Elite San Francisco high school that dropped merit-based admissions in favor of a lottery finds...um...oooh...ignore

Last fall an elite highschool in San Francisco scrapped its old merit-based admissions for one that made far more sense to the liberals who run everything in that city:

The new system was...wait for it...a lottery.  Meaning admissions were essentially open to everyone regardless of grades and test scores.

Those who supported the lottery system said admitting students based on their grades and scores was...wait for it... racist because it resulted in fewer black and Hispanic students than their percentage in the population.

By contrast, raaacists who wanted to keep merit-based admissions warned that scrapping that system would lower standards at the school because teachers would be quietly  pressured to make tests easier so less-qualified students would still pass.

So how did that work out?

According to internal records obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle, 24.4% of the freshman class earned a D or F in their first semester.  (No word on the spring semester yet.)

Outgoing principal Joe Dominguez said “there are way too many variables that contributed” to the spike in D’s and F’s.  He cited "distance learning," then "half of our student body new to in-person instruction at the high school level" and "absences among students/staff for COVID" as explanations for the sharp drop in grades.”

“It is important not to insinuate a cause on such a sensitive topic, at the risk of shaming our students and teachers," he added.

Yes, Joe, certainly.  We should never try to discover the true reasons something suddenly gives bad results if the cause could be related to a "sensitive topic."  Sort of like no one wants to examine whether biden canceling drilling permits and 18 months of competitive-bid leases could have had any effect on oil production.  It's just silly, citizen.

The ability of Democrats and liberals to totally ignore reality, and to refuse to even entertain the notion of cause-and-effect is both astonishing and predictable.

Source.

https://adnamerica.com/en/california/elite-san-francisco-school-sees-spike-ds-and-fs-after-dropping-merit-based-admissions