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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

This bill sucks but it’s not correct to say “all students must be taught communism is evil”. The federal government can’t mandate that anything is taught or not taught, that’s 100% at the state and local level. For better or worse that’s how education works in the US. If they really want something the feds could threat to withhold funding unless X is taught but that is not in this bill. This bill directs that materials be made available (made by the Victims of Communism Memorial Fund) that talk about “the evil of communism” but nothing on the school level is mandated.

Of course it’s a bad bill but we also shouldn’t exaggerate what’s in it.