In Opinion: The San Francisco United School District is failing Black students. Statistics before the pandemic were bad. They’ve gotten worse.
Every year, parents and kids brush off backpacks, choose outfits and send their children to their first day of school brimming with hope. Parents and caregivers have spent years pouring love into their children. We cheered them on as they took their first steps and spoke their first words. We whispered words of hope and confidence on their first day: “You’re going to learn to read. You have such a bright future! I love you so much.
Yet our public school system has not delivered on that promise for many kids. Instead for too many years, San Francisco’s public schools have passed along and graduated huge numbers of children — specifically, Black children — who the system’s schools never taught to read or do basic math, irrevocably damaging their future.
SFUSD’s status quo for educating our Black students was appalling before COVID-19. Too many adults hoped that good intentions were enough. San Francisco’s school board for years was notoriously noisy about its commitment to equity. But performative politics never translated to educational outcomes.
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