{"id":123526,"date":"2021-02-10T15:29:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T20:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=123526"},"modified":"2021-02-10T15:43:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T20:43:52","slug":"destroyed-in-the-name-of-wokeness-sf-forces-top-high-school-to-eliminate-merit-based-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/destroyed-in-the-name-of-wokeness-sf-forces-top-high-school-to-eliminate-merit-based-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Destroyed In The Name Of Wokeness\u2019: SF Forces Top High School To Eliminate Merit-Based Admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdestroyed-in-the-name-of-wokeness-sf-forces-top-high-school-to-eliminate-merit-based-admissions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=123526&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-567289797.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday evening, the San Francisco Board of Education voted to change the admissions process from a merit-based to a random lottery at what some say is San Francisco\u2019s only nationally competitive public school, Lowell High School.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: The San Francisco Board of Education has voted 5-2 in support of a resolution to change the admissions process of academically competitive Lowell High School to a lottery system. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFUnified?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SFUnified<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sophie Bearman (@stbearman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stbearman\/status\/1359381633611173892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe San Francisco Board of Education voted 5-2 to use the same lottery-based system to assign students to Lowell High as other district high schools instead of maintaining the previous system of test scores and grades,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/S-F-school-board-strips-Lowell-High-of-its-15938565.php\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> noted, adding, \u201cLowell, with nearly 2,900 students, currently enrolls less than 2% Black students compared with 8% districtwide and less than 12% Hispanic students compared with 32% in all schools. Asian American students represent 51% of enrollment at Lowell, compared to 29% districtwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Lowell\u2019s school board suspended its competitive admission policy because of a paucity of grades and test scores during distance learning caused by the coronavirus pandemic. California also canceled standardized tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor decades, San Francisco\u2019s academically competitive Lowell High School has been a point of pride for the city, consistently one of the top performing public schools in the country, luring straight-A students and churning out prominent figures in politics, entertainment, literature and science,\u201d the Chronicle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/education\/article\/Debate-about-elitism-at-S-F-s-Lowell-High-15917176.php\">has noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne school board commissioner, Alison Collins, has called merit-based admissions \u2018racist,\u2019\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/san-franciscos-race-games-11612571242?mod=e2two\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>&nbsp;editorial board opined. \u201cThe real problem progressives have with Lowell is that too many Asian-Americans are passing the entrance exam. But it\u2019s perverse to penalize Asian-Americans because other children do less well on tests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe underperformance of black and Latino children in so many American public schools should be a national scandal,\u201d WSJ added. \u201cInstead, the response from elite universities and New York City\u2019s high-performing public schools has been to disguise the problem by setting de facto admissions quotas for Asian-American students no matter their superior qualifications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Political commentator James Lindsay blasted the decision, writing, \u201cToday is the day Lowell HS was destroyed in the name of Wokeness. Soon the Woke will likely go after the University of California system and any other competitive schools in the US that have a disproportionate amount of Asian students, or Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is the day Lowell HS was destroyed in the name of Wokeness. Soon the Woke will likely go after the University of California system and any other competitive schools in the US that have a disproportionate amount of Asian students, or Jews. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r7Jyvf6DrV\">https:\/\/t.co\/r7Jyvf6DrV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Lindsay, won&#8217;t fit in your box (@ConceptualJames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConceptualJames\/status\/1359526661889359878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The board lied through its teeth, using the pandemic as an excuse to &#8220;temporarily&#8221; suspend exams, and then voted to remove them permanently, destroying the city&#8217;s only selective public school which was majority Asian.<\/p>\n<p>Tough shit if you&#8217;re a smart, non-affluent kid in SF. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ScpkN6JQBs\">https:\/\/t.co\/ScpkN6JQBs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Antonio Garc\u00eda Mart\u00ednez (@antoniogm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antoniogm\/status\/1359386035294068737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A woman who teaches at a school for gifted children in Los Angeles, where she does her research, had been keeping a close eye on Lowell for months. She wrote of how hard some students had worked in the past to gain admission to the school:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>6 hours of meeting culminated in this, the decision to gut the admissions protocol for San Francisco\u2019s only nationally competitive public school. I\u2019ve listened to a lot of the meetings leading up to this, so I\u2019ve heard a lot of kids say they worked hard for a spot here. Gone. The basis for this decision was that Lowell\u2019s merit-based admissions system was racist, despite the fact that the school is &lt;17% white and majority Asian, representing many families that cannot afford private schooling.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">6 hours of meeting culminated in this, the decision to gut the admissions protocol for San Francisco&#8217;s only nationally competitive public school. I&#8217;ve listened to a lot of the meetings leading up to this, so I&#8217;ve heard a lot of kids say they worked hard for a spot here. Gone. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4yrsebzzI4\">https:\/\/t.co\/4yrsebzzI4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mason \ud83c\udfc3\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\u2702\ufe0f\ud800\udccf (@webdevMason) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/webdevMason\/status\/1359406795601498115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday evening, the San Francisco Board of Education voted to change the admissions process from a merit-based to a random lottery at what some say is San Francisco\u2019s only &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893119,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6230,3945,4596,6225,3924,6227],"class_list":["post-123526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-eliminate","tag-forces","tag-high","tag-name","tag-school","tag-wokeness"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}