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"'I've been doing this work for 34yrs… + I don’t remember ever seeing a policy that names the principal... as the editor of the paper... If you’re going to have the principal as editorof the paper, it’s simply an extension of the district’s PR office. It’s absolutely not a student newspaper.'"
Inside a high school newspaper’s fight for editorial independence
The Alexandria, Virginia school board says it wants to “help students grow as journalists." Theogony's student journalists wonder who, exactly, the board is protecting.
www.niemanlab.org
May 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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When I was in high school, I was a section editor, for our newspaper. Our front page story one month was about students smoking on campus. It included a picture of a student smoking that the student's parents objected to, so the school administration refused to let us distribute the issue.

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May 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Incompetent leadership trying to cover their backsides by censoring students instead of addressing the meaningful problems uncovered.

If I start to feel like we're facing battles on 1000 fronts simultaneously, I get recharged by the energy radiating from our youth.

actheogony.com/10198/opinio...
ACPS is set to initiate a new policy of censorship. We need your help.
The school board is about to vote on a policy that censors student journalists. We created a policy that promotes the first amendment. Join us, along with hundreds of others, in urging the school boar...
actheogony.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM