Name change process underway for Tacoma schools amid racism concerns

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Two Tacoma principals are leading the charge to rename their schools after complaints about the racist history of the men they were named after.

Bernadette Ray, principal of Woodrow Wilson High School, and Christine Brandt, principal of Jason Lee Middle School, are working to form committees after receiving letters and requests to change the names, Tacoma Public Schools Superintendent Carla Santorno confirmed in a school board meeting last week.

“To have a principal that would stand up and take this process under their wing is great, and they have both agreed to do it,” Santorno said.

Ray, principal at Wilson for two years and currently the only Black Tacoma high school principal, said she began considering a name change after the news in June that Princeton University planned to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public policy school.

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[bluedye33139]

1. King county was sort of renamed for the same reasons.

The original namesake was a slave holder who was also, curiously, rumored to be the boyfriend of an American president.

The county voted to retain the name King county, but the name now refers to Martin Luther King Jr.

I've always thought that was an interesting and good move.

[gopiscrap]

2. Wilson is my Alma Mater