{"id":173355,"date":"2021-02-08T02:19:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T23:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/open-our-schools-and-other-commentary-2\/"},"modified":"2021-02-08T02:19:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T23:19:14","slug":"open-our-schools-and-other-commentary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/open-our-schools-and-other-commentary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"#Open Our Schools and other commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22d1c9099ee\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22d1c9099ee\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/open-our-schools-and-other-commentary-2\/#From_the_right_Open_Our_Schools\" >From the right: Open Our Schools<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/open-our-schools-and-other-commentary-2\/#Iconoclast_The_Racist_War_on_the_Classics\" >Iconoclast: The Racist War on the Classics<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/open-our-schools-and-other-commentary-2\/#Futurist_Be_Optimistic_Republicans\" >Futurist: Be Optimistic, Republicans<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/open-our-schools-and-other-commentary-2\/#Conservative_Medias_Memory_Hole\" >Conservative: Media\u2019s Memory Hole<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/open-our-schools-and-other-commentary-2\/#Riots_beat_Mental_Toll_on_Minneapolis_Cops\" >Riots beat: Mental Toll on Minneapolis Cops<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Open Our Schools and other commentary<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/covid-school.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"From_the_right_Open_Our_Schools\"><\/span>From the right: Open Our Schools<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cMany liberals continually ignore the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> that shows students can safely return to school,\u201d notes Wisconsin ex-Gov. Scott Walker at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2021\/feb\/4\/its-time-to-open-americas-schools\/\">The Washington Times<\/a>. The CDC confirmed that \u201cvaccinations of teachers is not a prerequisite for safely reopening schools,\u201d and \u201cplenty of teachers . . . are eager to be in the classroom,\u201d yet \u201ctheir union is blocking the way.\u201d Soaring enrollment at Catholic and private schools proves that \u201cparents understand that their children perform better with in-person instruction.\u201d Instead of \u201cletting the big government union bosses or liberal school administrators decide what\u2019s best for individual families,\u201d we should \u201cput the power in the hands of parents to make the right choice for their daughters and sons. It is time to open our schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Iconoclast_The_Racist_War_on_the_Classics\"><\/span>Iconoclast: The Racist War on the Classics<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At his <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-the-classics-d60\">Weekly Dish blog<\/a>, Andrew Sullivan takes on the rising claims that the classics are inherently racist. He points to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s syllabus for a 1962 Morehouse College seminar, with Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine all the way up to John Stuart Mill. \u201cKing grasped . . . the core meaning of a liberal education, the faith that ideas can transcend space and time and culture and race.\u201d But now comes \u201ca broadening movement in the academy to abolish or dismantle the classics because of their iniquitous \u2018whiteness.\u2019\u200a\u201d The main claim: Since racist and imperialist societies drew on these ideas, \u201cthe classics are therefore fatally tainted.\u201d But: \u201cThat\u2019s like saying that science should no longer exist because some scientists once practiced eugenics.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Futurist_Be_Optimistic_Republicans\"><\/span>Futurist: Be Optimistic, Republicans<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>With the impeachment of ex-President Donald Trump and a focus on Republican infighting, \u201cthe propaganda <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> and the Democrats . . . want to keep the GOP crouched in a circular firing squad shooting at itself,\u201d warns former Speaker <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/republicans-should-cheerfully-optimistic-opinion-1566637\">Newt Gingrich at Newsweek<\/a>. Yet \u201cRepublicans have every reason to be optimistic,\u201d with a much stronger position in state governments and excellent \u201copportunities in 2022.\u201d And \u201cthe party will remain largely unified and focused on creating more jobs, lowering taxes, increasing take-home pay, defending America\u2019s interests around the world \u2014 and developing solutions in health, learning, space and other areas that matter to our future.\u201d In the end, \u201cthe Republican Party of entrepreneurship and hard work will defeat the Democratic Party of unemployment and redistribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conservative_Medias_Memory_Hole\"><\/span>Conservative: Media\u2019s Memory Hole<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>As Jane Austen wryly wrote, \u201ca good memory is unpardonable\u201d \u2014 and \u201ca bad memory is going to be absolutely crucial\u201d in the new administration, snarks <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/topic\/red-flag-kamala-harris-jane-austen\/\">Roger Kimball at Spectator USA<\/a>. Perhaps \u201cthe Big Tech wardens in charge of what we can see and hear and think\u201d will start \u201ccensoring items such as the clip\u201d from a Democratic debate where Kamala Harris \u201clit into her\u201d now-boss \u201con the issue of busing.\u201d As California attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, \u201cshe was not above concealing exculpatory evidence that might exonerate\u201d people on death row, but you won\u2019t see that \u201cin the Vogue cover stories of the new VP or in rapturous interviews with her on CNN.\u201d But the \u201cbiggest challenge\u201d will be keeping \u201cwhich acts of violence are OK, indeed commendable, separate from those which are not OK and must be regarded as totally reprehensible.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Riots_beat_Mental_Toll_on_Minneapolis_Cops\"><\/span>Riots beat: Mental Toll on Minneapolis Cops<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/m.startribune.com\/policing-and-mental-health-why-i-am-one-of-many-former-mpd-officers\/600019128\/\">Minneapolis Star Tribune<\/a>, retired cop Kim Voss recalls the firebombing of her Third Precinct office during the George Floyd riots: \u201cWhile our leadership held us back and we remained unsupported by our state, our city and our police administration, our neighborhoods burned. We felt helpless.\u201d The department has now seen \u201calmost one-third of its sworn personnel leave due to PTSD both diagnosed and undiagnosed.\u201d This is what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens \u201cwhen those in leadership disregard warning flags and stick their heads in the sand,\u201d leaving cops on the front lines to \u201cpay the price.\u201d It\u2019s tragic: \u201cIf someone, anyone, in leadership from the city or the Police Department had reached out to us and talked to us as if they really cared about us, you would not be seeing one-third of our department leaving. 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The CDC confirmed that \u201cvaccinations of teachers is not a prerequisite for safely reopening schools,\u201d and \u201cplenty of teachers &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/covid-school.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[92314,1545,43,70616,40445,92434,4937,59738,69286],"class_list":["post-173355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-7-21","tag-coronavirus","tag-editorial","tag-fast-takes","tag-media","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-racism","tag-riots","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}