De weg naar USA2024 zal geplaveid zijn met jaren van ideologische strijd tegen communisme en wat daarmee samenhangt, zo blijkt in Florida.

Het pad naar de presidentsverkiezingen van USA2024 laat zich nu al kenmerken door ideologische strijd tegen communistische overtuigingen. Gouverneur Ron DeSantis van Florida gaf deze week het startschot door een drietal wetten te tekenen die studenten vanaf highschoolniveau verplicht kennis te nemen van het “kwaad dat het communisme heeft aangericht”

High school students in Florida will be required to learn about “the evils of communism” under one of three bills Gov. Ron DeSantis signed on Tuesday.

Dat gaat van redelijk dik hout:

DeSantis signed the bills at a news conference at Three Oaks Middle School in Fort Myers. Two of the bills—HB 5 and SB 1108—focus on civics education, and the third—HB 233—requires freedom of expression at state colleges and universities. Specifically, HB 5 requires the Florida Department of Education to develop an integrated K-12 civic education curriculum that includes teaching students about citizens’ shared rights under the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

De mars door de instituties afgekapt middels een controlemechanisme over die instituties? De vraag blijft altijd weer wie die lessen zullen verzorgen. Hoe goed bedoeld dit ook is, degenen die de lessen zullen geven zullen de doorslag geven:

The measure also adds a requirement for public high schools to “include a comparative discussion of political ideologies, such as communism and totalitarianism, that conflict with the principles of freedom and democracy essential to the founding principles of the United States.”

DeSantis wordt tevens gezien als een eventueel Republikeins alternatief voor president Trump, mocht deze besluiten zich bij USA20204 niet meer te kandideren. Als deze wet overeind blijft – hoe een eventueel beroep bij het Hooggerechtshof uitvalt moet je immers maar afwachten – is DeSantis met afstand de belangrijkste kandidaat voor zo’n positie.

In short, high schools must provide “instruction on the evils of communism and totalitarian ideology,” De Santis said, noting that there are Florida residents who have escaped totalitarian regimes and communist dictatorships, such as from Cuba and Vietnam, to live in America.

“We want all students to understand the difference,” he said.
“Why would somebody flee across shark-infested waters … why would people leave these countries and risk their lives to be able to come here? It’s important that students understand that.”

Dat de wet door Democraten juridisch zal worden aangevallen laat zih raden:

The Republican governor also signed SB 1108, which requires state college and university students to undergo both a civic literacy course and a civic literacy assessment in order to graduate. Prior to this bill, students were only required to do one – either the course or the assessment.

Speciaal ook door bepalingen als:

The bill also expands a “character development curriculum” for high school juniors and seniors to include instructions on how to register to vote.

En hoe de Amerikaanse marine meent haar personeel te moeten opvoeden. Onderdeel van deze wetgeving is ook dat er controle komt op wat leerlingen krijgen voorgeschoteld:

The third bill DeSantis signed,HB 233, seeks to protect “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” in postsecondary education.
It requires state colleges and universities to carry out annual assessments on intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity at these institutions. The bill defines “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” as “the exposure of students to, and the encouragement of students’ exploration of, a variety of ideological and political perspectives.”

Ook het concept van selectieve safe spaces komt op deze manier onder vuur te liggen:

The new law will also prohibit postsecondary schools from limiting students and staff members from accessing or observing “ideas and opinions that they may find uncomfortable, unwelcome, disagreeable, or offensive.”

“We obviously want our universities to be focused on critical thinking, academic rigor,” DeSantis told the press conference.
“We do not want them as basically hotbeds for stale ideology—that’s not worth tax dollars, and that’s not something we’re going to be supporting going forward.”

En:

He noted, “It used to be thought that a university campus was a place where you’d be exposed to these sorts of ideas. Unfortunately, now the norm is really these are more intellectually repressive environments. You have orthodoxies that are promoted, and other viewpoints are shunned or even suppressed. We don’t want that in Florida. You need to have a true contest of ideas.”

Dat CRT in Florida in de ban gegaan is daarom geen verrassing.

More recently, the Floridian governor supported the Florida Board of Education’s decision to ban the teaching of critical race theory in public schools.

Elk soort staatsopvoeding komt met grote bezwaren, maar dit tegenoffensief tegen verplichte educatie met CRT is bijna noodzakelijk in het bestaande opvoedkundige klimaat.

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