Sandy Banks: Why are we still freaking out about families with two mommies or daddies in LA?
LOS ANGLES — Los Angeles schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is no stranger to protest and dissent. He came to Los Angeles last year after leading Miami-Dade County school district, in the "don't say gay" state of Florida, where education has become ground zero in contentious culture wars.
But even Carvalho was surprised by the vitriol that surrounded Friday's raucous protest at a North Hollywood elementary school that was holding an assembly aligned with LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations. The heated protests required a phalanx of LAPD officers to break up skirmishes, calm down combatants and keep the peace as protesters and Pride supporters squared off.
"What's different with this is the rise in intensity, animosities and insults," he told me,
