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Richard Luscombe in Miami

DeSantis signs bill for Florida students to learn about ‘victims of communism’

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at Miami's Freedom Tower, Monday, in Miami.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at Miami's Freedom Tower, Monday, in Miami. Photograph: Marta Lavandier/AP

Discussions of gender identity and sexual preference are banned in many Florida classrooms because of governor Ron DeSantis’s “don’t say gay” law, alongside dozens of math textbooks blocked for “prohibited topics”.

Now the Republican who has loudly condemned what he sees as the “indoctrination” of young people has made another subject compulsory: students must receive at least 45 minutes’ instruction every November about the “victims of communism”.

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