at the foundation of some of the united states’ most heavily politicized social justice issues have been the fractures within an education system that hasn’t met the current moment. from history to civics, detrimental elements of american origins & democracy have often been put aside in an attempt to avoid politicization in the classroom—but, it took a pandemic & the largest racial justice movement in our nation’s history to illuminate the sheer fragility of this norm. yet, while educators were largely prepared, the systems at play weren’t ready to face this truth. for educators across the nation, the fissures in public education interrupted a moment of reckoning in this nation.