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   The San Francisco school board’s controversial decision to strip   
   the names of 44 schools that honor historical leaders with ties   
   to racism and oppression was arbitrary, subjective, superficial   
   and based on research gathered through “casual Google searches,”   
   a new report has found.   
      
   Families for San Francisco, which describes itself as a   
   political voice, fact-checked the source material and reasoning   
   that the board’s school renaming committee relied on — and came   
   to damning conclusions, including that committee members avoided   
   consulting with historians — relying instead on shakily-sourced   
   Wikipedia entries and TV shows.   
      
   In a 6-1 vote late Tuesday night, the board gave preliminary   
   approval to renaming the schools — deciding, for example, that   
   Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington weren’t   
   fit to have schools named after them, reported the Mission   
   Local, a community news website.   
      
   An online petition slamming the vote has more than 12,500   
   signatures; a final vote is scheduled April 19.   
      
   Paul Revere, El Dorado and even “The Mission” also were too   
   politically incorrect to adorn school buildings, the board   
   decided.   
      
   “All CA missions are sites of slavery and colonization,” the   
   school renaming committee stated.   
      
   Among the findings from the Families for San Francisco:   
      
   The citation that supported taking Paul Revere’s name from a K-8   
   school was a Top-10 list from the History Channel website.   
      
   Businessman and philanthropist James Lick, the wealthiest man in   
   California when he died in 1876, got the boot because the   
   committee disliked his funding of a sculpture depicting a   
   prostrate Indian at the feet of white men. The monument was   
   recently removed from the Civic Center.   
      
   Committee members cited a Curbed article in its discussion of   
   Lick, who was cut because of his connection with this artwork.   
   Nobody apparently read the article, however, because it clearly   
   noted that Lick underwrote the sculpture “posthumously,” via his   
   estate. He died 18 years before its completion.   
      
   What should have been a careful and considered review of Abe   
   Lincoln by the renaming committee, for example, was discussed in   
   just under five seconds.   
      
   “We are applying impossible standards for naming when even   
   Abraham Lincoln doesn’t qualify for this honor,” Jennifer   
   Raiser, a longtime San Francisco author and activist, told the   
   Post. “We are sending a message to our kids that even if you do   
   your best and make some mistakes, you are not good enough.”   
      
   Raiser pointed out the importance of recognizing and eliminating   
   systemic racism, but “this effort does not seem to be in keeping   
   with the reality of COVID and the importance of getting kids   
   back in the classroom. It’s a diversion from the essential work   
   that has to happen immediately as our kids are falling behind.”   
      
   San Francisco school officials have said middle and high school   
   students probably won’t return to school this year.   
      
   Communities have been renaming schools across the country as   
   part of a national reckoning around racial justice which   
   intensified after the police killing of George Floyd in May 2020.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2021/01/30/san-franciscos-school-renaming-   
   plan-full-of-errors-report/   
       
      
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