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?
Yep, it’s education.
This type indoctrinated graduate is what liberal colleges are turning out and they will be teaching our young people for a good many years to come.
President Clinton withdrew Guinier’s nomination on June 4, 1993. He stated that Guinier’s writings “clearly lend themselves to interpretations that do not represent the views I expressed on civil rights during the [presidential] campaign.”
One of the ideas she considers are:
...cumulative voting, a system in which each voter has “the same number of votes as there are seats or options to vote for, and they can then distribute their votes in any combination to reflect their preferences”—a system often used on corporate boards in 30 states, as well as by school boards and county commissions...
Excerpts from Wikipedia
Just saw the clip of this principal on O’Reilly. She said she feels her job is not just to educate but to turn the students into “agents for change”. Outright leftist indoctrination, and she’s proudly announcing it.
In other words, the racist white liberal didnt like the way minorities voted so she held off the results of the election until they learn to vote for only the candidates she approves of.
Welcome to liberalism, kids.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin
Administration: Three females, two white, one Indian (IT not casino)
Support staff: 11 females, 1 male
Teachers (29 total): 21 Obvious female names, 8 others ('Jamie' and Crisoforo were counted as males)
Since the area is 80% Hispanic, the names listed did not reflect that obvious ratio of Hispanics to non Hispanics
Nearly every teacher in this nation ( private and government) were trained by Marxists in Marxist run colleges of education.
Yet.....Few conservatives seem to see the state of education in our nation as an emergency.
Ah yes, I remember Guinier and Clinton pulling her nomination was one of the few good things he did but he was forced to do it for political reasons.
That surely must be wrong, Lena would never allow lack of diversity like that to happen with her staff, would she? LOL
Like good leftists, the only diversity is their kind of diversity. Decided by them.
How do you call whites “non-minority” when they make up 20% of the students?
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That is the true beauty of this and it definitely makes it a conundrum for the times.
Now if in a Middle School that was 80% non minority and 5 minorities (pick your flavor) won, the praise would be ringing off the roof tops as how open minded the young minds full of mush really were.
The ONLYIEST(sic) thing this woman is implanting in the minds is that one of another color doesn’t deserve to govern you...election be damned.
ALL the parents should march on the school and demand this womans resignation plus those of the school board that have allowed this fiasco to continue.
I guess I should remember that it is not only California BUT San Francisco.
POGO was correct - “WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US”
and WE are as much to blame for virtually sitting back and letting this crap get to this level. Yes, I am just as guilty also.
If whites are only 20% of the school, then wouldn't that make them the minority?
The diverse children who voted for white kids were too stupid to realize they sere voting for a evil white oppressor so the principal was determined that they know this and override the election results.
Some people are born “challenged” and others go to college and make a career out of being stupid and obnoxious.
If the principal really believes her own crap, she should quit and somehow ensure a “diversity” person have her job.
By her, ahem, lack of logic.. she shouldn’t even be principal at that school.
This reminds me of FDR’s attempt to increase the number of the Supreme Court justices by appointing 6 additional justices which would give him a majority Democrat Court. Thankfully FDR’s plan was shot down.
This is satire. Everyone knows there aren’t SF residents under the age of 18.
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