Alison Collins, the Vice President of the San Francisco Board of Education, has declared meritocracy to be racist even in the selection of students at advanced or gifted programs. As we have previously discussed, this has been a building campaign in academia as educators and others denounce selection based on academic performance through testing. At…
February 15, 2021
Lowell High School in San Francisco, California, has long been known as a public school dedicated to developing excellence in its students. Its educational resources have attracted many high-achieving families to the area. Lowell’s academics rank among the best in the nation, placing in the top 1 percent of California schools in math performance while producing such distinguished alumni as Justice Stephen Breyer and three Nobel Prize laureates.
Recently, however, “equity and diversity” activists have dismantled Lowell’s admissions system, leading a cadre of school board members to vote 5-2 to eliminate the merit-based admissions. According to the latest figures, Lowell is 50 percent Asian American, 18 percent white, 12 percent Latino, and roughly 2 percent black. The activists say this proves, not that black, white, and Latino children need much better academic preparation, but that Lowell’s admissions program systemically excludes black students in favo
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San Francisco School Board Commissioner Calls Merit-Based Education Racist, Sparking Debate
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The merit-based admissions policy at one of the country s top public high schools San Francisco s Lowell High School has been called unfair and unjust in a controversial new resolution to end its selective process. A particularly sharp critique of the school s current policy came from Board of Education Commissioner Alison Collins, who called it racist.
If passed, a resolution will change the admissions policy for an elite San Francisco high school. One school board member called the policy racist.
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During a San Francisco Board of Education public meeting on October 13, 2020, Collins said, When we talk about merit, meritocracy and especially meritocracy based on standardized testing.those are racist systems.… You can t talk about social justice, and then say you want to have a selective school that keeps certain kids out from the neighborhoods that y