Student Editors

A. What is the article about?

The article is about a group of students who wrote for their school newspaper and wanted to include a story about one of the teachers who was possibly involved in texting students. When the students wanted to print the story the principal wouldnt allow them too. The students would not give up and went to the local newspaper which would not get in trouble for the printing of the story.

B. What do you think about the information/material in this article? How does it seem to fit with our journalism class?

I think this article is extremely relevant to our journalism class because we have to let our principal view our articles before we can put them into print. I think that it was strange how the students didnt think it was fair that the principal should have a say in the subject matter of the articles, because yes they are student publications, but the principal doesnt want something that will be harmful to other people circulating around the school. Also, since the formal investigation wasnt completely finished the article could have had false information and make students believe things that werent entirely true about this certain teacher.

C. What questions are you left with? What kinds of articles in journalism would you like to read next?

The questions I am left with are does the principal now view every article before it is printed? What did the kids parents think after their kids went to such length to get this article out there? How do students in the school respond to and act around this accused teacher?
I would like to read more articles like this one that go hand in hand with things we have learned in our journalism class.