San Francisco School District to rename Abraham Lincoln High School

The San Francisco Unified School District will rename Abraham Lincoln High School because the 16th president “did not show through policy or rhetoric that black lives ever mattered” to him.

That’s according to Jeremiah Jeffries, a first grade teacher and head of the district’s School Names Advisory Committee.

According to the Daily Mail, the committee’s main gripe, however, appears to be Lincoln’s treatment of Native Americans.

“Abraham Lincoln is not seen as much of a hero at all among many American Indian Nations and Native peoples of the United States, as the majority of his policies proved to be detrimental to them,” the committee said.

During Lincoln’s tenure, the Homestead and Pacific Railway Acts led to “significant loss of land and natural resources” for Natives. Lincoln also ordered the largest mass hanging in American history — 38 members of the Dakota tribe were hanged for actions in the 1862 Dakota War. (The president did commute the sentences of over 260 other Natives, however.)


https://www.thecollegefix.com/san-francisco-school-district-to-rename-abraham-lincoln-high-school/


I think NYC just numbers their schools. Or maybe just the elementary schools. Might have to resort to that. Then we can put up statues of numbers too.