The returns have not yet been finalized, but the margins are wide enough to conclude that San Franciscans voted overwhelmingly to oust three of the seven members of the city’s Board of Education. When initial results were released at 9 p.m. PST on Tuesday, more than 70% of the city had voted against all three, including board President Gabriela Lopez.
Randi Weingarten and the teachers unions have gone out of their way to portray parents who dare challenge the benevolent educators governing blue cities as racist hicks. Well, here you go — San Francisco is apparently dominated by racist hicks.
San Francisco went 85% for both Joe Biden in 2020 and Hillary Clinton in 2016. But even they have their limits, as Mayor London Breed showed recently in complaining about where soft-on-crime wokeness has gotten her town. Breed also backed the recalls in November.
Allison Collins, one of the ousted board members, had smeared Asian American students as “house [N-words]” for failing to prove sufficiently woke. It must be a mere coincidence that Chinatown showed some of the highest levels of support for the recalls. Either that or that’s where all the white supremacists live.
But the real offense was the board’s intransigence about reopening schools. Breed, herself a sterling product of San Francisco’s once prestigious public schools, had begged the board to reopen the classrooms for the city’s public school students, nearly half of whom rely on free or reduced-price school meals and more than 3 in 4 of whom are nonwhite. For the wokies, that was simply an expression of “privilege” from Nice White Parents. The board instead focused on the real issues — renaming schools and ending the meritocratic admissions process of Lowell High School.
Five board members, including all three of those successfully recalled, voted in favor of lottery-based admissions for the school, citing “pervasive systemic racism.” (That’s because the majority of Lowell students are Asian, 18% are white, and 11% are Hispanic.)
Don’t worry, Democrats! The voters of San Francisco are probably just right-wing Trump supporters. There’s no way this recall bodes poorly for the hundreds of candidates facing a reckoning at the ballot box come November for siding with the system over students. Not at all.
