CAMDEN, MI (WTVB) – The “Redskins” mascot is being retired in the Camden-Frontier School District.
The district’s Board of Education recently voted 4-3 “to respectfully retire the Redskin mascot effective immediately with phased out completion by the end of June 2024”.
Superintendent Chris Adams said in a newsletter this week, “This provides staff and administration time to work deliberately to establish the process by which the next Camden Frontier mascot will be selected. The process will include input from students, staff, administration, governance board and the community. Once the process is finalized it will be made public through our website.”
Camden-Frontier was the last school district in Michigan to have a Redskins mascot.
As in other districts that moved away from a Native American mascot, the decision in Camden-Frontier has led to heated debate on social media platforms among residents on both sides of the issue.
While some support the move saying it was long overdue, others feel the district should not give in “to this woke world.”
Adams acknowledged in the newsletter, “This has been an unavoidable topic for years for our school district as well as many other districts and organizations…The passion, memory, and sentiments of alumni is not to be forgotten nor will artifacts be thrown away. We will be preserving the history of the Camden Frontier School District. The retirement of the mascot is about looking to the future, not erasing the past.”
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