POLICY 4-3.6                NAMING OF MASCOTS

 

                No school shall designate or use as its official or unofficial symbol, logo, mascot, team representative, or team name or otherwise cause the school name to be generally associated with:

 

                1.                races of peoples, or any subset of a race of peoples, such as a specific tribe,

                2.                a religious group,

                3.                an ethnic group, or

                4.                peoples from a particular country or of a particular nationality.

 

LEGAL REFERENCE:  Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, §§ 22.1-78.

 

Adopted: April 2004