George Washington High School Alumni Sue to Keep Mural on View

October 9th, 2019 by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento

An alumni association filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the San Francisco Unified School District’s Board of Education over the board’s decision to cover up a 1936 mural by Victor Arnautoff, titled “Life of Washington.”

Readers following this story may remember that back in August the board voted 4-3 for the resolution to cover the decades-old mural inside George Washington High School with panels, in hopes of keeping innocent young ones from the ugliness of life.

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