Publishers Notes:
“Warrior” has been around for over 700 years and has French origins.
Roman and Greek battle helmets have zero to do with native Americans.
What level of brain evacuation is necessary to come up with this crap?
The New York State Department of Education has ruled that public school districts will no longer be allowed to use nicknames tied to Native American culture.
The unanimous decision to force schools to eliminate those nicknames was made during a state Board of Regents meeting on Tuesday morning in Albany.
In a November 2022 memo sent by the state, all school districts were ordered to stop using Native American-themed mascots, nicknames and logos by the end of the 2022-2023 school year or risk being in violation of the Dignity Act. Districts risk the removal of school officers and the withholding of state aid if the order is not followed.
That order required schools such as Oneida (Indians), Oriskany (Redskins), Richfield Springs (Indians), Sauquoit Valley (Indians), Waterville (Indians) and West Canada Valley (Indians) with nicknames directly linked to Native Americans to change.
Albany does what NYC tells it to do. The rest of the state pays for it.