Schools orchestrate ICE walkouts as teacher unions weaponize their students

Across the country, chaos has broken out in classrooms. Students are encouraged and assisted to go out during school hours to protest US law enforcement.

We are told that these “demonstrations” are organic expressions of “student voice” and civic engagement.

They are not.

Public schools are being used as indoctrination camps to turn children into social justice foot soldiers to advance a Marxist agenda and cause maximum disruption for the President. Donald Trump And its management.

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A girl waves a Mexican flag as fellow students from at least a dozen Los Angeles high schools go on strike in protest of the Trump administration’s nationwide crackdown on immigration and descend on City Hall on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

If one thing is clear, it should be this: Children do not design national protest strategies, coordinate messages across states, or have to take time off to achieve political influence. Adults do.

Specifically, what is represented as an organic grassroots movement is organized by adults who run the same thing 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 staging grounds for political demonstrations, students are not empowered to express their opinions.

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They are used.

Students’ proficiency scores Reading and math rates have never been lower, yet education officials take it upon themselves to encourage students to leave the classroom.

This is not harmless symbolism. It’s negligence.

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), U.S. high school reading and math scores are at their lowest levels in decades, with only 35% of seniors proficient in reading, and 22% proficient in math.

Nearly a third of students cannot even read at the “basic” level, while 45% fall below the basic level in mathematics.

Students across the United States protested immigration enforcement, causing some areas to close throughout the day in light of the deaths of Renee Goode, Alex Beatty, and Renee Goode in Minneapolis. Student coalitions organized a “national lockdown” on January 30 and continued to protest until February 3. (Getty Images)

These are not abstract numbers. It is the direct result of an education system that has ignored academics and replaced it with ideology.

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But the damage does not stop there.

Chronic absenteeism has become a national crisis, and it didn’t happen 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 to advance 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 suggested it was safe to reopen, and taught an entire generation of children that school is optional.

Today, the rate of chronic absenteeism has doubled to about 30%, meaning that millions of students now miss a month or more of school each year.

“Student” Strikes against ICE Follow the same playbook that unions used during President Donald Trump’s first term with the coronavirus — disrupt, destabilize, and weaponize public institutions against our government.

The president of the largest teachers’ union will speak at the “Political Revolution” event targeting ice

Promoting strikes – whether it’s coronavirus, ICE, Venezuela, or something else Political conflict comes next – sending the message that skipping school is not only acceptable, but virtuous, as long as your policies are “right.”

If parents encourage their children to miss class frequently, schools will call this truancy.

When unions do this, they call it activism and applaud anyone who dares.

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You cannot claim to care about student outcomes while effectively pulling students from classrooms to fight your political battles.

Here’s the hard truth that unions refuse to acknowledge: Public schools do not belong to unions or political movements. They belong to Households and taxpayers.

Students’ proficiency scores in reading and math have never been lower, yet education administrators take it upon themselves to encourage students to leave the classroom.

Parents trust schools to educate their children, not to recruit them into national political battles or use them as pawns against our government.

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The reason unions don’t want parents involved in education is that parental involvement would complicate their narrative, and unions know this.

these Ice strikes are Not neutral. They are protests aimed at mobilizing students against our government.

Portraying law enforcement officers as villains in the eyes of 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 Peretti and Renee Nicole Judd by federal law enforcement. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

As parents – as American citizens – we need to realize that these strikes are not isolated incidents. It is 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 has always been maximum disruption. We are now seeing it happen.

Students have become the most effective tool in their strategy because criticism is immediately framed as “anti-student” or “anti-democratic.”

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This rhetorical shield is intentional. They took it straight from Karl Marx’s playbook.

If unions really believed in authentic student voices, they wouldn’t be writing this.

If they respect the parents, they will ask for permission.

If they cared about education, they would not have maintained a system that benefits only them.

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Students need more time in the classroom, not less. They need the focus of teachers In reading, writing, math, and science, not 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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This is something that will never happen when our schools are under union control.

The only way to stop the devastation we see in the news is to stop funding the people inciting it.

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