What Happens When YouTake School Choice Away

 

 

 

My, my... Leave it to Sodom on the Bay to not only close schools for weeks, but to come up with a forced, mandatory requirement to 'expand diversity' which gave most parents zero choices of where their children could go to school. This so-called 'Zone system' the school board voted in back in  December was designed to 'increase diversity' in the public schools no matter what. And, as a cherry on top, students living in public housing and their parents were given a priority in the selection process. 

 What that meant is that if you had a child in a decent elementary school near where you live, they could be sent  anywhere. And parents were prevented from any appeal about it, even if it meant their children would be going to school in a dangerous neighborhood far away, with substandard teachers and curriculum and problems with gangs. 

 

On the other hand, if your child already was in such a school, instead of improving it with better teachers and disciplining the trouble makers, You would get  the priority of sending him or her to the good schools in your 'zone'. Not only that, but the curriculum of all public schools will also be 'diversified...and I'm sure you know what that means...the teaching of critical Race theory in all public schools.

  While on the face of it this seems like it might have some good points, the obvious reasons for doing it was highly suspect. Among other things, it was scheduled to cost $2.5 million over the next 18 months. 

Hmm, no interest in how how the existing schools could have been improved with that money instead! The real reason of course has nothing to do with diversity. So the real reason it was done is obvious. It's about power and control. These children will be subjected to the far Left's views on morality, America, and of course critical race theory. 

Not only that, but families were not to be allowed  to appeal any decision of the Bureaucrats. And since students living in public House projects will get priority in picking whatever school they want, teachers who are actually trying to educate a class of students can no longer teach to the general learning level of a classroom, which of course means that the smarter kids with the higher learning capacities suffer.

It also means that people who struggled to save and  buy a home at San Francisco's high prices in a nice neighborhood because of the good schools were getting ripped off big time.Especially since they pay the highest taxes.

So how well did this expensive program work out? Simple. Much of San Francisco white and Asian parents took one of two ways out. They either found private and/or Parochial schools to send their kids to, which meant that they were still getting ripped off and  stuck paying those high taxes as well as private school fees.

The other choice of course, being to relocate outside the district or maybe even move away from SF period.

When I first read about this , I sympathized, since I got my kids out of the public schools where I lived  myself as soon as possible, respectfully in the 5th and 3rd grades and found an excellent parochial school for them. I still think that it was one of the best moves we ever made as parents, expensive though it was.

Surprise! That's exactly what happened in San Francisco, and their racist woke tactics cost them a bundle. This s what happens when the people supposedly running the public school district spend their time debating on how to rename public  schools after Lefty 'heroes' instead of historic American heroes. And the kids are already behind, because there was almost a year's lock down mandated by the teacher's union.

According to the SF Chronicle, more than 1,700 public school students have simply left the public schools. And they're expecting a lot more to  leave at the start of the next academic year in the fall. And guess what?  Any teacher will tell you that one of their important duties is that morning head count, which determines how much Federal money the school gets.

According to the Chronicle, this is going to cost the district $20 Million in Fed money...not that the public schools are doing very well otherwise academically, like a lot of California public schools. You see, with the better students leaving, the remaining children in SFUSD were at 12% proficiency in Math & 19% in English, with 80% of those kids who are left  not meeting reading literacy requirements.

The Sf school district already has a lawsuit to deal with because of its decision to rename schools named after Washington,Lincoln, etc for their 'racism.' 

Meanwhile, the School District Vice President, Alison Collins

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 was under fire because of a number of tweets criticizing Asians of being racist and not woke. After she refused to resign or remove the tweets (see, if you use Twitter and are from the right demographic you can get away with racism). She sued the School District for $87 million after she was removed from her position. I haven't bothered to check whether she won, since all this shows is the quality of who's running the school district....

Again, in big letters.....THIS IS NOT ABOUT BETTER EDUCATION.IT IS DEFINITELY NOT ABOUT THE WELFARE OF THE KIDS, IF ANYTHING, IT'S THE REVERSE.  SO WHAT IS IT REALLY ABOUT???

SIMPLE, IT'S ABOUT CONTROL, WASTING OTHER PEOPLE'S HARD EARNED MONEY, INFERIOR TEACHERS PROTECTED BY A POLITICALY PROMINENT UNION AND MOST OF ALL, MIND RAPING YOUR CHILDREN.

 TO FIX IT WILL TAKE PARENTS THEMSELVES GETTING IN THESE PEOPLE'S FACES AND VOTING THEM OUT OF POWER. Or SIMPLY LEAVING THE DISTRICT AND STARVING THE BEAST. HOME SCHOOLING IS ALSO AN OPTION.

THINK ABOUT IT. YOUR KIDS ARE WORTH IT.

Rob Miller writes for Joshuapundit. His articles have appeared in The Jerusalem Post, The Washington Examiner, American Thinker, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The San Francisco Chronicle, Real Clear Politics, The Times Of Israel, Breitbart.Com, Yediot and many other publications.

CrazyFornia -Dems Want Willfully Infecting Others With HIV To Be 'Misdemeanor'

Democrats are rallying around a new bill by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco,(where else?) that would make it a misdemeanor instead of a felony to intentionally expose someone to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.



Under current laws , if someone who knows they are infected with HIV infects someone else deliberately - say, with unprotected sex or even sexual assault - it's a major felony and can lead to years of jail time if they're convicted. Wiener's bill wants that repealed.

Wiener's bill, SB239, would also repeal California laws that require people convicted of prostitution for the first time to be tested for AIDS and that increase penalties for prostitution if the prostitute tested positive for AIDS before after a previous arrest.

The rationale for this? Believe it or not 'science.' And equality, of course! Here's the Sacramento Bee quoting Wiener:

"These laws were passed at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic when there was enormous fear and ignorance and misinformation around HIV," Wiener said. "It's time for California to lead and to repeal these laws to send a clear signal that we are going to take a science-based approach to HIV not a fear-based approach."

The last time I checked, 'Science' hadn't yet found a complete cure for HIV or AIDS and it still kills people. According to the last figures we have from the Center For disease Control, in 2014, there were 12,333 deaths of people with diagnosed HIV infection from various causes attributed to effects of the disease and 6,721 deaths were attributed directly to HIV. Thankfully, the number is going down because more of the population most directly affected, male homosexuals, are practicing safe sex and treatment has improved. But ask yourself...how many of these 19,000 people were unknowingly infected? How many were infected by people who knew they had HIV but simply didn't give a damn? And what about the people who were unknowingly infected with HIV by someone who knew they had it, and who didn't die but whose lives were changed forever? Shouldn't people willing to do that to another human being be punished for what amounts to 2nd degree murder or manslaughter at worst and playing Russian roulette with someone else's life at best?

Wiener also claims that the current laws deter people from getting tested for HIV and seeking treatment. Impossible to see how that could be true...unless we're talking about people who are prostitutes and already got caught and were tested once but continued to practice their trade anyway. Or people so self centered and irresponsible that they don't care that having unprotected sex with an unknowing partner could be a death sentence for that person.

Even the most ancient law codes we know recognize that someone deliberately causing injury or death to another person is guilty of a serious crime, and that concept is deeply embedded in common law today worldwide...except in Crazyfornia, a bizarro land where things are different.

I can't imagine homosexuals supporting this lunacy, but given where Wiener's district is, enough of them must be. Given that this is Crazyfornia, I expect the legislature to pass SB239.

‘Killing Jews Is Worship’ Ad Campaign Rolled Out On SF Muni Buses

Pamela Geller of the American Freedom Defense Institute is rattling people's cages again.

She's started another campaign of bus ads, this time in San Francisco where a number of anti-Israel ads have run on the city's Muni buses without complaint, just like in New York City and elsewhere.

“The purpose of our campaign is to show the reality of Jihad, the root causes of terrorism. Using the exact quotes and text that they use,” said Geller.

She got the idea as a response to a number of CAIR ads that were put on San Francisco's buses that were designed to try to disassociate the word “jihad” with violence.

Yes, the City of San Francisco saw nothing wrong with carrying ads for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim Brotherhood front group and an unindicted co-conspirator in supplying material support for terrorism whose chief executives aren't sitting in jail only because the Obama Administration filed a 'decline to prosecute' motions in what amounted to an open and shut case.

But as you can imagine, the sort of politicians that run San Francisco had a number of issues with Geller's ads:

District Attorney George Gascon, condemned the campaign as "Islamophobic bigotry', while Board of Supervisors President David Chiu called the members of the American Freedom Defense Initiative “well-known hate extremists” and said he is introducing a resolution to denounce the ads.

Ah well...just like Pavlov's famous dogs, these sort of people salivate on command when they get the appropriate stimuli, whether it makes sense of not.

The truth about jihad? Here's my view, as one who has spent some time studying the matter. It is true that the Muslim concept of jihad does correspond loosely with our term 'struggle'. Thus Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf", originally translated into Arabic by Palestinian leader and Nazi ally Haj Amin al-Husseini and still a best seller in the Arab world translates as 'My Jihad.'

Technically speaking, it can refer to an inner struggle. That is its spiritual meaning when one is speaking of oneself as an individual.

However, when it concerns the Ummah, the Muslim nation, Muslims as a group, and whenever it is used politically, it always refers to Holy War,jihad bis saif, and all four major fiqhs (schools of Islamic jurisprudence) have clearly defined that.

That's why jihad manifested in that way almost always involves violence towards kuffars, non-believers.

As Mohammed told his followers in the Hadiths, which recount the life, times and saying of Mohammed as recorded by his followers, "In the shade of swords shall ye find Paradise."

And there are numerous other references to jihad and Muslim's duty to wage Holy War in the Qu'ran and hadiths...Qur'an:9:5, Qur'an:9:29, Qur'an:8:39, Ishaq:326, Bukhari:V4B53N386, and Qur'an:47:4 are just a few of many examples.

It is what it is.

It's very revealing that far too many Muslims who claim to be peace loving devote a great deal of time and effort to condemning people like Geller for their 'Islamophobia' and almost no time at all condemning the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah, Lashkar e Tiaba and other terrorist groups that claim Islam and yes, jihad, as their inspiration and their rationale.

One can only wonder at their motivations.

Some Proof That S.F.’s Anti-Circumcision Movement Is Anti-Semitic

As you all likely know by now, city ordinances are now on the ballot in San Francisco and in Santa Monica to ban ritual circumcision, AKA Brit Millah in those cities. This is a rite that goes back to G-d's Covenant With Abraham.

Above is a sample of the campaign literature that the anti-Circumcision movement is circulating, courtesy of the San Francisco based Zombie. Just in case you thought this wasn't entirely directed at Jews.

Needless to say, there will likely be no similar 'toons of Muslim imams performing circumcision, or evil Muslims giving clitorectomies to young females. For one thing,among Muslims it's usually done in a boy's teens, and for another, the sort of craven scum running this understand that they'd be risking their own necks.

Speaking of which, the man running these modern Der Stürmer type graphics showing the blond Aryan master race fighting the Evil Jews is on Matthew Hess, the president of MGM Billboards, a San Diego, California USA based group that describes itself as "working to enact legislation that would protect boys from forced circumcision.”

The 'I'm not anti-Jewish, just anti-Zionist' crowd has always been in evidence at the Bay Area's Leftist protests. A lot of the Left got on this particular train a long time ago, so none of this should be any surprise. It will be interesting to see how Jews on the Left deal with this, since it can't be disguised as “anti-Israel” anymore.

(huge hat tip to Bookworm)

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