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Who wants to be a ‘Millionaire’? 51 percent of students at a Lenox [Mass.] school.
Boston Globe ^ | 3/1/18 | Anon

Posted on 03/02/2018 8:16:59 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom

Students at a Massachusetts school want to remain millionaires.

The Lenox Memorial Middle and High School student council on Wednesday announced that a school-wide poll found a majority of students want to keep the sometimes contentious Millionaires mascot.

About 96 percent of the school’s 438 students voted last month. Fifty-one percent voted to keep the nickname, 32 percent wanted to change it, and 17 percent had no opinion.

Students last spring voted to change it because it is divisive, leads to taunts from opposing schools, and doesn’t accurately reflect the picturesque town’s economics.

Superintendent Timothy Lee tells The Berkshire Eagle the latest vote ‘‘puts the issue to rest.’’

The nickname is a tribute to wealthy out-of-towners, called ‘‘cottagers,’’ who build mansions in Lenox during the gilded age and employed the locals.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: millionaires
Too funny! What a GREAT mascot name!

I must admit some puzzlement, however. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to change the mascot to the "Lenox Commies"? Look at the nifty, heroic mascot they could have below. It would be SO MUCH less divisive in Lenox because everybody can be a party member, but not everybody can be a millionaire.

Superintendent Timothy Lee thinks the vote ‘‘puts the issue to rest.’’ Ha! He has another think coming.

1 posted on 03/02/2018 8:16:59 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

It is obviously racist because most millionaires are white.(s)


2 posted on 03/02/2018 8:21:40 AM PST by CMailBag
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

If they want to be politically correct, just change to a million pesos. done.


3 posted on 03/02/2018 8:21:58 AM PST by glorgau
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> Students last spring voted to change it because it is divisive <

If ‘Millionaire’ is divisive, then every mascot can be seen as divisive. Every last one of them.

My suggestion: Call every mascot by the generic name ‘Mascot’. So the mascot of Lenox School would be the ‘Lenox Mascot’.

Oh, wait. That won’t work. The word ‘mascot’ is of French origin. It’s divisive to favor one language over another. Sigh. Back to the drawing board.


4 posted on 03/02/2018 8:25:25 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: CMailBag

The new proposed nickname was Thieving Iroquois Bastards.


5 posted on 03/02/2018 8:29:29 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Looks like the student ripped off the Monopoly Man image.


6 posted on 03/02/2018 8:36:20 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Thieving Iroquois Bastards. funny!


7 posted on 03/02/2018 9:17:58 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Who wants to be a ‘Millionaire’? 51 percent of students at a Lenox [Mass.] school.

In today's politically correct, socialistic/communistic society, being rich and successful is abhorrent.

8 posted on 03/02/2018 9:18:41 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Strzok and Page - The very definition of SEDITION and TREASON!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Being a “millionaire” isn’t what it used to be.

Not that I am one, yet, but this isn’t the 80’s.

If you have a 401K these days, a lot of people in their 50’s and 60’s are really close if not there.


9 posted on 03/02/2018 9:29:27 AM PST by skinndogNN
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“Thieving Iroquois Bastards” — I like!

Then the team in the next town over can be renamed the “Paleface Ota Devils.” (Mohawks of the Lake of the Two Mountains in Quebec thought the tam o’shanters worn by early Scot settlers looked like cow patties and called them “ota”).

Should make for some vigorous fall football games.


10 posted on 03/02/2018 9:45:51 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

My school’s mascot used to be what the Milwaukee Braves had. But then some Lilly white concern troll claimed that it’s “racist” and demanded it be changed.

Now the mascot is some Johnny Depp wearing drag pirate looking thing.


11 posted on 03/02/2018 1:39:28 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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