ICCSD Millions in Debt After Establishing Afterschool Program for Intellectual Freedom

Following a bill passed by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds last year mandating the establishment of an Afterschool Program for Intellectual Freedom, the Iowa City Community School District has found itself in over $15 million of debt due to costs associated with the program.

The program, overseen by a 40-person committee of primarily out-of-state teachers and Moms for Liberty operatives each paid as little as $250,000 per year, was created to instill a sense of national pride, civic duty, and diversity of thought in our state’s youth. Two core subjects are being taught this semester: Omnipotent Executive Theory and White Nativism for Kids.

Unfortunately, in a stunning show of anti-intellectual reticence, Iowa City parents have been slow to sign up their children.

Despite taking out a $5 million loan to pay for advertising on Instagram, the program’s page has garnered fewer than twenty followers at present, counting among them a number of fellow ICCSD organizational accounts and only a handful of individual people. Actual enrollment has proven even worse, with only a single identified attendee: five-year-old Yuli Alexei Fedorov, the son of an overseas oil magnate who was recently appointed to the program’s committee.

Due to these financial difficulties, ICCSD will be taking out an additional $3 million in loans this summer in order to pay for the program, which cannot shutter its doors unless permitted by state law. State legislators are reportedly looking at raising income taxes on the bottom 10% of earners in order to cover this deficit.

Until then, however, the Afterschool Program for Intellectual Freedom looks set to flounder without community support. If you want to encourage President-approved free thought among your fellow citizens, be sure to donate and enroll your child today!