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Louis Agassiz was a Swiss American biologist who also promoted eugenics, the belief that some characteristics and races are inferior to others and should be bred out of humanity. “If we were OK to leave that name on the building, how am I as a Black parent or my child as a Black child supposed to really feel that my race or my worth would not come into play in a detrimental fashion?” one mother said.
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
I wish the mother had recorded the number of assignments failed because the school was named after Louis Agassiz
Let them change the name of the school. It won’t improve the atrocious performance of the students. The fact of the matter is that life is a competition and those that focus on renaming schools, instead of the three R’s, will come in last place, even with social justice.
I strongly believe that every public school in Chicago be named either Cesar Chavez High School and then add on (insert street name) street.or Martin Luther King school. Keep tabs on testing results to see if the old named schools had better or worse performance. Nobody could possibly gripe about this except the CTU. The CTU will be forced to be accountable.
The erasing of our history continues
If you erase history how do you learn from it.