Originally published on January 28, 2021 4:46 pm
Kansas City Chiefs fans of all ages will watch Super Bowl LV on February 7, and in some cases, it may mean postponing some academic obligations.
Before Super Bowl LIV last year when the Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers, the results of a study by Brainly an online study group for kids K through 12 showed that Missouri and Kansas ranked No. 1 and 2, respectively, in the U.S. where parents let their kids skip their homework on the night of the Super Bowl.
“A lot of schools were asking for a study sort of like this because they want to know: Should they be assigning big homework assignments around these major social events that are happening?” says Patrick Quinn, an Austin, Texas, based parenting expert for Brainly.
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A light pole at the Shawnee Mission North gymnasium parking lot holds a display banner of the school s mascot, while the gymnasium bears the likeness of a Native American wearing a headdress.
The district s board of education voted to end the use of mascots like Indians and Braves because they are racially insensitive. Shawnee Mission North has used their current mascot, which will have to be changed, for 98 years.
Four schools in the Shawnee Mission School District will have new mascots by the end of the school year after the district’s board of education voted unanimously last night in favor of a policy that bans what it calls derogatory or offensive mascots.
Shawnee Mission district ditches Braves, Indians mascots
January 26, 2021 GMT
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) A large Kansas City area school district is ditching the Braves and Indians mascots that four of its schools use.
The board for the Shawnee Mission district, which is the state’s third-largest with about 27,000 students, voted 7-0 Monday to make a change that requires mascots to be culturally and racially sensitive and appropriate.
The board then decided that the mascots at Shawnee Mission North High School and Belinder, Shawanoe, Ruston elementary schools violated that policy and will need to be replaced.
Calls for such changes have grown more insistent across the country in recent years. And thousands signed an online petition last year urging the district to drop the Indian mascot at Shawnee Mission North.
Associated Press
OVERLAND PARK (AP) A large Kansas City area school district is ditching the Braves and Indians mascots that four of its schools use.
The board for the Shawnee Mission district, which is the state’s third-largest with about 27,000 students, voted 7-0 Monday to make a change that requires mascots to be culturally and racially sensitive and appropriate.
The board then decided that the mascots at Shawnee Mission North High School and Belinder, Shawanoe, Ruston elementary schools violated that policy and will need to be replaced.
Calls for such changes have grown more insistent across the country in recent years. And thousands signed an online petition last year urging the district to drop the Indian mascot at Shawnee Mission North.