Menomonie High School
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Menomonie High School is located at 1715 5th St W in Menomonie, Wisconsin. Menomonie High School (MHS) has a student body of approximately 1,100 students. The school serves as the Menomonie School District's (MSD) only high school, and serves students in grades 9-12. MHS's mascot is the Indians.
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[edit] Athletics
Menomonie belongs to the Big Rivers Conference for athletics. It currently has teams in football, cross country, soccer, golf, swimming and diving, tennis, volleyball, race-walking, basketball, gymnastics, hockey, wrestling, dance, baseball, softball, and track.
[edit] Mascot controversy
In the late 1990s, the school eliminated the use of the 'Indian' mascot. After a contentious school board election, the new school board members re-instated the Indian as the mascot.
On April 14, 2008, a group of 11 distinguished Menomonie Citizens presented a petition to the school board in regards to the Indian logo. They believed that "Schools ought to be teaching humanity along with other subject matters" and "The use of the Indians nickname sends a subliminal message to children that flies in the face of efforts to teach valued humanitarian principles."http://www.dunnconnect.com/articles/2008/04/16/news/news01.prt The goal of the petition was to bring awareness to the issue, and to have the issue of the Indian logo and mascot be discussed at future meetings.
[edit] Extra Curriculars
The Menomonie High School Science Olympiad team is headed to Nationals in Washington DC on May 30-31st, 2008.[citation needed]
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