S.F. principal delays vote results, saying winners aren’t diverse
"When San Francisco middle school principal Lena Van Haren saw which kids on her campus had been elected to the student council, she was disturbed at the lack of diversity among the winners. There were no Latino or black candidates chosen for the top four spots."
She sent the following message to parents one week after the election to justify why the election results hadn't been released...
“This is complex, but as a parent and a principal, I truly believe it behooves us to be thoughtful about our next steps here so that we can have a diverse student council that is truly representative of all voices at Everett,” she wrote, according to the Chronicle. Van Haren then suggested the school “add positions” to improve diversity, KTVU reported.
The only non-surprise in this situation is that it happened in California. This mini dictator was trying to change the rules after the fact because she wasn't happy with the results. She withheld the results for 10 days while she tried to figure a way to get the "correct" results and then only released them because she was getting started to get majorly called out by the parents, the students and the media.
Fortunately, she made the right decision eventually. But according to reactions of the parents and student, they may have realized the crazy shit SJW's can do.
“The thing that’s so frustrating to me, as a parent and an engaged citizen, is you release the results and then you form committees,” David said. “How can you say, ‘In the name of social justice, we’re going to withhold election results’?”
Why, because the results didn't fit PC Principal's narrative
“I wanted to get more involved and change some things,” Kaplan, a seventh-grader running for class representative, told KRON 4. “I feel like it is disrespectful to all the people who were running,” he said of the strange silence over election results. “The whole school voted for those people, so it is not like people rigged the game. But in a way, now it is kinda being rigged.”
Sorry Kid, you're white. You're opinion isn't wanted here.
“Well, the children’s voices were heard. They just seemed to be less obsessed with race than some administrators are,” wrote UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, in his blog Volokh Conspiracy hosted by The Washington Post.
Excellent summation of the situation
The principal and district are now in full back pedal mode.
District officials called the whole situation “a learning opportunity.”
True, but they learned a different lesson than what you're thinking...
“Of course I look back and we should have communicated the winners right away,” she said. “I could never have predicted things would get to this point.
Hilarious...
“We paused to have a conversation,” she told the Chronicle. “I never, ever said we wouldn’t share the results or they weren’t good enough.
Sorry, I don't believe you...
But.... Obviously PC Principal (and others) are still not "Ok" with results, even though the entire student class voted. I'm guessing that next year's elections will have affirmative action quotas on the student government board. I mean, if the students are unable to figure out how they should vote, then they need to be directed to do it the "right" way.
After relenting and publishing the results — in which “white, Asian, and mixed-race students” were statistically over-represented — the school’s (white) principal pronounced herself “concerned” about whether students’ “voices are all heard,”
Did all the students vote or not? Since they all voted during home period... ??
“It’s not okay for a school that is really, really diverse to have the student representatives majority white,” she told the Chronicle. “The easy thing would have been to announce the results and move on. I intentionally did not choose the easy way because this is so important.”
Not Okay for who? The students who voted for them? Or you?
“If we can’t teach them the right way it’s supposed to work, then we are really just letting our kids down,” Gutierrez said.
Yeah!! Your Social PC Engineering isn't going quite as planned? Need to fix that then
Meanwhile, school administrators are meeting later this week to consider how to get more non-white kids involved in politics. One idea, the principal suggested, is to just add more student government positions.
Now that sounds like something the federal government would do.
Will the nation media pick up and run with this story? Because it's an excellent example of true danger when the PC Police runs wild and unchecked. The only question left for me is how far would PC Principal and the Administration have gone with this if they hadn't been called out?
