{"id":115649,"date":"2021-02-02T11:18:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115649"},"modified":"2021-02-02T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T16:27:08","slug":"san-francisco-school-district-drops-one-acronym-for-another-while-claiming-theyre-a-symptom-of-white-supremacy-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-school-district-drops-one-acronym-for-another-while-claiming-theyre-a-symptom-of-white-supremacy-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco School District Drops One Acronym For Another While Claiming They\u2019re A \u2018Symptom Of White Supremacy Culture\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsan-francisco-school-district-drops-one-acronym-for-another-while-claiming-theyre-a-symptom-of-white-supremacy-culture%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=115649&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Acronyms are a sign of white supremacy, according to the San Francisco School Board, which has decided to stop using the acronym VAPA (Visual and Performing Arts) for their Arts Department. Instead, it will be called SFUSD Arts Department (SFUSD is an acronym for San Francisco Unified School District).<\/p>\n<p>As ABC 7 reported, schools in San Francisco haven\u2019t even reopened yet due to the pandemic, but the School Board has been making \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/amp\/sfusd-renaming-schools-board-meeting-san-francisco-school-sf\/10229093\/\">disputable<\/a>\u201d decisions, including the claim that \u201cacronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture.\u201d The outlet reported that Sam bass, the director of the arts department said, \u201cWe are prioritizing antiracist arts instruction in our work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a very simple step we can take to just be referred to as the SFUSD Arts Department for families to better understand who we are,&#8221; Bass said.<\/p>\n<p>Bass reportedly explained in a letter how acronyms relate to white supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The use of so many acronyms within the educational field often tends to alienate those who may not speak English to understand the acronym,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>ABC reported that the connection between acronyms and white supremacy comes from a 1999 paper from Tema Okun, who told the outlet, &#8220;Our culture perpetuates racism when things continue to be written down in a certain way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The SFUSD \u201cuses so many acronyms on a daily basis that if you go to their website there&#8217;s a section on how to find what their acronyms or abbreviations mean,\u201d ABC reported.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first controversial decision the SFUSD has made in recent weeks, which prompted San Francisco Mayor London Breed to confuse this decision with the school board\u2019s previous decision to rename 44 schools because their namesakes were allegedly tied to racism and\/or slavery.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire\u2019s Emily Zanotti <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/san-francisco-public-schools-renaming-plan-rife-with-historical-errors\">reported<\/a>, the Google Doc used by SFUSD to decide which schools to rename was riddled with factual errors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe underlying rationale for many of the name changes was already suspect, as The Daily Wire reported, noting that a story reportedly linking Feinstein to a Confederate flag on display was poorly sourced and that Lincoln was included among the \u201ccontroversial\u201d figures because he \u201cdid not show through policy or rhetoric that black lives ever mattered to them outside of human capital and as casualties of wealth building,\u201d Zanotti reported.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/30\/san-franciscos-school-renaming-plan-full-of-errors-report\/\">reported<\/a> that the school board failed to consult with historians in determining why schools should be renamed, and instead relied on Wikipedia and TV shows for their information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusinessman 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,\u201d the Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>Lick, however, didn\u2019t commission the statue. \u201cHis estate paid for it, but it was completed and installed nearly two decades after Lick died,\u201d Zanotti reported.<\/p>\n<p>Many other errors such as these were also found in the document.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acronyms are a sign of white supremacy, according to the San Francisco School Board, which has decided to stop using the acronym VAPA (Visual and Performing Arts) for their Arts &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892456,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4820,4823,4810,3727,4641,3924],"class_list":["post-115649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-acronym","tag-another","tag-district","tag-drops","tag-francisco","tag-school"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}