Under New Law, Arizona Students Will Learn History Of Communism

By Carly Moran (The Middle Sq.)

Arizona college students will graduate from highschool with an training on the historical past of communism. 

Gov. Doug Ducey signed HB 2008, a invoice beforehand tried final session. Introduced by State Rep. Quang Nguyen, R-Prescott and co-sponsor Home Majority Chief Ben Toma, R-Peoria, the invoice requires public faculty college students to take a crucial have a look at the faults of communism’s previous.

HB 2008, “Requires the highschool social research tutorial requirements to incorporate a comparative dialogue of political ideologies that battle with the ideas of freedom and democracy which are important to america’ founding ideas.”

After a contentious vote within the state senate, the invoice was handed 16-12. 

The invoice stems from Nguyen’s expertise as a refugee from communist-run Vietnam. 

“Having grown up in Vietnam and survived three communist invasions, I’ve a deep love and appreciation for america and its freedoms, that are assured to all,” mentioned Rep. Nguyen. “It’s my intent for Arizona’s college students to graduate with an identical appreciation for what it means to be an American.”

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Toma’s household fled from communist Romania. Each expressed concern over the results of communism on their households and wish American college students to equally perceive.

“This civics requirements replace will assist make sure that our college students are taught the brutal information of oppressive communist methods and the way they’re essentially antithetical to America’s founding ideas,” mentioned Nguyen.

The invoice references the State Board of Schooling, “At present, statute directs SBE to incorporate private finance and American civics training in the highschool social research tutorial requirements. Statute additionally requires highschool college students to appropriately reply at the very least 60 questions on the required civics check to graduate.”

States have just lately turn into battlegrounds over instructional content material. In distinction to Arizona’s just lately enacted legal guidelines, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB101 final October. The invoice requires all public excessive faculties to incorporate an ethnic research course as part of the state’s commencement necessities.

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