Please excuse my light hearted comment to this important issue well articulated.

“a Democrat, told our families that preparing for tests was like using illegal “performance enhancement drugs”. ”

The first England cricket team to play in Australia lost badly. The were most upset because those dastardly Aussies had been practicing.

I’m Asian and I’m sick to the death of the liberal left, and especially anti racist types, using us as a tool. They court Asians when we’re convenient and then throw us in with white supremacy we aren’t.

I grew up in urban poverty and for several years my father and I were on welfare (then known as AFDC). Although our home lacked a TV, we had books aplenty, and my father insisted that I learn to read and do basic math operations before I started kindergarten, He was a factory worker that rarely slept more than 5 hours a night trying to raise me alone, while taking the time to educate me to the best of his ability. By eight, he had me reading aloud every night from adult books (one example I thought was particularly boring was the American State papers, which I now treasure). My equally poor friends in the neighborhood had TV’s, trashy magazines, and little parental involvement in their education. I now have a PhD in chemistry while the people that I have managed to track from the neighborhood are working poor at best. I am white and the majority from the neighborhood are Black or Latinx. I did not succeed because of the lack of melanin in my skin, and the neighborhood kids that I knew did not fail because of the melanin in their skin. The difference was worldview and individual and group culture. Every time I have a “person of color” jabbing their finger in my face accusing me of succeeding because of privilege all I can think about is going hungry, being a latchkey kid, getting little from public schools, and my exhausted father busting his behind to try and make sure my life was better than his. Oh, and the years of living in poverty while I worked my way through eleven years of college. I’ll try to remember how privileged I’ve been because of my melanin deficiency.

“Take ‘em out….”

Ann, the Chinese lady….

Having watched this video a second time, let me offer some points for UnHerd readers:

1. The headline is wildly wrong, this is not a victory. It’s like Ukraine declaring victory after killing 3 Russian soldiers;
2. San Francisco is a one party city in a one party state—I think Shiva mentioned that voter resignation is 86% D, reflecting a shocking lack of unanimity. I would encourage you to visit SF to see what one party rule looks like; good luck!
3. The teachers unions in SF and in the US are particularly strong, essentially impossible to oppose (this is the rare exception), as it is unthinkable to oppose apple pie, Thanksgiving, and the Teachers Unions;
4. Getting the schools open was never the goal of the Teachers union and the board;
5. And, in fairness, there are benefits to keeping the schools closed that oddly went unmentioned in the video. Stay with me, Gentle Reader. Imagine the psychic harm and actual violence of a student in an American city forced to walk into a school every day named George Washington School! The moderator did a poor job in not exploring how these young minds were actually saved by not being subject to this extreme and repetitive violence every day.
6. Fun fact: Did you catch the white lady say that there are students in SF high schools who can’t read?  
7. Another fun fact: Shiva, and perhaps others, kept banging on about how “we” must do this, and “we” must do that? Who is we? Some kids come from family backgrounds that do not value education, do not value anything really, and these are the ones that have the most kids. If Shiva means “we” the school system, well then “we” don’t really care about the kids education anyway, with the exception of making them woke.  
8. Ann, the Chinese lady, raised in passing an interesting point that perhaps is not fully understood by non-American readers. She said that these policies were aimed directly at diluting the number of Asian kids in these elite classrooms (See, Point 6 above). I think that non-American readers might think—isn’t it great to increase “diversity” in elite schools! Maybe. But if the issue was presented as follows: Asian kids are too smart and are sucking up all the resources. This is a problem and we need to fix it. May I suggest that if you define the problem as a nail, the solution is a hammer? Funny, I’ve never heard anyone say “Hey, the problem with the NBA is that it’s 90% black. We need to make some changes so slow white dudes who can’t jump can make it in representative or better numbers. Why is that?

Finally, I have been called out by some for my colourful language—not the least UnHerd which routinely censors and delays or deletes my posts. To those who call me out, I’d like to address your attention to Ann, the Chinese lady, who said in substance, “I’ve listened, no more listening. Take ‘em out!’

Along those lines, Shiva dropped the f-bomb and so far no one has criticised him in the posts for his shocking and vituperative language, no one has suggested that he not use “foul language” but talk and listen respectfully.

Gentle Readers, this is a war. As Ann said Take ‘em out!  

Lock and load!