Posted on 02/10/2021 7:05:57 AM PST by NohSpinZone
One of the top-performing public high schools in the country will no longer admit students based on academic performance, ending more than a century of merit-based admissions.
The San Francisco Board of Education voted 5-2 to use the same lottery-based system to assign students to Lowell High as other district high schools instead of maintaining the previous system of test scores and grades.
Board members cited “pervasive systemic racism” and a lack of diversity at Lowell as the primary reason to end the merit-based admission process following an incident in which students were exposed to racist, pornographic and antisemitic images in an online school forum. The district continues to investigate the incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...
The left did the same with Dunbar High School decades back. At that time Dunbar was filled with high-achieving black students who went through a rigorous curriculum to graduate. Being a Dunbar alum meant something. Today it's another failed inner city high school.
IMO, this is a crime. These commies are willing to ruin the lives of students willing to put in the hard work for the sake of their corrupt and perverse ideology. Success for them is the entire student body being equally ignorant.
Pathetic.
It is a good bet that there is not a person on that school board that could explain the concept in arithmetic of factoring to the lowest common denominator. Yet it is factoring downward in all they do.
Come on, let’s try to see this from the SF Board of Education’s point of view.
Certain minorities can’t get into Lowell because of poor grades and bad study habits.
It’s super hard to fix the inner city schools so that they actually educate inner city kids. This isn’t a fight just against poor academics, but against a culture that reviles success.
It’s a fight the school board doesn’t think it can win. It would take a lot of work. It’s far easier to just accuse Lowell of being a racist bastion and then bring it down to the level of the majority of inner city schools.
So you see, the SF school board’s decision is completely justifiable.
I wonder, don’t the rich parents of the kids who get into Lowell have a say?
To read this article you need to be a paid subscriber to SFGate. Why post it if the majority of Freepers won’t be able to read it?
“I wonder, don’t the rich parents of the kids who get into Lowell have a say?”
They’re livid but they’re outvoted. Welcome to the People’s Republic of San Francisco. What they’ll likely do is vote with their feet and leave. Many households were willing to put up with a lot of crap just to have their kids graduate from Lowell because it enhanced the chances of getting into a great college. That incentive will soon be gone.
Uh, sorry, I didn’t realize it was fully gated. I thought you had a few articles for free.
The excerpt covers the gist though. You’ll get the basic idea of this issue from that.
Anything to bring it all down. This is part of their revolution.
I’m not a subscriber to the SFGate and I was able to pull up the and read the entire article and comments section. I clicked the button telling them to go pound sand as I was not going to disable my ad blockers and preceded to read the article.
Gotta enforce that lowest common denominator plan.
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Now....this is actual racism.
During a San Francisco Board of Education public meeting on October 13, 2020, Collins said, "When we talk about merit, meritocracy and especially meritocracy based on standardized testing...those are racist systems.… You can't talk about social justice, and then say you want to have a selective school that keeps certain kids out from the neighborhoods that you think are dangerous."
So, merit, achievement, hard work are forms of racism to these sick people. Forget about why those "certain kids" can't get into Lowell in the first place. Hell, Harvard, Yale, Stanford are all really difficult to get into. Why not make those all lottery-based too?
Families with kids and the ability to vote with their feet have been bugging out of SF for years.
The families that are stuck there are screwed.
The people running things do NOT care.
San Francisco has the lowest percentage of kids of any major U.S. city.
Still true today, and that stat explains a lot.
I did not pay to read the article
It never ends with these commies.
The immediate neighborhood around Lowell is going to go downhill. How could it not?
It is super hard to fix kids, period.
It has little to do with schools or even teachers.
These can make little difference (we know this after 70 years of failed experiments, many on a massive scale).
It is as hard to do as to invent immortality.
There are no magic bullets or mystical spells.
There are no right wing methods or left wing methods, all have been statistical failures.
One can, at best, work on statistical margins, by rescuing a relative few educable kids and isolating them with each other in a “good” school - which is good, of course, solely because it has these kids.
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.
That is the central problem of education, for which there is no solution.
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