Yet another story from out of our most progressive state, more progressive than even MA.

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George Washington, the guy on the quarter, could soon be facing the ax in San Francisco as surely as his fabled cherry tree.

The president of the San Francisco school board thinks it’s time to consider renaming schools that bear the names of slave owners — including Washington and his friends and fellow presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe.

Board President Matt Haney said Tuesday he will introduce a resolution before the board this month to clarify the rules for renaming San Francisco schools with an eye to encouraging the communities at Washington High School, along with Jefferson and Monroe elementary schools, to consider whether they want to make a change.

Another school that might want to think about a new name, Haney said, is Francis Scott Key Elementary School — which was named for the slave-owning lyricist of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

“We need to have a conversation about this,” Haney said. “Especially at George Washington High School. We have school names in San Francisco that are not relevant or meaningful or inspire pride."

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http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF...mes-9206217.php

Yeah, these individuals never did anything as important as whatever this guy Haney has done, nor were they without flaw like him.

This is all part of the culture wars wherein our history is being smothered in order to satisfy the predilections of a group of atavists picturing themselves as morally superior individuals.