Wichita North High School will no longer be the Redskins.
The school board voted 6-0 Monday night to drop the controversial mascot at the recommendation of a committee formed last summer.
Board member Stan Reeser said that although the name was well-intentioned when the school was founded in 1929, “it’s clearly become a slang term with racial overtones and derogatory meaning.”
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