new york post columnist karol markowicz joins me. is this necessary?reverting to failed pandemic policies? >> el with, i would say we don't know if it's necessary. the school haves not released how many people have covid and teachers and students, et cetera. look, we've talked to people in the past and schools completely, did we send kids home? we didn't. this is not all that different. i hate they have the eye on how this remote learning that they can fall back on at any time and the fact it's retrocochlear states is negotiating there and and we've gotten to a place where we should leave these policies behind and idea to close schools and go back to remote learning at any time. it's become a crutch and i think we have to get the schools completely off of it. stuart: i want to raise one point, the alabama school that closed, 15 teachers had covid. if they'd not closed the school, the parents would get the kids out anyway, wouldn't they? >> right. let parents do that. in if you need to close them, close them. don't pretend there's online learning and th