Board of Education President Gabriela López, Vice President Faauuga Moliga, and controversial former vice president Alison Collins were sent packing by margins of more than 44 percentage points each, Matt Welch of Reason reports:
The recall had its roots in a series of decisions that the SFUSD did and did not make in January and February 2021. The Board of Education had, the previous fall, set January 25, 2021 as the day to finally reopen a school system that had been fully closed since March 2020. But it then failed to hammer out a reopening agreement with the local teachers union (which, like teachers unions in many Democrat-dominated cities and states, persistently used its considerable local political leverage to delay school reopening long after most Republican-governed polities had gotten back to normal).
It was against this backdrop, with anguished public school parents pulling their hair out over the personal disruption, learning loss, and social dysfunction that comes with extended remote learning, that the SFUSD board made the fateful decision to rename 44 of its schools that still weren’t open, on the ground that those names—including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, John Muir, Paul Revere, and Dianne Feinstein—were too culturally insensitive and/or unrepresentative.
“It was like you have this house on fire, and they’re basically painting the front door,” Looijen told me Monday.
Further back in the day, the expression was ‘rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic’. Interesting to observe the process of loss in cultural touchstones over time.
Instead of Ovid, or Chaucer, or Dostoevsky, the bluecheck of our most current of years has Harry Potter as his source of metaphor for framing the experiences of his life.
“It was against this backdrop, with anguished public school parents pulling their hair out over the personal disruption, learning loss, and social dysfunction that comes with extended remote learning, that the SFUSD board made the fateful decision to rename 44 of its schools that still weren’t open, on the ground that those names—including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, John Muir, Paul Revere, and Dianne Feinstein—were too culturally insensitive and/or unrepresentative.”
Uh huh. I’m just glad that they’ve finally jumped the shark. And not in a smart, suave, sophisticated evil way, but in a drooling, cross-eyed, retarded mongoloid evil way.
It’s almost sad. Or it would be, if they weren’t lower than pond scum and deserving of death.