From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains.

You should all be fired from your day jobs because if your employers knew that you were more inefficient than the DMV, you would be

replaced in a heartbeat. I literally just finished a conference call because I'm having to multitask

to be here to address you guys. You're a bunch of cowards hiding behind our children as an excuse

for keeping schools closed. You think you're some sort of martyrs because of the decisions you're

making when the statistics do not lie that the vast majority of the population is not at risk from

this virus. The garbage workers who pick up my freaking trash risk their lives every day more than

anyone in this school system.

Figure it out or get off the podium.

Because you know what?

There are people like me and a line of other people out there who will gladly take your seat and figure it out.

If you haven't already heard that clip

from a recent Loudoun County Virginia School Board meeting,

that's Brandon Michone. Mishone has a five and eight-year-old in Loudoun County public schools.

And as a fellow parent in his district, it's not hard at all for me to understand his outrage.

My eight-year-old was diagnosed with dyslexia right before school shut down

last March. Today's teaching strategies have helped students with dyslexia learn to read

fluently and actually thrive academically. But that's if they're going to school. After a year out of the classroom, an average day of virtual learning for my son includes crying, yelling,

heartbreaking expressions of self-doubt, depression, and hopelessness.

And from talking to teachers, nurses, and parents around my community,

I know we're not alone.

Doctors warned us that this would happen if school stayed closed.

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