Florida Students to Study America’s Founders in Bill Advancing in House

Florida students will spend at least a month focusing on the nations founding as September will be American Founders Month under a bill, HB 689, that was advanced by a 94-21 vote in the House on Thursday.

The bill would require courses that focus on the moral and civic virtue, self-sacrifice, intellectual genius, and patriotism of American Founding Fathers and their role in drafting the founding documents. It would be up to school districts to determine how the courses would be taught.

Also, during the last week of September, at least three hours of social studies class must include an in-depth study of the intent, meaning and importance of the Declaration of Independence.