A bombshell FBI report has laid bare the reality every parent should know, revealing that America’s public schools are far from safe.
Between 2020 and 2024, law enforcement agencies reported nearly 1.3 million criminal incidents on school property.
Those incidents included roughly 540,000 assaults and 45,000 sex offenses.
Disturbingly, these crimes were committed where children are supposed to be protected.
Even more alarming, the FBI admits those numbers are almost certainly an undercount.
In 2024, only about 9,000 of the nation’s roughly 18,000 law enforcement agencies submitted data for the report.
That means hundreds of thousands of additional crimes are likely missing from the official record, painting an even darker picture of safety in America’s schools.
Assaults make up the bulk of reported incidents, turning hallways into battlegrounds.
The sex offenses highlight an even more chilling reality that predators are targeting children inside the very institutions tasked with educating them.
Parents send their kids to school expecting education, not endangerment, yet the FBI’s own data shows exactly the opposite.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Education has responded by issuing guidance reminding states to provide school choice options for students stuck in “persistently dangerous” schools.
The move aims to give families the ability to transfer their children to safer learning environments, an option unions and entrenched bureaucrats have long fought to block.
Research consistently shows that private and charter schools are safer than traditional public schools.
A 2022 peer-reviewed analysis in Educational Review found that choice schools experience less violence, fewer disruptions, and stronger discipline.
The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program offers one of the clearest examples: students who won the lottery to attend private schools were 34% more likely to say they attended a “very safe” school compared to peers in public schools.
Despite this evidence, in states where teachers’ unions control the agenda, families remain trapped in unsafe public schools.
The crisis goes beyond violence, however.
The latest 2024 data revealed that not a single student was proficient in math in 80 Illinois public schools.
These failures are symptoms of a broken system where adult jobs are prioritized over child safety and success.
The abuse epidemic inside public schools is particularly disturbing.
A 2004 Department of Education study estimated that 1 in 10 students would suffer educator sexual misconduct before graduation.
A 2023 study found that 11.7% of recent graduates reported such abuse during their K-12 years.
Texas has taken bold action to hold public schools accountable.
This year, Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill sponsored by Rep. Mitch Little, eliminating governmental immunity for schools and employees in sex abuse cases, allowing victims to hold districts legally responsible for failing to protect children.
Author and podcaster Michael Malice has described public schools as “literal prisons for children and the only time many people will ever encounter physical violence in their lives.”
For millions of students, that grim analogy is reality.
The FBI’s findings are the latest damning evidence against the government-run school monopoly.
The teachers’ union cartel has trapped children in dangerous institutions for too long.
Parents know best, and they deserve the power to choose safer schools for their kids.
It’s time to break the public school monopoly, protect America’s children, and end the system that has left too many trapped in violence and abuse.
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