The School Culture Wars: ‘You Have Brought Division to Us’ is an article in today’s NY Times that does what I think is a pretty good job describing some of the political challenges facing schools this year in the face of conservative attacks on teaching about systemic racism, implementing face mask mandates and reconsidering the use of school police.

Teaching in a community like Sacramento insulates us and our students from many of those issues.

What it doesn’t insulate us from, and one important point the article does not include, are how these challenges, and other ones that come as a result of the pandemic, can be exacerbated by the lack of skilled school district leadership.

I talk more in detail about this problem at COVID 19 HAS MADE TRANSPARENT THE LACK OF SKILLED LEADERSHIP IN MANY SCHOOL DISTRICTS and more flippantly at HERE’S MY “CHANGE MY MIND” MEME & INFO ON HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN.