The reason I’m doing Alison Collison commentary instead of the usual machine shitposts right now is bc I’m a first gen Asian immigrant that went to a public school and dealt with holier-than-thou gatekeepers like her the entire time.
Your parents come barely speaking the language, sometime fleeing war or famine, and desperately try to figure out how to give their children a chance. Work multiple jobs to have a shot at a good school.
You have no idea how the social capital of extracurriculars work. People think your food is weird (or, I was on discounted school lunch). You keep your head down and do your best at what you can - the schoolwork you get.
Your family’s only friends are often other immigrants. You help each other out, pick up each others’ kids, share resources. If you’re lucky the kids do well, have a shot at scholarships.
Then people like @AliMCollins, a literal millionaire SF landlord, starts turning her nose up at schools that are “too Asian”, or that Asians “don’t get it” - yes, you’re right, we didn’t. Who exactly was going to explain the wink-nod “classy” cultural activities to us?
I’m lucky bc my dad worked construction and I got to hang out w some of his red-blooded coworkers and pick up the cultural cues. How to be not be “too Asian”. I went to college on scholarship and part time jobs. Many aren’t so lucky.
If you don’t do well, the hard right sees you as “useless immigrants”, if you do well the hard left sees you as “white supremacist”, or at least @AliMCollins does
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Alison Collins* not Collison, my mistake
Extra gross that the cohort that @AliMCollins has decided to scapegoat, Asian immigrants going to public school, are ill-equipped to push back given the language barrier their parents often face.
If you read this thread and feel visceral disgust at Alison Collins’s hypocrisy, support @WeAreTogetherSF which does great volunteer work: they’ve been helping parents and students affected by the protracted shutdown orchestrated by Alison.
A tale of two SF merit-based schools:
Lowell:
61% Asian
35% disadvantaged/discounted lunch
SOTA (@AliMCollins sends her children):
42% Asian
24% disadvantaged/discounted lunch
Yet @AliMCollins only attacked Lowell for being “elite” and cancelled merit admissions there 🤔
Lowell:
61% Asian
35% disadvantaged/discounted lunch
SOTA (@AliMCollins sends her children):
42% Asian
24% disadvantaged/discounted lunch
Yet @AliMCollins only attacked Lowell for being “elite” and cancelled merit admissions there 🤔
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