education

Recalled Progressive President of San Fran School Board Blames ‘White Supremacists’

Published

7 months ago

February 18, 2022

Earlier this week voters recalled three progressive San Francisco school-board members including the president, Gabriela Lopez. The uber progressive ousted president took to Twitter to defend herself, and blame “white supremacists.”

On Thursday she tweeted, “so if you fight for racial justice, this is the consequence. Don’t be mistaken white supremacists are enjoying this. And the support of the recall is aligned with this.”

Lopez’s tweet was accompanied by a screen shot of a Washington Post article with the headline: “San Francisco recalls school board members seen as too focused on racial justice.”

A Washington Post politics reporter David Weigel responded in the twitter thread to Lopez writing that the recall vote was actually “racially diverse, including hundreds of non-citizen immigrants who were eligible to participate.”

So if you fight for racial justice, this is the consequence. Don’t be mistaken, white supremacists are enjoying this. And the support of the recall is aligned with this. pic.twitter.com/HsYtQjvVeh

— Gabriela López for SF Board of Education 🇲🇽 (@lopez4schools) February 17, 2022

National Review reports “more than 70 percent of voters elected to recall Lopez and two other progressive board members, Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga. The trio were the only board members on the seven-member board who were eligible to be recalled.”

Though Lopez blames white supremacists, perhaps the fact that the district’s budget deficit soared to around $125 million last year. Or maybe the fact that in February, the board hosted a two-hour debate over whether a gay white dad was diverse enough to join an all-female volunteer parent committee. But no; let’s blame white supremacists.

Even mainstream media and liberal Mayor London Breed have admitted pushing a progressive “woke” agenda is upsetting many parents and voters. “The voters of this city have delivered a clear message that the school board must focus on the essentials of delivering a well-run school system above all else…San Francisco is a city that believes in the value of big ideas, but those ideas must be built on the foundation of a government that does the essentials well.”

education

Teacher in Ireland imprisoned for refusing to use ‘gender-neutral’ pronouns

Published

3 weeks ago

September 6, 2022

Sara Carter Staff

An Irish teacher’s fight against the woke masses has landed him in jail. Enoch Burke allegedly was initially suspended on full pay from the Wilson’s Hospital School temporarily, after refusing a request from the principal to address a transgender student by “they” instead of “he,” according to Irish outlet Independent.ie.

Burke is an evangelical Christian who teaches at Wilson’s Hospital School, a high school that is run by the Church of Ireland. It is co-ed and caters to boarding and day students.

Burke continued to show up to school in order to teach, despite his suspension. As a result, the boarding school got an interlocutory injunction restraining order against him, barring him from coming in the building.

Still, Burke showed up every day to work. Then, “the school’s board of management filed a further application, and on Friday, Justice Miriam O’Regan ordered Burke to be arrested and brought into court” reports National Review.

In court, Burke continued to insist on showing up to school teach, saying, “I love my school. I am here today because I would not call a boy a girl,” the outlet reported.

Not going to work and teaching “is not something I will do. It is in violation of my conscience,” Burke added, claiming his suspension was invalid and that he would’ve had to “commit an act of gross misconduct” for it to be justified, according to the outlet.

“It is reprehensible that anyone’s religious beliefs could be taken as a ground for misconduct or gross misconduct,” Burke said. “Were I to obey the order of the board of management and the order of the court, I would have to accept that sticking by my belief in male and female is wrong.”

“It is not something I will do. It is in violation of my conscience,” he added, saying, “Were I to go into the school and bow to something I know to be manifestly wrong, it would be a shame and a disgrace on my part.”

Justice Michael Quinn ordered Burke be committed to Mountjoy Prison and remain there indefinitely “until he purges his contempt or until further order of this court.”

Burke refused to comply with the court’s order after the judge’s decision, saying, “I cannot purge my contempt by holding my Christian beliefs in contempt.”