AggieMom_38 said:
because they rebranded from being a cat to being a really big cat. Waste of time and money and angst in the community and the outcome is still to be a cat (let's now add "bob" to a bunch of stuff and spend lots of money to do so). Writing this makes it salient to me how silly this rebranding exercise really is/has been
And it also promotes AMCMS connections to the high schools (although both of them) while the other MSs have their own identities and no connections to high schools (heck, if I were a Warhawk or Knight I may think it unfair that the other MS gets the cat connection...) . If we wanted each MS to have an independent identity, seems like not being a cat would make sense. But I truly don't care what they are - I just wish the time and money wasn't going to be spent on such silly things. But that ship has sailed.
It is middle school. Kids spend 2 years of their life in 7th and 8th grade and then move on. No kids will be permanently emotionally scarred because of what their middle school mascot was.
This is really getting out of hand with people investing this much time and effort with worrying about what your kids freaking middle mascot is going to be.