Group of students, staff, parents to discuss hot-button issue
Telegram & Gazette
The use of Native American imagery and symbols by Massachusetts high school athletic teams has been a contentious and continuing issue since at least the late 1990s with change occurring at a glacial pace.
But dramatic and meaningful progress for those who believe such imagery is racially and culturally insensitive has been made the past six months, an offshoot of an energized social justice movement that began in the summer.
Here in Central Mass., it’s led to Nashoba Regional ditching Chieftains for a yet-to-be-determined mascot in July, Grafton switching from Indians to Gators in November, and North Brookfield dropping Indians, Athol dumping Red Raiders and Algonquin forming a study group to review its Tomahawks nickname in December.
COVID clusters and in-person learning; as cases rise can we keep our kids in school?
Updated Dec 12, 2020;
In Framingham, Superintendent Robert Tremblay said he has noticed something alarming: cases of coronavirus were starting to spread among students.
This fall, Massachusetts education officials have said schools are not leading to significant spread of the virus among children. But some districts, like Framingham and Billerica, have reported transmission they believe occurred in buildings.
“So for whatever the CDC might be saying or whatever the governor or the commissioner of education may be saying, that it’s safe to come back to school and schools are not the nexus of where spread is happening, we have evidence to the contrary in our community. And maybe we’re an anomaly, but it’s a concern and it’s one we have to be paying close attention to,” Tremblay said last week during a school committee meeting.
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