San Francisco is about as leftie as you can get in this country. They're so politically insane there that--well, you know how politically insane they are there. They're so left that SF City and County voted 85% for Felonie von Pantsuit in the last presidential election, the highest percentage in any county. In the same election, Nancy Pelosi got only 80.9% of the vote for her congressional seat.
As you well know--just ask them, they'll tell you--liberals are the most compassionate people around. They care about people. They care especially for racial minorities (except for Asians when discussing education), the poor, and the downtrodden. I mean, they really care.
So you'd expect that with only 1 or 2 evil conservatives in the entire city, we'd see glorious things occurring there in Baghdad By The Bay. There would be no poverty, no want.
And no achievement gaps:
San Francisco, despite its reputation for unabashed progressivism and rapidly growing wealth, has a public school system with gapingly large achievement gaps and a more pronounced failure to serve low-income black and Latino students than other California districts, a new report says...It goes without saying that San Francisco's teachers are at least as liberal as the rest of the city. So what gives?
The San Francisco results aren’t the norm among California districts serving comparable numbers of students with similar demographics.
(Hint: perhaps not all your liberal orthodoxy is right, and not all conservative orthodoxy is wrong. What's say we start there....)
Update, 10/31/17: And more:
Deep poverty and the housing instability and emotional trauma that come with it are some of the key factors impacting their performance on state tests, Dickey said. But the problem isn’t purely economic. San Francisco’s poor white students outperformed their disadvantaged black peers by more than 30 percentage points, the test results show.So do you think San Francisco’s schools are staffed by racists, or is there something else afoot?
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Come on Darren, you know better than that. The schools are not staffed by racists.
The questions themselves are racist.
If they're doing things like this example is doing things, then that isn't surprising at all.
Edina has long been one of the best schools in Minnesota, but now, SJ trumps education:
https://www.americanexperiment.org/2017/10/curriculum-political-indoctrination-edinas-public-schools/
“Instead of giving Edina students the intellectual tools necessary to thrive in the 21st century, Edina public school leaders are increasingly using limited school time to indoctrinate students in left-wing political orthodoxies,” Kersten says in her article.
Today, for example, K-2 students at Edina Highlands Elementary School are learning—through the “Melanin Project”—to focus on skin color and to think of white skin as cause for guilt. “Equity” is listed as a primary criterion on the district’s evaluation for K-5 math curricula. At Edina High School, teachers are haranguing students on “White Privilege,” and drilling into them that white males oppress and endanger women. In a U.S. Literature and Composition class, 11th-graders are being taught to “apply marxist [sic], feminist” and “post-colonial” “lenses to literature.”
“In short,” Kersten concludes, “in Edina, reading, writing, math and critical thinking skills are taking a backseat to an ideological crusade.”
American Experiment President John Hinderaker first exposed Edina’s left-wing classroom activism in a series of posts on the Center’s website earlier this year. He cited how 80 Edina High School teachers posted what amounted to a left-wing political manifesto following the election of Donald Trump as president. His initial post prompted an outpouring from parents, students and even some Edina teachers, who condemned other elements of extreme partisanship. They described how:
• A teacher tearfully told a classroom of 100 students that “the election was rigged.”
• Another teacher announced to a class that “Trump winning was worse than 9/11 and the Columbine shooting.”
• Students gathered in the high school commons on election day chanting “F*** Trump,” while teachers watched on, doing nothing.
Kersten states that the district’s ideological priorities are not without probable consequences. Data from Minnesota’s Department of Education indicate a dramatic slide to the district’s once-proud reputation for academic excellence. As recently as 2014, 86 percent of Edina High School students met state reading standards; 79 percent were doing grade-level work in math.
Today, one in five Edina High School students can’t read at grade level and one-third can’t do grade-level math.
All told, Edina High School’s state ranking among Minnesota high schools has slipped from fifth to 29th in reading proficiency, and from 10th to 40th in math proficiency.
“A school district can have only one top priority,” Hinderaker said. “Is it ideology or is it academic excellence? This article should generate a much-needed debate about the appropriate priorities for teachers in Minnesota’s classrooms. Many Edina parents will be disappointed at how the Edina schools have sacrificed quality education to politics.”
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