It is unacceptable that this is the mascot. At the very least it should have been changed when the new school was built and it is shameful it hasn’t. Guilford needs to do and be better.
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Valerie Vargas
6 years ago
As an Native American, using images of our chiefs or caricatures showing exaggerated features is direspectful
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Jillian L Sandrey
6 years ago
How is this still a thing?
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Marie Berry
6 years ago
Time for a change.
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Emily Haight
6 years ago
This is so necessary and overdue!
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Anonymous
6 years ago
change the name
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Robert Kirkpatrick
6 years ago
It was never OK, it's not OK now, it never will be OK. It's not OK if you can find Native Americans to say it's OK, it's not OK if all the students in the school say it's OK, it's not OK if "that's the way it's always been." (They weren't America's first peoples either; they antedate the formation of the settler colonial country.) See also https://www.ctinsider.com/news/nhregister/article/Activists-discuss-harm-of-Native-American-imagery-14839204.php and https://www.courant.com/sports/high-schools/hc-sp-connecticut-native-american-high-school-mascot-nickname-20200117-m7q7hzduvnc3tjzij3b67i6vra-story.html
It doesn't have to continue. Hundreds of colleges, universities, and K-12 districts have abandoned this racism and they're still thriving.
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Killian Walsh
6 years ago
We are well past the time when such logos and mascots were acceptable, and that time was 1879
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Michael Roh
6 years ago
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Hello, my name is Michael Roh, a proud alum of GHS '09. I come from a family of first-gen Korean immigrants and have experienced first-hand the harmful consequences of such stereotypes. I humbly but firmly urge you to consider changing our mascot to one that is unquestionably inoffensive and inclusive.
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Jim Motes
6 years ago
Former GHS teacher, friend of many residents, strong opponent of current mascot. History has its place: to teach us to grow and improve. Let GHS heal this wound.
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Anushree Ajgaonkar
6 years ago
It’s a Native American!!!!!!!! Not an Indian Indians r from India!!! It’s also not honoring anyone it’s quite wrong...
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Samantha Brechlin
6 years ago
GHS 2012 -- we discussed changing the mascot when I was at GHS, I can't believe this is still an issue we're fighting.
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Stephen Robinson
6 years ago
In 20 years time as I discuss the current events with my children and maybe their children, I want to say that we removed a symbol of racial divide and took that step towards a better America, and in taking that step we started a movement. A movement that would show Guilford was a community of hope and light against the dark times that we took that stand in.
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Hadley Haslegrave
6 years ago
It is 2020, the message this is sending to our children is appalling. This needs to change, now!
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kathleen summerlin
6 years ago
The time to change is now! Retired Cox Librarian!
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Anonymous
6 years ago
This year my 6th grade child had to analyze a number of sources on both sides of this issue, then make a decision and support her conclusion. At 12 years old, even she could see how inappropriate and demeaning this type of mascot is, and that "tradition" is not a worthy excuse. Time to make the change. Life WILL go on.
Graduated 2011
Let’s do what’s right Guilford!!
GHS class of 2025
It is unacceptable that this is the mascot. At the very least it should have been changed when the new school was built and it is shameful it hasn’t. Guilford needs to do and be better.
As an Native American, using images of our chiefs or caricatures showing exaggerated features is direspectful
How is this still a thing?
Time for a change.
This is so necessary and overdue!
change the name
It was never OK, it's not OK now, it never will be OK. It's not OK if you can find Native Americans to say it's OK, it's not OK if all the students in the school say it's OK, it's not OK if "that's the way it's always been." (They weren't America's first peoples either; they antedate the formation of the settler colonial country.) See also https://www.ctinsider.com/news/nhregister/article/Activists-discuss-harm-of-Native-American-imagery-14839204.php and https://www.courant.com/sports/high-schools/hc-sp-connecticut-native-american-high-school-mascot-nickname-20200117-m7q7hzduvnc3tjzij3b67i6vra-story.html It doesn't have to continue. Hundreds of colleges, universities, and K-12 districts have abandoned this racism and they're still thriving.
We are well past the time when such logos and mascots were acceptable, and that time was 1879
Hello, my name is Michael Roh, a proud alum of GHS '09. I come from a family of first-gen Korean immigrants and have experienced first-hand the harmful consequences of such stereotypes. I humbly but firmly urge you to consider changing our mascot to one that is unquestionably inoffensive and inclusive.
Former GHS teacher, friend of many residents, strong opponent of current mascot. History has its place: to teach us to grow and improve. Let GHS heal this wound.
It’s a Native American!!!!!!!! Not an Indian Indians r from India!!! It’s also not honoring anyone it’s quite wrong...
GHS 2012 -- we discussed changing the mascot when I was at GHS, I can't believe this is still an issue we're fighting.
In 20 years time as I discuss the current events with my children and maybe their children, I want to say that we removed a symbol of racial divide and took that step towards a better America, and in taking that step we started a movement. A movement that would show Guilford was a community of hope and light against the dark times that we took that stand in.
It is 2020, the message this is sending to our children is appalling. This needs to change, now!
The time to change is now! Retired Cox Librarian!
This year my 6th grade child had to analyze a number of sources on both sides of this issue, then make a decision and support her conclusion. At 12 years old, even she could see how inappropriate and demeaning this type of mascot is, and that "tradition" is not a worthy excuse. Time to make the change. Life WILL go on.
GHS 2012