If you really looked at the platform of many of the candidates in who ran for school boards and in this and the past election cycles, many of their reasons for running stem from a lack of satisfaction in how the pandemic was handled in our schools. They yell about learning loss and mental health issues that arose supposedly from masking and closing down school buildings as if those decisions were not made with the best possible information that science and medicine gave us at the time and before a vaccine was available that has worked remarkably well.

And what happened in the primaries for the State Superintendent’s race presents another candidate who has fueled a campaign on righteous anger to cover a complete lack of qualifications.

She is running on a refusal that the pandemic forced a group of leaders in an unprecedented time to make decisions when none of the choices were convenient.

She is not willing to address the mental health stressors that were already in society that were not caused by masks and closed buildings but were exacerbated by the pandemic.

She is screaming about indoctrination in our schools yet cannot point to one verified example in which there is institutional indoctrination except when using slippery slopes, all or nothing claims, and other logical fallacies.

She wants to talk about learning loss as if it was caused solely by our response to COVID. Yet that same person will not talk about what stipulations and mandates the state has put on our public schools that take away from actual instructional time.

And she has not offered one tangible solution within her cacophony of rhetoric that is plausible. She’s spent all of her time and energy pointing fingers and making unfounded claims.

She also has the least amount of knowledge (it appears) of how a school system actually works, who is responsible for what actions, and how schools operate. And she sure as hell has not talked about what she would do about a teacher shortage that is going to do nothing but get worse in the near future.

There is a candidate who possesses more experience with public schools who has not built his platforms on righteous and reactionary anger but on what he knows can be done and can be advocated for. He knows how schools work.

And he is not spending his time shouting at others, but looking for solutions to problems that we have never faced before.

That’s why I am voting for Mo Green in November.