In San Francisco, Virus is Contained but Schools Are Still Closed

[David Lockmiller]

(10-08-2021 10:36 AM)Gene C Wrote:  What would Lincoln do?

Here's what the voters of San Francisco did yesterday according to the San Francisco Chronicle:

San Francisco voters overwhelmingly supported the ouster of three school board members Tuesday in the city’s first recall election in nearly 40 years.

The landslide decision means board President Gabriela López and members Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga will officially be removed from office and replaced by mayoral appointments 10 days after the election is officially accepted by the Board of Supervisors.

The new board members are likely to take office in mid-March. The three were the only school board members who had served long enough to be eligible for a recall.

The recall divided the city for the past year, with a grassroots effort of frustrated parents and community members pushing for the trustees’ removal over the slow reopening of schools during the pandemic and the board’s focus on controversial issues like renaming 44 school sites and ending the merit-based admission system at Lowell High School.

Supervisor Hillary Ronen said she wasn’t surprised by the results.

“We faced the hardest time of our entire lives as parents and as students in public schools and this Board of Education focused on issues that weren’t about dealing with the immediate crisis of the day, and they didn’t show the leadership that that was necessary and that parents needed to hear, and that kids needed to hear,” said Ronen.

Alison Collins
Yes, recall
79% - 100,592
No
21% - 27,485

Gabriela López
Yes, recall
75% - 95,656
No
25% - 32,067

Faauuga Moliga
Yes, recall
72% - 91,892
No
28% - 35,671

The problem is that there are still "woke" San Francisco School Board members who voted to remove the name of Abraham Lincoln High School for just cause.

What would Lincoln do?

President Abraham Lincoln would make them take a course in American Civil War history. And, they must pass a test at the end of course or take the course over.