Candidate Joe Biden promised to “follow the science” regarding COVID-19 and to open up schools nationwide. That was a rational promise because, for almost a year, the science has been clear that children were at lower risk both to catch and transmit the virus. For almost as long, we have been aware that children and adolescents were at extreme risk for other maladies caused by social isolation and mass expulsions from school.

President Biden, in his best imitation of the truth minister from 1984, has deemed that in-person school for one day a week, even if it is not a full day, means schools are “opened up.” Darn the science, full speed ahead on the lockdowns. And full speed ahead at kowtowing to the teachers unions that provided ample funding to candidate Biden.