Is San Francisco waking up from its dystopian nightmare?
The egalitarians who have pushed the great city into absurdity have suffered another setback.
The earlier victory for sanity was won in a landslide election this February when parents recalled three members of the local school board for doing things like renaming 44 schools to conform to a left-wing agenda, keeping San Francisco schools closed because of outsized fears of the pandemic, and using a lottery system to undermine the magnet school Lowell High.
The lottery ended Lowell’s merit-based admissions, preventing the most qualified students from getting in unless they happened to get a lucky number. A step was thus taken toward reducing all students in the district to the same low academic level. Obviously, kids too behind or lazy to be even good students let alone top students would not suddenly become stellar academicians merely by winning a lottery.
The three board members ousted in February were the only ones then eligible to be recalled. Now the reconstituted board has voted 4-3 against extending the lottery system. The vote restores merit-based admissions.
A victory, but way too narrow. One flipped vote and the district would be back to hobbling the best and brightest.
The three anti-education board members who voted against the best possible future for the best students are Kevine Boggess, Mark Sanchez, and Matt Alexander.
They should be recalled or at least defeated in their next election. Since district parents are on the alert and active, there’s a good chance that this will happen.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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