California Just One Step From Banning High Schools From Using ‘Redskins’ Name

[Go Skins]

http://www.sportsgrid.com/sports-society/california-just-one-step-from-banning-high-schools-from-using-redskins-name/

 

There are four high schools remaining in California which use the Redskins nickname for their sports teams, but it looks like that won’t be the case for long. The state’s Senate Education Committee voted 7-1 on Wednesday to ban the name — leaving only the rather perfunctory final step of the full Senate passing the bill.

 

Not sure why, but the last four schools to use the nickname are located relatively near to one another — in the central agricultural part of the state, south of Sacramento. They are Gustine High School in Merced County, Calaveras High School in Calaveras County, Chowchilla Union High School in Madera County and Tulare Union High School in Tulare County.

[MichaelWeston]

I always thought it was obvious this was a terrible idea until I learned that some schools on reservations have named themselves redskins.