Southampton Students Petition District To Change Columbus Day's Name
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Students David Mahoney, Aidan Wisniewski-Campo, Nashota Williams, and Wayne Moore, along with their seventh-grade social studies class, are petitioning the school district to no longer celebrate Christopher Columbus. BY DANA SHAW
Students David Mahoney, Aidan Wisniewski-Campo, Nashota Williams, and Wayne Moore, along with their seventh-grade social studies class, are petitioning the school district to no longer celebrate Christopher Columbus. BY DANA SHAW
Erin McKinley on Feb 4, 2015
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.But is that worth celebrating? That is the question seventh-graders have posed to the Southampton School Board. They hope to have...