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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,085 posts)
Sun Jun 5, 2022, 02:30 PM Jun 2022

First DeSantis censors school books, now he demands new lesson plan

Fifty-two years ago, I was completing a required high school course called “Americanism vs. Communism” at my segregated high school, Forest Hill in West Palm Beach. I now read that our governor, Ron DeSantis, signed a bill into law recently that mandates teaching about the “victims of communism.” I guess that Mark Twain was right when he said that “history doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.”

In hindsight, and at a less impressionable age, I realize the course I took was nothing less than naked propaganda due to anti-communist hysteria at the time. It was taught by a man, now deceased, who was ignorant of his subjects but charismatic. He spoke with such authority and without equivocation that most of his students thought he was omniscient and should run for president. He brought in the leader of the local branch of the John Birch Society and once told us he would not sell his house to a Black family because he “wouldn’t do that to his neighbors.”

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Our governor wants our children to learn of the “hundreds of millions of individuals who have suffered and continue to suffer” under communism. “Honoring the people that have fallen victim to communist regimes and teaching our students about those atrocities is the best way to ensure that history does not repeat itself,” the governor said last month.

This is rich, coming from a man who doesn’t want children to learn of the horrors of our history of slavery. After all, he signed a law that banned teaching critical race theory, which has never been taught at any public school in Florida. American history in Florida is being further sanitized (or should I say “whitewashed”?) before it reaches the public school classroom so it will not be “woke” and not hurt some white students’ feelings.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-desantis-censors-school-books-100039005.html

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First DeSantis censors school books, now he demands new lesson plan (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2022 OP
the fascism in florida is growing. samsingh Jun 2022 #1
I suspect that FL just lost a lot of teachers (or the losses are just accelerating, since he's been SWBTATTReg Jun 2022 #2
DeathSatan pandering Timeflyer Jun 2022 #3

SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
2. I suspect that FL just lost a lot of teachers (or the losses are just accelerating, since he's been
Sun Jun 5, 2022, 03:18 PM
Jun 2022

attacking teachers for literally everything). And I don't blame them. There are other places that teaching the five ABCs goes a long way, without interference from these very partisan attacks.

Timeflyer

(1,961 posts)
3. DeathSatan pandering
Mon Jun 6, 2022, 09:20 AM
Jun 2022

DeathSatan is pandering to the Florida Cuban and Repuglican contingents that respond to the word Communism by automatically voting for whoever harps on its horrors. He's always looking out for his next election chances, not the people of Florida, especially not public school students, teachers and parents who want an honest public education for their children. There's a huge teacher shortage developing in many Florida counties, because teachers know there's a political target on their backs. The goal--corporate charter schools with CEOs who donate campaign money to DeathSatan campaign, like Charter Schools USA. J. Hage, the guy behind Charter Schools USA didn't send his own four children to his own charter schools--no, only fancy, expensive private schools would do for his kids. And with state tax dollars, he could afford it. The hypocrisy will make you crazy!

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