[Cen-Tejas]

I imagine Lincoln, Jefferson and Washington would approve of their names being taken off San Francisco Public School buildings!

[V_TWIN]

I thank God on a regular basis that I live as far away from crazyfornia as is possible and still be in the CONUS.

A real shame such a beautiful state has gone down the toilet.

[ClearCase_guy]

Che Guavara High School coming to your neighborhood soon.

[17th Miss Regt]

Rename an elementary school for some real black pioneers. Perhaps one for Anthony Johnson. He established slavery in the English colonies in 1642 when he refused to release John Casor from his indenture (which Casor had worked off). The crown court declared that Casor owed his labor to Johnson for the remainder of his life, thereby establishing slavery in the colonies. Honor Anthony Johnson for his part in American history and in forming the psyches of so many Americans!

[Bishop_Malachi]

Harvey Milk elementary and RuPaul Middle School coming right up!

[bert]

San Francisco must be renamed. The city is named for a person responsible for the deaths and disruption of hundreds of thousands of Jews by the Roman Catholic Inquisition.

The Inquisition was prelude to the holocaust. To celebrate the inquisition is a crime against humanity

[mo]

ehh...prolly easier than just simply making sure they’re winterized!

[SES1066]

... "inappropriately" named after problematic historical figures ...

Which means the only safe and permanent names must be names like "SD5 ES3" (School District 5, Elementary School 3). Such names, while awkward in school slogans and sport chants, will have minimal offense value EXCEPT to the numerology fringe who would object to something there, I'm sure!

It is a FACT OF HISTORY that every 'historical figure' is problematic to someone. Even naming for local school-board members can turn out badly. In San Francisco you could have closet cisgenderists, non-ethnic educators or, horrors, active conservatives!

Inappropriation is a political act having nothing to do with education below the high school level. Small minds doing small malignancies for momentary gratifications. Make that 'very small minds', neuron deficient even!

[buwaya]

Washington High and Lincoln High are heavily Asian, and the kids and parents do NOT want them renamed. SF’s Asians are heavily 1st and 2nd gen and are proud to be in the USA, and they like it that their schools are named for great Americans.

This crap is coming from the perpetually left-wing school board that was voted in by non-parents.

[Bon of Babble]

I have immediate family in San Francisco and am aware of its stupid educational policies.

One of the kids turned school age this year and was assigned to a school across town in a very bad area - even though there is an elementary school across the damn street.

SF schools assign kids according to race, not area. Fortunately, family was well enough off to put kid in a private school much closer to home.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4. The way Eastern schools used to do.

[From The Deer Stand]

How about H. Rap Brown High School?