FRISCO FROLICS In early February, apparently desperate, Allison Collins posited that the recall is “part of a Republican-led effort to dismantle a progressive school board.” Apparently, Ms. Collins is not aware that Republicans comprise less than 10% of voters in San Francisco. In fact, Joe Biden got 85% of the city’s vote in 2020, and the last time it voted for a Republican president was Dwight Eisenhower in 1956.

A remarkably dysfunctional year for the San Francisco Unified school board.

It started in January 2021, when the school board in San Francisco decided to rename 44 public schools, claiming their namesakes were “unworthy of the honor.” The names of such American icons as Abraham Lincoln, Paul Revere, Thomas Edison, Daniel Webster, Francis Scott Key, et al. were to be placed on the chopping block.

February was no less contentious – and at the same time provided some comic relief – when the art department of the school district bizarrely announced that acronyms such as VAPA (visual and performing arts) are “a symptom of white supremacy.”