(DC Pundit) – America’s public schools are looking less like classrooms and more like political boot camps.
The latest example comes out of Florida, where anti-ICE demonstrations are spreading across campuses — encouraged by activists operating under the umbrella of the Florida Education Association.
At a February 2026 FEA press conference, Zander Moricz, Executive Director and Founder of the Social Equity and Education Alliance, suggested that children protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn’t optional.
It’s “required.”
Moricz claimed, “Florida students are confronted with videos of ICE rates, of families being torn apart, and of Americans being murdered for using their constitutional rights. They respond. They organize, they speak out, and they do what American students have always done in moments of injustice.”
He added, “They stand together and demand safety for their peers, their families, and themselves. And that response, while framed by some politicians as radical, is rather than reasonable.”
Then came the jaw-dropper: “It’s rational, and in a moment it is required.”
BREAKING: The Florida teachers union says children protesting immigration enforcement "is REQUIRED."
They're using your kids to advance their political agenda.
These socialist unions must be destroyed. pic.twitter.com/0ASlxBVEa2
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) February 15, 2026
Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas wasn’t having it.
He fired back: “Teacher unions are again using children as pawns to carry out their radical political agenda. Their actions could result in lasting consequences for a student’s educational record—yet they are willing to put politics above what is best for students.”
Teacher unions are again using children as pawns to carry out their radical political agenda. Their actions could result in lasting consequences for a student’s educational record—yet they are willing to put politics above what is best for students.
I’ve been in communication… https://t.co/wJWjpS0MPy
— Anastasios Kamoutsas (@StasiKamoutsas) February 15, 2026
He’s exactly right.
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Schools are supposed to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic, not manufacture activists. Parents send kids to learn, not to be marched into political protests designed by union bosses.
This isn’t about free speech, it’s about control. Union leaders are turning classrooms into recruitment centers and kids into foot soldiers for the radical left. Parents didn’t sign up for this and Americans shouldn’t tolerate it. Schools should educate, not indoctrinate. Period.
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