One of the bigger political missed opportunities during the tumult of last summer was when leading Republicans spent months insisting we “reopen the schools.”

Reopen the schools? The same public schools that were dumping advanced classes in the name of diversity, sacrificing the integrity of girls’ sports in favor of controversial gender ideology, using classrooms as breeding grounds for critical race theory, and kowtowing to teachers unions that refused to follow the science showing in-person classes could be held safely? Those schools?

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