San Francisco schools chief Maria Su was blasted for shedding “crocodile tears” while discussing school closures because of the teachers’ strike — as it was revealed she rakes in $385,000 a year while sending her kids to private school.
Su came under intense scrutiny this week as Bay Area public school teachers hit the picket lines over pay increases and better benefits. The strike ended Friday.
The schools chief — who earns five times more than a 10-year teacher with tenure — choked up Feb. 6 while discussing the impending strike and its impact on students “with the greatest needs.”
But she also dodged questions about making significantly more than her teachers — and also refused to answer a question about her own kids attending private school, KTVU reported.
“I’m a mom, I have kids, I know the importance of education,” Su replied.
“I know the importance of our teachers having fair and competitive and livable wages,” she said. “It is expensive to be here in the city.”
Su sat on her pile of cash while teachers stood on the San Francisco picket line for nearly a week before they landed a 5% raise for teachers over two years on Friday. The teachers also got their healthcare demands approved, receiving fully funded healthcare contributions for dependents.
Teachers didn’t have much sympathy for Su during the process of the strike — one picket sign on a wet day Tuesday said, according to the San Francisco Standard, “Is this rain or Maria Su’s crocodile tears pretending she cares about our kids?”
An eighth-grade science teacher in the area, Jennifer Erskine-Ogden, held the sign.
“Give me a break,” she told the San Francisco Standard about the tears. “It’s just fake.”
Su wasn’t the only San Francisco pol virtue-signaling about public education while sending her own kids to private schools, which can cost upward of $60,000 per year.
Saikat Chakrabati, a lefty candidate for Congress and tech multimillionaire, campaigned on behalf of the teachers union in a series of attention-grabbing videos — but sends his own child to a pricey private school, The Post is told.
Christine Pelosi, daughter of Rep. Nancy Pelosi and candidate for state senate, was shown on the picket lines as her own children enjoy an expensive private education.