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Sam the farmer's avatar

A good piece but you have fallen into the same trap as almost everyone else by saying that Commissioner Rosa is picking on Cambridge. That's not true. She was ruling on a 310 petition filed by four families of students in the Cambridge school district (I'm one of the petitioners). These are legal proceedings and are not decided on a whim. Her rulings are based on research done by the NYSED legal department and are based on policy and existing precedents. Rosa issued her decision that the Cambridge BOE had been arbitrary and capricious in reversing the retirement on the Indians mascot and had abused their discretion. Rosa did not "axe" the Indian, she just reinstated the original BOE decision to retire it. She didn't rule on other districts, because nobody filed appeals in those districts.

Hopefully this will be addressed through legislative action to ban Native mascots in NY soon. There is a bill in committee now.

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Kevin Robbins's avatar

At least newspapers are 5 points above television news.

The only televised news I trust is YouTube clips of Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers monologues.

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