Despite what teachers union bosses such as Cecily Myart-Cruz claim, parents do, in fact, place a premium on their children learning their times tables instead of “the difference between a riot and a protest” and politically loaded uses of words such as “insurrection” and “coup.” We know this because nearly 2.6 million students transitioned to home schooling during the mass school closures spurred by the coronavirus pandemic. The overall number of households engaged in home schooling doubled in the last year and a half, such that 1 in 10 students nationwide is now home-schooled.

While some states, such as Florida, committed to keeping in-person schooling as normal as possible, more left-wing environs such as New York City oscillated between closures and reopenings by the day. In Los Angeles, Myart-Cruz didn’t just lock children out of classrooms for well over a year — she successfully capped Zoom school hours at just four per day at the beginning of the pandemic, even as teachers continued to receive a full day’s pay.