In the ongoing American tragedy of the dumbing down of students (education has been a low priority for decades) politicians, parents and school boards are fighting over science and safety at schools.
Nothing has been more contentious than taking precautions against the surging COVID-19 virus in school districts.
Governors are threatening school superintendents, and teachers, if they enforce mask mandates to protect students who are too young for the vaccine.
Republican politicians running for office are burnishing their crazy creds on resisting masking in the schools.
One GOP loon - Steve Lynch (some irony in the last name here) is running for a public office in Pennsylvania, and is threatening to use physical force against school officials upholding the CDC guidelines.
Parents who don't believe in science, vaccines, and the CDC, are showing up - and disrupting - school board meetings all over the country.
School board members lives are being threatened by these crazy conspiracy-driven parents that show up in meetings turning them into chaos.
School board meetings have always had controversies. That's nothing new. But now the meeting places have turned into battlegrounds of science versus fiction.
After surviving four years of the Trump administration's encouragement to conspiracy nuts, they're now as prolific as weeds in the garden of democracy.
The bottom line is students have become political footballs in the fight against the surging Delta variant.
American politicians have treated education like a poor relative for far too long. School agendas have been watered down. There's less emphasis on a well-rounded education. And teachers are poorly paid.
It looks like this vicious fighting between politicians, school board members, and parents is going to be around for a long time.
It's just not fair for the next generation to have to deal with a lasting legacy of conspiracy theorists and corrupt politicians.
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