Were There Really 2 Targets?
The motivation of the School Board for this latest resolution, says Board President Howard Yee, is, How do we bring equity into our system so all kids get a quality education. Maybe. Maybe not. Board member Mark Sanchez did not have to be an oracle to predict over the weekend, People are going to scream. Two specific targets of the School Board proposal are prestigious college-prep Lowell High School and the obviously selective School of the Arts. I may be wrong. But I have a hunch these two schools, and any like them, are the true targets of this nutty, destructive greasing of school policy.
White Bad, Technicolor Good
Both schools look too darned white for the School Board. Instead of educating those thousands of non-whites who either are not interested or are not qualified, the social engineers on the School Board decided to sneak in the back door, hatchets in hand. Their objective is to achieve exactly what affirmative action accomplished in the last century. Open the doors to the masses so the standards of the school can be lowered and dragged through the dirt. That way, the whole student body can be dumbed down. Then we will have parity. The 7-member School Board seriously believes a schools standards will be elevated if you force drastically unqualified, disinterested boys and girls to sit in classrooms and distract the real students. And you thought we had troubles at home with the Mayor of Los Angeles fighting the School Board and possibly the questionably qualified new Superintendent for control of the public schools.
They Want the Best
This is classy Lowell Highs description of its admissions policy: Since 1966, Lowell High School has had a merit-based admissions policy. Admission is selective and competitive, based on the Stanford Achievement Test (9th Edition) scores, grades achieved in academic subjects in middle school and many other factors, including socio-economic status, extracurricular/leadership activities, community service, ability to overcome hardship, and extenuating circumstances. It seems to me that the strange, upside-down leaders of San Francicso would like to legalize all that is outlawed, and ban all that presently is legal. Specifically, the School Board seems to want any undeserving, unqualified children to be able to stroll into any school just because. School standards applicable everywhere else in America are rated unfair in San Francisco because the unwashed are left out.
