{"id":571005,"date":"2021-06-22T18:21:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T22:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571005"},"modified":"2021-06-22T18:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T22:21:16","slug":"desantis-signs-bill-requiring-high-school-students-learn-evils-of-communism-and-totalitarian-ideologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-signs-bill-requiring-high-school-students-learn-evils-of-communism-and-totalitarian-ideologies\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Signs Bill Requiring High School Students Learn \u2018Evils Of Communism And Totalitarian Ideologies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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-high-school-students-learn-evils-of-communism-and-totalitarian-ideologies%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=571005&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-22-at-5.55.19-PM-e1624399032747.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Tuesday requiring high school students to learn about the evils of communist ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>During a press conference at Three Oaks Middle School in Fort Myers, Florida, DeSantis signed three education bills designed to foster civic literacy in schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s crucial to ensure that we teach our students how to be responsible citizens,\u201d DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/florida\/2021\/06\/22\/gov-desantis-signs-civic-literacy-bills-takes-aim-at-socialism-communism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> during the press conference. \u201cThey need to have a good working knowledge of American history, American government and the principles that underline our Constitution and Bill of Rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Florida HB 5 adds a requirement to the high school government curriculum that students be taught the \u201cevils of communism and totalitarian ideologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\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. We want all students to understand the difference, why would somebody flee across shark-infested waters, say leaving from Cuba to come to southern Florida. Why would somebody leave a place like Vietnam? Why would people leave these countries and risk their life to be able to come here. It\u2019s important students understand that,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also contains a provision that will create a \u201cPortraits and Patriotism Library,\u201d the purpose of which is for students to learn about \u201creal patriots\u201d who came to America after fleeing communist and socialist regimes, DeSantis explained.<\/p>\n<p>The governor also signed SB 1108, which requires state college and university students to take a civic literacy course and a civic literacy assessment as a graduation requirement, and HB 233, which requires colleges and universities to conduct annual assessments on the \u201cintellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity\u201d at their institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt used to be thought that a university campus was a place you\u2019d be exposed to a lot of different ideas,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cUnfortunately now, the norm is really that these are more intellectually oppressive environments. You have orthodoxies that are promoted, and other viewpoints are shunned or even suppressed. We don\u2019t want that in Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to have a true contest of ideas. Students should not be shielded from ideas and we want robust First Amendment speech on our college and university campuses,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The governor also touted the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/17\/florida-governor-ron-desantis-education-rejects-critical-race-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">action<\/a> his administration took to ban Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project from being taught in schools. \u201cWe do not want curriculum that is judging students based on their race and we do not want false history like you see with the 1619 Project,\u201d DeSantis said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/09\/florida-ron-desantis-lgbtq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: DeSantis Says He Would Ban Trans Surgeries For Minors)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DeSantis also recently signed a bill <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/15\/florida-pray-ron-desantis-religious\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">requiring<\/a> schools to hold a daily moment of silence, saying, \u201cThe idea that you can just push God out of every institution and be successful, I\u2019m sorry, our Founding Fathers did not believe that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/20\/ron-desantis-leads-2024-straw-poll-donald-trump-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent<\/a> approval voting straw poll of potential 2024 presidential candidates held at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver, Colorado, had the Florida governor beating out former President Donald Trump by 3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Florida Gov. 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