{"id":160348,"date":"2021-02-22T13:03:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T18:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=160348"},"modified":"2021-02-22T13:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T18:14:11","slug":"san-francisco-will-not-rename-controversial-schools-school-board-promises-to-consult-historians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-will-not-rename-controversial-schools-school-board-promises-to-consult-historians\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Will Not Rename \u2018Controversial\u2019 Schools, School Board Promises To \u2018Consult Historians\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\">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%2Fsan-francisco-will-not-rename-controversial-schools-school-board-promises-to-consult-historians%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=160348&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Lincoln.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The San Francisco Unified School District hit \u201cpause\u201d on renaming 44 schools named after allegedly controversial historical figures, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/local\/article\/SF-school-board-pauses-renaming-44-schools-15968504.php\">San Francisco Gate reported<\/a> Monday, and has promised to consult historians rather than Wikipedia if they look to make any changes in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, newly elected San Francisco school board president, Gabriela L\u00f3pez, said in a statement that she plans to make reopening schools a priority, ahead of tangling with the vestiges of systemic racism as outlined by her district\u2019s \u201crenaming committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReopening will be our only focus until our children and young people are back in school,\u201d Lopez wrote in her statement, which also canceled all future meetings for the district\u2019s renaming committee. In a separate social media post, Lopez said she is \u201ccommitted to focusing the board\u2019s attention on getting our students back into the classroom. I\u2019m committed to making sure every student and family at SFUSD is supported through this process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco\u2019s school board voted back in January to rename 44 schools named after allegedly controversial historical figures, including presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, founding father Paul Revere, and longtime Democratic senator from California, Dianne Feinstein.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the vote was taken, however, a parents group revealed that the district\u2019s \u201crenaming committee,\u201d which was charged with researching historical figures and suggesting which should be removed from places of honor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/san-francisco-public-schools-renaming-plan-rife-with-historical-errors\">gathered their information through \u201ccasual Google searches<\/a>\u201d and from Wikipedia, resulting in a document \u201crife with historical errors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Revere was targeted because a naming committee member mistakenly connected the \u201cPenobscot Expedition\u201d against the British in 1779 to \u2018the conquest of the Penobscot Indians.\u201d Poet James Russell Lowell was assailed because he, allegedly, \u201cdid not want Black people to vote,\u201d despite \u201cunequivocally\u201d advocating for \u201cgiving the ballot to the recently freed slaves.\u201d Businessman and philanthropist James Lick was given the boot over a statue he supposedly funded, \u201cdepicting a prostrate Indian at the feet of white men.\u201d The statue was commissioned two decades after his death.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the shoddy research last week, Lopez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/san-francisco-school-board-president-critics-of-decision-to-rename-schools-undermining-anti-racism\">shot back at critics of the process<\/a>, accusing those questioning the committee\u2019s research methods of \u201cundermining\u201d the district\u2019s efforts at \u201canti-racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a shocking reversal of position, Lopez addressed the historical errors in her statement, taking \u201cresponsibility for mistakes made in the building renaming process\u201d and pledging to welcome community input \u2014 and to engage \u201chistorians at nearby universities\u201d \u2014 before attempting any further changes, and make the process \u201cdeliberative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The abrupt change of heart on the renaming process was likely the result of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/Effort-launched-to-recall-three-S-F-school-board-15968429.php\">a recall petition<\/a>, launched last week, aimed at Lopez and at least two other school board members. The two parents who launched the petition, which will require 70,000 signatures, told the San Francisco Chronicle that they aim to \u201cget politics out of education,\u201d and pledged to use their connections in the tech sector to ensure the petition is successful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/san-francisco-school-board-votes-to-rename-schools-named-after-dianne-feinstein-abraham-lincoln-george-washington\"><strong>Related: San Francisco School Board Votes To Rename Schools Named After Dianne Feinstein, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington<\/strong><\/a><\/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\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Unified School District hit \u201cpause\u201d on renaming 44 schools named after allegedly controversial historical figures, the San Francisco Gate reported Monday, and has promised to consult historians &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2273943,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Lincoln.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"San Francisco Will Not Rename \u2018Controversial\u2019 Schools, School Board Promises To \u2018Consult Historians\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Lincoln.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"San Francisco Will Not Rename \u2018Controversial\u2019 Schools, School Board Promises To \u2018Consult Historians\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160348","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=160348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}