Mitchell Elementary School in Ann Arbor appears to be placing more emphasis on anti- ICE messaging than on basic spelling skills. Photos circulating on X show protest signs made by kids and displayed at the elementary school showing glaring spelling errors – an awkward look for a school meant to teach the fundamentals of reading and writing.

Commenters on X weren’t surprised and pointed out that less than one quarter of the third graders at the school were proficient in reading in 2024.

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So while parents assume their kids are learning vowels and how to build sentences, it appears classroom activists are busy pushing anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sentiment – without even bothering to check whether the slogans they’re promoting are spelled correctly.

In elementary school, most kids are busy recognizing numbers, sounding out words, learning their letters, and figuring out how to turn a jumble of thoughts into complete sentences – not diving into debates or drafting political manifestos. They are not exactly up to the task of parsing federal immigration policy or the statutory authority of ICE.

These students have no framework for understanding the complexities of border enforcement, federal jurisdiction, or the political debates surrounding ICE. They repeat what they’re told by their parents and their Leftist teachers who are brainwashing them to hate ICE and ultimately law enforcement.

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It’s troubling when adults in positions of trust use the classroom as a staging ground for their Leftist activism. Teachers are supposed to help kids learn how to think – not hand them pre-packaged political conclusions before they can even spell “immigration.” Turning children into mouthpieces for partisan messaging isn’t education; it’s manipulation – and it’s totally disgusting.