| The discovery of a dossier on Scottsdale parents predictably turned into a national story.  Photograph by Arianna Grainey / Independent Newsmedia The story of one public-school mom, who discovered personal photos and records of her children, and of dozens of other parents and their children, in a shared Google Drive folder, is quintessentially modern. It all started with a screenshot e-mailed by a Scottsdale, Arizona, school-board president to another parent, which revealed the URL for the folder, which was later dubbed a “secret dossier.” The school-board president had been keeping tabs on the Facebook activities of the parents, among other surveillance. Soon, right-wing pundits and politicians seized on the story, hailing the parents as “VICTIMS of lunacy,” and targeted for opposing “C.R.T. and woke ideologies.” In a time when national political trends are increasingly reflected in local controversies, school boards are becoming battlegrounds for these polarized discussions. And, as Rachel Monroe writes, the right has found its poster child—“the protective mama, not rageful but righteous.” —Jessie Li, newsletter editor Read “How an Arizona School-Board Controversy Became the Perfect Political Issue.” | 
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