‘Adult supremacy’ proves idiocy at San Francisco school district

Nypost · Jun 02, 2026 · 593 words · By Sonja Shaw

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‘Adult supremacy’ proves idiocy at San Francisco school district See more of our coverage in your search results.

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‘Adult supremacy’ proves idiocy at San Francisco school district See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

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

Common ground

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.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Black-and-White Fallacy: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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Name Calling / Labeling 85% confidence

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Black-and-White Fallacy 80% confidence

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Causal Oversimplification 70% confidence

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “More than half of California students still cannot read at grade level.”

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One web search result explicitly states that '52% of the children... enrolled in California public schools can't read at grade level', which supports the claim that more than half cannot read at grade level.

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Claim 2: “the San Francisco Unified School District is hosting workshops like one that casts teachers as oppressors and classroom authority as “adult supremacy.””

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia pages for the San Francisco Unified School District and unrelated search results for 'SAN'. There is no evidence in the provided text confirming the specific workshops or the terms 'adult supremacy' and 'oppressors'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), established in 1851, is the only public school district within the City and County of San Francisco, and the first in the state of California. Under the …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lowell High School (LHS) is a co-educational, magnet public high school in San Francisco, California, first established in 1856. It is a part of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). Situ…
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Claim 3: “After the UC system dropped the SAT and ACT, incoming students’ math skills fell off a cliff.”

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Multiple web search results report that UC professors are warning of 'severe math deficits' and that students are increasingly unprepared for college math following the SAT/ACT ban.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The California State University (Cal State or CSU) is a public university system in California, and the largest public university system in the United States. It consists of 22 campuses and seven off-…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university in the Davis, California area, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the…
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Claim 4: “One campus reported a nearly 30-fold increase in students needing middle-school-level math remediation.”

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A web search result explicitly mentions a report where the number of incoming freshmen with below-high-school-level math skills rose from 30 in 2020 to 900 in 2025, which is exactly a 30-fold increase.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 2, 2026 ... UC Berkeley reports that 20-30% of first-semester calculus students show severe preparation gaps, forcing professors to reteach basic arithmetic ...
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 12, 2025 ... The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has ...
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web search NEUTRAL — 4 days ago ... Their letter to the Board of Regents is striking. Professors say they're having to reteach middle school math while simultaneously trying to ...
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Claim 5: “Hundreds of University of California faculty members, including seven of the system’s nine math department chairs, recently signed an open letter calling for the return of standardized math testing for STEM admissions.”

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Three independent web search results confirm that hundreds of UC faculty (specifically citing numbers like 800 and 850) and seven of nine math department chairs signed an open letter calling for the return of standardized math testing for STEM admissions.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in the Southside and Northside neighborhoods of Berkeley, California, Unit…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal[a]) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest pr…
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Claim 6: “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.””

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The evidence provided contains general definitions of nonprofits and Wikipedia entries for John Dewey and restorative justice, but nothing regarding a specific training by 'Teachers 4 Social Justice' at John O’Connell High School.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentiet…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In criminology, restorative justice is a method or ethos of criminal justice that seeks to repair harm after crime or violence by empowering the harmed (victims) and harming parties (offenders) to par…
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Claim 7: “Sonja Shaw is the president of the Chino Valley Unified School District Board of Education and a candidate for California state superintendent of public instruction.”

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Three independent web search results confirm that Sonja Shaw is the president of the Chino Valley Unified school board and is a candidate for California State Superintendent for 2026.

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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 20, 2026 · At a raucous school board meeting in 2023, Chino Valley Unified board president Sonja Shaw accused California Superintendent Tony Thurmond ...
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 3, 2026 · Shaw, president of the Chino Valley Unified school board, made headlines in 2023 when she took on the current superintendent, Tony Thurmond, ...
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web search NEUTRAL — Support Sonja Shaw for California Superintendent 2026. Join the fight to fix California education today!
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