Overnight News: With public education at its most poisonous worst, here’s to the children lucky enough to break free.

As with municipal water supplies, government schooling is a terrible idea. Even if it were good – and I’m old enough to remember when it was better, at least – intellectual diversity actually is our strength, especially when the government schools are serving up poison.

So while the past year has been great for dogs and awful for kids, there is a silver lining for about 20% of kids – those lucky enough to be homeschooled or privately educated. This will end up creating an aristocracy of literacy – precisely what the public schools were intended to prevent – but at least your doctor and your pharmacist will both know how to read.

In other news:

Housing Wire: Mortgage rates jump to 3.17% last week.

Brad Polumbo: 250 Top Business Leaders Just Warned Cuomo: NY’s Tax Hike Proposals Will Have One Huge Consequence.

American Thinker: The Government Is Considering a Financial Weapon of Mass Destruction.

Joanne Jacobs: 11.1% of families are homeschooling.

The Federalist: Once Held Hostage By Teachers’ Unions, West Virginia Just Passed The Nation’s Broadest School Choice Law.

Swiss Policy Research: Why the flu has ‘disappeared’.

American Thinker: COVID-19 could lead to telemedicine expansion.

City Journal: Don’t Let Financial Regulators Dream Up Climate Solutions.