House mulls proposal to teach Florida kindergarteners about Communism

House mulls proposal to teach Florida kindergarteners about Communism

A legislative committee will probe a proposal to have students learn about the political theory of communism and some of its more adverse consequences throughout history.

Tuesday’s PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee will mull Rep. Chuck Brannan’s HB 1349, which would compel schools to start teaching the “History of Communism” in grades K-12.

The lessons are intended to be “age and developmentally appropriate,” and it would indeed be interesting to see how teachers of young students deal with such heady topics as the history of Communism in the U.S., foreign “atrocities” driven by Communism, “cultural Marxism” and other so-called “lineages” of “Communist thought,” the events of the Chinese “...

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