SF School Board study: “Equitable” admissions synonymous with anti-Asian discrimination

In 2020, SF’s school board established a lottery system for Lowell, one of our state’s highest-performing high schools. Due to claimed “racial isolation,” social justice advocates advised continuing the system through 2022-2023, but the Board unexpectedly shot the proposal down 4-3 in June. Former Lake Elsinore mayor Thomas Buckley breaks down the start of Lowell’s shift to lottery, rooted in explicitly anti-Asian interracial “equity” propaganda.

City voters voted overwhelmingly – by margins of between 3 and 4 to 1 – to remove three of the seven members of San Francisco’s school board. Some observers believe that the other four could also have been recalled if they had served enough of their terms to make it legally permissible to do so.

The heart of the parental revolt could be said to be one of priorities. San Franciscans were appalled that the board spent months and millions on a farcical school name changing plan (even at one point considering taking Abraham Lincoln’s name off of a high school because he was not a committed anti-racist, especially when it came to indigenous peoples issues) while barely addressing the issue of re-opening the schools during the pandemic.

Additionally, an attempt to shift the city’s premier selective public high school, Lowell, to a lottery system in large part to create “equity” by vastly reducing the percentage of Asian-American attendees caused a furor across racial boundaries and, indirectly, led to the public release of a text message of now-ousted Board member Alison Collins that said Asian-American’s use “white supremacist thinking” to their societal advantage.

All of this against a backdrop of increasingly frustrated parents wondering when their kids, like the children in the vast majority of local private schools, could go back to class.

This article originally appeared in the California Globe. Read the whole thing here.

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