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Time for Skowhegan, Nokomis to answer: What makes your school so special?

March 18, 2014 By Ed Rice

Time for Skowhegan, Nokomis to answer: What makes your school so special?

By Ed Rice, Special to the Bangor Daily News Nearly 30 schools in Maine have stopped using Native American nicknames and symbols, mostly over the past decade. Standing all alone are Nokomis Regional High School of Newport, Skowhegan Area High School and southern Maine’s Wells High School in a race for infamy: Who will be the last to stop this insidious practice in Maine? A handful of education officials are, quite simply, arrogantly demonstrating to their students a poor model for showing … [Read more...]

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