Gotta feel for the parents of kids who got a free pass to skip class so they could put ICE in the cross-hairs.
Worse, for the students themselves, who stats show need to be studying , not holding “F*ck ICE” placards in front of their schools.
The latest follow-the-loser student protests sprouted up Friday (National ICE-out Day) in towns and cities across the midsection and coast of Maine.
Among them, Camden, one of Maine’s wealthiest communities – where money apparently grows on trees along with failing student achievement.
And the leader of the anti-ICE parades? The “teachers.”
“Three-hundred protesters convened on the Village Green to vent their discontent with the current political climate in the U.S.,” Pen Bay Pilot reported on the Camden brigade. “Some stood in the middle of Route 1, halting traffic for a brief period of time before Camden Police directed them to the sidewalk.”
The skip-class-for-fun rallies come amid tanking academics in one of the poorest states in the country.
Not only that, but Maine spends more than $2,000 above the national per-student average on public education, roughly $20,000 for each student.
That might be near acceptable as long as the learning were commensurate with the spending.
But it’s not.
Far from it, in fact.
After all, the state ranks in the bottom ten states for K-12 education, placing 41st in the 2025 Kids CountData Book.
The stats show declining proficiency in reading and math, with many students falling below basic levels, reflecting a multi-year downward trend from 2019.
Recent National Assessment of Educational Progress data show that 68 percent of fourth graders and 72 percent of eighth graders are at or below basic reading levels.
In math alone 61 percent of fourth graders and 69 percent of eighth graders in Maine are falling behind.
But there’s time to skip class and party against enforcing laws designed to keep illegal immigrants out of Maine taxpayers’ pockets.
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“Hey teachers leave our kids alone!” You can clearly see that the teachers were present with these kids. I am so sick of the indoctrination of the students by these Marxist teachers. Our taxes are funding this garbage. When we went to school you were taught to learn, teachers did not sway you with their liberal anti-American slant! What has happened to our country? Is this the best we can can do? It’s time to wake up and see what is going on before it’s too late!
If students are failing, then TEACHERS are failing also and so is GOVERNMENT. FIRE the Education Department, she is falling.