OPINION:
Recently, high schools across the country have given students time off from classes to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s deportation procedures.
We see pictures and videos of students proudly carrying anti-ICE signs, participating in the “fight” against mask-wearing federal agents they believe are violating the rights of innocent immigrants and even murdering peaceful protesters. The schools are justifying this time off for students by calling it a “teaching opportunity.”
Is it a teaching opportunity or disguised indoctrination? In preparing the students, what information did these teachers include in support of the protests? Equally important, what information did they exclude? Did they talk about the millions of aliens who have entered our country illegally, most without background checks, about those who were violent criminals and came here and killed, raped and committed other crimes?
Did they talk about the 2024 election, in which more than 70% of Americans voted to deport all the illegals, according to existing federal laws governing deportation? Or about how the supremacy clause of the Constitution states that federal law supersedes state law where there is a conflict? Did they mention that “sanctuary cities” released these violent criminals into their communities instead of handing them over to ICE agents, as required by federal law?
Did they talk about what the two “murdered” protesters were doing that put them in danger and led to their deaths?
If teachers prepared their students with a full and objective discussion of why and what we are seeing on the streets of Minneapolis and other cities, then this is a valuable teaching opportunity.
However, if the answers to my above questions are no, then we are witnessing school- and teacher-supported indoctrination of American students. Parents and school boards everywhere should be outraged.
JACK LEBO
Haymarket, Virginia
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