In a humiliating twist of irony, the Democratic National Convention invited a speaker who criticized the decision to close schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, who apparently didn’t’ realize that Democrats and leftist Teachers Unions were behind 100% of those closing decisions.
“Too many kids were forced to go online class in McDonald’s parking lots,” he told the DNC.
The decision to reopen schools for in-person learning ultimately resided with individual school districts, and Democrat areas overwhelmingly resisted in-person education, largely in part due to the pressure from teaching unions, as revealed by Corey A. DeAngelis, author of “The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools.”
He pointed to the Chicago Teachers Union, who went as far as to accuse those wanting open schools as having views rooted in “sexism, racism, and misogyny.”
Academic studies also found a correlation between political affiliation and the likelihood of a school remaining closed. In one, published in June 2021 by Cambridge University Press, its authors found “that mass partisanship and vested interests best explain the degree to which schools reopened. Republican districts were far more likely to reopen in person, while Democrat districts with stronger unions relied more on remote learning.”
Likewise, another study found that “decisions were more tied to local political partisanship and union strength than to COVID-19 severity”, adding that “Republicans in the public were also more favorable than Democrats toward in-person learning.”
Finally, DeAngelis noted that Democrats previously ran an attack ad against then-President Donald Trump for his calls to reopen schools during the pandemic.
