Responses to “Cool Runnings” cancellation

On Tuesday, Jan. 30, WHS Principal Allyson Mizoguchi sent an email addressed to the student body explaining why a Winter Week showing of "Cool Runnings" would be canceled. Since then, WHS has received a great deal of local and national attention. Mizoguchi stated that there is “criticism related to racially insensitive portrayals of characters in the movie.” This provoked over 150 "Reply to all"...

Editor's note: Following the controversy surrounding the cancellation of the movie "Cool Runnings" at WHS, Devon Harris, who competed in the 1988 Olympic Jamaican Bobsled Team, wrote a letter to WSPN responding to the situation. Harris' letter was in response to the events explained in a previously published WSPN article. I recently read that a Massachusetts high school principal rev...