Leah Chase Circle

Maybe this deserves its own thread, but the Orleans Parish School Board is doing their own renaming exercise.

https://www.nola.com/news/education/article_8e91782c-8375-11eb-a2bb-0b75a91afa97.html



I'm curious to see how Ben Franklin fares in this process - if even nola.com describes him simply as "inventor, scientist, and founding father who also owned slaves" I fear his days are numbered despite his mid-life conversion into a staunch abolitionist. Although maybe our school board will dig a little deeper than our local newspaper. One can hope.

To be fair, the students at Lusher have been asking for the name to be changed for quite awhile. So this isn't just the government doing this. On the other hand, Ben Franklin students have not been asking for the name change. Then again, I don't think most of them really care one way or the other.