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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Education means political indoctrination, and indoctrination is just the first step to unleashing a political force to wipe away the opposition.
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.
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 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.
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Kids are being used as free labor for The Movement™.
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.
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.
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.
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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