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.)