OPINION: The school board recall happened because ideology was overshadowing education. And this November, voters will be headed back to jump that same hurdle.
I got my 15 minutes of fame when I found Alison Collins’ infamous tweets deriding Asians as “house n----rs” who “use white supremacist thinking to assimilate and ‘get ahead.’” My critics are correct that I deliberately searched for these tweets. I wanted to confirm what I observed from Collins and her colleague and fierce supporter, Gabriela López, during school board meetings — a disdain for and willingness to overlook the needs of Asian constituents.
I am here to sound the alarm. Three Board of Education candidates for the Nov. 8 election are, unfortunately, motivated by ideology over educating students. A focus on ideology means we can expect to hear endless soliloquies on equity, uplifting marginalized voices and how everything is “racist” while literacy, math and chronic absenteeism outcomes for the most disadvantaged continue to decline.
Alida Fisher is running for the third time and is so driven by ideology that she expressed strong support for Collins during the recall. Yes, despite the tweets and lawsuit. In a video, filmed during a previous school board run, she reveals she supports getting rid of eighth grade algebra, and “doesn’t think the concept of Lowell is equitable” because we “have a lot of tests that are not culturally normed.
Ideology is not a practical thing. It consumes time and wastes energy without producing anything of value. Ideology drove our recalled school board members and cost SFUSD hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal defense. Ideology even gave us a struggle session: an entire school board meeting that did absolutely nothing for students. What is the ideology that the above candidates promote? Equal outcomes.
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