Have they learnt their lesson? Woke San Francisco board FINALLY hires consultant to re-open classrooms after rejecting the idea for entire year
In June last year, the San Francisco school board rejected a plan to hire a reopening consultant to help get kids safely back in class
M
embers then described a firm recommended by Superintendent Vince Matthews as a crime syndicate because it had worked with charter schools
After overseeing one of the slowest school reopenings in the country, the board has now reversed its decision and agreed to hire outside help
The board was preoccupied with trying to rename so-called racist schools, as parents and children juggled virtual lessons and working from home
As Wilford Brimley once observed in
Absence of Malice “Wonderful thing, subpoenas.” Faced with lawsuits over its historically illiterate school renaming decisions, the San Francisco Unified School District board will vote to cancel the project entirely, the Associated Press reports this morning. The effort had already been “paused” after the school board got an avalanche of criticism over its “shoddy research,” and also the timing of the effort:
The renaming effort also was criticized for shoddy research and historical inaccuracies. A renaming advisory committee wrongly accused Paul Revere of seeking to colonize the Penobscot people. It also confused the name of Alamo Elementary School with the Texas battle rather than the Spanish word for “poplar tree.”
San Francisco school board suspends plan to rename schools
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JOCELYN GECKER, Associated Press
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1of3Abraham Lincoln High School is seen in San Francisco, on Jan. 27, 2021. The embattled San Francisco school board is poised to reverse a decision to rename 44 schools in an effort to avoid costly litigation and tone down national criticism. In a Tuesday, April 6, 2021, meeting, the board will vote on a resolution to rescind a controversial January decision to rename schools and revisit the matter after all students have returned full-time to in-person learning.Haven Daley/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3The main entry to George Washington High School is seen in San Francisco, on Jan. 27, 2021. The embattled San Francisco school board is poised to reverse a decision to rename 44 schools in an effort to avoid costly litigation and tone down national criticism. In a Tuesday, April 6, 2021, meeting, the board will vote on a resolution to rescind a cont
San Francisco school board REVERSES its cancel culture decision to rename 44 schools that were named after historic figures including Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson
The city s Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to formally suspend its plan to strip the names of a third of San Francisco s public schools
Board said names honored figures linked to racism, sexism and other injustices
Among them were schools named for presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and longtime Sen. Dianne Feinstein
The board now said it was reversing the vote to avoid frivolous litigation after being sued for violating the state’s open meeting law with its initial decision
Jocelyn Gecker
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO America’s founding fathers got a reprieve Tuesday in San Francisco, when the city’s scandal-plagued school board formally suspended a plan to rename 44 schools as part of a racial reckoning that critics said went too far.
The city’s Board of Education, which convened on Zoom, voted unanimously to reverse its much-criticized decision to strip the names of a third of San Francisco’s public schools, which it said honored figures linked to racism, sexism and other injustices. Among them were schools named for presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, writer Robert Louis Stevenson and Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere. A school named for longtime Sen. Dianne Feinstein was on the list as well.