Commentary Will Rogers observed: “If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in the State of the Union speeches, there wouldn’t be any inducement to go to heaven.” In San Francisco, we’re hardly able to qualify the school district for heaven with an elected Board of Education that hates American institutions and practices history revisionism. The Board’s violation of the Brown Act at its Jan. 26 meeting demonstrates its stultifying deception of constituents and taxpayers. Its Jan. 26 meeting agenda notice referred to discussion of an advisory committee’s report on 44 school renaming recommendations. That’s what citizens would’ve expected at the public meeting. Instead, the Board adopted, 6–1, a resolution instantly requiring obliteration of the names Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Lowell, among others, from taxpayer-supported public schools. In a move initiated by North Beach attorney Paul Scott, with two public school pupils, the George Washington High School …