DETROIT — Elena Dinverno hoped to stay in her dream job as marketing director for Blake's Hard Cider until she retired, but she was abruptly fired seven days before Christmas in 2020.
Meredith McCutcheon never expected two police officers to confront her at her Rochester, Michigan, home five months earlier, ordering her daughter to remain inside while she was questioned about an email that she said she never sent.
Dinverno and McCutcheon are parents whose criticisms of the Rochester Community Schools prompted a stunning backlash from administrators that changed their outlook on the district and their lives.
