Across the country, students are being injured, arrested, and drawn into violence as teachers and school administrators continue encouraging walkouts and off-campus marches to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement. What’s being marketed as “activism” is quickly looking like organized chaos — with kids stuck in the middle.

In the Chicago suburb of Aurora, the situation boiled over when students waving Mexican flags erupted in violence against a lone man carrying a pro-Trump flag. So much for “peaceful protest.” When children are being pushed into confrontations with adults in public spaces, that’s not civic engagement — that’s reckless.

Let’s be clear: schools exist to educate, not to mobilize minors for political street theater. Encouraging students to leave class and confront strangers over federal immigration enforcement is a fast track to injuries, arrests, and lifelong consequences for kids who don’t fully understand what they’re being dragged into.

ICE enforces the law passed by Congress. You can debate policy all day — that’s America — but turning classrooms into protest factories and putting children in harm’s way is irresponsible. Adults are supposed to protect kids, not use them as props in political stunts.

The good news is that more parents are starting to speak up, and more Americans are realizing that this isn’t about “student voices” — it’s about adults pushing ideology at the expense of safety. If there’s one thing this country can still agree on, it’s that children belong in school learning, not in the streets getting hurt.

And when common sense finally wins out, students will be back where they should be — in class, not in the crossfire of someone else’s politics.