Teachers and Politics in a Pandemic

This chapter explores the profound challenges educators faced during the pandemic, scrutinizing how they became inadvertent casualties in the debate over school reopening. It dissects the disparities in educational outcomes between blue and red states, revealing that reopening policies did not necessarily yield better results and often had severe health implications. The discussion further highlights the impact of political affiliations on public health, particularly vaccine hesitancy, unraveling the misinformation that shaped public perceptions throughout the COVID-19 crisis.