Is this school "censorship" appropriate?

radcen said:

Is this school "censorship" appropriate? Or, did they go too far?

Note that the source does not say that all political statements were censored. Only Trump-related is mentioned. Nor does the school defend itself by saying all political statements are censored, just that they don't condone censorship. This would suggest that it was indeed only Trump-related statements that got censored.

Is that kosher? If not, what should the school do to remedy it?

My thoughts: On the one hand I'm tired of parents getting their panties in a wad over what is usually trivial crap. But, on the other hand, I'm also getting tired of stuff like this happening more and more. So, *IF* it ends up that it was intentional and/or unapproved, maybe they should have to reprint the yearbooks, and the next example and the next example, just to maybe make this stuff stop.

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In public school yearbooks no mention of sexual orientation, religion or political statements should be allowed. Neutrality is expected on those matters. It's the school's yearbook..it's the student's prerogative to purchase or not.

DA60 said:

Hello polgara. :2wave:

Thank you....but I think you said it better than I.

Are there so few problems in the world/America that this needs to rise to this level of 'importance'?

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Polgara is usually right in these things. No, world hunger, world peace, the national debt, terrorism, or the price of eggs anywhere does not hinge on one relatively insignificant incident in one school. And I strongly agree that the school should not have to reprint all the yearbooks because of three intentional errors. The three students involved should receive personal apologies from that teacher, however, and should get their yearbooks free.

But I don't really agree that this is no big deal. It is always going to be a big deal to me when the school indoctrinates students in sociopolitical thought because I think that is the No. 1 reason education is in the mess that it is in. Schools waste the students time in that kind of forced mind control while neglecting to give them objective information in Math, The Sciences, Languages, History, Geography and help them develop skills in critical thinking and analysis, reading, writing, and problem solving.

So the school that would allow a teacher to force his/her political views on the students in that way should be in the negative spotlight, and thinking people should make it known that such is unacceptable to them. We need to return schools to the business of educating students rather than baby sitting them and most especially indoctrinating them.

If the rule is no political slogans of any sort and no quotations of any living person are allowed, that is one thing. But unless that was made clear to the students in the first place, to photo shop apparel of three students that offended the teacher for political reasons is unacceptable.

I voted other for one reason....do we know if students were asked to not wear tshirts with labels/saying/image printed on them....is this acceptable dress code for that school or not?...and did they modify every student picture that may have had a similar shirt on but maybe saying something different.

radcen said:

According to an update I read this morning, it was most likely a rogue teacher who was in charge. Said unnamed teacher has been suspended, IIRC, pending a further investigation.

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Not unnamed

"but did confirm that the yearbook advisor Susan Parsons has been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation."

Mason66 said:

Not unnamed

"but did confirm that the yearbook advisor Susan Parsons has been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation."

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At the time I wrote that she was still unnamed. IIRC, I read her name a couple hours later in another article. My bad for not updating, I guess.

radcen said:

Is this school "censorship" appropriate? Or, did they go too far?

Note that the source does not say that all political statements were censored. Only Trump-related is mentioned. Nor does the school defend itself by saying all political statements are censored, just that they don't condone censorship. This would suggest that it was indeed only Trump-related statements that got censored.

Is that kosher? If not, what should the school do to remedy it?

My thoughts: On the one hand I'm tired of parents getting their panties in a wad over what is usually trivial crap. But, on the other hand, I'm also getting tired of stuff like this happening more and more. So, *IF* it ends up that it was intentional and/or unapproved, maybe they should have to reprint the yearbooks, and the next example and the next example, just to maybe make this stuff stop.

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Personally i think the students should have control over their own content. Thats their scrap book and it should express whatever views they want.

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