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Plan to rename 44 human feces covered San Francisco schools during pandemic on hold. 'Mistakes were made'
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Leroy N. Soetoro
Feb 25, 2021, 8:05:52 PM2/25/21
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A plan to rename 44 San Francisco schools — including those honoring
former Presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington and U.S. Sen.
Dianne Feinstein — has been put on hold.
Gabriela Lopez, newly elected as president of the school board, said in a
statement Sunday that school officials must focus on reopening schools
amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“Reopening will be our only focus until our children and young people are
back in school,” Lopez wrote. She canceled further hearings by a renaming
committee.
Lopez called the school renaming issue “one of many distracting debates,”
noting the process began before anyone anticipated a pandemic shutting
down in-person schooling.
“I acknowledge and take responsibility that mistakes were made in the
renaming process,” Lopez wrote.
When the renaming project reopens, district leaders will seek a “more
deliberative” process involving historians along with parents and
educators, Lopez wrote.
The school board voted 6-1 Jan. 26 to strip the names, now considered
offensive, from 44 San Francisco schools, The San Francisco Chronicle
reported.
“It’s a message to our families, our students and our community,” said
trustee Mark Sanchez at the time, according to the publication. “It’s not
just symbolic. It’s a moral message.”
Parents and teachers at each school would have had until April to propose
new names to be approved by the board, Courthouse News reported. The
renaming project was expected to cost $440,000.
School names honoring Paul Revere, Francis Scott Key, Thomas Jefferson,
Herbert Hoover, Father Junipero Serra and Robert Louis Stevenson were also
among those scheduled to be changed, according to a district list.
The renaming committee faulted Washington for owning slaves, Lincoln for
the hangings of Native Americans and Feinstein for reports she once
ordered the replacement of a Confederate flag torn down by protesters.
Other names to be changed include those of conquistadors who explored
California and notable San Francisco residents, including a former
superintendent, who held racist views.
The board also voted to rename Roosevelt Middle School despite confusion
over whether it was originally named for Theodore or Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Fox News reported.
A committee studied the proposed name changes for two years before the
decision was made, according to a presentation from the San Francisco
Unified School District.
The presentation says involvement in colonization, slavery, genocide,
exploitation of workers, oppression, racism and other human rights abuses
are reasons to remove someone’s name from a school.
Some of the criteria for possible replacement names included a grounding
in social or economic justice, local rather than national figures and
those who bring “joy and healing to the world.”
The proposed name changes generated national commentary, and San Francisco
Mayor London Breed criticized the proposals in October, KGO reported.
“The fact that our kids aren’t in school is what’s driving inequity in our
city, not the name of a school,” Breed said, according to the station.
Former President Donald Trump posted to Twitter about the proposal in
December, calling it “so ridiculous and unfair,” The Hill reported.
Critics of the name changes argued that historical figures should be
judged in historical context of all their efforts, not dismissed for
individual questionable actions, Courthouse News reported.
They also accused the panel of using selective sources and Wikipedia to
research names rather than consulting historians, Fox News reported.
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A plan to rename 44 San Francisco schools — including those honoring
former Presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington and U.S. Sen.
Dianne Feinstein — has been put on hold.
Gabriela Lopez, newly elected as president of the school board, said in a
statement Sunday that school officials must focus on reopening schools
amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“Reopening will be our only focus until our children and young people are
back in school,” Lopez wrote. She canceled further hearings by a renaming
committee.
Lopez called the school renaming issue “one of many distracting debates,”
noting the process began before anyone anticipated a pandemic shutting
down in-person schooling.
“I acknowledge and take responsibility that mistakes were made in the
renaming process,” Lopez wrote.
When the renaming project reopens, district leaders will seek a “more
deliberative” process involving historians along with parents and
educators, Lopez wrote.
The school board voted 6-1 Jan. 26 to strip the names, now considered
offensive, from 44 San Francisco schools, The San Francisco Chronicle
reported.
“It’s a message to our families, our students and our community,” said
trustee Mark Sanchez at the time, according to the publication. “It’s not
just symbolic. It’s a moral message.”
Parents and teachers at each school would have had until April to propose
new names to be approved by the board, Courthouse News reported. The
renaming project was expected to cost $440,000.
School names honoring Paul Revere, Francis Scott Key, Thomas Jefferson,
Herbert Hoover, Father Junipero Serra and Robert Louis Stevenson were also
among those scheduled to be changed, according to a district list.
The renaming committee faulted Washington for owning slaves, Lincoln for
the hangings of Native Americans and Feinstein for reports she once
ordered the replacement of a Confederate flag torn down by protesters.
Other names to be changed include those of conquistadors who explored
California and notable San Francisco residents, including a former
superintendent, who held racist views.
The board also voted to rename Roosevelt Middle School despite confusion
over whether it was originally named for Theodore or Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, Fox News reported.
A committee studied the proposed name changes for two years before the
decision was made, according to a presentation from the San Francisco
Unified School District.
The presentation says involvement in colonization, slavery, genocide,
exploitation of workers, oppression, racism and other human rights abuses
are reasons to remove someone’s name from a school.
Some of the criteria for possible replacement names included a grounding
in social or economic justice, local rather than national figures and
those who bring “joy and healing to the world.”
The proposed name changes generated national commentary, and San Francisco
Mayor London Breed criticized the proposals in October, KGO reported.
“The fact that our kids aren’t in school is what’s driving inequity in our
city, not the name of a school,” Breed said, according to the station.
Former President Donald Trump posted to Twitter about the proposal in
December, calling it “so ridiculous and unfair,” The Hill reported.
Critics of the name changes argued that historical figures should be
judged in historical context of all their efforts, not dismissed for
individual questionable actions, Courthouse News reported.
They also accused the panel of using selective sources and Wikipedia to
research names rather than consulting historians, Fox News reported.
--
"LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering. 95% of COVID infections
recover with no after effects.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"
ballots. Report voter fraud: sf.n...@mail.house.gov
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
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