Teaching Failure

For John, BLUF:  It appears the schools that educated the members of the San Francisco School Board failed, miserably.  How else to explain their meeting where they de-named 44 schools?  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Don’t care much about history

Here is the sub-headline:

From the Blog Linking and Thinking on Education, by Ms Joanne Jacobs, 1 February 2021.

Here is the lede plus one:

In a process marked by “ignorance and incompetence,” San Francisco’s school board voted to rename 44 schools, ratifying historical errors and angering parents of “Remote School 1, Remote School 2 and so on,” writes Joe Eskenazi in Mission Local.

The board, which is in no rush to reopen schools, spent five seconds confirming the cancelation of “Abraham Lincoln.”  The Great Emancipator isn’t fit to have a school named after him because he supported the transcontinental railroad and the Homestead Act, which opened up the West for settlement, which displaced indigenous peoples.

The part I don't get is why they are living in San Francisco, California, if President Abraham Lincoln was so in the wrong for opening up the West.  Maybe they have the Cape Horn exemption.

This action by the San Francisco School Board is an act of woke madness.

Here is a good exit quote from the Blog:

The school Board did not listen to historians because they are way too busy not listening to scientists telling them that it is now safe to reopen schools with the due cautionary measures in place.  And of course, being so busy not listening they cannot possibly be expected to see that they are shepherding a generations of young San Franciscans into isolation, depression and disengagement from learning.

Maybe they are all science denying Republicans.  That is all I can figure.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff