OPINION: Laurance Lem Lee hopes that 'maybe someday the board of education commissioners will look around and realize they are in charge. They are the ones who have the power to push the district to bring begged-for, yet neglected, change.'
The San Francisco Board of Education, under president Jenny Lam, made unusual recent choices — selecting Matt Wayne to become superintendent and focusing on better governance and improving student outcomes. Then they returned to old ways and held a meeting of adults talking with — and sometimes screaming at — each other, admonishing newly appointed Commissioner Ann Hsu about her inflammatory racial comments on a November election candidate questionnaire.
Board President Lam said at the start of the Tuesday special meeting that the discussion to consider admonishing Hsu had to occur. I disagree. I disagree not because I embrace Commissioner Hsu’s words. I disagree not because I am Chinese American. I disagree because this board of education jumped at the chance to go back to its old ways, to the neglect of students, to the neglect of so much other needed work that they themselves had planned.
Yet the students got no tangible gains — other than further animosity, further venting, further distancing for the adults. Lam even called a meeting recess when tensions peaked. Board Vice President Kevine Boggess pushed back on criticism that the admonishment of another commissioner was unnecessary. He said, “This isn’t performative. It’s about addressing racism and institutional racism.”
Commissioner Mark Sanchez said he seeks to pursue a vote of no confidence in Hsu, as he believes admonishment is an insufficient and merely symbolic action for her candidate statement and ensuing apologies. But what is the appropriate retribution, especially given Hsu is up for election in three months?
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