This Week's Inquirer: What Lizzo got right — and San Francisco got wrong

Before changing a song lyric, Lizzo was smart enough to check her dictionary. I wish I could say the same for the San Francisco Unified School District.

Lizzo just took an English test. Turns out she’s 100% … smarter than the San Francisco Unified School District. Because she’s read the dictionary — belatedly, anyway.

The city’s and the singer’s fortunes are surprisingly intertwined.

Late last month, the San Francisco Unified School District announced that, out of respect for Native Americans, it was eliminating the word chief from employees’ job titles: chief of staff, chief technology officer, etc.

It’s the kind of language decision that ignores language itself in favor of political posturing.

Read the full column here.