cParental Rights in Education\u201d bill in March, prohibiting classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation for kindergarten-3rd grade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>DeSantis\u2019 administration also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/florida-rejects-dozens-of-math-books-containing-critical-race-theory-and-other-indoctrinating-concepts\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span> last month that the state would eliminate some books it found to promote Critical Race Theory from being used in Florida public schools. <\/span><span>\u201cIt seems that some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core, and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, especially, bizarrely, for elementary school students,\u201d DeSantis said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ibarra praised DeSantis and the Florida legislature for their consistent advocacy for liberty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs we\u2019ve seen in recent months, Florida is leading the way on establishing a pro-liberty agenda, and I am very enthusiastic about this being a model for other states to also incorporate lessons about the horrors of communist systems into their curricula so we can roll back the influence of socialism in our country,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday morning at Miami\u2019s Freedom Tower that will require \u201cVictims of Communism Day\u201d to be observed in the state\u2019s public high schools.The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1482109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}