Back when schools were closed during COVID — the school closures lasted about a year and a half in New Jersey — I irritated people by saying that this was a bad idea. Because it was really destroying my kids, I went into mama bear mode. I complained everywhere — on Substack, on X, and on Facebook. I wrote letters to major newspapers. I got up at every school board meeting for that time and complained. I was a royal pain in the ass.
I wasn’t cancelled, because there was nothing to cancel me from. I didn’t have an important job at that time. I wasn’t a public figure. I was just a Substack writer who was easily ignored by both magazine editors and local leaders. Without anything to lose, I ranted to anybody who listened and made new friends.
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