When we think of schools in Oklahoma, what often comes to mind are education cuts that lead to four-day school weeks and low teacher pay. What can be a worse set of associations to make? Well apparently, many schools in Oklahoma are also associated with slavery.
According to News on 6, Robert E. Lee, Andrew Jackson, Jean Pierre Chouteau, and Christopher Columbus Elementary schools are all up for renaming due to their namesakes’ associations with slavery, racism, and all around terrible hairstyles. That being said, school boards are scrambling to come up with new names to replace them. So I thought I’d help them out by coming up with a few ideas myself. Here are 10 less racist names for Oklahoma schools.
Paul Smith Elementary
Okay, so I really don’t know of any Paul Smiths that the school could be named after. The name was just the most stereotypically white male name I could come up with, which seems to make Oklahoma parents the least uncomfortable.