| 1. Biden Has Abandoned His Call For Unity In Favor Of Ramming Through A Far-Left Agenda |
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By FreedomWorks Executive Vice President Parissa Sedghi Fornwalt via The Daily Caller Since announcing his candidacy for president in April of 2019, Joe Biden has insisted that unifying the nation was his primary objective. After four years of President Trump fomenting hatred and division, Biden alleged, it was necessary that the nation elect him so he could “restore the soul of America” and calm tensions between political foes. Despite this feel-good rhetoric from the president, Americans are beginning to recognize the truth. While Joe Biden has talked about the need for “unity” and “healing,” Biden’s administration has done precisely the opposite of what is needed to bring together the country. A prime example of President Biden’s actions failing to align with his rhetoric is his signing of dozens of destructive executive actions in his first week in office, unprecedented in modern American history. |
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| 2. The Teachers Unions Overplay Their Hand |
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By Jenny Beth Martin via Townhall Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, famously, and cynically, said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” As has become increasingly clear, teachers unions across the nation have used that advice as their playbook during the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploiting a crisis, as the teachers unions have done for the past 11 months, carries significant risks, however, and the unions will likely soon understand that their strategy of stalling the reopening of schools has backfired. Exhausted parents and exasperated public officials – even some of the most far-left progressive advocates of teachers unions – are increasingly expressing their dismay at the unions’ unwillingness to allow children back into classrooms. The unions have presented a two-pronged argument for keeping the classrooms closed. First, contrary to the evidence, they argue that virtual education is an adequate replacement for in-person instruction. The majority of students in America’s largest cities have been out of the classroom for almost an entire year, and we now have sufficient data and studies that refute the unions’ arguments. The nonprofit research organization the Rand Corporation, for example, recently produced a study detailing the many ways virtual education has failed to meet students’ academic and emotional needs. |
| 3. Rand Paul: ‘Immeasurable Damage’ Done to Kids with Pandemic School Shutdown Policy |
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Via Breitbart Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) warned of the consequences of keeping schools closed for prolonged periods around the country, saying such policies lacked “scientific evidence” of being effective. The Kentucky Republican pointed to studies abroad that back up a claim COVID-19 does not spread among school children. “You know, I think, immeasurable damage. I’ve been saying to Dr. Fauci and the so-called government experts since May of last year that none of the studies indicate that the kids are good spreaders of this disease, the kids don’t get very sick, really, they don’t tend to transmit the disease either. We have studies now in a dozen different European countries. We have studies of private schools across the United States that haven’t missed a beat and have been in session without any major surge, without significant amount of teachers getting sick. There’s really no scientific evidence towards keeping it closed, but the unions are now saying, oh, well, we need to pass the Green New Deal, and we need to have gender equity or something, you know, that has nothing to do with teaching the kids, and I’m wondering when is the union going to care about actually teaching our kids?” |
| 4. Study Finds School Choice Improves Students’ Happiness |
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Via The Federalist As millions of children across the country continue to suffer from school closures and disruptions related to the coronavirus pandemic, a new study shows one simple way to improve students’ mental health: Expand school choice. While the data used in the study precede the pandemic, its conclusions should help shape post-COVID education. At a time countless students face academic and emotional obstacles that could permanently stunt their learning growth, school choice provides one obvious solution to help mitigate a “lost generation” of American youth. The study, released in December and conducted by a Cato Institute scholar and Western Carolina University economist, used two different methods to examine the impact of school choice on mental health. First, the researchers used examined variations in teenage (i.e., 15-19) suicide rates based on states’ different charter school laws. Charter schools—which receive taxpayer funding but whose charters free them from many of the bureaucratic obstacles of traditional public schools—represent a common form of school choice, with 3.3 million students enrolled at 7,500 schools in 44 different states. |
| 5. Governor Ron DeSantis: While Other States Are Locking People Down, We Are Lifting Them Up |
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Via The Daily Wire Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said during a Fox News interview on Sunday that while other states have been focused on locking people down that he has been focusing on lifting people up and that people do not believe the media’s demonization of the way that he has handled the coronavirus pandemic because “people vote with their feet, and they are flooding into this state.” “Well, you look around the country, and they still are debating whether schools should be open. We’ve had schools open the whole year, they talk about whether businesses should be open, every business in Florida has a right to operate,” DeSantis said. “They talk about all these people unemployed in Florida, every single person has a right to earn a living. And our unemployment rate is lower than the national average. Even though we’re so tourism-dependent, that market hasn’t recovered at all. Our COVID though, we have less COVID mortality per capita than the national average 25 states or higher. So the lockdowns don’t work on their own, but they cause catastrophic damage to society. So we’ve been able to do as other states have tried to lock people down, we’ve tried to lift people up.” |
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