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Concerns raised over lack of diversity in SF school election results

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SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - There’s a bit of controversy surrounding student elections at a San Francisco middle school after the results were immediately withheld by the principal because they weren’t diverse enough.
The incident happened at Everett Middle School in San Francisco’s Mission District. The voting was held Oct. 10, but the principal sent an email to parents on Oct. 14 saying the results would not be released because the candidates that were elected as a whole do not represents the diversity that exists at the school.

Concerns raised over lack of diversity in SF school election results - Story | KTVU

Hey students, we want you to learn about how your vote matters, now vote! Wait, we didn't like what you had to say with your vote, we we, the unelected powers that run things will change things till it meets our need because what you say really isn't important.
 
Well this sure teaches kids all the wrong things...
 
'you're getting this job not because you're the smartest candidate who applied, or because you're the most skilled, or because you have the most experience in the field. you're getting this job because you're the brownest candidate'.
 
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A student government election at a San Francisco middle school had its results ignored after a principal decided the candidates elected were too white.

Elections were held at Everett Middle School Oct. 10, but on Oct. 14 principal Lena Van Haren sent an email to parents saying the results were being ignored, without being made public, because those elected did not reflect how diverse the school is. While Everett is more than 80 percent non-white, Van Haren said the election results “weren’t representative” of that.

“The organizers are saying things like, ‘we want everyone’s voice to be heard,’ but in truth, the voters’ voices are not being heard,” seventh grader Sebastian Kaplan told KRON, another local news station. “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.”

Van Haren went on to say that she is considering a variety of fixes to the problem, including appointing several new positions in order to ensure more minorities are represented without kicking out those who actually won the election.

Read more: School Elections Thrown Out After Too Many Whites Elected | The Daily Caller

Looks like the principal has a magic pen too. Damn the vote! Create perceived "fairness".

The student body, I mean the principal, has spoken!
 
Clearly, the kids need to be taught that voting with their eyes is more important than voting with their brains.
 
this reminds me of that fire station where they threw out all the promotion tests because not enough minority people passed it.
I was like what a load of bull.

if I was the kids I would just refuse to vote again, and scrap the whole thing and tell the principle you are going to pick who no
matter what.

then say this is the perfect example of a dictatorship in action.
 
Well this sure teaches kids all the wrong things...

This country is increasingly choosing a social justice agenda over the original premise of individual liberty and this particular incident is merely one more example of that trend. In 50 years (perhaps less) we will no longer be a free nation or, rather, "freedom" will have been redefined as "the right to not be subject to things which cause physical or emotional distress".
 
Concerns raised over lack of diversity in SF school election results - Story | KTVU

Hey students, we want you to learn about how your vote matters, now vote! Wait, we didn't like what you had to say with your vote, we we, the unelected powers that run things will change things till it meets our need because what you say really isn't important.



Forget the issue of social agendas or diversity, the problem here is one principal. One guy decides it isn't right so goes Obama and issues an executive order.

This is a great way to teach democracy.

Sorry, but I live in a very diverse area, in the most diverse city in the most diverse country in the world. And minority rights are not furthered when one petty dictator vetoes an election.

I would take that one to court
 
Forget the issue of social agendas or diversity, the problem here is one principal. One guy decides it isn't right so goes Obama and issues an executive order.

This is a great way to teach democracy.

Sorry, but I live in a very diverse area, in the most diverse city in the most diverse country in the world. And minority rights are not furthered when one petty dictator vetoes an election.

I would take that one to court
I just hope those kids realize what happened, and think moving forward.
 
This country is increasingly choosing a social justice agenda over the original premise of individual liberty and this particular incident is merely one more example of that trend. In 50 years (perhaps less) we will no longer be a free nation or, rather, "freedom" will have been redefined as "the right to not be subject to things which cause physical or emotional distress".

that is how freedom is slowly lost is the losing of freedoms for some preconceived notion of social justice.
that equal outcome is the only fair way regardless of ones efforts or struggles.
 
Forget the issue of social agendas or diversity, the problem here is one principal. One guy decides it isn't right so goes Obama and issues an executive order.

This is a great way to teach democracy.

Sorry, but I live in a very diverse area, in the most diverse city in the most diverse country in the world. And minority rights are not furthered when one petty dictator vetoes an election.

I would take that one to court

other than a freedom of speech issue what would a court do?
they would likely toss it on grounds that no damage was done.

however a free speech issue is a good likelihood.

this thing has caught fire and is all over the place.
 
Forget the issue of social agendas or diversity, the problem here is one principal. One guy decides it isn't right so goes Obama and issues an executive order.

This is a great way to teach democracy.

Sorry, but I live in a very diverse area, in the most diverse city in the most diverse country in the world. And minority rights are not furthered when one petty dictator vetoes an election.

I would take that one to court

What I was thinking. I grew up in Surrey when it was lily-white. When I went to my old high-school to pick up my son about ten years ago I couldn't believe the ethnic variety of the students. It's a little U.N. on the grounds at lunchtime and the term 'diversity' never comes up, there's never any concern about one group having more or less representation than another.It all just works organically.
It's kinda funny- some Americans accuse Canada of being a left-wing society but this kind of social manipulation and interference by authority would never fly here. I think Canada represents liberalism over leftism.
 
What I was thinking. I grew up in Surrey when it was lily-white. When I went to my old high-school to pick up my son about ten years ago I couldn't believe the ethnic variety of the students. It's a little U.N. on the grounds at lunchtime and the term 'diversity' never comes up, there's never any concern about one group having more or less representation than another.It all just works organically.
It's kinda funny- some Americans accuse Canada of being a left-wing society but this kind of social manipulation and interference by authority would never fly here. I think Canada represents liberalism over leftism.

It is more than funny, it is eerie how well it works. My goal, now that I'm retired, is finding out why. In it's most simplistic form, it works because of climate; the first Europeans had to learn to become like the indigenous people to survive, starting with maple syrup, furs to smoked salmon. If ever you have the time, give John Ralston Saul a read. The guy is a pompous ass and was an embarrassment to Canada as consort to the Governor General, but he makes [elaborately] a valid point about how we, Europeans, adopted more of indigenous Canadian's culture than we realize.

It passes on too. You can tell the difference between first and second generation Canadians, the first are trying to be polite and **** [sometimes not] but the next generation gets Canada. Our immigration policy has never really varied, we expect newcommers to adopt more of our ways and attitudes than we theirs. We don't tolerate, we absorb.
 
It is more than funny, it is eerie how well it works. My goal, now that I'm retired, is finding out why. In it's most simplistic form, it works because of climate; the first Europeans had to learn to become like the indigenous people to survive, starting with maple syrup, furs to smoked salmon.

Some of that, too, was the Hudson's Bay Company recruiting in the highlands of Scotland. There were no people in Europe more ideally suited to fitting in with the natives in Canada and the north. They were both clannish, they were both pagans at heart and they were both mistreated by and mistrusted the English. Okay, that last was maybe pushing it but you get my meaning. There's a Metis culture in Canada, my wife's Metis and has treaty daughters, and as far as I know there's no equivalent in the US.

If ever you have the time, give John Ralston Saul a read. The guy is a pompous ass and was an embarrassment to Canada as consort to the Governor General, but he makes [elaborately] a valid point about how we, Europeans, adopted more of indigenous Canadian's culture than we realize.

I believe that. I've spent a lot of time in the north, here and there, and I'm sure that the regional differences I've seen have a lot to do with the different native cultures.

It passes on too. You can tell the difference between first and second generation Canadians, the first are trying to be polite and **** [sometimes not] but the next generation gets Canada. Our immigration policy has never really varied, we expect newcommers to adopt more of our ways and attitudes than we theirs. We don't tolerate, we absorb.

I dunno about that one. If I read you right. I once read someone say that America was a melting pot- everyone who went in came out American, whereas Canada is a mosaic. I kinda like that, and I like that it seems to be working.
 
Some of that, too, was the Hudson's Bay Company recruiting in the highlands of Scotland. There were no people in Europe more ideally suited to fitting in with the natives in Canada and the north. They were both clannish, they were both pagans at heart and they were both mistreated by and mistrusted the English. Okay, that last was maybe pushing it but you get my meaning. There's a Metis culture in Canada, my wife's Metis and has treaty daughters, and as far as I know there's no equivalent in the US.



I believe that. I've spent a lot of time in the north, here and there, and I'm sure that the regional differences I've seen have a lot to do with the different native cultures.



I dunno about that one. If I read you right. I once read someone say that America was a melting pot- everyone who went in came out American, whereas Canada is a mosaic. I kinda like that, and I like that it seems to be working.



I am not particularly fond of the term Metis, but anywhere else they would be THE people of a region. The fact is we all got along for the most part, the US spread through conquest, the "Indian Wars", where this country was populated in sections. Initially that term "mosiac' meant geographic, as in the French in the North East, English in Upper Canada, Scots and Irish in Lower Canada, Ukrainians on the Prairies. But I like your version and it's true. I don't know that it's still true about the melting pot, today we have hyphened Americans, and always there is the black/white issue, a current that runs through every ethnic meeting there.

I like that, we are a mosaic, those who come here adopt enough of our culture to be Canadian but retain enough of their own to be of that heritage.

Works for me.
 
It's kinda funny- some Americans accuse Canada of being a left-wing society but this kind of social manipulation and interference by authority would never fly here. I think Canada represents liberalism over leftism.

Remember, things like this can only really happen in an exceptional place, like the San Francisco Soviet Republic.

That city is so far to the Left, that it makes New York City look like it should really be part of Mississippi. And this is not really unique.

10 years ago the city School Board kicked out the JROTC program because they thought it militarized schools. A major park is dedicated to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. And at the streetcorner where Unions rioted to try and get there way there is a plaque dedicated to their cause.

These kinds of manipulations would not fly anywhere else in the US either. But the City & County of San Francisco has long lived in it's own little world. Where reality does not matter, just so they think they get the ideas they want.
 
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