OPINION: Local media persist in calling San Francisco “progressive.” I have a news flash: Racially segregated and radically unequal schools are old-fashioned bigotry; they are not progressive.
When rental prices dropped last summer, I was finally able to return my son to the city of his birth. Too late to play the San Francisco public school lottery, we found an opening at a “good” school. Surely, I thought, my ninth grader would get a solid education at any S.F. high school.
I sat down in the office. I knew there was no way the uber-competitive wealthy white professionals I’d worked with in San Francisco put up with this for their kids. My son and I did some quick Googling and, in seconds, we had our answer: Wealthy white families were indeed not putting up with it — they’d left the building.
We liberals criticized President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind policy, but then Barack Obama did little different from his predecessor, and most non-wealthy California students got left far behind. Educational disparity turns out to be a statewide problem — California’s resegregation of schools and the public schools’ myriad problems educating children have both drawn national attention.
We now know the achievement gaps have been widening under this “let no child advance” policy. EdSource reports that 2021 math scores of California’s average eighth graders on standardized tests are equivalent to the scores of fifth graders — part of a year-by-year decline that started before COVID. And the most recent SFUSD performance data indicates that 55% of students do not meet standards in English language arts.
On a tour of this campus, I asked every student guide where they went to middle school — all but one had gone to private middle schools. Admission requirements that can only be met by middle school students at private schools are the opposite of inclusive.
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