The Kids Won’t Be All Right

Besides showing how little some teachers actually care about their students, the debate over reopening schools has proved what hypocrites and fakes liberal Democrats are.

They tell us over and over they care deeply about the poor, the working class and Black and brown people – their party’s core votership.

Well, whose children do they think are going to be hurt by keeping the public schools closed?

Not people with money.

Not the elites in Manhattan, the six-figure swamp rats in Washington, or the virtue-signaling liberal creative community in Beverly Hills.

People with lots of money can send their kids to private schools. Or they can hire tutors or homeschool their kids. Plus, they have computers, white boards and whatever else they need to educate their kids at home.

Poor people and minorities who live in big cities have none of those advantages and if their city schools stay closed they’re the ones whose kids will end up with no education – and maybe no future.

Their kids will be the ones who drop out and end up in the deadly street gangs that terrorize their communities, murder thousands of young black men each year and kill innocent bystanders and children.

It’s hard for me to blame a Black or brown kid in Chicago or Baltimore for getting a gun, joining a gang and launching a career in crime.

Those city kids who are senselessly killing each other every weekend don’t know it, but they are victims of decades of the bad ideas and failed welfare programs of liberal Democrats.

They were born into a grim, segregated world of urban poverty, street crime, too few fathers and too much government dependency.

We know their public schools are often second-rate and do a lousy job of teaching them how to read and write and think.

But reopening them this fall might keep some kids from starting down a path that ends with him shot dead on the sidewalk at age 17.

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