Black Lives Matter, She Wrote. Then 'Everything Just Imploded.'
Erica L. Green The New York Times
Andrea Kane on her last day as superintendent of schools in Queen Anne's County, Md. (photo: Michael A. McCoy/NYT)
10 October 21
A Black superintendent’s email to parents after the killing of George Floyd engulfed a small, predominantly white Maryland community in a yearlong firestorm.
Dr. Kane, the superintendent, saw him in the faces of Black students in her district and heard him crying out for his mother when she spoke to her own sons. So she started her letter with a warning that it would bear not just “good news,” but “a bit of a reality check.”
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the high-performing district on the Eastern Shore of Maryland had closed out the year with much to be proud of. But like the rest of the country, Dr. Kane said, the community had another crisis to confront.
