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Cancel Culture or Social Change? Cleveland Considering Renaming Seven Schools

Cancel Culture or Social Change? Cleveland Considering Renaming Seven Schools
Thomas Jefferson Elementary is one of seven schools in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District named after founding fathers of the United States, or leading statesmen, targeted for renaming. www.biography.com
Michael Sakal
1/4/2022|Updated: 1/5/2022

Continuing its march on what could be called cancel culture or social change, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District is considering renaming seven of its schools because some of the namesakes were slave owners and had “racially problematic pasts.”

Two of the decades-old elementary schools targeted were named for America’s founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, who is known for saying, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

Michael Sakal
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Michael Sakal is a former reporter for The Epoch Times.
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