The Rebellion posted the above poll question from September 23 to November 23. In that time period, a total of 418 respondents voted with 311 preferring to rebrand the Rebel mascot instead of renaming. At the Walpole School Committee Meeting on August 27, junior David Moser spoke in favor of rebranding the Rebel name. The School Committee subsequently voted to approve of the rebranding. When Moser heard the poll results, he said, “I am very satisfied with the results of the poll and I stand by my opinion that the Rebel name should remain in order to keep the support of the town.”
Christian DeCelle • Jan 16, 2016 at 2:15 pm
A little late, but I think all of these polls need to be taken with a grain of salt. The people who answer these polls are the people who visit the rebellion website, which is an incredibly specific demographic. The people who visit the site are parents, rebellion writers, and the friends of the writers. The writers and their friends are mostly very liberal and not at all representative of whs as a whole. The parents who visit the site are most likely the over-achieving, hover parents who would rather die than offend anyone. These polls dont reach the majority of whs students and it causes these poll results to be biases and not represent the views of the school population.