When Everett held its election three days later, its principal promptly refused to release the results, saying she was concerned that the winners were not diverse enough.
While she would ultimately relent and release the results, her decision spurred anger among parents and kids who felt that the principal was putting diversity ahead of democracy. Critics compared her to a dictator who scraps elections when results don’t go her way. It was the middle school equivalent of hanging chads and a near political crisis, only without a Supreme Court to hear the case…
“It’s not okay for a school that is really, really diverse to have the student representatives majority white,” she told the Chronicle. “The easy thing would have been to announce the results and move on. I intentionally did not choose the easy way because this is so important.”
…“I could never have predicted things would get to this point,” she told the Chronicle, adding that she hoped the civics lesson gone wrong could still be “a teachable moment.”
As soon as I read the first few paragraphs of this story, I figured the principal was a woman.
Comments at WP:
* When are the WASPs going to riot about lack of representation in NBA/NFL/MLB?
* A. That things would “get to this point” was obviously predictable to anyone who understood civics and Americans’ love of the democratic process.
B. Yes, this is a teachable moment about how the Left finds democracy to be in the way of its agenda. (Also, how to not make a PC fool of yourself).
* Basically this white liberal woman does not feel that when people of color are given their freedom they are able to act in their best interest and need an intelligent white overseer to correct them when they make a stupid mistake like voting to have white overseers.
* A civics lesson in liberal racism and tyranny. The students had the right to vote only if their vote conformed to the expectations of the principal. Next we will hear that those who voted incorrectly will be required to attend “vote counseling” so they won’t vote contrary to the dictates of school administrators in the future.
