For Too Many in Education, Charlie Kirk’s Assassin Is Exactly the Type of Person They Are Trying to Create
- September 24, 2025
Michael Chamberlain, The Spectator
Recently, the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) released its 2025 report, assessing that there was no educational progress. Called the Nation’s Report Card, NAEP measures math, reading, and science performance in fourth, eighth, and 12th grades. Scores on all three tests administered in 2024 were down from 2019 results.
“Students from the class of 2024 had historically low scores on a major national test administered just months before they graduated,” as one media report described the results. Education Secretary Linda McMahon lamented that the “NAEP results confirm a devastating trend: American students are testing at historic lows across all of K-12.”
The hundreds of billions of dollars showered on schools (and teachers’ unions) have been unable to reverse the losses from COVID closures.
We send our kids to schools for six-plus hours a day. They’re being taught something. If it’s not reading, writing, math, and science, then what is it?
The day after receiving NAEP’s bad news, we found out what at least some of them are learning.
In the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, the nation discovered that his killer is exactly the type of person many of those in charge of educating our kids are trying to create.
A significant portion of those exposed for celebrating Mr. Kirk’s cold-blooded murder are teachers, professors, school officials, and school board members. This phenomenon even captured the attention of the legacy media, though they predictably portrayed the offenders as most sympathetically.
To anyone paying attention, this is no surprise. Social media accounts have garnered massive followings mainly by highlighting outlandish pronouncements by teachers and other school officials publicly posted on the internet.
This is a time for those working in and around education to commit to some self-reflection.