San Francisco school board recall prompts media reckoning over woke weariness: 'Progressivism gone wild' The landslide recall of three left-wing San Francisco school board members last week has media outlets across the country wondering about the wider political implications and how powerful a voting bloc angry parents could be in November. Progressives Alison Collins, Gabriella Lopez and Faauuga Moliga lost their seats, with more than 70% of votes in favor of removing them last week. Mayor London Breed, D., who supported the recall, is now tasked with replacing them, and the debate now rages over whether their firings were about prolonged school closings, failed "woke" efforts to rename schools named after figures like presidents on Mount Rushmore, close ties to unpopular teachers unions, banning merit-based admissions at a high-performing high school or their general ability to do their jobs. Parents Defending Education president and founder Nicole Neily said the results were well-earned, adding they "fiddled while Rome burned" and noting Lopez and Collins have cast blame on "White supremacists" and "billionaires" for their ouster. "What happened Tuesday was more a foreshock, a warning — as if Democrats needed any more of those — that November’s midterm elections could be very bad indeed, as parents unsettled by two years of pandemic-related upheaval vent their frustrations at the polls," Mark Z. Barabak wrote in the Los Angeles Times. Noting this was hardly in a red area of the country – San Francisco went for President Biden by more than 70 points in 2020 – he wrote, "the results are noteworthy precisely" because of their location. "Parents of all political stripes have emerged as one of the most potent forces in campaigns and elections today, and woe to anyone seen as standing in the way of their kids’ education," he wrote.
SF School Board Recall Shows a New Political Awakening of Asian Americans | Opinion The editor of the "Eyes on SF Board of Education" newsletter, Laurance Lee, pointed out that many fed-up parents had pulled their kids out of the city's public schools. Consequently, the enrollment has fallen so much that the school district now faces a $125 million budget deficit. Asian American parents are further distraught by the school board's decision to eliminate the merit-based admission process to Lowell High School, one of the city's top high schools. Bayard Fong, a long-time human rights activist, has two kids who graduated from Lowell. He and other Asian parents are worried that fewer qualified Asian students, especially those from poorer immigrant families, will be admitted without a merit-based admission. Board President Lopez nonetheless insisted that grades and test scores were structurally "biased toward Whites and Asians"—even though students of color make up 75 percent of Lowell's student body. ____________ Test scores "structurally biased" <cough>
How can grades and tests be "structurally biased towards Whites and Asians"? This could be a case of paranoia.