The history-erasing DOE should let the Massapequa – Latest News
Memo to the stick-in-the-mud Karens at the State Education Department: Let Massapequa High School keep on being the “Chiefs.”
As even many Native Americans insist.
The Long Island faculty is preventing to keep its workforce identify and brand after the state Board of Regents ordered faculties to scrap symbols that referenced Native Americans — or risk dropping state funding.
Massapequa sued, together with the close by Wantagh Warriors and Wyandanch Warriors, however a decide threw out their case.
Look, the faculty’s mascot isn’t meant to mock Native Americans; it’s meant to honor the heritage of Massapequa, a city that’s named after one of Long Island’s authentic 13 tribes.
In response to native opposition, an SED flack arrogantly informed Massapequa to “talk to the Indigenous people” on Long Island, presuming they have been offended by moniker.
The SED should take its own advice. Local Native Americans are offended, all proper — not by the faculty identify, however by the state’s bullying the city into scrubbing it.
Former Massapequa pupil Laura Albanese-Christopher, of Cherokee descent, slammed the identify change as “off the charts hurtful and disrespectful.”
Crow Creek Sioux Tribe member David Finkenbinder known as it “frustrating”: “This takes the interest away from students to learn why their towns and teams are named this way.”
The “representation matters” left can’t perceive why Native Americans would assist faculties proudly and respectfully utilizing symbols of their neighborhood.
President Donald Trump, too, has thrown his assist behind the Chiefs identify, asking Secretary of Education Linda McMahon “to fight” on Massapequa’s behalf.
Rebranding would value the district a fairly penny — an estimated $1 million — however locals are more peeved as a result of they see SED’s ban as an attempt to erase the city’s proud Indigenous roots.
Turns out the woke stuffed shirts at SED, all of whom have most likely been sensitivity educated within an inch of their lives, aren’t very delicate to the real-life considerations of the people they’re supposedly advocating for.
The solely method the Chiefs will get to keep their identify is that if SED rescinds its ban; perhaps some stress from the Trump administration will encourage that.
But New York faculties actually shouldn’t be compelled to ditch their beloved workforce symbols.
The we-know-best lefties at SED obtained this one massively unsuitable.
Go Chiefs!
