HJ0007

Requests the Wyoming State Board of Education to amend social studies content and performance standards to include teaching benchmarks analyzing the negative consequences of communism, fascism, and socialism.

• The Wyoming Legislature requests the State Board of Education amend social studies standards to include teaching benchmarks that analyze negative consequences of communism, fascism, and socialism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. (Section 1)
• Directs the Secretary of State to transmit copies of the resolution to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Wyoming State Board of Education. (Section 2)
• Suggests that new teaching benchmarks may include instruction on documented historical events and human rights abuses by communist, fascist, and socialist regimes, such as mass repression, murder, forced labor, concentration camps, and loss of personal freedoms. (Preamble, WHEREAS clause lines 18-2)
• Suggests that new teaching benchmarks may include comparisons between fascism and collectivist ideologies with founding principles of the United States, including democracy, individual rights, private property rights, merit-based advancement, and free enterprise. (Preamble, WHEREAS clause lines 4-9)
• Suggests that new teaching benchmarks may include instruction on economic, industrial, and political conditions associated with the historical emergence of communist revolutions. (Preamble, WHEREAS clause lines 11-16)
• Suggests that new teaching benchmarks may include instruction on historical and modern methods used to spread communist, fascist, and socialist ideologies. (Preamble, WHEREAS clause lines 18-23)

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