Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis (pictured) signed a bill on Monday that would make it mandatory to include "Victims of Communism Memorial Day" in the curriculum of Florida's public high schools and to commemorate it every year on November 7 as part of a school event, The Washington reported. Times.

According to the online coverage of the right-wing conservative American daily, the new law entered into force immediately after the signing.

The purpose of Florida's legislation is to use Memorial Day to remember "the 100 million people who fell victim to communist regimes" around the world.

The law gives Governor DeSantis the opportunity, by virtue of his official authority, to extend the mandatory commemoration of Victims of Communism Memorial Day beyond public schools, including "the Florida state convention and, at the individual discretion of the governor, other locations where community commemoration shall be held as is customary locally." keep the memorial day”.

Ron DeSantis signed HB 395, which has already been passed by both houses of the Florida Congress, at the Freedom Tower in downtown Miami. The symbolic location was chosen because Cuban refugees who came to South Florida in the 1960s were registered and entered the United States at the immigration center located in this tower block.

will be taught in the framework of the subject called American Government" taught in American public high schools In accordance with the legal requirements, at least 45 minutes of mandatory teaching material on the Memorial Day of the Victims of Communism will be introduced in the 2023/2024 school year.

Following the measure, Florida school boards have until April 2023 to prepare the relevant curriculum.

The current action is an organic continuation of the political actions of Governor DeSantis and the Republican party legislators, with which they want to condemn even more strongly the ideology of communism and the realization of communism, this time also in Florida high school education.

As a precursor to this, in the summer of 2021, Ron DeSantis already signed the law that revised the expectations set in the framework of the "Civics " or "American Government " subjects required for the Florida high school graduation exam, and made it mandatory "the comparative education of political ideologies such as communism and totalitarianism, which are in conflict with the principles of freedom and democracy that have been among the country's founding principles since the founding of the United States”.

On Monday, Governor DeSantis also announced that in the 2023 fiscal year, he will provide a $25 million budget from the Florida state congressional budget voted by the legislature in March 2021 for the renovation of the Freedom Tower in Miami.

Manny Diaz, a Republican member of the state Senate who will serve as Florida's secretary of education starting June 1, 2022, said Monday that the nearly 100-year-old building in Miami is Florida's "Ellis Island," referring to the immigration office that registers immigrants to the United States and to the historic New York immigration center for entry into the country.

Source: Mandiner/MTI