San Francisco high school wants to erase George Washington Murals because they are traumatizing the students and the local community.
One of the murals depicts Washington as a slave owner, while another shows him advocating for westward expansion next to a dead Native American, The Richmond District Blog reported. The paintings have been in the halls of the George Washington High School since it was established in 1936.
The San Francisco school district commissioned a working group to review the murals in 2018 after a heritage group proposed the school be designated a historical landmark in order to protect the murals and other historic art around the school. The group concluded the mural “traumatizes students and community members,” and recommended all of the ones related to Washington be “archived” and removed.
“We come to these recommendations due to the continued historical and current trauma of Native Americans and African Americans with these depictions in the mural that glorifies slavery, genocide, colonization, manifest destiny, white supremacy, oppression, etc.,” the group wrote in its recommendation.
Today we have a report that It will cost a San Francisco school Robby Soave at Reason Magazine district more than half a million dollars to cover up a “controversial” mural of George Washington, after a handful of activists complained that the mere sight of the nation’s first president was “traumatizing” to students.
Robby Soave at Reason Magazine reports that the San Francisco Unified School District will meet next week to discuss which of three “cover up” options is best for the mural, “The Life of Washington,” which graces the foyer of George Washington High School. They’ll decide whether to paint over the mural at a cost of $600,000, hide it behind paneling at a cost of $875,000, or hide it behind curtains (for the low, low price of just $300,000).
As Soave points out, that money could go to any number of important initiatives or even to hiring more teachers — the middle option, a $600,000 paint job, could support one newly hired SFUSD teacher for more than six years (SFUSD is currently experiencing a teacher shortage) — but a 13-member working group, tasked with scrubbing SFUSD of controversial historical monuments and materials says the school has no choice but to jettison the work of art.
Advocates for the mural argue getting rid of it would be inappropriate destruction of history. “I’ve talked to a bunch of students here and I honestly think that they agree it is the true depiction of history and that we all have to know who George Washington really was,” a student told the Golden Gate Express.
These high schoolers couldn’t care less about these things. They’re responding to what their Liberal teachers are training them to think and do, and looking to see themselves in the news.
Ignoring History can’t change it! The best way to stop all this BS is to disband the leftist controlled teacher’s unions and let teachers teach instead of indoctrinating. In plain English, teach children how to think instead of what to think!
