Everything that's wrong with public education, in one paragraph.

School’s out forever? We can only hope.

The Portland (ME) Press Herald is concerned that home “learning pods” are creating a discrepancy between rich and poor. That’s a legitimate concern, and perhaps the teachers’ unions might want to reflect on why they think they shouldn’t be exposed to the same risks they demand of the grocery clerks they depend on. The answer is certainly not what they seem to be edging closer to, a ban on home schooling. We’ll see what happens in November.

But what will these home-schooled children be missing? This:

Cindy Soule, a fourth-grade teacher at Gerald E. Talbot Community School in Portland, said she was approached by families this summer who offered to pay her to teach their children in a pod. Soule turned down the offer.

“I take very seriously I am a white teacher working in a school that has 41 percent black students, 6 percent Latinx and a variety of other representation,” Soule said. “I am deeply concerned about our students who have traditionally been marginalized whether it be by classism, racism, ableism.”

It’s Portland taxpayers’ misfortune that they have to continue Ms. Soule’s salary while she exercises her wokeness, but if some of her former students can get a break from her political sensibilities for a term or two, that’s money well spent..

(Update): appropriate illustration