Plan to rename 44 human feces covered San Francisco schools during pandemic on hold. 'Mistakes were made'

https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article249425290.html

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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