{"id":1745436,"date":"2022-11-20T06:06:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T11:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1745436"},"modified":"2022-11-20T07:17:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T12:17:59","slug":"all-new-york-schools-must-ditch-their-native-american-mascots-by-the-end-of-the-academic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-new-york-schools-must-ditch-their-native-american-mascots-by-the-end-of-the-academic-year\/","title":{"rendered":"All New York Schools Must Ditch Their Native American Mascots by the End of the Academic Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fall-new-york-schools-must-ditch-their-native-american-mascots-by-the-end-of-the-academic-year%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1745436&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/28cf5cf0-98a1-4166-932f-29ad7150c627@news.ap_.org-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The New York Department of Education has given an ultimatum to schools in the state: get rid of your Native American team names, mascots, and logos by the end of the school year or face severe penalties, including the loss of state aid.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"RgZq Sdrij JjGwO WCiji\"><span class=\"OFDsq nvbxj HzcXo\">\u201cArguments that community members support the use of such imagery or that it is \u2018respectful\u2019 to Native Americans are no longer tenable,\u201d the department said in the memo, issued Thursday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why not? Who says it\u2019s not \u201ctenable\u201d? And why dismiss the usual overwhelming community support for a Native American mascot so cavalierly?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"RgZq Sdrij JjGwO WCiji\"><span class=\"OFDsq nvbxj HzcXo\">\u201cStudents learn as much through observation of their surroundings as they do from direct instruction,\u201d the memo added. \u201cBoards of education that continue to utilize Native American mascots must reflect upon the message their choices convey to students, parents, and their communities.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And the board of education might reflect on the lessons in democracy it\u2019s teaching kids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/ny-schools-told-stop-native-american-mascots-93572510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABCNews:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">The memo pointed to a state court\u2019s June ruling in favor of the department over the Cambridge Central School District north of Albany, New York, which decided to stop using a Native American reference in its team name last year only to reverse itself weeks later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">The state education department, which had issued a directive in 2001 for schools to stop using Native American imagery as soon as was practical, ordered the district to abide by its initial decision. The memo said districts that don\u2019t have approval from a recognized tribe to continue using the imagery \u201cmust immediately come into compliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The reason the school had to reverse its decision to get rid of the Native American mascot was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/29\/nyregion\/native-american-mascot-cambridge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intense uproar<\/a> in the community. New York schools that use some kind of Native American imagery will find similar levels of opposition when trying to change a beloved tradition.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/columns\/robert-spencer\/2022\/10\/09\/espn-invites-wrath-of-woke-gods-mistakenly-refers-to-cleveland-guardians-as-indians-in-onscreen-graphic-n1635711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN Invites Wrath of Woke Gods, Mistakenly Refers to Cleveland Guardians as \u2018Indians\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The idea that these mascots give offense is ludicrous. The portrayal of Native Americans as mascots \u2014 except in rare cases \u2014 is done to honor the courage of the warrior. The mascots are beloved because they represent pride and memory \u2014 two powerful emotions shared by all regardless of race: pride in the accomplishments of the students and the fond memories shared by graduates even decades later when they glimpse their school mascot or page through an old yearbook.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">Native American activists have been vocal about the issue at all levels of sports from schools to professional leagues for years, and have seen some teams makes changes while others have proved resistant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">The National Congress of American Indians considers the mascots to be harmful stereotypes. It maintains a database of K-12 schools that it says have Native American-themed mascots, puts the number at just over 1,900 schools across the country in 970 school districts, including more than 100 schools in New York.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The villains in this drama are the radical anti-traditionalists who never met a tradition they didn\u2019t try to destroy. Native American activists see the mascots as a wedge issue that gets them publicity and sympathy from left-wing donors. Meanwhile, those communities who have taken pride in their Native American mascots and don\u2019t see the need to change them are either going to have to obey the state department of education or go to court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Department of Education has given an ultimatum to schools in the state: get rid of your Native American team names, mascots, and logos by the end of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1745439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1745439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}