Political correctness in Berkeley?

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Thomas Jefferson's John Hancock could soon be a thing of the past at the Berkeley elementary school that bears his name.

About two years after a group of teachers and parents started a petition, the school community is nearing a vote on whether to keep the old name or change it to something more widely acceptable.

"It's an awkward position to ask African-American children and African-American teachers to celebrate a historical figure who was a slave owner," said Marguerite Hughes, who teaches first grade at the school and was part of the group pushing for the name change. . .

More recently, Abraham Lincoln Elementary became Malcolm X, and Christopher Columbus lost more than his holiday in Berkeley -- his namesake school was rebuilt as Rosa Parks Elementary in the late '90s after some impassioned discussion. Not over whether to change the name, but whether to rename it after Rosa Parks or Cesar Chavez.