The NY State Education Department’s self-damning – Latest News
Policing speech is so important to the State Education Department that’s it’s launched a two-front battle on the Massapequa Chiefs mascot identify — preventing not simply the college district, but additionally the feds.
SED years in the past ordered all New York public colleges to desert something resembling an Indian mascot, as a result of progressives assume they’re all evil, even when lots of common of us (together with many Native Americans) see them as honoring a heritage.
Massapequa resisted on these grounds (“Massapequa” itself is a Native identify, after all); now SED threatens to withhold funds if the district gained’t fold.
That’s at the same time as SED is rejecting federal orders for a cease-fire in its mascot wars — orders that include their own implicit risk to withhold funds from the state.
Instead, SED provides a “compromise” that’s worse than the illness: It suggests banning any mascot based mostly on any “ethnic group” — Vikings, Fighting Irish, Cowboys, and so on.
We know: “Cowboy” is an occupation, not an ethnicity, however that was SED’s instance.
Which suggests why SED is bothering with silly battles corresponding to these, quite than specializing in New York’s failing public colleges: These “educators” are themselves mired in ignorance.
