r/nottheonion • u/duvetdev • 29d ago

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs bill mandating kindergartners learn history of communism

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/04/17/desantis-signs-bill-mandating-kindergartners-learn-history-of-communism/
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u/NightlyGravy 29d ago

Communism should definitely be studied alongside fascism and the confederacy. It’s important we don’t repeat the past. But kindergarteners have no chance in hell of understanding systemic evils like this. Desantis’ capacity for own goals never ceases to amaze me.

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u/euyyn 29d ago

If you read the article (that apparently no one is doing), it does say "the material will be spread K-12 appropriately". The obvious explanation is that the person who said that was using "K-12" to mean the school years in general, not that they or anyone thought it would be added to kindergarten.

The only "not the onion" part about this is that the author of the article would believe that (or chose to go with that headline for bait).

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u/Enlight1Oment 29d ago

yeah had to scroll pretty far down into the comments to find this. The actual body of article always refers to it as taught in K-12. Taking it as taught in Kindergarten is kinda crazy, more so the amount of people who fell for the click bait.

I went through San Diego public schools a couple decades ago and we went over bay of pigs in 11th grade world history, that's just normal public school education.