San Francisco Considers Jerry Garcia as Namesake of Local School

I think it should definitely be a HIGH school

Very cool. I hope they don't disqualify him for being a junkie.

So, Abraham Lincoln bad, Jerry Garcia good?  The times they are a changin'.

If Jerry gets a high school named after him maybe Jimi Hendrix will finally get recognized by Seattle's Garfield High, which doesn't even put him on their "Wall Of Fame" since he never graduated.  
 

Gram Parsons Prep, Lowell George Middle School and the Keith Richards Academy all seem reasonable.

Jerry would be a good namesake for a Continuation High School or a Waifs home.

I always slept though history class... what's the problem with Abraham Lincoln?

>>>>>So, Abraham Lincoln bad, Jerry Garcia good?

I didn't see mention of President Lincoln, at least in the SF Chron article.

I had heard that Lincoln High was on the list to be considered for name change.

People are goofy.

BTW, I'm all for naming something in SF after Jerry, but a school? Really?

That's a dumb idea.

^Plus, wasn't Jerry a descendant of Conquistadors?

Or was that just some sort of bad acid trip...?

Feinstein lost her school. 

Final exams. Can you pass the acid test?

So many fun options for the mascot, other than the obvious like the Wolves, the Tigers or the Rosebuds.

<So many fun options for the mascot>

Tamalpais Tabs?

besides the dead started in palo alto

homer observation  dana morgan music, billy and pig paly high

 

i had the same thought about junkie - also on the HOF thread re barry bonds

LLTD  in before me on where the band started. Fuck, at this point I'd expect the goddamn SF Chronicle to get it right....But no.

Of course, Garcia has said in more than one interview that he hated school but for a teacher or two; I imagine he'd scoff at this.

Just one example of a person who failed miserably at "school", but excelled at life. 

Except for.......

 

Garcia/GD were practically slave owners...

Lincoln's stain is that he signed off on the mass hanging of 38 Dakota men in 1862:

From Wikipedia:

>>>>>

The Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux Uprising, the Dakota Uprising, the Sioux Outbreak of 1862, the Dakota Conflict, the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862 or Little Crow's War, was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of Dakota (also known as the eastern Sioux). It began on August 17, 1862, along the Minnesota River in southwest Minnesota, four years after its admission as a state. Throughout the late 1850s in the lead-up to the war, late annuity payments by Indian agents caused increasing hunger and hardship among the Dakota. During the war, the Dakota made extensive attacks on hundreds of settlers and immigrants, which resulted in settler deaths, and caused many to flee the area. This ended with soldiers capturing hundreds of Dakota men and interning their families. A military tribunal quickly tried the men, sentencing 303 to death for their crimes. President Abraham Lincoln would later commute the sentence of 264 of them. The mass hanging of 38 Dakota men was conducted on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota; it was the largest mass execution in United States history.

Go Dave, go! There were actually two more chiefs who were executed in conjunction here, they had fled to Canada and were found early during the Johnson administration. So, Dakota 40. Some were actually found afterwards to have been executed in "error."

>>>As the men took their assigned places on the scaffold, they sang a Dakota song as white muslin coverings were pulled over their faces. Drumbeats signalled the start of the execution. The men grasped each others’ hands. With a single blow from an ax, the rope that held the platform was cut. Capt. William Duley, who had lost several members of his family in the attack on the Lake Shetek settlement, cut the rope.<<<

https://www.nativesunnews.today/articles/remembering-the-dakota-38-2/

 

All of the U.S. Soldiers who participated were awarded the Medal of Honor.

Not sure about naming a school after him, but I think the Jerome Garcia band and instrument room has a nice ring to it.

Maybe an art or music school, but a public shool doesn't feel quite right to me, given his lifestyle. 

 

Of course, never start a search for a perfect person...

they should name it "Farts Don't Stink High"

Jerry went to Balboa - so name it after him. -- SF's "politically correct " attitudes are turning my stomach.- I went to Washington High- great school-- as well as Lincoln (they always beat our ass in the Bell Game).- Really getting sick of this crap.

I grew up one mile from Mount Vernon, had my first job there, and went to Mount Vernon High School.  As the most visited home in the U.S. it is already an excellent workshop for teaching how things were in the Colonial era.  The slave cabins are part of the tour.  Washington is considered the original leader of the country.  How can you not share his story?  He freed his slaves at his death.  It's better to use his example to teach, instead of to forget/ignore/cancel it.  
 

While they already have changed the Confederate-linked names of Robert E. Lee High School and Jeb Stuart High School in Northern Virginia, they haven't gone after any of the slave-owning Founding Fathers yet (Washington, Jefferson,  Madison).  

There is still a Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida.  Its where the Skynyrd guys were tormented by coach Leonard Skinner.

Names change all the time.

Around these parts the public schools are named after prominent educators who worked in the system.

Also, ZFG. 

Our local elementary school is named after a brook, which was named by the guy who mapped it in 1710. He was from CT and came to Vermont twice, to survey.

Turns out the guy owned a few slaves (5). He also let a few of them go. Now there's a big discussion about changing the name of the school. I see both sides and haven't yet formed an opinion. My question is, where does it stop?

They don't involve me in the focus group but I make a differentiation between someone who owned a slave and someone who went to war to keep that slave in naming conventions.  Also, don't care if the folks in that community make a case for changing the name.  I never thought I would see it but here the Admiral Semmes statue was removed from public display last summer and will be moved to a museum.  Semmes was the confederate who lost the Battle of Mobile Bay to "Damn the torpedoes " Adm  Farregaut  

The history is pretty damn horrible regardless .

In the many colonies there were slaves called indentured servants.  Often the white ones, many Irish, did their time and went on with life.  The black ones were often sued by the indenture holder for some kind of ginned up violation of terms and the courts extended the " indenture". 

One famous case Mr. Charlie knocked up a black female indentured servant and then sued her for " immoral conduct" and she never got away.

Sorry for referencing non-patriotic curriculum.

 

*Farragut* 

It seems that changing/updating the history books & curriculum makes better sense than changing the names of schools.

It's easy to get fed up with "cancel culture", but in certain cases it's a fine line. IMO anyone who waged war against the USA should not be honored by the USA, so Robert E. Lee should not have a public school named after him, and no confederate business should be celebrated or held on high by any government institutions, but suddenly making guys like Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, etc. out to be villains is way out in the weeds, and makes it easy to negate the whole idea of trying to set the record straight on history. 

Still, name changes only bother older people, and if they change Washington High to Garcia High (and who wouldn't get a chuckle out of that) no one will remember or care 10 - 20 years from now.

I remember my father having a corinary when SF changed the name of Army Street to Ceasar Chavez Street 25 years ago. For me personally, I had to look up what the street was called before they changed it. I couldn't remember and I couldn't care less now.

Jerry Garcia High.

Right.

Berkeley already has Malcolm X Elementary (and Malcolm X holiday).

So, it seems that they could still keep my kids' alma mater, Washington Elementary and maintain some sort of historic balance...

The Dark Stars

The Wharf Rats

The China Cat Sunflowers

how about "Our Lady with a Fan" High School?

The Dark Stars wear all black uniforms and the numbers can be seen only under a black light

The Wharf Rats have uniforms from the goodwill and no two match - the coaches are in and out of rehab

The China Cats are dayglo and everyone is named Aomomoxoa

The Wharf Rats are down

way down

 down by the docks of the city down

it's 45-0 at half

how about "Our Lady with a Fan" High School?

Good one!

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