Educators at work: 1st Amendment missing from curriculum
From Newsday.com:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A high school newspaper in California was disbanded after it published a front-page photo of a student burning an American flag, triggering criticism that the administration was stifling free expression.
Shasta High School Principal Milan Woollard said the school year’s final issue of the student-run Shasta High Volcano was embarrassing.
“The paper’s done,” Woollard told the Record Searchlight newspaper of Redding. “There is not going to be a school newspaper next year.”
This is what happens when you let kids actually read their civics textbooks. They learn all sort of uncomfortable concepts, such as the one that says they have to right to an opinion, especially if the opinion, if expressed, might cause the principal to have to answer a few phone calls.
