{"id":7385,"date":"2020-06-19T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T22:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/?p=7385"},"modified":"2020-06-19T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T22:22:22","slug":"birdville-isd-board-votes-to-change-richland-high-school-mascot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/birdville-isd-board-votes-to-change-richland-high-school-mascot\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdville ISD Board Votes to Change Richland High School Mascot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At a special called meeting, the Birdville ISD Board of Trustees unanimously voted to remove \u201cRebel<\/span><\/span>(s)<\/span><\/span>\u201d and associated images <\/span><\/span>as the school\u2019s mascot<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>and will work to select a new symbol to represent the school, students, staff, and the community moving forward. <\/span><\/span>The Board <\/span><\/span>did<\/span><\/span> not want the current mascot and associated images to take away from how past, present<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> and future students are perceived by society. <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cRichland High School students, staff and alumni have a rich history <\/span><\/span>of doing great things in <\/span><\/span>our community and around the world,\u201d said Jack McCarty, Board president and 1980 graduate of Richland High School. \u201cOur school\u2019s history should be based on people and not divisive symbols.\u201d<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As a result of<\/span><\/span> the Board\u2019s<\/span><\/span> decision, <\/span><\/span>some modifications<\/span><\/span> will<\/span><\/span> be made in and around the campus immediately. H<\/span><\/span>owever, it could take <\/span><\/span>up to<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span>a year to complete the transition <\/span><\/span>at<\/span><\/span> Richland Hi<\/span><\/span>gh School<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe Board appreciates the feedback from the students, alumni, and community leading up to this decision,\u201d McCarty said.  \u201cYour voice<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span> ha<\/span><\/span>ve<\/span><\/span> been heard.\u201d<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Board will announce their plans for naming a new mascot<\/span><\/span> at a future date.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At a special called meeting, the Birdville ISD Board of Trustees unanimously voted to remove \u201cRebel(s)\u201d and associated images as the school\u2019s mascot and will work to select a new symbol to represent the school, students, staff, and the community moving forward. The Board did not want the current mascot and associated images to take away from how past, present, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-richland-high-school"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p76FL9-1V7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7387,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7385\/revisions\/7387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.birdvilleschools.net\/district\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}