Good on you, San Francisco

[Anonymous]

And now the same thing is happening in other places nearby like Marin. They had a nice charter school that was really benefiting a lot of kids, and now democrats had to ruin that too in the name of ‘equity’. So they will actually just push all of those kids whose families can afford it into private.

Democrats need to learn that they’re not entitled to white kids from good families. They can’t just treat them like crap and expect them to stay around. They need to earn them. Which they should try to do, since research is very clear that those kids are the ones that make schools good and that benefits poorer kids at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Anyone else suspect this is the result of racism against these individuals?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else suspect this is the result of racism against these individuals?

It is the result of astonishing and unapologetic racism from one of the board members. In that sense racism did play a role.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else suspect this is the result of racism against these individuals?

You should do more research on Alison Collins.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else suspect this is the result of racism against these individuals?

Nope. Quite the opposite, in fact. Nice try.

[Anonymous]

Great piece by Peggy Noonan: “San Francisco Schools the Left”:

It was a land­slide. That’s the im­por­tant fact of San Fran­cis­co’s school-board re­call elec­tion: There was noth­ing mixed or am­biva­lent about the out­come. Three mem­bers were re­sound­ingly ejected from their jobs: 79% voted to oust Al­i­son Collins, 75% to fire Gabriela López, the board pres­i­dent, and 72% to re­move Faau­uga Moliga, the vice pres­i­dent.

This was a vote against pro­gres­sive ed­u­ca­tion of­fi­cials in the heart of lib­eral San Fran­cisco. It is a sig­nal mo­ment be­cause of its head-chop­ping de­fin­i­tive­ness, its clar­ity, its swift­ness and its unig­nor­able state­ment by par­ents on what they must have and won’t ac­cept. It was a bat­tle in the De­mo­c­ra­tic Par­ty’s civil war be­tween lib­er­als and the pro­gres­sive left. And it marks a con­tin­u­a­tion of the par­ents’ re­bel­lion that sur­faced in November in Vir­ginia’s up­set gu­ber­nato­r­ial elec­tion.

What was as­ton­ish­ing as you fol­lowed the story is what seemed the board mem­bers’ shock at parental push­back. They seemed so de­tached from the nor­mal hopes of nor­mal peo­ple. They seemed hon­estly un­aware of them. It was as if they were op­er­at­ing in some ab­stract uni­verse in which their de­ci­sions demon­strated their praise­wor­thy an­tiracist bona fides. But vot­ers came to see their ac­tions as a kind of woke pro­gres­sive van­dal­ism that clev­erly avoided their cen­tral re­spon­si­bil­ity: to open the schools.

What hap­pened shows again that there is a real par­ents move­ment go­ing on, and it is go­ing to make a dif­fer­ence in our pol­i­tics.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/san-francisco-school-board-teachers-elections-recall-vote-racist-woke-closures-remote-learning-crt-11645130926

[Anonymous]

The turnout was tiny. They were booted out by fewer votes than elected them! That’s why fringe groups love special elections that they gin up, basically they are the only ones voting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The turnout was tiny. They were booted out by fewer votes than elected them! That’s why fringe groups love special elections that they gin up, basically they are the only ones voting.

Oh, sure, that's it. Just like the turnout in the November midterms that will produce the same results will be "tiny" in your mind. Like Trudeau calling the truckers a "fringe element." You keep telling yourself that, love. Sure, everyone agrees with your radical progressive ideas. They just didn't make it to the polls that day.

[Anonymous]

We left CA in late 2020. CA public schools are among the most classist and racist I have ever seen (lived in VA and MD with kids as well). In the central coast county that I lived in for 8 years (population of approximately 450,000) we had 25 separate school districts. Most were separated by class and race. They are definitely a do as I say, but as I do state. It was disgusting to see. COVID made it worse so we left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The turnout was tiny. They were booted out by fewer votes than elected them! That’s why fringe groups love special elections that they gin up, basically they are the only ones voting.

Oh, sure, that's it. Just like the turnout in the November midterms that will produce the same results will be "tiny" in your mind. Like Trudeau calling the truckers a "fringe element." You keep telling yourself that, love. Sure, everyone agrees with your radical progressive ideas. They just didn't make it to the polls that day.

KQED Forum stated that.

And troll the truckers are a fringe element. Just because they have their hands on a vital service , they are still a crazy small minority.

[Anonymous]

People who say “good on you” are so absurd. “Good FOR you.” Just stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The turnout was tiny. They were booted out by fewer votes than elected them! That’s why fringe groups love special elections that they gin up, basically they are the only ones voting.

The turnout was tiny bc it was mostly parents who voted. I had a few civic minded childless friends texting me asking what to do. My kid doesn’t go to public school and neither do the other 3 kids on our block because none of them got into the highly desirable city wide lottery school literally 2 blocks away. For the previous poster who doesn’t know anyone at catholic school, all 3 of the kids are at SVDP or St. Brigid when they should all at Sherman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The turnout was tiny. They were booted out by fewer votes than elected them! That’s why fringe groups love special elections that they gin up, basically they are the only ones voting.

Oh, sure, that's it. Just like the turnout in the November midterms that will produce the same results will be "tiny" in your mind. Like Trudeau calling the truckers a "fringe element." You keep telling yourself that, love. Sure, everyone agrees with your radical progressive ideas. They just didn't make it to the polls that day.

“The truckers” are a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The turnout was tiny. They were booted out by fewer votes than elected them! That’s why fringe groups love special elections that they gin up, basically they are the only ones voting.

Oh, sure, that's it. Just like the turnout in the November midterms that will produce the same results will be "tiny" in your mind. Like Trudeau calling the truckers a "fringe element." You keep telling yourself that, love. Sure, everyone agrees with your radical progressive ideas. They just didn't make it to the polls that day.

+100
Is it a troll posting these bizarre takes? I almost hope so - otherwise the stupidity is painful to think about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And now the same thing is happening in other places nearby like Marin. They had a nice charter school that was really benefiting a lot of kids, and now democrats had to ruin that too in the name of ‘equity’. So they will actually just push all of those kids whose families can afford it into private.

Democrats need to learn that they’re not entitled to white kids from good families. They can’t just treat them like crap and expect them to stay around. They need to earn them. Which they should try to do, since research is very clear that those kids are the ones that make schools good and that benefits poorer kids at the same time.

What happened to that charter school? I was following the story and at that time it was just cries how inequitable it all is but no action. What steps have they taken to destroy the charter? (Which was completely open to the nearby URM families by the way)