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| 'We cannot mince words' - San Francisco Education Official Denounces Meritocracy as Rascist |
| 2021-02-08 |
| [Jonathon Turley] Alison Collins, the Vice President of the San Francisco Board of Education, has declared meritocracy to be racist even in the selection of students at advanced or gifted programs. As we have previously discussed, this has been a building campaign in academia as educators and others denounce selection based on academic performance through testing. At issue in San Francisco is Lowell High School where top students were selected through testing and grades. Most cities have such gifted programs or institutions, though we have discussed calls for the elimination of all gifted and talented programs in cities like New York. Lowell had a majority of white and Asian students and only two percent of its student body were African-Americans. Collins and other board members want to abolish the merit-based selection in favor of a blind lottery system. Collins’ remarks from a San Francisco Board of Education public meeting in October 13, 2020 were only recently posted by Sophie Bearman of San Francisco’s online publication Here/Say Media. In the meeting, she declared "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." Collins made the statement in support of a resolution, entitled "In Response to Ongoing, Pervasive Systemic Racism at Lowell High School," authored by Collins, Board President Gabriela Lopez, Commissioner Matt Alexander, and Student Delegates Shavonne Hines-Foster and Kathya Correa Almanza. Related: San Francisco Board of Education: 2014-03-28 More on Keith Jackson and the 'Shrimp Boy' sting. Related: San Francisco: 2021-02-05 A San Francisco Murder Sets Leftists and Social Interest Groups at Odds San Francisco: 2021-02-04 Rep. Adam Schiff, Assemblyman Rob Bonta Become Top Frontrunners for CA Attorney General San Francisco: 2021-02-04 Campus Anti-Semitism Skyrockets Even as Coronavirus Forces Remote Learning |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 "How America Lost Its Global Dominance," 8 February 2035 The story of America's stunning economic and political decline begins with the attack on merit, in the early decades of the century, by a group of activists who claimed that America's competitive, merit-based institutions were evidence of something called "systemic racism." Now that America's growth rate and GDP per capita have been brought down to the same level as those of Spain and Turkey, Americans can take comfort that their new shabbiness is accompanied by gentility-- the moral superiority of race-consciousness. |
| Posted by: Dopey Dingle5494 2021-02-08 08:58 |
| #1 The "march thru the institutions" is approaching it's denoument of destruction from within. It has never occurred to the destroyers that humanity will exist afterwards to pick up the pieces and move on. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-02-08 08:39 |