Daniel Boone Elementary School is scrapping its frontiersman namesake, opting to replace the name after nearly a hundred years of operating.
The school renaming process is underway after Chicago Public Schools’ Office of Equity ruled that Daniel Boone was a “historically egregious figure” —part of a districtwide initiative to replace mascots tied to slavery, racism, and misogyny, as reported by the Chicago Tribune.
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