Impeaching Trump Again Was Almost as Dumb as Closing Schools

They’ve actually been following the demands of the teacher unions, not the science that says opening schools would pose virtually no danger to the health of kids or teachers.

It’s the teachers that have fought the hardest to keep the schools closed. And Democrats will do whatever the teacher unions want, because that’s where so much of their political contributions and power comes from.

I’m lucky.

My two grandkids go to Catholic preschool and my daughter teaches at a Catholic grade school, where they’ve had a mix of Zoom classes and in-school learning for months.

But I feel really sorry for the Black and brown kids trapped in America's failing inner-city public schools.

Their schools may be terrible, but they’re the kids being hurt the most by keeping schools closed.

They’re the ones whose poor and working-class parents can’t provide them with laptops, tutors or private schooling.

Three fourths of Black and Latino students in this country were unable to read or do math at their grade level - and that was before schools were closed last year.

Now our poorest kids - and middle-class kids too - have lost an entire year of learning and still the Democrats are kowtowing to the teacher unions by dragging out the process of reopening schools.

It’s not hard for me to predict what will happen if our schools are not opened immediately for five days a week: even more of our most-at-risk kids will be leaving school not with a diploma, but with a Glock.

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