Public School Teachers Rail Against ICE

Indoctrinating our children to hate federal officers.

By Sara Dogan

As tensions rise in Minneapolis and other sanctuary cities and ICE officers confront violent protestors in the line of duty, some teachers are indoctrinating their students to believe the left’s woke narratives—even when they are demonstrably false.

At Manson Northwest Webster High School in Iowa, a language arts teacher, identified by other outlets as Kim Keller, was caught in an audio recording delivering a virulent partisan diatribe to her class in which she accused ICE agents of murdering Renee Nicole Good—and told her students they would likely be next.

The teacher begins by scolding her class for allegedly laughing at TikTok videos about the incident: “Then why are you laughing? Because that is what is happened [sic]. And if you do not process that, you need to process that right now.”

The angry tirade that follows is full of misrepresentations and outright lies.

“It is fine if you don’t like the fact that she was warning people about ICE being in the neighborhood,” the teacher begins, “That’s fine. It is okay for you to not have liked that she was doing that. That’s okay. But what you need to understand is that she was told to leave the area. And so she was turning her vehicle away. She waved to other vehicles and they were leaving. And she was turning away. And the officer stepped in front of her vehicle, raised his gun, and fired a shot at point blank range into her vehicle, and then as she drove away, he turned and fired two more shots at point blank range, and he shot her in the head And that could have been you!”

And the teacher isn’t done yet. “You think it’s funny, cause that could be you, or it could be you [apparently indicating various students]. It could be anyone in this room. Any of you. And the moment you think it’s okay to shoot a citizen of the United States because they wanted to leave a scene. And keep in mind, she had broken no law. She was simply following orders to leave a scene. The moment you say it is okay to shoot someone for leaving a scene as ordered by law enforcement, then that makes it okay for anybody here to be murdered by law enforcement. That is what you are endorsing. Anybody here. The Manson Police Department can shoot you. Are you okay with that? Are you?”

Leaving aside for the moment the drastic inappropriateness of telling high school students that they could be murdered at any moment by their local police department, the teacher gets numerous facts about the incident entirely wrong.

As has been well established, Renee Nicole Good wasn’t an innocent mother who accidentally found herself caught up in an ICE operation after she dropped her child off at school. She and her wife were part of a radical group which deliberately—and illegally—inserted themselves in the path of lawful ICE operations in order to block and impede the federal officers. At the time of her death, Good wasn’t obeying an officer’s order to leave the scene. The officer very clearly ordered her to get out of her vehicle. In response, Good proceeded to drive her 4,000 pound Honda Pilot SUV directly into the ICE officer causing him to suffer internal bleeding—all while her wife encouraged her to “Drive, baby, drive!” It was Good’s own actions—willfully obstructing law enforcement, disobeying a direct order from an officer, and then assaulting an officer with a two-ton vehicle causing him bodily harm, that led to her unfortunate death.

Nor is the Iowa teacher alone in using her classroom position to indoctrinate her students to hate and fear ICE. As the X account LibsofTikTok reported, a teacher at Gardner-Edgerton High School in Kansas allegedly “organized a protest for students during school hours to protest ICE. They even made anti-ICE signs to hold at the protest.”

A planning document for the event shared by LibsofTikTok shows that students were to “Meet in Ms. Robertson’s room” at 1:30 pm on Wednesday, January 14 and indicates a headcount of 11.  “Our tax dollars are funding the indoctrination of kids to support and protest for left-wing causes,” notes LibsofTikTok. “Why is this allowed?”

Administrators for the high school denied the accuracy of this reporting. “USD 231 is aware of a social media post about a student protest,” the district wrote in response on X. “The information is not accurate. The activity was not school-sponsored, did not occur during the school day, and no instructional time was lost.”

But there is reason to doubt the veracity of the Gardner-Edgerton administration which has repeatedly faced controversy for its handling of sensitive political topics. Last September, school science teacher Leslie Hanzelka was suspended for two days after she made light of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, writing  “Meh, I’m saving my empathy for the children that got gunned down in Colorado today, none left over for the terrible person who considered the slaughter of children to be an acceptable price to pay so that inadequate white men can pose naked in front of a mirror with a machine gun and pretend they’re Rambo.”

In yet another incident, a concerned mother found that school administrators attempted to cover up the fact that a trans-identified boy was allowed to use the girls’ locker room during the 2024-2025 school year, which is a violation of school policy.

School Superintendent Dr. Brian Huff refused to acknowledge the facts of the case until an open records request by the mother revealed he had indeed been informed about the incident the previous year.

The vilification of ICE by teachers at these two high schools is not an aberration. For each such incident that is captured by a student’s cell phone or brought to attention by a concerned parent, there are likely dozens more that go unreported and unchecked.

For decades, the left has been able to freely impose its ideology on our nation’s schoolchildren with little resistance or consequence. Now that we finally have the tools to fight back and expose the radical indoctrination taking place in our K-12 classrooms, the left is responding with increasing aggression and calls for violence. The tide is turning, but it is not nearly soon enough.

Read Sara Dogan’s new eBook, “Academic Felons,” HERE.

“Academic Felons: American Colleges and Universities that Have Violated Federal Law,” a new eBook released by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, details the shocking lawbreaking committed by university presidents and administrators who have repeatedly endorsed programs and policies that violate federal law to further their woke agendas.

The eBook, authored by the Freedom Center’s National Campus Director Sara Dogan, names ten prominent universities including Columbia, UCLA, MIT, and San Jose State University, as “Academic Felons”—academic institutions that have shamelessly put their pursuit of woke leftist ideology ahead of their loyalty and obedience to the laws of the United States of America.

These elite institutions have allowed men to compete in women’s sports. They have skewed admissions and hiring policies to prioritize race and nationality over merit. They have refused to enforce federal immigration law, boldly declaring themselves to be “sanctuary campuses.”  They have allowed Jewish students to face bullying, harassment, and restrictions of their free movement on campus.

“Academic Felons” is the latest addition to an extensive compendium of reporting, activism, and investigative journalism that the Freedom Center has produced to combat Jew hatred and protect intellectual diversity and academic freedom on college campuses. It is a must-read for those seeking an inside look at the culture of moral and intellectual rot and hatred for America’s founding principles which has permeated our college campuses.

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By Sara Dogan

One of the foremost principles of higher education is the pursuit of the truth through free and open discourse, no matter where it may lead. Yet over the past several decades, few places in America have become more hostile to free speech than our universities. These institutions of higher education have often lived up to their ivory tower reputation, becoming cloistered echo chambers of leftist thought where voicing a dissenting view is cause for abrupt dismissal or being hauled before a disciplinary board and sentenced to reeducation.

The last year has brought an apparent shift in these attitudes. In the wake of rising anti-Semitism and the pro-Hamas campus rallies and occupations that were sparked by the terror group’s October 7 massacre, university administrators seem to have had a sudden change of heart. Free speech, once considered suspect, is now declared to be of paramount importance to the healthy functioning of a university, even—or perhaps especially—when the group being targeted by it is Jews.

In defending Penn’s hosting of the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, which featured multiple speakers well-known for their anti-Semitism, Former Penn President Liz Magill released a statement naming free expression as one of the university’s foremost values. “We unequivocally – and emphatically – condemn antisemitism as antithetical to our institutional values,” she wrote. “As a university, we also fiercely support the free exchange of ideas as central to our educational mission. This includes the expression of views that are controversial and even those that are incompatible with our institutional values.”

Columbia University’s former president Minouche Shafik, who resigned following her failure to rein in pro-Hamas demonstrations on campus, similarly pledged that the university administration “are committed to academic freedom and to ensuring that all members of our community have the right to speak their minds”  and argued before Congress that “We believe we can confront antisemitism and provide a safe campus environment for our community while simultaneously supporting rigorous academic exploration and freedom.”

Responding to pro-Hamas protests on campus, the University of Louisville’s former President Kim Schatzel described why they must be permitted to continue, saying, “The answer is that as a public university, the University of Louisville’s restrictions on such speech—no matter how offensive the content—would constitute a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution that protects free speech…”

These sentiments might forecast a step in the right direction—if only they were consistent. But at far too many campuses, the same administrators that have defended the free speech rights of Jew-haters, Hamas supporters, or radical gender activists have blatantly failed to secure the same rights for those with opposing views.

It is time that we hold these university administrators to account for their double standards in protecting free speech on campus and withdraw federal funding from those who do not immediately rectify this duplicity.

The following report names the most egregious perpetrators of these double standards in free expression as Ivory Tower Hypocrites. These are universities whose leaders have permitted woke leftist activists, including those affiliated with the terrorist group Hamas, to run roughshod over campus rules and violate codes of conduct—not to mention moral decency—with impunity, while failing to extend even basic free speech protections to students and faculty with opposing views. The rule of the mob has no place in academia.

We call on the universities implicated in this report to take immediate action to review and standardize their policies on free expression to protect all viewpoints equally and to further institute harsh penalties for those who disrupt organized events or speakers. We further call on all alumni of these universities to withhold any further donations until they have been sufficiently convinced that these severe defects in equal protection have been remedied. And we urge President Trump and Congress to investigate these clear violations of federal law and withhold funding to those universities who fail to uphold equal standards in protecting free speech.

#1: University of California-Los Angeles
#2: Columbia University
#3: University of Pennsylvania
#4: Georgetown University
#5: University of Louisville
#6: Wake Forest University
#7: University of Nevada-Las Vegas
#8: University of Illinois-Chicago
#9: George Mason University
#10: University of Washington

Read the full report HERE.