High School Newspaper Defends Its Ban On The Word 'Redskins' Over The Objections Of School Officials | ThinkProgress

High School Newspaper Defends Its Ban On The Word 'Redskins' Over The Objections Of School Officials | ThinkProgress: Washington D.C.’s NFL team may be the most well-known defender of the word “Redskins,” but they are far from the only one: across the country, dozens of high schools cheer on their own “Redskins” on football fields and basketball courts.

Among them is Neshaminy High School in Langhorne, PA, just outside of Philadelphia.

Their sports teams are known as the “Redskins” (or just “Skins” for short), and the football team in particular attracts the kind of feverish following that Pennsylvania is known for. But with heightened scrutiny surrounding the term “Redskins,” the school’s newspaper has decided that it will no longer permit the word to be printed in its pages.

The ban, announced by the paper’s editorial board last week, has already been overturned once by school principal Rob McGee. Back in October, the editors of the Playwickian first informed the school community of their intention to stop using the offensive word, only to be told via a November “directive” from McGee that the paper “[didn't] have the right to not use the word Redskins.”