The Idaho State Board of Education voted Wednesday to remove the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act from its Advanced Placement U.S. History framework, with board member Reggie Bumstead-O’Hare, 61, explaining that the law’s name “sounds mean when you say it out loud, and we don’t really need that.” The 61-year federal ban on Chinese immigration, which was not fully repealed until 1943, will be replaced by a half-paragraph reference to “some immigration adjustments in the late 19th century.” A retired AP teacher reached at her home in Coeur d’Alene, Doris Wong-Patterson, 68, said she had taught the act for thirty-four years and “never once had a student fail to grasp what ‘exclusion’ meant, because they have ears and a brain.” She declined to elaborate and asked that her cat, audible in the background, not be quoted.