After socialist groups helped organize and promote a walkout against ICE enforcement at Boswell High School, district officials say they did not approve or facilitate the event.

The socialist organization National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR) helped organize a walkout at Boswell High School in Saginaw on February 9, according to an Instagram post from NAARPR-Dallas and a report from Fight Back News. Members of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) also promoted the event on social media.

Online personalities claimed school leadership allowed these groups to train students for the walkout, and the allegations quickly went viral — including amplification by the account Libs of TikTok on X.

Now, Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD Communications Director Matthew LeBlanc told The Dallas Express the district was never involved.

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“It did not happen. There was no training on campus. There was no approval. There was no involvement,” LeBlanc said. “Boswell High School does not permit outside political organizations to conduct training of students on campus, and no such activity was authorized or facilitated by the school.”

LeBlanc said nobody acting on behalf of the school allowed these organizations to train students for an anti-ICE walkout or anything else.

“Both campus and district administration have never even heard of these organizations,” he said. “We take claims like this seriously, and it is important to correct misinformation quickly and directly. We remain focused on providing a safe, structured learning environment centered on students and academics.”

Boswell High School Principal Ryan Wilson sent a message to families explaining that students left school without permission and that buses were sent to bring them back.

The Dallas Express reached out to the X account where the claims apparently originated, but did not hear back in time for publication. 

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Fight Back News reported that the NAARPR and “student organizers” ran the walkout jointly. The outlet stated that NAARPR-Dallas provided “marshals,” protest signs, “chanters,” and a “Legalization for All” banner.

“NAARPR Dallas helped students at Boswell high organize their march and protest today in Saginaw,” the group posted on Instagram at the time. 

The Freedom Road Socialist Organization also promoted the event on Instagram in a joint post with NAARPR and Legalization for All. 

“It is amazing to see the next generation of freedom fighters take democracy into their own hands and protest against ICE and demand the end of the Trump agenda, as well as legalization for all,” said FRSO member Glen Reed.

The NAARPR was founded in 1973 in Chicago, to wage “organized action” against perceived oppressors, according to its website. It specifically grew out of the movement to free Angela Davis.

Davis was a Communist Party USA member who was charged with murder, conspiracy, and kidnapping in connection with a 1970 courtroom shootout that killed a judge, a militant, and two inmates, but was acquitted on all charges in 1972, according to The New York Times.

According to its website, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization describes itself as “a national organization of revolutionaries fighting for socialism in the United States.”

 “FRSO is recruiting and building towards the creation of a new Communist Party based on Marxism-Leninism,” the group’s website states. “This is necessary to lead the way to socialism and liberation.”

The group’s Dallas chapter released a statement February 9, calling on Texas labor groups to oppose Gov. Greg Abbott. 

Abbott has publicly warned school districts to enforce policies against walkouts, as previously reported by The Dallas Express. In early February, the State Board of Education requested an investigation into whether district or school officials are supporting activism.