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At this time of racial reckoning in this country, the issue of team mascots remains front and center in attention and discussion — especially in regard to how those team
BURLINGTON — Rosanne Hahn of the Burlington Area School Board was elected second vice president of the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards Jan. 20.
Peterson is one of the founders of the progressive educational publication,
Rethinking Schools. It published the book,
Rethinking Columbus, which became an instant best seller starting in the early 90s. It outlined how
Christopher Columbus was not a heroic explorer, but rather an exploiter of the riches in the New World, killing and enslaving the peoples of the Caribbean. Given that much of the “rethinking” started in Milwaukee, and that many school districts around the country have already established Indigenous Peoples’ Day, it is surprising that it took so long for MPS to come to this resolution.
A defeat of a Wisconsin Association of School Boards (WASB) resolution in January 2020 calling for the end of Native American school mascots prompted the Milwaukee board to take stronger action, says Peterson. It took another year for WASB to pass a resolution that questioned the use of racial depictions in school mascots and logos.
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