Seventh grader, Seabastian Kaplan used logic when explaining this situation to the media by saying that the whole school voted for these students, so it’s not like they rigged anything. If the organizers want everyone’s voice to be heard, this seems like a good way to silence them.
According to KTVU, Van Haren wants this to be a “learning experience” for those involved. But at a glance, it’s not clear what the lesson is, beyond telling kids their vote doesn’t fully count if they don’t vote for the right skin colors.
Update, 11:47 p.m.: According to UCLA professor Eugene Volokh, blogging at The Washington Post, Van Haren has partly changed course due to the backlash.
“When we reviewed the results of our Associated Student Body (ASB) elections on Friday, October 9th, we saw that it was not fully representative of our school population,” Van Haren said in a statement. “I made the decision to pause on sharing the results with the students in order to capitalize on a teachable moment. I wanted to have a conversation with all of the candidates and ask for their ideas to make sure that all voices and groups are represented in our ASB. In retrospect, I understand how this decision to pause created concerns. Today I visited classrooms to announce the winners of the elections.”
It sounds like Principal Van Haren would make a great member of the Obama Administration, her quest for social justice being a double-edged sword. By modifying the student government to be made up more of minorities, she’s teaching students that it’s okay to value one race over another. And in the end, doesn’t that completely defeat the purpose of an election? According to The Washington Post, Van Haren has somewhat changed course due to the backlash.
Source: dailycaller.com
She needs to be fired immediately and prevented from ever being a principal again
Maybe we should have cancelled a presidential election in which a black man was elected in a country where the black population is only 20%
tell the principal to bend the kids over and check their butt holes..i am sure they would be brown enough for her.
Last year, 2019, was not an Obama led America. But, she is completely ridiculous. If the majority of the school is non-white, and they elected mostly white leaders, the kids know more than the principal. No surprise there.
Um, why do they have a White principal? She needs to go, for inclusiveness purposes.
Respectfully,
Please date your articles AND please include a timeline date if you’re able and you’re intelligent enough, and this request goes out to everyone dredging up stuff from the past! It should be your standard policy if you’re going to be sharing anything but current events and even current events should ALWAYS be dated in your postings.
What she did was blatantly racist.
How can this be racist if they were in a minority
Group to begin with?
Reverse discrimination.