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Hazelwood School District vs Kuhlmeier

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compfreak999

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were doing supreme court cases in class right now, i wanna hear arguements from both side🙂 just no getting pissed at each other🙂. i know the supreme court has already made a decisison on this case but i wanna hear arguements from each side and what people would say if they were hazelwood or kuhlmeier, be sure to say which side you are on😉
 
The supreme court made the correct ruling in my mind. The sad fact is that school newspapers generally suck anways, and if students were allowed to say anything they wanted, most papers would become a series of marijuana legilzation articles. Plus the school that is publishing the paper would be held responsible for anything published. If a student article was offensive (which would happen often), the school would take the heat. It just wouldn't work.

Edit: I should say that I'm not even close to being an expert here- I'm just giving you my comments after spending a year working on a high school newspaper.
 
You should put a link to the case so that the uninformed have some idea of what you are speaking about.
 
Its quite simple. The School District owns the student newspaper, they can do anything they want with the student newspaper.

Furthermore, you dont have freedom of press unless you own the press, and you dont have freedom of speech in a press you dont own.

This happens all the time in real journalism, relatively speaking. The corpration vetos the news divison. A case that received alot of attention was later turned into the movie "The Insider" CBS corprate vetoed the airing of the whistle blowing program.
 
ok im going to point out points from kuhlmeiers part and what i believe.
1. how can the context be offensive to the student, its about a person sharing their personal experiences
2. the teacher in charge was infact a subsistute and didnt know anything about the class.
3. i believe its crucial to know both sides in divorce and things relating to that type of matter, i mean you take health 1/health 2 in school but you only get the prospective from the one side, if you can see first hand the effects of it you might get a better grasp of it.
4. its a violation of the first amendment, cause the school is public owned therefore its supported by the state/government. and the government directly links to the main belief of America, which is freedom. first amemdment is freedom of speech, which would be directly in violation of the students rights.
 
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