From our Bureau of Socialist Weaponized Classrooms with some assistance from our Ministry of Brainwashing Bureau
Castro, Inc. began to weaponize Cuba’s education system as soon as it took control of all schools on the island in 1961. I’m old enough to remember when this took place, which is the chief reason my parents decided to send my brother and me to the U.S. as quickly as possible. I remember very clearly how even the math textbooks were politicized. How about this math problem, which I remember word for word:.
“Before the glorious Revolution freed our nation from capitalist exploitation, Juan Gomez used to pay his greedy landlord 100 pesos a month for rent. Now, thanks to the Urban Reform, he only has to pay 10 pesos. What percentage reduction in rent is Juan Gomez enjoying now?”
And now, we are being told that in 2024 this kind of indoctrination has become more intense than ever. Can’t imagine how anyone could make that kind of brainwashing more intense. Leave to Castro, Inc. to do so. Lord have mercy.
Loosely translated from Marti Noticias
The Academic Freedom Observatory denounced on Tuesday the intensification of school indoctrination in Cuba, driven by the Third Improvement of Teaching.
“In Cuba, there has been a process of revising and updating first-grade textbooks, which is the first learning cycle children experience, and we can observe textbooks with a high ideological content in line with the canon imposed by the Communist Party, at an age when children should be focused on developing entrepreneurial attitudes that enhance their creativity,” emphasized Leonardo Fernández Otaño, Master in Historical Sciences and researcher at the Academic Freedom Observatory (OLA), based in Miami.
The Ministry of Education (MINED), together with the Editorial Pueblo y Educación and the Higher Institute of Design (ISDI), redesigned the content and images of 506 textbooks and workbooks in accordance with the Guidelines of the Sixth and Seventh Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, the objectives of the First Conference, and the Ministerial Resolution on adjustments to school organization.
The new workbooks, which were already used last school year for first and fourth graders, will be available this academic year for second and fifth graders, according to the Academic Freedom Observatory, citing the Cuban state television program Mesa Redonda.
The Minister of Education, Naima Ariatne Trujillo Barreto, said on the official platform that “there is a lot of innovation in all the management strategies being implemented, for example, in finding more suitable alternatives for teacher coverage and in political-ideological work and decolonization.”
“Instead of aligning with regional educational advancements and trends in the global pedagogical world, Cuba chooses to reproduce the totalitarian model in education, which leads to creating students who are automatons and loyal to the system, rather than children who have developed a sense of freedom, free will, and a solid education within a context of liberty,” the OLA specialist stated.
Cuba will be evaluated in April 2025 as part of the Comparative and Explanatory Regional Study (ERCE 2025), promoted by UNESCO’s Latin American Laboratory for the Assessment of Educational Quality (LLECE).
“UNESCO’s observations on Cuba, and its ongoing omission of the doctrinal content in educational materials, show that the organization focuses its efforts on the broadness of access, neglecting the quality of it,” OLA notes.
The academic entity responsible for documenting violations in the Cuban educational system recalls that the country carried out its “First Improvement of the National Education System” in 1976, which supported learning through the glorification of “social figures linked to the period following Fidel Castro’s rise to power.”
Independent journalist Vladímir Turró noted that a few years ago, primary school textbooks contained passages about sugarcane planting and cutting, the militias, and battles against Fulgencio Batista, but since the last school year, the ideological transmission “knows no bounds.”
“Indoctrination starts on the first day with the slogan ‘Pioneers for Communism.’ It’s the first phrase they teach children in primary school. I would love to be able to send my child to a school where they are not indoctrinated, where they are told history as it really is, but we don’t have that option in Cuba. Here, all schools serve the government’s interests, and even if I wanted to not send my child to school and hire private tutors, I can’t, because I could end up in jail,” Turró said.
In this regard, Fernández Otaño pointed out that the Cuban model reaffirms the lack of autonomy for parents to choose their children’s educational center and eliminates any possibility of selecting the values in which they want to educate their descendants.
“Convinced of the increasingly limited reach of its ideological scheme, the Cuban state continues to bet on school manipulation from the early stages of intellectual development,” stated the Academic Freedom Observatory.
And, as usual, the photo of the foreign psychopath and killer of Cubans on the classroom wall. SICK.
Oh, and the (presumed) teacher seems nice…for a dispenser of poison to innocent, helpless children.