No More Chieftains

It’s a sad day when we stop celebrating our Native American history. 

The Osseo-Fairchild School District in western Wisconsin was ordered Tuesday to drop its Chieftains nickname and logo after the state determined it was race-based and promoted discrimination and harassment.

The state Department of Public Instruction’s first-of-its-kind order comes under a new state law that went into effect in May. The law allows the agency to order schools to drop their race-based nicknames and logos if they are deemed discriminatory.

No crisis until you act like there’s one

My column for the Daily News is online.  It’s called, “No crisis until you act like there’s one.”  It’s about the West Bend School District’s priorities.

Here’s the conclusion:

As a citizen and voter in West Bend, I’ll start believing the district’s exhortations that there is a financial crisis when they start acting like it. How they can look citizens in the eye and honestly ask for more money when they are spending thousands of dollars on “nice to haves” like a pool and a fitness center is a mystery to me.

That’s what I do here… making friends every day…