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‘Adult supremacy’ proves idiocy at San Francisco school district

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California families want schools that focus on teaching kids to read, write and think critically.

Instead, the San Francisco Unified School District is hosting workshops like one that casts teachers as oppressors and classroom authority as “adult supremacy.”

This is not satire. In April, the nonprofit Teachers 4 Social Justice held a training at John O’Connell High School that argued the teacher-student relationship is inherently oppressive because of “systemic power dynamics.”

Academic benchmarks were dismissed as Eurocentric and dehumanizing.

Parents have every right to be angry.

More than half of California students still cannot read at grade level. Yet school districts are platforming ideological fads that treat adults as the problem and basic expectations as oppression.

This is not harmless sensitivity training. It is educational malpractice.

When schools allow students to be taught that authority, discipline and high standards are forms of supremacy, they send a dangerous message: Achievement matters less than politics.

The consequences are already showing up on college campuses.

Hundreds of University of California faculty members, including seven of the system’s nine math department chairs,........

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