San Francisco is on the verge of destroying the city’s only merit-based public school
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San Francisco’s Lowell High School, founded in 1856, is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi. In 1894, it was renamed after Lowell, Massachusetts. By the 20th century, Lowell admitted students, not by neighborhood, but by academic qualifications. These qualifications meant the school was disproportionately White, Jewish, and for the last 50 years, Asian. Leftists have wanted to destroy it for decades. Thanks to BLM and the Wuhan virus, they are finally getting their chance.
When I attended Lowell in the late 1970s, admission was based on junior high school grades. At that time, the student body was roughly 50% Asian. The year I graduated, Lowell was ranked as one of the top ten public high schools in America.