WASHINGTON, D.C. – A second “progressive” school has banned students from wearing apparel with the Washington Redskins team name or logo in the name of inclusion.

North Bethesda’s Green Acres School sent a letter to parents last week explaining why students are now prohibited from wearing Redskins gear to school, a decision made after discussions about “ethnically and/or racially derived sports team logos” with students, the Bethesda Patch reports.

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Head of School Neal Brown wrote that “the term ‘Redskin’ is a racial slur.

“Its use, whether intentional or not, can be deeply insulting and offensive. It is a term that demeans a group of people. Similarly, the team’s logo also can reasonably be viewed as racially demeaning. At best, the image is an ethnic stereotype that promotes cultural misunderstanding; at worst, it is intensely derogatory,” he wrote.

Brown contends students or staff wearing Redskins apparel “feels profoundly at odds with our community’s mission and values,” and cited the “inclusive and uplifting community” outlined in the school’s Diversity Statement and the vow to “welcome people of any race, national or ancestral origin” spelled out in the Statement of Inclusion.

Green Acres bills itself as “a national leader in progressive education for children age 3 to grade 8,” Fox News reports.

The school ban is the latest in a long-running saga over the cultural sensitivity of the team’s name, which it acquired when it relocated to D.C. from Boston in 1937.

Last year, the elite Sidwell Friends School attended by former President Barack Obama’s daughters and countless children of other political figures also banned students from wearing Redskins clothing on campus. Head of School Ellis Turner told The Washington Post the move was adopted as part of a student-led revision of the school dress code.

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The Post noted that it conducted a poll of Native Americans and found that 9 out of 10 are not offended by the Redskins moniker.

Redskins owner Dan Snyder, meanwhile, has vowed to never change the team name, insisting it coveys “honor, respect and pride” for Native Americans, Bethesda Magazine reports.

Regardless, at least one Native American family at Green Acres said they’re uncomfortable with the name, and that weighed on the decision to institute a ban, Brown told The Washington Post.

“This wasn’t just about them, but it was a piece of the conversation that was already happening to a certain extent among the kids and the staff,” he said.

The bottom line, Brown wrote to parents, is “we cannot continue to allow children or staff members – however well intentioned – to wear clothing that disparages a race of people.”

“After listening to students, parents, and colleagues, though, I believe that our need to be respectful and truly inclusive outweighs our need to support individual expression in this case,” he wrote.

But just because the team logo is allegedly racist doesn’t mean the school’s third through eighth graders shouldn’t support the Redskins, Brown told Bethesda Magazine.

“We want to approach this with children in a very age-appropriate and sensitive way. We’re in no way trying to vilify anyone for rooting for the local football team because, in truth, I root for the local football team,” he said.