Posted on 08/25/2022 3:49:04 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Administrators at a Nebraska school shuttered the school’s award-winning student newspaper just days after its last edition that included articles and editorials on LGBTQ issues, leading press freedom advocates to call the move an act of censorship.
The staff of Northwest Public Schools’ 54-year-old Saga newspaper was informed on May 19 of the paper’s elimination, the Grand Island Independent reported. Three days earlier, the newspaper had printed its June edition, which included an article titled, “Pride and prejudice: LGBTQIA+” on the origins of Pride Month and the history of homophobia. It also included an editorial opposing a Florida law that bans some lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity and dubbed by critics as “Don’t Say Gay.”
The paper’s demise also came a month after its staff was reprimanded for publishing students’ preferred pronouns and names. District officials told students they could only use names assigned at birth going forward.
Emma Smith, Saga’s assistant editor in 2022, said the student paper was informed that the ban on preferred names was made by the school board. That decision directly affected Saga staff writer Marcus Pennell, a transgender student, who saw his byline changed against his wishes to his birth name of “Meghan” Pennell in the June issue.
“It was the first time that the school had officially been, like, ‘We don’t really want you here,’” Pennell said. “You know, that was a big deal for me.”
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Good.
Fire the faculty advisor while theyre at it.
From now on, the last edition of that paper will be known as: “the Monkeypox edition”.
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Censorship is not allowing the Publisher control of his publication.
In this case the School Board is the publisher.
Sick of this garbage about free speech and free press.
They are NOT press. They are children. Many of whom really have no intention of actually being in the press.
2nd of all, what do they think of all the decades gone by where ANY topic regarding sex even normal sex would be VERBOTEN by schools.
Oh my, they didn’t have free press!
No...it was more, like, the school didn't, like, want to indulge your, like, mental illness.
The butt punchers ruin everything
Don’t they go to school to learn anymore?
Wonder what these kids marks are.
There is no such thing as homophobia.
we are in the midst of a battle between good and evil and it appears evil is out front.
Grand Island is in a very conservative, mostly rural part of the state. I’m guessing these kids wanted to poke in the eye the administration and parents.
Wonder what these kids marks are.
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They don’t get marks anymore, they get Marx.
There is no such thing as homophobia.
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I certainly don’t fear a homo. I’m certain that most pansies could kick my a$$, since I’m now 77 years old, except for the fact that I carry an equalizer 100% of the time and at 77, I have zero fear of a life sentence.
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