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Editorial | Children are harmed most in right-wing culture crusades

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September 10, 2021
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College board conferences have more and more develop into the popular battleground of proper wingers trying to rant and rave about no matter misinformation they had been fed that morning. Apparently Fb simply isn’t slicing it anymore — they should expertise some real-life confrontation.

It’s not exhausting to seek out tales of those conferences devolving into fist fights, or faculty board members dealing with harrassment over points resembling masks mandates, transgender rights or critical race theory.

It’s protected to say that masking insurance policies have particularly struck a nerve with conservative dad and mom. And naturally, the folks peddling this anti-mask nonsense insist they’re doing all of it for the childrens’ sake. Truly, a extra correct description is likely to be that Republican Get together elites are those insisting on this, since nine states have banned faculty districts from setting masks necessities. Some districts, and rightfully so, have chosen to go ahead with mandates anyhow.

Anti-mask, anti-truth dad and mom’ ignorant second within the highlight is doing nothing to guard youngsters. This goes with out saying, however masks are proven to stop the unfold of COVID-19 with no shadow of a doubt.

However what must be reiterated, greater than something, is childrens’ victimhood in these tradition crusades. For a lot of of those dad and mom, the standard of their youngsters’s schooling and well being appears expendable subsequent to their want to placed on a public demonstration of lunacy.

Pennsylvania provides an instance of how right-wing backlash to masks has been harming youngsters. Kids under 12 are nonetheless unable to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine, that means that masks and social distancing are essential to creating faculty a protected setting for them. Up till Tuesday, the state lacked a state-wide Ok-12 masks mandate. Allegheny County reported 773 cases amongst youngsters below 12 final month, an enormous improve from 157 in July, earlier than the majority of faculty districts started lessons. And even when it’s uncommon, these circumstances can lead to hospitalization or worse — COVID-19 has killed 358 children within the U.S., as of July 29.

Past the uncooked knowledge on COVID-19, there’s a whole ingredient of disruption that unmasked college students can carry. Elevated transmission additionally means an elevated want for contact tracing, leading to extra college students being quarantined. It’s straightforward to see how being instantly yanked out of in-person faculty for 10-14 days will be detrimental to studying.

Sadly, masks mandates are not the first, nor the one ongoing spillover of cultural flashpoints into colleges. If historical past is any indicator — desegregation and the mere existence of intercourse ed had been each hotly debated in school board conferences at varied factors — it’s unlikely that they’ll be the final. Youngsters will endure, whether or not that be with the content material and high quality of their schooling, their capacity to attend faculty in individual or their well being. It’s finest if we deal with this reality, and starve the problematic dad and mom of the eye they so desperately crave.



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