Debate rages over school newspaper banning mascot mention

[TopSpin]

From the article:

A Neshaminy school board committee has approved a policy that prevents the school district’s newspaper from banning the use of the word Redskins when referring to the school’s teams or its controversial mascot.

And the local papers' stance:

Following the school newspaper’s ban of the word “Redskin,” the editorial boards of the Bucks County Courier Times and its sister papers, The Intelligencer and The Burlington County Times, approved a similar policy. The word will not be printed in the newspapers, used online or stated in video reports in reference to Neshaminy sports teams or Washington’s NFL franchise except in stories dealing specifically with the controversy surrounding the name.

Link: http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/local/neshaminy-considers-policy-to-force-student-newspaper-to-use-controversial/article_e428e2ef-5113-5d58-924e-d0b056691e04.html

 

[Songbird]

Re: Debate rages over school newspaper banning macot mention

The Neshaminy Mall has a nice movie theater.

 

[joe]

Re: Debate rages over school newspaper banning macot mention

If the school board prevents the paper from banning use of the word, doesn't that mean the paper can use that word? Either way, that's a terrible sentence.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Re: Debate rages over school newspaper banning macot mention

This might be the dumbest "free speech" argument yet:

School board member Steve Pirritano said The Playwickian’s ban would violate the First Amendment rights of students who wanted to publish articles in the district’s newspaper.

“If my son wants to write something proud about being a Redskin football player, the students on that paper, under the law, have no right to tell him he has to take the word ‘Redskin’ out of there,” he said.

A newspaper banning a word is not an infringement on anyone's free-speech rights.

You know what IS an infringement on people's free-speech rights? A government entity like a school board telling a newspaper it MUST allow the word into print.

 

[champ_kind]

Re: Debate rages over school newspaper banning macot mention

why doesn't the school board just vote to change the mascot?

 

[LongTimeListener]

Re: Debate rages over school newspaper banning macot mention

why doesn't the school board just vote to change the mascot?

No ****.

I guess there are people out there who use Dan Snyder as a moral compass.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Re: Debate rages over school newspaper banning macot mention

More dumbassery:

“You (students) don’t get the right to tell them what to say or not say simply because you are an editor,” Levin said. “They (students) don’t have the right to prohibit someone from using the word simply because they don’t like the word if it meets all other standards.”

So, standards are good, except when they're bad.

 

[schiezainc]

Re: Debate rages over school newspaper banning macot mention

What's a macot?

 

[TopSpin]

Re: Debate rages over school newspaper banning macot mention

What's a macot?

It's a hybrid bird and sleeping cot. Fixed.

 

[Morris816]

Re: Debate rages over school newspaper banning macot mention

why doesn't the school board just vote to change the mascot?

No ****.

I guess there are people out there who use Dan Snyder as a moral compass.

More like "but-but-but TRADITION!"

 

[Starman]

I generally have a policy to never refer to any school's female teams as the "Lady" {Eagles, Wildcats, etc etc etc.}, or much worse, the "{Eagle}-ettes".

Once or twice over the decades some parent or somebody called to *****. They usually got over it.

 

[fossywriter8]

I generally have a policy to never refer to any school's female teams as the "Lady" {Eagles, Wildcats, etc etc etc.}, or much worse, the "{Eagle}-ettes".

Once or twice over the decades some parent or somebody called to *****. They usually got over it.

For one year a few seasons back, an area school's official nickname for its girls team was Lady 'Kaders. They switched back to Stockaders the next year.
Until this year, an area school's official nickname for its girls teams was Buckettes. Now, as with the boys, they are called Bucks.
There is also a school in our region of the state whose official nickname for its girls teams until recently was Wildkittens.

 

[That 1 Guy]

I generally have a policy to never refer to any school's female teams as the "Lady" {Eagles, Wildcats, etc etc etc.}, or much worse, the "{Eagle}-ettes".

Once or twice over the decades some parent or somebody called to *****. They usually got over it.

For one year a few seasons back, an area school's official nickname for its girls team was Lady 'Kaders. They switched back to Stockaders the next year.
Until this year, an area school's official nickname for its girls teams was Buckettes. Now, as with the boys, they are called Bucks.
There is also a school in our region of the state whose official nickname for its girls teams until recently was Wildkittens.

I **** you not, we have a girls soccer team in our area that goes by the name Lady Footballers.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Neshaminy's been tiptoeing away from the Redskin for years now. Getting a bit more embarrassed with each ensuing helmet.

 

[JC]

This might be the dumbest "free speech" argument yet:

School board member Steve Pirritano said The Playwickian’s ban would violate the First Amendment rights of students who wanted to publish articles in the district’s newspaper.

“If my son wants to write something proud about being a Redskin football player, the students on that paper, under the law, have no right to tell him he has to take the word ‘Redskin’ out of there,” he said.

A newspaper banning a word is not an infringement on anyone's free-speech rights.

You know what IS an infringement on people's free-speech rights? A government entity like a school board telling a newspaper it MUST allow the word into print.

You just outed Ben Poquette.