Institutions are made up of people. Institutions are also easy to blame. Just take a look down the road in Philadelphia where the Moms for Liberty Convention is meeting. There's a lot of institution-blaming going on down there. Bureaucrats at departments of education. Schools. Teacher unions. It's also easier to blame these institutions than the teachers. Even the political hopefuls who are obsequiously playing for this crowd know this. Maggie Hanna in the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that "Some of the education officials were careful to draw a distinction between union leaders and rank-and-file teachers." This blaming of institutions isn't entirely honest, because it allows individuals to blame individuals implicitly and indirectly. Is it really the unions, the schools? Or is the problem that "We've got a lot of bad teachers, and the problem is you can't get them out?" Those are our former president's words. At that same convention where so many falsely profess their concerns are about the institutions, not the people. Baloney.
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