Press Censorship
There are many kinds of censorship within
our school system. Such as press
Censorship, we aren't aloud to express
freely among our school’s newspaper nor
yearbook. I believe that we should be
able to write anything that the student
wants to see on the newspaper.
Equivalent to the yearbook, students should be
able to have the right tosay
whatever they want for a SENIOR quote. Freedom of
the press ensures Americans
great freedom of choice in what they can read and
see. This should also apply
to our community public schools, we should be given
the right inside school
just as much as outside. Its like a fellow classmate
said today in class,
"Its like we are not in America anymore when we step
onto school grounds." I
believe in this point that he made because it is
just like that. Our freedoms
are limited in a way to where we can barely express
ourselves within the
school newspapers and yearbook. One type of publication
that has never been
given First Amendment protection is obscenity. This is one
thing that I can
agree with; certain things are absolutely immoral and
inappropriate, such as
pornography and foul language to an extent. However, the
rules and
regulations of our schools newspaper and yearbook need to be a little
more
just, to fit our rights of press. I would like our school to be among
the
first to allow the students almost every right to print whatever they
would like
to write about. But, not every freedom is absolute.... If they
were, our school
system would be in total chaos.