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Colbry said there is no
specific policy for staff, coaches or school board members addressing the
sports mascot issue other than that they shouldn’t say anything that could be
deemed offensive.
Skowhegan is the last high
school in the state to have imagery that Maine’s Indians have asked to be
removed after other schools have changed names or imagery.
Colbry said the school board
had its say on the matter in May when it voted
11-9 to keep the Indians nickname and
to keep the official insignia of an Indian spearing a fish in the Kennebec
River.
“That vote left the current
policy in place. It does allow the approved symbol that the board approved 12
to 15 years ago, and none of that has changed,” Colbry said.
“There is no specific school
policy limiting what people can say or write in their own private lives,” he
added. “We do prohibit by policy the use of school computers in any way that
would be harassing, discriminatory or threatening. There is no generalized school
policy addressing (this) type of issue. We take any issue that is within our
control very seriously and will continue to do so.”
York, who has been baseball
coach for nine years at Skowhegan, said in an email that he has stayed away
from the controversy over the Indians nickname. He said he regrets posting the
photo.
“The towel dates back to 1987 —
high school — I found it in a box in my garage,” York said. “I took a picture
of it and sent it to a classmate of mine, just her, no one else. Yes, I wrote
on the post to her, ‘I shouldn’t wear this tonight … No I won’t.’ What was
meant by it was that was then, this is now.
“In hindsight I regret sending
the picture because it has been misinterpreted and I have been labeled
something I am not,” he said. “I have stayed neutral in this debate. I have
turned down numerous requests for interviews about this subject. To me, it is a
school board decision and that is where this lies.”
The same holds true for
Poirier, Colbry said, noting that “what somebody does in their private life on
their own Facebook is not something I can comment on.”
Poirier, who wouldn’t respond
to requests for comment, also is the administrator of a closed Facebook group
called Skowhegan Indian Pride, which supports continued use of the name “Indians”
as the high school sports nickname.
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