In my opinion it reflects the majority being as it’s the school’s tabloid. I also believe the school has the right to remove pages if they deem the material inappropriate. These articles would not have been in the best interest for the students. The students feel it is freedom of speech, but the administration feels it is unfitting for a school newspaper.…
I, _______, agree that school officials should be able to remove student publications when they believe material is unsuitable for younger students, or for reasons it could possibly disrupt the educational curriculum. If students are allowed "freedom of speech" other students could be slandered indirectly such as what occured in this case or fights may ensue due to disagreements. Yes, we as Americans have rights to speak our minds freely, but most students are minors and are under the supervision of the school. The school has the right to control what is allowed within its walls and must moniter students' doings in order to ensure the safety and eduaction of all students.…
Censorship is a good thing because it limits inappropriateness in many ways. For example, in the book Fifty Shades of Grey, there is inappropriateness shown in a sexual way and a verbal way and shows abuse. This shows that some books should be censored, due to inappropriate things in novels, magazines, and in movies. In conclusion censorship isn’t always a good thing.…
case the principal refused approval to print. His reasoning was for the pregnancy article it mentioned birth control and sexual activity along with information from an anonymous source, but he felt readers would be able to figure out the person's identity. The divorce article was booted because it has a parents name. The court sided with the school because the newspaper is the schools (Brenyo). In this situation, the school does have the right to censor because it is their Newspaper, but they also missed out on an opportunity to address these important issues in a safe, professional setting and manner.…
I favored a loose interpretation in this case. Although students have rights, there is a need for certain rights to be restricted to avoid any disruptions and chaos within the student body. This is one case where I believe the school was using these restrictions properly to protect the rights and best interest of others. Even though the school newspaper is a form of public expression, the newspaper was school sponsored therefore it had every right to alter the paper.…
Does the decision of a principal to prohibit the publishing of certain articles,which he believes we're inappropriate, in the school newspaper violate the student journalists’ First Amendment right of freedom of speech? This issue was discussed after a student named Catherine Kuhlmeier in Hazelwood East High school in St.Louis County, Missouri was enrolled in a journalism class II in which she was writing a newspaper known as “The Spectrum”with other students. Two of those articles contained a story of parents being divorced and a story of a teenage pregnancy. The divorce article was a personal issue in which a girl blamed her father for his actions in leading towards her parents' divorce. The teenage pregnancy story stated her experiences…
For the past twenty or so years information has largely been stored in digital form, providing the current generation of digital natives with access to more and more information in recent years. With this new flow of information available to the public has come increased censoring by the government. However, this is not a new issue as some might believe. Since the first primitive government was established information has been shielded and manipulated from the every day citizens of the world by those in power. The cause fought against information censorship enjoys the same past. For as long as information has been censored there have been those who have fought against it (Newth, 2010). This issue has arisen particularly in the United States, as some believe access to any information that exists is a right protected by the Constitution.…
Table of Contents Censorship in American Public Schools; Two Examples: The Catcher in the Rye and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn I. II. Purpose Introduction a. A Brief History of Censorship b. First occurrence of censorship in America III. Censors a. Teachers as Censors b. Parents as Censors c. Librarians as Censors d. Effects of Censorship on Students IV. Censorship a. Reasons Books are Censored b. First Amendment and Free Speech V. VI. Censoring Two Classics Censorship of The Catcher in the Rye a. Language b. Sexuality c. Reasons to Teach VII. Censorship of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a. Language 1 1 2 3 3 5 7 8 9 12 13 13 15 17 18 20 22 23 25…
In The Decline of American Press Freedom by Anne Applebaum, polish journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winner, she wrote about how America’s freedom of press is being censored by corporations and the government. Companies and other governments have been banning certain articles from reaching certain their citizen’s media and other countries. For example, a journalist named Scott Anderson wrote an article called Vladimir Putin’s Dark Rise to Power. The article is about a theory of the Russian government setting off explosions in Moscow in the year 2000 killing their own citizens and blaming it on Chechen Republic terrorists to gain support for a second Chechen war. This article was banned by their government and a publishing company from everywhere…
Taylor, Charles. "Censorship is Not an Effective Way to Protect Children." n.d. Gale Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 8 April 2012.…
Censorship is caused when books, movies, etc. are examined, and unacceptable parts are suppressed or the whole thing is banned. Schools nationwide have been banning books due to reasons such as racial issues, sexual explicit content, religious affiliations, violence, political bias, encouragement of “damaging” lifestyles, and etc. Often it is argued that banning books protects students from being exposed to inappropriate content, while others say that students should have the freedom to read what they want.…
In the United States, the people don't always get the original story. Censorship is the act of suppressing unacceptable or unmoral parts. Media is censored all over the world for many reasons. Sometimes it is unmoral or is not the "right" religion. Other reasons media is censored is that it is offensive to a race or culture and that it puts the wrong ideas into people's heads. Media censorship has always played a big role in American movies, music, books, and technology.…
“Crippling the delivery of unpopular views is a terrible lesson to send to impressionable minds and future leaders” (Rampell 1). This quote taken from Catherine Rampell in her article “Free speech is flunking out on college campuses” explains that strict censorship rules hurt students whose minds are still developing. Rules on censorship in a college setting are supposed to protect the rights of students. Censorship is supposed to protect them from extremely hate filled speeches, newspaper articles, and other documents. For example, defamation, lies, and uses of extremely hateful name calling such as the word “nigger,” are all applicable to fair censorship rules. Today, the power of censorship has grown strong. In a scramble to not offend anyone,…
The first amendment: freedom of speech is violated with censorship. In the ALA Library Bill of Rights, parents, and only parents, have the right to prohibit or control what their children read. Freedom of expression and of opinion is for everyone, not just for the people that the majority thinks are right. In 1953, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas said, “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could easily defeat us,”(Quotations: First Amendment, Censorship…). This shows that even the government can see the harmful effects of book banning. Furthermore, “the school alone has the final say in what books are appropriate for the children under its care to read,…
Everyone has something about them that makes them unique, whether it’s not wanting to step on the cracks while walking because you’re scared you may break your mothers back or not eating green things because well their gross; we all do things others might consider weird. Mine is giggling! Being the younger of two older brothers I never really got to say much, so I would sit in the stroller and just watch and giggle because they would always do silly things. As my brothers got on rides I wasn’t tall enough to get on at Disney I would wait crying because I felt excluded but after they got off the ride and walked up to me the tears stopped and the giggle started. Everyone knew my giggle growing up, my mom used to say she could…