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Human excrement covered San Francisco will likely reverse plan to rename schools honoring historical leaders

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May 2, 2021, 2:38:13 PM5/2/21
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San Francisco on Tuesday is expected to overturn its “offensive” plan to
purge dozens of schools with names that its board of education claimed
honor “racist” historical leaders.

The California city’s board of education in January had voted to strip 44
schools of the names of historic figures, including Abraham Lincoln,
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Robert Louis Stevenson.

The decision sparked a huge backlash — as well as legal challenges for the
decision being made without community input.

The school board was also ridiculed for shoddy research and often wildly
inaccurate claims linking school names to racism, sexism or other
injustices.

Laurence Tribe, one of the attorneys involved in lawsuits against the
plans, told the San Francisco Chronicle that he is “definitely on board
that sometimes names ought not to be preserved.”

But “I think it goes dangerously far when the Great Emancipator is treated
as insufficiently woke,” he said of attacks on Honest Abe.

Mayor London Breed also called it “offensive and completely unacceptable”
for the board to focus on changing school names rather than getting
children back into classrooms amid the pandemic.

Amid the backlash and legal challenges, the board is scheduled to vote
Tuesday on a resolution to rescind its renaming decision and revisit it
after all students have returned full-time to in-person learning.

Rather than addressing the criticism, the resolution says it “wishes to
avoid the distraction and wasteful expenditure of public funds in
frivolous litigation.”

The board’s president, Gabriela Lopez, had already paused the renaming
process in February after admitting the anti-racism push had been rushed.

“I acknowledge and take responsibility that mistakes were made in the
renaming process,” Lopez wrote in an op-ed for the Chronicle at the time.

Any future efforts would involve “engaging historians at nearby
universities to help” to avoid future errors, she said.

Mistakes included wrongly accusing Paul Revere of seeking to colonize the
Penobscot people, and confusing the name of Alamo Elementary School with
the Texas battle rather than the Spanish word for “poplar tree.”

As well as historical figures, longtime Sen. Dianne Feinstein was also on
the list because as mayor in 1984, she had replaced a vandalized
Confederate flag that was part of a longstanding display outside City
Hall.

Tuesday’s vote precedes an April 16 deadline given in a San Francisco
Superior Court ruling to either rescind the vote or show why the board
shouldn’t be compelled to do so.



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