Minor Riddle Answered

Following up on a minor item from yesterday's post on San Francisco taking down all the names :

The committee isn’t sure which president Roosevelt Middle School is named after, but both Theodore and Franklin are being flagged.

Theodore Roosevelt is cited for his opposition to civil rights and suffrage for Blacks. Franklin Roosevelt is on shaky ground for his refusal to support an anti-lynching bill proposed by his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, and for his support of limiting immigration based on race.

It's obvious to me, so why isn't it to everyone? Just say that Roosevelt Middle School is named after Eleanor, not Theodore or Franklin, both of whom were highly flawed in the Names Advisory Committee's opinion.

As to which President the school was actually named after, a few minutes on Google show the list of Roosevelt Junior High School graduates in June, 1934.

Back in the day, children, "middle" schools were known as "junior high" schools.

Also, it was a more modest era when there was no possibility that a school would have been named after someone who was still alive.

Answer: Theodore.