Aaron Spence slipped into the back of a classroom, hoping to go unnoticed. With his 6-foot-4 frame, that isn鈥檛 always simple. A teacher鈥檚 eyes quickly darted over to acknowledge his presence and then, without skipping a beat, continued on with a lesson about how to be a good leader.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 know anything about that,鈥 Spence quipped quietly to himself.
Spence has made similar quiet visits across the Loudoun County public school district since starting as its superintendent in September. He鈥檚 on a listening tour of the wealthy Northern Virginia school system just outside Washington 鈥 the third largest in the state 鈥 that has been thrust into multiple controversies in recent years over its handling of sexual assaults at two high schools and fiery fights over school masking, equity plans and pronouns. His predecessor was fired and criminally charged after a probe of the sex assaults.
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