All across America, parents are shocked to find their teenagers screaming and sleeping in tents on college quads. Although some are peaceful protestors vocalizing their First Amendment rights, others are going to radical measures to protest Israel — smashing windows, breaking trespassing laws and some even openly supporting Hamas.

Parents wonder how their kids ended up here, with many presuming college professors radicalized their children. This is the case in some circumstances — colleges such as Tulane University have offered classes on activism with course titles like “Protest, White Supremacy, Social Justice, and EDI Activism.” But the truth is the damage often starts much earlier.

As the 1776 Project PAC’s head of Coalitions and Candidate Recruitment, I have witnessed the radicalization firsthand. Our PAC is the leading group endorsing conservative candidates for school boards. (RELATED: ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Here’s How Woke DEI Initiatives Fuel Antisemitism On College Campuses)

We are working to restore sense to American education. A big part of our work involves researching the roots of the problems.

Over and over again we have recognized one major cause: the teachers’ colleges that train teachers, radicalize them and then ship them to K-to-12 public schools across America, where they begin radicalizing students at a young age — radicalization that has inspired much of the campus protests around America.

Teachers lack Ph.Ds, but they study at teachers’ colleges where woke ideas flourish. Schools require teachers........

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