Education Is Under Attack: The Massacre of a Generation in Broad Daylight
- Dr. Wil Rodriguez
- Jun 4
- 3 min read
By Dr. Wil Rodríguez
June 4, 2025
“They’re not just dismantling a system… they’re dismantling a future.”
Introduction
There is no other way to say it:
Education in the United States is being executed.
Not by accident.
Not by incompetence.
By design.
What we are witnessing is not a collapse. It is a controlled demolition—of schools, of programs, of minds. This is not just about policies. It’s about power. And the deliberate stripping of a nation’s soul.
The Systemic Attack
Across the country, classrooms are no longer sanctuaries of growth.
They’ve become sites of fear, censorship, and abandonment.
The Department of Education has been gutted.
Over 50% of its employees were laid off without notice.
Staff who dedicated their lives to student support were dismissed in silence—sent home with no transition, no protection, no plan.
This has destabilized families, disrupted communities, and harmed local economies.
Funding for mental health programs was eliminated abruptly.
Not after contracts ended, but in the middle of active implementation—leaving students and professionals stranded.
This isn’t reform.
This is sabotage.
Teachers are being censored.
Posters that once read “All Are Welcome” are being taken down.
Books are vanishing from libraries.
History is being rewritten.
Programs for inclusion and equity are being labeled dangerous.
This is not education. This is erasure.
The Social Function of Education
Without education, there is no future.
Education as an institution fulfills a social, economic, and political function that maintains equilibrium in our communities.
When we speak of communities, we refer to all forms of organization—those that operate under the state or private sector, and those that emerge naturally in human life.
There are three foundations that sustain human life, relationships, and interactions: the family, the community, and the educational center—especially public education. These pillars balance coexistence and promote well-being in all areas. If any of them fails, everything destabilizes.
Public education helps organize the roles we all play. Children go to school. Families manage the home. Communities support one another. Humans are social beings, and education is one of our strongest anchors.
When we remove that anchor, everything falls into disarray. How can we evolve without education? How can we grow, lead, protect, or organize ourselves? How do we build organizations or learn to regulate ourselves in families and communities?
Education socializes us, stimulates the mind, and prepares us for life. Without it, what are we leaving future generations?
We are removing the very structure that holds society together.
A Future Without Education
What kind of nation dismantles its own future?
What kind of government destroys its educational infrastructure while claiming to protect its children?
A regime—not a democracy.
A regime that fears thinkers.
That replaces knowledge with obedience.
That trades empowerment for control.
Without education, there is no innovation.
No leadership.
No citizenship.
There is no nation.
We are not just losing access to schools.
We are losing generations of healers, creators, visionaries, and defenders of truth.
The Case of Marcelo Gómez
Marcelo Gómez is not the center of this crisis—he is a mirror of it.
A student.
A musician.
An athlete.
A child of immigrants, raised in the United States since age five.
He was taken from his school one day before graduation.
Not for committing a crime.
But because the system that should have protected him saw him as disposable.
His story is one of many.
And it reflects what’s being done to education itself—removed, erased, discarded.
Let This Be Our Resistance
This is not about one student. This is about all of us.
About every teacher silenced.
Every school defunded.
Every child abandoned by a system that was supposed to nurture them.
Education is not a luxury.
It is the foundation of democracy.
The shield against tyranny.
And the heartbeat of any free society.
If we let it die,
we are not just burying a system—
we are burying the future.
Let Marcelo’s story remind us:
When they silence a student, they silence a nation.
When they dismantle education, they dismantle everything.
And we will not be silent.
This is not education. It’s erasure.
A future without education is no future.
Call to Action
1. Speak out.
2. Share this story.
3. Defend public education.
4. Support dismissed workers.
5. Hold leadership accountable.
6. Refuse the silence.
7. Ask every official: Who do you serve?
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