{"id":120382,"date":"2021-02-07T16:55:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T21:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120382"},"modified":"2021-02-07T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T22:13:24","slug":"sf-school-board-president-accuses-mayor-of-division-for-criticizing-renaming-re-opening-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sf-school-board-president-accuses-mayor-of-division-for-criticizing-renaming-re-opening-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"SF School Board President Accuses Mayor Of \u2018Division\u2019 For Criticizing Renaming, Re-Opening Plans"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fsf-school-board-president-accuses-mayor-of-division-for-criticizing-renaming-re-opening-plans%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=120382&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><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The president of the San Francisco school board accused Mayor London Breed of stoking division after Breed criticized the school board for renaming 44 public schools that are closed and don&#8217;t have a firm re-opening date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen it comes to schools, any opportunity to cause further division is what the mayor has contributed to,\u201d School Board President Gabriela Lopez told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/q-and-a\/how-san-francisco-renamed-its-schools\">The New Yorker Magazine<\/a> in an interview published on Saturday. \u201cAnd it\u2019s unfortunate because we need to be clear about where we are in this process.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Breed, who has been open to the idea of renaming schools, has repeatedly said that now isn\u2019t the time to do it, and that the public school system needs to focus on re-opening. After the school board voted 6-1 in favor of changing the names of 44 schools, including some named after Dianne Feinstein and Abraham Lincoln, Breed rebuked the board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhat I cannot understand is why the School Board is advancing a plan to have all these schools renamed by April, when there isn\u2019t a plan to have our kids back in the classroom by then,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/sfmayor.org\/article\/statement-mayor-london-breed-school-renaming\">said<\/a> the mayor, whose own city attorney is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/san-francisco-sues-its-own-school-district-over-re-opening-plan\">suing the school district<\/a>\u00a0over its re-opening plans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lopez called the idea that the district doesn\u2019t have a reopening plan \u201ccompletely false,\u201d and said they were working to reopen schools &#8220;every single day.&#8221; She also defended the board\u2019s decision to rename schools, a policy that has been criticized for not including historians and containing factual errors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThey included a diverse set of community members, people with a set of experiences that contribute to these discussions, people from different backgrounds who are also educated in their own rights,\u201d Lopez told The New Yorker.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More from The New Yorker interview:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>[NEW YORKER]: The reason I bring this up is that some of the historical reasoning behind these decisions has been contested\u2014not so much how we should view the fact that George Washington was a founder of the country and a slave holder but, rather, factual things like Paul Revere\u2019s name being removed for the Penobscot Expedition, which was not actually about the colonization of Native American lands. And so there were questions about whether historians should have been involved to check these things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[LOPEZ]: I see what you\u2019re saying. So, for me, I guess it\u2019s just the criteria was created to show if there were ties to these specific themes, right? White supremacy, racism, colonization, ties to slavery, the killing of indigenous people, or any symbols that embodied that. And the committee shared that these are the names that have these ties. And so, for me, at this moment, I have the understanding we have to do the teaching, but also I do agree that we shouldn\u2019t have these ties, and this is a way of showing it.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[NEW YORKER]: I guess part of the problem is that the ties may not be what the committee said they were. That\u2019s why I brought it up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[LOPEZ]: So then you go into discrediting the work that they\u2019re doing, and the process that they put together in order to create this list. So when we begin to have these conversations, and we\u2019re pointing to that, and we\u2019re given the reasoning and they\u2019re sharing why they made this choice and why they\u2019re putting it out there, I don\u2019t want to get into a process where we then discredit the work that this group has done.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reads the full interview transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/q-and-a\/how-san-francisco-renamed-its-schools\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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