{"id":691,"date":"2007-09-15T13:43:19","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T13:43:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-15T13:43:19","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T13:43:19","slug":"student-defends-gay-rights-in-high-school-newspaper-principal-censors-paper-and-removes-journalism-instructor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2007\/09\/student-defends-gay-rights-in-high-school-newspaper-principal-censors-paper-and-removes-journalism-instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"Student defends gay rights in high school newspaper.  Principal censors paper and removes journalism instructor."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Sorrell, who taught journalism at Woodlan High School, in Indiana, for four years has started a new job teaching at a private school a few miles away.  She was asked to leave her job after one of her students wrote a piece for the school newspaper which sympathized with homosexuals.  Sorrell was publisher of the paper.<\/p>\n<p>A sophomore wrote the editorial for the <cite>Woodlan Tomahawk<\/cite> after a friend told her he was gay.  Part of it read, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.splc.org\/newsflash.asp?id=1602&#038;year=\" target=\"_blank\">it is so wrong to look down on those people<\/a>, or to make fun of them, just because they have a different sexuality than you.\u201d  The article also noted suicide rates for gay youth and questioned religious condemnation of homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. high school administrators can legally censor material before it&#8217;s published.  In the 1988 case &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=US&#038;vol=484&#038;invol=260\" target=\"_blank\">Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier<\/a>,&#8221; the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school-financed publications are not official public forums and, therefore, should have lesser First Amendment protections than independent newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie Suess, a lawyer with the <cite>American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana<\/cite> said, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2007-05-08-journalism-teacher_N.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The purpose of a journalism class is to teach First Amendment values<\/a> and not to teach kids about censorship and prior review.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><cite>Photo:  Joe Raymond, AP<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Sorrell, who taught journalism at Woodlan High School, in Indiana, for four years has started a new job teaching<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[649,617,661],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Student defends gay rights in high school newspaper. 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