SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) Thursday, the San Francisco parent collective, Decreasing the Distance, held a news conference to highlight families struggles with distance learning, and their grassroots action to safely reopen San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) classrooms.
This comes on the heels of the City of San Francisco suing SFUSD for their failure to devise a concrete plan for reopening schools, 11 months into the coronavirus pandemic.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera and San Francisco Mayor London Breed have expressed frustration and disappointment with the district s priority list, so-to-speak, focusing first on renaming dozens of its schools. During that time the school board has alienated parents and made national news for their focus on renaming 44 of our schools, all while there wasn t a plan to reopen those very same schools, Mayor Breed said.
Blog San Fran’s Plan to Rename 44 Schools Will Cancel Elementary School’s Tribute to Sen. Dianne Feinstein By Quinn Weimer | February 4, 2021 | 12:07pm EST
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San Francisco’s Unified School Districts (SFUSD) School Names Advisory committee has established a list of 44 school names to be changed so that they will no longer honor historic figures such Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Francis Scott Key.
One name, however, stands out among the list as the only living person included: California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
The new criteria, according to ABC7’s report from the committee, prohibits naming schools after:
February 5, 2021
Alex Padilla’s taking the oath of office as California’s junior U.S. senator marks a political landmark: it ends the longest regional domination modern California political life has seen.
Since Arnold Schwarzenegger left the governor’s office in early 2011, every major statewide elective office had been held by San Francisco Bay Area Democrats, several first anointed by former state Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
The ascent of Kamala Harris to the vice presidency triggered this sea change. Prior to that Newsom, a former San Francisco mayor, was joined in high office by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, another former San Francisco mayor; former Sen. Harris, a onetime district attorney of San Francisco, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco congresswoman.
Opposition mounts to San Francisco school board approval of racialist renaming of schools
The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) board of education voted last Tuesday to approve the renaming of 44 schools in the district on the basis of racialist politics. The list of school names to be removed includes monumental revolutionary figures such as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
The renaming of schools on the basis of racialist politics and the falsification of history must be rejected as an attack on historical truth and the immensely progressive and democratic legacy of the Founding Fathers and Lincoln, and the world revolutionary significance of the American Revolution and the Civil War. The former gave the world the Declaration of Independence, which declared that “all men are created equal,” and the latter put an end to slavery in the American South.
Did Bernie s inauguration outfit epitomize white privilege ? A San Francisco teacher thinks so. David Knowles
SAN FRANCISCO Within hours of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, the Internet was consumed by images of Sen. Bernie Sanders sitting, stone-faced, bundled against the cold in a parka and colorful mittens. The meme turned into a fundraising bonanza for nonprofits and a symbol of a new administration getting down to business, as a contrast to the carefully curated image cultivated by its predecessor.
Who could possibly find fault with that?
Well, one person at least, a public high school teacher in San Francisco named Ingrid Seyer-Ochi, who wrote an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle that appeared on Sunday and quickly went viral. Seyer-Ochi’s objection was to the “privilege, white privilege, male privilege and class privilege” symbolized by Sanders’s choice of a relatively casual Burton snowboarding jacket and repurposed wool mittens.