New Orleans has been down this road before. Some years ago, they deleted the name of George Washington school, because George Washington owned slaves. The school board decided that schools should not honor slave owners.
The school was renamed after some obscure African king.
No word as to whether the boost to self esteem of the black students, who no longer had to attend a school named after a slave owner, resulted in greater student achievement.
Having lived in the area at various times from ‘69-’75 and consistently from ‘75-’87, my guess is——————no improvement due to heightened self esteem.
I wonder if that African king sold off his rivals to the slavers back in the day.
Wouldn’t that be rich irony.
Or a surgeon.