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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Friday January 21st 2022. I'm John

Ponderworth the editor of commentary with me as always executive editor Abe Greenwald Hyade. Hi John

senior writer Christine Rosenhykrstein. Hi John and

Associate editor Noah Rothman Hynowa. Hi John.

We could do this all day every day all week every week but the kind of emotional meltdown over American

schooling on the part of

Democrats and school professionals continues a pace.

We have some very interesting things going on as we've noted the newly installed governor of Virginia

a Glen Youngkin lifted mask mandates at the state level on his first day in office but the

Falls Church public school system that's that's a suburb of DC part of Arlington County I believe

Ilya Shapiro a conservative lawyer tweeted out that the superintendent Peter Nune just said in a

board meeting the kids showing up unmasked on Monday will be sent home so there so Falls Church has

decided that that the state level mandate that that was in place and there's now enlisted will not apply

to its schools there's no rep I mean I guess he's a he's the superintendent which means he's not

actually an elected official he isn't a pointy of he's an employee making policy that is opposed to

the to the states policy which is that people are permitted to wear masks if they if they choose

her if they're you know parents want them to but otherwise not so that's one very interesting

thing this is also the place that close will preemptively because of a terrible as much of

very explicit in the north he said you with the threat of a snowstorm that ended up being a rain so

that was that was good Christine that happened in DC with school shut for a day. We had a two-hour

delay for the race. Oh two hour delay for just two hours of delay for no reason yes. Okay so I'm

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