Indoctrination: How RI Schools Became Tools of the Radical Left #InTheDugout – April 22, 2025

Are Rhode Island schools still educating—or have they become indoctrination centers for radical ideology?

Today on #InTheDugout, Sten welcomes Maria Friedman and Ken Schneider of the Rhode Island Coalition for Israel (RICI) to expose what many Ocean State families already fear: the government is using our public schools to politicize, sexualize, and radicalize our children—and it’s all being funded by our own tax dollars.

From DEI and CRT to transgender ideology and anti-parent censorship, the RI Department of Education has weaponized our school system to push a divisive, far-left agenda. Test scores are plummeting. Religious and moral values are under siege.

And parents? They’re being cut out of the process entirely. It’s not just about ethnic studies or anti-Zionism—this is about the full-scale Marxification of education in the Ocean State.

With failing districts like Providence and Central Falls as case studies, we highlight how RIDE’s radical vision is not only academically disastrous but culturally corrosive.

Parents are waking up. Some are fleeing the system. Others are fighting back.