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The Fox News program Outnumbered highlighted a disturbing trend on February 6, 2026: far too many American high schools are permitting or turning a blind eye when students skip class to protest ICE, even as those same schools post embarrassingly low proficiency scores in core subjects. Host Harris Faulkner and the panel rightly asked whether school officials are more interested in political theater than in teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic. This isn’t harmless civic engagement — it’s a dereliction of duty by educators sworn to prepare students for adulthood.
Those walkouts are not isolated incidents; students across the country from Ann Arbor to Chicago suburbs, Spokane Valley to Philadelphia organized protests during school hours to oppose federal immigration enforcement. In some places hundreds joined marches to federal buildings, and in others dozens left campus to make a political point. The sheer frequency of these events suggests coordination and a culture in some districts that prizes activism over instruction.
School districts’ reactions have been inconsistent — some supervised the demonstrations and marked absences, while state officials in places like Texas have warned teachers not to facilitate political protests. Parents deserve clarity: if a walkout disrupts instruction, it should be treated as truancy, not a teachable moment for partisan causes. Administrators who let pupils play hooky under the guise of “free speech” are choosing ideology over responsibility.
The most galling part is the hypocrisy: these are often the very schools that lag on the basics, with low math and English proficiency, yet their leadership tolerates classroom interruptions for political messaging. If our schools cannot ensure students can read and do basic arithmetic, they have no moral high ground to indoctrinate or enable protests during instructional time. Conservatives aren’t against civic awareness — we’re for schools doing what they are supposed to do: teach.
Political operatives and activist teachers who turn public schools into rehearsal halls for demonstrations are failing the next generation. State officials who step in to enforce professional neutrality and attendance rules are doing the right thing; parents must support those efforts and demand accountability from school boards that look the other way. This fight is about common-sense priorities: classrooms first, politics later.
Patriotic Americans who care about education should rise up at the ballot box and at school board meetings to end this leftist capture of our schools. Insist that principals put learning back at the center, that teachers focus on curriculum instead of rallies, and that consequences for truancy are applied evenly. Our children deserve classrooms that build citizens who can read, compute, and think — not campus protests that leave them worse off.
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