Winchester School Committee to replace Sachems name used By Its high school

The Winchester High Sachems are gone.  The town is replacing its controversial sports mascot and school logo.

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– News covered by Quincy Quarry News.

Winchester School Committee vote to replace Sachems name used by its high school.

The wave of Massachusetts schools ending their use of Native names is growing.

In what one local media reported was a five hour marathon meeting, the Town of Winchester School Committee voted to discontinue its high school’s long respectful use of Sachems for its team name and school mascot.

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While Quincy School Committee meetings are currently on summer vacation, one can only conversely suspect that when meetings do eventually resume that arguably at least racially oblivious City of Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch and thus also the Quincy School Committee Chair will continue to press for North Quincy High – the site of his highest level of matriculated level of formal education – to refuse to accede to the growing drumbeat to change both North Quincy High’s team name and especially its variously ethnically insensitive mascot.

Source: Winchester School Committee To Replace Sachems Name, Mascot

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