For everyone who still thinks the social justice movement is a benevolent force simply trying to right the wrongs of bigotry, look no further than what it just did to one of the highest-performing public schools in the country.
The San Francisco Board of Education voted Tuesday to eliminate the merit-based system for admission into Lowell High and replace it with a random lottery. The board determined that there were too many whites and Asians at the school and that diversity deserved more consideration than whether students were able to perform at a high level.
“This school is lacking in diversity,” said student board member Kathya Correa Almanza, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “You cannot determine or make a decision on who is highly motivated until you look into their everyday life. Diversity is not a bad thing.”
Whether diversity is “bad” or good is beside the point. With the board’s decision, children with families of more modest means but who nonetheless demonstrate high academic achievement are less likely to flourish if they’re forced into a school that doesn’t meet their needs.
A random lottery is even worse than the social justice ideal of race quotas. A lottery doesn’t even offer the chance to select which people might be the best out of a given race.
But this is what happens when diversity takes precedence over merit and ability. Race, gender, and sexual identity come first. Everything else is a distant second.
