Hi, everyone. This is Katie Paris with red wine and blue. And I am filling in this week for Rachel and Jasmine and Amanda, because every mama needs like a week off every now and then to deal with back to school. And I mean, look, knowing these ladies, too, they're probably also finding

time to show up at a school board meeting, given all the craziness going on there. So speaking of

that, is anyone else out there just fed up like I am with all the media attention on so-called

enraged parents and their wrath at school board meetings? I mean,

I think you all know at Red, Wide and Blue, we are all about channeling women's anger in productive

ways. But this is just not that. After one of the most difficult years in teaching history,

teachers and school board members are being relentlessly attacked for doing everything they can, everything doctors and hospitals recommend to keep our schools safe.

But what I really want to see in the media is more coverage of all of the parents out there, frankly, like

Rachel and Jasmine and Amanda, who are engaged parents, those engaged teachers,

students and grandparents too, who are standing up for their kids and their friends,

they're standing up for science, and love of their neighbors.

Look, I'm not going to lie.

I dropped my six-year-old off at first grade this week.

It was his first day.

And it was hard.

I'm still struggling with it, not to be able to go into his classroom and help settle him in. This is his first time having a desk, you know,

and I wanted to be there to set him up with that, but parents are not allowed in, which I get,

and I think is the right call for safety reasons, but not even being able to see his teacher's

whole face and his teacher not being able to see my whole face and smile as we greeted

each other outside. All of this was really hard. But what would be harder is having him or one of

his classmates or his teacher get sick. What would be worse also would be having to do first grade

on Zoom. So we do these hard things and we don't

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