Over the past three years, local school board elections have become the place where America’s deep political divisions are on full display
The “crossroads of the Civil War,” as Virginia’s Spotsylvania County calls itself, is once again a cauldron of hostilities, this time minus the muskets. Within range of four devastating battles that laid waste to tens of thousands of lives, 21st century culture wars rage. The stakes hardly compare to such tragic losses, but feelings run fever high. Dirty tricks spill out; political struggles are taken to the extreme. The principal flashpoint: school board meetings. And not just here.
” ___ A CALMER PAST Things in Spotsylvania County weren't always this way. In 2017, when Tamara Quick started regularly attending school board meetings, she didn't always agree with the members, but they were always professional, she said. “There might be some elevated voices or some obvious disagreements like you’d have around the dinner table with your family at Thanksgiving,” said Quick, a 52-year-old mother and special education advocate in the county.
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