Question:
Are student run newspapers allowed to run conterversial issues such as abortion, religion, or racism?

Choices:
Yeah, what the use of free speech otherwise?
No, students should obey school rules.
Depends on what the school board permits.
If that is what the students want.

 

It's very, very rare to hear about a school paper being able to publish certain things.

There are cases of students actually suing the school districts for Constitutional law violations.

I submitted a student newspaper story this week to my paper's editorial "board."

It's a lot like what is on here:

http://www.libertarianrock.com

the problem is that you have to cover the stories and these controversial with extreme care and take into account what your readers beliefs are and what you're publisher's beliefs are. like if you do an article completely bashing evolution and your administration board or whatever are atheist then you're not gonna be allowed to print it but if you do an article carefully covering all the facts than the board probably would let you print it

I have not once heard about a school newspaper being able to publish things without some sort of censorship by the administrators.

To me, a story about one of the football players being involved with an English teacher is NEWS - something that shouldn't be covered up by the local media or the school media (such a case happened at my school; not one word got out about it in the local/school media).

I believe EVERY journalism student should learn how to submit public information requests (that would actually be fun)...Ask for things like the phone log records of the superintendent or the school administrators payroll receipts.

...Like I've said to many people before, high school and college breeds media bias (for the schools who censor things).

You all keep up the good work though!



http://www.elliscountypress.com

Our school newspaper is terrific. We have articles about slave reparations, bisexual teenagers, rape, abortion, the death penalty-every controversial issue you can imagine. Our sponsor works hard to protect student's rights and encourages the staff to research touchy subjects-such as the issue of racism is the county school system. I think it is incredibly important that students be able to report and write editorials on controversial topics, because that's what free speech is all about.

It is the job of a reporter on a news staff to be oblective. You can write anything if you are objective because then both sides of the subject are covered. When a school newspaper is cencored it is because the teachers at the school are living in some perpetuated high school life and have nothing better to do or you live in a conservative community that doesnt want to deal with real issues facing kids. Teens have sex and do drugs and commit suicide and as long as they still do it is the papers duty to report them. end of story.

i happen to be on my schools newspaper and it does not reflect the views of the administators. it reflets the students views. my principal chooses not to censor the paper even though we know that he does not like some of the issues that we tackle. Our teacher also does not hinder what we write. Like for instance our next issue will cover hot topics such as suicide, family issues, the possible legalization of pot in canada and how it will affect my town in michigan, suicide and grief counsouling. If there is a controversial issue chances are we have covered it or will cover it because thankfully the administators let us speak our mind in the paper freely, even though, legally they have the right to censor controversial issues. *heather*

At our school, as long as it doesn't interfere with the learning process, the paper can print anything it'd like. Unfortunately, nothing good comes from the said paper, as the people who write it are narrow minded donkey clones.

I'm not sure about other papers, but my school's paper is as far as I know entirely uncensored. The only censorship comes from the editors; the administration doesn't see the paper until it's distributed.