The University of Minnesota is reportedly investigating accounts that an education professor ran an “ICE drill” in class. According to Alpha News, Professor Blanca Caldas used her “Culture, Power, and Education” class to have students practice shielding other students from ICE.
The fact that it is a required course for those seeking a degree in elementary education only magnifies the concerns about a professor pressuring students into such a politically charged demonstration.
According to a student, Caldas had students stand up and move to a corner of the room as she acted out the trauma of ICE appearing in the classroom. She allegedly pretended to confront an ICE agent and then joined the students to tell them that they had to use their bodies to shield other students being sought by ICE. Then, “she ended the drill by having us look around our peers and our fellow students within the classroom and identify specifically the people that would appear to be the targets.”
The student objected to the racial element of the drill and said that many felt “uncomfortable,” but “essentially went along,” with Caldas’ instructions, she added.
Caldas’s bio page appears to have been locked from public view. However, College Fix was able to review the page and reported that “her PhD dissertation ‘Performing the Advocate Bilingual Teacher: Drama-based Interventions for Future Story-making’ was given the Activist Research Grant Initiative Award sponsored in part by the Social Justice Institute and the U. Texas at Austin Center for Gender and Women’s Studies.”
If the account is accurate, I would view the demonstration as entirely inappropriate, particularly for a required course. If a professor had held a demonstration in helping ICE agents, there would have been mass demonstrations at the University of Minnesota.
Even if this course is designed for such political demonstrations, the question remains: why was it approved by the department as a required course?
This is what they are teaching in a required course for elementary school teachers and we wonder why so many teachers are wearing nose rings, blue hair and screaming at protests.
They are doing the same at J Schools, Law Schools and even Med Schools. We saw them taking over the schools, we did nothing and we have lost. The next generation can’t think, use logic, argue a point or cope with every day issues. All I can say is that I am glad I am older and I hopefully won’t see the worst of this once they completely take over. It’ll be a world full of idiots like the one particular Anonymous that snipes at everyone every day and every issue.
PS. This one particular Anonymous creep is why me, and many others, almost beg for this great site to require some sort of name rather than just “Anonymous”.
PSS. If you are one of the legitimate commenters that for some reason can’t create a name do the decent thing and sign off on your comment so we can differentiate you from the idiot.
. . . her PhD dissertation, ‘Performing the Advocate Bilingual Teacher: Drama-based Interventions for Future Story-making,’ was given the Activist Research Grant Initiative Award sponsored in part by the Social Justice Institute and the U. Texas at Austin Center for Gender and Women’s Studies.
Sounds like parody. How many hackneyed Marxist phrases can we get into a single line of a bio?
OldManFromKS,
Parody is right. One would think they were reading something from the Bee, but no, it really exists. Thing is, by mandating these required classes, they have a captive audience and it also enables more of these so-called “professors” degrees in non-sense but jobs. I highly doubt she could get a job anywhere else other than in academia. Perhaps some non-sense non-profit. I know a woman who got a degree in women’s studies. She confesses it was a total waste of time and money. She is a cabinet maker now and does pretty well for herself.
And here is an example of additional indoctrination we are seeing but in public education.
Schools Teach Kids To Hate ICE Before Teaching Them To Spell ICE
Mitchell Elementary in Ann Arbor today. It’s not cool they can’t even spell. Communist parents want their kids trained by good strong communist teechers. Get it? pic.twitter.com/CiFbajYrzZ
— Matt Maddock (@matthewmaddock) February 5, 2026
https://dailycaller.com/2026/02/09/schools-teach-kids-to-hate-ice-before-teaching-them-to-spell-ice/
Reminds me of the videos of kids being taught to hate Jews in Gaza. Teach them hate before teaching them how to read, write or do math.
Upstate, From a systems perspective, the key question is whether this is an outlier or the norm.
If it’s a one-off incident, that’s a special cause problem. If we keep seeing the same pattern across schools, districts, and states, then it’s common cause variation. That means the system itself is producing the outcome.
Persistent outcomes don’t happen by accident. They tell us what the system is designed to do.
OLLY,
Well, based off of other reporting, we have seen activism invade public education with things like LBGTQ+, pro-Hamas, DEI etc. Meanwhile, while teaching activism, they are failing to teach the basics. There are several cities that spend the most money in America on education per student and those students cannot read at grade level or do math. It is a system that by intention is producing lower educated students.
There use to be nuclear bombing drills by hiding under your desk also.
Yes. That drill was to, hopefully, save your life.
This drill is to obstruct and interfere with LEOs carrying out their Congress delegated duties to enforce immigration laws.
Re: there used to be nuclear bomb drills: hiding under the desk was deemed a lost cause with the advent of thermonuclear weapons.
So, this is a required course for elementary education majors at the University of Minnesota? If elementary school teachers are taking up classroom teaching time with this nonsense in which they were indoctrinated when in college, no wonder Jane and John are unable to read or do math at grade level.
I hope this teacher is also going to teach these student how to put their hands behind their backs as they get arrested for interfering with Federal law enforcement activities
As for making this required, shame on the professor and the school for allowing this activity. I can only imagine if there was a class forcing students to point out to ICE officials “here they are”.
The part that makes me shake my head is that the message is mistreating because fully half the country does not agree with this activism, yet they double down.
I don’t understand this. If a person is in the country illegally, they need to be removed from the country. If you don’t want to be deported, then don’t illegally travel to another country. If ICE is coming for a student, then they are also in the process of deporting the parent, and they should be deported together. This professor’s policy is literally to separate children from their parents.
There is no racial element to this. I don’t care if the person illegally entered from Canada or Mexico, China or Somalia. If you don’t have citizenship or some form of visa, you need to leave. As an example, we have many legal Indian immigrants that do extremely well in this country. But we’re also finding Indians who entered illegally and somehow obtained truck driver licenses and are now killing people on our highways. The people that came here illegally need to leave. The people that came legally are welcome to stay.
The Dem-o-rats don’t care. They need voters.
Look how the protesters are being funded.
People that are here legally are being removed. Whereas your forebears just stole land and a language, leaving you with a room temperature IQ.
^ Chinese Communist Party troll. Ignore. ^
– People that are here legally are being removed.
Can you give me a name? I’ve not heard of a single one. Every instance of someone being removed that I’ve heard of is an illegal alien. There was once instance of a guy that was briefly detained due to mistaken identity, but he was certainly not deported. (They went to arrest a specific individual, and the guy did resemble him pretty closely, but the mistake was cleared up quickly, these things happen in law enforcement) There have also been communists that were arrested for obstructing law enforcement, but these people were, unfortunately, not deported.
– Whereas your forebears just stole land and a language, leaving you with a room temperature IQ.
My forebears did no such thing. The land under the United States was either purchased or conquered. (One of my favorite things recently was a “land acknowledgment” at Columbia University, but Manhattan island was legally purchased, we literally have the receipt) And I have no idea what you mean by a stolen “language”. English certainly isn’t stolen, and that’s not how language works anyway.