The woke mob in Seattle has unleashed on the city's new no-nonsense public school superintendent after he criticized the district's low expectations for minority students.
Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Ben Shuldiner took office on February 1 and set out to make the city 'the single best school district in America.'
During his first 50 days, Shuldiner visited over half of the district's schools and announced plans to trim administrative 'bloat' amid an $87 million budget shortfall.
In a March 29 newsletter to the community, Shuldiner highlighted several problems he identified during his visits to the schools.
'The "soft bigotry of low expectations" pervading some places, especially around our BIPOC and multilingual students,' he wrote of his observations.
'Accepting and excusing low performance rather than owning it and taking individual and collective responsibility for it.'
Shuldiner's remark appeared to infuriate members of the community who claimed it was 'irresponsible' for a white male to make that kind of statement.
'We also talked about messaging for the entire district, and it's coming from a new superintendent who presents as a white cisgender male,' one woman, who is also white, said during a community meeting at West Seattle Elementary on March 31.
Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Ben Shuldiner, who took office on February 1, criticized the district's 'soft bigotry of low expectations'
One woman claimed it was 'irresponsible' for a white male to make that kind of statement while speaking at a community meeting at West Seattle Elementary on March 31
'Sending public emails saying things like quote the soft bigotry of low expectations pervading some places, especially around our BIPOC and multilingual students, without any data to back that up.
'And sending this as a public statement feels a little bit irresponsible when you're in our classrooms and making these claims without evidence, it feels insulting to our teachers.'
Shuldiner did not respond to the woman's comment, but told The Seattle Times editorial board the district as 'the richest, whitest' place he had ever worked.
In 2024, Seattle shuttered its gifted and talented programs because the school board determined they had too many white and Asian students.
Of the disparity between white and black students in discipline rates, test scores and gifted education in Seattle, Shuldiner said, 'You could drive a truck through those gaps.'
The district began phasing out its Highly Capable Cohort schools and classrooms for advanced students in the 2021-22 school year because they found it had too many racial inequities. School bosses said black and Hispanic students were underrepresented at the schools.
According to Seattle Public School data, of the highly capable students in the 2022-23 school year, 52 percent were white, 16 percent were Asian and 3.4 percent were black.
'We’re here for the kids. This is not a jobs program. Big change [is coming],' he said.
Schuldiner took office just two days after two teenagers were shot dead outside a PreK-8 school in broad daylight
During his first 50 days, Shuldiner visited over half of the district's schools and announced plans to trim administrative 'bloat' amid an $87 million budget shortfall
The Daily Mail contacted Schuldiner's office via the Seattle Public Schools District for comment.
Schuldiner took office just two days after two teenagers were shot dead outside a PreK-8 school in broad daylight.
Residents slammed ultra woke Mayor Katie Wilson for failing to address spiraling youth crime in the Washington city after she issued condolences to the families of the students.
The two boys, who have not been named, were fatally gunned down at a bus stop beside South Shore PreK-8 school in front of horrified children and teens on January 30.
Seattle Police said patrol officers rushed to the scene, but both victims were pronounced dead while the suspect fled the area on foot before cops arrived.
