San Francisco School Board Recall

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So this is major news nationally. I think it happened
in the craziest school board in America in San Francisco.
But the parents, the voters l a unified but on
the parents, well, I don't think anybody has been crazier
than this, though, as we'll get into the details if
you've forgotten them. Uh, the parents and voters in San

(00:23):
Francisco decided the president's got to go, the vice president's
gotta go, and the person they called the commissioner has
got to go. The top three people to school board
got booted out by overwhelming margins. Part of it around
the idea that while the rest of the state of California,
and this was late in the game, late in the game,
that California let was encouraging kids to get back into

(00:46):
the classroom during the whole pandemic, San Francisco was holding
firm with distance learning, and the parents hated that, and
the school board brilliantly in the midst of all the
attention they were getting for being a holdout on we're
ruining your kids law lives by making them learn using
my finger quotes to resoom, which nobody is learning. Uh,
this is what we're going to decide to debate. They

(01:08):
got together and debated whether or not they should rename
forty four public schools in the district at the very
time parents were screaming, opened the damn schools. And if
you'll remember correctly, they were talking about taking names off
of some of the schools like Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
How freaking crazy is that? I mean, based on crazy

(01:31):
based on the dopeyest of undergrad liberal attitudes about Lincoln,
for instance, or Washington. Yeah, by the way, seventy of
the ballots cast one of these people booted, So I
mean they got booted hard. Too crazy for San Francisco.
Now that's an indictment. Parents were initially frustrated that students
were still stuck in distance learning last year despite county

(01:53):
and state approval of a shift back to in person,
and that the board had focused on renaming forty four
schools amid a racial reckoning if you remember that coming
out of George Floyd and everything like that. But also
this angle that isn't getting so much attention. Lowell one
of the best high schools in the country, one of
the hardest schools to get into. Back in the past,
they decided to do away with the merit based admissions

(02:16):
to the elite high school Low High School, where Asian
Americans held a majority because they were kicking ass and
getting into the school. So they decided, now we need
to do away with that. We've got too many Asians,
especially when Collins, she's the commissioner. They got booted. Last night,
some tweets were unearthed in which she said Asians were
using white supremacists thinking to get ahead of black students

(02:38):
by trying so hard and scoring so well under tests
and getting into the school. Anybody's success is white supremacy. Jack.
So that's the part our friend Tim the lawyer, focused
on that they booted out some racists who were, you know,
not cool with so many Asians in the school. You know,
whichever part you want to focus on. Uh. To me,

(03:01):
it's pretty important that, um, we'd be allowed to name
a high school after the first president and the most
consequential founding father, George Washington. If you can have George
Washington in your school, you're a crazy person. You're a
crazy person by definition. I don't need to know anything
else about you. You shouldn't be in charge of anything

(03:21):
to do with my kid. Mm hmmm. And if we
end up with like the entirety of NASA is Asian Americans.
I mean, every single technician, every astronaut, the spokesperson, the
guy who cleans the John's, every single one is an Asian.
That's kind of interesting and kind of well, it's kind
of funny, honestly. But if that yields a better NASSA

(03:41):
and you're a loyal American, God bless you. You know,
my kids aren't Asian. And if if likely that they
go to a high school where an Asian kid or
a kid of Indian descent is going to be the
validictorian or whatever, all I'm gonna think is my kids
didn't try hard enough or aren't smart enough. I'm not
gonna think there is any bias whatsoever other than that
or our family values, studying life balance in a way

(04:04):
that some Asian cultures don't. Oh yeah, yeah, there's there's
there's there's that too, But I don't know. But I
got away from now I'm back to acting like this
is a bad thing. This is a good thing, This
is a good thing. I think one of the reasons
this San Francisco school board stories getting so much national attention.
It's people around the country saying, Okay, so there is
a limit. There is a limit to how far you

(04:26):
can go. Apparently that's good to see. Sure, in San Francisco,
you've got Lori London calling out the d A. Chicago,
Uh Lorie or London breed rather Lorie Lightfoot in Chicago
is now to the right of the teachers unions and
the d A and the rest of it. You're seeing
it all over the country. There's hope. How crazy are
people who weren't focused on getting kids into school but

(04:46):
we're focused on getting Abraham Lincoln taking off with junior high.
You people are freaking nuts. A