Any leader trying to change a troubled organization will make waves, and Ben Shuldiner, who took the helm of Seattle Public Schools in February, is no exception. From the start, he warned families and district staff that some of his decisions would be unpopular. He also knew his blunt style — which might sound merely direct in other locales — would come across like a bull in a china shop here. Like last week, when he called out a group of white parents for shouting down a Black educator in a public meeting. “Maybe it wasn’t intentional, maybe it didn’t mean to come off that way,” he said a few days later. “But, man, did it feel wrong.” The occasion for this ugly display was the appointment of controversial principal Anitra Jones to head Adams Elementary in Ballard. But that was only the “presenting problem,” as therapists say. The real issue is a culture of administrative dysfunction and school board passivity that for years has undermined the education of students in Seattle.…