3/5 🧵 What makes the story interesting isn’t just politics — it’s ownership. School board president Kerry Wachter says the mural wasn’t handed down by adults; the students designed it, voted on it, and painted it themselves. That matters. It lets supporters frame this less as top-down culture war theater and more as a grassroots show of school pride. Students quoted in the piece basically say the same thing: being a “Chief” isn’t just a mascot, it’s how they see belonging — at school and long after graduation.
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