On the recordDecember 3, 2024
Mr. Speaker, right now, more than 500 elementary, middle, and high schools across the U.S. contain Confucius classrooms. These programs, which have been introduced slowly over a number of years, share CCP propaganda and provide cover to communist regimes. At a time when Christians and Uyghurs are being persecuted in China, we cannot allow curriculums written in support of the Chinese Communist Party to be taught in the American classrooms. To address this issue, it is time to pass the Crucial Communism Teaching Act, which would direct the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation to provide civic education curriculum and materials for middle and high school students about the true dangers of communism. I urge all of my colleagues to support this legislation. We cannot afford to allow this growing influence to continue in American classrooms. Remembering Monsignor Raymond Balta
