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The Dangerous School Climate Created by Democrats

Linda Harvey

The nation’s largest “professional” teachers’ group, the NEA, sent out a recent email accusing ICE of murder, saying the officers were putting “their” communities in danger. Nothing included by NEA about the murders, rapes, pedophilia, etc. committed by the illegals ICE is rounding up and the danger they pose to American communities.

The St. Paul Federation of Educators urged members to leave school positions to protest.

And middle and high school students are organizing anti-ICE demonstrations all over the country, many during school hours, most certainly with radical teachers prodding these actions behind the scenes. In St. Paul, hundreds were absent from school for such protests.

At least one teacher was detained after attacking ICE officers in Minneapolis and a police chase of a rioter who had rammed an ICE vehicle ended up at a local high school. Was this intentional, to bring the fight to a school and use children as human shields?

Always the victims, the NEA distorted the incident to blow up the situation. Were any students in harm’s way? If they escaped injury, it’s not because of the warm and protective actions of these “educators.”

Who’s putting students at risk? It’s the reckless, selfish Democrats and their money launderers, like the NEA.

Adults who defy the law are not safe for children, period.

But progressives, most often represented in political circles by the Democratic party, are not the source of “safe” schools. They are working feverishly for just the opposite: unsafe and dangerous situations that put students in harm’s way, all the while claiming their pet school agendas are all about “safety.”

It’s a huge lie. For thirty years, we’ve been hearing education progressives claim they are protecting students when all along they have been throwing children under the bus.

Here are just some of the ways that the lying Dems are endangering and traumatizing public school students in America:

1. Encouraging student engagement in high-tension political protests. Standing up against ICE, defying long-standing federal law, isn’t brave and noble, and current rioter insanity is a recipe for more disastrous outcomes. Students should be discouraged from participation for that reason alone but also, because the Democrat side is profoundly incorrect on this.

At Farmington High School (MN), a walk-out during lunch was organized for students on January 16, 2026, with posters proclaiming, “Abolish ICE. No human is illegal.”

What an insipid slogan. Of course, some people are “illegal” if they enter a country and stay without immigration authority. If I sneak into Italy and just plant myself, I am there illegally. Immigrants who are here illegally have committed at least that crime.

Until recent years, even Democrats like Barack Obama (remember this video?) or Bill Clinton stood staunchly in defense of secure borders and enforcing federal immigration law. But today’s students will hear that federal enforcement is brutality and coexists with racism, when all this is actually high stakes political theater meant to derail GOP influence and prop up weak Democrats with illegitimate (illegal) votes.

2. Teaching students that ICE and police are the enemy. The Ohio Education Association ( Jeff Wensing, President) sent out a letter to members instructing they were to basically resist any inquiries at schools from ICE and not allow them entry. This is an insurrectionist position. Law enforcement always has the authority to enter a school.

Schools have been teaching for years that police need to be de-funded and that minority groups especially were at risk from law enforcement. This idiocy has been disseminated through Black Lives Matter and many extremist groups including GLSEN and GSA Network. They have taught radical, revolutionary ideas to impressionable students like the following: “We Call for the Abolition of the Police, ICE, Borders and the Judicial System.” Such reckless ideas should never get any traction.

3. Knowingly violating school policies and legal precedents on parental rights. From under-the-table counseling of students on sexuality and gender issues, to breaking state and federal law, school staff and teachers from coast to coast have been caught in reckless, even criminal activity.

Here in Ohio, undercover videos produced by Accuracy in Media reveal that numerous school administrators are willing to defy an Ohio law passed in 2024 that bans boys from female sports teams, as well as another law that mandates bathroom and locker room facilities by separated by biological sex.

These laws provide safety and privacy for girls. The fifty-year-old federal Title IX law prevents discrimination against females in school programs, like sports, yet under Biden, schools began to assume they could arbitrarily change or ignore it. The result was school chaos: boys in girls’ restrooms, girl athletes cheated and endangered by boy teammates, and forced pronoun policies that resulted in false accusations of sexual harassment.

4. School “restorative Justice” programs that neither restore nor are just. Foolish administrators have jumped on the fad of “restorative justice,” which uses dialogue, counseling and other incentives instead of punishment for student misbehavior. Many programs were instituted for one overarching reason: “an ideological commitment to produce racial equity in suspension rates.” So students victimized by other students never feel there is accountability and students committing the infractions/crimes never learn to self-regulate. This has gone hand- in -hand with an anti-law enforcement school mindset, especially after the George Floyd riots and the detrimental influence of BLM, when many on-site police –“school resource officers”--were removed. Will crimes decline if there are no police to investigate? What kind of foolishness is this? Student infractions will, of course, increase.

This kind of abdication of common sense among far too many public school adults is one reason rational teachers are fleeing and student misbehavior and mental health issues are skyrocketing.

5. High risk sexual behavior and gender distortion are normalized and celebrated. What happens to the fifteen- year old boy who starts down the road of homosexual relationships? By age 30 he is highly likely to be a sexually used-up mess, to have fallen far short of academic/professional possibilities and most importantly, he will be far away from Jesus. The anxious teen girl who is convinced by a school counselor ( often without parental consent) that her anxieties will disappear along with her normal breast tissue if she just embraces “transition” to malehood, is subjected to a diabolical schoolhouse lie for which there is usually no accountability.

This deception is decorated with classroom rainbow posters and spiced with obscene sex ed lessons and pornographic library book passages. The evil adults who teach “comprehensive sexuality education” ( i.e., go-ahead-and-have sex-even-in-middle-school), or those who head up “gay” clubs, or give private, off-color advice are seldom fired or even sued. And this does not even account for the growing numbers of teachers who sexually molest students, both heterosexually and homosexually. Many are never prosecuted.

What can we do? If you can, remove your children from public schools. But many of you can’t or will choose not to, so then these are the actions you MUST take:

·      Carefully choose ( when possible) your children’s teachers and complain constantly until there’s a change if you sense a problem

·      Never let your child participate in school sex ed lessons or private counseling at school

·      Find out who is on your school board and see if they can be educated to know the truth and stand up for it. If they can’t/won’t, YOU MUST VOTE for worthy, conservative candidates. NEVER SUPPORT ANY DEMOCRAT or CANDIDATE FROM THE TEACHERS’ UNIONS ( usually the same thing).

·      Pray without ceasing for God to show you how to protect your child and others at school.

·      Teach your child the truth about all these current issues. God’s word gives us clear guidance.