Miami-Dade County Public Schools may be the third-largest school district in the U.S., but it’s still a small world.
I was reminded of this when I met Julieta Rakover—in just a few minutes, she and I deduced that I’d gone to high school with her brother and she’d gone to high school with mine. A lot has changed since her brother and I were in the National Honor Society together, but one thing that hasn’t is that Florida’s education landscape remains complex and uneven. And Rakover, who became a teacher in the system (M-DCPS as it’s often called) she and I came from, was deeply dissatisfied with what she was seeing.
