Even San Francisco Parents Are Sick of Woke School Boards

CLAY: I saw this, and I said, “My goodness. The Mom Revolution which swept Glenn Youngkin into office in Virginia…” The outraged parents are grabbing pitchforks all over the country, and this was staggering if you did not see it. Buck, do you remember all the discussion in the middle of covid about the crazy people on the San Francisco board of education who were renaming schools that had been named after George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and even Dianne Feinstein?

They were trying to rename every school, basically, in San Francisco. They were simultaneously attempting — and this is a big story that I think is only gonna grow — to limit the number of Asian students who were allowed into their high-performing high schools. They were simultaneously also diluting the merit there, and all of these things, also not allowing them to go to school for so long.

So parents got fed up and they decided to recall many of the San Francisco school board members. And, Buck, the results are mind-blowing. Over 70% of all San Francisco voters voted to recall the super-left-wing, wildly out of touch, progressive members of the city school board — and it wasn’t even close. Alison Collins recall, 78% in favor of it. These are San Francisco voters.

Gabriela Lopez, 74% in favor of it. Faauuga Moliga — and I may be mispronouncing his name — 71% in favor of it. We’ve talked about northern Virginia. We’ve talked about the school board meetings that I went to myself here in the Nashville area. But, Buck, when I saw these election results come in last night, I said, “My goodness.” Not only are we headed for a potential disaster in red and purple areas, right?

Red states and purple states — like I would still say Virginia might be classified. When San Francisco voters, the most liberal in the entire country are saying, “We are sick of left-wing, woke politics in our schools,” that is a monumental statement that is being made. The Biden administration should be running scared. AOC should be curled up in the fetal position. This ain’t good for the Bernie crew.

BUCK: The Democrats have failed children all across America. That’s obvious. That much is just apparent to everybody. Whether this will translate into — and by the way, they’re still calling for masking of children in schools. The official… I watched some of them. We’ll talk about it later, Clay, ’cause I know we’ve got Ukraine on the ground from our friend Nolan Peterson’s Ukraine update coming in a few moments.

But I watched the covid task force this morning, and they still have the top doctor saying, “Yeah, masking good! Mask up kids in schools.” But it’s one of these things that… There are only a few areas, it feels like, where people really understand, where they’re interacting with the state, with the government in a way that affects them. It used to be the DMV, but to be honest with you, DMV —

CLAY: Pretty good now.

BUCK: Pretty decent. I got out in five minutes last night. I was there. Was no big deal. But the public school system? Oh, that matters. That matters to your kids. It matters to the adults who not only want the best for their children but also rely on that for their schedule so they can do their job during the day. And the entirely Democrat-dominated sector of public education in America in blue states and even in purple states was an abject failure for children and adults all across the country during the pandemic.

And they have not even been willing to see accountability. They haven’t been willing to say, “We were wrong.” They’re still doing this stuff. They’re still pushing this stuff. And when you listen to some of the covid commissars out there, Clay, they’re talking about how to get ready in schools for the next time. They’re already thinking about, “Well, the next covid season, the next…” So they haven’t repudiated this.

They haven’t said, “We’re sorry,” and when you think about it in a place like San Francisco, they finally now… Does this mean people are gonna vote Republican? I think the answer is “no,” and this is what’s so frustrating. Look what happened with Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom’s poll numbers still stink ’cause Gavin Newsom sucks at his job. He is bad at this, right? But they wouldn’t vote for a Republican.

So there’s this disconnect. It’s like Democrats go, “Okay. Well, that’s too crazy, but I can’t vote for the insurrectionist white nationalist Republicans.” San Francisco is not gonna change its politics, but to your initial point, the mobilization of parents and the extreme wokeness that’s even too much for the left are hopefully a potent cocktail for the upcoming midterm elections that will deliver, where it can be delivered — stinging rebukes — to these lunatics for what we’ve been up against, a real slap-down. ‘Cause what they… By the way, we started saying it here on this show that masking of children was child abuse.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: Now I see it all over conservative media everyone says masking up children is child abuse. I’d never heard it anywhere before we said it, I’m just gonna point out — which is, by the way, good. I want people to listen to what we’re saying. I hear the word “apparatus” now more than ever before in the conservative media. Yes. It is a good word. Use it, take it, run with it. We have to keep this going, Clay, because I think we can all see what the Democrat plan is. We got through. It’s great. There are no mandates. School’s fine. We did a great job. We’re just… The gaslighting will be thermonuclear.

CLAY: When I went to that school board meeting in August, I called you right after and I said, “This is going to be massive,” and it has spread so quickly — and to your point, yes, I think you are right about the way that people might feel nervous to even consider voting for a Republican in San Francisco because so much of their identity is wrapped up in the idea of, “I’m a liberal. I’m a progressive.”

But what they’re recognizing in San Francisco is, they don’t actually like the liberal and progressive governing, right? It’s very great when you’re on social media and you’re like, “Let’s throw up the power fist! Let’s talk about how much BLM matters! Let’s talk about how we are so overwhelmed with white guilt.” But where that leads you is to a noxious place — and what is fascinating to me, Buck, is I think there is a massive number of people out there.

White, black, Asian, Hispanic, every parent has a great deal in common, because your number one goal when you become a parent is what? For your kids to be highly educated, as well as they can, and hopefully be more successful in life than you were or at least happy, right, and productive. And what’s happening right now is our schools aren’t allowing that to occur.