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KENOSHA, Wis. — A student walkout at Harborside/Reuther Academy on Friday morning drew additional scrutiny after multiple readers sent Kenosha County Eye photographs appearing to show Kenosha Unified School District staff members supervising students holding profanity-laced political signs along Sheridan Road. A factory worker County Eye earlier reported that these were harborside students, but the school issued an email to all parents saying that most of these kids were from Reuther.
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The demonstration, which had been anticipated by district officials, began around 9:30 a.m. Several images submitted to KCE show students standing near the curb holding signs that read “Fuck ICE.” At least four separate signs containing that phrase were visible in the photos. Other messages included “No one is illegal on stolen land” and another sign containing a vulgar personal insult about penis size.
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In the photos reviewed by KCE, uniformed staff members appear to be standing within close proximity to students as the signs were displayed. Law enforcement officers were also visible in the area monitoring traffic and safety.
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One observer who drove past the scene and later spoke with Kenosha County Eye on the condition of anonymity described feeling stunned that students were permitted to display explicit language during school hours in what appeared to be a school-supervised setting. The individual expressed frustration that profanity — language that would not typically be tolerated inside a classroom — was openly displayed in front of staff without apparent intervention. The observer questioned why school officials would allow explicit language on signs during the school day, especially if school supplies were used to create them.
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The same individual also expressed concern that some students may have joined the walkout simply to miss class rather than out of a deeply held political belief, and questioned whether the event advanced educational goals .
Another resident who contacted KCE echoed similar sentiments, saying it was difficult to understand how explicit profanity would be permitted in a supervised school environment. That person questioned whether district standards regarding appropriate language during school hours were applied consistently .
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A third individual raised a broader concern about viewpoint consistency, asking whether other types of demonstrations — including religious or politically conservative expressions — would receive the same level of accommodation during instructional hours .
Harborside administrators had previously informed families that instruction would continue during the walkout and that students who left class without being excused could be marked tardy or truant. The district also indicated staff supervision would be present, though students leaving campus would not be supervised.
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The images now circulating raise a narrower but pointed question: Does the district condone the use of explicit profanity on protest signage during school-supervised events?
Kenosha County Eye has reached out to KUSD seeking clarification on district policy regarding student speech, profanity, and staff oversight during demonstrations.
Julie Blair, administrative support/librarian for both high schools, contacted Kenosha County Eye and wanted the public to know that most of the kids pictured were from Reuther High School.
In a written response Friday afternoon, KUSD Chief Communications Officer Tanya Ruder said student walkouts are not school-sponsored events but are student-organized and voluntary. She said the district’s role is limited to ensuring safety and maintaining normal school operations, noting that administrators communicate with student organizers in advance and notify Kenosha police, who monitor the event. Ruder stated that staff supervise students until they leave school grounds to maintain order, that instruction continues for those who remain in class, and that walkouts are treated as unexcused absences unless parents contact the attendance office. She also said the district has no reason to believe the signage displayed during the walkout was created at or during school hours.
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The situation is likely to further fuel debate over the limits of student speech in public schools, particularly when political expression intersects with school supervision and instructional time.
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148 Responses
Fools and losers every single one of them!
I could care less if students want to protest BEFORE or AFTER SCHOOL!
Our educators should be educating our students IN THE CLASSROOM not standing next to them while they protest during the school day!
Less than 1 out of 3 students in Wisconsin are proficient in reading. Encouraging students to skip school and hold up vulgar signs only makes matters worse.
https://reforminggovernment.org/the-real-test-scores-show-only-31-of-wisconsin-students-proficient-in-reading/
Exactly.
Looks like the teachers need to expand the students vocabulary. Great education teachers!🙄 Homeschool!
No kidding, what a bunch of turds.
Says the adult calling kids losers. Makes you a bigger loser than you claim they are. Anyone has a right to protest. So much for Justice for all. Where’s the Justice on tearing families apart?
They are losers, total losers 😘
Congratulations on identifying yourself as also being a loser, or just an idiot. These kids just identified themselves as unemployable
When you commit a CRIME, you go to jail. That’s a choice you made when you committed the crime. THEY are the ones dividing their own families. When they enter the country ILLEGALLY, thats a crime. You get deported, that’s the LAW. They knew that when they committed the crime.
calling kids loser omg. You must be unhappy in life if you’re saying this about teenagers. Everyone has the right to protest
🤣 …losers. They are why they are.
Sounds like a lot of the complaints are libs crying. Due to lack of. Knowledge. About how things work. These kids are expressing freedom of speech learn ur rights ppl. And mabe you will figure it out as well
The communist members of the KEA and KUSD encourage this crap. Do you think children are using their “allowance” to purchase anti ICE flags? All students protesting during school hours should be suspended and removed from any extracurricular activities, also any staff involved should be terminated. Do this crap on your own time and your own dime. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to subsidize this or the illegal aliens these people claim to care for.
Cry harder snowflake…
I guess if you can’t support your position with valid arguments, name calling is your only recourse. Since you’ve already forgotten, “snowflake” is a maga term to describe people whose feelings and emotions guide their thought process. Try logic for a change and don’t let your hatred of one man or group think guide you.
notice how ppl are saying way worse about kids though? grown ass adults. I know the kids who had their flags, they paid for those with their own money from WORKING. Stop bashing kids for doing what you losers do all the time. Atleast they arent putting stickers on their cars with hateful speech. These are children all of you losers are talking about, but aren’t you trump losers all for protecting kids? Well, you can’t stand by that when your oh mighty president is a sex offender. If all of you guys want to protect kids, start with realizing how fucked your minds are for supporting someone like Trump
Wrong president bucko! It was pedo sniffer Joe that misplaced over 300,000 children, married his babysitter and liked to shower with his daughter.
Judging by your lack of grammar and punctuation skills, you should have stayed in school kiddo.
I’m German, this isn’t my first language.
lol suuurrreee
I take it I can ride around town in my vehicle with expletives showing.
And hang those profanities on your home like other maga morons…
Get to class, please
These kids need to be punished. I’m not bashing how they feel about ICE I’m talking about walking out of school and being 100% disrespectful!!!!
wasn’t disrespectful at all.
Walking out of school/class seems disrespectful to me.
student right btw! students are allowed to do this because they have freedom of speech. Everyone preaches it until kids want to express it. you’re 100% disrespectful!!!
You’re missing the point. It has nothing to do with the protest.
It has everything to do with the time of day, when they should be in class.
Think please! Would student freedom of speech allow for profane signs and truancy if they were protesting against school administrators or policies? Is it acceptable for them to have “F*ck KEA“, “KEA protects pedos” or “KUSD is a groomer factory” signs? Disrespectful behavior is only allowed when it supports the democrat political agenda.
I love the “stolen land” mantra. These kids are so very ignorant of history. They really need more classroom time with real teachers, not soy soaked wokesters.
america was built on imigrants and people who were stolen from thier homes. If you’re not Native american or hispanic YOU are an immigrant.
Bless your bleeding Liberal heart.
Haha, the “Americans live on stolen land” mantra? It peaked in the 2010s with every college protest and land-back activist chain, but it’s fizzled into background noise now—mostly trotted out by the same folks pushing endless DEI guilt trips. Under Trump 2.0, it’s buried under “America First” priorities like border walls and energy dominance; nobody’s handing back the Dakotas for a casino expansion.
Truth is, that narrative’s a half-baked myth anyway—European settlers didn’t “steal” empty wilderness; they tamed a savage frontier from warring tribes who’d been at each other’s throats for millennia (think Comanche raids or Iroquois conquests). Manifest Destiny built the greatest nation on earth, turning buffalo plains into breadbaskets. If we’re auditing history for reparations, start with the tribes who sold land treaties fair and square, then got screwed by DC bureaucrats—not some retroactive eviction notice.
That’s actually not the meaning of the word immigrant
Fucking Idiots, the students too. The KUSD Admin should be ashamed of themselves, they are all cowardly assholes.
the only idiot is you😲
Get back in school
There were several cops there when these idiots thought it would be smart to stand in the street holding their profanity ridden signs in front of cars as they passed. Almost had the pleasure of taking one out with my front bumper.
saying this about kids btw, holy shit you are FUCKED. d1 dumbass over here look at this guy! “HAHA i almost hit a kid with my car because they have diffrent beliefs than me!” see how fucking dumb you sound? i thought we were supoosed to be protecting the children?
u must of been the grown ass man flipping off children. Yeah we saw that btw🖕
You obviously are a Trump supporter
Try a snickers, calm down. Or take the whole pill next time.
calling people cowards but here you are shit talking as you’re anonymous. Say that shit to someones face or atleast be proud of what you have to say and put your name on it. coward
In these days of “doxxing” and harassment, I’m grateful for an anonymous forum. I don’t want some weirdo vandalizing my property, harassing my family or worse because we don’t agree on a topic. Courage has nothing to do with staying anonymous. Veterans like myself don’t want to be coerced into educating people on the finer points of FA/FO.
Staying anonymous serves us all well and safely gives us a voice, just like when we vote.
yeah but when you’re going to say stupid shit about CHILDREN, you should be proud huh? I’m not gonna choose peace when you people are out here calling children names. If you guys are so worried about being doxxed for your beliefs, don’t say them then. Think about what you people are saying about these children. idiots? losers? really?? fucking crazy. Kids were out here protesting for what they believe in, dont you think they have a chance of being doxxed aswell? Having atleast your first name isnt as bad as having your whole face out there. These kids are loud and proud about what they believe, so should you losers
When the violence is one sided, that’s easy to say.
Looks to me like you are trying to play adult games.So quit the bitching about people calling children , names and whining and crying about what people are calling “children”. Children that should be in school! You simply don’t know enough about this subject to even be protesting about it and all the pictures I see you’re all smiling like it’s some kind of joke.
Smiling because we’re proud of ourselves. If you see other protest, people are smiling as well. Fucking hell
lol baby communists are funny and cute. They think they know how the world works, just wait kiddo!
calling children idiots??
fuck ice
I’m so proud fuck ice
So proud you are anonymous. Clown
I love ice! Thank you! 🙏🏻
Useful idiots
useful is right fuck trump fuck ice
Wow, you should have stayed in class. Maybe you’d learn proper use of grammar and punctuation. 🤦♀️🤣
The real issue is why the government is seemingly pushing all the Epstein stuff under the rug. Shit like that is what people should be protesting.
Doesn’t matter what side you are on……both parties look horribly in all of this. Stop voting for these shitheads, Democrat or Republican.
All the people who are saying punish the students are all lovers. Students have a right to protest, all of you maga shits are all brainwashed smh. Proud of everyone who did this. Freedom of speech until it’s kids wanting to express their views, shame all of you for shaming kids. KIDS btw, these are children. Grown ass adults mad at children, check yourselves this is sad lmao
Adults using children as political pawns is always shameful.
Firefighter using children as political pawns is always shameful.
these are teenagers who have seen the world too, they can form their own thoughts
This was are choice dont know what yu talkin abt
“This was our choice, you dont know what you’re talkin about.”
You should probably not skip anymore if your classes.
I totally agree.
I posted this and am Republican and voted for Trump…..but dude, if you have half a fucking brain you can see how horrible the Epstein situation is.
I don’t trust any of these motherfuckers anymore and you sure as shit shouldn’t, either.
I’m ready for this 4 years to be over at this point.
If you have nothing nice to say just leave the kids alone please.
Also… keep in mind many of them will be voting soon. If you aren’t changed after the ICE shootings then something is a bit off
Correction. People are saying this should not have happened during school hours.
You are, AGAIN, missing the point. The protest shouldn’t be on the tax payers dime. Get to class and protest on your OWN time.
I don’t agree with what went on today, but I cannot believe that most of the idiots commenting on here can’t read the freakin’ article first! This was not a school event. These kids went rogue and decided that this was the way to spend their day. It’s not the damn teachers and school’s job to babysit these kids while they do their thing. They were marked truant (absent) from class and missed the learning. It is their PARENTS RESPONSIBILITY to deal with them and give them appropriate consequences (if desired). The teachers have enough to do. The district should just worry about the students in their seats who want to learn that day. If the protesters want to be “big boys and girls”, then they can worry about their own safety. However, you know damn well that if one of these students got hit by a car that all the damn comments would be how the school failed. Can’t have it both ways. The schools CANNOT stop students from leaving school. Maybe they can do some learning after school about how using vulgar language just turns people off from listening to you anyways. Our world is so screwed!
The signs were actually mocking the maga moron signs we’ve been dealing with for over a decade now…
Maybe the author should get their facts correct before they make a post as none of these student are Harborside students. They are students of another school. So please facts check before you go writing a story with false information.
some kids were tho btw
The students in the pics should be top candidates for the Kenosha Emerging Leadership Academy—-
totally agree! seeing what these comments are saying too, what they did out there was brave. My heart goes out to all of them
Brave 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, brave. When people are talking about hitting CHILDREN with their car over this, it is considered brave
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It’s unfortunate, so easily lead
15-20 attention starved losers per usual.Accomplished nothing per usual.
To clarify, none of these students pictured are Harborside students. I hope for the sake of accurate reporting this is corrected. It was never a Reuther/ Harborside protest.
Do you actually KNOW this…and how?
Proud of the young resistors. Everyone needs to be all in against this authoritarian take over.
lol okay douchebag
TikTok and all these other bullshit apps is destroying today’s youth.
what dose tiktok have to do with dis?😭😭
Dose? Or Does? Dis? Or this?
Thank God there wasn’t a picture of an analog clock to go with this comment. Just in case you are wondering what that is that’s that big round circle thing that hangs on the wall with the numbers on it 1 through 12 with the big hand and the little hand.
🤣😂
And you Can’t even spell.You should be in school!
Another “successful graduate” of KUSD, who can’t spell or construct a simple sentence.
blaming tiktok is wild. Blame the real issues here, like trump, ice, the files, etc. get your head out of your ass
LMAO “it’s Trumps fault” 🤣 🤣
You must be one of the “stellar” graduates of KUSD if you believe that Trump, I.C.E. and the Epstein files are the real issues. Perhaps it is time to get a real education.
i didn’t go to school here, but i still have half a brain to know these kids are trying their best. They’re kids. they can’t protest like adults. This is a time to be together, not to split up. You people are horrible for what you guys are saying about children.
Not during school hours!
You’re right, we should be bashing the shitty teachers, bad parents and brainwashing social media for corrupting them.
Or maybe not letting people get vouchers for Private Schools so that our a public schools can get more of the funding? Because of the supposedly low birth rate they closed many schools and consolidated them in Kenosha where and where this is the income level is not very high.
Sadly unless you are living in a higher income level area the education system is not as supported with $$$$
I’d rather parents have a choice in NOT having to send their kids to indoctrination centers and government schools. Clearly, these places are not teaching their kids anything but communism.
I’m glad to see people are acknowledging that these are in fact teenagers. But why is nobody concerned with the bigger picture?
These teenagers are protesting during school hours.
If someone decides to peacefully protest, that is fine, they have that right.
KUSD should have done a better job handling this situation. Explaining to their students that while protesting is their right, however, school hours are NOT the time to protest.
Having a KUSD representative “watching” over the protest, looks alot like they are condoning this behavior. Unacceptable that this was not handled much more professionally.
Yes , and each and every one of their parents ought to be ashamed by encouraging this during school hours!
I will bet that they all lived through the riots in Kenosha where we had multiple buildings burned down right in that area by people from Illinois mainly coming here to cause discord in Kenosha.
Many took off work to protest then too!
They were marked truant, they organized this. The teachers were policing not supporting.
Not like it was a field trip
Leave them alone!
Also… they will be voting soon so you may see the same signs soon 🔜.
All hands on deck. All hours of the day. To stop the pedo felon and pedo felon protector supporters.
lol what?
You are sick
I wish I could be a fly on the wall the day they realize they were used.
Taking advantage of Free Speech while we still have it.
You are part of the problem
Funny how the gay and tranny flags show up where these losers gather. Depravity and stupidity go hand in hand.
Children BTW.
…your point being?
calling children slurs. Tranny is a slur.
Tranny is the label for one of the many mental illnesses tied to Democrats and school shootings. They should add a Jeffrey Dahmer flag- it’s fitting.
As of 2024 reports, Reuther had 5% of their students proficient in math, and 5% proficient in math. There were only 14 schools in the entire state rated worse than this school. There should be no Reuther beginning in fall 2026. In addition, students involved should be suspended and any staff found to help should be fired–obviously they can’t teach anyway.
Just a wonderful upbringing these kids must be getting from their parents. Is there no one around to set a better example? Every one of these kids should face truancy charges
Did you miss the fact that they were marked truant?
It always amazes me that we live in a time when brainwashed teenagers with zero experience in life can stand outside their school and hold up profanity-laced signs against our government with the faculty standing there. Where did all these ideas come from? Sad day.
not brainwashed, they can form their own opinions on how they see the world. they’re old enough to believe in what they think is right.
Maybe let them have a keg of beer to share since they’re so wise and thoughtful. What could go wrong?
I can’t wait to see their faces when they have to pay taxes. Some might actually wake up
Scoop these kids and their “parents” up, and deport em all. Who cares anymore?! Im ready for civil war already.
because they don’t want ice to hurt their friends and family? i’ve seen legal hispanics get deported. You can’t love America if you don’t love the peole who built it and live here
lol typical regurgitated rhetoric. You kids cannot think for yourself, it’s sad.
If it was MAGA Protesting, they would be suspended…
Pam Bondie Supporters were on there way but they said the Dow was good and they didn’t need to
Enough is enough!
De-fund KUSD.
Stop this insanity.
Fuck ice
I support ICE ❤️
——“….the Wisconsin Legislature has the power and constitutional duty under Article X of the Wisconsin Constitution to establish and maintain district schools, ensuring they meet specific educational standards.”
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/misc/lrb/blue_book/2023_2024/100_public_education_in_wisconsin.pdf#:~:text=State%20law%20sets%20out%20general,provide%20educational%20programs%20that%20will
Well… at least they spell correctly the words that means the most to them.
I DO think the teachers should expand the children’s vocabulary though…
Kenosha exposed once again clicking and sharing. OBSESSED
GOOD JOB 👏 ❤️
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Learned it from their parents who regularly use that language in these comments.
Some people are OK with federal agents searching your cars and homes without a warrant others are not ok with it.
We don’t care that you protest , just not during school hours!!!!!!
lol okay Karen, no one is searching your car 🤣
The hypocrisy is off the charts! Where was this outcry when Obama deported millions of illegal immigrants?? The Democrat cultists are misled to believe that innocent law abiding people are being removed from our country. Nothing could be further from the truth! The Trump administration is prioritizing the removal of harden criminals that have committed heinous acts to society. Shame on KUSD for allowing this performative indoctrination act during school hours, on the tax payer dime!
Kenosha shit show. Can one expect anything less of this place?
Uhhhh …. hey Butthead aren’t we all illegal on stolen land
Nope, we conquered it just like the Indians did from the Aztecs, and before them and before them. We just won 🇺🇸
Kids have had walkout for generations. Good for them for saying their feelings.
Why are there so many fat kids?
I see so many comments are from Anonymous. They don’t have the conviction to identify themselves. These kids are using their 1st Ammendment right, and they are right out in the open doing it. Good For Them! They’re out in the real world letting that world know how they feel. They’re scared and they’re angry. They have every right to say so. The KUSD supervisors are not on trial here.
It’s a protest, not a bible study. 🤦♀️