That’s the advice we needed! Didn’t know something like this exists

Walking around Burlington gives me a front row seat for multiple "VT Standoffs" on a daily basis. It's hilarious how far some will go to let others in (dangerously so) and how triggering it is for others to watch.

Yeah I agree. I mean the fact the Stoodley (quoted in the article) is finally willing to move on says a lot about the development on this issue.

I mean, you can say what you want about its meaning now, but it was originally very racist in origin. Read old news articles and it's all, "the Raiders brought in more scalps at the game this weekend...", like, come on.

Similarly:

"In 1945, the reigns of the program were handed over to, the soon to become legendary, Dario "Doc" Comi who coached the girls until 1973. Due to his successful record and the exciting style of play that teams exhibited under his direction, the girls' basketball teams soon became known as "Comi's Comets" and later, all the girls' teams at Bellows Free Academy, honored Comi by being dubbed Comets. During Comi's tenure as head coach, the BFA Comets won 14 state championships and amazingly, won 84 straight games from 1950 to 1955. The Comets had become recognized as one of the premier girls' basketball teams in the state of Vermont." — https://sites.google.com/a/maplerun.org/comet-basketball/history

They polled the students and teacher, which should have been step one when they first considered a name change. And, as silly as it sounds, if it's what the majority of students want, I think it's a good decision.

It was the logo, not the name. U32 is called the 'Raiders' as well but they don't have an arrowhead or anything related to native Americans as their school logo.

Almost as bad as people who don't know what they are talking about chiming in anyway, amirite?

https://www.rutlandherald.com/opinion/commentary/cassarino-rutland-red-raiders-origins/article_d7814e57-49d1-55e1-a0e4-5d2fae112966.html#:~:text=Rutland%20writers%20used%20the%20terms,being%20used%20as%20racial%20slurs.

it's just gonna be Rutland, dumbass. nobody said "let's go Rutland raiders!" before. it was "let's go raiders". now it'll be "let's go Rutland".

don't be obtuse.

it was rooted in some pretty deep racism. if in 2005 they changed the logo to a pirate instead of an arrowhead I bet it would've stuck. whether it's racist now is up for debate, but the native American expert who was brought in to comment said it wasnt super cool.

as a white dude, who am I to argue? who are you to argue?

damn dude. we can keep the racist name and get dunked on for being racist, or we can make a small change that's undeniably not a bad thing and get snarky comments like this. no way to win.

you're totally right. we should rename to the red raiders and go back to the native American costume, because who cares?!?!? makes no difference!!!!

We missed an opportunity with “Red faced retirees” as our nickname.

So it’s actually nothing like the Washington football team because they actually have a name and I’d much rather be the Commies than the Rutland football team

have you been to Vermont before? Rutland isn't some shining beacon of degeneracy. it's pretty par for the course. basically every town in the state gets dunked on for having the exact same rural small town problems.

Unfortunately built in 2007 doesn't guarantee good insulation. Consider having HEAT Squad or Efficiency Vermont come and do an energy audit.

One buttcheek

Our mascot should be one buttcheek because we half-ass everything in this town

What's the backup policy? Daily, monthly, annual. Backups are kept offline and tested twice a year right?

"Luke, look to the backups."

There's probably a Disaster Revovery policy for these digital assets. May take a while to recovery but hopefully this can be fixed.

... please excuse me now, going to check my nightly backups.

This is the first I've heard of them actuallysurveying students on this issue, which they should have just done from the beginning.

I know there’s been tons of school shootings. But vt is peaceful. when I’m driving I see police cars in parking lots. I

I know this appears like a lose-lose situation for both sides of this issue, but I actually don’t hate the outcome.

Seems like one side (the new school board members) were for Raiders or bust. The change the name folks were, obviously, not keeping the Raiders in anyway. So, we now have no nickname.

This isn’t dissimilar to DC’s NFL team who removed their (IMO much more offensive mascot) and just went with The Washington Football Team for a few seasons. They now have a new “official” nickname and mascot again, but I think many people think the WFT was actually better.

We can just be Rutland HS for a while, and maybe a new nickname will enter parlance organically, like how many sports mascots had originally come to be.

Hopefully this puts an end to this (lol) and the rest of the state can go back to making fun of Barre for a while.

Whoaa, whoaaa, that's how Rutland rough riders roolllll.

“I NEED MY MARBS”

Oh yeah, and they're talking on the phone (speaker phone) about how they "can't get the money to ya' right now" , whilst hauling around several cartons of marb golds.

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