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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]
so enlighten us then, why were the board members recalled?[/quote]
This thread covers most of it.
[twitter]https://twitter.com/jowens510/status/1493818733076250630?s=21[/twitter][/quote]

I’m in the SF Bay Area now and grew up there and I could not disagree more with that twitter thread. First, school closures were a big driver of the recall: the school closures happened when SF had one of the lowest Covid rates in the country. My parent friends in SF were all livid, as were most other people I know, even those without kids. It was frankly absurd. Second, that twitter thread deliberately downplays the “old tweets” that were brought forward. The author is hiding the fact that the tweets by Collins (recalled board member) were overtly racist against Asians. And she refused to apologize for them. Then she brought a $87m frivolous lawsuit, all while overrunning the school budget by $100m. Then, the school board decided to change admissions for Lowell which has a very long history of being a vehicle for excellent education, especially for poor Asian immigrants. Meanwhile the school board that could not get kids in school spent a fortune renaming Abraham Lincoln HS.

Some of this is indeed specific to SF.  But some of it is not. School closures, anti-Asian racism, changes in admissions policies, etc. are all more generalized.

Nobody here is freaking out about masks, though. In general people think that is stupid. [/quote]
Thank you for this succinct summary which I think explains it in detail. It’s important to recognize that they were incompetent, but also that they were ideologically motivated in ways that ran counter current to what the median SF resident wanted. [/quote]

You are welcome.

If I lived in the city I would have voted for it for sure. The anti-Asian racism alone would have done it for me.[/quote]

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