Mass chaos erupts in classrooms across the country. Students are encouraged and assisted to walk outside during school hours to protest U.S. law enforcement.
And we are told that these “demonstrations” are organic expressions of “student voice” and community involvement.
They’re not.
Public schools are being used as indoctrination camps to turn children into social justice foot soldiers, implement a Marxist agenda, and cause maximum disruption for President Donald Trump and his administration.
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A girl waves a Mexican flag as fellow students from at least a dozen LAUSD high schools walk out in protest of the Trump administration’s nationwide immigration policies, descending on City Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
If one thing is clear, it should be: Children don’t design national protest strategies, coordinate messaging across states, or run out of time for political effect. Adults do.
More precisely, what is presented as an organic grassroots movement is orchestrated by adults who run the same teachers unions and activist networks that have blurred and are now erasing the lines between education and political warfare.
This distinction is important because when schools across the country become a stage for political demonstrations, students are not given the opportunity to express their opinions.
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They are used.
Students’ proficiency scores in reading and math have never been lower, and yet those in charge of education have taken it upon themselves to encourage students to leave the classroom.
This is not innocent symbolism; it is negligence.
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), reading and math scores in U.S. high schools are at their lowest levels in decades, with only 35% of seniors able to read and 22% proficient in math.
Nearly a third of students cannot even read ‘basic level’, while 45% fall below basic level in mathematics.
Students across the US protested immigration enforcement, which forced some districts to close for a day due to the deaths of Renee Good, Alex Petti and Renee Good in Minneapolis. Student coalitions held a ‘National Shutdown’ on January 30 and continued to protest until February 3. (Getty Images)
These are not abstract numbers. They are the direct result of an education system that has overlooked academics and replaced them with ideology.
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But the damage doesn’t stop there.
Chronic absenteeism has become a national crisis, and this has not happened by accident.
Before COVID-19, 15% of students were chronically absent.
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Public schools are being used as indoctrination camps to turn children into social justice foot soldiers, implement a Marxist agenda, and cause maximum disruption for President Donald Trump and his administration.
Then teachers unions forced schools to close, kept classrooms closed long after evidence showed it was safe to reopen, and taught an entire generation of children that school was optional.
Today, chronic absenteeism has doubled to about 30%, meaning millions of students miss a month or more of school every year.
The “student” strikes against ICE are following the exact same playbook unions used during President Donald Trump’s first term with COVID-19 – disrupting, destabilizing, and weaponizing public institutions against our government.
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Promoting strikes—whether over COVID, ICE, Venezuela, or any other political conflict—sends the message that skipping school is not only acceptable, but virtuous, as long as you are politically “correct.”
If parents encouraged their child to repeatedly miss class, schools would call this truancy.
When unions do it, they call it activism and applaud anyone who dares.
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You can’t claim to care about student outcomes while actively pulling students out of classrooms to fight your political battles.
Here’s the hard truth that unions refuse to admit: Public schools don’t belong to unions or political movements. They are owned by families and taxpayers.
Students’ proficiency scores in reading and math have never been lower, and yet those in charge of education have taken it upon themselves to encourage students to leave the classroom.
Parents trust schools to educate their children, not to drag them into national political struggles or use them as pawns against our government.
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The reason unions don’t want parents involved in education is because parental involvement would complicate their story, and unions know that.
These ICE strikes are not neutral. They are protests designed to mobilize students against our government.
Portraying law enforcement officers as villains to developing minds, while encouraging them to protest during school hours, is reckless, to say the least.
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Students protest against ICE during a walkout at the University of Minnesota on January 26, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Protests and demonstrations continue around Minneapolis in the wake of the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good by federal law enforcement. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
And as parents – as American citizens – we must recognize that these strikes are not isolated incidents. They are part of a larger plan to politicize classrooms, coordinate protests, and turn our children against our country and our president.
The goal has never been better education. It’s always been maximum disruption. And we’re only now seeing it work out.
Students have become the most effective tool in their strategy, as criticism is immediately portrayed as ‘anti-students’ or ‘anti-democracy’.
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That rhetorical shield is intentional; they took it straight from Karl Marx’s playbook.
If unions really believed in authentic student voices, they wouldn’t script it.
If they respected parents, they would ask permission.
And if they cared about education, they wouldn’t maintain a system that only benefits them.
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Students need more time in class, not less. They need teachers who focus on reading, writing, math and science, not on organizing protests. They need schools that prioritize learning over headlines.
If these protests teach us one thing, it’s that our children deserve better.
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And that’s something that can never happen if our schools are under union control.
The only way to stop the destruction we see on the news is to discourage the people who incite it.
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