By Lanz Christian Bañes

Passions flared Wednesday at a packed Vallejo school board meeting as some voiced their opinions on the Vallejo High School mascot while others demanded a fair raise for the district’s unions.

“If we want to honor (native people), put them in our history books. Put them up in our classrooms, but don’t sit there and use them as a rallying cry for fun and games,” said Kathi Hill of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People about Vallejo High School’s Apache mascot.

The decades-old mascot, along with the debate surrounding its possible removal, resurfaced last month when school board President Hazel Wilson asked Principal Clarence Isadore to report on what the school was doing surrounding changing the mascot.

via Vallejo High mascot, pay raises dominate school board meeting – Vallejo Times Herald.