It's not students organizing ICE walkouts — here's who's really behind the nationwide protests

Across the country, wide chaos is erupting successful classrooms. Students are being encouraged and aided successful walking retired during schoolhouse hours to protestation American instrumentality enforcement. 

And we’re told these "demonstrations" are integrated expressions of "student voice" and civic engagement.

They are not.

Public schools are being utilized arsenic indoctrination camps to crook children into societal justness ft soldiers to transportation retired a Marxist docket and origin maximum disruption for President Donald Trump and his administration.

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A miss waves a Mexican emblem arsenic chap students from astatine slightest 12 precocious schools protestation the Trump administration's nationwide migration crackdown, and descend connected City Hall connected Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, successful Los Angeles. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

If 1 happening is clear, it should be: Children bash not plan nationalist protestation strategies, coordinate messaging crossed states oregon clip walkouts for governmental effect. Adults do.

To beryllium specific, what is being represented arsenic an organic, grassroots question is being orchestrated by adults who tally the aforesaid teacher unions and activistic networks that person blurred, and present erased, the lines betwixt acquisition and governmental warfare.

This favoritism matters because erstwhile schools crossed the state go staging grounds for governmental demonstrations, students aren’t being empowered to talk their mind.

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They’re being used.

Student proficiency scores successful speechmaking and mathematics person ne'er been lower, yet the radical successful complaint of acquisition person taken it upon themselves to promote students to permission the classroom. 

This is not harmless symbolism; it’s negligence.

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), U.S. precocious schoolhouse speechmaking and mathematics scores are astatine their lowest levels successful decades, with lone 35% of seniors proficient successful reading, and 22% proficient successful math.  

Nearly a 3rd of students can’t adjacent work "basic" level, portion 45% autumn beneath basal successful math. 

Student coalitions held a "National Shutdown" connected Jan. 30 and continued to protestation done Feb. 3. (Getty Images)

These aren’t abstract numbers. They are the nonstop effect of an acquisition strategy that has overlooked academics and replaced it with ideology.

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But the harm doesn’t halt there.

Chronic absenteeism has go a nationalist crisis, and it did not hap by accident. 

Before COVID-19, 15% of students were chronically absent.

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Public schools are being utilized arsenic indoctrination camps to crook children into societal justness ft soldiers to transportation retired a Marxist docket and origin maximum disruption for President Donald Trump and his administration.

Then, teachers unions forced schools to unopen down, kept classrooms closed agelong aft grounds said it was harmless to reopen, and taught an full procreation of children that schoolhouse was optional. 

Today, chronic absenteeism has doubled to astir 30%, meaning millions of students present miss a period oregon much of schoolhouse each year. 

The "student" walkouts against ICE travel the exact aforesaid playbook unions utilized during Trump’s archetypal word with COVID-19 — disrupt, destabilize and weaponize nationalist institutions against our government.

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Promoting walkouts — whether it’s implicit COVID, ICE, Venezuela oregon immoderate governmental struggle comes adjacent — sends a connection that skipping schoolhouse is not lone acceptable, it is virtuous, arsenic agelong arsenic your authorities are "correct."

If parents encouraged their kid to miss people repeatedly, schools would telephone it truancy. 

When unions bash it, they telephone it activism and applaud anyone who dares.

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You cannot assertion to attraction astir pupil outcomes portion actively pulling students retired of classrooms to combat your governmental battles.

Here is the hard information unions garbage to admit: Public schools bash not beryllium to unions oregon governmental movements. They beryllium to families and taxpayers. 

Student proficiency scores successful speechmaking and mathematics person ne'er been lower, yet the radical successful complaint of acquisition person taken it upon themselves to promote students to permission the classroom. 

Parents spot schools to amended their children, not to enlistee them into nationalist governmental battles oregon leverage them arsenic pawns against our government.

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The crushed unions don’t privation parents progressive successful acquisition is due to the fact that parental engagement would complicate their narrative, and unions cognize it.

These ICE walkouts are not neutral. They are protests designed to mobilize students against our government.  

Portraying instrumentality enforcement officers arsenic villains to processing minds, portion encouraging them to protestation during schoolhouse hours, is astatine the precise slightest reckless.

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Students protestation against ICE during a walkout astatine the University of Minnesota connected Jan. 26, 2026, successful Minneapolis. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

And arsenic parents — arsenic American citizens — we request to admit these walkouts are not isolated incidents. They are a portion of a bigger program to politicize classrooms, coordinate protests and crook our children against our state and president.

The extremity has ne'er been amended education. It has ever been maximum disruption. And we are conscionable present seeing it play out. 

Students person go the astir effectual instrumentality successful their strategy due to the fact that disapproval is instantly framed arsenic "anti-student" oregon "anti-democracy."

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That rhetorical shield is intentional; they took it close retired of Karl Marx’s playbook.

If unions genuinely believed successful authentic pupil voices, they wouldn’t publication it.

If they respected parents, they’d inquire permission.

And if they cared astir education, they wouldn’t support a strategy successful spot that lone benefits them.

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Students request much clip successful classrooms, not less. They request teachers focused connected reading, writing, mathematics and science, not organizing protests. They request schools that prioritize learning implicit headlines.

If these protests thatch america 1 thing, it is that our children merit better.

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And that is thing that volition ne'er beryllium capable to hap with our schools nether national control.

The lone mode to halt the demolition we are seeing connected the quality is to defund the radical who are inciting it. 

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