Jo Boaler, 58, a lecturer in education at Stanford, first drew the anger of Jelani Nelson for her backing of a new recommended math program in California’s schools.
The controversial proposals, which would have lowered the rigorousness of the state’s curriculum in an attempt to increase “equity,” have made some furious because, in part, they “question the concept of student giftedness.”
Nelson has long been critical of Boaler’s work on the new “California Math Framework,” stating Boaler was charging $5,000 an hour to peddle controversial theories while black academics were ignored.
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Nelson even retweeted a filing revealing Boalar was paid $40,000 in total - $5,000 an hour - for her work with a school district in Oxnard, California.
Boaler then grew angry over another retweet of Nelson’s, which amplified a user who had made her address public. The person who wrote that tweet later deleted it.
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On Tuesday, Nelson sent out a screenshot of an email Boaler sent him last week.
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“As a courtesy to a fellow faculty member I wanted to let you know that the sharing of private details about me on social media yesterday is now being taken up by police and lawyers,” Boaler wrote to Nelson. “I was shocked to see that you are taking part in spreading misinformation and harassing me online.”
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Nelson then insisted that Boaler “threatened me with police” and compared her to other examples of White women who have called the authorities on Black people.
“After BBQ Becky, Permit Patty, Golfcart Gail, and all the memes, we now have Retweet Rachel,” he stated. “Public advisory: don’t call the cops on black people for no reason. Black people disagreeing with you on Twitter is not a crime.”
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Boaler denied the accusation and announced she merely mentioned the police “as a courtesy, because I thought it better that he did not engage with” the person who wrote the original tweet.
Nelson told reporters he thought she was full of it: “The accusations came immediately after a sentence invoking police and lawyers, a sequence that could only be read in context as a threat against me specifically.”
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Since then, the Conservative Stanford Review has referred to Boaler as “Professor Karen.”
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Boaler, in an email to SFGATE Thursday, proceeded to deny the accusation.
“I would never even think of threatening a Black man with the police, I know how serious that is in our society and there could be nothing further from my intent,” she wrote. “It goes against all of my life work which has been to support and elevate the needs of marginalized students. I have publicly stated that I am sorry for the way it read - that I did not intend it to be threatening.”