Government-run schools are a menace. 

I don't mean that metaphorically. I mean it quite literally. They are a danger to our kids' physical and mental health, their ability to navigate in the adult world, and to society as a whole. 

To many people, the problem is abstract. Sure, schools have gone woke. The ideological indoctrination sure has to be cleaned up. Yeah, something should be done to make them more effective at teaching reading and writing. 

? The capture of children for a Maoist revolution is growing.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) in Oakland organized a MIDDLE SCHOOL walkout in protest of ICE and the Trump administration.

Degenerate Marxists fed minors violent scripts to read to cheering adults. pic.twitter.com/90oyFbBps2

— NizNellie3 (@NizNellie3) February 17, 2026

Blah blah blah. Lots of people will say that SOMETHING should be done, but when push comes to shove, not much does, schools get worse, and budgets keep going up as student enrollment creeps downward. 

Mañana. We'll do something mañana. Do you know how big a fight it will be? Everybody loves the public schools!

? HOLY CRAP! A student at a West Palm Beach, Florida high school just got HIT BY A CAR during an “antique -ICE walkout”

The teachers who allowed this should be PROSECUTED for this.

END TGESE WALKOUTS NIW, BEFORE SOMEONE GETS KlLLED! pic.twitter.com/GSzWCMNCbm

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 19, 2026

The truth is, the public schools may be the most malign institutions in the country. While their lurch into leftism is downstream from academia's, college kids who were not already primed to be illiterate, brainwashed ignoramuses could experiment with leftism in college and come out the other side pretty much OK because the real world will rough them up a bit and teach them through the school of hard knocks. 

? BREAKING: North College Hill students protesting ICE storm a Kroger, smashing shelves, throwing products, turning the store into a war zone.

Schools let these little Red Guards destroy property and assault people as long as it’s “the right politics,” they don’t care. pic.twitter.com/9sUYiz8lGq

— Kim "Katie" USA (@KimKatieUSA) February 19, 2026

But a decade and a half of steady indoctrination, and now cultural-revolution-style "activism," are turning a lot of kids into the ground troops for the insurgency, and like all ground troops, they are and will be cannon fodder. Children are now attacking cops, and that serves the left just fine. Makes for great video!

? Dangerous Marxist organizations are invading schools through teachers.

The epidemic of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization spreading into federally funded schools is not to be believed.

Boswell High School had a mass walkout in protest of ICE. It was led by a few… pic.twitter.com/ULzP12UPfE

— NizNellie3 (@NizNellie3) February 11, 2026

The epidemic of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization spreading into federally funded schools is not to be believed.

Boswell High School had a mass walkout in protest of ICE. It was led by a few teachers, but mostly by the FRSO.

The man with the megaphone (pic on right) led children and teachers off school grounds and through neighborhoods, chanting, “No ICE, F*CK ICE.” He’s an FRSO leader in Dallas, Texas.

Nobody listens anymore when you tell them that literal communists are radicalizing kids in schools, but the fact is that literal communists are radicalizing kids in schools. And it has gotten to the point that the adults in the school system are getting between kids and their parents, again, just as happened during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. 

?#BREAKING: Hundreds of high school students just BOLTED out of their classrooms to go "protest" in the middle of a very busy intersection here in Asheville NC

They are waiving FOREIGN FLAGS and screaming:

"F*CK ICE!!! F*CK TRUMP!!!"

WHERE ARE THEIR TEACHERS?!!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/K6DpEI2mtG

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) February 17, 2026

Union activists are arguing that it is necessary for kids to participate in demonstrations, and school administrators are encouraging "walkouts" that are not only politically radical but also actively dangerous for kids to participate in. Teachers are telling students to endanger themselves for the cause, and kids are now getting hurt and arrested. 

?#BREAKING I have obtained horrifying footage from the AC Reynolds High School "ICE OUT!" protest here in Asheville NC.

It appears that not a single adult was with the children when they BOLTED out of classes and into the middle of a 4-lane highway.

This is beyond dangerous… pic.twitter.com/EahAXqZepM

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) February 19, 2026

This is beyond dangerous and absolutely terrifying to watch as a parent.Many of the signs are professionally made, they were screaming curse words at drivers, waiving foreign flags, even the signs had curse words on them.This absolutely must be investigated.Who is funding this? Who allowed 200 children to leave school in the middle of the day and run INTO A HIGHWAY to scream at motorists?This is CLEARLY well funded and CLEARLY supported by the staff from TOP TO BOTTOM in Asheville NC...

The SOMETHING that should be done is some form of (legal) federal intervention, and while that will create yet another firestorm and claims of censorship, the fact is that the federal government is funding schools that are putting kids at physical risk for political reasons. 

Here’s an anti-ICE walkout in the middle of downtown Arlington, VA, at the H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program - a public school.

One of the signs reads “f-ck ICE,” and someone with a megaphone yelled the same.

They’re shouting “get ICE out”@FDRLST pic.twitter.com/nQD4NptVa0

— Breccan F. Thies (@BreccanFThies) February 18, 2026

School boards and administrators aren't going to do anything. School boards are almost always dominated by candidates supported by the unions, and the school administrators are, for the most part, all participants in the activism. 

The great majority of the indoctrination parents are seeing in K-12....from transgender ideology to kids marching against deportation of violent illegal aliens...are the result of "mental health initiatives".

If you have not caught up with our exposure of school counselors, you…

— Courage Is A Habit (@CourageHabit) February 19, 2026

Leftists have worked decades to get to this point, and...here we are. Kids are now being sent out to risk their lives for The Cause™. It is social justice, and many of these teachers have the same attitude toward the kids as Hamas does toward civilians. 

ICE WATCH: Students are being trained by union teachers to say ‘Fuck ICE.’ pic.twitter.com/uwv3T51h7H

— @amuse (@amuse) February 18, 2026

At minimum, federal funding for schools that encourage or even tolerate activism like this should have their federal funding ripped away. 

? Just so we're all on the same page: Derek Edwards is the principal of Asheville High School. He allowed the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) to operate on school grounds with kids, staging a protest against ICE.

The degenerate on the right, 'Cody,' is the leader of… https://t.co/xdg25FHLgz pic.twitter.com/0vKi7EsJQA

— NizNellie3 (@NizNellie3) February 18, 2026

The degenerate on the right, 'Cody,' is the leader of the PSL in Western North Carolina. This is a Marxist-Leninist organization, previously investigated by the FBI.

The PSL has access to students, their cell phones, their emails, and class schedules. They were allowed to hand MINORS pre-made signs, and then led them in revolutionary chants.

This happened under the principal's watch.

As with so much of what is happening today, it is not some secret communist plot. It is right there out in the open. Unfortunately, Pravda thinks it is a good thing and portrays the walkouts as demonstrations that children are our conscience or something, just as they celebrated Greta Thunberg as a moral avatar for us all. 

They don’t oppose violence.

They just want to use it against you instead. https://t.co/Vd52KguAPn

— Sunny (@sunnyright) February 15, 2026

Will a child actually being hit by a car and sent to the hospital be enough to stop this madness? 

Absolutely not. 

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