School Daze

At this moment the President of the United States is directly addressing school children across the country.
But not all of them.
Because, of course, many parents have determined that their little ones will not, damn it, be subjected to the propaganda of this evil socialist scourge. After all, as the dizzy home schoolers have learned, the best way to teach your children is to keep them out of school.
Now, it is tempting to just plainly say what's at work here: ironically, the parents making these types of decisions by definition are dealing from a gene pool which is so deprived that school won't really help their kids anyway.
But the larger issue should not be lost.
The people who have turned this innocent moment into a political battle have once again shown themselves to be political terrorists of the level that renders Al Qaeda a forgettable afterthought.
Shame on them.