We gotta start pushing back on the lazy stereotypes from media.

August 2020 I was back in the classroom with no vaccine, no cure, no testing, buying my own masks, teaching in person and online at the same time, and listening to a constant barrage of stories from the media about how teachers weren’t working and were failing kids. They were all writing from home.

One last way of saying what I've been trying to say: Dem pols can and should fight for school improvement without painting themselves as failures. They do it by talking about the issues parents care about most -- and moving forward with research-based policy that works. Look forward, not back.

What's a Democrat-run school? One in a blue state? A blue city? One run by a democratic school admin? Or maybe the teachers are all socialists?

Is it actually a good point?

Would you do it again?

Because if you just want to complain, I’m not interested, and I’ll just mute you. Like I said, screaming despair in a public place is actually toxic, self-fulfilling behavior.

But also?

I bet if you say “ok, I’ll do this one thing,” YOU’LL feel better, and less doomery.

Yeah the gag doesn't work when the hypocrisy (the cruelty) is the point.

At least be good at it if you're going to be a dick about it

Right wing propaganda is not debate.