{"id":533126,"date":"2021-05-21T10:37:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=533126"},"modified":"2021-05-21T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:37:09","slug":"toronto-school-board-requests-queen-victoria-public-school-change-name-citing-queens-racist-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/toronto-school-board-requests-queen-victoria-public-school-change-name-citing-queens-racist-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto School Board Requests Queen Victoria Public School Change Name Citing Queen\u2019s \u2018Racist Legacy\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\">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%2Ftoronto-school-board-requests-queen-victoria-public-school-change-name-citing-queens-racist-legacy%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=533126&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\/05\/Queen-Victoria.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A Canadian school board is preparing to change the name of a public school named after Queen Victoria, citing the Queen\u2019s alleged \u201cracist legacy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Planning and Priorities Committee submitted a request on behalf of the school council\u2019s Black Student Success Committee, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/toronto-school-board-considering-name-change-to-school-named-after-queen-victoria-citing-racism\">The Post Millennial<\/a>. The black student committee wants to begin the process of \u201cchanging the school name\u201d of Queen Victoria Public School.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cUnder our current policies, a request of this nature can be initiated from a school or local community,\u201d the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tnc.news\/2021\/05\/17\/tdsb-wants-to-rename-queen-victoria-public-school-citing-racist-legacy\/\"><span>request<\/span><\/a><span> states. \u201cThe response from School Council has been excitement at the possibility of being able to engage in the school renaming process. The desire to have a new name is representative of a \u2018fresh start\u2019 for the school community amongst a range of other positive changes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On April 21, the City of Toronto passed the \u201cRenaming Schools&nbsp; Celebrating the Diversity of Toronto\u201d motion. The motion claims that there aren\u2019t enough schools named after indigenous or black leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSome school names do not reflect the values of contemporary Toronto,\u201d the motion reads. \u201cSome schools are named after people with a racist legacy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Queen Victoria Public School has held the name since 1887.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The City of Toronto is in the process of evaluating a slew of places for allegedly having problematic or racist histories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in May of 2020, American school boards made similar moves to rename public schools and other institutions that have ties to problematic history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In Washington, D.C., Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser put her support behind renaming Woodrow Wilson High School, citing the Democratic president\u2019s ties to segregation. Bowser created a task force to research racially insensitive street names, monuments, buildings, and anything else with \u201cany historical reference.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think that [Woodrow Wilson High School\u2019s name] should be changed,\u201d Bowser <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dc-mayor-wants-to-scrub-democrats-name-from-high-school\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cWe know the legacy of President Wilson. I think that it has been appropriately disavowed. It is particularly impactful here in the District, the seat of the federal government, his legacy of segregationist policy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Princeton University similarly scrubbed Wilson \u2014 who was president of the university before becoming president \u2014 from the public policy program and residence hall that bore his name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Virginia school whose football team was the subject of the hit film \u201c<\/span><span>Remember the Titans\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><span>is also considering a name change. T.C. Williams High School was named after Thomas Chambliss Williams, who was a segregationist. The Alexandria City Public Schools Board unanimously voted in November to change the school\u2019s namesake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>An elementary school in the same district, Matthew Maury Elementary, will be renamed as well. The school\u2019s namesake was a naval officer and cartographer who defected to the Confederacy during the Civil War. Contenders for the new name include \u201cBlack Lives Matter Elementary School\u201d and \u201cBarack Obama Elementary School.\u201d<\/span><\/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>A Canadian school board is preparing to change the name of a public school named after Queen Victoria, citing the Queen\u2019s alleged \u201cracist legacy.\u201dThe Planning and Priorities Committee submitted a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312574,"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\/05\/Queen-Victoria.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Toronto School Board Requests Queen Victoria Public School Change Name Citing Queen\u2019s \u2018Racist Legacy\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Queen-Victoria.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Toronto School Board Requests Queen Victoria Public School Change Name Citing Queen\u2019s \u2018Racist Legacy\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533126","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=533126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}