Mike Solana

For some masochistic reason, I'm on this SFUSD call about the Lowell high school lottery thing. Like every time I've dipped my toe in local politics, it's this heartbreaking spectacle of earnest citizenry, clunky process, and a few hellbent zealots.

and who is winning?

private schools

Yes. I have no real skin in this game. I'm paying a fortune to avoid this mess, and yet I'm tuning into the mess.

The effect of all the end-testing movements is to help private schools.

every single caller into this rodeo knows that this is a fight over a permanent change, despite the board theoretically debating it as just for one year. no one is even pretending.

yeah it's the chance they've been waiting for

i love the fact that they've just lost control of this meeting now. opposition is just calling into the "support hour". it's not even close, people hate this resolution.