Wake up local Boards of Education

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Anonymous wrote:You all have no idea what the actual issues in SF were. I knew this site was going to be full of terrible takes on this today.

What’s your take?

For one thing, they overshot their budget by $100M.

This isn’t about masks.

1. They eliminated neighborhood schools so that any kid could basically get assigned to any school, anywhere in the city at random.

2. They changed names of schools for bizarre reasons, making the city a national joke.

3. They changed entry for the vaunted Lincoln HS from merit-based to lottery.

And there’s more. Just totally out of touch and incompetent.

Also they removed one of the now-recalled commissioners as VP of the board for her racist tweets, then she turned around and sued the school district for $87M. And another of the now-recalled commissioners stood by her.

These are not issues which you can extrapolate all over the country, people.

School boundaries and lotteries for enrichment programs are very much a salient issue in Montgomery County.

There is an enormous difference between boundary reviews (which are never popular) and just eliminating boundaries

And what if changing “gifted” programs from merit based to lottery based?

Changing magnet/gifted from merit based to lottery was of the main issues. It was mostly targeting Asian Americans and therefore almost 95% of the population in the affected counties supported the recall. Data is easily available.

Please don't victimize the Asian American community. At some point, they are forced to fight back for their children's sake.

In San Francisco the recall had broad multi-racial support. It was not just a case of the Asian community being the only supporters. I do think that the anti Asian racism on display catalyzed the Asian community, but in the end the recall was very broadly supported.

It’s annoying that when recalled, Ms. Collins sued for racism. Racism…it was promptly thrown out, but she was such a vindictive tool. Her racist tweets and incompetence were enough to get her tossed out, but claiming racism is so cliche.

San Francisco does not have a large Black population, but they also voted in favor of the recall. I do not think these shenanigans by Collins were well-received by any constituents.

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Anonymous wrote:This is also an acknowledgement of the Anti-Asian racism that has come to dominate progressive Democrat politics. One of those ousted, Alison Collins called merit-based admissions racist (https://www.newsweek.com/school-called-racist-san-francisco-1566895). This is exactly what is being played out in the DMV area at the behest of the progressives and to the detriment of Asian-Americans.

The days of the Democrats taking Asian votes for granted are over.

The days of the Democrats taking any votes for granted when it comes to school board elections are over, especially in places like Fairfax where the corrupt, incompetent School Board spent months obsessing over admissions to a single high school while ignoring the needs of 97% of the kids.

Will be great to see many of them tossed out next year.

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Can't wait - hope it's a clean sweep.

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Anonymous wrote:You all have no idea what the actual issues in SF were. I knew this site was going to be full of terrible takes on this today.

What’s your take?

For one thing, they overshot their budget by $100M.

This isn’t about masks.

1. They eliminated neighborhood schools so that any kid could basically get assigned to any school, anywhere in the city at random.

2. They changed names of schools for bizarre reasons, making the city a national joke.

3. They changed entry for the vaunted Lincoln HS from merit-based to lottery.

And there’s more. Just totally out of touch and incompetent.

Also they removed one of the now-recalled commissioners as VP of the board for her racist tweets, then she turned around and sued the school district for $87M. And another of the now-recalled commissioners stood by her.

These are not issues which you can extrapolate all over the country, people.

School boundaries and lotteries for enrichment programs are very much a salient issue in Montgomery County.

There is an enormous difference between boundary reviews (which are never popular) and just eliminating boundaries

And what if changing “gifted” programs from merit based to lottery based?

Changing magnet/gifted from merit based to lottery was of the main issues. It was mostly targeting Asian Americans and therefore almost 95% of the population in the affected counties supported the recall. Data is easily available.

Please don't victimize the Asian American community. At some point, they are forced to fight back for their children's sake.

In San Francisco the recall had broad multi-racial support. It was not just a case of the Asian community being the only supporters. I do think that the anti Asian racism on display catalyzed the Asian community, but in the end the recall was very broadly supported.

DP. I think it would have broad multi-racial support here, too. The TJ lottery-based admissions system is discriminatory to the best and brightest - period. I'm white, none of my kids were qualified to go there, and I fully support a merit-based admissions system. What's the point unless all the kids are actually THE SMARTEST - regardless of their race?

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ PP here. That isn’t an exclusive list of my issues with the Democrats either. I’m just saying the Democrats have lost me. I can’t vote for insurrection supporting traitors either, though.

I am a Democrat who is not happy with my local school board either but I cannot in any way support the other side-book bans, pro-voucher/charters at the expense of public education, intense fear mongering. The constant posting by right wing folks on these forums has made it so I would definitely never support them. I am hoping that Democrats get a freaking clue and actually put out sensible/pro academics candidates going forward. And that people with common sense run for local School Boards. School board candidates should be non-partisan and not endorsed by any political party. It's crazy that it isn't the case.

DP. And yet, they are very much partisan. So what you're saying is that you'll vote blue, no matter who - making YOU a partisan. If SBs remain total clown cars of progressives, we'll have you and people like you to thank for it.

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Can we recall MCPS BOE? Tired of their BS, too.

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Anonymous wrote:You all have no idea what the actual issues in SF were. I knew this site was going to be full of terrible takes on this today.

What’s your take?

For one thing, they overshot their budget by $100M.

This isn’t about masks.

1. They eliminated neighborhood schools so that any kid could basically get assigned to any school, anywhere in the city at random.

2. They changed names of schools for bizarre reasons, making the city a national joke.

3. They changed entry for the vaunted Lincoln HS from merit-based to lottery.

And there’s more. Just totally out of touch and incompetent.

And all of that happened while the schools were closed.

Most of this can absolutely be extrapolated to FCPS.

- Changed the names of several schools at up to $1 million dollars cost PER school, because the names were too racist

-Got rid of merit-based, race blind entry for the nationally known TJ high school in order to decrease the amount of Asians being admitted

-Spent $24000 dollars for a 45 min. Zoom call by Ibram Kendi

-One of the last districts to return to in person schooling and during virtual they had decreased the number of school days by 25% for the year.

-Lowered the pass grade for standardized testing and still had record number of fails

-Had no real return to in person school plans, they were too busy with pet projects. They had to have their hand forced just to get kids back in school 2 days a week and the State legislature had to pass a new law to require in person learning for this school year or they would have happily sat on their hands about it.

All while schools were basically closed.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ PP here. That isn’t an exclusive list of my issues with the Democrats either. I’m just saying the Democrats have lost me. I can’t vote for insurrection supporting traitors either, though.

I am a Democrat who is not happy with my local school board either but I cannot in any way support the other side-book bans, pro-voucher/charters at the expense of public education, intense fear mongering. The constant posting by right wing folks on these forums has made it so I would definitely never support them. I am hoping that Democrats get a freaking clue and actually put out sensible/pro academics candidates going forward. And that people with common sense run for local School Boards. School board candidates should be non-partisan and not endorsed by any political party. It's crazy that it isn't the case.

My problem is that while I definitely can’t support the Republicans (at least in their current traitorous form), I find that I can’t really support the Democrats either. It makes me want to not vote at all which I have literally never done before. I have never not voted.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ PP here. That isn’t an exclusive list of my issues with the Democrats either. I’m just saying the Democrats have lost me. I can’t vote for insurrection supporting traitors either, though.

I am a Democrat who is not happy with my local school board either but I cannot in any way support the other side-book bans, pro-voucher/charters at the expense of public education, intense fear mongering. The constant posting by right wing folks on these forums has made it so I would definitely never support them. I am hoping that Democrats get a freaking clue and actually put out sensible/pro academics candidates going forward. And that people with common sense run for local School Boards. School board candidates should be non-partisan and not endorsed by any political party. It's crazy that it isn't the case.

My problem is that while I definitely can’t support the Republicans (at least in their current traitorous form), I find that I can’t really support the Democrats either. It makes me want to not vote at all which I have literally never done before. I have never not voted.

Take it election by election and see who is running and see if you like any enough to vote. You don't have to decide now. I didn't vote in the D primary where McAuliffe won - I decided to leave the Ds to their own devices on that one - even though I normally don't miss elections either. I feel fine with it.
As of right now - I feel like I am not voting for any incumbenants in the next election. That doesn't mean I am voting R. I'll see how I feel when the times come and who, if anyone, is saying anything compelling to me. I'm watching their records and annoyed at how they voted on optional masking right now.

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Anonymous wrote:You all have no idea what the actual issues in SF were. I knew this site was going to be full of terrible takes on this today.

so enlighten us then, why were the board members recalled?

This thread covers most of it.

Don't bother. These angry, bitter little people are allergic to facts.

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Anonymous wrote:You all have no idea what the actual issues in SF were. I knew this site was going to be full of terrible takes on this today.

Keep up the denial. You’re in for a rude awakening in November.

Nope. November isn’t going to go at all like you RWNJ’s think it will. When the votes are counted, you’ll be even further on the losing end than you are now.

That’s right! You shouldn’t even show up to vote it’ll be such a blue wave.

Oh, we'll be showing up. Sorry to disappoint you.

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Anonymous wrote:You all have no idea what the actual issues in SF were. I knew this site was going to be full of terrible takes on this today.

so enlighten us then, why were the board members recalled?

This thread covers most of it.

Don't bother. These angry, bitter little people are allergic to facts.

The fact that Tweet thread didn’t mention the overtly racist Tweets from Collins tells me all I need to know about the author.

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Anonymous wrote:You all have no idea what the actual issues in SF were. I knew this site was going to be full of terrible takes on this today.

so enlighten us then, why were the board members recalled?

This thread covers most of it.

Don't bother. These angry, bitter little people are allergic to facts.

The fact that Tweet thread didn’t mention the overtly racist Tweets from Collins tells me all I need to know about the author.

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Yep. Not to mention the person who posted it, and the PP. "Angry, bitter little people" who are "allergic to facts" sums them up nicely.

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Anonymous wrote:You all have no idea what the actual issues in SF were. I knew this site was going to be full of terrible takes on this today.

so enlighten us then, why were the board members recalled?

This thread covers most of it.

Don't bother. These angry, bitter little people are allergic to facts.

The fact that Tweet thread didn’t mention the overtly racist Tweets from Collins tells me all I need to know about the author.

It does mention the tweets, though?

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Anonymous wrote:You all have no idea what the actual issues in SF were. I knew this site was going to be full of terrible takes on this today.

so enlighten us then, why were the board members recalled?

This thread covers most of it.

Don't bother. These angry, bitter little people are allergic to facts.

The fact that Tweet thread didn’t mention the overtly racist Tweets from Collins tells me all I need to know about the author.

It does mention the tweets, though?

This is exactly what the thread says: “one faction dug up old tweets on a board member”

That makes it sound like one side maliciously combed through Collins’ Twitter history to find the embarrassing selfie she accidentally tweeted after she had a grand evening at 15 Romulo. So yes, in that respect it mentions the tweets. But it does not mention that the tweets were horrifically racist, using in particular a phrase to describe “Asians” (apparently all Asians are literally the same to her) that should not be repeated. Go search “Allison Collins tweets” if you want to read the whole vile thread, for which she refused to apologize. And so, it does NOT mention old racist tweets, which was what as pointed out above.

So I don’t know who that author of that thread is, but I know he is someone who is actively hiding a disgusting act by a school board member, so that tells me how much I should value his opinion.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually---a number of these issues have been present in DC---also currently controlled by the progressive extremists:

For one thing, they overshot their budget by $100M. (Duke Ellington renovation)

This isn’t about masks.

1. They eliminated neighborhood schools so that any kid could basically get assigned to any school, anywhere in the city at random. (DCPS tried a version of this approach in last boundary adjustment---only vocal and continuous community outrage defeated it)

2. They changed names of schools for bizarre reasons, making the city a national joke. (This is on-going. Some justified, some just performative---since DCPS CLEARLY has bigger problems to focus on)

3. They changed entry for the vaunted Lincoln HS from merit-based to lottery. (Recent changes to admissions requirements for magnet School Without Walls)

And there’s more. Just totally out of touch and incompetent.

Also they removed one of the now-recalled commissioners as VP of the board for her racist tweets (Trayon "Jews Control the Weather" White?), then she turned around and sued the school district for $87M. And another of the now-recalled commissioners stood by her.

These are not issues which you can extrapolate all over the country, people.

So you may not can extrapolate all over the country, but these types of policies ARE being pursued nationally by cities where the progressive left is in control. And people do not like it. I wish DC could get rid of its entire Clown Council, but the fact that city governance is controlled via the democratic primary means that the lunatic fringe---just like the right wing nut jobs in red states---can get far more control than they deserve.

These are all core conservatives/republican issues. Go watch Tucker/hannity.

+100. SF voters, a city notorious for its Trumpiness, just overwhelmingly voted to throw these people out who pushed these policies. Those dang right wingers