Listening to some San Francisco Unified School District students speak at Tuesday's Board of Education meeting was a lesson in humility — or at least it should have been for embattled Commissioner and board Vice President Alison Collins.
Racist tweets that Collins posted in 2016 were recently unearthed and they show a shocking disregard and prejudice toward Asian American and Pacific Islander people.
Written prior to her 2018 election to the school board, they nonetheless prohibit her from being an effective leader today. She wrote that "many Asian Am.
believe they benefit from the 'model minority' BS." And "In fact, many Asian American Ts (teachers), Ss (students) and Ps (principals) actively promote these myths.