Atthe very end of the 2021/22 school year the Vancouver School Board (VSB) launched a new Administrative Policy (AP) that set up a framework to rename schools (and other buildings owned by the board).
Never before has it been possible to change the name of an existing school. There are a lot of articles aout why this is a problem. Here’s one from CBC and here’s one I wrote. So far the policy has been piloted to re-name two schools in Vancouver.
Our school is the first, post pilot, to go through the new codified process. For context, our school is named after a guy who ran concentration camps in Africa and decimated indigenous populations in India and Afghanistan. While he never came to Canada this made him enough of a hero of the English Empire to name our school after a bit over a hundred years ago. For what it’s worth Lord Kitchener was the one he sent to do most of the implimentation.