Any institution that has been infiltrated, subverted, and commandeered by moonbats is no longer about what it used to be about. It is about moonbattery. For example, K-12 education is no longer about education; it is about indoctrinating children and recruiting them into leftism.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in Chicago, where as Townhall reports, “Roughly 30 percent of [Chicago Public Schools] students can read on grade level; only 20 percent can do math.”

Daily Caller reports on what the unions calling the shots want kids to do instead of learn:

[Chicago Teachers Union], along with other unions, is planning a one-day strike on May 1 to protest what they call President Donald Trump’s “rising authoritarianism.” The union is calling on supporters to demand Chicago Public Schools give students the day off and “make May 1st an official day of civic action.”

May 1 aka International Workers’ Day has been regarded as a major holiday under Marxist regimes; it featured large-scale parades in the USSR. “Authoritarianism” is Liberalese for pushback against left-wing authoritarianism. Trump is not the one who wants an ever more intrusive government to enslave us through ever higher taxes and ever more suffocating regulations. That would be Democrats — speaking of whom:

Socialist Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who has accepted millions in campaign contributions from the union, has signaled support for the union’s plan, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

No good comes of the unholy alliance between the Democratic Party and public sector unions.

On a tip from patthedog.