As had been the case all summer, Alexandria City Public Schools Superintendent Gregory C. Hutchings Jr. was on a Zoom call. The Zoom chatter gave her headaches, and Hutchings was on calls from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. most days. Hutchings’s inbox was a boiling flood of angry messages from parents: What’s going on? “What’s going on?” his wife asked. “We have to pretend things are running smoothly, and we’re excited about what’s going on in the world, even when we’re not.”He smiled, signed off and pulled on the mask.

Source: Washington Post September 20, 2020 21:06 UTC