On a surface level, it makes sense that they want public schools to be reopened, but really, it just shows how hypocritical some of these conservatives are, like Ben Shapiro ("shocking," I know). For years conservatives have been lamenting the public schools as a source of leftist indoctrination (which I agree with), so shouldn't conservatives be more vocal about the value of home schooling? Or would having students be home-schooled (which generally a parent wants to be there for) shine a greater light on a problem conservative politicians and pundits want to ignore?
Home-schooling should definitely be more utilized compared to public schools, so I don't understand why conservatives in general aren't looking a gift horse in the mouth?
I thought of something else reading this too, something I've noticed around here (Texas) is that skilled labor is dominated by 2nd generation Hispanics. At least I presume they are 2nd generation, as we're talking about people who English is their primary language, grew up here, and of the type I presume are legal.
Apparently the Hispanic families realized the value of learning marketable skills that others forgot. You get to a point where the white families pushed everyone to college to be whatever they dream of and the ones that dreamed of something actually employable did okay and the rest are stuck forever in these low paying service jobs. They might have actually liked being a mechanic or an electrician or whatever, but it was never really presented as an honorable option.
I've seen this here in the Midwest, too.
To be blunt, the whole "I'm working a menial minimum wage job because I'm focused on my true passion, which is blah blah blah" thing is pure cope. You can be an aspiring writer and a plumber. People are just lazy.
Maybe your upbringing was different, but mine (in public schools) was "college college college college college college" until I finally dropped out of high school in the first days of 12th grade.
My grades had been cratering from 2nd grade on.
My parents were very surprised.
Aside from one conversation about what I was going to do outside of school, that was the end of my parental education talk. That convo consisted of me saying, well, I can do car mechanics, so maybe I will take some classes, and my dad (who worked at a truck transmission manufacturer) said, "but those guys are all gearheads," which I took as advice, and didn't go into it.
My parents were and are the biggest normies in the world, who believed everything they were told. They had a (round) kid, and a square hole marked "Education," and they kept hammering me into it until the mold broke. By the time the hammering ended, I was completely allergic to any kind of formal education.
They were useless.
The thing is, the schools knew I was failing, but a government school has one fatal flaw. If I finished earlier than the other kids, they told me to sit down and shut up and do nothing. Well, guess what lesson I learned?
But doing nothing is an acceptable outcome for a government school, so long as you stay in the building. That is a purely materialist viewpoint, and it is very common to government. ("Did you fix poverty?" "Well, I spent the trillion dollars you have me, so I must have." Hey, it's something you can count, isn't it?)
My parents had few options for private schools. A more thriving private education sector might have given them more options earlier. They sure had no clue, and I don't think they could have home schooled me for a minute.