Video of SF School Board renaming of Sanchez Elementary: "Ok, so Sanchez is um, again here's another, this is another um colonizer who um basically"..."Colonizer, California Missions, bla bla bla bla bla, it's in the notes" [marks Yes: rename]

They researched the wrong Sanchez.

In the Google Sheet of renaming recommendations, they put a Wikipedia link to José Bernardo Sánchez, a Spanish missionary who in 1806 accompanied a military expedition against the Californian indigenous peoples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Bernardo_S%C3%A1nchez

Sanchez Elementary School was named for Sanchez Street in San Francisco, which in turn was named after Francisco Sanchez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_San_Francisco_placename_etymologies

Francisco Sanchez was Mexican, born in San Jose when California was still part of Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_S%C3%A1nchez_(politician).

He died in 1846 and is buried at Mission Dolores near the school in San Francisco:

SFUSD reports the student body at Sanchez Elementary is 81% Hispanic with many students whose primary language is Spanish. Sanchez is one of the few schools in SF with a name tied to Mexican heritage.