Man, I feel your passion here and it's inspiring, it truly is, but you're underestimating, I think, just how far white people go to preserve their ordinary ways of doing things.

In my lily-white school system nestled in the finger lakes, we take great pride (unfortunately) in hiring as many of our former students as we possibly can to be teachers. This of course builds brand loyalty... But what it doesn't do is incentivize anyone to challenge the system whatsoever. We're subdued, our union operates in the shadows because they're afraid to rile up the people, and we're all (mostly) perfectly content to come in each day, work, and go home.

Frankly, the big issue of our day not only in my school but many others is student behavior. That registers much higher as a need to address than racial equity (with apologies to every school leader who has advocated for DEI in their school; it's not that we white teachers don't by and large see the need for it, it's just that it's really hard to fight passionately for racial justice when day in and day out you have kids in your class telling you to fuck off. Because you dared to ask them to open their book. I know, because I lived it this year.

The problem with what you want right now and what I want right now (a whole new approach to teaching critical thinking in this age of alternate facts and dumbed-down everything) is that the mental health of our students is shit but the system is doubling down on the same old, same old. If George Floyd's killing, the subsequent protests, and the pandemic itself couldn't get school leaders to rethink anything that they do, then what will? What will lead the grassroots movement you are hoping for?