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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of parents who live in communal housing in San Francisco are organizing with a singular message: Keep our kids out of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org/\">The Chinatown Community Development Center\u003c/a>, which owns and operates communal housing in the city, measured that fear directly: Of 294 families living in such housing who answered a recent survey, representing roughly 400 SFUSD students, 70% oppose in-person learning for their kids, and only 30% are in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those families surveyed lived in Chinatown, and many identify as Chinese or Chinese American, said the Chinatown CDC. The organization surveyed its tenants who have at least one child under 18 living in their household, by phone the week before SFUSD's fall semester started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who support in-person learning largely said they were worried about unemployment benefits expiring in September, and need to send their children back to school so the adults can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, those who oppose bringing their kids back to school are especially concerned that children under 12 are not yet vaccinated, and are worried that schools aren’t providing enough ventilation. They also voiced concern over COVID transmission on public transit and asked whether school buses could help mitigate that concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the opposition to in-person learning, many of these families don't have much of a choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new data comes after more than a year of public drumbeating to reopen schools during the pandemic voiced by the city’s most vocal parents — with “decrease the distance!” becoming their signature rallying cry — leading into the San Francisco Unified School District opening its doors to kids in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just one week before that fateful day, on Aug. 10, a swarm of equally furious parents stormed SFUSD’s monthly (virtual) meeting. Their request? The exact opposite the public had heard for months. These parents wanted their kids to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,000 of them — mostly Chinese and Chinese American — signed a petition asking SFUSD to offer more options for their kids to safely evade the increasingly spreading delta variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are concerned that the start of in-person learning in Fall will lead to greater infection rates, not only in the children themselves, but also for vulnerable family members,” their letter read. “We do not wish to force distance learning upon everyone, but believe it is imperative to provide it to those families who need it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883330\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11883330 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut.jpeg\" alt='Protest sign saying \"I want school! Full time. I miss my friends\" in foreground of crowd before City Hall. Protestors in yellow T-shirts, Mayor Breed at podium in background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut-1536x1022.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed speaks during a rally to reopen San Francisco public schools on March 13, 2021, the one-year anniversary of school buildings being closed. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That effort comes as no surprise to Jen Chan, resident services manager at the Chinatown CDC, who works with families who live in the organization's single-room occupancy housing, many of whom are Chinese and Chinese American. She says living conditions may be one reason those families would prefer to keep their kids at home, especially in single-room occupancy housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SROs are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866033/i-dont-care-if-the-state-says-we-cant-sf-officials-say-city-should-vaccinate-at-risk-sro-residents\">communal spaces where families often live in a single room, sharing kitchens and bathrooms with tenants on the same floor\u003c/a> — families who may be especially concerned about being unable to quarantine should the worst happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a lot of fear,” Chan said. And that fear may be particular to the Chinese community due to hard-lived experience, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our families were immigrants, right? They have heard of the outbreaks of SARS, the outbreak of COVID in their home countries in Hong Kong and in China. And they understand and have been impacted by people getting sick in their family. Deaths in their family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notion that scores of parents want their kids to stay at home may be a surprise to those reading news headlines for the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local news has for months \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-teachers-share-demands-for-returning-to-15927867.php\">amplified the voices of more organized groups like Decreasing the Distance.\u003c/a> Some of those more amplified voices are calling for schools to reopen sooner rather than later, and are even recalling San Francisco school board members based on the idea that they single-handedly kept kids home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their message has largely dominated the conversation about schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it came time to finally let kids back in classrooms, the 450 online spots for distance learning provided by the district were quickly gobbled up. The school district has admitted 700 students who applied by July 30 to be in their online learning program, said SFUSD spokesperson Laura Dudnick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that isn’t the sum total of the students wanting to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To accommodate that growing number, SFUSD opened its applications for one of two independent learning programs with a deadline of Aug. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Dudnick added, “we strongly encourage students who are able to participate in in-person learning to do so, as it is the best option for the vast majority of students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the number of families who want distance learning may be far higher than the official ones known to SFUSD. Chan told KQED some who desire distance learning haven’t applied for fear of losing priority in their desired schools, and many think distance learning isn’t even an option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s one they’d take if they had the chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pushing for more open spots, local parents and parents of kids in SRO hotels are organizing for their own interests, demanding more distance learning options. KQED has seen screenshots of their group discussions on WeChat — the social media platform of choice for many in the Chinese community — with more than 800 people clamoring for distance learning options. [aside tag=\"education,remote-learning\" label=\"More Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a second letter, sent Aug. 24, the families laid out their requests: rapid testing available for students of SRO families, SFUSD staff who can be point people to work with SRO families to ensure safety precautions are catered to their specific situations, more choices in remote learning, more language access for school emails to parents and, most of all, more input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All decisions must be made with SRO families, by them, and resolutions of their concerns,\" the letter reads. \"Families demand to be engaged so that they can provide meaningful input and direct policies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Education President Gabriela López says she's working on a resolution with fellow board members to call on the district to address the SRO families' specific asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been hearing from and connecting with many families in order to address these serious concerns,\" López said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD Board of Education commissioner Jenny Lam also has been meeting with these SRO families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been hearing from families for many months as we've been planning the full return,\" Lam said. \"The timing is, while we were returning to in-person [learning], the delta variant was also surging through the city and throughout the state. We are seeing that stabilization now of the delta variant and the positive cases, but certainly empathize and understand the concerns from families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lam characterized these concerns as a recent development, the desire to maintain distance learning has been bubbling up for months, Chan from Chinatown CDC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as far back as April, Lang Xie, another Chinatown SRO resident, shared similar concerns with KQED — even before the delta variant reared its head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xie lives in an SRO with her husband and 10-year-old daughter, Vicky, who attends Gordon J. Lau Elementary School. Both Xie and her husband are fully vaccinated but said they feel uncomfortable sending Vicky back to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my opinion, it is still kind of concerning. Even though we are vaccinated, the risk of being infected is still there. If there is nothing important, we would avoid going outside as much as possible,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like others who live in SRO hotels, sharing a single room means they have no space to quarantine from one another, a concern Xie shares, despite some city resources open to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of those fears, Vicky learned from home during the spring semester, only returning to Gordon J. Lau Elementary School in the fall — but only because the family felt they had no other options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicky was far from alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of roughly 750 students at Gordon J. Lau Elementary School, only 13 returned during the first week of school last April when in-person learning started again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school is more than 80% Asian, and many students are Chinese, with the school sitting squarely in Chinatown, right along Stockton Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD, then, had long seen signs that many Chinese families weren’t ready to return to school, even before the delta variant rose. And San Francisco isn’t unique in that regard. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Surveys have shown this for months\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Multiple surveys conducted during the pandemic have shown a stark divide in who wants to return to in-person learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the pandemic, no matter what level of response was given, the ratios were often the same: White families overwhelmingly want to return to school, and Black and Latino families often want to return, but by a far slimmer majority than White families. But Asian families, and Chinese families in particular, are often far less likely to wish to return to in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> the latest month available, just 27% of Asian families of fourth graders nationally were enrolled in in-person instruction, versus 66% of white families, \u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/schoolsurvey/\">according to a survey by the Institute of Education Sciences\u003c/a>. The institute is the statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And according to that same survey, a whopping 51% of Asian families preferred to learn remotely, compared to just 14% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closer to home, in an Oakland Unified School District survey circulated in March, 44% of Asian families were ready to return to in-person learning, the smallest number of any ethnic group. And in one December survey conducted by SFUSD, only 36% of Asian families said they’re returning to in-person learning, versus 80% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People living in SRO buildings — like the tenants highlighted by the Chinatown Community Development Center’s survey — feel particularly vulnerable to COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything’s communal [in an SRO],\" Chan said. “It’s a big worry that other units are going to spread [COVID] to them and vice versa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866067\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866067 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1.jpg\" alt=\"Long, spare, clean hallway with older Chinese residents standing in their doorways\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1570\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-800x654.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-1020x834.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-160x131.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-1536x1256.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of single-room occupancy hotels fear they have little ability to quarantine due to living in close quarters, with shared bathrooms and kitchens. Seen here, residents of an SRO building on Clayton Street in San Francisco pose for a photo in May 2020. (Photo courtesy Chinatown Community Development Center) \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Chinatown Community Development Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To date, 1,397 people living in SROs have tested positive for COVID-19, spread across 269 SRO buildings, with 26 deaths as a result of the virus, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/data/covid-19-single-room-occupancies-sros\">according to the city's COVID-19 dashboard\u003c/a>. By April, roughly 412 people from SROs had stayed in city-provided quarantine sites. The statistics are no longer publicly posted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In theory, San Francisco does provide hotel rooms for people living in SROs without their own space to separate when sick. But health professionals don’t always recommend those rooms as an option for SRO residents, and residents don’t always know of their existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one such tightly packed SRO building, Jun Chang Tan lives in a single room with his wife, 15-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. He lived on unemployment for most of the summer, after his wife lost her job at a salon that closed during the pandemic and he lost hours at his job as a custodian, a job he only regained a few months ago. During the pandemic, his kids have largely learned from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan said in April that he didn’t want his children returning to school yet. He says he can’t be sure they’re safe from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city prioritized SRO residents for the vaccine, and Tan and his wife eagerly got their shots. But with no space to quarantine, Tan didn’t want his kids to risk becoming infected at school, and he especially fears the vaccine will not protect against new variants of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though you are vaccinated, there is still a risk,” Tan says. “If they come in contact with COVID at school and bring it back home, then I do not have enough room because we live in a small apartment.” [aside tag=\"covid-19,coronavirus\" label=\"more COVID-19 coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED asked Commissioner Lam if, were she speaking directly to Tan, she would say that sending his children back to school is safe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say yes, it is,\" Lam said. \"I would encourage Mr. Tan that absolutely we have the proper protocols and guidelines in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam is a parent herself, with two SFUSD high schoolers already returning to school. Lam said for learning's sake — and emotional well-being — learning in person is the best option for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the fall semester, Tan did let his daughter return to school because, he said, he has no feasible choice, and because SFUSD had too few slots for distance learning. He also thinks SFUSD has too high of a requirement to prove your kid can be kept out of school — namely, one of two programs available asks kids who are “medically fragile” to apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Tan finally let his daughter return to Yick Wo Elementary for the fall semester, however, they got a phone call on the third day: Class would be canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A kid in his daughter’s class tested positive for COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been 71 reported positive cases in pre-K through fifth grade elementary schools in SFUSD, and 16 reported positive cases in pre-K through eighth grade schools, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/covid-19-response-updates-and-resources/health-and-safety-guidelines/when-someone-gets-sick/covid-19-testing-dashboard\">according to SFUSD's COVID dashboard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Community-minded solutions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back at Gordon J. Lau Elementary School in April, Principal Gloria Choy sat near a sobbing child dressed in a Spider-Man costume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the families who were fearful to return during that spring semester, and to more broadly return, weren’t just afraid of COVID, but of the violence against the Asian community, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885993\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11885993 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Principal Gloria Choy at Gordon Lau Elementary School in San Francisco's Chinatown on April 21, 2021. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Choy’s school families was attacked riding a Muni bus from Market Street to pick up a free Wi-Fi hot spot from Gordon J. Lau in March. “This person was eyeing them the whole time. And when she got on the bus, the person yanked her backpack and her purse,” Choy said. The would-be thief got frustrated when bystanders tried to help. He “got upset, and just punched her in the face. So my [school] parents, they’re afraid,” Choy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And families fear that violence may continue even as the pandemic subsides and children return to school in droves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 50% of SFUSD elementary school families traditionally commute by car, 25% walk, 10% take public transit and 10% take yellow school buses, according to district data. But Choy’s school has a much higher proportion of kids busing from outside the neighborhood. About half of Gordon J. Lau families live on the other side of the city, Choy says. They all take Muni in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate’s most recent national count saw 9,081 hate incidents reported to the organization from March 19, 2020, through June 2021. Of those hate incidents, 10% were reported by kids age 17 and younger. This number likely undercounts the rate of hate incidents against kids, the organization says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stop AAPI Hate Youth Campaign conducted in the summer of 2020 found that 77% of AAPI youth surveyed were angry over anti-Asian hate in the U.S., with 60% expressing disappointment over racism, and 30% of AAPI youth expressing fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/reports/\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a> also released a report on racism’s effects on Asian youth, alongside a long list of recommendations for policymakers and school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them: asking school officials to denounce hate, integrating ethnic studies and anti-racism curricula into coursework, establishing anonymous reporting systems for bullying, holding trainings with teachers and faculty on anti-Asian hate and discrimination, and boosting multilingual outreach to parents and families with culturally responsive mental health resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a few of these recommendations are already underway: In March the San Francisco Board of Education made ethnic studies a graduation requirement, and they have disseminated an extensive and ever-growing document to educators with resources on emotionally processing and combating hate against the AAPI community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vincent Matthews, SFUSD’s superintendent, addressed that fear back in a March school board meeting, and has done so repeatedly since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic has brought a lot of pain and suffering for many, and with it conspiracy theories scapegoating the Asian community for the COVID-19 pandemic,” Matthews said in March. “We have to stand together against violence perpetrated against any member of our community, and right now there is an increase in violence against our Asian brothers and sisters. It is unacceptable and we must recommit ourselves to creating safe communities for each and every person. Your child’s physical and emotional safety is our priority whether we are in distance learning or in person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFUnified/status/1379494112919838722\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Commissioner Lam also said she attended a town hall for monolingual Chinese families just in August, where she and her colleagues did their best to hear the concerns of families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the district has held Cantonese-language town halls, Lai Wa Wu, a policy director from the Chinese Progressive Association, said it felt like the community was being talked to, not with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not so much giving them more information, it's about shifting, creating spaces for there to be real long-term dialogue,” she said. “And that includes resourcing these spaces and taking these spaces seriously, where you give information to the community to help them make more informed decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hearing that concern, Lam said she's making an effort to get more staff to bridge the gap with the SRO community, and the monolingual Chinese community. She's hoping to arrange a meeting between their representatives and Superintendent Matthews soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're living through a pandemic that we have not lived through before in over a century. So certainly there are a lot of unknowns and certainty how we live through this together, and we are calling upon our institutions to be able to serve its people,\" Lam said. \"And so I take that responsibility wholeheartedly. Are there things that the district needs to do better? Of course, we always need to be doing better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Principal Choy, the solutions need not be grandiose. Even the simple act of providing yellow school buses for kids to avoid attacks on public transit would be a huge help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other solutions may require even more legwork. [ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bringing kids back\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to one of the only 13 students to return to Gordon J. Lau Elementary School in April: Amy Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On her first day back in the spring, Amy was more than ready for school: She dressed in her warm kitty-cat sweater and carried her pink backpack on her shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joyce — Amy’s mother — and Amy's story shows something unique, Principal Choy says: trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joyce was relieved when Amy returned to school in the spring. She volunteers at a local YMCA doing relief work with families hit hard by the pandemic and can take work meetings with more ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am always happy to find the time to do volunteer work and help out the community. Because we are from a low-income family, my abilities are limited and I am only able to help to a certain extent,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So while Amy returned to school before hundreds of her peers, the Lee family also has an advantage many of her classmates don’t: She lives in the same neighborhood as her school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A staple of San Francisco’s historic Chinatown since 1952, the Ping Yuen affordable housing project on Pacific Avenue is home to more than 400 people. That includes Amy and Joyce. And on that particular Wednesday \u003cstrong>i\u003c/strong>n April, the second day of school, she practically dragged her mom out the door with excitement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amy knows where her classmates are this year: “They’re at Zoom,” she told KQED, as if Zoom were a place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885950\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11885950 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48732_011_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joyce Lee and her daughter Amy check in with Gordon Lau Elementary School staff in San Francisco on April 21, 2021. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As we all walked together to Gordon J. Lau Elementary School, Joyce talked about the advantages of having Amy back in school, especially helpful as COVID ravages the finances of many families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With fewer child-watching duties, Joyce may be able to find additional work to supplement their income. Her husband lost his restaurant job during the pandemic, and they have two other children: a toddler, and a teenager attending Galileo Academy of Science and Technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel safe allowing my children to return to school because the COVID-19 pandemic in the city has already reduced to a lower risk, the vaccine is available now, and the school district and school have held a meeting with parents about returning to campus,” Lee said during the spring semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that trust hasn’t come easily to the rest of the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think some of our Chinese community are still afraid of getting even their shots of vaccines,” Choy says. “I think they have to trust that the vaccine is going to work. I think they have to also trust that our school is going to keep them safe. They're going to have to trust that, you know, when they get on the bus to come to school” they’ll be safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That trust is tenuous. That trust takes time to earn. It takes more than just a translated flyer or a town hall from a school district — it takes resources, effort and genuine back-and-forth conversation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And to assure the safety of the community during the fall semester, that trust needs to come soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some interviews for this story were conducted in Cantonese with the help of a community translator, recorded and later translated for publication. Translations were conducted for KQED by Sophie Liang.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hundreds of parents who live in communal housing in San Francisco are organizing with a singular message: Keep our kids out of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chinatowncdc.org/\">The Chinatown Community Development Center\u003c/a>, which owns and operates communal housing in the city, measured that fear directly: Of 294 families living in such housing who answered a recent survey, representing roughly 400 SFUSD students, 70% oppose in-person learning for their kids, and only 30% are in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those families surveyed lived in Chinatown, and many identify as Chinese or Chinese American, said the Chinatown CDC. The organization surveyed its tenants who have at least one child under 18 living in their household, by phone the week before SFUSD's fall semester started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who support in-person learning largely said they were worried about unemployment benefits expiring in September, and need to send their children back to school so the adults can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, those who oppose bringing their kids back to school are especially concerned that children under 12 are not yet vaccinated, and are worried that schools aren’t providing enough ventilation. They also voiced concern over COVID transmission on public transit and asked whether school buses could help mitigate that concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite the opposition to in-person learning, many of these families don't have much of a choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new data comes after more than a year of public drumbeating to reopen schools during the pandemic voiced by the city’s most vocal parents — with “decrease the distance!” becoming their signature rallying cry — leading into the San Francisco Unified School District opening its doors to kids in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just one week before that fateful day, on Aug. 10, a swarm of equally furious parents stormed SFUSD’s monthly (virtual) meeting. Their request? The exact opposite the public had heard for months. These parents wanted their kids to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,000 of them — mostly Chinese and Chinese American — signed a petition asking SFUSD to offer more options for their kids to safely evade the increasingly spreading delta variant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are concerned that the start of in-person learning in Fall will lead to greater infection rates, not only in the children themselves, but also for vulnerable family members,” their letter read. “We do not wish to force distance learning upon everyone, but believe it is imperative to provide it to those families who need it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11883330\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11883330 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS47777_078_SanFrancisco_ReopenSchoolsMarch_03132021-qut.jpeg\" alt='Protest sign saying \"I want school! Full time. I miss my friends\" in foreground of crowd before City Hall. 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(Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That effort comes as no surprise to Jen Chan, resident services manager at the Chinatown CDC, who works with families who live in the organization's single-room occupancy housing, many of whom are Chinese and Chinese American. She says living conditions may be one reason those families would prefer to keep their kids at home, especially in single-room occupancy housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SROs are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11866033/i-dont-care-if-the-state-says-we-cant-sf-officials-say-city-should-vaccinate-at-risk-sro-residents\">communal spaces where families often live in a single room, sharing kitchens and bathrooms with tenants on the same floor\u003c/a> — families who may be especially concerned about being unable to quarantine should the worst happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a lot of fear,” Chan said. And that fear may be particular to the Chinese community due to hard-lived experience, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our families were immigrants, right? They have heard of the outbreaks of SARS, the outbreak of COVID in their home countries in Hong Kong and in China. And they understand and have been impacted by people getting sick in their family. Deaths in their family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notion that scores of parents want their kids to stay at home may be a surprise to those reading news headlines for the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local news has for months \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-teachers-share-demands-for-returning-to-15927867.php\">amplified the voices of more organized groups like Decreasing the Distance.\u003c/a> Some of those more amplified voices are calling for schools to reopen sooner rather than later, and are even recalling San Francisco school board members based on the idea that they single-handedly kept kids home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their message has largely dominated the conversation about schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it came time to finally let kids back in classrooms, the 450 online spots for distance learning provided by the district were quickly gobbled up. The school district has admitted 700 students who applied by July 30 to be in their online learning program, said SFUSD spokesperson Laura Dudnick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that isn’t the sum total of the students wanting to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To accommodate that growing number, SFUSD opened its applications for one of two independent learning programs with a deadline of Aug. 27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Dudnick added, “we strongly encourage students who are able to participate in in-person learning to do so, as it is the best option for the vast majority of students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the number of families who want distance learning may be far higher than the official ones known to SFUSD. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a second letter, sent Aug. 24, the families laid out their requests: rapid testing available for students of SRO families, SFUSD staff who can be point people to work with SRO families to ensure safety precautions are catered to their specific situations, more choices in remote learning, more language access for school emails to parents and, most of all, more input.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All decisions must be made with SRO families, by them, and resolutions of their concerns,\" the letter reads. \"Families demand to be engaged so that they can provide meaningful input and direct policies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Education President Gabriela López says she's working on a resolution with fellow board members to call on the district to address the SRO families' specific asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been hearing from and connecting with many families in order to address these serious concerns,\" López said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD Board of Education commissioner Jenny Lam also has been meeting with these SRO families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been hearing from families for many months as we've been planning the full return,\" Lam said. \"The timing is, while we were returning to in-person [learning], the delta variant was also surging through the city and throughout the state. We are seeing that stabilization now of the delta variant and the positive cases, but certainly empathize and understand the concerns from families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Lam characterized these concerns as a recent development, the desire to maintain distance learning has been bubbling up for months, Chan from Chinatown CDC said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as far back as April, Lang Xie, another Chinatown SRO resident, shared similar concerns with KQED — even before the delta variant reared its head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Xie lives in an SRO with her husband and 10-year-old daughter, Vicky, who attends Gordon J. Lau Elementary School. Both Xie and her husband are fully vaccinated but said they feel uncomfortable sending Vicky back to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my opinion, it is still kind of concerning. Even though we are vaccinated, the risk of being infected is still there. If there is nothing important, we would avoid going outside as much as possible,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like others who live in SRO hotels, sharing a single room means they have no space to quarantine from one another, a concern Xie shares, despite some city resources open to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of those fears, Vicky learned from home during the spring semester, only returning to Gordon J. Lau Elementary School in the fall — but only because the family felt they had no other options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicky was far from alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of roughly 750 students at Gordon J. Lau Elementary School, only 13 returned during the first week of school last April when in-person learning started again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school is more than 80% Asian, and many students are Chinese, with the school sitting squarely in Chinatown, right along Stockton Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFUSD, then, had long seen signs that many Chinese families weren’t ready to return to school, even before the delta variant rose. And San Francisco isn’t unique in that regard. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Surveys have shown this for months\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Multiple surveys conducted during the pandemic have shown a stark divide in who wants to return to in-person learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the pandemic, no matter what level of response was given, the ratios were often the same: White families overwhelmingly want to return to school, and Black and Latino families often want to return, but by a far slimmer majority than White families. But Asian families, and Chinese families in particular, are often far less likely to wish to return to in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May\u003cstrong>,\u003c/strong> the latest month available, just 27% of Asian families of fourth graders nationally were enrolled in in-person instruction, versus 66% of white families, \u003ca href=\"https://ies.ed.gov/schoolsurvey/\">according to a survey by the Institute of Education Sciences\u003c/a>. The institute is the statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And according to that same survey, a whopping 51% of Asian families preferred to learn remotely, compared to just 14% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closer to home, in an Oakland Unified School District survey circulated in March, 44% of Asian families were ready to return to in-person learning, the smallest number of any ethnic group. And in one December survey conducted by SFUSD, only 36% of Asian families said they’re returning to in-person learning, versus 80% of white families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People living in SRO buildings — like the tenants highlighted by the Chinatown Community Development Center’s survey — feel particularly vulnerable to COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything’s communal [in an SRO],\" Chan said. “It’s a big worry that other units are going to spread [COVID] to them and vice versa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866067\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11866067 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1.jpg\" alt=\"Long, spare, clean hallway with older Chinese residents standing in their doorways\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1570\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-800x654.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-1020x834.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-160x131.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/7c93f304-1-1536x1256.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of single-room occupancy hotels fear they have little ability to quarantine due to living in close quarters, with shared bathrooms and kitchens. 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But health professionals don’t always recommend those rooms as an option for SRO residents, and residents don’t always know of their existence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one such tightly packed SRO building, Jun Chang Tan lives in a single room with his wife, 15-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. He lived on unemployment for most of the summer, after his wife lost her job at a salon that closed during the pandemic and he lost hours at his job as a custodian, a job he only regained a few months ago. During the pandemic, his kids have largely learned from home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tan said in April that he didn’t want his children returning to school yet. He says he can’t be sure they’re safe from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city prioritized SRO residents for the vaccine, and Tan and his wife eagerly got their shots. But with no space to quarantine, Tan didn’t want his kids to risk becoming infected at school, and he especially fears the vaccine will not protect against new variants of the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though you are vaccinated, there is still a risk,” Tan says. “If they come in contact with COVID at school and bring it back home, then I do not have enough room because we live in a small apartment.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED asked Commissioner Lam if, were she speaking directly to Tan, she would say that sending his children back to school is safe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say yes, it is,\" Lam said. \"I would encourage Mr. Tan that absolutely we have the proper protocols and guidelines in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lam is a parent herself, with two SFUSD high schoolers already returning to school. Lam said for learning's sake — and emotional well-being — learning in person is the best option for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the fall semester, Tan did let his daughter return to school because, he said, he has no feasible choice, and because SFUSD had too few slots for distance learning. He also thinks SFUSD has too high of a requirement to prove your kid can be kept out of school — namely, one of two programs available asks kids who are “medically fragile” to apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Tan finally let his daughter return to Yick Wo Elementary for the fall semester, however, they got a phone call on the third day: Class would be canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A kid in his daughter’s class tested positive for COVID.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been 71 reported positive cases in pre-K through fifth grade elementary schools in SFUSD, and 16 reported positive cases in pre-K through eighth grade schools, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/covid-19-response-updates-and-resources/health-and-safety-guidelines/when-someone-gets-sick/covid-19-testing-dashboard\">according to SFUSD's COVID dashboard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Community-minded solutions\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back at Gordon J. Lau Elementary School in April, Principal Gloria Choy sat near a sobbing child dressed in a Spider-Man costume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the families who were fearful to return during that spring semester, and to more broadly return, weren’t just afraid of COVID, but of the violence against the Asian community, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11885993\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11885993 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS48747_026_SanFrancisco_GordonLauElementary_04212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Principal Gloria Choy at Gordon Lau Elementary School in San Francisco's Chinatown on April 21, 2021. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of Choy’s school families was attacked riding a Muni bus from Market Street to pick up a free Wi-Fi hot spot from Gordon J. Lau in March. “This person was eyeing them the whole time. And when she got on the bus, the person yanked her backpack and her purse,” Choy said. The would-be thief got frustrated when bystanders tried to help. He “got upset, and just punched her in the face. So my [school] parents, they’re afraid,” Choy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And families fear that violence may continue even as the pandemic subsides and children return to school in droves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 50% of SFUSD elementary school families traditionally commute by car, 25% walk, 10% take public transit and 10% take yellow school buses, according to district data. But Choy’s school has a much higher proportion of kids busing from outside the neighborhood. About half of Gordon J. Lau families live on the other side of the city, Choy says. They all take Muni in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate’s most recent national count saw 9,081 hate incidents reported to the organization from March 19, 2020, through June 2021. Of those hate incidents, 10% were reported by kids age 17 and younger. This number likely undercounts the rate of hate incidents against kids, the organization says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stop AAPI Hate Youth Campaign conducted in the summer of 2020 found that 77% of AAPI youth surveyed were angry over anti-Asian hate in the U.S., with 60% expressing disappointment over racism, and 30% of AAPI youth expressing fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/reports/\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a> also released a report on racism’s effects on Asian youth, alongside a long list of recommendations for policymakers and school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them: asking school officials to denounce hate, integrating ethnic studies and anti-racism curricula into coursework, establishing anonymous reporting systems for bullying, holding trainings with teachers and faculty on anti-Asian hate and discrimination, and boosting multilingual outreach to parents and families with culturally responsive mental health resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a few of these recommendations are already underway: In March the San Francisco Board of Education made ethnic studies a graduation requirement, and they have disseminated an extensive and ever-growing document to educators with resources on emotionally processing and combating hate against the AAPI community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vincent Matthews, SFUSD’s superintendent, addressed that fear back in a March school board meeting, and has done so repeatedly since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic has brought a lot of pain and suffering for many, and with it conspiracy theories scapegoating the Asian community for the COVID-19 pandemic,” Matthews said in March. “We have to stand together against violence perpetrated against any member of our community, and right now there is an increase in violence against our Asian brothers and sisters. It is unacceptable and we must recommit ourselves to creating safe communities for each and every person. Your child’s physical and emotional safety is our priority whether we are in distance learning or in person.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A bill that cleared another hurdle in the Legislature this week would make a one-semester ethnic studies class a graduation requirement for California high school students, beginning with those graduating in the 2029-30 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB101\">Assembly Bill 101\u003c/a>, authored by Assemblymember Jose Medina, D-Riverside, would require public schools to offer at least one ethnic studies course starting in the 2025-26 school year. The Senate Education Committee passed the measure Wednesday by a 4-2 vote. It heads to the Senate Appropriations Committee next month. If the Senate passes the bill — which was already approved by the Assembly on May 27 — Gov. Gavin Newsom could sign it into law by Oct. 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was first introduced in January 2019 as \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB331\">AB 331\u003c/a>, but Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2020/gov-newsom-vetoes-requirement-for-ethnic-studies-course-in-high-school/640877\">unexpectedly vetoed\u003c/a> it last September, saying the ethnic studies model curriculum needed revising. Medina reintroduced the bill as AB 101 in December — and the California State Board of Education passed an \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/after-8-hours-250-plus-speakers-california-board-adopts-ethnic-studies-model-curriculum/651641\">ethnic studies model curriculum\u003c/a> in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11865712]The model curriculum is voluntary for school districts to adopt and is intended to build upon classes already offered in high schools across the state. It will serve as a guide for schools and lays out the goals and principles of ethnic studies, suggested lesson plans, and instructional approaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said in March that he recognized the importance of introducing a non-ethnocentric curriculum that would teach students of color about their history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After the killing of George Floyd, we sought to provide support to our students for the trauma that the nation, that the world had witnessed,” Thurmond said. “Our students said to us that they wanted to see representations of themselves. They asked us why they didn’t learn about their own histories in school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 101 has the support of organizations such as the California Teachers Association, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities and GENup, a student-led advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big step, no doubt,” Medina said during Wednesday’s hearing. “I think it is something that is overdue in the state and in this country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Sen. 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The Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District is set to pilot its first ethnic studies class this fall — a course asking first-year students to examine power structures in topics like race, nationality, ethnicity and socioeconomic and cultural groups in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11830384 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/1495678.750x-672x372.png']At Saratoga High School, first-year students will have the option of taking either the new ethnic studies class or world geography for a semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Davey, a social studies teacher at Saratoga High, co-created the ethnic studies class. He said he hopes students who take it can continue to address issues they’ll learn about, such as systemic racism and white privilege, throughout the rest of high school — and he emphasized the importance of allowing students to judge facts for themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some kids may not believe [systemic racism and white privilege exist] when they come in, but if you give facts and say, ‘You be the judge of these facts,’ then hopefully they understand the problem,” Davey said. “And then they can work on a solution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davey said his team drew on resources from experts, including the Oakland-based Equal Justice Society, an advocacy group focused on school discipline, the school-to-prison pipeline and inequities in the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Unified School District \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/about-sfusd/sfusd-news/current-news-sfusd/sfusd-adds-ethnic-studies-graduation-requirement\">announced in March\u003c/a> it will make at least two semesters of an ethnic studies class mandatory in its schools starting with the class of 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Unified School District — the largest in the state — and the Fresno Unified School District also have announced plans to require an ethnic studies course for graduation. LAUSD \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/lausd-los-angeles-board-of-education-unified-school-district-ethnic-studies/6390045/\">will require the course\u003c/a> as a graduation requirement by the 2023-24 school year, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article244950637.html\">FUSD\u003c/a> will require it beginning this upcoming school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at least one Bay Area high school has required an ethnic studies class long before current statewide efforts gained steam.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Lessons from Berkeley High, ethnic studies vanguard\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881446\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11881446 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS48817_009_Berkeley_EthnicStudiesDanaMoran_04232021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman, hands in her sweatshirt pocket, stands outside the windowed front of a school.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS48817_009_Berkeley_EthnicStudiesDanaMoran_04232021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS48817_009_Berkeley_EthnicStudiesDanaMoran_04232021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS48817_009_Berkeley_EthnicStudiesDanaMoran_04232021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS48817_009_Berkeley_EthnicStudiesDanaMoran_04232021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/RS48817_009_Berkeley_EthnicStudiesDanaMoran_04232021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley Unified School District teacher Dana Moran, pictured outside Berkeley High School in April. Moran has taught ethnic studies at Berkeley High since 1993. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At Berkeley High School, ethnic studies has been a mandatory class for ninth grade students since 1990, after a group of parents, students and teachers fought to make the class a district requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ethnic studies class focuses on culture, race and immigration through sociological, political and historical lenses. It encourages students to make personal connections while investigating the history of current politics and global dynamics and themes of systemic racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana Moran has been teaching ethnic studies at Berkeley High since 1993, and is now one of seven teachers who currently head seven separate ethnic studies courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 1990, the board decided to make it a requirement for graduation, but they had no curriculum and no teachers,” she said. “It was given basically to every teacher who had a free period, so English teachers and the baseball and football coaches were both given an ethnic studies section. And it was, I think, a pretty unmitigated disaster at that point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years after the board made ethnic studies a requirement, Berkeley High’s principal made it his mission to hire a group of teachers for the class. Moran was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Abby Sanchez, Berkeley High graduate\"]‘[Ethnic studies] really helped me understand the history of the United States, not as a country that once was oppressive, and then changed — but rather how oppression has been part of U.S. history and still is.’[/pullquote]The class curricula undergo frequent revisions, and Moran said what is currently being taught at the school is very similar to the state’s ethnic studies model curriculum. But because ethnic studies is a one-semester class, there is not enough time to cover all the topics listed in the model curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moran acknowledged it is not possible to comprehensively dive into every racial group that Berkeley High’s body is composed of in one semester, but said the classes aim to be as inclusive as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We certainly invite students to check if we’re wrong or add things if they know something,” she said. “We try to make space for students to jump in and add things they know, want to say or feel like needs to be contributed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby Sanchez, who graduated from Berkeley High in 2020 and now attends Barnard College in New York, took the ethnic studies class during her first year of high school with Courtney Anderson, a former Berkeley High teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said some of the topics she learned about for the first time had a big impact on her, topics including Jim Crow segregation laws, the war on drugs and housing accessibility for people of color, in addition to the history of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/18486/redlining\">redlining\u003c/a> in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really helped me understand the history of the United States, not as a country that once was oppressive, and then changed,” Sanchez said, “but rather, how oppression has been part of U.S. history and still is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Education Coverage' tag='education']The class also involved discussion on more sensitive issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I learned about Mexican repatriation, and as a Mexican-identifying person, it’s so hard to learn that,” she said, referring to the forced deportation of hundreds of thousands of Mexicans and Mexican Americans during the Great Depression, most of whom were U.S. citizens. “But, all my classmates were learning it with me. There were no classmates that were like, ‘Oh, this didn’t exist. This didn’t happen.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez also said that unlike a regular history class, she thought the ethnic studies course helped bridge a gap in historical context between when slavery began in the U.S. up until today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In comparison to the AP U.S. history class, there is so much more about lives today, so much more about the history of oppressed peoples and their story, because they’re neglected in everyday academia,” she said. “It’s so easy to silence them, and then we just forget that it happened as a generation because we didn’t experience it. This class was really an important way to make sure their stories continue to be told.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexica Greco, who graduated from Berkeley High in June and plans to attend St. Olaf College in Minnesota this fall, also took Anderson’s ethnic studies class her freshman year. Greco describes herself as mixed race, but predominantly Asian. She said she had been exposed before to many of the topics that were covered in the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a person of color, and my mom is an immigrant,” she said. “I’ve learned about my history from my mom and my dad, but I remember my classmates not really knowing much and sometimes asking me questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11881502\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1685px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11881502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Greco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1685\" height=\"1953\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Greco.jpg 1685w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Greco-800x927.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Greco-1020x1182.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Greco-160x185.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/07/Greco-1325x1536.jpg 1325w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1685px) 100vw, 1685px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mexica Greco graduated from Berkeley High in June. She plans to attend St. Olaf College in Minnesota this fall. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Mexica Greco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Greco said the class has made her more aware of the inequities that exist in society, to an extent, but she thinks it should be offered to upperclassmen as opposed to freshmen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because it was a freshman class, it wasn’t as serious as it could have been,” Greco said. “If I took this class as a senior, I would have been able to understand a lot more. I personally think it was good in the moment for what it is, but a lot more could have been covered for an older group of kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Could Ethnic Studies Courses Actually Improve Student Outcomes?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/causal-effects-cultural-relevance-evidence-ethnic-studies-curriculum\">2017 study\u003c/a> published by Thomas Dee, professor at Stanford University, and Emily Penner, assistant professor of education at UC Irvine, reinforces the growing movement for schools to offer ethnic studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study looked at outcomes for students of a ninth grade ethnic studies pilot class at several SFUSD high schools beginning in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students whose eighth grade GPA was below 2.0 were, by default, assigned to the ethnic studies class during their freshman year with the choice of opting out. The study observed end-of-ninth grade outcomes for these students, which Dee said was predictive of high school persistence, such as attendance, credit accumulation, GPA and graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dee and Penner’s study saw a jump in attendance and GPA, in addition to greater credit accumulation for students who took the ethnic studies class relative to those who were less likely to take the course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This evidence is suggesting that there’s considerable power in innovative curriculum and pedagogy, like those embedded in ethnic studies,” Dee said. “It’s probably been as influential as any research I’ve ever done. San Francisco Unified went to scale with their ethnic studies course in the wake of our findings. And I think it’s fair to say they contributed to some of the momentum for ethnic studies throughout California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dee and Penner have continued to track high school completion and college entrance outcomes for all students in the original study over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going beyond the immediate grade nine outcomes to seeing if ethnic studies leads to an increase in educational attainment, in particular, high school completion,” Dee said. “It’s so important because one of the most well-documented facts in education policy is that graduating from high school has substantial, long-run benefits for kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results are expected to be released in a research publication in the coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the ethnic studies model curriculum will show its most promise in places where districts take the model curriculum as a point of departure both for adapting the curriculum to their local circumstances and to supporting teacher capacity to deliver it,” Dee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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More students from those grades will start on April 19, which will also mark the (also staggered) return of third through fifth graders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trapped inside a three-bedroom apartment with four kids for a year, it does feel like a light at the end of the tunnel,” said San Francisco parent Andy Martone, who spoke to KQED on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 42-year-old software engineer and his wife live in the Mission District, and their 6-year-old twin daughters are set to return to school this week. Martone remembers when he told his twins the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of them said, ‘I can’t wait to do more math equations!’ I was like, ‘Oh really?’ The other one said, ‘I can’t wait to see my teacher in person,’ ” Martone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, not all the city’s students will find themselves in classrooms this week. 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The city of San Francisco sued the school district to speed up its reopening process, a school commissioner caused community furor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867918/no-one-was-asking-what-we-thought-san-francisco-students-weigh-in-on-school-district-controversies\">over her tweets, which some have called racist\u003c/a>, and the board recently put on hold its controversial decision to rename 44 high schools related to historical figures with pasts ostensibly tied to racism. Nearly all of these tussles prompted acrimony on all sides even as many students’ ability to learn via hours of screen time instruction plummeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge still facing the district is that not all families yet feel safe or otherwise able to return to in-person learning. About 67% of kindergarten through second grade families and 70% of third through fifth grade families surveyed wish to return for in-person learning, according to an SFUSD survey released in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jun Chang Tan is a custodian who lives with his family in a single room occupancy hotel in Chinatown. His 15-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter both attend San Francisco schools, but he’s not ready to let either return to classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since all four live in a room together, he said even a remote chance of catching COVID-19 is still too dangerous for them — they lack the space to quarantine themselves from each other, should the worst happen. 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At a recent Board of Education meeting, SFUSD staff said only 91 new substitute teacher applications have been received, prompting a warning from staff that “current substitute teacher availability does not meet anticipated need.” The district is exploring “additional options” to deploy other staff as needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFUnified/status/1380626572445577218\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the tweet above, SFUSD seeks new hires to help meet the demand of students. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for those who are returning, teachers have even another layer of complexity to worry about when returning to in-person learning — their own children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez Elementary School teacher-librarian Tara Ramos will spend Monday performing an intake of kids at her school, helping to supervise all the new rules and procedures kids and staff must follow for safety, from distancing to hand-washing. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a move as surprising as a pop quiz, San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Vincent Matthews on Monday said he plans to postpone his retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/sf-schools-superintendent-announces-his-retirement\">Only a month after announcing he would retire in June\u003c/a>, Matthews now says he will stay on for an additional year to lend more stability to the district while the search for his replacement is underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to SFUSD families, Matthews said he has agreed to remain at the helm until June 30, 2022, fulfilling what he said was a request by the head of the San Francisco Board of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SFUSD needs stability and focus at this time,\" Matthews said in the statement. \"I am dedicated to supporting all of our SFUSD community as we navigate the many challenges and opportunities that lay ahead in the coming year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFUSD_Supe/status/1379101641937326085\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Board of Education President Gabriela Lopez said selecting the next superintendent through an \"inclusive community process\" could take up to a year, during a particularly challenging period for the district, as it works to reopen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With that in mind, I asked the superintendent to delay his retirement by another year. His commitment to the wellbeing of our young people has shone through,\" Lopez said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthews said that the superintendent search would be a distraction from the district's goal to resume in-person instruction for all students by this fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am dedicated to supporting all of our SFUSD staff as we navigate the many challenges and opportunities that lay ahead in the coming year. I have the highest regard for the team assembled at SFUSD and am honored to continue to work together,\" Matthews said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reversal is the latest in a series of dramatic events that have marked a challenging year for the school district and the families it serves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While simultaneously struggling to bring students back for in-person learning, the school board in January drew fire for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11857527/san-francisco-may-rename-schools-named-after-washington-lincoln-and-others\">trying to rename\u003c/a> more than 40 of its schools. Meanwhile, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858457/as-battle-over-reopening-san-francisco-schools-turns-ugly-equity-emerges-as-fault-line\">sued the school district\u003c/a> in February to hasten the sluggish pace of school reopenings. And just last month, Alison Collins, a school board commissioner, was stripped by the board of her leadership roles after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867599/censured-sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-sues-district-colleagues-for-constitutional-rights-violations\">a series of controversial tweets\u003c/a> she wrote in 2016, sharply critical of the Asian American community, were unearthed and circulated by her critics. Collins has since sued the district and her fellow board members, to the tune of nearly $90 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"sfusd\"]Matthews' decision to prolong his tenure also comes just a week before many pre-K through second grade students prepare\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/covid-19-response-updates-and-resources/return-person-learning/return-person-learning-plan-frequently-asked-questions-faqs/timeline-frequently-asked-questions-faqs\"> to return to their classrooms \u003c/a>— for the first time in more than a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Susan Solomon, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, who also recently announced plans to step down in June, echoed the call for stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We look forward to continuing to work with Superintendent Matthews over the next year,\" she said in a statement. \"We have a lot of work to do to safely transition all of our students and families back to in-person learning, and it is our hope that consistency will move us in that direction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenny Lam, a school board commissioner, said the tumultuousness of the past year, and the district's pending reopening, is exactly why the board asked Matthews to stay on for another year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Given that we're just one week away from returning our students to in-person learning, we're grateful to Dr. Matthews because this will allow the board to focus on a replacement and a full return of K-12 for the fall,\" she told KQED.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For thousands of students in the district, however, it remains unclear when in-person classes might resume. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco public schools are preparing to reopen their doors to students this month – for the first time in over a year. But much of the news about the district has been laser focused on its embattled school board, and most recently, on one particular commissioner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last week, the board, in a 5-2 no-confidence vote, removed Alison Collins as board vice president, and stripped her of her committee positions. The move came after a parent group pushing to recall Collins and two other board members circulated a series of controversial tweets she wrote in 2016 that criticize Asian Americans for not supporting other minority groups and for using “white supremacist thinking” to get ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The posts were resurfaced amid a surge of violence and harassment against Asian Americans in the Bay Area and around the country, including a mass shooting in Georgia that killed six Asian women and two others.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Shavonne Hines-Foster, Lowell High School senior\"]‘A lot of us feel like it isn’t our place to be engaged, because we don’t want to be swept over or taken in or attacked as a casualty.’[/pullquote]The story \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11867599/censured-sf-school-board-member-alison-collins-sues-district-colleagues-for-constitutional-rights-violations\">further blew up\u003c/a> this week, when Collins sued the district and her fellow board members, accusing them of violating her constitutional rights and inflicting “irreparable harm.” The suit demands that she be reinstated to her leadership positions and seeks nearly $90 million in damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adults have taken center stage in this and the many other controversies enveloping the school board this year, leaving the voices of students — those with most at stake — notably underrepresented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was evident in a school board meeting earlier this month, just days after the Collins tweets were unearthed. During the palpably tense meeting, attended by around 1,000 people, only a few students offered comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them was Shavonne Hines-Foster, a Lowell High School senior and student delegate for the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Just Encouraging People Not to Be Nasty’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“I’m not offering a statement, I’m offering really a project that me and my friends were able to create amidst everything that’s happening,” Hines-Foster said during the meeting, introducing an analysis she produced with two other students, titled “A Balanced Analysis of Commissioner Collins’ Tweets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really just encouraging people not to be nasty,” she told attendees. “A lot of students have stayed away from this because a lot of you are nasty, very nasty in how you engage in this conversation and bring in this topic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hines-Foster, a member of Lowell’s Black Student Union, has been shouted down by adults during a board meeting when calling out racism at her own school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So a lot of us feel like it isn’t our place to be engaged, because we don’t want to be swept over or taken in or attacked as a casualty,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11866865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11866865\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497.jpeg 2547w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497-800x587.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497-1020x748.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497-160x117.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497-1536x1127.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497-2048x1502.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/FD46FD6F-EE32-4767-B565-BCC7D3D1E2F9-scaled-e1617422790497-1920x1408.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vishal Krishnaiah, a junior at Lowell High School, said he understood the message Alison Collins was getting at in her 2016 tweets, “but the way she said it is atrocious.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Vishal Krishnaiah)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lowell High School junior Vishal Krishnaiah, who also worked on the presentation, says that while Collins had drawn attention to a serious issue, the tweets she wrote crossed the line — and were grounds for her resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand the message she was trying to get to. Just you know, anti-Blackness in the Asian community,” he said. “I think it’s a very real thing. I understand the message, but the way she said it is atrocious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George Washington High School senior Madeline Cho, the third student working on the project, offered a different perspective, arguing that the media coverage of the tweets has only shown one side of the issue. In reading Collins’ tweets, Cho says, she saw a mother pleading for people to come together to dismantle racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To really engage in a constructive conversation, she said, people need to listen to the voices of those most hurt by racism and discrimination in San Francisco schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"sfusd\"]“There needs to be just an open mindedness and a setting down of ego and pride, especially by a lot of politicians and particularly parents, who seem the most hesitant to just calm down and just listen,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cho also said the context around the posts is important. When Collins made the tweets in 2016, there were a lot of conversations in the community about people of color who were supportive of policies being espoused by Donald Trump and those of other conservative politicians, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cho, who doesn’t think Collins should resign, also says the tweets never would have resurfaced if some alumni and parents weren’t so upset about the board’s recent vote to change Lowell’s admissions policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins championed ending the elite school’s merit-based admissions policy, one that she argued perpetuated segregation and exclusion. Less than 2% of the school’s students are Black, while more than half are Asian American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, also in a 5-2 vote, the school board voted to strip Lowell of that admissions system, one that has been in place for decades. In their presentation, the three students pointed out that the tweets were dug up by Lowell alum Diane Yap, someone who they say deserves some scrutiny for her own previous social media posts. Yap is also vice president of the Friends of Lowell Foundation, a recently formed group looking to reinstate the school’s grade-based admissions policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Drowned Out’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cho said she’s sickened by the idea that someone was purposefully digging up dirt on Collins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks before the tweets resurfaced, Cho said, she had been feeling deeply troubled and scared by the ongoing attacks against the AAPI community, particularly the ones targeting elders. But she said the conversation about Collins has been reduced to something it isn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m particularly upset, and rather disgusted I think, at a lot of people’s use of Asian American pain right now as a political wedge, and a way to push the political agenda,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cho said she too is worried about being attacked for expressing her views, particularly after a controversy she experienced a few years ago at her own school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11867980\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11867980\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/1920_1080_Cho-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Madeline Cho, a senior at George Washington High School,\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/1920_1080_Cho-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/1920_1080_Cho-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/1920_1080_Cho.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Madeline Cho, a senior at George Washington High School, is calling for a serious dialogue on race in San Francisco schools. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Madeline Cho)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in 2019, before Lowell dominated headlines, George Washington High School became a political flashpoint, when the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/arts/san-francisco-murals-george-washington.html\">school board voted\u003c/a> to paint over Depression-era murals that depict Washington as a slave owner. After a furious backlash, the board ultimately moved to simply cover them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very saddening to see,” Cho said. “I think the adult voices really, really, really just totally drowned out the student voices. Nobody really was asking us what we thought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Equity Issue\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The admissions changes at Lowell that Collins spearheaded seem to have already had an impact. 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