George Washington owned slaves. Abraham Lincoln backed policies that harmed Native American tribes. And former mayor Dianne Feinstein has been accused of ordering a Confederate flag to be replaced after it was torn down.
Their names and others will now be stripped from 44 San Francisco schools following a 6-1 vote Tuesday by district leaders, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.
“It’s a message to our families, our students and our community,” said board member Mark Sanchez, according to the publication. “It’s not just symbolic. It’s a moral message.”
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Parents and teachers at each school will have until April to propose new names, which must be approved by the board, Courthouse News reported. Renaming the schools is expected to cost $440,000.
School names honoring Paul Revere, Francis Scott Key, Thomas Jefferson, Herbert Hoover, Father Junipero Serra and Robert Louis Stevenson are among those to be changed, according to a district list.
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 had studied the proposed name changes for two years before the decision was made, a presentation to the board says.
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 including 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 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.
“I must admit there are reasons to support this resolution, but I can’t,” resident Jean Barish said, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. “These are not decisions that should be made in haste.”
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Morons! “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
Let she who would stink up the community first remove all the toilet paper in the stores. Let they who would dumb down your children, first close the schools which apparently aren’t being corupted fast enough to facilitate the total immediate power grab. Let those who seek to enslave our minds first accuse dead people of racism to a guilt trip down the socialst road to hell, that is always paved with thier disguised bad intentions. There are no masks so large any more that can hide the true face of their evil intentions, or their pandemic of power grabs. The faster and the more audacious their evil, the sooner and greater the responding violence will become. Stand down you fools, who are orchestrating your own impending destruction. The time for jestful laughing is over, the time for serious responding is approaching. Bear in mind liberals, The ammunition shelves are even more bare than those that contained toilet paper. Your evil emptied them just as fast as the COVID pandemic you rode into power on.
I wonder, HOW MUCH money will be wasted doing this, that could ya know, GO TO THE KIDS who are in those schools..?!
The Democrat Party Socialist State, political officers and Gestapo are just getting started. 🙁
The Democrat Party Socialist State is in control and will determine what we are allowed to say, what we are allowed to see and what we are allowed to hear. Only the Democrat Party Socialist State’s propaganda and approved information will be allowed to be transmitted.
You will be loyal and support the Democrat Party State or you will be classified as “Enemies of the State.
The Fools of this country wanted a controlling master…. Now we all got one.
🙁 🙁 🙁
Erasing history, violating the First , and Second, Forth, Amendment, voter Fraud, Treason How much longer is American Patriots going to put up with this ****?
EVEN BEFORE this stealing of the election, many of us were wondering how much longer we’ll put up with all these traitors keep doing..
ituser: Do you wonder why the City of SF has such huge budget deficits? $400,000 for this useless nonsense!
$440,000. That would go a long way to helping students who need it.
You can bet, it will mostly go in the pockets of adminstrators though..
“It’s a message to our families, our students and our community,” said board member Mark Sanchez, according to the publication. “It’s not just symbolic. It’s a moral message.”
No it’s not just symbolic it’s very clear what their intent is. They want to completely wipe out America’s history and traditions and replace them with their own radical leftist ideologies.
And with a weak spineless Republican Establishment who are all too busy stabbing their conservative supporters and fellow members in the back there will be little to no resistance. One could easily say that they worked with the Dem Establishment to take down pres Trump and bring this to fruition.
YET, how dare whites, ever say the left are trying to ELIMINATE white culture…
Waste money on renaming schools, when the kids in these liberal schools cannot read, write, spell and do simple math. Also, erase history, a great mark of the communists. What a disgrace!
It’s going to be very interesting to see just what new names are chosen for these schools. If they don’t want to offend anyone (although that’s too late, they’ve already offended at least half of the country with their idiotic decision) they’d better just start naming them after what city they are in, such as San Francisco Public School #1, San Francisco Public School #2, etc.
If they start naming them Obama High or Sharpton Elementary, or BLM Middle School, they’re going to have a fight on their hands.
YOU CAN BET anyone who DID publicly object to a school being named for obama, sharpton etc, would be INSTANTLY AND PERMANENTLY branded as a racist… EVEN IF THEY WERE BLACK.
i never thought i would see this in my life time in the greatest country on earth.
and a group of godless demons are destroying it all.
America’s Taliban!
The only think missing, is public beheadings of “Infidels”..
It is truly a shame that Frisco has joined the communists, Taliban and ISIS as yet another group destroying valid valuable historic item. Dissing our founding fathers is blatant communist cancel culture.
I have long held that schools should NEVER be named after people. You never know when that person will be discredited in the future. I have proposed that schools be named after the neighborhood in which they are located, as a community pride measure. Examples wold be things like ‘Oak Forest High School’ or ‘Green Meadows Middle School’. If the SF officials were smart (don’t hold your breath), they would implement this policy across the board. No necessity to justify the renaming of schools for reasons that would offend residents.
BUT why shouldn’t they get named for FAMOUS folk, who DID GREAT work in our past?? WHO CARES if “Someone in the future says something to discredit them”..
So they are sending a moral message. That is rich. They know nothing of morality.
This shows how deranged our society has become. They will probably replace them with names of such American greats as Barack Obama, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, and Saul Alinsky.
This should be a wakeup call to the people of California, but I doubt many will recognize it as such. Through inaction or apathy we have allowed a bunch of people to take over who have a value system far different from the one that made our nation great.
Most in commefornia, are probably OK with this insanity..
Lets rename California as “The land of the lost”…….if there are any rational
patriotic Americans in California which I doubt they should be lighting up
the sky on the communist traitors to America………William
PITY we can’t give them their wish, and LOSE THE ENTIRE COASTAL portion of the state, to the depths of the ocean!
COMMENTI am ALMOST laughing…..imagine, San Francisco lecturing
the rest of the country on morality. The absurdity of this is ALMOST comical.
One does not have to look too far for why California is in trouble when their leaders vote like this and we have one of them in the White House feeding her agenda and influence to the weak mind of the President. I pray for my country America, but then I put feet to my prayers by being involved in what is going on in our country.
How about spending $400,000 to improve SF’s miserable school system? SF students are among the lowest-scoring in the state. If this is the way the school system is being managed, no wonder the scores are low!
This is just another example of PC nonsense, and how our students are being cheated of the important knowledge they have a right to. Another example of Socialist censorship.
SINCE when have they cared, if the schools are ****?? THEY GET PAID either way.
They better name them after trees and flowers OR THEY WILL BE DEMONSTRATING THE BIASES THEY CLAIM THEY ARE OPPOSED TO!
And I am in favor of canceling the “Cancel Culture” like maybe erasing them from the written history.
With a little luck, the big one will come along and San Francisco and all of its leftist **** (both figurative and literal) will slide beneath the waves. The rest of the country can stand and cheer.
I’ve been praying for that day, literally since before obama came into office… STILL WAITING!
Just like they say, you can’t fix stupid. I would be more concerned about what they are teaching – a rose by any other name is still a rose!
Besides, Elementary schooling (reading, writing, arithmetic) is the most important learning. How many kids need to go to College unless wanting to be a Doctor or such. How many have useful degrees? Better to have Trade Schools to earn a living and support a family.
If there is an Abraham Lincoln Elementary School in San Francisco it should be renamed to Abraham Lincoln Day Careless Center. The city should be renamed Sham Fran Circus.
Sinfran SICKO..
What are they gonna name those schools? Maybe Pee in the Street Elementary or Dump in the Alley High?
How’s about Babby mamma, drop out high..
Why not find a nice thug who has been arrested 20 times, let out of jail continuously and name it after them. It would be quite fitting for a beautiful city turned into a hell hole.
OR some homeless, illegal invader.
Maybe they could name them needle alley HIGH school, crack house elementary, **** in the street college, endless homeless middle school. Which of these would be fitting-oh all of them.
I about died laughing went I read even Feinstein’s name was being removed. The most comical part is they remove Abe Lincoln, who freed the slaves, and they seem to fail to realize that the Confederacy was made up of dummycrats-not republicans. And what’s even more funny I heard on the radio today they want to remove Roosevelt’s name from schools because they don’t know which one had slaves. Read your REAL history, you stupid worthless dummycrats. Teddy and Franklin were RELATED. Teddy was just a little boy during the Civil War, so he couldn’t have owned any slaves and Franklin was born AFTER the Civil War. It’s funny to see dummycrats attack their own dummycrat history. Heard they also hate Woodrow Wilson. Why don’t they attack Clinton? He’s from a former Confederate state. They don’t call them dummycrats for nothing!
It’s not that they fail to realize that, its that THEY DON’T give a rats butt..