Anglin: COVID educates voters on why school races matter
April 24, 2021
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San Antonio ISD workers hand out lunches last year, a time when schools were only offering remote learning. School boards have made some tough decisions during the pandemic, and that, no doubt, has some voters fired up.Billy Calzada /Billy Calzada
It used to be tough to get the crowd fired up for school board elections.
But that was before the COVID-19 year, when everybody with kids in school shared in the classroom fun, at least for a while. That exercise in infection control left a great deal of parents feeling indebted to — or infuriated with — those who have chosen to make their living teaching our children literary analysis or how to calculate compound interest. (Many of us also owe a huge debt of gratitude to the guy from Khan Academy.)