country's illegible if we exceed to the ridiculous demands that are imposed upon schools and teachers by republican legislatures. >> all of that is so, so well said and so important. and what i'm also struck by and this -- you touch a little bit on this in your piece in the new yorker, the sort of narrowing that happens. it's so well to find ourselves 180 degrees where the notion of comfort or divisiveness are the operating principle, this is all cloaked in and not make people feel -- not making kits feel uncomfortable. and obviously, you have a third grader, you're gonna talk to them in certain ways. you know. you do want to stress him out too much, you know, about the horrors of slavery. but the idea that comfort is this sort of operating pedagogical principle now imposed by the right to courted off what can and cannot be no