{"id":396374,"date":"2021-04-07T13:28:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=396374"},"modified":"2021-04-07T13:28:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:28:38","slug":"un-canceled-sf-school-board-formally-rescinds-move-to-rename-schools-after-lincoln-washington-feinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/un-canceled-sf-school-board-formally-rescinds-move-to-rename-schools-after-lincoln-washington-feinstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Un-Canceled: SF School Board Formally Rescinds Move To Rename Schools After Lincoln, Washington, Feinstein"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fun-canceled-sf-school-board-formally-rescinds-move-to-rename-schools-after-lincoln-washington-feinstein%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=396374&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\/04\/fb_image-741.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The San Francisco Board of Education has formally reversed its decision to rename more than forty public schools with names they deemed problematic or connected to racism and oppression, including schools named after George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, several months after their attempted rebranding initiative tossed them into the national spotlight.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/local\/article\/S-F-school-board-expected-to-reverse-decision-to-16081256.php\"><span>The San Francisco Chronicle,<\/span><\/a><span> the school board voted unanimously for a resolution to overturn the school renaming decision, which would have required a large-scale and potentially costly effort at the expense of taxpayers. The outcome of the vote was expected and was designed to avoid litigation from opponents of the policy who have alleged the board violated state law by not giving proper notification ahead of the vote.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The school board\u2019s resolution, however, vows to revisit the issue of renaming the so-called problematic schools once students have returned to classrooms full-time. It also accused those who filed the resolution of engaging in \u201cnothing more than a transparent attempt to thwart a lawful and duly-noticed action with which it disagrees.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The resolution Tuesday brings a formal \u2014 but likely temporary \u2014 end to an effort that prompted widespread criticism of the city\u2019s school board, a body composed of only a handful of elected officials who usually go unnoticed, especially at the national level.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Back in October, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/california-playbook\/2020\/10\/16\/feinstein-in-the-hot-seat-dems-slam-graham-embrace-trump-wont-disavow-qanon-garcetti-more-likely-than-not-to-remain-la-mayor-court-orders-scott-peterson-conviction-reexamined-490622\"><span>POLITICO<\/span><\/a><span>, citing the San Francisco Chronicle, reported that Dianne Feinstein Elementary School was on a list of public schools names that the San Francisco School Names Advisory Committee had deemed to be problematic. <\/span><span>As The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/S-F-might-change-44-school-names-renouncing-15651679.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral\"><span>Chronicle<\/span><\/a><span> noted, the elementary school named after the long-time California senator \u201cmade the list because, as mayor in 1986, Feinstein reportedly replaced a vandalized Confederate flag, one of several historic flags flying in front of City Hall at the time.\u201d A spokesperson for Feinstein has since said the flag preceded her and was replaced by a department without her input, and that she later consulted with the board of supervisors and had it removed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/07\/us\/san-francisco-schools-names.html\">reports<\/a> The New York Times.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Feinstein, however, was only one of the dozens of school names that met the committee\u2019s sweeping criteria, which included everyone from those who exploited workers, to those who abused women, children, or transgender people, to those who espoused racism. Abraham Lincoln High School found itself on the list because of the 16th president\u2019s treatment of Native Americans; Lowell High School, one of the nation\u2019s most prestigious public schools, was targeted because the advisory committee said the 19th-century abolitionist James Russell Lowell \u201cwavered\u201d in his commitment to the anti-slavery movement and \u201cin his opinion of African Americans,\u201d according to the <\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/sfrichmondreview.com\/2020\/10\/04\/sfusd-weighs-renaming-11-sunset-district-schools\/\">local <\/a>news site<\/span><span>&nbsp;Richmond Review\/Sunset Beacon.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The school board ultimately voted 6-1 to rename nearly one-third of its public schools \u2014 while they were closed for in-person learning \u2014 with new names to be selected at a later date.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But in late January, San Francisco\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2021\/01\/the-san-francisco-school-districts-renaming-debacle-has-been-a-historic-travesty\/\"><span>Mission Local<\/span><\/a><span> published a highly critical report on how the district\u2019s re-naming endeavor was \u201cbeset by ignorance and incompetence\u201d and contained major factual errors. From Mission Local:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"34.062024575775\">\n<p><i><span>While reading out a Wikipedia entry on the beliefs of 19th-century poet and diplomat James Russell Lowell, a committee member stated that \u201che did not want Black people to vote.\u201d In point of fact, <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/James_Russell_Lowell\/yKxZAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;bsq=%22Lowell%20unequivocally%20advocated%20giving%20the%20ballot%20to%20the%20recently%20freed%20slaves.%22\"><i><span>a scholarly biography<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span> of the high school\u2019s namesake states that the he \u201cunequivocally advocated giving the ballot to the recently freed slaves.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/16cre1vbJzE44JWmto_Ll7J06q9ZblQoBC-Eas3Qwf2c\/edit#gid=0\"><i><span>The citation provided<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span> to justify the striking of Paul Revere\u2019s name from a K-8 school was a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/11-things-you-may-not-know-about-paul-revere\"><i><span>Top-10 list from the History Channel website<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>. That article notes Revere was court-martialed for alleged cowardice and insubordination following the disastrous \u201cPenobscot Expedition\u201d against the British in 1779. During a back-and-forth in a renaming committee meeting, however, this ignominious Revolutionary War military defeat was, by some alchemy, tied to the conquest of the Penobscot Indians, which was partially attributed to Revere. This is a telephone game-like invention of fact, and never happened. In reality, per the article from the History Channel website (\u201cwhich is pretty credible,\u201d per the committee), Revere went back to silversmithing after the war, and sired 16 children.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Businessman James Lick was blackballed because committee members objected to his funding of the odious \u201cEarly Days\u201d sculpture, depicting a prostrate Indian at the feet of white men. This monument was recently removed from Civic Center, and the committee cited a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sf.curbed.com\/2017\/8\/22\/16184590\/pioneer-monument-confederate-statues\">Curbed<\/a>&nbsp;article in its discussion of Lick, who was stricken because of his connection with this artwork. Nobody appears to have closely read that article, however, which clearly notes that Lick underwrote the sculpture \u201cposthumously,\u201d via his estate. He died 18 years prior to its completion.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Jeremiah Jeffries, chairman of the renaming committee, was also dismissive toward the idea of including historians in the renaming effort, reports Mission Local. And when Board of Education President Gabriela Lopez was confronted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/q-and-a\/how-san-francisco-renamed-its-schools\">New Yorker Magazine<\/a> about the historical errors in the renaming effort in a February interview, she defended the initiative.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"46\">\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>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>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<p><em>NEW YORKER: But it seems like we should have some sense of whether what they did was historically correct or not. No?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span>LOPEZ: I\u2019m open for that conversation.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The topic of inaccurate information was revisited later in the conversation.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"20\">\n<p><em>NEW YORKER: So none of the errors that I read to you about previous entries made you worried that maybe this was done in a slightly haphazard way?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span>LOPEZ: No, because I\u2019ve already shared with you that the people who have contributed to this process are also part of a community that is taking it as seriously as we would want them to. And they\u2019re contributing through diverse perspectives and experiences that are often not included, and that we need to acknowledge.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>NEW YORKER: I\u2019m not quite sure what that means when we are talking about things that did or didn\u2019t happen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span>LOPEZ: I think what you\u2019re pointing to and what I keep hearing is you\u2019re trying to undermine the work that has been done through this process. And I\u2019m moving away from the idea that it was haphazard.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Later in February, Lopez released a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lopez4schools\/status\/1363648701533548544?lang=en\">statement<\/a> saying that she was taking responsibility for the \u201cmistakes made in the building renaming process,\u201d and said that the effort would be suspended. \u201cThis is the last time I\u2019ll comment publicly on renaming until schools are reopened. We will not be taking valuable time from our board agendas to further discuss this, as we need to prioritize reopening,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The school board\u2019s April 6 vote officially reverses the re-naming effort.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Board of Education has formally reversed its decision to rename more than forty public schools with names they deemed problematic or connected to racism and oppression, including &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311801,"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\/04\/fb_image-741.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Un-Canceled: SF School Board Formally Rescinds Move To Rename Schools After Lincoln, Washington, Feinstein","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-741.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Un-Canceled: SF School Board Formally Rescinds Move To Rename Schools After Lincoln, Washington, Feinstein","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396374","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=396374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}