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Commentary: Teachers should be free to teach

South Shore Fine Arts Academy's current Pre-K room structure, with fewer students desks and reminders to keep 6 feet apart, Wednesday Jan. 6, 2021, in Chicago.

The pandemic-related chaos of the last two years exposed a decadeslong scandal in American education: Bureaucrats from the education establishment have failed those communities they claim to serve. When students were forced to remain home during the COVID-19 lockdowns and online instruction was streamed into their homes, many parents — who send their children to school to learn math, history, literature, science, art and more — were understandably aghast by what they heard and saw. They

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