Posted on 02/02/2021 1:57:30 PM PST by SeekAndFind
San Francisco’s Lowell High School, founded in 1856, is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi. In 1894, it was renamed after Lowell, Massachusetts. By the 20th century, Lowell admitted students, not by neighborhood, but by academic qualifications. These qualifications meant the school was disproportionately White, Jewish, and for the last 50 years, Asian. Leftists have wanted to destroy it for decades. Thanks to BLM and the Wuhan virus, they are finally getting their chance.
When I attended Lowell in the late 1970s, admission was based on junior high school grades. At that time, the student body was roughly 50% Asian. The year I graduated, Lowell was ranked as one of the top ten public high schools in America.
In the 1980s, the NAACP sued the school because the academic requirements meant that few Black students made it to Lowell. The suit ended with a consent decree requiring a written test for admission and mandating that Asians score 62 out of 69 on the test, while White students could score 58, and Blacks could enter with a lower score (which articles about the school refuse to identify).
Asians pushed back in the 1990s and eventually forced a new consent decree that created a “diversity index” substitute socioeconomic factors, the mother’s education level (missing fathers?), academic achievement, and language spoken at home. The school returned to being primarily Asian. Lowell always did have a huge infusion of Asian students who lived in abysmal poverty, with parents who spoke no English, but who emphasized education over everything, resulting in students with superior grades.
The San Francisco School District got its revenge on Lowell by sending it some of the worst teachers in an already lousy district. The theory was that, because the students were good, they didn’t need good educators.
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San Francisco has now lined up a death blow to Lowell. Several commissioners announced that the school is a center of “ongoing, pervasive, systemic racism.” Why? Because relatively few minorities qualify for Lowell; “Black, Latinx, and Samoan Pacific Islander students” don’t feel “physically, emotionally or culturally safe and valued at Lowell;” there were “microaggressions;” and Ibram X. Kendi says that anything that shows that non-Whites and non-Asians don’t do as well academically is inherently racist.
For those, and other race hustler reasons, the Commissioners resolved that Lowell should become a regular high school with a lottery admission beginning in the Fall of 2021. Oh, and it will also be subject to a Maoist struggle session review “to address the exclusion and ongoing toxic racist abuse that students of color, specifically Black students, have experienced at Lowell High School since the school’s creation.”
Lowell is such an integral part of old San Francisco pride that even the editorial board of the hard left San Francisco Chronicle was moved to protest, worried that the lottery “threatens to erode the school’s ability to maintain its level of academic excellence…” Ya think?
Is “LATINX” a Marvel Superhero character?
If people have time to fret over microaggressions they are not onlynot oppressed they are pampered and spoiled rotten as well.
NAACP: Fighting perceived racism with Real Racism and a little Fascism thrown in for good measure.
Same Story with Police, Fire, Military,...
No, that’s Ex-Latinex ... who has the power to make people crap their britches.
I never knew it was named after Lowell Massachusetts.
So are you saying some races are more supreme than other races and thus the supreme races must be engineered to disadvantaged. This sounds like what you are saying. The end result does not raise the community and trickle down, the end result lowers the assets of the community and will not attract high value people to pay their taxes for them.
Enjoy your shiny new ghetto
Does San Fran education involve how to crap in The streets
Classrooms often run at the speed of the slowest student in the room. The public schools are full of low performers that drag down the performance for everyone.
The public schools were failing my middle son. I supplemented his education at home. He finished with a 4.33 GPA. His girlfriend finished with a 4.85 GPA and was class valedictorian. His high achieving girlfriends (more than one) were also a strong motivation to work hard.
It's cultural imperialism of forcing a Teutonic neuter gender into the culturally backwards little brown people who speak Spanish and think they can get away with only two genders.
El Latino. La Latina. Das Latinx.
(Will that tie the left into knots, trying to play I've got a bigger grievance over cultural imperialism vs 57 genders?)
My wife’s brother graduated from Lowell. In addition to high academic standards, also had a very strong ROTC program. Her brother (Chinese-American) led the squad in parade drills at graduation. This was back in the late 1980s, I don’t know if they still allow rifles and drill practice.
These SF’ers think they are such pioneers. But, DeBlasio beat them to it by limiting merit admissions for the top NYC schools, including the famous Bronx High School of Science. He’s the “pioneer” here, if anyone is.
Racial set asides won’t help in the AP Calculus class, and rejection from advanced classes is systemic racism, so everyone gets dumbed down.
I graduated from Lowell HS. My parents could never have afforded to send me to a private school. There’s no end to the hatred these libs have for certain kinds of people, or anything they can’t control.
The education I received there prepared me well for a top-tier university and a well-paying career. That opportunity for students today is about to be destroyed...
There is no one of merit left in San Francisco.
“t was renamed after Lowell, Massachusetts. “
Named after James Russell Lowell, the poet. Nobody names anything after Lowell, Mass, a factory town.
He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”
When the Lord had finished speaking with Abraham, he left, and Abraham returned home.
Guess what happened to Sodom next.
I think it was named for a poet or astronomer.
So much for #AsianLivesMatter.
BTTT.
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