Chris Hayes tweeted that he finds it “interesting how much ‘education’ and schools as a focus of right-wing grievance has been consistent even as the particular grievance keeps shifting,” meaning we switched from schools being closed to now talking about masking and critical race theory:
It's been interesting how much "education" and schools as a focus of right-wing grievance has been consistent even as the particular grievance keeps shifting. A year ago it was going to be all about how schools were still closed! Then they opened and it was both masks and crt.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 2, 2021
Um, who wants to tell him that they’re linked?
They're very closely linked. When I talked to @Jack4NJ about where these issues came from, he said remote learning: "Parents got up close and personal with the school curriculum and a great many do not like what they see now."https://t.co/lGMqCH0dB8
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) November 2, 2021
It’s not weird at all:
I don’t know why this would be weird. The schools have, on several dimensions, not been functioning as they were generally expected to circa 2019.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) November 2, 2021
And it’s not just “right-wing” people calling out what just happened to our education system no matter how much he wants it to be that way:
It's because parents, and not just "right-wing" ones, realized our public school system is a total, top to bottom, shitshow. And losing school for a year because Randi Weingarten said so is still kind of a big deal to parents, even today. https://t.co/ywazm0pCcI
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) November 2, 2021
Maybe this will help Chris out:
It's all part of one thing. Schools closed, needlessly, because teachers' unions aligned with corrupt CDC to make it so. Masking rules from same CDC make no sense. Kids were home so parents got a closer look at the insane curriculum. VOILA.
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) November 2, 2021
And if he needs an example, here’s the NYT’s Ross Douthat with one for the MSNBC host:
Just to cite a particularly high profile case study, the San Francisco school board pursued some noteworthy ideological projects while it was also failing to re-open schools:https://t.co/WRUFsSAMEw
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) November 2, 2021
More fire from Alexandra DeSanctis Marr:
Why is education in quotation marks, and what part of this is difficult for you to understand? Parents want their kids to be in school, not being forced to wear cloths on their faces for no good reason, and not being indoctrinated into Marxist identity politics. https://t.co/XSArkqsbfw
— Alexandra DeSanctis Marr (@xan_desanctis) November 2, 2021
Remember, Chris?
I remember when Chris Hayes was actually supportive of reopening schools cuz he knew that was best for kids.
Now he wants to reframe it as a "right-wing grievance" & lump all parents together as anti-CRT zealots.GTFOH with this reductive bullshit @chrislhayes https://t.co/yjfq7gv2r9
— Rebecca Bodenheimer (@rmbodenheimer) November 2, 2021
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