Do public schools even try to educate kids anymore? Kids can't read, can't write, can't do math, but they sure know how to become transgender communists who will grow up to be communists. 

Even elite school professors are complaining that none of their students have ever read a book, and that their papers seem either awful or likely to have been written by ChatGPT. Universities that once required students to read Latin and Greek now offer remedial English and math classes. 

California just keeps it going…here the goal is to teach them through “social change projects” how to be an activist: pic.twitter.com/gUAUv8LSmc

— tie4114 (@tie4114) February 6, 2026

What schools ARE good at is being incubators for radicals, not that all students necessarily come out either radical or stupid. But to the extent they do not, you can thank their parents. 

? Yesterday, the Minnesota Federation of Educators ran a battlefield simulation, training for war against ICE.

‘Education Minnesota’ is the umbrella under which all teachers’ unions operate.

By claiming 501(c)(5) status, they evade $8.2 million in federal taxes every year. pic.twitter.com/gYkK3J8u3k

— NizNellie3 (@NizNellie3) February 9, 2026

The leftism inherent in the system is nothing new. Others and I have covered the issue many a time. What is a bit different now is that the schools have escalated from teaching leftist ideology to training teachers and students to become revolutionaries ready to take to the ramparts to fight against law enforcement and conservatives. 

The chance of any of these scenarios happening in Duluth is exactly zero.
But the city's white liberals want to show they're part of the resistance like their comrades in Minneapolis.

— John Paul Bunyan (@NorFoulFiend) February 10, 2026

Teachers and principals have been taking their kids to protests, often without parents' permission, or giving them excused absences to take to the streets to fight ICE. 

WATCH the full interview: https://t.co/Q8KYu5MKLt

— Alpha News (@AlphaNews) February 7, 2026

Student says professor conducted ‘ICE drill’ in class, told students to use their bodies as shields

'I immediately knew that it was very wrong... she was saying that because I am a white student, that I essentially need to act as a human shield and interfere with federal agents.'

I'm not joking about "taking to the ramparts;" kids are being trained to "put their bodies on the line" to fight ICE. 

Who DOES that? Public school teachers do. 

? Marcia Howard: President of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators and English teacher at Roosevelt High School.

In a grotesque and overtly racist spectacle, she attempts to pit ICE agents against each other based on skin color.

Then she threatens them with hangings. @FBI pic.twitter.com/oGhhUPAp2U

— NizNellie3 (@NizNellie3) February 7, 2026

What we are witnessing is Mao's Cultural Revolution, American style. Young kids are being used as the shock troops for a movement that intends to wipe away the current order and replace it with something far more radical. 

RACISM: White liberal women cosplaying as teachers in government schools are using their power and authority to shame white boys in class. pic.twitter.com/14bcHcI1ly

— @amuse (@amuse) February 2, 2026

Education means political indoctrination, and indoctrination is just the first step to unleashing a political force to wipe away the opposition. 

RACISM: White liberal women cosplaying as teachers in government schools are using their power and authority to shame white boys in class. pic.twitter.com/14bcHcI1ly

— @amuse (@amuse) February 2, 2026

The whole point of the "Long March Through the Institutions," which is a direct reference to Mao, by the way, was to get us to this point. Marxists knew that Western countries would not fall to a proletariat-led violent revolution, so they adopted a strategy of infiltrating the cultural institutions that shape and reproduce a civilization. 

I’m not sure they understand who the good guy in the gospels is. https://t.co/nzXoGVVA4d

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 7, 2026

The public schools are an insidious force in our society. The younger teachers seem uninterested in academics, and most are barely competent (or worse) in their subject matter. Leading students on protests is more their speed. 

"And what AISD is doing with their students, I just met with AISD yesterday. We have a monthly meeting with them. We talked about their walkouts. They have several planned throughout this month. So we are in coordination with them. If we have to help with traffic we'll do those… https://t.co/4pMtbR2HRF pic.twitter.com/D1qVesnBdv

— Jen Robichaux (@JenRobichaux) February 6, 2026

"And what AISD is doing with their students, I just met with AISD yesterday. We have a monthly meeting with them. We talked about their walkouts. They have several planned throughout this month.  So we are in coordination with them. If we have to help with traffic we'll do those things and we are in coordination with AISD as well" APD Police Chief Lisa Davis (February 5, 2026)

Everybody treats this as normal, even praiseworthy. School districts that have fewer than 30% who can read or do math at grade level are lecturing us about politics, while teachers are celebrating the assassination of people they dislike. 

BREAKING - A disturbing new trend is emerging across the country, showing leftist teachers guiding very young children, some no older than kindergarteners, in protests against ICE and President Trump. pic.twitter.com/hklMV7Zh6B

— Right Angle News Network (@Rightanglenews) February 1, 2026

NSFW:

Here’s proof of young grade school kids being used to protest for the teachers/schools agenda. Child Endangerment and Abuse. pic.twitter.com/WH7A4tr3uA

— ?? Right 2 Think (@R2Think) February 5, 2026

Kids are being used as free labor for The Movement™.

EXCLUSIVE: A teacher in Washington state offered up her "special needs" students as free labor to help activists assemble anti-ICE whistle kits. pic.twitter.com/kWjCW19wKb

— Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) February 5, 2026

They start them early. This Kindergarten teacher explains how it's done. https://t.co/qRc8yzhi7o pic.twitter.com/RsPebEUyEm

— Paul Rossi, ethnically american (@pauldrossi) February 1, 2026

It's the same phenomenon at libraries, of course. The American Library Association voted in an actual Marxist who promised to make libraries a center for socialist organizing. 

San Francisco teachers union now encouraging students not to study during the strike https://t.co/nScaV8w3oo

— Rohin Dhar (@rohindhar) February 10, 2026

All this is being done with our tax dollars, with the intent of turning the next generation of Americans into the one that finally replaces our Republic with a Marxist state. 

Meet Lucy Martinez. Martinez is an elementary school teacher from Chicago who mocked the assassination of Charlie Kirk during yesterday’s “No Kings” protest.

She works at Nathan Hale Elementary School in Chicago.

People with extreme views have no right to be around or educate… pic.twitter.com/bowSQ7OvYr

— I Meme Therefore I Am ?? (@ImMeme0) October 19, 2025

Implementing school choice is only step one. Disbanding the public schools needs to be step two, and weeding out the propagandists, while it will take decades, is crucial. 

The same union that claimed it was racist to try to reopen schools, misogynistic to notice they don’t show up to work, and keeps making absurd demands while continually failing students is focused on what’s important. https://t.co/E82FnuYqCL pic.twitter.com/6h4fps9pAO

— AG (@AGHamilton29) December 2, 2024

We can start with the ones who teach violence, such as Lucy Martinez and her ilk. Martinez faced no discipline for her celebration of violence, because of course she didn't. She teaches in Chicago, where the union is explicitly Marxist. 

The schools cannot be saved. There are, of course, still good teachers and good schools, but the school system itself is unsalvageable and needs to go. 

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