Kerin discusses the May 8 hearing of the congressional GOP-led Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education. The Montgomery County Public School, along with Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) and New York City Public Schools, were "invited" under threat of subpoena to testify. This was just three weeks after the Columbia University president testified and sparked outrage leading to college protests across the globe. In addition, two of the school systems (MCPS and BUSD) are now under Department of Education Title VI investigations for "persistent" anti- Semitism that could result in a loss of federal funding. So when the three leaders of the public school systems walked into that hearing, they had already received the "chill effect" message that they should genuflect.