Criticism of Woke San Fran School Board members ramps up in recall efforts

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Sometimes awakening may not save you, even in the most awake place on Earth.

The effort to recall three radical or perhaps more radical than usual school board members in San Francisco is gaining momentum.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that support for the plan rose 15% between polls conducted in February and May.

Affected members Alison Collins, Gabriela Lpez and Faauuga Moliga started in hot water when 60% of those polled five months ago said they should be called back.

In the May survey, support for the plan stood at 69%.

Overall, according to the Chronicle, 71 percent of people disapprove of the performance of school boards as a whole while only 10 percent approve.

That’s up from a negative 57% in February.

The pollster told The Chronicle that just five years ago those numbers were reversed, with the board showing a preference rating of 60%.

We have a lot of San Franciscans who are quite ready to call back the school board, a representative of the polling company told the newspaper.

Supporters of the recall have gathered more than half of the roughly 51,000 signatures they need to force the question for each member onto the ballot. They have until September 7 to collect the rest. Supporters believe they can make it happen because they have now raised enough funds to hire signature collectors.

The Free Press reported in May that the council itself voted to strip Collins of her vice-president title after posting old tweets in which she referred to Asian Americans as the word N. Collins had also accused Asians of using white supremacist thinking to move forward.

Collins is black, by the way.

Meanwhile, on other matters, the board woke up to rename more than 40 schools, then learned that many mistakes had been made in identifying why schools should be renamed.

When made aware of the mistakes, Lopez, the chairman of the board, instead of acknowledging the mistakes, blamed critics for trying to discredit the process.

In another example, a white male parent was kicked out of an advisory board because he was not diverse enough, even though he was gay.

And the council also voted to drop an elite high school entrance exam because too many Asians were passing.

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