These parents donāt want public education. They want taxpayer-funded babysitting.
Just one bit from the long essay, published on February 11, 2022:
Some of the very same parents who most zealously opposed lockdowns, school closings, and mask mandates, are pushing the hardest to vault their lonely children back into public life without wanting them to actually engage with public discourse at all. They want all the benefits of COVID lockdownāan intellectual monopoly over every idea to which their child is exposedābut with all the social and emotional benefits of public education. That isnāt actually public schooling. Itās cultural indoctrination, taxpayer-funded babysitting in which children learn only the ideas their parents endorse.
