Mask mandates are back for @SDSchools students.

For students who feel uncomfortable wearing a mask, SDUSD President Sharon Whitehurst-Payne suggests not returning to school at all.

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— KUSI News (@KUSINews) July 19, 2022

Every time American citizens try to advance a discussion about school choice, the union shills and administrative tyrants start wailing that it’s nothing but a shallow attempt to defund public schools. They will never answer the question of why exactly offering choice would drain public schools, but we know, of course. If you let the money follow the student, parents will exit public schools in droves. Most can’t compete with the flexibility and variety of private options. Not because public education doesn’t have enough cash flow, but because they don’t have enough respect for students and parents to compete for their attendance. They feel entitled. Ask any parent…and I do mean any parent…regardless of political ideology, where they would send their child if they had 12 to 15,000 dollars in their pocket and they all already have an idea, and it’s never their public school.

And yet, here we have the President of one of the largest school districts in California telling parents their children are not needed or welcomed in public school. She is sworn to serve the public, and here she is telling the public their concerns and discomfort are of no concern to her.

This is how they feel about us. This is how the progressive left – a wing that has fully engulfed our public school system – views you, the citizen whom is legally entitled to public school services…as nothing more than mules carrying sacks of cash on your back. Get in line or get the whip.

I have no more patience for the notion that we are supposed to see this as simply a disagreement of policy. This is a moral dilemma and it requires a moral people to solve it. It requires people who can recognize that our children are no longer a priority to most of the public school administrators who supposedly serve them, if they ever were. It requires people who will not just shuffle away from such an obtuse statement with their heads down, feeling they have no recourse. It requires a movement of determined, focused citizens who will not accept this nonsense as the status quo anymore.

Thankfully, that movement is here. The Loudoun County parents set the gold standard, and this November looks to be a sea-change in local governance. Shifting congressional power is often disappointingly ineffective in shifting the direction of the nation, but shifting the school boards of thousands of districts across the country – that could have monumental effects for decades to come.

So maybe we should thank people like Whitehurst-Payne. They’ve been a clarion call and a clarifying presence. More people than ever are disillusioned by their double-speak and outright carelessness. Every time someone like this opens her mouth, more parents are fired up to get in the game and make the changes needed.

The public school/union cabal is the Titanic…too big to maneuver quickly, and sinking fast. And it’s all their own fault.