If Palo Alto Represents the Future …
31st March 2018
Steve Sailer points out how Californians are even sillier than you can imagine.
As you may recall, I closely covered the recent whoop-tee-doo in Palo Alto that led to stripping the name of the Terman Middle School, the public middle school with the highest standardized test scores in California. The school had been named for Lewis Terman, the father of standardized testing in America, and his son Fred Terman, the father of Silicon Valley. Lewis Terman is accused of advocating eugenics, while a proposal to change the school’s name to solely honor his son Fred, the Stanford dean of engineering who more or less invented the Silicon Valley model, was rejected on the grounds that Fred must have inherited his father Lewis’s Bad Genes.
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Fred Yamamoto was an interned Japanese-American who volunteered to fight for America, was assigned to the famous Fighting 442nd, the most decorated unit in American military history, winning 21 Medals of Honor. Yamamoto was killed in action in Europe at age 26.
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Naming the old Terman school after Yamamoto was eventually stifled by Chinese anti-Japanese racism. It was decided instead to rename it after Ellen Fletcher, the late Palo Alto city councilwoman, a Jewish woman from Berlin, who was instrumental in adding bike lanes.