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Kids were writing stories about teen pregnancy, shoplifting and honor students who drink and do drugs. So did the school call an intervention? No, they shut down the student newspaper.
The Stevenson High School paper has long been regarded as one of the most hard hitting in terms of high school journalism. Earlier this year, an issue on “hooking up” disappeared. Continue reading »
Two teen girls took sexually suggestive photos and posted them on Myspace. No surprise there. So why did the school suspend them from sports and force them to make an official apology to the school’s athletic board? Continue reading »
The single mother who won a suit against the Polish government’s ban on abortion has gained her second success: a Catholic newspaper will have to pay her for equating her attempts to have her pregnancy terminated with murder and the Nazi regime.
Alicja Tysiac was already a mother of two in 2000 when she became pregnant again. Eye doctors advised against carrying the pregnancy to term because she was likely to lose her vision, but doctors refused the terminate the pregnancy. Continue reading »
Usually it’s hysterical patrons calling for censorship, but librarians at Brooklyn’s central library have enraged book lovers worldwide by yanking a seventy-nine-year-old children’s book off its shelves.
The problem? People say TinTin Au Congo, the second book in the Belgian TinTin graphic novel series for kids, is racist. Continue reading »
If you thought the worst part of Facebook was hiding your status updates from your boss, beware. You could land on the wrong side of a family court judge.
The ACLU of Rhode Island announced this week it’s stepping in to help the plight of a woman ordered by a family court judge not to update her Facebook with the status of her brother’s family court proceedings. Continue reading »
I may not agree with its message, but a California school’s in trouble for forcing a teen to take off the pro-life tee she was wearing in honor of “pro-life t-shirt day.”
Her mom says they violated her First Amendment rights, and she’s taking them the court.
I hope she wins. Yes, I said it. Continue reading »
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