Commentary
In 2021, the New York Times reported that the San Francisco Board of Education had approved a plan to rename 44 of the city’s schools that were named after people such as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Paul Revere, and Robert Louis Stevenson, due to those historical figures’ connection with white supremacy and patriarchy.
The mayor, London Breed, commented: “What I cannot understand is why the School Board is advancing a plan to have all these schools renamed by April [2021], when there isn’t a plan to have our kids back in the classroom by then.”
More outrageous than the name scrubbing is the fact that the Board found time to start its revisionism while the city was in the process of suing the district for not coming up with a reopening plan that met state requirements….