{"id":1494268,"date":"2022-05-27T08:29:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T12:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494268"},"modified":"2022-05-27T08:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T12:30:03","slug":"elite-san-francisco-high-school-ends-merit-based-admissions-and-now-a-quarter-of-students-are-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elite-san-francisco-high-school-ends-merit-based-admissions-and-now-a-quarter-of-students-are-failing\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite San Francisco High School Ends Merit Based Admissions and Now a Quarter of Students are Failing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Felite-san-francisco-high-school-ends-merit-based-admissions-and-now-a-quarter-of-students-are-failing%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=1494268&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--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Students at San Francisco\u2019s Lowell High School received significantly more failing grades at the end of the fall 2021 semester following the school board\u2019s decision to end merit-based admissions.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/03\/san-francisco-sue-school-district-dennis-herrera-school-reopening-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Board of Education<\/a> voted to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/10\/san-francisco-board-of-education-ends-merit-based-admissions-lowell-high-school-lottery-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">end<\/a> merit-based admissions in February 2021 and switched to a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/27\/republican-rep-michelle-steel-bill-school-discrimination-asian-americans-harvard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lottery-based admission<\/a> system at the beginning of the fall 2021 semester. Lowell High freshmen admitted through the lottery program received three times the amount of Ds and Fs than those of the previous two years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/Lowell-High-admissions-17196603.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to The San Francisco Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 25% of Lowell High\u2019s 620 freshmen students received a D or an F in the fall 2021 semester, according to The Chronicle. Only 7.9% of freshmen in Fall 2020 and 7.7% of freshmen in Fall 2019 received a D or an F.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7284605\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7284605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA \u2013 MARCH 17: San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during a news conference outside of Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital with essential workers to mark the one year anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdown on March 17, 2021 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lowell High principal Joe Ryan Dominguez attributed the number of failures to a wide variety of variables rather than the admissions process alone, according to The Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver a year of distance learning, half of our student body new to in-person instruction at the high school level and absences among students\/staff for COVID all explain this dip in performance,\u201d Dominguez said, The Chronicle reported. \u201cIt is important not to insinuate a cause on such a sensitive topic at the risk of shaming our students and teachers who have worked very hard in a difficult year.\u201d <strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/03\/san-francisco-school-district-vapa-acronyms-white-supremacy-name-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RELATED: Acronyms Are Part Of \u2018White Supremacy Culture,\u2019 According To San Francisco School District<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The data shows that switching to a lottery admissions process was not in the \u201cbest interest of SFUSD students,\u201d Lowell Alumni Association president Kate Lazarus said, according to The Chronicle. The Lowell Alumni Association is a proponent of replacing the lottery admission system at the beginning of the next application cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Lowell High School did not immediately respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at San Francisco\u2019s Lowell High School received significantly more failing grades at the end of the fall 2021 semester following the school board\u2019s decision to end merit-based<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494268","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}