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Starting the dialogue with your principal
It’s often tough, that’s for sure, but keeping the lines of communication open with your principal is vital. It may mean the difference between the sudden imposition of prior review or having the chance to explain how your students weighed the pros and cons before deciding to run that controversial article. There’s probably no better…
What student journalists learn is essential career training
By Fern Valentine, MJE Working on a publications staff, led by trained student editors, clearly prepares students for future careers, not just a journalism career, but any career. Employers say over and over they want to employ people with the skills students clearly learn on publications staffs. School districts across the country are cutting journalism…
Re-establishing our belief in the right forum
Just because the 2nd Circuit Federal Appeals Court recently handed down a decision in R.O. v. Ithaca City School District laden with shaky interpretations and references, it is not time to surrender or alter our beliefs. “Drawings of stick figures in sexual positions clearly qualify as ‘lewd,’ that is, ‘inciting to sensual desire or imagination,’”…
Student journalist/editor wins primary election in school district where he has been censored
UPDATE ROCHESTER, PA: High school senior Aaron Brant, editor-in-chief of the Rochester High School student newspaper, “The Oracle”, has been censored several times this year, by the administration at his school. Brant has won democratic and republican tickets in the primary election for a seat on the very school board where he attends school. He…
Student journalist runs for school board in district where he and his fellow journalists are being censored
Aaron Brant and the ACLU have challenged the censorship of “The Oracle”, the student newspaper at Rochester High School in Rochester, Pa. Aaron is on the ballot in tomorrow’s primary elections in Pennsylvania where he is running for school board. Yes, you can run for school board in Pa. when you are 18. Here are…
So say we all…
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While you are re-posting “Free the press — all of it. http://bit.ly/f3wE2Y, be sure to go to #wpfd on Twitter, to add your comments that a strong segment of media in the United States is also not free: that of the scholastic media.
Stand up, shout out for student journalism
With the 2nd U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in the Doninger case, one thing is certainly clear: If we want to protect student expression rights and responsibilities, we are going to have to be the ones who stand up to do so. SPLC executive director Frank LoMonte said the courts abdicated their responsibility…
A chance to send a unique message about scholastic media and journalism
by Stan Zoller, MJE What do our colleagues at school think of when it comes to journalism? On May 3, World Press Freedom Day, we have the unique opportunity to let them know that scholastic journalists are not just students involved in a school media for fun. They have the distinct privilege of practicing what…
World Press Freedom Day letter includes scholastic media
The Washington Post today published an “open letter” to President Obama and Secretary Clinton today from the Student Press Law Center, JEA and 36 other journalism and free-speech organizations urging them to declare their support for freeing “the other half” of America’s press. Our hope is scholastic media programs will download the letter and develop Action Plans and…
Student bracelets ruled protected speech
Students at Easton, Pa., middle school are now permitted to wear “I [heart] boobies” bracelets to school after a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled the bracelet wording as protected speech. See more of the story on NPR. http://tinyurl.com/6hxhuhr Once again, courts rule that students do have First Amendment rights.
Freedom for the world’s press must include scholastic media, too
May 3. Washington, D. C. World Press Freedom Day. The first time since UNESCO started the event 18 years ago the United States will host it. And the perfect time to call for its tenets to be extended to scholastic media in a country that promotes freedom – and responsibility – for every other nation’s…