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旧金山学校董事会暂停重新命名44所学校的计划！
（KCRA）America’s founding fathers got a reprieve Tuesday in San Francisco, when the city’s scandal-plagued school board formally suspended a plan to rename 44 schools as part of a racial reckoning that critics said went too far.
周二，该市学校董事会正式暂停了一项为44所学校重新命名的计划，该计划是清算种族歧视的一部分，批评者认为该计划做得太过了。
The city’s Board of Education, which convened on Zoom, voted unanimously to reverse its much-criticized decision to strip the names of a third of San Francisco’s public schools, which it said honored figures linked to racism, sexism and other injustices. Among them were schools named for presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, writer Robert Louis Stevenson and Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere. A school named for longtime Sen. Dianne Feinstein was on the list as well.
该市教育委员会召集了Zoom会议，一致投票推翻了一项备受批评的决定，取消了修改三分之一旧金山公立学校名字的计划，这些学校表彰了与种族主义、性别歧视和其他不公正有关的人物。其中包括以亚伯拉罕·林肯、乔治·华盛顿、托马斯·杰斐逊、作家罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森和独立战争英雄保罗·里维尔命名的学校。一所以长期担任参议员的范斯坦(Dianne Feinstein)命名的学校也在名单上。
Tuesday’s 6-0 decision means that the school board is rescinding its vote from January and will revisit the matter after all students have returned full time to in-person learning. It sets no specific timetable.
星期二的6比0的决定意味着学校董事会取消了从一月份开始的投票，并将在所有学生恢复全职的面对面学习后重新讨论这个问题。它没有设定具体的时间表。
The renaming debacle was one of several self-inflicted controversies the San Francisco school board faced during the pandemic, along with numerous lawsuits and public ridicule.
这次改名失败是旧金山学校董事会在大流行期间面临的几起自我造成的争议之一，以及许多诉讼和公众的嘲笑。
Parents, students and elected officials blasted the board for some of its targets — and its timing. The decision in late January came while all of San Francisco’s public classrooms were closed because of coronavirus restrictions. They still are. Mayor London Breed, among others, called it “offensive and completely unacceptable” for the board to focus on changing school names rather than getting children back into classrooms.
家长、学生和民选官员对委员会的这些作为进行了猛烈抨击。这一决定是在1月下旬做出的，当时旧金山所有的公共教室都因为冠状病毒限制而关闭。旧金山市长和其他一些人认为，董事会专注于改变学校的名字，而不是让孩子们回到教室，这是“无礼和完全不可接受的”。
Some of the city’s youngest students are expected to begin returning to in-person instruction this month after more than a year of distance learning because of the pandemic. There is no timetable for middle and high school students to return.
由于疫情的影响，该市一些最年轻的学生在经历了一年多的远程学习后，预计本月将开始返回现场教学。对于初中生和高中生的返校没有时间表。
The renaming effort also was criticized for historical inaccuracies and shoddy research that included consulting Wikipedia rather than historians.
重新命名的努力也被批评为历史不准确和低劣的研究，因为他们只依据维基百科，而不是历史学家。
“While we're at it, what about renaming San Francisco," columnist and city scribe Carl Nolte wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle after the vote, noting that the city was named by missionaries for a Roman Catholic saint. “Clearly that fits the guidelines for a new name."
投票结束后，专栏作家、城市撰稿人卡尔·诺尔特(Carl Nolte)在《旧金山纪事报》(San Francisco Chronicle)上写道:“既然这样，给旧金山改名怎么样?很明显，这符合新名字的指导原则。”他指出，旧金山是由传教士为一位罗马天主教圣徒命名的。
Feinstein Elementary made the list because when she was mayor in 1984, a decision was made to replace a vandalized Confederate flag that was part of a longstanding display outside City Hall. When the flag was pulled down a second time, it was not replaced.
范斯坦小学榜上有名是因为她在1984年担任市长时，市政府决定替换长期陈列在市政厅外被破坏的联邦旗帜。当国旗被重新升起时，它并没有被替换。
“It feels like truth won this time,” Seeyew Mo, head of Families for San Francisco, said about Tuesday's vote. His group opposed the renaming process and brought attention to the flawed research.
“感觉这一次是真相赢了，”旧金山的一家之主赛耀·莫(Seeyew Mo)在谈到周二的投票时说。他的组织反对重新命名的过程，并提请注意有缺陷的研究。
“I’m glad they’ve come to their senses — after lawsuits, and public pressure,” said Mo, who also objected to the board’s “top-down process” in which a small group made the decision without the wider school community. “A lot of people agree with the idea of revisiting names, but they just disagree with how it was done.”
莫言说:“我很高兴他们在诉讼和公众压力之后恢复了理智。”莫言也反对董事会“自上而下的程序”，一小部分人在没有全校参与的情况下做出了决定。“很多人同意重新命名名字的想法，但他们只是不同意这种做法。”
The renaming process was led by a committee created in 2018 to study the names of district schools amid a national reckoning on racial injustice that followed deadly clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Schools and institutions nationwide are evaluating whether to change names as the country reevaluates its heroes.
重新命名的过程是由2018年成立的一个委员会领导的，该委员会的目的是研究地区学校的名字。当时，在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔的一场白人至上主义集会发生致命冲突后，全国对种族不公正进行了反思。全国各地的学校和机构都在考虑是否要更改英雄的名字。
The committee in San Francisco determined that any figures who “engaged in the subjugation and enslavement of human beings; or who oppressed women, inhibiting societal progress; or whose actions led to genocide; or who otherwise significantly diminished the opportunities of those amongst us to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” should not have schools named for them.
旧金山的委员会决定，任何“参与征服和奴役人类的人;压迫妇女，阻碍社会进步的人;或其行为导致种族灭绝;或者那些严重剥夺了我们当中的人享有生命、自由和追求幸福的权利的人，”不应该让学校以他们命名。
The result prompted an outcry in California that the net was cast too wide, and mockery on social media and right-wing news sites which decried political correctness gone awry.
这一结果在加州引发了一场抗议，认为网络覆盖太广，并在社交媒体和右翼新闻网站上引发了嘲笑，这些网站谴责政治正确出现了错误。
Board president Gabriela Lopez said in February that the process would be paused until all children were back in school. Lopez acknowledged in a statement that mistakes were made in the selection of schools and said that when the board returns to the issue, it will engage historians for a “more deliberative process.”
理事会主席加布里埃拉·洛佩兹在2月份表示，这一过程将暂停，直到所有孩子都回到学校。洛佩兹在一份声明中承认，在选择学校时犯了错误，并表示，当委员会重新讨论这个问题时，会让历史学家参与“更慎重的过程”。
Since the renaming vote, the board has faced multiple lawsuits. The city of San Francisco took the dramatic step of suing the school district and the board to pressure both to reopen classrooms more quickly. Another was filed in March by San Francisco attorney Paul Scott, whose children attend public schools, alleging the school board’s renaming decision violated California’s open meeting law and did not involve the community.
自更名投票以来，董事会已面临多项诉讼。旧金山市采取了戏剧性的步骤，起诉学区和董事会，向两者施压，以更快地重新开放教室。旧金山律师保罗·斯科特(Paul Scott)的子女就读于公立学校，他在3月份提交了另一份文件，称学校董事会的改名决定违反了加州的公开会议法，而且没有让社区参与。
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman issued a ruling calling on the board to do what the lawsuit requests — rescind the vote and dissolve the renaming advisory committee — or show by April 16 why it shouldn’t be compelled to do so.
旧金山高等法院法官伊桑•舒尔曼(Ethan Schulman)发布了一项裁决，呼吁董事会按照诉讼要求行事——撤销投票并解散更名咨询委员会——或者在4月16日之前说明为什么不应该强迫它这么做。
The resolution voted on Tuesday did not address the criticism but denounced the lawsuit, saying it “wishes to avoid the distraction and wasteful expenditure of public funds in frivolous litigation.”
周二投票通过的决议没有回应这些批评，但谴责了这起诉讼，称它“希望避免在无聊的诉讼中分心和浪费公共资金”。
Tuesday’s meeting was also the first since the board voted last week to remove one of its members, Alison Collins, from her role as vice president and other titles over tweets about Asian Americans dating to 2016.
周二的会议也是自董事会上周投票解除其成员艾莉森·柯林斯(Alison Collins)的副总统职务和其他职务以来的首次会议，她的推文涉及的亚裔美国人可以追溯到2016年。
In the tweets, Collins said Asian Americans use “white supremacist” thinking to get ahead. She has resisted calls to step down and last week sued the school district and five of her six colleagues, accusing them of violating her free speech rights. She is seeking $87 million in damages.
柯林斯在推特上说，亚裔美国人利用“白人至上主义”的思想获得成功。她拒绝了要求她下台的呼声，并于上周起诉了该学区和六名同事中的五名，指控他们侵犯了她的言论自由权。她要求8700万美元的赔偿。
Historian Harold Holzer called the school board’s first stab at renaming an “over correction.” Holzer disagrees with deleting Abraham Lincoln’s name from a high school, which the San Francisco committee said was due to the treatment of Native Americans during his administration.
历史学家哈罗德·霍尔泽(Harold Holzer)称，学校董事会第一次尝试改名为“过度更正”。霍尔泽不同意将亚伯拉罕·林肯的名字从高中删除，旧金山委员会称这是由于他的政府期间对印第安人的对待。
“I know people want to be inspired and want not to be worshipping false idols,” said Holzer, a Lincoln Scholar and director of Hunter College’s Roosevelt House of Public Policy Institute. “But, honestly, to me there is still no better example of the American story at it’s highest level of idealism than Abraham Lincoln.”
“我知道人们希望受到鼓舞，不希望崇拜虚假的偶像，”研究林肯的学者、亨特学院罗斯福公共政策研究所(Hunter College 's Roosevelt House of Public Policy Institute)主任霍尔泽说。“但是，老实说，在我看来，没有比亚伯拉罕·林肯更好的美国故事的理想主义最高水平的例子了。”
In the midst of the Civil War in 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that freed slaves in the Confederacy, among other achievements that included rising out of poverty to become president, fighting for equal opportunity and saving the country from splitting up.
在1863年南北战争期间，林肯颁布了解放奴隶宣言，解放了南部邦联的奴隶，并取得了其他成就，包括摆脱贫困成为总统，争取平等机会，拯救国家免于分裂。
“If Lincoln doesn’t win, we’re in big trouble,” said Holzer. “The achievements so far outweigh the mistakes. I think he deserves adulation.”
霍尔泽说:“如果林肯不赢，我们就有大麻烦了。”“迄今为止的成就超过了错误。我认为他值得被奉承。”
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