As my colleague Sarah Lee shared on social media about this story, there are signs of living emanating from California, and not just in the more conservative areas. A full-scale parental revolt is taking place in the city of San Francisco, of all places.

On Tuesday, three of the members of the local school board were ousted in the cities first recall election in 40 years, per the San Francisco Chronicle. Those members also happened to be the only three with long enough tenure to be recalled, and there are already rumblings of a fourth member getting the ax soon enough.

The landslide decision means board President Gabriela López and members Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga will officially be removed from office and replaced by mayoral appointments 10 days after the election is officially accepted by the Board of Supervisors.

The new board members are likely to take office in mid-March. The three were the only school board members who had served long enough to be eligible for a recall.

The recall divided the city for the past year, with a grassroots effort of frustrated parents and community members pushing for the trustees’ removal over the slow reopening of schools during the pandemic and the board’s focus on controversial issues like renaming 44 school sites and ending the merit-based admission system at Lowell High School.

While the far-left Chronicle describes the recall as having “divided the city,” the results say otherwise. The vote to recall reached at least 72% in all ballot measures. That’s overwhelming by any definition and does not point to any serious opposition to removing the board members.

San Francisco just voted to recall three progressive members of the city's school board.

It was not even close. pic.twitter.com/CR8xwxeBW9

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 16, 2022

The recall efforts were largely driven by the board’s refusal to re-open schools in a timely manner and the fact that during the pandemic, the far-left members chose to focus on renaming “racist” schools instead of handling the crisis at hand.

As RedState reported back in mid-2021, the board actually reversed its plan on renaming schools named after figures like Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and even current Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein (that’s how insane these board members are). The damage was done, though. Parents in the city had clearly had enough, and that culminated in Tuesday’s recall results.

Unfortunately, the way the system is set up, Mayor London Breed, a left-wing radical herself, gets to appoint the replacements. Whoever she appoints will then have to run in November to retain their seats, with the current terms expiring in January 2023.

Still, Breed herself is up for re-election in less than two years, and she’s already shown some acknowledgment that there are limits to what she can push as mayor, even in a far-left bastion like San Francisco. If she appoints another batch of nutjobs to the school board after the people have spoken so forcefully about the issue, that could affect her down the road. It’s likely, though, given the partisan makeup of the city, that any challenge to Breed would have to come from within her own party.

In short, if parents (and voters at large) want real change in San Francisco, they are going to have to do more than organizing some recall elections of school board members. As important as that is, change is needed at the top, and until that comes, the same problems will continue.

Regardless, it’s a good sign that even in one of the most liberal areas of the country, people are standing up and saying enough is enough. Whether this grows into something larger, I can’t say, but it’s better that change is happening at some level than not at all.