Posted on 10/20/2015 5:10:42 PM PDT by jazusamo
When Everett held its election three days later, its principal promptly refused to release the results, saying she was concerned that the winners were not diverse enough. While she would ultimately relent and release the results, her decision spurred anger among parents and kids who felt that the principal was putting diversity ahead of democracy. Critics compared her to a dictator who scraps elections when results don’t go her way...“ The whole school voted for those people, so it is not like people rigged the game,” seventh-grader Sebastian Kaplan told KRON 4, who had run for class representative yet had no clue a week later if he won. “But in a way, now it is kinda being rigged.” ... The controversy began as soon as the Oct. 9 election results rolled in. Everett’s 36-year-old principal, Lena Van Haren, was disturbed by the lack of diversity among the winners, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The school sits in San Francisco’s Mission District, a historically diverse neighborhood that has recently struggled with both gentrification and gang violence. Everett is as much a melting pot as the community, with 80 percent of its population comprised of students of color. Only 20 percent of students are white, Van Haren told KTVU.
Students who had run for office were left in limbo, wondering if they had won or lost and if it even mattered anymore. Parents were equally confused. Eventually, that confusion turned into annoyance, then anger. “I wanted to get more involved and change some things,” Kaplan, the seventh-grader running for class representative, told KRON 4, practically quoting Chelsea Clinton verbatim. “I feel like it is disrespectful to all the people who were running,” he said of the strange silence over election results. Parents turned to local media to claim that political correctness had trumped common sense — not to mention democracy. “My criticism of the Everett administration is their good intention got in the way of their common sense,” parent Todd David told the Chronicle. “It’s really, really disturbing to me that withholding the results somehow equals social justice or equity. That is where I totally disconnect. I’m like, ‘Whoa.’ ”
Ah, but "the children’s voices were
heard," UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh writes
on his Washington Post
blog. "They just seemed to be less obsessed with race than some administrators are." Precisely. Nevertheless, said administrators are reportedly considering adding seats or roles to the student council as an ex post facto
means of mitigating this imaginary problem. Despite all the controversy, Principal Bien Pensant remains optimistic that the entire episode can still serve as a "teachable moment."
Indeed. But for whom?
Voting and stuff is all well and good — as long as the right people win.
Off Topic: She is way too attractive to hide herself away in a school office. Maybe she has ambitions. First school principal, then city council, then...well who knows?
she should look in a mirror
IT FIGURES, THAT IT HAPPENED IN CA.
Well, at least she’s pretty. She could get a job in another line of work because her head is too empty for anything involving thinking.
Lots of Lenas doing the counting in Presidential elections too, it seems.
For a goof, in our senior year in high school a few of my smartass friends and I ran one of our friends as a Chairman Mao Communist and made posters.
We weren’t communists. We just thought it was funny.
Our “candidate” won. ...but shortly after our victory, the principal overturned the election and gave it to the establishment candidate - a responsible young lady turns out.
We laugh about it today 30 years later.
How do you call whites “non-minority” when they make up 20% of the students?
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>> “Well, at least she’s pretty” <<
Skeleton with skin stretched over it.
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Excellent and most appropriate!
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“Spring time for Hitler and Germany...”
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Brain dead white girl who follows and will be a victim eventually
Perhaps the students that won should identify as a different race or as homosexual or another gender. Then the airhead principal will have to announce the winners or (drumroll, please).... lawsuit!
The woman is a fool, whatever ability for rational thought she might have had was replaced by political correctness and the general leftist indoctrination and brainwashing that has become the norm in many parts of the US.
In a sane society she'd be removed from her position immediately. Even most of the kids probably realize that now, but their 'education' is not yet complete.
If non minorities won, then is she upset that no white kids won? After all, they are a minority there.
lol. I’ve always gone for the too thin bad girl with issues
Now my fiance is a little plump like me, but a GOOD girl with issues, lol, and a heart of pure GOLD.
of course i’m much older.
Mike Tysens is a kook, but he was right about one thing.
You grow smart too old and old too fast.
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