Last week, The Drill Down reported that Bestselling author and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer had joined forces with the Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak for a new book Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education.
And it sounds like that book is already popping up in school board showdowns nationwide.
According to the Daily Wire, a Fairfax County, Virginia school board was forced to flee last week when concerned Asian parents confronted board members over a recent federal judge’s ruling that stated the board broke the law by pushing Asians out of its magnet and science school.
The board felt the admissions process was not “equitable.”
Despite the judge’s ruling, the board has decided to appeal. “The Thomas Jefferson School For Science and Technology once had the highest math scores in the country, but after the school board determined that that was not ‘equitable,’ they jettisoned the math test used for admission in favor of a process based on how ‘disadvantaged’ students were. The result was that the famed school had to begin offering remedial math,” DW reports.
“Asra Nomani, the India-born mother of a TJ student who was involved in the successful lawsuit, spoke at Thursday’s meeting, and told the board ‘For the last two years you have been trying to make us invisible, but a federal judge has ruled that in fact you are going to go down in history just like I told you you would, just like the school board in Brown vs. Board,’” DW adds.
“You are the new face of racism,” she said.
Nomani didn’t just put the board on blast, resulting in their tucking tail and running, she also came equipped with copies of Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education.
“I have here a copy of a book for each one of you, Race To The Bottom. And you are all in this book. A book for you Karen Corbett Sanders, a book for you Stella Pekarsky, a book for you Abrar Omeish,” Nomani said, as the crowd cheered her on. “All of you have failed us. I have all of these books, I hope you read them from cover to cover and see yourself in the pages of history — as failures.”
“You have caused us pain, Nomani continued. There are people here who have survived the Cultural Revolution. Yuyan stood in Tiananmen Square… I am a woman of color but you don’t care, do you. You’ll bring all of the white security guards… We, the Asians, don’t matter to you… We’re supposed to be the good, obedient Asians, that’s what you expect of us, don’t you. Especially women.”
Meanwhile, the supportive crowd of Asian moms began to chant: “Racist, racist, racist.” as the school board called for recess and made its escape.
“Your equity plan didn’t think about the Asians, did you. We were on the wrong side of brown for you,” Nomani said in a parting shot.
One of the items on Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s punch list was education; giving power back to the parents. They’re fed up, showing up, and won’t shut up anytime soon.
Get ready, school boards —you’re in for a showdown.
