The City’s public school teachers union, United Educators of San Francisco, called for the resignation of Board of Education Commissioner Ann Hsu on Thursday evening following her comment earlier this week claiming Black and brown parents do not encourage their children to excel at learning.
“From my very limited exposure in the past four months to the challenges of educating marginalized students especially in the black and brown community, I see one of the biggest challenges as being the lack of family support for those students. Unstable family environments caused by housing and food insecurity along with lack of parental encouragement to focus on learning cause children to not be able to focus on or value learning.
Mayor London Breed, who appointed Hsu to the board in March, said that while the comments were “disappointing and hurtful” to the African American and Latino communities, she appreciated Hsu’s apology and how Hsu said she will use this as a learning opportunity. Matt Wayne, who became the district’s new superintendent this month, has made no statement. According to San Francisco Unified School District's public relations manager, Laura Dudnick, “It is not the practice of staff to comment on matters related to school board elections.”“It is sad and stunning that someone who is supposed to represent the interests of all San Francisco public school students responded in a written candidate survey with racist and offensive comments.
Oh-My-GodOmniabsolute=Universe'sGravity: Thus, SF, CA isn't getting much done with all the Internal-Civil-Wars within. [FYI, duh & now you know]..
So, the communists
Sounds to me like she is a proponent of charter schools and this is how she expressed it. I can understand why right wing Breed would have appointed her.