There were partisan battles in a number of states like Texas and Florida over topics touching on race, sexuality and religion. Such debates “establish a kind of ideological weather pattern for the schools,” Traub writes, but he saw few examples of overt partisanship from instructors in the classroom, apart from a Minnesota science teacher with a Black Lives Matter poster and a Gay Pride banner on her classroom walls. As in most organizations, the people on the ground were just trying to get the job done while dodging directives raining down from above.