Last Friday, if you remember, the Left tried very hard (yet again) to turn into a French sort of national strike day. Where everyone pretended to be mad about a particular issue - in this instance, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions across the country - and they all march off their jobs or pour out of classrooms en masse. Then they take to the streets with placards and chants, and, in theory, shut the whole country (or at least their local burg) down thanks to their tantrum.
Rather than a colossal success, it was once again a mediocre annoyance of overindulged and frustrated liberal and progressive malcontents acting badly in public.
Oh, gosh - as if no one had ever seen that before.
What really got people's goats was that some school districts actively participated in either encouraging students to skip out and go make noise, or openly facilitated the day's protests by having children of all ages join the protests with signs made at school, demonizing federal law enforcement while sneering at federal law.
High school students in chi-chi Zionsville, Indiana, 'walked out.'
Outside of Zionsville Community High School where hundred of students have staged a walkout protest against ICE, part of other student-led protests in the area.
— Spencer Durham (@Durham_Current) February 2, 2026
The students I spoke to said they want ICE removed from the cities they're in. pic.twitter.com/BfIbxajhSN
The median income in that humble little Hoosier burg is $172,024 a year, so I'm not sure exactly how much ICE activity these tender schoolings have been traumatized by. But judging from the pricey neighborhood, I would say, from personal experience, that if they had seen any, they would probably be emotionally ill-equipped to handle such an encounter. So best that ICE is unlikely ever to darken the boundaries of their 'hood. The years of therapy to recover would break any normal household budget.
It did seem counterproductive to not only encourage students to skip a day of schooling they so desperately need...
Apparently aren’t learning much, either by staying in class or by protesting. 😬 pic.twitter.com/O2IWilKghy
— Snarknado ⚓️ 🇺🇸 (@ZannSuz) February 4, 2026
... but which is also so terribly wasted on some of them.
Plainfield students walk out of class to protest ICE activity
— Wake Up NJ 🇺🇸 New Jersey (@wakeupnj) February 4, 2026
Just to let you know, this districts high school is at 23% reading proficient & 10% math proficient
Might want to focus on academics instead of turning kids into protestorshttps://t.co/Si7lVDg1g7 pic.twitter.com/v3lkZCP0mO
Middle schoolers in Washington State had a totally professional sign to hit the streets with - such lovely penmanship! I hope whoever did it gets an 'A' if they still have art class.
Oh, don't you cynics even try to tell me someone paid for a sign. These are children! It's totally organic!
Totally sincere and not just an excuse to slide out of school!
RIGHT NOW: Huge anti-ICE student walkout in Meadowcreek High School in Norcross, Georgia. The protest is one of many actions across the country in solidarity with the Minnesota general strike. pic.twitter.com/mAW3nIVEKn
— BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom) January 23, 2026
And these kiddos do have one heckuva high school to work towards once they're done lollygagging and get back to work in the classroom.
15% passing math and 13% passing science....... but of course 🤡Reykdal has like 90% will graduate, LMAO. pic.twitter.com/sSyAcmFVI5
— 🇺🇸STOP SEATTLE DEMs 2026🇺🇸 (@TurnSeattleRed) February 3, 2026
They're so cute when you can get them young. This is a great start.
A video circulating online claims to show classrooms in the Boston area teaching very young kids to protest Trump and ICE. pic.twitter.com/dKEt97ArLi
— Mass Daily News (@MassDailyNews) February 4, 2026
But what seemed at first to be a simple illustration of the blue-state-red-state or progressive/conservative school district divide is turning into something more complicated.
Sometimes it turns into a rude awakening for some parents in the bluest of blue districts. Like the mom who charged across the schoolyard through little clumps of students who'd been let out to protest, and then into the office to yank her daughter out of the school permanently.
I THOUGHT MY KID WAS SAFE HERE
A Washington mother was furious after learning her daughter’s middle school, Olympic Middle School, allowed students to protest ICE during school hours.
— Red Line News (@RedLineNewsUSA) February 2, 2026
She pulled her daughter from the school district! GOOD MOM!
🎥: @rikkaboofrank (tt) pic.twitter.com/C2hOKNPAn1
Here in Escambia County, some parents are upset that their little darlings received suspensions for walking out, even though students had been warned of what's known as 'consequences' if they did well before the day of the protest.
How could the schools be so cruel in squashing First Amendment rights?!
Parents and students are raising concern following last week's walkout. Students in Escambia County took part in a nationwide protest against immigration enforcement.
Now, some students say they are facing consequences after exercising their right to protest. Participants say the decision to walk out was a no-brainer.
But there's now concern that choice could be on their permanent record. Dozens of students stepped out of class at Pine Forest HS and Pensacola HS on Friday afternoon.
"They have been silenced long enough and will no longer stand in silence," Pine Forest parent Natalie Champagne said.
Some lessons are harder than others.
Florida is not the place for schools to be handing out crayons and markers to make signs with.
We will not tolerate educators encouraging school protests and pushing their political views onto students, especially ones that disparage law enforcement.
— Anastasios Kamoutsas (@StasiKamoutsas) February 3, 2026
Under the leadership of @GovRonDeSantis, Florida’s education system is focused on student achievement, not ideology.… pic.twitter.com/9ZMP83FzpN
...Under the leadership of @GovRonDeSantis, Florida’s education system is focused on student achievement, not ideology.
Classroom instruction provides students with the academic foundation they need to succeed, and schools must protect that time.
In fact, some lessons flat out hurt, as one buoyant little Nebraska protester on the lam learned as she skipped school only to wind up flattened in the parking lot.
NEW VIDEO: After being encouraged to protest ICE by facility teachers, student at Fremont High School runs in front of car during walkout and is struck and injured by SUV.
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) February 3, 2026
Parents are now considering holing the school DIRECTLY liable.pic.twitter.com/JQEBT4N8qD
OOPS
And here comes her mother, asking the school 'Vurt da furk's the story with my kid being IN A PARKING LOT DEMONSTRATING?' Mom didn't know her child would be turned loose with school-supplied subversive materials in her hands.
UH-OH
The mother of a Fremont High School student who was struck by an SUV during a student protest said she is angry with school officials and believes they should have prevented the demonstration.
The student was hit by a red SUV while participating in an anti-ICE protest outside the school. She is now recovering at home with bumps and bruises.
...The girl’s mother said the incident should never have happened and that students were not informed enough to organize such a protest.
“First of all, I don’t feel she’s informed enough to have made a decision like the one that she made by doing a protest,” the mother said. “I don’t feel that any of the young people that were involved know enough about what’s going on to do or set up a protest because I feel they don’t know what they’re protesting.”
The mother believes Fremont High School bears responsibility for the incident, pointing to the fact that her daughter was allowed to make protest materials during class time.
“My daughter was allowed to make her poster in class, in school, to career class,” she said. “Where are the teachers and why weren’t they paying more attention to what these kids were doing?”
“I feel the school is quite a bit at fault for this,” the mother said.
I wonder if Mom has any idea what the Fremont High School library looks like?
The school librarian may have been involved. Here’s a school library display showing books, at least one of which provides step by step instructions on organizing a color revolution, right down to picking the color for the revolution. Any investigation should include that angle. https://t.co/FjW3xlQKpt
— Dan Kleinman @OccupyLibraries (@OccupyLibraries) February 4, 2026
Maybe she and some other like-minded parents will now be more interested in physically seeing what's being disseminated in the school.
Especially since she may well own it after she files her lawsuit.
