The William S. Hart Union High School District Governing Board is set to host a virtual community forum Monday to give community members the opportunity to speak on the appropriateness of the Hart High School Indian mascot. The Hart District board and Hart High School principal Jason d’Autremont are scheduled to allow public commentary over Zoom regarding the Hart mascot, ...

Officials with the William S. Hart Union High School District held a public discussion about the history and controversy surrounding the Hart High School Indian mascot, which many have recently called “outdated and offensive.” On Tuesday morning, the Hart District Governing Board held a virtual study session to start a conversation about changing Hart High’s Indian mascot, which students have ...

Officials with the William S. Hart Union High School District are set to begin discussing the possibility of changing the mascot of Hart High School in a “study session” for the governing board after students gathered over 18,000 signatures in a petition to retire the “outdated and offensive Indian mascot.” On Wednesday, Hart District Superintendent Mike Kuhlman announced that the ...

Hart High School principal Jason d’Autremont has responded to student calls to retire the school’s Indian mascot after a graduating senior sent him an email, sharing that an online petition calling for the removal of the “outdated” mascot had garnered thousands of signatures. On Sunday, graduating senior Julia Estrada wrote an email to d’Autremont in which she called on Hart ...

Students from William S. Hart High School are calling on the school to retire the longstanding Indian mascot. An online petition has been created to urge Hart High School and District Staff to retire the school’s Indian mascot. In a time of social unrest, the future leaders of America have written to Hart High School Principal Jason d’Autremont to retire ...