Good. And it wasn’t even close.
BROWN COUNTY (WLUK) — Efforts to ban the use of Native American nicknames, mascots, and logos at schools across Wisconsin was shut down by a 218-101 vote from school board members on Wednesday.
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“There’s not a single person in education that seeks to discriminate or disrespect, so if we need to have those conversations with a population of people that feel disrespected then let’s have that conversation. But we don’t need legislative language to dictate that,” said Superintendent Nichole Schweitzer.
Finally, some common sense on this issue!
If I practiced the perpetual offense cult everytime my religion, my person, or my character was offended, Nord would never speak again.
Good for the WASB. It should be up to individual school districts and not a government agency or group.
k:
mar is absolutely right, it is up to the individual districts to decide. And that is what the vote by WASB decided. Yet you will no doubt continue to condemn the decisions of duly elected boards to make those decisions, just as you did in the case of Hurley and Menominee Falls.
Oh Nord,
Of course I condemn decisions of officials that go against the public interest. When decisions are done in context of radical PC correctness, in opposition to standard common sense, yes, that disgust needs to be opposed.
You supoort the disgusting PC, anti-democracy behavior of Hurley and the Falls?
Figures.
k:
How were those two decisions “against the public interest” ?
Both are excellent examples of democracy in action; a duly elected SB making a decision that is within their authority. And if the voters in those districts are sufficiently in disagreement with that decision they can further practice democracy on the first Tuesday in April.
You, however, want an dictatorial form of governance over citizens not under your jurisdiction, where only you get to make decisions based on your narrow and uninformed world view.
Nord,
If it was “democracy in action” the new mascot name should have gone to referendum. It would have failed resoundingly.
>Yet you will no doubt continue to condemn the decisions of duly elected boards to make those decisions, just as you did in the case of Hurley and Menominee Falls.
Just as you did in the case of Eagle Palmyra?
One can agree that the decision properly belongs to the local boards and still disagree with the decision. That is not an incongruent stance.
>Both are excellent examples of democracy in action; a duly elected SB making a decision that is within their authority. And if the voters in those districts are sufficiently in disagreement with that decision they can further practice democracy on the first Tuesday in April.
>You, however, want an dictatorial form of governance over citizens not under your jurisdiction, where only you get to make decisions based on your narrow and uninformed world view.
And yet you brought your stupid hick story about how you support the dictatorial form of governance over the citizens and duly elected school board in Eagle-Palmyra… Hypocrite.
Owen:
Agreed, but it isn’t a case of “against the public interest “ by any means.
j:
Not so. The process for dissolving entails more than the SB vote. And that process was followed.
>And that process was followed.
Glad to see you approve of the way Trump is following the process to rollback certain environment regulations. He is your president and he is following the process. You must have been gifted some big-boy pants for boxing day!
j:
While trump’s comments and actions on environmental regulation are without question short-sighted, ill-informed, and without scientific or factual merit, I never said that the process wasn’t followed.
Oh Sorry Leroy, maybe you’ll get big boy pants next year then.