A usually reliable liberal writer  broke with the herd on Thursday and acknowledged the obvious: schools need to be reopened immediately. The failure to do so has cost our nation’s families countless problems and will continue to do so unless we have the will to stand up to Democrat teachers unions and Democrat elected officials.

Go Ad-Free, Get Exclusive Shows and Content, Go Premium Today - $1 Trial

FNC: “In an opinion article published online Thursday, a top liberal columnist for The New York Times blamed Democrats for the harm being inflicted on millions of the nation’s children by a year of school closures – describing it as a ‘tragedy we haven’t adequately confronted.’ Writer Nicholas Kristof also suggests that many Democrats may have been blinded by animus toward former President Trump when they enacted the coronavirus-related school shutdowns. ‘Many Democrats seemed to be more suspicious of in-person schooling last summer when President Donald Trump called for it,’ he writes, adding, ‘We shouldn’t let ourselves be driven by ideology rather than science.’ ”

“The blunt fact,” Kristof said, “is that it is Democrats – including those who run the West Coast, from California through Oregon to Washington State – who have presided over one of the worst blows to the education of disadvantaged Americans in history. The result: more dropouts, less literacy and numeracy, widening race gaps, and long-term harm to some of our most marginalized youth…The San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank this month estimated that educational disruptions during this pandemic may increase the number of high school dropouts over 10 years by 3.8 percent, while also reducing the number of college-educated workers in the labor force. This will shrink the incomes of Americans for 70 years, until the last of today’s students leave the work force, the bank said.” 70 years. That’s what the Democrats have cost the people of this nation. Kristof continues.

“What that doesn’t capture is the human toll. Rich kids going to private schools glide on through life mostly unaffected, while low-income children often don’t even have internet to attend Zoom classes. I’m writing this in rural Oregon, where some homes have neither internet nor cellphone service…We have to acknowledge that there is a large percentage of kids that have ‘disappeared’ — students who have never logged in…Yes, it’s hard to open schools during a pandemic. But private schools mostly managed to, and that’s true not only of rich boarding schools but also of strapped Catholic schools. As a nation, we fought to keep restaurants and malls open — but we didn’t make schools a similar priority, so needy children were left behind.” Of course the needy are whom Democrats claim to fight for. Another example of their inherent hypocrisy.