The San Francisco school board has decided to change the names of the public schools. The board has called for suggestions for new, anti-racist names.
I side with the one board member who pointed out that no human name is free from taint. That's why I've suggested to the school board that they rename public schools for different species of local oaks. There are at least 20 native California oak species and another 20 hybrids. Plenty of names. Some species live blameless lives of more than 600 years. George Washington High could become Quercus kelloggii or Black Oak High. Their basketball team might be called the Acorns. Lincoln could be renamed Coast Live Oak School, and they could be the Fighting Acorns and so on.
Meanwhile the underfunded school district is planning to reopen during the pandemic. One problem--they are running out of soap.
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